Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Khalanjī > Abū Saʿīd a freed slave of Banī Hāshim > Ḥaṣīn b. Nāfiʿ al-Māzinī > al-Ḥasan > al-Baṣrī > Saʿd b. Hishām

It was narrated from Sa'd bin Hisham that he came to the Mother of the Believers, 'Aishah. He said: "I want to ask you about celibacy, what do you think about it?" She said: "Do not do that; have you not heard that Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, says: 'And indeed We sent Messengers before you, and made for them wives and offspring'? So do not be celibate."

أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْخَلَنْجِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ مَوْلَى بَنِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَصِينُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ الْمَازِنِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْحَسَنُ هُوَ الْبَصْرِيُّ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى أُمِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَائِشَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَكِ عَنِ التَّبَتُّلِ فَمَا تَرَيْنَ فِيهِ؟ قَالَتْ فَلَا تَفْعَلْ أَمَا

سَمِعْتَ اللهَ يَقُولُ {وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلًا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ أَزْوَاجًا وَذُرِّيَّةً} [الرعد 38]؟ فَلَا تَتَبَتَّلْ