SacredTwo
Shia hadith/Kitāb al-Zuhd 1

Kitāb al-Zuhd 1, record 161 of the digital edition

Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī · Humility and Arrogance

Shia · narrations

Reports differ in authenticity, attribution, context and interpretation across scholarly traditions. Inclusion here is not authentication or endorsement.

Full notice

Hadith reports may differ in authenticity, attribution, context, and interpretation across Islamic scholarly traditions. Inclusion in this library does not constitute authentication or endorsement. Readers are encouraged to consult qualified scholars before drawing religious or legal conclusions.

2

Arabic text

النضر بن سويد عن حسين بن موسى عن زرارة عن أحدهما عليهما السلام قال إن علي بن الحسين عليهما السلام تزوج أم ولد عمه الحسن عليه السلام وزوج أمه مولاه فلما بلغ ذلك عبد الملك بن مروان كتب إلى: يا علي بن الحسين كأنك لا تعرف موضعك من قومك وقدرك عند الناس تزوجت مولاة وزوجت مولاك بأمك فكتب إليه علي بن الحسين: فهمت كتابك ولنا أسوة برسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله فقد زوج زينب بنت عمه زيدا مولاه وتزوج مولاته صفية بنت حي ابن اخطب.

Translation

12.Al-Naḍr ibn Suwayd narrated from Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā, from Zurārah, from one of them (al-Bāqir or al-Ṣādiq) (a) who said, “ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (a) married the slave wife of his late uncle, al-Ḥasan (a), and got his mother married to his [manumitted] slave.[1] When ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān heard about that, he wrote to him saying, ‘O ʿAlī ibn al- Ḥusayn, it seems you do not know your position in the eyes of your community and your station among the people! You married a slave woman and got your slave married to your mother?!’ So ʿAlī ibn al- Ḥusayn wrote back to him, ‘I have [read and] understood your letter, yet our exemplar is the Messenger of Allah (ṣ). He married off his own cousin Zaynab to his [freed] slave Zayd, and he himself married his slave maiden Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥayy ibn Akhṭab.’”

Translation: Shaykh Tahir Ridha Jaffer — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

Explain Related narrations Related versesSelect or long-press any passage for its tools

Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 12.Al-Naḍr ibn Suwayd narrated
  2. Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā
  3. Zurārah
  4. one of them (al-Bāqir or al-Ṣādiq) (a) who said

Narrator names are reproduced from the edition. Biographical profiles (Rijal al-Najashi, Rijal al-Tusi, Muʿjam Rijal al-Hadith) are not yet ingested, so SacredTwo does not link a narrator to a profile it cannot show.

Published assessments

This edition publishes no authenticity assessment for this narration. SacredTwo does not assign one.

What is and is not verified on this page

  • Source text: reproduced verbatim from the named digital edition. It has not been collated against a printed copy.
  • Attribution and chain: recorded as the edition publishes them. SacredTwo does not reconstruct or complete a chain.
  • Authenticity: reported only where a named scholar's published grading exists. SacredTwo never assigns a grade.
  • Interpretation: explanations on SacredTwo are labelled as explanation, not as scholarly review, consensus or ruling.

Persian rendering (AI)

No published Persian translation of this edition is available. This rendering is produced by SacredTwo's model and is not a published translation.

AI explanation

AI-assisted translation — not a verified published translation.

Ask SacredTwo about it Source