مسند امام احمد بن حنبل · Hadith 1826

Ibn 'Awn told us, that Raja' bin Haiwah said: Ya'la bin 'Uqbah consummated his marriage in Ramadan, and the next morning he was junub. He met Abu Hurairah and asked him, and he said: Break your fast. He said: Can I not fast this day, then make it up later on? [Abu HurairahJ said: Break your fast. So [Ya'la] went to Marwan and told him, and he sent Abu Bakr bin 'Abdur -Rahman bin al-Harith to Umm al-Mu'mineen to ask her, and she said: The Prophet (PBUH) would wake up junub among us, not from a wet dream, and he would fast. So he went back to Marwan and told him, and he said: Go and tell Abu Hurairah about it. He said; He is my neighbour [i.e., he did not want to upset him]. But [Marwan] said: I insist that you go and tell him. So he met him and told him, and [Abu Hurairah] said: I did not hear it from the Prophet (PBUH); rather al- Fadl bin 'Abbas told me about it. He said: After that I met Raja' and said: Who told you the hadeeth about Ya'la? He said: He told it to me.

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020