Volume 7, Book 62, Number 37:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
It was said to the Prophet, “Won’t you marry the daughter of Hamza?” He said, “She is my foster
niece (brother’s daughter). ”
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Volume 7, Book 62, Number 22:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet stayed for three days between Khaibar and Medina, and there he consummated his
marriage to Safiyya bint Huyai. I invited the Muslims to the wedding banquet in which neither meat
nor bread was offered. He ordered for leather dining-sheets to be spread, and dates, dried yoghurt
and butter were laid on it, and that was the Prophet’s wedding banquet. The Muslims wondered, “Is
she (Saffiyya) considered as his wife or his slave girl?” Then they said, “If he orders her to veil herself,
she will be one of the mothers of the Believers; but if he does not order her to veil herself, she will be
a slave girl. So when the Prophet proceeded from there, he spared her a space behind him (on his
she-camel) and put a screening veil between her and the people.
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 38:
Narrated Um Habiba:
(daughter of Abu Sufyan) I said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Marry my sister. the daughter of Abu Sufyan.”
The Prophet said, “Do you like that?” I replied, “Yes, for even now I am not your only wife and I like
that my sister should share the good with me.” The Prophet said, “But that is not lawful for me.” I said,
We have heard that you want to marry the daughter of Abu Salama.” He said, “(You mean) the
daughter of Um Salama?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Even if she were not my step-daughter, she would be
unlawful for me to marry as she is my foster niece. I and Abu Salama were suckled by Thuwaiba. So
you should not present to me your daughters or your sisters (in marriage).” Narrated ‘Ursa;
Thuwaiba was the freed slave girl of Abu Lahb whom he had manumitted, and then she suckled the
Prophet. When Abu Lahb died, one of his relatives saw him in a dream in a very bad state and asked
him, “What have you encountered?” Abu Lahb said, “I have not found any rest since I left you, except
that I have been given water to drink in this (the space between his thumb and other fingers) and
that is because of my manumitting Thuwaiba.”
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 23:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle manumitted Safiyya and regarded her manumission as her Mahr.
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 39:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
that the Prophet entered upon her while a man was sitting with her. Signs of anger seemed to ap –
pear on his face as if he disliked that. She said, “Here is my (foster) brother.” He said, “Be sure as to
who is your foster brother, for foster suckling relationship is established only when milk is the only
food of the child.”
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 24:
Narrated Sahl bin Sad As-Sa’idi:
A woman came to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I have come to give you myself in
marriage (without Mahr).” Allah’s Apostle looked at her. He looked at her carefully and fixed his
glance on her and then lowered his head. When the lady saw that he did not say anything, she sat
down. A man from his companions got up and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! If you are not in need of her,
then marry her to me.” The Prophet said, “Have you got anything to offer?” The man said, “No, by Al –
lah, O Allah’s Apostle!” The Prophet said (to him), “Go to your family and see if you have something.”
The man went and returned, saying, “No, by Allah, I have not found anything.” Allah’s Apostle said,
“(Go again) and look for something, even if it is an iron ring.” He went again and returned, saying,
“No, by Allah, O Allah’s Apostle! I could not find even an iron ring, but this is my Izar (waist sheet).”
He had no rida. He added, “I give half of it to her.” Allah’s Apostle said, “What will she do with your
Izar? If you wear it, she will be naked, and if she wears it, you will be naked.” So that man sat down
for a long while and then got up (to depart). When Allah’s Apostle saw him going, he ordered that he
be called back. When he came, the Prophet said, “How much of the Quran do you know?” He said, “I
know such Sura and such Sura,” counting them. The Prophet said, “Do you know them by heart?” He
replied, “Yes.” The Prophet said, “Go, I marry her to you for that much of the Quran which you have.”
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Narrated ‘Aisha:
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Abu Hudhaifa bin ‘Utba bin Rabi’a bin Abdi Shams who had witnessed the battle of Badr along
with the Prophet adopted Salim as his son, to whom he married his niece, Hind bint Al-Walid bin
‘Utba bin Rabi’a; and Salim was the freed slave of an Ansar woman, just as the Prophet had adopted
Zaid as his son. It was the custom in the Pre-lslamic Period that if somebody adopted a boy, the
people would call him the son of the adoptive father and he would be the latter’s heir. But when Al –
lah revealed the Divine Verses: ‘Call them by (the names of) their fathers . . . your freed-slaves,’
(33.5) the adopted persons were called by their fathers’ names. The one whose father was not
known, would be regarded as a Maula and your brother in religion. Later on Sahla bint Suhail bin
‘Amr Al-Quraishi Al-‘Amiri–and she was the wife of Abu- Hudhaifa bin ‘Utba–came to the Prophet
and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! We used to consider Salim as our (adopted) son, and now Allah has re –
vealed what you know (regarding adopted sons).” The sub-narrator then mentioned the rest of the
narration.
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 26:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle entered upon Dubaa bint Az-Zubair and said to her, “Do you have a desire to per –
form the Hajj?” She replied, “By Allah, I feel sick.” He said to her, “Intend to perform Hajj and stipulate
something by saying, ‘O Allah, I will finish my Ihram at any place where You stop me (i.e. I am un –
able to go further).” She was the wife of Al-Miqdad bin Al-Aswad.