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Sahih Bukhari 5130 — Do Not Prevent Women from Remarrying
Whoever said, "A marriage is not valid except through the Wali."
لِقَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {فَلاَ تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ} فَدَخَلَ فِيهِ الثَّيِّبُ وَكَذَلِكَ الْبِكْرُ. وَقَالَ: {وَلاَ تُنْكِحُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَتَّى يُؤْمِنُوا} وَقَالَ: {وَأَنْكِحُوا الأَيَامَى مِنْكُمْ}.
Hadith About Do Not Prevent Women from Marriage
Sahih Bukhari : 5130
Sahih BukhariHadith Number 5130
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالَ، حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، {فَلاَ تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ} قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَعْقِلُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ، أَنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ فِيهِ قَالَ زَوَّجْتُ أُخْتًا لِي مِنْ رَجُلٍ فَطَلَّقَهَا، حَتَّى إِذَا انْقَضَتْ عِدَّتُهَا جَاءَ يَخْطُبُهَا، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ زَوَّجْتُكَ وَفَرَشْتُكَ وَأَكْرَمْتُكَ، فَطَلَّقْتَهَا، ثُمَّ جِئْتَ تَخْطُبُهَا، لاَ وَاللَّهِ لاَ تَعُودُ إِلَيْكَ أَبَدًا، وَكَانَ رَجُلاً لاَ بَأْسَ بِهِ وَكَانَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ تُرِيدُ أَنَّ تَرْجِعَ إِلَيْهِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ هَذِهِ الآيَةَ {فَلاَ تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ} فَقُلْتُ الآنَ أَفْعَلُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ. قَالَ فَزَوَّجَهَا إِيَّاهُ.
Al-Hasan Narrated from:
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 divorced 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 Messenger (ﷺ)." So he married her to him again.
Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 5130In-book reference : Book 67, Hadith 66USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 7, Book 62, Hadith 61
Summary of Sahih Bukhari Hadith 5130
This hadith is a clear report about do not prevent women from marriage. Ma'qil bin Yasar said he married his sister to a man, who later divorced her. After her Iddah ended, the man came again to ask for her hand. Ma'qil refused because he felt he had honored the man before, and the man had divorced her. The text then says the man was not bad, and the woman wanted to return to him. When the verse Do not prevent them was revealed, Ma'qil accepted it and married her to him again. The report centers on not blocking a woman when she wants a lawful return.
What we learn from this hadith
- Ma'qil's sister wanted to return to her former husband.
- The man is described in the report as not a bad man.
- The verse Do not prevent them changed Ma'qil's action.
- The final action was that Ma'qil married her to him again.
