Wives of the Prophet (s): Difference between revisions

According to hadiths, the Prophet’s wives had a [[mahr]] of 500 [[dirham]]s. The mahr determined by the Prophet (s) for his wives, and according to [[al-Shaykh al-Saduq]], for his daughters, is called "mahr al-sunna" (the mahr of the tradition). There is, nevertheless, a hadith quoted by al-Shaykh al-Saduq from [[Imam al-Baqir (a)]] to the effect that [[Umm Habiba]]’s mahr was 4,000 dirhams. It is said that Imam al-Baqir (a) referred to this mahr as an exception case, which was paid by al-Najashi, the ruler of [[Abyssinia]] who served as the Prophet’s representative in asking Umm Habiba for marriage, although the Prophet did not object to that mahr.<ref>Masʿūdī, [http://hadith.net/post/42123/ Research on Mahr al-Sunnah (persian)], p. 113.</ref>