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Muwatta 1117 · Book 28

Muwatta Malik, 1117

Marriage

Da‘if (weak)« Mauquf Daif » by Salim al-Hilali

وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ الْمَكِّيِّ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، أُتِيَ بِنِكَاحٍ لَمْ يَشْهَدْ عَلَيْهِ إِلاَّ رَجُلٌ وَامْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا نِكَاحُ السِّرِّ وَلاَ أُجِيزُهُ وَلَوْ كُنْتُ تَقَدَّمْتُ فِيهِ لَرَجَمْتُ ‏.‏

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zubayr al-Makki that a case was brought to Umar about a marriage which had only been witnessed by one man and one woman . He said, "This is a secret marriage and I do not permit it. Had I been the first to come upon it, I would have ordered them to be stoned
EN
Abou Zoubair Al-Makki a rapporté que Omar Ibn Al-Khattab a annulé un mariage qui n'eut pour témoins qu'un homme et qu'une femme, en disant: «C'est un mariage fait en secret, que je ne permets pas. Et si j'avais devancé les autres (pour l'admettre) j'aurais lapidé son exécuteur»
FR · French translation supplied by the source (hadith-api), not proofread.

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Salim al-Hilali
Mauquf Daif

Source: fawazahmed0/hadith-api (public domain).