At a glance
Family, marriage and kinshipCreed
The story
Yahya relates from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that the Messenger of God said: when one of you marries a woman or buys a slave-girl let him take her forelock and invoke blessing, and when he buys a camel let him take the top of its hump, and let him seek refuge in God from the shaytan 1 Muwatta 1575. The muhaqqiq notes that Ibn Abd al-Barr called it mursal with all the Muwatta transmitters, its meaning resting on the hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him) (may God be pleased with him) and Abu Las al-Khuza i.
The meaning
In this report the Prophet taught the etiquette of entering marriage and buying a slave-girl: taking the forelock, invoking blessing, and seeking refuge from the shaytan 1.
Notes
Among the marriage-etiquette texts in the Muwatta; this browser shows it in the devils section with a note that its chain is mursal 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
Muwatta 26· Muwatta 421· The good dream is from God and the bad dream is from the shaytan· The shaytan lays Bilal down in the Mecca journey· The shaytan at the well of the traveller· Disheveled hair and beard like a shaytan· The fitna rises where the shaytan horn rises· Whoever raises his head before the imam — his forelock is in a shaytan's hand
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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islam.museum contributors. “Taking the forelock at marriage”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/marriage-taking-the-forelock/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.
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