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malik:28-60Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab

marriage, divorce, and setting free."  

مالك:٢٨-٦٠وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ ثَلاَثٌ لَيْسَ فِيهِنَّ لَعِبٌ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلاَقُ وَالْعِتْقُ  


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Collected by Bayhaqī, Suyūṭī
bayhaqi:14995Abū Aḥmad al-Mihrajānī > Abū Bakr b. Jaʿfar al-Muzakkī > Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī > Ibn Bukayr > Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib

[Machine] He used to say that there are three things that are not joking matter: marriage, divorce, and emancipation.  

البيهقي:١٤٩٩٥وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الْمِهْرَجَانِيُّ أنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمُزَكِّي نا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْبُوشَنْجِيُّ نا ابْنُ بُكَيْرٍ نا مَالِكٌ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ

أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ ثَلَاثٌ لَيْسَ فِيهِنَّ لَعِبٌ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلَاقُ وَالْعِتْقُ