1. We were told by Abu’l-Hasan, Muhammed bin Amru bin Ali bin Abdullah al-Basri, that he said: We were told by Abu’l-Hasan, Ali bin Hasan bin Bandar al-Tamimi al-Tabari, in Esfarayen, in the mosque of the congregation, that he said: We were told by Abu Nasr, Muhammed bin Yusuf al-Tusi, in Tabaran [1], that he said: We were told by my father, that he said: We were told by Ali ibn Khashram al-Maruzi, that he said: We were told by Fadl bin Musa al-Nasa’I al-Maruzi, that he said: Abu Hanifa, Nu’man bin Thabit, said to me:

Shall I benefit you with an unusual narration which you have not heard the like of anything more unusual? He said: Then I said: Yes. Then Abu Hanifa said: I was informed by Hammad bin Sulayman, from Ibrahim al-Nakha’I, from Abdullah bin Najiya, from Zaid bin Thabit, that he said: The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: O Zaid, have you married? I said: No. He said: Marry, and you will be virtuous after your chastity, and do not marry five. Zaid said: And who are they, O Messenger of Allah? The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: Do not marry a shahbara, nor a lahbara, nor a nahbara, nor a haydara, nor a lafout. Zaid said: O Messenger of Allah, I do not know about anything of what you mentioned, and I am ignorant of the last of them. Then the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: Are you not Arabs? As for the shahbara, she is the blue and vulgar. As for the lahbara, she is the tall and gaunty. As for the nahbara, she is the short and deformed. As for the haydara, she is the old woman who is managed. As for the lafout, she is the one with children from other than you.