Volume 9, Book 86, Number 92:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “One should not prevent others from watering their animals with the surplus
of his water in order to prevent them from benefiting by the surplus of grass.”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 93:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle forbade the practice of An-Najsh.
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 94:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
A man mentioned to the Prophet that he had always been cheated in bargains. The Prophet said,
“Whenever you do bargain, say, ‘No cheating.'”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 87:
Narrated Anas:
That Abu Bakr wrote for him, Zakat regulations which Allah’s Apostle had made compulsory, and
wrote that one should neither collect various portions (of the property) nor divide the property into
various portions in order to avoid paying Zakat.
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 88:
Narrated Talha bin ‘Ubaidullah:
A bedouin with unkempt hair came to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Tell me what
Allah has enjoined on me as regards prayers.” The Prophet said, “You have to offer perfectly the five
(compulsory) prayers in a day and a night (24 hrs.), except if you want to perform some extra op –
tional prayers.” The bedouin said, “Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regards fasting.” The
Prophet said, “You have to observe fast during the month of Ramadan except if you fast some extra
optional fast.” The bedouin said, “Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regard Zakat.” The
Prophet then told him the Islamic laws and regulations whereupon the bedouin said, “By Him Who
has honored you, I will not perform any optional deeds of worship and I will not leave anything of
what Allah has enjoined on me.” Allah’s Apostle said, “He will be successful if he has told the truth (or
he will enter Paradise if he said the truth).” And some people said, “The Zakat for one-hundred and
twenty camels is two Hiqqas, and if the Zakat payer slaughters the camels intentionally or gives them
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as a present or plays some other trick in order to avoid the Zakat, then there is no harm (in it) for
him.
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 89:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “On the Day of Resurrection the Kanz (Treasure or wealth of which, Zakat has
not been paid) of anyone of you will appear in the shape of a huge bald headed poisonous male
snake and its owner will run away from it, but it will follow him and say, ‘I am your Kanz.'” The
Prophet added, “By Allah, that snake will keep on following him until he stretches out his hand and
let the snake swallow it.” Allah’s Apostle added, “If the owner of camels does not pay their Zakat,
then, on the Day of Resurrection those camels will come to him and will strike his face with their
hooves.” Some people said: Concerning a man who has camels, and is afraid that Zakat will be due so
he sells those camels for similar camels or for sheep or cows or money one day before Zakat becomes
due in order to avoid payment of their Zakat cunningly! “He has not to pay anything.” The same
scholar said, “If one pays Zakat of his camels one day or one year prior to the end of the year (by the
end of which Zakat becomes due), his Zakat will be valid.”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 90t:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Sa’d bin ‘Ubada Al-Ansari sought the verdict of Allah’s Apostle regarding a vow made by his moth –
er who had died before fulfilling it. Allah’s Apostle said, “Fulfill it on her behalf.” Some people said, “If
the number of camels reaches twenty, then their owner has to pay four sheep as Zakat; and if their
owner gives them as a gift or sells them in order to escape the payment of Zakat cunningly before
the completion of a year, then he is not to pay anything, and if he slaughters them and then dies,
then no Zakat is to be taken from his property.”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 90:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
Nafi narrated to me that ‘Abdullah said that Allah’s Apostle forbade the Shighar. I asked Nafi’,
“What is the Shighar?” He said, “It is to marry the daughter of a man and marry one’s daughter to
that man (at the same time) without Mahr (in both cases); or to marry the sister of a man and marry
one’s own sister to that man without Mahr.” Some people said, “If one, by a trick, marries on the basis
of Shighar, the marriage is valid but its condition is illegal.” The same scholar said regarding Al-
Mut’a, “The marriage is invalid and its condition is illegal.” Some others said, “The Mut’a and the
Shighar are permissible but the condition is illegal.”
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Volume 9, Book 86, Number 91:
Narrated Muhammad bin ‘Ali:
‘Ali was told that Ibn ‘Abbas did not see any harm in the Mut’a marriage. ‘Ali said, “Allah’s Apostle
forbade the Mut’a marriage on the Day of the battle of Khaibar and he forbade the eating of donkey’s
meat.” Some people said, “If one, by a tricky way, marries temporarily, his marriage is illegal.” Others
said, “The marriage is valid but its condition is illegal.”