Volume 8, Book 78, Number 633:
Narrated Abu Dhar:
I reached him (the Prophet ) while in the shade of the Ka’ba; he was saying, “They are the losers, by
the Lord of the Ka’ba! They are the losers, by the Lord of the Ka’ba!” I said (to myself ), “What is
wrong with me? Is anything improper detected in me? What is wrong with me? Then I sat beside
him and he kept on saying his statement. I could not remain quiet, and Allah knows in what sorrow –
ful state I was at that time. So I said, ‘ Who are they (the losers)? Let My father and mother be sacri –
ficed for you, O Allah’s Apostle!” He said, “They are the wealthy people, except the one who does like
this and like this and like this (i.e., spends of his wealth in Allah’s Cause).”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 634:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 8 > BOOK 78: OATHS AND VOWS
Allah’s Apostle said, “(The Prophet) Solomon once said, ‘Tonight I will sleep with ninety women,
each of whom will bring forth a (would-be) cavalier who will fight in Allah’s Cause.” On this, his
companion said to him, “Say: Allah willing!” But he did not say Allah willing. Solomon then slept with
all the women, but none of them became pregnant but one woman who later delivered a half-man.
By Him in Whose Hand Muhammad’s soul is, if he (Solomon) had said, ‘Allah willing’ (all his wives
would have brought forth boys) and they would have fought in Allah’s Cause as cavaliers. “
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 622:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Anyone who takes an oath through which his family may be harmed, and in –
sists on keeping it, he surely commits a sin greater (than that of dissolving his oath). He should rather
compensate for that oath by making expiation.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 623:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle sent an army detachment and made Usama bin Zaid its commander. Some people
criticized (spoke badly of) Usama’s leadership. So Allah’s Apostle got up saying, “If you people are
criticizing Usama’s leadership, you have already criticized the leadership of his father before. But
Wa-aimullah (i.e., By Allah), he (i.e. Zaid) deserved the leadership, and he was one of the most be –
loved persons to me; and now this (his son Usama) is one of the dearest persons to me after him.” (See
Hadith No. 745, Vol. 5)
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 624:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
The oath of the Prophet used to be: “No, by Him who turns the hearts.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 618:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Abu Bakr As-Siddiq had never broken his oaths till Allah revealed the expiation for the oaths.
Then he said, “If I take an oath to do something and later on I find something else better than the first
one, then I do what is better and make expiation for my oath.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 619:
Narrated ‘Abdur-Rahman bin Samura:
The Prophet said, “O ‘Abdur-Rahman bin Samura! Do not seek to be a ruler, because if you are
given authority for it, then you will be held responsible for it, but if you are given it without asking
for it, then you will be helped in it (by Allah): and whenever you take an oath to do something and
later you find that something else is better than the first, then do the better one and make expiation
for your oath.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 620:
Narrated Abu Musa:
I went to the Prophet along with a group of Al-Ash’ariyin in order to request him to provide us
with mounts. He said, “By Allah, I will not provide you with mounts and I haven’t got anything to
mount you on.” Then we stayed there as long as Allah wished us to stay, and then three very nice
looking she-camels were brought to him and he made us ride them. When we left, we, or some of us,
said, “By Allah, we will not be blessed, as we came to the Prophet asking him for mounts, and he
swore that he would not give us any mounts but then he did give us. So let us go back to the Prophet
and remind him (of his oath).” When we returned to him (and reminded him of the fact), he said, “I
did not give you mounts, but it is Allah Who gave you. By Allah, Allah willing, if I ever take an oath
to do something and then I find something else than the first, I will make expiation for my oath and
do the thing which is better (or do something which is better and give the expiation for my oath).”