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Sahih al-Bukhari, 5242
sahih

Narrated Abu Huraira:

(The Prophet) Solomon son of (the Prophet) David said, "Tonight I will go round (i.e. have sexual relations with) one hundred women (my wives) everyone of whom will deliver a male child who will fight in Allah's Cause." On that an Angel said to him, "Say: 'If Allah will.' " But Solomon did not say it and forgot to say it. Then he had sexual relations with them but none of them delivered any child except one who delivered a half person. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If Solomon had said: 'If Allah will,' Allah would have fulfilled his (above) desire and that saying would have made him more hopeful."

حَدَّثَنِي مَحْمُودٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ ‏"‏ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ ـ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلاَمُ ـ لأَطُوفَنَّ اللَّيْلَةَ بِمِائَةِ امْرَأَةٍ، تَلِدُ كُلُّ امْرَأَةٍ غُلاَمًا، يُقَاتِلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمَلَكُ قُلْ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ‏.‏ فَلَمْ يَقُلْ وَنَسِيَ، فَأَطَافَ بِهِنَّ، وَلَمْ تَلِدْ مِنْهُنَّ إِلاَّ امْرَأَةٌ نِصْفَ إِنْسَانٍ ‏"‏‏.‏ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ لَوْ قَالَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَمْ يَحْنَثْ، وَكَانَ أَرْجَى لِحَاجَتِهِ ‏"‏‏.‏

Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1Mahmud bin GhaylanMerv,Baghdad · d. 239 AH or after
  2. 2'Abdur-RazzaqYemen/Hijaz/Syria/Iraq · d. 211 AH/827 CE
  3. 3Ma'mar bin RashidBasrah/Medinah/Yemen · d. 154 AH/770 CE
  4. 4'Abdullah bin TawusYemen · d. 132 AH
  5. 5Tawus bin KaysanYemen, Hijaz · d. 106 AH or after
  6. 6Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
  7. 7Sulaiman bin Da'ud bin Da'udal-Baghdad · d. 219 AH or after
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 67, Hadith 175
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Vol. 7, Book 62, Hadith 169 (deprecated numbering scheme)
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