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bukhari:5069 – ʿAlī b. al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī > Abū ʿAwānah > Raqabah > Ṭalḥah al-Yāmī > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Lī Ibn ʿAbbās Hal Tazawwajt > Lā

Ibn ʿAbbas asked me, "Are you married?" I replied, "No." He said, "Marry, for the best person of this (Muslim) nation (i.e., Muhammad) of all other Muslims, had the largest number of wives."

البخاري:٥٠٦٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ الأَنْصَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ الْيَامِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ قَالَ لِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ هَلْ تَزَوَّجْتَ قُلْتُ لاَ قَالَ

فَتَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ أَكْثَرُهَا نِسَاءً

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ahmad:2179 – ʿAlī b. ʿĀṣim > ʿAṭāʾ > Saʿīd > Lī Ibn ʿAbbās Yā Saʿīd Alak Āmraʾah > Lā > Faʾidhā Rajaʿt Fatazawwaj > Faʿudt Ilayh > Yā Saʿīd Atazawwajt > Lā

[Machine] "Get married, for the best of this nation is the one who has the most women."

أحمد:٢١٧٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ قَالَ لِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يَا سَعِيدُ أَلَكَ امْرَأَةٌ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَإِذَا رَجَعْتَ فَتَزَوَّجْ قَالَ فَعُدْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ يَا سَعِيدُ أَتَزَوَّجْتَ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ

تَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ كَانَ أَكْثَرَهُمْ نِسَاءً

ahmad:2048 – Asbāṭ b. Muḥammad > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Laqiyanī Ibn ʿAbbās > Tazawwajt > Lā > Tazawwaj Thum Laqiyanī Baʿd Dhalik > Tazawwajt > Lā

[Machine] Get married, for the best of this nation is the one who has the most women.

أحمد:٢٠٤٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ لَقِيَنِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فَقَالَ تَزَوَّجْتَ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ تَزَوَّجْ ثُمَّ لَقِيَنِي بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ تَزَوَّجْتَ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ

تَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ كَانَ أَكْثَرَهَا نِسَاءً

hakim:2675 – al-Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq > Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq al-Qāḍī > Sulaymān b. Ḥarb > Ḥammād b. Zayd > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Qāl Lī Ibn ʿAbbās Yā Saʿīd Tazawwaj

[Machine] Ibn Abbas said, "O Sa'id, marry, for indeed the best of this nation are the ones with the most women." Sahih.

الحاكم:٢٦٧٥ – أَخْبَرَنَاهُ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ أَنْبَأَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْقَاضِي ثنا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ قَالَ

لِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ «يَا سَعِيدُ تَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَكْثَرُهُمْ نِسَاءً» صحيح

tabarani:12313 – Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Kaysān al-Miṣṣīṣī > Abū Ḥudhayfah > Sufyān > al-Mughīrah b. al-Nuʿmān > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] "Get married, for the best of this nation are the ones with the most women."

الطبراني:١٢٣١٣ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ كَيْسَانَ الْمِصِّيصِيُّ ثنا أَبُو حُذَيْفَةَ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

«تَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ كَانَ أَكْثَرَهَا نِسَاءً»

suyuti:420-564b – Saʿyd b. Jubayr > Qāl Lá Ibn ʿAbbās Tazawwaj
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٤٢٠-٥٦٤b –

"عَنْ سَعيد بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ لى ابْنُ عَبَّاس: تَزَوَّجْ؛ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذهِ الأُمَّةِ كَانَ أَكْثَرهَا نِسَاءً".

[ص] سعيد بن منصور