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ذِكْرُ إِحْدَى الْحَالَتَيْنِ اللَّتَيْنِ قَدْ أُبِيحَ هَذَا الْفِعْلُ الْمَزْجُورُ عَنْهُ فِيهِمَا

ibnhibban:4050ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Salm > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm > al-Walīd > al-Awzāʿī > Abū Kathīr > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A person should not outbid his brother in buying until he either buys or leaves, and should not propose for marriage to the woman his brother has proposed to until he marries her or gives up."  

ابن حبّان:٤٠٥٠أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَلْمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كَثِيرٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا يَسْتَامُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى سَوْمِ أَخِيهِ حَتَّى يَشْتَرِيَ أَوْ يَتْرُكَ وَلَا يَخْطُبُ عَلَى خِطْبَةِ أَخِيهِ حَتَّى يَنْكِحَ أَوْ يَذَرَ»  


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ahmad:9518Ismāʿīl > Yūnus b. ʿUbayd > al-Ḥasan > Abū Hurayrah

A man must not make proposal of marriage to a woman when his brother has done so already. And he must not offer a price for a thing for which his brother had already offered a price; and a woman must not be combined in marriage with her father's sister, nor with her mother's sister, and a woman must not ask to have her sister divorced in order to deprive her of what belongs to her, but she must marry, because she will have what Allah has decreed for her. (Using translation from Muslim 1408g)  

أحمد:٩٥١٨حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يَسُومُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَىسَوْمِ أَخِيهِ وَلَا يَخْطُبْ عَلَى خِطْبَةِ أَخِيهِ  

ahmad:9899Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > al-ʿAlāʾ from his father > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ , he said: "A man should not outbid his brother's bidding, nor propose to a woman who has already been proposed to."  

أحمد:٩٨٩٩حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْعَلَاءَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يَسْتَامُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى سَوْمِ أَخِيهِ وَلَا يَخْطُبُ عَلَى خِطْبَتِهِ  

ahmad:10849ʿAbd al-Ṣamad > Shuʿbah > al-Aʿmash > Abū Ṣāliḥ > Abū Hurayrah

Abu Hurairah reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “ A man should not seek the hand of a woman in marriage when his brother has already sought her hand.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2080)   

أحمد:١٠٨٤٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَسْتَامُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى سَوْمِ أَخِيهِ وَلَا يَخْطُبْ عَلَى خِطْبَةِ أَخِيهِ  

tabarani:6898[Chain 1] ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Abū And Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Muqaddamī [Chain 2] al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Yaḥyá al-Ḥimmānī > Abū Dāwud al-Ṭayālisī > ʿImrān al-Qaṭṭān > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

Abu Hurairah reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “ A man should not seek the hand of a woman in marriage when his brother has already sought her hand.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2080)  

الطبراني:٦٨٩٨حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى الْحِمَّانِيُّ قَالُوا ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ ثنا عِمْرَانُ الْقَطَّانُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَا يَخْطُبِ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى خِطْبَةِ أَخِيهِ»