Volume 3, Book 40, Number 568:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet allowed the sale of the dates of the ‘Araya for ready dates by estimating the former
which should be estimated as less than five Awsuq or five Awsuq. (Dawud, the sub-narrator is not
sure as to the right amount.)
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Volume 3, Book 41, Number 572:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Whoever takes the money of the people with the intention of repaying it, Allah
will repay it on his behalf, and whoever takes it in order to spoil it, then Allah will spoil him.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 565:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “One of the rights of a she camel is that it should be milked at a place of water.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 559:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Keeping horses may be a source of reward to some (man), a shelter to another
(i.e. means of earning one’s living), or a burden to a third. He to whom the horse will be a source of
reward is the one who keeps it in Allah’s Cause (prepare it for holy battles) and ties it by a long rope
in a pasture (or a garden). He will get a reward equal to what its long rope allows it to eat in the pas –
ture or the garden, and if that horse breaks its rope and crosses one or two hills, then all its foot-
steps and its dung will be counted as good deeds for its owner; and if it passes by a river and drinks
from it, then that will also be regarded as a good deed for its owner even if he has had no intention
of watering it then. Horses are a shelter from poverty to the second person who keeps horses for
earning his living so as not to ask others, and at the same time he gives Allah’s right (i.e. Rakat) (from
the wealth he earns through using them in trading etc.,) and does not overburden them. He who
keeps horses just out of pride and for showing off and as a means of harming the Muslims, his horses
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will be a source of sins to him.” When Allah’s Apostle was asked about donkeys, he replied, “Nothing
particular was revealed to me regarding
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 562:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “No doubt, you had better gather a bundle of wood and carry it on your back
(and earn your living thereby) rather than ask somebody who may give you or not.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 555:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, I will drive some people out from my (sac –
red) Fount on the Day of Resurrection as strange camels are expelled from a private trough.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 557:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “There are three types of people whom Allah will neither talk to, nor look at, on
the Day of Resurrection. (They are):
1. A man who takes an oath falsely that he has been offered for his goods so much more than what
he is given,
2. a man who takes a false oath after the ‘Asr prayer in order to grab a Muslim’s property, and
3. a man who with-holds his superfluous water. Allah will say to him, “Today I will with-hold My
Grace from you as you with-held the superfluity of what you had not created.”
Volume 3, Book 40, Number 551:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “While a man was walking he felt thirsty and went down a well and drank
water from it. On coming out of it, he saw a dog panting and eating mud because of excessive thirst.
The man said, ‘This (dog) is suffering from the same problem as that of mine. So he (went down the
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well), filled his shoe with water, caught hold of it with his teeth and climbed up and watered the dog.
Allah thanked him for his (good) deed and forgave him.” The people asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! Is
there a reward for us in serving (the) animals?” He replied, “Yes, there is a reward for serving any
animate.”