Azami 6357

Abu Dawud (4017), Tirmidhi (2769, 2794), Ibn Majah (1920), Hakim (4/179-180), and Bayhaqi (1/199) all narrated it through this route. Its chain is hasan because of Bahz bin Hakeem and his father Hakeem bin Muawiya, for both are truthful narrators.As for what is reported from Utba bin Abdul-Sulami, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When one of you comes to his wife, let him cover himself, and let him not strip naked like two donkeys," this is daif. Ibn Majah (1921) narrated it from Walid bin Qasim Hamdani, who said, Ahwas bin Hakeem told us, from his father, and from Rashid bin Saad and Abdul-Ala bin Adi, from Utba bin Abdul-Sulami, and he related it. In it is Walid bin Qasim Hamdani, who is disputed. Ibn Main declared him daif, while Ibn Hibban said, "He transmitted alone from reliable narrators material that does not resemble the hadith of the reliable narrators, so his solitary reports fall outside the scope of being used as evidence." Ibn Adi said, "When he narrates from a reliable narrator, and a reliable narrator narrates from him, there is no harm in him."I say, this is among what he narrated from someone who was not reliable, namely Ahwas bin Hakeem Ansi, for weakness predominates in his hadith. Nasai and Juzjani declared him daif, and Abu Hatim said, "He is not strong, and his hadith is rejected." But more than one scholar of knowledge said his hadith should be taken into consideration. I have not found anyone who corroborated him in this, and Busiri used this to fault the hadith in Zawaid Ibn Majah.Likewise, what is reported from Abdullah bin Masud is not sound, that he said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When one of you comes to his wife, let him cover himself, and let them not both strip naked like two donkeys." Bayhaqi (7/193) narrated it and said, "Mindal bin Ali alone transmitted it, and he is not strong." Even though it is not established, it is commendable in conduct.Shafii said, "I dislike that he should have intercourse with her while the other one watches, for that is not modesty, nor is it commendable conduct, nor does it resemble kind companionship, when he has been commanded to live with her in kindness." As for a man sleeping between two wives, as reported from Ibn Abbas that he used to sleep between two slave girls, Abu Ubayd said, "This, in my view, refers to sleeping, not to intercourse." Bayhaqi mentioned it.Likewise, what is reported from Abdullah bin Sarjas is not sound, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When one of you comes to his wife, let him cast something over his and her lower back, and let them not both strip naked like two donkeys." Nasai narrated it in Sunan al-Kubra (9029) from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Raheem, who said, Amr bin Abu Salama told us, from Sadaqa bin Abdullah, from Zuhayr bin Muhammad, from Asim Ahwal, from Abdullah bin Sarjas, and he related it. Nasai said, "This hadith is rejected, and Sadaqa bin Abdullah is daif. I only included it so that it would not be attributed as narrated by Amr from Zuhayr."Likewise, what is reported from Ayesha is not sound, that she said, "I never looked at the private part of the Prophet ﷺ at all," or "I never saw the private part of the Prophet ﷺ at all." Ibn Majah (662, 1922), Tirmidhi in Shamail (352), Ahmad (24344), and Ibn Abu Shayba (1/106) all narrated it through routes from Sufyan, from Mansur, from Musa bin Abdullah bin Yazid Khatmi, from a freedman of Ayesha, from Ayesha, and he related it. In it, the freedman of Ayesha is unnamed, and in some narrations it is "from a freedwoman of Ayesha." In either case, there is uncertainty about the narrator's identity. It has also been narrated through another chain from Sufyan Thawri, from the hadith of Anas bin Malik from Ayesha, but it contains a narrator who fabricates hadith.