Volume 8, Book 79, Number 711:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
(The Prophet) Solomon said, “Tonight I will sleep with (my) ninety wives, each of whom will get a
male child who will fight for Allah’s Cause.” On that, his companion (Sufyan said that his companion
was an angel) said to him, “Say, “If Allah will (Allah willing).” But Solomon forgot (to say it). He slept
with all his wives, but none of the women gave birth to a child, except one who gave birth to a half –
boy. Abu Huraira added: The Prophet said, “If Solomon had said, “If Allah will” (Allah willing), he
would not have been unsuccessful in his action, and would have attained what he had desired.” Once
Abu Huraira added: Allah apostle said, “If he had accepted.”
Volume 8, Book 79, Number 710:
Narrated Hammad:
the same narration above (i.e. 709), “I make expiation for my dissolved oath, and I do what is bet –
ter, or do what is better and make expiation.”
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Volume 8, Book 79, Number 709:
Narrated Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari:
I went to Allah’s Apostle along with a group of people from (the tribe of) Al-Ash’ari, asking for
mounts. The Prophet said, “By Allah, I will not give you anything to ride, and I have nothing to mount
you on.” We stayed there as long as Allah wished, and after that, some camels were brought to the
Prophet and he ordered that we be given three camels. When we set out, some of us said to others,
“Allah will not bless us, as we all went to Allah’s Apostle asking him for mounts, and although he had
sworn that he would not give us mounts, he did give us.” So we returned to the Prophet; and men –
tioned that to him. He said, “I have not provided you with mounts, but Allah has. By Allah, Allah will –
ing, if I ever take an oath, and then see that another is better than the first, I make expiration for my
(dissolved) oath, and do what is better and make expiration.”
Volume 8, Book 79, Number 708:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
that she intended to buy Barira (a slave girl) and her masters stipulated that they would have her
Wala’. When ‘Aisha mentioned that to the Prophet ; he said, “Buy her, for the Wala’ is for the one who
manumits.”
Volume 8, Book 79, Number 707:
Narrated ‘Amr:
Jabir said: An Ansari man made his slave a Mudabbar and he had no other property than him.
When the Prophet heard of that, he said (to his companions), “Who wants to buy him (i.e., the slave)
for me?” Nu’aim bin An-Nahham bought him for eight hundred Dirhams. I heard Jabir saying, “That
was a coptic slave who died in the same year.”
Volume 8, Book 79, Number 706:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
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The Prophet said, “If somebody manumits a Muslim slave, Allah will save from the Fire every part
of his body for freeing the corresponding parts of the slave’s body, even his private parts will be
saved from the Fire) because of freeing the slave’s private parts.”
Volume 8, Book 79, Number 705:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle said, “O Allah! Bestow Your Blessings on their measures, Sa’ and Mudd (i.e., of the
people of Medina) “
Volume 8, Book 79, Number 704:
Narrated Nafi:
Ibn Umar used to give the Zakat of Ramadan (Zakat-al-Fitr) according to the Mudd of the Proph –
et, the first Mudd, and he also used to give things for expiation for oaths according to the Mudd of
the Prophet. Abu Qutaiba said, “Malik said to us, ‘Our Mudd (i.e., of Medina) is better than yours and
we do not see any superiority except in the Mudd of the Prophet!’ Malik further said, to me, ‘If a
ruler came to you and fixed a Mudd smaller than the one of the Prophet, by what Mudd would you
measure what you give (for expiation or Zakat-al-Fitr?’ I replied, ‘We would give it according to the
Mudd of the Prophet’ On that, Malik said, ‘Then, don’t you see that we have to revert to the Mudd of
the Prophet ultimately?'”