The Book of Marriage, Breastfeeding, Divorce, Mutual Oath-Swearing, and Manumission-04a
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The reciter: Muhammad ibn 'Amr ibn 'Abbad ibn Jabalah ibn Abi Rawad and Muhammad ibn Bashar narrated to us, saying: Muhammad, who is Ibn Ja'far, narrated to us, saying: Shu'bah narrated to us from 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Sahl, saying: I heard Anas ibn Malik say: Sahih Muslim 1428d Then Thabit al-Bunani said: "With what did he hold the feast? He said: He fed them bread and meat until they left some of it."
The Shaykh : In my copy, the edition has "bima" with an alif.
The reader: Yes, indeed
The Shaykh : The well-known rule is that the interrogative "ma" is written without an alif when a preposition is attached to it, as in the saying of Allah the Exalted:[An-Naba 78:1-2] and as in their saying: "What for do you do it?" and as in their saying: "With what do you do it?" and "In what do you do it?" But perhaps it was written this way in the books of hadith, so leave it as it is, yes.
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) gave no better wedding feast than the one he did (on the occasion of his marriage with) Zainab.
ما أولم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم على امرأة من نسائه أكثر أو أفضل مما أولم على زينبThe Shaykh : In my copy, the edition has "bima" with an alif.
The reader: Yes, indeed
The Shaykh : The well-known rule is that the interrogative "ma" is written without an alif when a preposition is attached to it, as in the saying of Allah the Exalted: