This meaning is narrated from Abu Ja'far (a.

This meaning is narrated from Abu Ja'far (a.s.)." (Majma'u 'l-bayan) The author says: This meaning is narrated from several early exegetes like Ibn 'Abbas, Qatadah and Abu Malikah. The wording of the verse is not out of tune with it, because this also is a covenant women make with men; although more obviously it means the marriage formula which is recited to establish marriage-tie.

az-Zubayr ibn Bakkar has narrated in al-Muwaffaqiyyat from 'Abdullah ibn Mus'ab that he said: "'Umar said: 'Do not give to women a dowry more than forty uqiyyah*. If anyone exceeds [this limit] I will put the excess amount in the treasury.' A woman said: 'You have no such authority.' He said: 'Why?' She said 'Because Allah says: ". . .

you have given one of them a heap of gold..." ' Thereupon 'Umar said: 'A woman hit the mark and a man missed.' " (ad-Durru 'l-manthur) The author says: as-Suyuti has also narrated it from 'Abdu "r-Razzaq and Ibnu '1-Mundhir from 'Abdu 'r-Rahman as-Salami; and from Sa'id ibn Mansur and Abu Ya'la through a good chain from Masruq (and that tradition says "four hundred Dirhams" in place of "forty uqiyyah"); and also from Sa'id ibn Mansur and 'Abd ibn Hamid from Bakr ibn 'Abdillah al-Muzani; and all traditions have nearly the same meaning.

Ibn Jarir has narrated from 'Ikrimah that he said about the word of Allah, And marry not women whom your fathers married, that it was revealed about Abu Qays ibn al-Aslat who took Umm Ubayd bint Damrah who was the widow of his father, al-Aslat; and about al-Aswad ibn Khalaf who had taken the daughter of Abu Talhah ibn 'Abdi 'l-'Uzza ibn 'Uthman ibn 'Abdi M-Dar, who was the widow of his father, Khalaf; and about Fakhitah, daughter of al-Aswad ibn al-Muttalib ibn Asad, who was the wife of Umayyah ibn Khalaf and then she was taken by his son, Safwan ibn Umayyah; and about Manzur ibn Rabab who had taken Malikah daughter of Kharijah, who was the widow of his father, Rabab ibn Sayyar.

(ibid.) Ibn Sa'd has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi that he said: "When a man died leaving a woman, his son had the right to marry her if he so wished - provided she was not his own mother - or to give her to someone else in marriage. When Abu Qays ibn al-Aslat died, his son, Muhassan, succeeded him and inherited the marriage of his widow; but he did not give her maintenance nor he gave her any property as [her husband's] inheritance.

Thereupon, she came to the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and described the situation" to "him.