Hadith #141

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English Translation

ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us — ʿAbdullāh (the compiler) said: and I also heard it from ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Shaybah — he said: Ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who said: A group from the people of Baṣrah testified before me — al-Ḥasan being among them — from Maʿqil ibn Sinān al-Ashjaʿī, that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ married a woman from them and then entered upon her. Afterward, a woman came to him and said: 'I present myself to you.' He said: 'What need does a woman have who presents herself? She has no need.' Then a man stood and said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, marry her to me.' He said: 'What do you have?' He said: 'Nothing.' He said: 'Not even an iron ring?' He said: 'Not even an iron ring.' He said: 'Do you know anything from the Quran?' He said: 'I know such-and-such sūrahs.' He said: 'I marry her to you for what you know of the Quran.'