Hadith #215

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It was narrated from 'Abdullah (رضي الله عنه) — via Muhammad ibn Ja'far, from Sa'id, from Qatada, from Khilas and Abu Hassan al-A'raj, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Utba ibn Mas'ud — regarding [the case of] a man who married a woman without specifying a dowry for her, then died [before consummating the marriage]. He said: 'They kept coming to Ibn Mas'ud about this matter for a month or close to it. They said: You must give a ruling.' He said: 'I rule that she gets the customary dowry of women like her — no diminishment and no excess — and she inherits [from him] and must observe the 'idda. If I am right, it is from Allah (عز وجل); if I am wrong, it is from me and from the devil, and Allah (عز وجل) and His Messenger are free of that.' A group from [the tribe of] Ashja' then stood — including al-Jarrah and Abu Sinan — and said: We bear witness that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave exactly that ruling in the case of a woman from us called Barwa' bint Washiq. Ibn Mas'ud was overjoyed when his words agreed with the ruling of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. — [Additional chains] via 'Abdullah ibn Bakr, from Sa'id; and via Yahya ibn Sa'id, from Hisham, from Qatada — the same, except that his husband's name is given as Hilal — he thinks: ibn Murra. ['Abd al-Wahhab] says: His husband was Hilal ibn Murra al-Ashja'i. — [Third chain] via Bahz and 'Affan, from Hammam, from Qatada, from Khilas and Abu Hassan, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Utba — they brought Ibn Mas'ud a case of a woman whose husband married her then died. Al-Jarrah and Abu Sinan stood and testified that the Prophet ﷺ gave this ruling among them in [the tribe of] Ashja' ibn Rayth, in the case of Barwa' bint Washiq al-Ashja'iyya, and that her husband's name was Hilal ibn Marwan.