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Hadith 34901
Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd at-Tawil that Anas ibn
Malik said, "A virgin has seven nights, and a woman who has been
previously married has three nights."
Malik affirmed, "That
is what is done among us."
Malik added, "If the man has
another wife, he divides his time equally between them after the
wedding nights. He does not count the wedding nights against the one
he has just married."
Muwatta Malik Book 28, Hadith 16
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn
Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm from Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Bakr ibn Abd ar-
Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham al-Makhzumi from his father that when
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
married Umm Salama and then spent the night with her, he said to her,
"You are not being humbled in your right. If you wish, I will stay
with you for seven nights as I stayed seven nights with the others. If
you wish, I will stay with you for three nights, and then visit the
others in turn." She said, "Stay three nights." Muwatta Malik Book 28, Hadith 15
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Said ibn
al-Musayyab was asked about a woman who made a stipulation on her
husband not to take her away from her town. Said ibn al-Musayyab said,
"He takes her away if he wishes."
Malik said, "The custom
among us is that when a man marries a woman, and he makes a condition
in the marriage contract that he will not marry after her or take a
concubine, it means nothing unless there is an oath of divorce or
setting-free attached to it. Then it is obliged and required of him." Muwatta Malik Book 28, Hadith 17