It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever sells something to two men, it belongs to the first buyer, and any woman who has been married off by two guardians (in two separate places) belongs to the first husband."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When two (separate) guardians marry (a woman off in two places), she belongs to the first (marriage), and when two (authorised) agents sell (the same thing to two parties), it belongs to the first (buyer)." Ash'ath bin Abd al-Malik al-Humrani also corroborated Qatadah in this narration from al-Hasan al-Basri.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When two (authorised) agents marry (a woman off in separate places), the first (whose marriage took place first) has the greater right." All these clear and distinct routes that I have mentioned for this text are sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was (present) among us, our dowry used to be ten uqiyah. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Abu al-Ajfa' al-Sulami that he said: Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed us in a sermon and said: "Beware! Do not go to excess in the dowries of women (do not fix very high dowries), for if this were a mark of nobility or honour in this world, or a sign of piety with Allah, then Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) would have been more deserving and more fitting for it than all of you; yet he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not fix the dowry of any of his wives at more than twelve uqiyah. And indeed a man makes his wife's dowry so (excessively) costly that enmity towards her arises in his heart, and he begins to say (to himself): 'For your sake I have borne the burden, straining even the strap of the waterskin (that is, with great toil and hardship).'" (Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) further said:) "And another thing you say about those killed in these battles of yours: 'So-and-so was killed a martyr,' or 'So-and-so died a martyr,' while perhaps he had loaded the hindquarters of his animal or the saddle of his mount with gold and silver in pursuit of the world. So do not say that; rather say what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Whoever is killed or dies in the path of Allah, he is in Paradise.'" The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani, Habib bin al-Shahid, Hisham bin Hassan, Salamah bin Alqamah, Mansur bin Zadhan, Awf bin Abi Jamilah and Yahya bin Atiq all transmitted it from Muhammad bin Sirin with sahih narrations. The name of Abu al-Ajfa' al-Sulami is Harim bin Hayyan, and he is among the trustworthy (thiqah) narrators.

Abbas bin Muhammad al-Duri narrates that he heard Yahya bin Ma'in say that Abd al-Rahman bin Mahdi said: The name of Abu al-Ajfa' is Harim. This hadith has also been transmitted by Salim bin Abdullah and Nafi' from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) as a sound (mustaqim) narration.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people and said: "O people, do not go to excess in the dowries of women, for if this were a matter of honour (in this world), none of you would have been more deserving or more fitting for it than the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). (The fact is that) he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not set the dowry of any of his wives or daughters at more than twelve uqiyah." And one uqiyah is forty dirhams, except for the dowry that al-Najashi paid on his (peace and blessings be upon him) behalf in the land of Abyssinia (for Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her)), which was four hundred dinars.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people and then said: "O people, keep (the amount of) women's dowries small, for if large dowries were a matter of piety with Allah and of honour and nobility in this world, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would have been the most deserving of it. Yet we do not know of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) having given any of his pure wives a dowry of more than twelve uqiyah; one uqiyah is forty dirhams, so these (twelve uqiyah) come to four hundred and eighty dirhams, and that was the highest dowry the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave. So let me not find anyone who has fixed a dowry of more than four hundred dirhams."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Do not go to extremes and excess in the dowries of women." Then the narrator mentioned the complete hadith.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) stood on the pulpit, praised and glorified Allah, and said: "Take heed! Do not go to excess in the dowries of women, for if this were a matter of honour in this world or of piety with Allah, your Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would have been the most deserving of it. By Allah, the dowry of none of his (peace and blessings be upon him) pure wives or daughters was raised above twelve uqiyah, which comes to four hundred and eighty dirhams, one uqiyah being forty dirhams." Sahih chains are mutawatir (mass-transmitted) establishing the authenticity of this sermon of the Commander of the Believers, Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), and I have all the narrations on this topic compiled in a large volume (juz'), but the two Shaykhs did not record it.