Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) would intercede between couples for reconciliation

Under category: How He treated them?

When Bareerah (a female slave) was freed, her husband was still a slave, she chose to separate from him1 , so the Prophet of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, interceded for him so that she would accept to return to him, but she said: “I am not in need of him.”

Ibn ‘Abbaas (a Companion) narrated:

“Bareerah was married to a man who was a slave called Mugheeth. It is as if I am seeing him now, going behind her and weeping with his tears flowing down his beard. The Prophet of Allah, sal- lallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said to ‘Abbaas (the Prophet’s uncle): “O ‘Abbaas! are you not astonished at the love of Mugheeth for Bareerah and the hatred of Bareerah for Mugheeth?” The Prophet of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, then said to Bareerah: “Why don’t you return to him?”2 She said: “O Messenger of Allah! Are you ordering me to do so?” He, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: “No, I am only interceding for him.” She said: “I am not in need of him.”3

Meaning, if it is not an order then I have no desire to return


المراجع

  1. Because when a female slave is freed she is given the choice of either staying with her slave hus- band or separating from him.
  2.  Reported by An-Nasaa’i (5332) with the following wording: “Why don’t you return to him, as he is the father of your children”. 
  3.  Reported by Al-Bukhaari (5283).