How did Abu Hanifa solve the case of two brides sent to the wrong grooms?

and you could see this coming back to his his trade and businessman kind of because because that's how he grew up he was a very you know he was a very successful businessman so yeah so people would approach him he would help them he would say well okay do this do this this is a you know this is how it can be and people did they rated his Brilliance for for really doing stuff like that there's a you know there's a uh there's an incident I'll share some stories with you guys right so from I think I shared this one before once they say that

in his time in kufa once and this couple were getting married so sometimes to let's say you had a friend or some a relative or even it could have been a dear friend or could have been a cousin or it could have been someone and to save expenses or maybe just to make it more extravagant you might have a combined wedding as in you know what I'm getting married you're getting why don't we just both get married on uh Sunday and you know that way we could pool our resources together and we could it could be even better you know and so people sometimes did stuff like this so you had this joint marriage going on

so two people marrying you know two couples so when it comes to okay the zifa in Arabic is the the the kind of uh what what they call Urdu where the bride is kind of she goes with the groom and usually and the you know in Arabic they're very they're not so sensitive about sexual matters so they're very clear that zifaph is about going on sex or love making shall we say it's they're very clear they're not like obviously in order these kind of words are very nobody uses words like that

they just say you know it's just this but in Arabic they'll say very clearly it's about Bina and it's about the whole and it's about you know uh sexual intimacy for the couple so right so if so after this this whole kind of do whatever they have in the wedding the it's the safavath time but people here there's a mistake man the the wives are sent to the wrong mistaken homes so they send this wife to that home and that wife to that home so obviously in that day and age as well

you see sometimes people hadn't seen their husbands and wives properly like they didn't know you know arranged marriages they they just knew okay it's that person I haven't seen him and they just accepted it so now they end up and obviously um you know a right number wrong door number next door they're like well so they get on with it they harmonize you know the souls as the souls gel together there's a music of the harmony of the souls so they had the the kind of uh

harmonization and they had they spent the the laylators if uh in in a state of bliss with one another what happens is um the next morning one of them realizes wait a minute you're not so and so Care number that I thought what name did you say yeah that's not the name I got married to I got married to this so they realized what the hell are you sure no it wasn't wait wait a minute you're meant to be marrying the other guy who we had a

joint wedding so damn so they've realized oh this is a great disaster so obviously both couples find out that they like what the hell you know get the masterminds together so they call upon the great imams of the city of the town to come fix it so this is in kufa so they call the likes of sofiana thori other imams they call Imam of hanifa so they turn up and they say look we've got this problem and so they're thinking and they're in this room they're having a conference and he says okay he says look listen he says I'll tell you what to do so they say what shall we do so they say

what you do is uh he says each husband divorces his wife and when he's divorced her they wait a night there which is going to be three menstrual cycles let's say just to make sure they're not pregnant and then the new then the other original husband can you know do the nikah with them and again just for the sake of you know and and they can remarry okay so so this is what and then whilst he's saying this he says I heard from such and such of the salaf of the predecessors that there was a case a bit similar to a different

case but it had some similarity and this is what such and such ruled and so on so you know Imam sufyan authori says this and he's quite happy with his answer he looks around and people are like you know Imam but then he looks over there and he can see Imam Abu hanifa not so impressed Legend so he looks at him and he thinks he thinks why have you got that look on your face and he says what's up with you and he says he's just thinking he says he says have you got a better opinion he says do you agree with what I'm saying so Imam goes

he just makes a face he says well have you got anything better says if I may say please he says my suggestion he says before I suggest anything I want you to bring the Grooms here and also call upon the wives to come as well so first of all the Grooms come because they're there anyway and he asked them he says look okay put this you know mistake aside he says how were you with you know the partner that

you ended up with how did you find your evening how did you find the person did you gel well were the issues friction they say look no you know we were mistaken but otherwise we got on really well you know a little bit of romance sometimes okay you know this one so he says that you know they say and he asked the other guy he says yeah look you know we got on really well but obviously we found out in the morning it was you know mistaken identity says okay hang on until he waits for the women to come and he says uh let's ask them um that so he sent somebody to ask them

in private how did you put the mistake aside how did you how do you feel about the the person you ended up with were they okay and they said yeah you know they're fine I like them there's nothing wrong with them it's just it's mistaken identity says in that case I suggest that each one of you divorces his original wife and you do a knicker here right now in our presence with this with the wife you ended up with and you can move right in straight away

with her because you the idea in case she's pregnant let's say is from you so because it's the idea is from you there's no need to to wait there's no grace period because even if there is a pregnancy it's your child and that way none of you will have anything in your heart about the other person because you might think bloody hell you know oh she was over there or he was with her what the hell what and these things might play on your mind so the couple they were actually really impressed and fascinated with that opinion and they went with it they said

that that's what we want they said wow this was a testimony to on the spot the kind of engineer you know highly Innovative engineered it's the heart of Imam so it's a it's just so there's so many stories like that but I'll tell you something I'll move on towards in wrapping this up but you see the thing about Imam um he he had his elmy side to him he had he

one may say he had a social particular like a political side if you want to say political or a stature he was known by the caliph he was um you know he stood with Imam Zaid when I say stored as in he was in solidarity with him he got in trouble uh then in the time of Imam Muhammad Naf zakiya which is another movement from the family of the prophecy which arose in uh which arose in Medina and he stood in defense with him because Imam Muhammad had a brother in kufa I