the foul body! Return disgraced, for the gates of heaven will never be opened for you.’ She is then cast down from the heaven and finally comes to the grave. (1)
11 – Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣadaqah al-Ḥarrānī informed us; al-Firāwī informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī informed us; Abū Aḥmad al-Julūdī informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān informed us; Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj narrated to us; Ibn Abī ʿUmar narrated to us; Marwān narrated; Yazīd—that is, Ibn Kaysān—narrated from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah ﵁, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘By Him in whose hand is my soul, whenever a man calls his wife to his bed and she refuses him, the One who is in the heaven remains displeased with her until he is satisfied with her.’ (Recorded by Muslim). (2)(3)
12 – Abū Saʿīd (al-Khalīl ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ al-Rārānī) informed us; he said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Khallād narrated to us; al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī… (4)
(1) In the margin of (r), al-Hafiz Abu Nu‘aym notes that this hadith’s narrator is unanimously deemed reliable. Both Imams al-Bukhari and Muslim accepted ʿAbdullah ibn Abī Daybab and Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭāʾ—both meeting their strict criteria—and early senior scholars such as Ibn Abī Fudayk and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm also transmitted it via Ibn Abī Daybab.
It is recorded in:
• Sunan Ibn Mājah, Book of Zuhd, chapter “Mentioning Death and Preparing for It,” hadith 4262 (vol. 2, p. 1423).
• Musnad Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (vol. 2, p. 364).
• Al-Dhahabī, al-ʿUluww (p. 22), with al-Ḥākim’s Mustadrak noting that it meets the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
(2) In the manuscripts labeled (h) and (r), the phrase appears as “farasha-ha” (her bed).
(3) Some copies read “recorded by al-Bukhārī and Muslim,” though the hadith actually appears in:
• Muslim, Kitāb al-Nikāḥ, chapter “The Prohibition of a Wife’s Refusal to Share Her Husband’s Bed,” hadith 1436 (vol. 2, p. 1060).
• Al-Bukhārī, Kitāb al-Nikāḥ, chapter “If a Woman Spends the Night Away from Her Husband’s Bed,” hadiths 5193–5194 (under a variant wording omitting the key phrase).
See: Fatḥ al-Bārī, vol. 9, p. 294.
(4) Other manuscripts give the name as “al-Khalīl Abū al-Rajāʾ al-Rāzānī,” but the original reads as above. He is the venerable Shaykh and muṣnid Abū Saʿīd Khalīl ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ Badr ibn Abī al-Fatḥ Thābit ibn Rūḥ al-Isfahānī al-Rārānī—often spelled without the double alifs—the Sufi, who died in 596 AH.
See: Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol. 21, p. 269.