أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَی عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ الْحَکَمِ بْنِ أَبَانَ عَنْ عِکْرِمَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَی النَّبِيَّ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَدْ ظَاهَرَ مِنْ امْرَأَتِهِ فَوَقَعَ عَلَيْهَا فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي ظَاهَرْتُ مِنْ امْرَأَتِي فَوَقَعْتُ قَبْلَ أَنْ أُکَفِّرَ قَالَ وَمَا حَمَلَکَ عَلَی ذَلِکَ يَرْحَمُکَ اللَّهُ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ خَلْخَالَهَا فِي ضَوْئِ الْقَمَرِ فَقَالَ لَا تَقْرَبْهَا حَتَّی تَفْعَلَ مَا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
سنن نسائی · Hadith 3490
Ibn ‘Abbas said: “One morning, we saw the wives of the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم weeping, and each one of them had her family with her. I entered the Masjid and found it filled with people. Then ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, came, and went to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم who was in his room. He greeted him with the Salam but no one answered. He greeted him again but no one answered. He greeted him (a third time) but no one answered. So he went back and called out: ‘Bilal!’ He cam to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم and said: ‘Have you divorced your wives?’ He said: ‘No, but I have sworn an oath of abstention from them for a month.’ So he stayed away from them for twenty-nine days, then he came and went into his wives.” (Sahih)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020