Suhaib Webb – Marriage Half Your Din A Statement of The Prophet
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The speaker discusses a hadith that states that people should not find the right person because of their lack of married status or divorce. The hadith is not considered authentically established, and the speaker suggests that people should be careful when searching for the right person.
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Many of us have heard this hadith.
It's like everywhere.
It's on the streets.
You find like conferences called like, you know,
half your deen and you know, it's like
a kind of like a bumper sticker, you
know, it's out there.
And sometimes that can be harmful for people
who couldn't get married.
Or maybe that, you know, they just haven't
been able to find the right person or
maybe they're divorced.
So this hadith, and here's where, you know,
I've added notes to the book, I think
that will ultimately be important once I edit
it after like 12 years, is that while
a famous phrase, this hadith is not authentically
reported on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ.
It's not a statement of the Prophet ﷺ.
You have to be very careful what you
hear, man.
Just because it's on a meme doesn't mean
it's from deen.
That's the axiom.
Memorize it, right?
Just because it's on a meme doesn't mean
what?
It's from deen.
Yeah, keep that in your head.
Just trust me.
So while famous, Imam Ibn Hajar, he wrote
a famous book called Famous Things That The
Prophet Didn't Say That Everybody Says.
What do you expect?
Especially on the minbar and the Friday prayers
because usually the minbar, the person giving the
Friday sermon or someone that's like, you know,
trying to be like evocative, you know, like
we say, you know, like storytellers, you know,
like they want to get you pumped up.
Sometimes those people aren't trained necessarily in examining
narrations, but in law, you have to be
very, very careful when you want to make
a point.
And we'll go through this.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he did not say
marriage is half your religion.
There are a few narrations attributed to him,
but they are weak because there's only one
chain.
It's only one chain back to the Prophet
ﷺ.
Where this sort of, I think, also took
on new life is Sheikh al-Bani, Allah
yurhamu, the great scholar of hadith.
In his book about marriage, he said this
hadith is something called, you want to write
this down, hassan li ghayrihi.
Hassan li ghayrihi means a hadith that's weak,
but it has so many narrations that when
they're all brought together, they like strengthen one
another.
So it goes from being weak to being
what?
Hassan, if you speak Arabic, bi sabab ghayrihi,
because of something else, because of all those
narrations brought together.
But this is important, you know, if you're
doing a halaq or maybe you meet someone
who's really down, like I feel so bad,
like marriage is, I think the first week,
right, the sister rose her hand, she raised
her hand, she was like, like am I
supposed to feel bad because I'm not married?
Because like marriage is half your deen, right?
So she made me, when she said that,
I was like, let me go and do
research.
But there's only one narration of this hadith
and it has someone named Yazid al-Ruqayshi.
Yazid al-Ruqayshi is matruk, he's abandoned by
the scholars of hadith.
And Sheikh al-Bani, may Allah have mercy
upon him, his understanding, he thought, oh, there
must be other texts that support it.
So it's not weak, but it's attributed to
the Prophet ﷺ.
In fact, and I don't want to get
too technical for you, but if we examine
and we chain and we trace kind of
and investigate this statement, it's actually made by
one of the early scholars, Tawus.
Tawus is from the Salaf.
And so he said it, like marriage is
half your deen, and then it just started,
you know, like *.
And after a while, people were like, oh,
qala Rasulullah.
So in conclusion, the hadith is not authentically
established due to the weakness of the single
chain that exists.