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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
nasai:3464 – al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth > al-Faḍl b. Mūsá > al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid > ʿUmārah b. Abū Ḥafṣah > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"A man came to the Messenger of Allah and said: 'My wife does not object if anyone touches her.' He said: 'Divorce her if you wish.' He said: 'I am afraid that I will miss her.' He said: 'Then stay with her as much as you need to.'"

النسائي:٣٤٦٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ امْرَأَتِي لاَ تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لاَمِسٍ فَقَالَ غَرِّبْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ قَالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ تَتَّبِعَهَا نَفْسِي قَالَ اسْتَمْتِعْ بِهَا

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abudawud:2049 – Abū Dāwud Katab Ila Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth al-Marwazī > al-Faḍl b. Mūsá > al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid > ʿUmārah b. Abū Ḥafṣah > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

A man came to the Prophet ﷺ, and said: My wife does not prevent the hand of a man who touches her. He said: Divorce her. He then said: I am afraid my inner self may covet her. He said: Then enjoy her.

أبو داود:٢٠٤٩ – قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ كَتَبَ إِلَىَّ حُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ امْرَأَتِي لاَ تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لاَمِسٍ قَالَ غَرِّبْهَا قَالَ أَخَافُ أَنْ تَتْبَعَهَا نَفْسِي قَالَ فَاسْتَمْتِعْ بِهَا

nasai-kubra:5629 – al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth al-Marwazī > al-Faḍl b. Mūsá > al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid > ʿUmārah b. Abū Ḥafṣah > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

A man came to the Prophet ﷺ, and said: My wife does not prevent the hand of a man who touches her. He said: Divorce her. He then said: I am afraid my inner self may covet her. He said: Then enjoy her. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2049)

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٦٢٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ امْرَأَتِي لَا تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لَامِسٍ فَقَالَ «غَرِّبْهَا» قَالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ تَتْبَعَهَا نَفْسِي قَالَ «اسْتَمْتِعْ بِهَا»

bayhaqi:13871 – [Chain 1] Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī > Abū Bakr b. Dāsah > Abū Dāwud > Katab Ilī al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth al-Marwazī [Chain 2] ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd > Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣaffār al-Wazzān > al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth > al-Faḍl b. Mūsá > al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid > ʿUmārah b. Abū Ḥafṣah > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās ؓ

A man came to the Prophet ﷺ, and said: My wife does not prevent the hand of a man who touches her. He said: Divorce her. He then said: I am afraid my inner self may covet her. He said: Then enjoy her. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2049)

البيهقي:١٣٨٧١ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ دَاسَةَ ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلِيَّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ ح وَأَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ ثنا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الصَّفَّارُّ الْوَزَّانُ ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ ثنا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ امْرَأَتِي لَا تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لَامِسٍ قَالَ غَرِّبْهَا قَالَ أَخَافُ أَنْ تَتْبَعَهَا نَفْسِي قَالَ فَاسْتَمْتِعْ بِهَا إِذًا لَيْسَ فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ إِذًا

bayhaqi:13872 – Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī > Aḥmad b. Salmān al-Faqīh > Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq > Muḥammad b. Kathīr > Sufyān b. Saʿīd al-Thawrī > ʿAbd al-Karīm > Abū al-Zubayr > a freed slave of Libanī Hāshim

[Machine] A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "Indeed, my wife does not prevent the hand of a man from touching her." He said, "Divorce her." The man replied, "But I am pleased with her." The Prophet ﷺ said, "Then enjoy her."

البيهقي:١٣٨٧٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْمُزَكِّي أنبأ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ الْفَقِيهُ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أنبأ سُفْيَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الثَّوْرِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ مَوْلًى لِبَنِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ امْرَأَتِي لَا تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لَامِسٍ قَالَ طَلِّقْهَا قَالَ إِنَّهَا تُعْجِبُنِي قَالَ تَمَتَّعْ بِهَا