Al-Ansari relates—through Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, who heard it from Maymūn ibn Mihrān—something similar (1).

Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Safar likewise report—from al-Shaʿbī—that the Prophet ﷺ married Maymūnah while he was in ihram (2).

Jarīr transmits—from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid—with a disconnected chain (mursal)—the same report (3).

Rabaḥ ibn Abī Maʿrūf narrates—from ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās—with a report traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ)—something similar, and in it he adds that Ibn ʿAbbās saw no harm in this (4).

Some scholars who deemed Ibn ʿAbbās’s report authentic considered the permissibility in question to be exclusive to the Prophet ﷺ.

Ibn Saʿd treated this chapter thoroughly, then said: “Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Burqān narrated to us from Maymūn, who said:

‘I was sitting with ʿAṭāʾ when a man came and asked, “May a person in ihram marry?”

ʿAṭāʾ replied, “Since Allah made marriage lawful, He has never forbidden it.”

I said, “ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz wrote to me—while I, Maymūn, was on the Jazīrah—commanding: ‘Ask Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm whether the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in a state of permissibility or in ihram on the day he married Maymūnah.’ ”

Yazīd answered, “He married her while he was outside ihram.” ’

Maymūnah was Yazīd’s maternal aunt (5).

Al-Wāqidī says: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from ʿIkrimah, that Maymūnah—