Ahmad (3/391) also narrated it through another route from Jabir, in abridged form and attributed to the Prophet, with the wording:

“None of you should come upon his family at night.”

Its chain of transmission is also authentic.

Note: Abd al-Razzaq recorded the hadith under discussion in al-Musannaf (7/495/14016), through Ubayd Allah ibn Umar, with this wording; but he did not mention the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. I do not know whether this was omitted by the copyist or the printer, or whether the report appears thus in his work.

The word “dʿmrūhun” occurs there with its letters left unpointed. It likewise occurs in Kashf al-Astar. Shaykh al-Azami did not understand its meaning in his annotations to it and to al-Musannaf, so he neither supplied its diacritical dots nor explained it. Ibn al-Athir, however, clarified it in al-Nihayah, under the entry gharar:

“In the hadith of Umar (!): ‘Do not come upon women at night, nor take them unawares’; that is, do not enter upon them unexpectedly. One says: ‘Ightarartu al-rajula’—when you seek a person’s moment of unawareness, that is, his heedlessness.” *

3086—“Indeed, let no man spend the night with a previously married woman unless he is her husband or a mahram (a close relative he may never marry).”

Muslim (7/7), Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musannaf (4/409)—and through his route, Abd ibn Humayd (1073)—al-Nasai in al-Sunan al-Kubra (2/386/9215), and through his route Ibn Abd al-Barr in al-Tamhid (1/227), Abu Yala in his Musnad (3/376 and 384/1848 and 1859), and through him Ibn Hibban (5587 and 5590—the Muassasah edition), as well as al-Bayhaqi (7/98) and al-Khatib in Tarikh Baghdad (8/109), from