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tabarani:17547Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Dabarī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb > Ṭāwūs > Muʿādh b. Jabal

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "There is no divorce in what one does not possess, and there is no manumission in what one does not possess."  

الطبراني:١٧٥٤٧حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّبَرِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ طَاوُوسٍ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا طَلَاقَ فِيمَا لَا يَمْلِكُ وَلَا عَتَاقَةَ فِيمَا لَا يَمْلِكُ»  


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ibnmajah:2047[Chain 1] Abū Kurayb > Hushaym > ʿĀmir al-Aḥwal [Chain 2] Abū Kurayb > Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Ḥārith > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

the Messenger of Allah said : "There is no divorce regarding that which one does not possess."  

ابن ماجة:٢٠٤٧حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ أَنْبَأَنَا عَامِرٌ الأَحْوَلُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ جَمِيعًا عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لاَ طَلاَقَ فِيمَا لاَ يَمْلِكُ  

ahmad:6769Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar And ʿAbd Allāh b. Bakr > Saʿīd > Maṭar > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ , he said: "A man does not have the right to divorce in that which he does not possess, nor does he have the right to emancipate in that which he does not possess, nor does he have the right to sell in that which he does not possess."  

أحمد:٦٧٦٩حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بَكْرٍ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ عَنْ مَطَرٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَيْسَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ طَلَاقٌ فِيمَالَا يَمْلِكُ وَلَا عَتَاقٌ فِيمَا لَا يَمْلِكُ وَلَا بَيْعٌ فِيمَا لَا يَمْلِكُ