3240 - Harun ibn 'Abd Allah informed me, saying: Ma'n narrated to us, saying: Malik narrated to us. Likewise, al-Harith ibn Miskin [narrated] through a reading in his presence while I was listening, from Ibn al-Qasim, who said: Malik narrated to me, from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban, from al-A'raj, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Let none of you propose marriage over the proposal of his brother."

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And (2563): (29) and (2564): (32), and Abu Dawud (2176), and Ibn Hibban (4046), (4048), (4050), (4069), and (4070), through multiple chains from Abu Hurayrah, with the same wording, and in some of them there is an addition.

It will be cited in full and in abridged form through multiple chains from al-Zuhri, with the same wording, under the numbers: (3241), (4502), (4506), and (4507).

See also the following hadiths under the numbers: (3240), (3242), (4491), and (4496).

Al-Sindi said: His statement: "Do not outbid one another" — al-najsh, with a fatha on the first letter and a sukun on the second, means: to praise a commodity in order to make it sell, or to increase the price without intending to buy it, so that others are deceived by that. "And let not a resident sell" — it comes in the form of a prohibition with the dropping of the ya', and in the form of negation with the ya' retained, and it carries the meaning of prohibition; therefore it is coordinated with the preceding prohibition, and likewise what follows it. That is: let not the resident of the town sell "for a Bedouin" — for a desert-dweller, meaning that the resident sells the Bedouin's goods for his own benefit, acting as a broker. This entails harm to the residents, for if he left the Bedouin alone, he would customarily sell it cheaply. "Over the sale of his brother" — it is said that what is meant is bargaining, and the prohibition applies to the buyer rather than the seller, because the seller does not usually intrude upon another seller; rather, the well-known practice is the buyer increasing [the price] over another buyer. "And let none of you propose marriage" — from al-khitbah, with a kasra on the kha', meaning the seeking of marriage, from the conjugation of "nasara," and it admits both the meanings of negation and prohibition. They said: this and what precedes it apply when the two parties have mutually agreed and nothing remains between them except the contract, and there is no prohibition before that. "And let not a woman ask" — it is said that this is a prohibition addressed to the betrothed woman against asking the suitor to divorce the woman who is in his marriage, and also a prohibition against a woman asking for the divorce of a co-wife. What is meant by "sister" is [sister] in religion. "To turn over" — ifti'al, from kafa'a with a hamza, meaning: to spill what is in her vessel of goodness, and this is the reason for the asking. What is meant is that she should not ask for her divorce in order to divert to herself what the husband provides her of maintenance and clothing.

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Ma'n: he is Ibn 'Isa al-Qazzaz, and Ibn al-Qasim: he is 'Abd al-Rahman, and al-A'raj: he is 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hurmuz. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (5335).

It is found in Malik's "al-Muwatta'" 2/523, and through his chain Ahmad narrated it (9951). =