Volume 9, Book 86, Number 108:
Narrated Abu Humaid As-Sa’idi:
Allah’s Apostle appointed a man called Ibn Al-Lutabiyya to collect the Zakat from Bani Sulaim’s
tribe. When he returned, the Prophet called him to account. He said (to the Prophet, ‘This is your
money, and this has been given to me as a gift.” On that, Allah’s Apostle said, “Why didn’t you stay in
your father’s and mother’s house to see whether you will be given gifts or not if you are telling the
truth?” Then the Prophet addressed us, and after praising and glorifying Allah, he said: “Amma
Ba’du”, I employ a man from among you to manage some affair of what Allah has put under my cus –
tody, and then he comes to me and says, ‘This is your money and this has been given to me as a gift.
Why didn’t he stay in his father’s and mother’s home to see whether he will be given gifts or not? By
Allah, not anyone of you takes a thing unlawfully but he will meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection,
carrying that thing. I do not want to see any of you carrying a grunting camel or a mooing cow or a
bleating sheep on meeting Allah.” Then the Prophet raised both his hands till the whiteness of his
armpits became visible, and he said, “O Allah! Haven’t I have conveyed (Your Message)?” The narrat –
or added: My eyes witnessed and my ears heard (that Hadith).
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 102:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle used to like sweets and also used to like honey, and whenever he finished the ‘Asr
prayer, he used to visit his wives and stay with them. Once he visited Hafsa and remained with her
longer than the period he used to stay, so I enquired about it. It was said to me, “A woman from her
tribe gave her a leather skin containing honey as a present, and she gave some of it to Allah’s Apostle
to drink.” I said, “By Allah, we will play a trick on him.” So I mentioned the story to Sauda (the wife of
the Prophet) and said to her, “When he enters upon you, he will come near to you whereupon you
should say to him, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Have you eaten Maghafir?’ He will say, ‘No.’ Then you say to
him, ‘What is this bad smell? ‘ And it would be very hard on Allah’s Apostle that a bad smell should
be found on his body. He will say, ‘Hafsa has given me a drink of honey.’ Then you should say to him,
‘Its bees must have sucked from the Al-‘Urfut (a foul smelling flower).’ I too, will tell him the same.
And you, O Saifya, say the same.”
So when the Prophet entered upon Sauda (the following happened). Sauda said, “By Him except
Whom none has the right to be worshipped, I was about to say to him what you had told me to say
while he was still at the gate because of fear from you. But when Allah ‘s Apostle came near to me, I
said to him, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Have you eaten Maghafir?’ He replied, ‘No.’ I said, ‘What about this
smell?’ He said, ‘Hafsa has given me a drink of honey.’ I said, ‘Its bees must have sucked Al-‘Urfut.’ ”
When he entered upon me, I told him the same as that, and when he entered upon Safiya, she too
told him the same. So when he visited Hafsa again, she said to him, “O Allah’s Apostle! Shall I give
you a drink of it (honey)?” He said, “I have no desire for it.” Sauda said, Subhan Allah! We have de –
prived him of it (honey).” I said to her, “Be quiet!”
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Volume 9, Book 86, Number 103:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amir bin Rabi’a:
‘Umar bin Al-Khattab left for Sham, and when he reached a placed called Sargh, he came to know
that there was an outbreak of an epidemic (of plague) in Sham. Then ‘AbdurRahman bin ‘Auf told
him that Allah’s Apostle said, “If you hear the news of an outbreak of an epidemic (plague) in a cer –
tain place, do not enter that place: and if the epidemic falls in a place while you are present in it, do
not leave that place to escape from the epidemic.” So ‘Umar returned from Sargh.
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 104:
Narrated ‘Amir bin Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas:
That he heard Usama bin Zaid speaking to Sa’d, saying, “Allah’s Apostle mentioned the plague and
said, ‘It is a means of punishment with which some nations were punished and some of it has re –
mained, and it appears now and then. So whoever hears that there is an outbreak of plague in some
land, he should not go to that land, and if the plague breaks out in the land where one is already
present, one should not run away from that land, escaping from the plague.”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 105:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
The Prophet said, “The one who takes back his gift is like a dog swallowing its own vomit, and we
(believers) should not act according to this bad example.”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 106:
Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah:
The Prophet has decreed that preemption is valid in all cases where the real estate concerned has
not been divided, but if the boundaries are established and the ways are made, then there is no pree –
mption. A man said, “Preemption is only for the neighbor,” and then he makes invalid what he has
confirmed. He said, “If someone wants to buy a house and being afraid that the neighbor (of the
house) may buy it through preemption, he buys one share out of one hundred shares of the house
and then buys the rest of the house, then the neighbor can only have the right of preemption for the
first share but not for the rest of the house; and the buyer may play such a trick in this case.”
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 97:
Narrated Um Salama:
The Prophet said, “I am only a human being, and you people have disputes. May be some one
amongst you can present his case in a more eloquent and convincing manner than the other, and I
give my judgment in his favor according to what I hear. Beware! If ever I give (by error) somebody
something of his brother’s right then he should not take it as I have only, given him a piece of Fire.”
(See Hadith No. 638. Vol. 3)
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 98:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “A virgin should not be married till she is asked for her consent; and the matron
should not be married till she is asked whether she agrees to marry or not.” It was asked, “O Allah’s
Apostle! How will she(the virgin) express her consent?” He said, “By keeping silent.” Some people
said, “If a virgin is not asked for her consent and she is not married, and then a man, by playing a
trick presents two false witnesses that he has married her with her consent and the judge confirms
his marriage as a true one, and the husband knows that the witnesses were false ones, then there is
no harm for him to consummate his marriage with her and the marriage is regarded as valid.”