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tabarani:20792 – ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Abū Usāmah > Hishām b. ʿUrwah > Fāṭimah b. al-Mundhir > Asmāʾ b. Abū Bakr

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "One who is content with what he has not been given is like someone who wears two garments of falsehood."  

الطبراني:٢٠٧٩٢ – حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ الْمُنْذِرِ عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «الْمُتَشَبِّعُ بِمَا لَمْ يُعْطَ كَلَابِسِ ثَوْبَيْ زُورٍ»  

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muslim:2129 – Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr > Wakīʿ Waʿabdah > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah > Āmraʾah

Messenger of Allah, may I say to my (co-wife) that my husband has given me (such and such) a thing but which he has not in fact gives me? 'Thereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The one who makes a false statement of that which one has not been given is like one who wears a garment of falsehood.  

مسلم:٢١٢٩ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ وَعَبْدَةُ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَنَّ امْرَأَةً قَالَتْ

يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَقُولُ إِنَّ زَوْجِي أَعْطَانِي مَا لَمْ يُعْطِنِي فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمُتَشَبِّعُ بِمَا لَمْ يُعْطَ كَلاَبِسِ ثَوْبَىْ زُورٍ  

suyuti:11759a –
Translation not available.

  

السيوطي:١١٧٥٩a –

"المُتَشبِّعُ بما لم يُعْطَ كلابِسِ ثَوْبِى زُور" .  

[حم] أحمد [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم عن أسماء بنت أبي بكر عن عائشة، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن سفيان بن عبد الله الثقفي عن أبيه، العسكري في الأمثال عن أبي هريرة