Volume 7, Book 62, Number 59:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
(as regards the Verse): ‘And about what is recited unto you in the Book, concerning orphan girls to
whom you give not the prescribed portions and yet, whom you desire to marry.’ (4.127) This Verse is
about the female orphan who is under the guardianship of a man with whom she shares her prop –
erty and he has more right over her (than anybody else) but does not like to marry her, so he pre –
vents her, from marrying somebody else, lest he should share the property with him.