Hadith 10

Sahih Bukhari

Book 54: Conditions

Chapter 6

The terms and the conditions of Mahr

باب الشُّرُوطِ فِي الْمَهْرِ عِنْدَ عُقْدَةِ النِّكَاحِ

‘Umar said, “The rights are limited by the conditions, and you will get only what you stipulate.” Narrated Al-Miswar, “I heard the Prophet ﷺ once mentioning his son-in-law and praising him highly as a sincere son-in-law. He said, ‘Whenever he talked to me, he spoke the truth and whenever he promised me, he fulfilled his promise.’”
وَقَالَ عُمَرُ إِنَّ مَقَاطِعَ الْحُقُوقِ عِنْدَ الشُّرُوطِ، وَلَكَ مَا شَرَطْتَ. وَقَالَ الْمِسْوَرُ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَكَرَ صِهْرًا لَهُ فَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ فِي مُصَاهَرَتِهِ فَأَحْسَنَ قَالَ: «حَدَّثَنِي وَصَدَقَنِي وَوَعَدَنِي فَوَفَى لِي».
Sahih al-Bukhari 2721
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْخَيْرِ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏‏.‏
"‏ أَحَقُّ الشُّرُوطِ أَنْ تُوفُوا بِهِ مَا اسْتَحْلَلْتُمْ بِهِ الْفُرُوجَ ‏"
`Uqba bin Amir:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "From among all the conditions which you have to fulfill, the conditions which make it legal for you to have sexual relations (i.e. the marriage contract) have the greatest right to be fulfilled."