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nasai:3234ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm > Marwān > Yazīd / Ibn Kaysān > Abū Ḥāzim > Abū Hurayrah > Khaṭab a man Āmraʾah from al-Anṣār

It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said: "A man proposed to a woman from among the Ansar and the Messenger of Allah said to him: 'Have you seen her?' He said: 'No.' So he told him to look at her."  

النسائي:٣٢٣٤أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ وَهُوَ ابْنُ كَيْسَانَ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ خَطَبَ رَجُلٌ امْرَأَةً مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ فَقَالَ

لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ هَلْ نَظَرْتَ إِلَيْهَا قَالَ لاَ فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَيْهَا  


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bayhaqi:13489Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī And ʾAbū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār > Saʿdān b. Naṣr > Abū Muʿāwiyah > ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal > Bakr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī > al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah > Khaṭabt Āmraʾah

It was narrated that Al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah said: "I proposed marriage to a woman during the time of the Messenger of Allah, and the Prophet said: 'Have you seen her?' I said: 'No.' He said: 'Look at her, for that is more likely to create love between you.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3235)   

البيهقي:١٣٤٨٩أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ وَأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ قَالَا ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا سَعْدَانُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ ثنا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ الْأَحْوَلِ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُزَنِيُّ عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ قَالَ خَطَبْتُ امْرَأَةً قَالَ فَقَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ نَظَرْتَ إِلَيْهَا؟ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَانْظُرْ إِلَيْهَا فَإِنَّهُ أَحْرَى أَنْ يُؤْدَمَ بَيْنَكُمَا