Volume 7, Book 65, Number 299:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet halted to consummate his marriage with Safiyya. I invited the Muslims to his wedding
banquet. He ordered that leather dining sheets be spread. Then dates, dried yoghurt and butter were
put on those sheets. Anas added: The Prophet consummated his marriage with Safiyya (during a
journey) whereupon Hais (sweet dish) was served on a leather dining sheet.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 158:
Narrated Anas:
I will narrate to you a Habith I heard from Allah’s Apostle and none other than I will tell you of it.
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “From among the portents of the Hour are the following: Religious
knowledge will be taken away; General ignorance (in religious matters) will increase; illegal Sexual
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intercourse will prevail: Drinking of alcoholic drinks will prevail. Men will decrease in number, and
women will increase in number, so much so that fifty women will be looked after by one man.”

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 141:
Narrated Anas:
It is the Prophet’s tradition that if someone marries a virgin and he has already a matron wife then
he should stay for seven days with her (the virgin) and then by turns; and if someone marries a mat –
ron and he has already a virgin wife then he should stay with her (the matron) for three days, and
then by turns.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 152:
Narrated Anas:
While the Prophet was in the house of one of his wives, one of the mothers of the believers sent a
meal in a dish. The wife at whose house the Prophet was, struck the hand of the servant, causing the
dish to fall and break. The Prophet gathered the broken pieces of the dish and then started collecting
on them the food which had been in the dish and said, “Your mother (my wife) felt jealous.” Then he
detained the servant till a (sound) dish was brought from the wife at whose house he was. He gave
the sound dish to the wife whose dish had been broken and kept the broken one at the house where
it had been broken.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 129:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle took an oath that he would not visit his wives for one month, and he sat in an up –
per room belonging to him. Then, on the twenty ninth day he came down. It was said, “O Allah’s
Apostle! You had taken an oath not to visit your wives for one month.” He said, “The (present) month
is of twenty-nine days.”

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 140:
Narrated Anas:
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The tradition, (of the Prophet) is that if someone marries a virgin and he has already a matron wife
(with him), then he should stay with the virgin for seven days; and if someone marries a matron (and
he has already a virgin wife with him) then he should stay with her for three days.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 84:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet offered a wedding banquet on the occasion of his marriage to Zainab, and provided a
good meal for the Muslims. Then he went out as was his custom on marrying, he came to the dwell –
ing places of the mothers of the Believers (i.e. his wives) invoking good (on them), and they were in –
voking good (on him). Then he departed (and came back) and saw two men (still sitting there). So he
left again. I do not remember whether I informed him or he was informed (by somebody else) of
their departure).”

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 85:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet saw the traces of Sufra (yellow perfume) on Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Auf and said, “What
is this?” ‘Abdur-Rahman, said, “I have married a woman and have paid gold equal to the weight of a
datestone (as her Mahr). The Prophet said to him, “May Allah bless you: Offer a wedding banquet
even with one sheep.”
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