The
Permissible Lying
source:
silsilat ul-ahādīth us-sahīha ~ the series of authentic
narrations ~ hadīth no. 545
Umm Kulthūm bint ʽUqbah said: “the Prophet (صلى الله عليه
وسلم) allowed lying in three (situations): during war, in
reconciling between people, and the speech of a man to his
wife. {In another narration:} the speech of a man to his
wife and the speech of a woman to her husband.”
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Shaykh al-Albānī comments:[1]
“I say, it is not part of the permissible lying that (the
man) promises (his wife) something that he does not intend
to fulfill for her, or he tells her that he bought such and
such thing for her with such and such price – i.e., more
than the real (price) – for the purpose of pleasing her,
because that may be revealed to her; then it will be a
reason for her to think badly of her husband, and that is
part of corruption, not rectification.”
~ asaheeha translations ~
[1] this commentary was taken from Silsilat ul-Ahādīth us-Sahīha
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