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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Book of Friday Prayer, the Two Festivals, the Prayer for Rain, the Eclipse Prayer, and Funerals-07b

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The reciter: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated it to us, saying: Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us. And Abu al-Tahir narrated to me, saying: Abdullah ibn Wahb informed us from Mu'awiyah ibn Salih. And Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Duqali narrated to me, saying: Abd al-Samad narrated to us, saying: Abd al-Aziz, meaning Ibn Muslim, narrated to us. All of them narrated it from Yahya ibn Sa'id with this chain of narration, to the same effect. And in the hadith of Abd al-Aziz:
besides you did not relieve Allah's Apostle from fatigue. وَمَا تَرَكْتَ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَ الْعِيِّ
Sahih al-Bukhari 1305
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The Shaykh : The point of this hadith is that sadness over the deceased is not considered forbidden, because this is part of human nature, that a person should grieve over what he has lost of a beloved, and he is not to be blamed for it.
It also contains the permissibility for a woman to look at men, because Aisha used to look from the crack of the door, meaning the slit of the door. The "sa'ir" in our terminology is the slit next to the door hinge, which it rests upon, and it is still known by this name.
The man said to him: O Messenger of Allah, indeed the wives of Ja'far... to the end of it. It contains evidence for the permissibility of sending someone for admonition, and that there is no harm in one person appointing another to convey the admonition on his behalf, and this is a matter in which agency is permissible.
It also contains that this man was unable to overpower the women, and he kept going back and forth to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), while he was in this state of sadness. For this reason, Aisha said:
May Allah crush his nose. أرغَم الله أنفه
: meaning to press his nose into the dust, which is the earth, and it is an idiom for exaggeration in humiliation. However, the Arabs use this expression without intending the literal meaning, just as they say: "May your hands be covered in dust", and they say: "May your mother mourn you". This is a supplication, but they do not intend this; rather, they intend to express dissatisfaction or urging, according to what the context requires.
Source alathar.net

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