11. Book of Marriage

١١۔ كِتَابُ النِّكَاحِ

11.4 [Machine] The woman is married to four.

١١۔٤ بَابُ تُنْكَحُ الْمَرْأَةُ عَلَى أَرْبَعٍ

darimi:2216Ṣadaqah b. al-Faḍl > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > ʿUbaydullāh > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd from his father > Abū Hurayrah

from the Prophet ﷺ, he said: “Women are married for four reasons: for religion, beauty, wealth, and lineage. So choose the one with religion—may your hands be dust-covered.”

الدارمي:٢٢١٦حَدَّثَنَا صَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ أَنْبَأَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ تُنْكَحُ النِّسَاءُ لِأَرْبَعٍ لِلدِّينِ وَالْجَمَالِ وَالْمَالِ وَالْحَسَبِ فَعَلَيْكَ بِذَاتِ الدِّينِ تَرِبَتْ يَدَاكَ

darimi:2217Muḥammad b. ʿUyaynah > ʿAlī b. Mushir > ʿAbd al-Malik > ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ > Jābir

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Rukanah bin Yazid from the Prophet ﷺ through a different chain of narrators. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2207)

الدارمي:٢٢١٧أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُسْهِرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ