Combining the Prophet’s marriage to Safiyyah with the verse on marrying slave women
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Question:
The Shaykh, may Allah reward you, how do we reconcile the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) marrying a young girl with the saying of Allah the Exalted[An-Nisa 4:25] … your other good deeds?
Answer:
This is not a slave girl whom he freed and who became free; there is no contradiction in that. This means that if she was a slave, he would not marry her unless he was unable to marry a free woman. As for this one, he freed her and she became free. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: and a man , and a man who owned a slave girl and taught her , may Allah help us, yes.
The Shaykh, may Allah reward you, how do we reconcile the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) marrying a young girl with the saying of Allah the Exalted
And whoever among you cannot [find] the means
وَمَن لَّمْ يَسْتَطِعْ مِنكُمْ طَوْلًا أَنAnswer:
This is not a slave girl whom he freed and who became free; there is no contradiction in that. This means that if she was a slave, he would not marry her unless he was unable to marry a free woman. As for this one, he freed her and she became free. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Three people are given their reward twice: a man who believed in his previous prophet from among the Jews or the Christians, then believed in me
ثلاثة يعطون أجرهم مرتين رجل آمن بنبيه سابقا من اليهود أو النصارى ثم آمن بيa slave who fulfilled his right to Allah and fulfilled the rights of his masters
مملوك أدى حق الله وأدى حق مواليهand taught her well and educated her well, then freed her and married her
وأحسن تأديبها وعلمها وأحسن تعليمها ثم أعتقها وتزوجها
Source
التعليق على بعض أحاديث صحيح مسلم، تابع شرح كتاب النكاح والرضاع والطلاق (2) — islamhouse.com (30:54)
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