Volume 8, Book 78, Number 649:
Narrated Usama:
Once a daughter of Allah’s Apostle sent a message to Allah’s Apostle while Usama, Sa’d, and my
father or Ubai were (sitting there) with him. She said, (in the message); My child is going to die;
please come to us.” Allah’s Apostle returned the messenger and told him to convey his greetings to
her, and say, “Whatever Allah takes, is for Him and whatever He gives is for Him, and everything
with Him has a limited fixed term (in this world): so she should be patient and hope for Allah’s re –
ward.” Then she again sent for him swearing that he should come; so The Prophet got up, and so did
we. When he sat there (at the house of his daughter), the child was brought to him, and he took him
into his lap while the child’s breath was disturbed in his chest. The eyes of Allah’s Apostle started
shedding tears. Sa’d said, “What is this, O Allah’s Apostle?” The Prophet said, “This is the mercy which
Allah has lodged in the hearts of whoever He wants of His slaves, and verily Allah is merciful only to
those of His slaves who are merciful (to others).’
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 650:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Any Muslim who has lost three of his children will not be touched by the Fire
except that which will render Allah’s oath fulfilled.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 651:
Narrated Haritha bin Wahb:
I heard the Prophet saying, “Shall I tell you of the people of Paradise? They comprise every poor
humble person, and if he swears by Allah to do something, Allah will fulfill it; while the people of the
fire comprise every violent, cruel arrogant person.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 652:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
The Prophet was asked, “Who are the best people?” He replied: The people of my generation, and
then those who will follow (come after) them, and then those who will come after the later; after that
there will come some people whose witness will precede their oaths and their oaths will go ahead of
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their witness.” Ibrahim (a sub-narrator) said, “When we were young, our elder friends used to pro –
hibit us from taking oaths by saying, ‘I bear witness swearing by Allah, or by Allah’s Covenant.”‘
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 653:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
The Prophet said, “Whoever swears falsely in order to grab the property of a Muslim (or of his
brother), Allah will be angry with him when he meets Him.” Allah then revealed in confirmation of
the above statement:–‘Verily those who purchase a small gain at the cost of Allah’s Covenant and
their own oaths.’ (3.77) Al-Ash’ath said, “This Verse was revealed regarding me and a companion of
mine when we had a dispute about a well.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 654:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “The Hell Fire will keep on saying: ‘Are there anymore (people to come)?’ Till the
Lord of Power and Honor will put His Foot over it and then it will say, ‘Qat! Qat! (sufficient! suffi –
cient!) by Your Power and Honor. And its various sides will come close to each other (i.e., it will con –
tract). “
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 644:
Narrated Zahdam:
There was a relation of love and brotherhood between this tribe of Jarm and Al-Ash’ariyin. Once
we were with Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari, and then a meal containing chicken was brought to Abu Musa,
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and there was present, a man from the tribe of Taimillah who was of red complexion as if he were
from non-Arab freed slaves. Abu Musa invited him to the meal. He said, “I have seen chickens eating
dirty things, so I deemed it filthy and took an oath that I would never eat chicken.” On that, Abu
Musa said, “Get up, I will narrate to you about that. Once a group of the Ash’ariyin and I went to Al –
lah’s Apostle and asked him to provide us with mounts; he said, ‘By Allah, I will never give you any
mounts nor do I have anything to mount you on.’ Then a few camels of war booty were brought to
Allah’s Apostle , and he asked about us, saying, ‘Where are the Ash-‘ariyin?’ He then ordered five nice
camels to be given to us, and when we had departed, we said, ‘What have we done? Allah’s Apostle
had taken the oath not to give us any mounts, and that he had nothing to mount us on, and later he
gave us that we might ride? Did we take advantage of the fact that Allah’s Apostle had forgotten his
oath? By Allah, we will never succeed.’ So we went back to him and said to him, ‘We came to you to
give us mounts, and you took an oath that you would not give us any mounts and that you had noth –
ing to mount us on.’ On that he said, ‘I did not provide you with mounts, but Allah did. By Allah, if I
take an oath to do something, and then find something else better than it, I do that which is better
and make expiation for the dissolution of the oath.’ “
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 635:
Narrated Al-Bara ‘bin ‘Azib:
A piece of silken cloth was given to the Prophet as a present and the people handed it over
amongst themselves and were astonished at its beauty and softness. Allah’s Apostle said, “Are you as –
tonished at it?” They said, “Yes, O Allah’s Apostle!” He said, “By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, the
handkerchiefs of Sa’d in Paradise are better than it.”