Sahih al-Bukhari 65. Prophetic Commentary on the Qur'an (Tafseer of the Prophet (pbuh)) hadith 51 within the section
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا رضى الله عنه قَالَ كَانَتِ الْيَهُودُ تَقُولُ إِذَا جَامَعَهَا مِنْ وَرَائِهَا جَاءَ الْوَلَدُ أَحْوَلَ. فَنَزَلَتْ {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ}
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Muhammad Muhsin Khan (1997)
Narrated Jabir: Jews used to say: "If one has sexual intercourse with his wife from the back, then she will deliver a squint-eyed child." So this Verse was revealed:-- "Your wives are a tilth unto you; so go to your tilth when or how you will." (2.223)
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)
The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom al-Bukhari who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.
- 1Jabir bin 'Abdullah (762 hadiths) Source of the saying semi'tu
- 2Muhammed b. Münkedir (102 hadiths) an
- 3Sufyan bin 'Uyaynah (1088 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 4Ebû Nuaym (201 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Compiler Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari
Chain length: 4 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
