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malik:28-36 – Mālik > Ibn Shihāb > Qabīṣah b. Dhuʾayb > a man Saʾal ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān > al-Ukhtayn Min Milk al-Yamīn Hal Yujmaʿ Baynahumā > ʿUthmān Aḥallathumā Āyah And Ḥarramathumā Āyah Faʾammā > Falā Uḥib > Aṣnaʿ Dhalik

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Qabisa ibn Dhu'ayb that a man asked Uthman ibn Affan whether one could have intercourse with two sisters who one owned. Uthman said, "One ayat makes them halal, and one ayat makes them haram. As for me, I wouldn't like to do it." The man left him and met one of the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him about it, and he said, "Had I any authority and I found someone who had done it, I would punish him as an example." Ibn Shihab added, "I think that it was Ali ibn Abi Talib. "  

مالك:٢٨-٣٦ – وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ ذُؤَيْبٍ أَنَّ رَجُلاً سَأَلَ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ عَنِ الأُخْتَيْنِ مِنْ مِلْكِ الْيَمِينِ هَلْ يُجْمَعُ بَيْنَهُمَا فَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ أَحَلَّتْهُمَا آيَةٌ وَحَرَّمَتْهُمَا آيَةٌ فَأَمَّا أَنَا فَلاَ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَصْنَعَ ذَلِكَ

قَالَ فَخَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَلَقِيَ رَجُلاً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لَوْ كَانَ لِي مِنَ الأَمْرِ شَىْءٌ ثُمَّ وَجَدْتُ أَحَدًا فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ لَجَعَلْتُهُ نَكَالاً قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ أُرَاهُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ  

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bayhaqi:13930 – [Chain 1] Abū Aḥmad al-Mihrajānī > Abū Bakr b. Jaʿfar > Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Bukayr > Mālik [Chain 2] Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq And ʾAbū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān > al-Shāfiʿī > Mālik > Ibn Shihāb > Qabīṣah b. Dhuʾayb > a man Saʾal ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān ؓ > al-Ukhtayn from Milk al-Yamīn Hal Yujmaʿ Baynahumā

[Machine] Uthman made something permissible for them through a verse, and prohibited it through another verse. As for me, I do not like to do this. He then left from there and met a man from the companions of the Prophet ﷺ . He said, "If I had any authority, and I found someone doing that, I would make him face consequences." Malik said, may Allah have mercy on him, that Ibn Shihab said, "I think he was referring to Ali ibn Abi Talib." Malik said, "And it reached me from Az-Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam the same thing."  

البيهقي:١٣٩٣٠ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الْمِهْرَجَانِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثنا ابْنُ بُكَيْرٍ ثنا مَالِكٌ ح وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أنبأ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ أنبأ الشَّافِعِيُّ أنبأ مَالِكٌ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ ذُؤَيْبٍ أَنَّ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ ؓ عَنِ الْأُخْتَيْنِ مِنْ مِلْكِ الْيَمِينِ هَلْ يُجْمَعُ بَيْنَهُمَا؟ فَقَالَ

عُثْمَانُ ؓ أَحَلَّتْهُمَا آيَةٌ وَحَرَّمَتْهُمَا آيَةٌ وَأَمَّا أَنَا فَلَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَصْنَعَ هَذَا قَالَ فَخَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَلَقِيَ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ لَوْ كَانَ لِي مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْءٌ ثُمَّ وَجَدْتُ أَحَدًا فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ لَجَعَلْتُهُ نَكَالًا قَالَ مَالِكٌ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ أَرَاهُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ قَالَ مَالِكٌ وَبَلَغَنِي عَنِ الزُّبَيْرِ بْنِ الْعَوَّامِ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ