there is nothing better than the human!

[hearandobey]

it was narrated that isa ibn musa used to love his wife very much, so he said to her one day: you are taaliq (divorced), if you are not better than the moon!

so she got up and covered herself from him and said: you have divorced me. so it was a significant night, and when he woke up in the morning he went to al-mansoor (the khalifa) and told him about the news and said: oh amir al-mu'mineen, i will be struck with grief and death would be dearer to me than life, and he showed to mansoor strong sorrow, so he (al-mansoor) gathered the fuqahaa and sought their fatwa (on the matter). so all those that attended said that she has been divorced, except one man from the companions of abu hanifa, he was quiet. so al-mansoor said to him: what is wrong with you, you are not speaking? so he said:

"By the Fig and the Olive, And the Mount of Sinai, And this City of security, We have indeed created man in the best of moulds (95:01-04), so there is nothing better than the human."

so al-mansoor said to isa ibn musa, Allah ta'ala has relieved you and the matter is as he (the faqih) has said, and stick to your wife.

and he wrote to her: obey your husband, as he has not divorced you.


(alf qissa wa qissa min qisas as-saliheen, pg. 12)

[waziri]

Asalamulaykum,


JazakAllah khair nice story, it reminds me of one I heard.


A man who had a falling out with his father in Law said to his wife that "if you go to your fathers house then you are divorced".

When the father in Law passed away the man's wife went to the house,and so now the man and everyone else assumed that he had divorced his wife.

So they went to seek fatawa and they were told that yes the divorce was valid, but then one alim told them that no the divorce was not valid because the wife went to the house after her father had died and so the house no longer belonged to the father i.e it wasnt her fathers house.




wasalam

[Logic lover]

Conditional statements save some and destroy some.

[William Wurkmun Fosterr]

We Are Allah's Masterpiece.

[Sara]

I don't understand the original post. If he loves her so much, why did he divorce her? I also don't understand the relevance of the ayah.

[Um Ismail]

could it be that he said that to show her how he thinks she is better then the moon, yet she out of humbleness thought she isn't due to which she took the divorce seriously? So the ayah would be relevant because it states human is created in the best of moulds, so this saved his marriage?

[hearandobey]

yes, arabs thinks that the moon is something very beautiful, so it is as um ismail said.