Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 49 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abd ar- Rahman ibn Awf divorced his wife, and gave her compensation in the form of a slave-girl. حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَوْفٍ، طَلَّقَ امْرَأَةً لَهُ فَمَتَّعَ بِوَلِيدَةٍ . Muwatta Malik: Book […]
Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.
Book 29, Divorce, discusses the procedures, rulings, and consequences of divorce.
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 50 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, “Every divorced woman has compensation except for the one who is divorced and is allocated a bride-price and has not been touched. She has half of what was allocated to her.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 51 Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, “Every divorced woman has compensation.” Malik said, “I have also heard the same as that from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad.” Malik said, “There is no fixed limit among us as to how small or large the compensation is.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 52 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu’z-Zinad from Sulayman ibn Yasar that Nufay, a mukatab of Umm Salama the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, or her slave, had a free woman as a wife. He divorced her twice, and then he […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 53 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab that Nufay, a mukatab of Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, divorced his free wife twice, so he asked Uthman ibn Affan for an opinion, and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 54 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdu Rabbih ibn Said from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith at-Taymi that Nufay, a mukatab of Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked Zayd ibn Thabit for an opinion. He said, “I have […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 55 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, “When the slave divorces his wife twice, she is haram for him until she has married another husband, whether she is free or a slave. The idda of a free woman is three menstrual periods, and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 56 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, “If a man gives his slave permission to marry, the divorce is in the hand of the slave, and nobody else has any power over his divorce. Nothing is held against a man who takes the […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 57 Malik said, “Neither a free man nor a slave who divorces a slave- girl nor a slave who divorces a free woman, in an irrevocable divorce, is obliged to pay maintenance even if she is pregnant, and he cannot return to her.” Malik said, “A free man is not […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 58 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, “The woman who loses her husband and does not know where he is, waits for four years, then she does idda for four months, and then she is free to […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 59 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar divorced his wife while she was menstruating in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, Umar ibn al-Khattab asked the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 60 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az- Zubayr from A’isha, umm al-muminin, that she took Hafsa ibn Abd ar- Rahman ibn Abi Bakr as-Siddiq into her house when she had entered the third period of her idda. Ibn Shihab said, “That was mentioned […]