\nNarrated Sahl bin Sa`d:\n\n
A lady came to Allah's Apostle and said, \"O Allah's Apostle! I have come to you to offer myself to \nyou.\" He raised his eyes and looked at her and then lowered his head. When the lady saw that he did \nnot make any decision, she sat down. On that, a man from his companions got up and said. \"O Allah's \nApostle! If you are not in need of this woman, then marry her to me.\" Allah's Apostle said, \"Do you \nhave anything to offer her?\" He replied. \"No, by Allah, O Allah's Apostle!\" The Prophet said to him, \n\"Go to your family and see if you can find something.' The man went and returned, saying, \"No, by \nAllah, O Allah's Apostle! I have not found anything.\" The Prophet said, \"Try to find something, even \nif it is an iron ring.'' He went again and returned, saying, \"No, by Allah, O Allah's Apostle, not even \nan iron ring, but I have this waist sheet of mine.\" The man had no upper garment, so he intended to \ngive her, half his waist sheet. So Allah's Apostle said, ''What would she do with your waist sheet? If \nyou wear it, she will have nothing of it over her body, and if she wears it, you will have nothing over \nyour body.\" So that man sat for a long period and then got up, and Allah's Apostle saw him going \naway, so he ordered somebody to call him. When he came, the Prophet asked him, \" How much of the \nQur'an do you know?\" He replied, \"I know such Surat and such Surat and such Surat,\" and went on \ncounting it, The Prophet asked him, \"Can you recite it by heart?\" he replied, \"Yes.\" The Prophet said, \n\"Go, I have married this lady to you for the amount of the Qur'an you know by heart.\"","english_grade":"Sahih","last_updated":null,"xrefs":""}