Volume 7, Book 62, Number 73:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
The Prophet decreed that one should not try to cancel a bargain already agreed upon between
some other persons (by offering a bigger price). And a man should not ask for the hand of a girl who
is already engaged to his Muslim brother, unless the first suitor gives her up, or allows him to ask for
her hand.
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 74:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Beware of suspicion (about others), as suspicion is the falsest talk, and do not
spy upon each other, and do not listen to the evil talk of the people about others’ affairs, and do not
have enmity with one another, but be brothers. And none should ask for the hand of a girl who is
already engaged to his (Muslim) brother, but one should wait till the first suitor marries her or
leaves her.”
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 75:
Narrated Abdullah bin Umar:
“When Hafsa became a widow,” Umar said, “I met Abu Bakr and said to him, ‘If you wish I will
marry Hafsa bint ‘Umar to you.’ I waited for a few days then Allah’s Apostle asked for her hand. Later
Abu Bakr met me and said, ‘Nothing stopped me from returning to you concerning your offer except
that I knew that Allah’s Apostle had mentioned (his wish to marry) her, and I could never let out the
secret of Allah’s Apostle . If he had left her, I would have accepted her.’ “
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 60:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
When Hafsa, ‘Umar’s daughter became a widow because of the death of her (husband) Ibn Hud –
hafa As-Sahmi who was one of the companion of the Prophet and the one of the Badr warriors and
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died at Medina, ‘Umar said, “I met ‘Uthman bin ‘Affan and gave him an offer, saying, ‘If you wish, I
will marry Hafsa to you.’ He said. ‘I will think it over’ I waited for a few days, then he met me and
said, ‘I have made up my mind not to marry at present’ “Umar added, “Then I met Abu Bakr and said
to him, ‘If you wish, I will marry Hafsa to you.’ “
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 76:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Two men came from the east and delivered speeches, and the Prophet said, “Some eloquent speech
has the in fluency of magic (e.g., some people refuse to do something and then a good eloquent
speaker addresses them and then they agree to do that very thing after his speech). ”
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Volume 7, Book 62, Number 61:
Narrated Al-Hasan:
concerning the Verse: ‘Do not prevent them’ (2.232) Ma’qil bin Yasar told me that it was revealed
in his connection. He said, “I married my sister to a man and he divorced her, and when her days of
‘Idda (three menstrual periods) were over, the man came again and asked for her hand, but I said to
him, ‘I married her to you and made her your bed (your wife) and favored you with her, but you di –
vorced her. Now you come to ask for her hand again? No, by Allah, she will never go back to you
(again)!’ That man was not a bad man and his wife wanted to go back to him. So Allah revealed this
Verse: ‘Do not prevent them.’ (2.232) So I said, ‘Now I will do it (let her go back to him), O Allah’s
Apostle.”So he married her to him again.
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 77:
Narrated Ar-Rabi’:
(the daughter of Muawwidh bin Afra) After the consummation of my marriage, the Prophet came
and sat on my bed as far from me as you are sitting now, and our little girls started beating the tam –
bourines and reciting elegiac verses mourning my father who had been killed in the battle of Badr.
One of them said, “Among us is a Prophet who knows what will happen tomorrow.” On that the
Prophet said, “Leave this (saying) and keep on saying the verses which you had been saying before.”
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 62:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
(regarding His Statement): ‘They ask your instruction concerning the women. Say: Allah instructs
you about them …’ (4.127) It is about the female orphan who is under the guardianship of a man
with whom she shares her property and he does not want to marry her and dislikes that someone
else should marry her, lest he should share the property with him, so he prevents her from marrying.
So Allah forbade such a guardian to do so (i.e. to prevent her from marrying).