Volume 3, Book 40, Number 559:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Keeping horses may be a source of reward to some (man), a shelter to another
(i.e. means of earning one’s living), or a burden to a third. He to whom the horse will be a source of
reward is the one who keeps it in Allah’s Cause (prepare it for holy battles) and ties it by a long rope
in a pasture (or a garden). He will get a reward equal to what its long rope allows it to eat in the pas –
ture or the garden, and if that horse breaks its rope and crosses one or two hills, then all its foot-
steps and its dung will be counted as good deeds for its owner; and if it passes by a river and drinks
from it, then that will also be regarded as a good deed for its owner even if he has had no intention
of watering it then. Horses are a shelter from poverty to the second person who keeps horses for
earning his living so as not to ask others, and at the same time he gives Allah’s right (i.e. Rakat) (from
the wealth he earns through using them in trading etc.,) and does not overburden them. He who
keeps horses just out of pride and for showing off and as a means of harming the Muslims, his horses
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will be a source of sins to him.” When Allah’s Apostle was asked about donkeys, he replied, “Nothing
particular was revealed to me regarding
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 560:
Narrated Zaid bin Khalid:
A man came to Allah’s Apostle and asked about Al-Luqata (a fallen thing). The Prophet said, “Re –
cognize its container and its tying material and then make a public announcement about it for one
year and if its owner shows up, give it to him; otherwise use it as you like.” The man said, “What
about a lost sheep?” The Prophet said, “It is for you, your brother or the wolf.” The man said “What
about a lost camel?” The Prophet said, “Why should you take it as it has got its water-container (its
stomach) and its hooves and it can reach the places of water and can eat the trees till its owner finds
it?”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 561:
Narrated Az-Zubair bin Al ‘Awwam:
The Prophet said, “No doubt, one had better take a rope (and cut) and tie a bundle of wood and sell
it whereby Allah will keep his face away (from Hell-fire) rather than ask others who may give him
or not.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 562:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “No doubt, you had better gather a bundle of wood and carry it on your back
(and earn your living thereby) rather than ask somebody who may give you or not.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 553:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said, “A woman was tortured and was put in Hell because of a cat which she had
kept locked till it died of hunger.” Allah’s Apostle further said, (Allah knows better) Allah said (to the
woman), ‘You neither fed it nor watered when you locked it up, nor did you set it free to eat the in –
sects of the earth.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 554:
Narrated Sahl bin Sad:
Once a tumbler (full of milk or water) was brought to Allah’s Apostle who drank from it, while on
his right side there was sitting a boy who was the youngest of those who were present, and on his left
side there were old men. The Prophet asked, “O boy ! Do you allow me to give (the drink) to the elder
people (first)?” The boy said, “I will not prefer anybody to have my share from you, O Allah’s
Apostle!” So, he gave it to the boy.
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 555:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, I will drive some people out from my (sac –
red) Fount on the Day of Resurrection as strange camels are expelled from a private trough.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 556:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
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The Prophet said, “May Allah be merciful to the mother of Ishmael! If she had left the water of
Zam-Zam (fountain) as it was, (without constructing a basin for keeping the water), (or said, “If she
had not taken handfuls of its water”), it would have been a flowing stream. Jurhum (an Arab tribe)
came and asked her, ‘May we settle at your dwelling?’ She said, ‘Yes, but you have no right to possess
the water.’ They agreed.”