Hibat Allah ibn Sahl informed us; Saʿid ibn Muḥammad informed us; Zāhir ibn Aḥmad informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad informed us; Abū Muṣʿab narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “A previously-married woman has more right over herself than her guardian, and a virgin is to be asked permission regarding herself; her permission is her silence.” (1)
This is Shuʿbah’s exact wording.
Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abraqūhī informed us; Zakariyyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān in Baghdad informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad in Baʿlabakk, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad in Egypt, and a number of others likewise reported, saying:
Abū al-Manjā ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Lattī informed us; he said:
Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā (H) informed us.
Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūr the jurist wrote to inform us; ʿAbd al-Qādir the ḥāfiẓ informed us; ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Abī Saʿd in Herat informed us, saying:
Umm al-Faḍl Bībā bint ʿAbd al-Ṣamad informed us; she said:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad informed us; Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī narrated to us; Mālik narrated to me, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the Kaʿbah together with Usāmah, Bilāl, and ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah the Key-Bearer. He closed the door behind them and remained inside.
When Bilāl came out, I asked him, “What did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do?”
He replied, “He placed one pillar to his left, two pillars to his right, and three pillars behind him—at that time the House stood on six pillars—then he performed prayer.” (2)