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).”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 605:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
The Prophet forbade vowing and said, “In fact, vowing does not prevent anything, but it makes a
miser to spend his property.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 606:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said (that Allah said), “Vowing does not bring to the son of Adam anything I have not
already written in his fate, but vowing is imposed on him by way of fore ordainment. Through vow –
ing I make a miser spend of his wealth.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 607:
Narrated Abu Musa:
While we were with Allah’s Apostle in a holy battle, we never went up a hill or reached its peak or
went down a valley but raised our voices with Takbir. Allah’s Apostle came close to us and said, “O
people! Don’t exert yourselves, for you do not call a deaf or an absent one, but you call the All-
Listener, the All-Seer.” The Prophet then said, “O ‘Abdullah bin Qais! Shall I teach you a sentence
which is from the treasures of Paradise? ( It is): ‘La haula wala quwata illa billah. (There is neither
might nor power except with Allah).”
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Volume 8, Book 77, Number 608:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
That the Prophet said, “No Caliph is appointed but has two groups of advisors: One group advises
him to do good and urges him to adopt it, and the other group advises him to do bad and urges him
to adopt it; and the protected is the one whom Allah protects.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 609:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira said from the Prophet, who
said, “Allah has written for the son of Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it
or not: The adultery of the eye is the looking (at something which is sinful to look at), and the adul –
tery of the tongue is to utter (what it is unlawful to utter), and the innerself wishes and longs for
(adultery) and the private parts turn that into reality or refrain from submitting to the temptation.”
Volume 8, Book 77, Number 610:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
(regarding the Verse) “And We granted the vision (Ascension to the heavens “Miraj”) which We
showed you (O Muhammad as an actual eye witness) but as a trial for mankind.’ (17.60): Allah’s
Apostle actually saw with his own eyes the vision (all the things which were shown to him) on the
night of his Night Journey to Jerusalem (and then to the heavens). The cursed tree which is men –
tioned in the Qur’an is the tree of Az-Zaqqum.