Hadith 258
Three-Narrator Ahadith
Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal · Musnad Muḥammad ibn Ḥāṭib al-Jumaḥī (may Allah be pleased with him)
Arabic
حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَلْجٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ الْجُمَحِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «فَصْلٌ بَيْنَ الْحَلَالِ وَالْحَرَامِ الدُّفُّ وَالصَّوْتُ فِي النِّكَاحِ» وَرَوَاهُ شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي بَلْجٍ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ: إِنِّي قَدْ تَزَوَّجْتُ امْرَأَتَيْنِ لَمْ يُضْرَبْ عَلَيَّ بِدُفٍّ، قَالَ: بِئْسَمَا صَنَعْتَ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «إِنَّ فَصْلَ مَا بَيْنَ الْحَلَالِ وَالْحَرَامِ الصَّوْتُ» يَعْنِي الضَّرْبَ بِالدُّفِّ
English translation
Muḥammad ibn Ḥāṭib al-Jumaḥī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ﷺ said, “What distinguishes the lawful from the unlawful [in marriage] is the tambourine and the sound in the marriage .” [It is also related by Shuʿbah, from Abū Balj, that he said:] I said to Muḥammad ibn Ḥāṭib, “I have married two women without the tambourine being beaten for me.” He said, “How poorly you have done! The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ﷺ said, ‘What distinguishes the lawful from the unlawful is the sound’ “ — meaning the beating of the tambourine. Reference: Musnad Aḥmad 258
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