إِذَا اسْتَأْذَنَ أَحَدُكُمْ ثَلاَثًا فَلَمْ يُؤْذَنْ لَهُ، فَلْيَرْجِعْ
If anyone of you asks the permission to enter thrice, and the permission is not given, then he should return.
Sahih al-Bukhari 6245 · Source checked
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Source
Sahih al-Bukhari 6245
Book 79, Hadith 19
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What It Means: Reading in Context
Abu Said al-Khudri recounts Abu Musa returning after requesting permission to enter upon Umar three times. Abu Musa cites this instruction from the Prophet, and Abu Said later confirms having heard it. This is the complete instruction within the longer account. Silence is not presented as permission to enter. This entry comes from Sahih al-Bukhari 6245. The displayed text is an excerpt, not the complete narration. Follow the source link to read the narrator, full wording and in-book reference together. A hadith number identifies the source used here; numbering systems can differ between editions. Being able to inspect a source is important when a short statement is shared outside its original setting. The accompanying reflection is an editorial prompt for everyday conduct. It is not part of the hadith and does not replace explanation from qualified scholarship. Avoid extending a short reminder into a religious ruling that the entry itself does not establish.
REFLECTION · EDITORIAL
Give people room to decide when they can receive a visitor, and accept an unanswered request without pressure.
This reflection is not Qur’an, hadith or an authoritative tafsir.