3220 - Al-Hasan ibn Qaza‘ah informed us, saying: Sufyan — and he is Ibn Habib — narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from ‘Ata’, from Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ met me and said: "O Jabir, have you taken a wife after me?" I said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "A virgin or a previously married woman?" I said: "A previously married woman." He said: "Why not a virgin, so that she might play with you?"

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= "Have you married?" He said: I said: "I married a widow." He said: "What is wrong with you and virgins, and their playfulness?" Shu‘bah said: I mentioned that to ‘Amr ibn Dinar, and he said: I heard Jabir say: The Prophet ﷺ said: "Why not a young virgin, so that she might play with you and you might play with her." (The wording of the second narration is Ahmad's.)

Ahmad also recorded it in (14861), (14896), and (15026), al-Bukhari in (2097), Muslim following (1466): (57), and Ibn Hibban in (2717), (6518), and (7143), through multiple chains from Jabir, with closely similar narrations, some of which are longer due to the mention of Jabir's sale of his camel to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

It will also come via the path of ‘Amir al-Sha‘bi from Jabir under number (4638), and it includes the additional mention of his sale of his camel to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

It will also come with the mention of the story of his sale of the camel alone via the path of al-Sha‘bi under number (4637), via the path of Salim ibn Abi al-Ja‘d under number (4639), via the path of Abu al-Zubayr under number (4640), and via the path of Abu Nadrah under number (4641) — all four of them from Jabir, may Allah be pleased with him.

It will also come via the path of Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jabir, under number (3386), with similar wording and the additional mention of taking up decorative furnishings.

(1) In (R), (M), and (H): "bikran" (a virgin), without an interrogative particle.
(2) In (R): "am ayyim" (or a previously married woman), and in the margin of (K): "abikrun am ayyim" (a virgin or a previously married woman), and it is likewise in the author's "Al-Sunan al-Kubra."
(3) A sound hadith, and this chain is good because of Al-Hasan ibn Qaza‘ah, for he is truthful, and he has been followed [by others], and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Ibn Jurayj: he is ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, and ‘Ata’: he is Ibn Abi Rabah. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (5309).
Al-Bukhari also recorded it in (2309) from al-Makki ibn Ibrahim, from Ibn Jurayj, from ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah and others — some of them adding to others, and none of them conveyed it in its entirety (the wording of "Al-Fath") — from Jabir, may Allah be pleased with him, =