On the statement of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib: I heard it but I did not read it in your book. It says: The Messenger of Allah sent to him a man who complained to him that his wife was committing fornication.

The questioner : Regarding the statement of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib: I heard it but I did not read it in your book. It says: The Messenger of Allah sent to him a man who complained to him that his wife was committing fornication. The Messenger of Allah said to him: "Divorce her." He said: "O Messenger of Allah, I love her." He said: "Divorce her." He said: "I have children from her." He said: "Go to 'Ali." This narration, of course, I heard it by hearing and did not read it.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : When he went to him and related the story to him, he said two lines of poetry:
Indeed, the Messenger is jealous, and Allah is more jealous than he.
How is it with the severity of the prohibition from Him?
Can it be understood from this that the *duyyuth* deserves to be killed?

The Shaykh : Establish the Throne and then inscribe it. After establishing the story, this question comes, and Allah knows best about it. But this story seems to be constructed upon a true incident. The true incident is in *Sunan al-Nasa'i* and others with a sound chain of narration that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and said: "My wife does not turn back the hand of a toucher." He said to him: . He said to him: "I love her, O Messenger of Allah." He said: . The hadith is only like this. Some people understood from the husband's statement about his wife, "She does not turn back the hand of a toucher," that she was ... committing fornication. But it appears that the matter is not so; because if the husband accuses his wife of zina, he must do one of two things: either he establishes witnesses and the hadd is carried out against her, or the hadd of false accusation is carried out. And none of this took place at all in the incident. The evidence is that the husband's statement, "She does not turn back the hand of a toucher," does not mean accusing her of fornication, but rather it means, and this is a known matter in some stories, especially in some villages ... a young man talks to a young woman and says to her: "Go ahead," and she is not aware of anything ... So it appears that this wife was like that and the husband was jealous, so he complained of the matter to the Messenger (peace be upon him): "She does not turn back the hand of a toucher."

The questioner : A handshake, I mean?

The Shaykh : And what about now? Now the calamity is this handshaking. The Muslim girl today does not shy away, even the veiled ones; because the truth is this is a problem now; that many Muslim women think Islam is the hijab, nothing has changed in them except that they threw on this garment, but their walk is the walk of a man, their boldness in speech, their mixing with men, it remains as it is. So the young man says this husband who sees his wife extending her hand to a man to shake it before he extends his hand to her, "My wife or my woman does not turn back the hand of a toucher," and by Allah, the truth is with you; so , "I love her," so , it is better that he divorce her, but in the way of obtaining the best, he falls into another problem. He divorces her and his heart goes after her, just as the heart of Mughith went after what? That woman, Barira?

Those present : Barira.

The Shaykh : Barira, yes, when she became free, the Messenger (peace be upon him) gave her the choice between staying with him or becoming free. She said: "I do not want him." So whenever she went out to attend to a need in the market, he would walk behind her while crying, crying for her separation. What can he do? He loved her. So he said to him: . He said: . He said to him: "I love her." He said to him: ; meaning this hadith can be included in the chapter of taking the lesser of two evils.
And peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.