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04-11-2010, 01:32 PM
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 Wives of Prophet Sulayman?
Can you please explain the following in Bukhari?:
100 wives or 90 wives or 70 wives or 60 wives attributed to Hazrat Sulaiman (pbuh) in these hadith: Sahih Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 62, Number 169: Narrated Abu Huraira: (This hadith attributes 100 wives to Prophet Sulaiman (pbuh)) www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/ 2 Sahih Bukhari: Volume 8, Book 78, Number 634: Narrated Abu Huraira: (This hadith attributes 90 wives to Prophet Sulaiman (pbuh)) Sahih Bukhari: Volume 8, Book 79, Number 711: Narrated Abu Huraira: (This hadith attributes 90 wives to Prophet Sulaiman (pbuh)) Sahih Muslim :: Book 15 : Hadith 4069 Abu Huraira reported: (This hadith attributes 70 wives to Prophet Sulaiman (pbuh)) Sahih Bukhari: Volume 9, Book 93, Number 561: Narrated Abu Huraira: (This hadith attributes 60 wives to Prophet Sulaiman (pbuh)) I used to be follow hadith closely... but these arguments I find on the internet against books like bukhari have really effected my faith in hadith. Please don't dodge the question by banning me. I am a brother who has a legitimate question. Thank you salam. |
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01-27-2012, 05:02 PM
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here are interpretations of our scholars:
- The numbers that the narrations state are: "Sixty, seventy, ninety, ninety nine and hundred". The reconciliation between them is as follows. The sixty either refers to his wives or concubines. The seventy is a form of exaggeration. As for ninety and hundred, they have not gone above this. It is below hundred and above ninety (tis'een). [Ibn Hajar Al Asqalani, Fathul Bari, Kitab: Ahaadeeth Al Anbiyaa', Bab: Qawl Allah Ta'aalaa Wawahabnaa li Daawood Sulaaymaan ni'ma al 'abd inahu,Commentary on Hadith no. 3171] - Ask forgiveness for them, O Muhammad (s), or do not ask forgiveness for them: this leaves the choice of asking forgiveness, or refraining, up to him; the Prophet (s) said, 'I have been given the choice, and I made it', meaning [the choice] to ask forgiveness, as reported by al-Bukhārī. If you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them: it is said that the 'seventy' is intended to express [by hyperbole] a great frequency of asking forgiveness. (Tafsir al-Jalalayn) - None of these narrations contradict one another, because there is no disavowal of many by mentioning the little, and the proof for this has already been mentioned several times and that is that the number is implied. [Imam Nawawi, Sharh Saheeh Muslim, Kitab: Al Aymaan, Bab: Al Istithnaa' Commentary on Hadith no. 3123, Source] the shi'a hadith books (like kafi) don't even have proper isnad (unbroken chain of narrators), their ahadith are not even in the same league as our sahih ahadith and they know it. Allahu akbar. their futile attempt to discredit the most authentic book after the Qur'an is just a sign of their own insecurity and attempt to confuse the muslimeen that don't have much knowledge. may Allah show us their true faces and let their efforts be in vain. |
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01-28-2012, 03:46 AM
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This is all from the web site Call To Monotheism
I suggest going to the site for the references and examples of other Hadith. ... Ibn Hajar reconciles this as follows: فمحصل الروايات ستون وسبعون وتسعون وتسع وتسعون ومائة , والجمع بينها أن الستين كن حرائر وما زاد عليهن كن سراري أو بالعكس , وأما السبعون فللمبالغة , وأما التسعون والمائة فكن دون المائة وفوق التسعين The numbers that the narrations state are: "Sixty, seventy, ninety, ninety nine and hundred". The reconciliation between them is as follows. The sixty either refers to his wives or concubines. The seventy is a form of exaggeration. As for ninety and hundred, they have not gone above this. It is below hundred and above ninety (tis'een). (Ibn Hajar Al Asqalani, Fathul Bari, Kitab: Ahaadeeth Al Anbiyaa', Bab: Qawl Allah Ta'aalaa Wawahabnaa li Daawood Sulaaymaan ni'ma al 'abd inahu, Commentary on Hadith no. 3171, Source) Imam Nawawi strengthens this point: هذا كله ليس بمتعارض لأنه ليس في ذكر القليل نفي الكثير , وقد سبق بيان هذا مرات , وهو من مفهوم العدد None of these narrations contradict one another, because there is no disavowal of many by mentioning the little, and the proof for this has already been mentioned several times and that is that the number is implied. (Imam Nawawi, Sharh Saheeh Muslim, Kitab: Al Aymaan, Bab: Al Istithnaa' Commentary on Hadith no. 3123, Source) So what is the correct answer? The correct answer is ninety nine. We explain the number sixty perhaps because the narrator intended to speak about either Solomon's wives or concubines, since the hadith only mentioned "women". We explain the number seventy because it is a form of exaggeration in the Arabic language. Imam Suyuti in his commentary states: Ask forgiveness for them, O Muhammad (s), or do not ask forgiveness for them: this leaves the choice of asking forgiveness, or refraining, up to him; the Prophet (s) said, 'I have been given the choice, and I made it', meaning [the choice] to ask forgiveness, as reported by al-Bukhārī. If you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them: it is said that the 'seventy' is intended to express [by hyperbole] a great frequency of asking forgiveness. (Jalal ud-Din Siyuti, Tafsir al-Jalalayn, Commentary on Surah 9:80, Source) Imam Qurtubi argues the same thing in his commentary by quoting well known Arabic expressions (showing that people use the number seventy when they want to exaggerate or imply a higher number) and by appealing to 69:32 as an example. We explain the number ninety when it is said as tis'oon and not as tis'een as meaning that the number is ninety something. We explain the number 100 because the narrator felt that it is a more completely adjusted number, thus he rounded it to hundred. Thus, the narrators depending on the way they speak to others decided to express themselves in different ways. That is all. ... ONCE AGAIN THIS IS NOT FROM ME/MY WORKS THE ARTICLE IS FOUND AT Call To Monotheism WED SITE. EDIT: Today at Jummah there were several interesting points made by the Imam, some of which are...
The list is from my memory so any mistakes are from me, all good is from the blessings of Allah  .
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01-28-2012, 04:14 PM
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Assalamu alaykum
Here are some useful links if you want to learn more... Book:The Differences of the Imams By Shaykh Zakariyya al-Kandhlaw Book:An Introduction to the Sciences of Hadith by Shaykh Suhayb Hasan hafidhahullaah Video:An Introduction to Hadith" by Dr. Jonathan Brown http://vimeo.com/7216747 Any mistakes are from me and all good is from the blessings of Allah. |
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