(the wife of the Prophet) When believing women came to the Prophet (ﷺ) as emigrants, he used to test
them in accordance with the order of Allah. 'O you who believe! When believing women come to you
as emigrants, examine them . . .' (60.10) So if anyone of those believing women accepted the above
mentioned conditions, she accepted the conditions of faith. When they agreed on those conditions and
confessed that with their tongues, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) would say to them, "Go, I have accepted your oath
of allegiance (for Islam). By Allah, and hand of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) never touched the hand of any
woman, but he only used to take their pledge of allegiance orally. By Allah, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not
take the pledge of allegiance of the women except in accordance with what Allah had ordered him.
When he accepted their pledge of allegiance he would say to them, "I have accepted your oath of
allegiance."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 68, Hadith 37
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Whoever spends a pair of things in the path of Allah, he will be called in Paradise: 'O Worshiper of Allah, this is good.' And whoever is among the people of Salat, he will be called from the gate of Salat, and whoever was among from the people of Jihad, he will be called from the gate of Jihad. And whoever was among the people of charity, then he will be called from the gate of charity, and whoever was from the people of fasting, then he will be called from the gate of Ar-Rayyan." So Abu Bakr said: "May my father and mother be ransomed for you! The one who is called from these gates will be free of all worries. But will anyone be called from all of those gates?" He (ﷺ) said: "Yes, and I hope that you are among them."
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 49, Hadith 70
I sat with Shaiba in this Mosque (Al-Masjid-Al-Haram), and he said, "`Umar once sat beside me here
as you are now sitting, and said, 'I feel like distributing all the gold and silver that are in it (i.e., the
Ka`ba) among the Muslims'. I said, 'You cannot do that.' `Umar said, 'Why?' I said, 'Your two
(previous) companions (the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr) did not do it. `Umar said, 'They are the two
persons whom one must follow.'" (See Hadith No. 664, Vol. 2)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 96, Hadith 8
see Book 17).
Malik said, "Everyone leading an animal by the halter, driving it, and
riding it is responsible for what the animal strikes unless the animal
kicks out without anything being done to it to make it kick out. Umar
ibn al-Khattab imposed the blood-money on a person who was exercising
his horse."
Malik said, "It is more fitting that a person
leading an animal by the halter, driving it, or riding it incur a loss
than a person who is exercising his horse." (See hadith 4 of this
book).
Malik said, "What is done in our community about a
person who digs a well on a road or ties up an animal or does the like
of that on a road used by muslims, is that since what he has done is
included in that which he is not permitted to do in such a place, he
is liable for whatever injury or other thing arises from that action.
The blood-money of that which is less than a third of the full blood-
money is owed from his own personal property. Whatever reaches a third
or more, is owed by his tribe. Any such things that he does which he
is permitted to do on the muslims' road are something for which he has
no liability or loss. Part of that is a hole which a man digs to
collect rain, and the beast from which the man alights for some need
and leaves standing on the road. There is no penalty against anyone
for this."
Malik spoke about a man who went down a well, and
another man followed behind him, and the lower one pulled the higher
one and they fell into the well and both died He said, "The tribe of
the one who pulled him in is responsible for the blood-money."
Malik spoke about a child whom a man ordered to go down into a
well or to climb a palm tree and he died as a result. He said, "The
one who ordered him is liable for whatever befalls him, be it death or
something else."
Malik said, "The way of doing things in our
community about which there is no dispute is that women and children
are not obliged to pay blood-money together with the tribe in the
blood-moneys which the tribe must pay. The blood-money is only
obligatory for a man who has reached puberty."
Malik said
that the tribe could bind themselves to the blood-money of mawali if
they wished. If they refused, they were people of the diwan or were
cut off from their people. In the time of the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, people paid the blood-money to
each other as well as in the time of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq before there
was a diwan. The diwan was in the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab. No one
other than one's people and the ones holding the wala' paid blood-
money for one because the wala' was not transferable and because the
Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The wala'
belongs to the one who sets free."
Malik said, "The wala' is
an established relationship."
Malik said, "What is done in
our community about animals that are injured is that the person who
causes the injury pays whatever of their value has been diminished."
Malik said about a man condemned to death and one of the
other hudud befell him, "He is not punished for it. That is because
the killing overrides all of that, except for slander. The slander
remains hanging over the one to whom it was said because it will be
said to him, 'Why do you not flog the one who slandered you?' I think
that the condemned man is flogged with the hadd before he is killed,
and then he is killed. I do not think that any retaliation is
inflicted on him for any injury except killing because killing
overrides all of that."
Malik said, "What is done in our
community is that when a murdered person is found among the main body
of a people in a village or other place, the house or place of the
nearest people to him is not responsible. That is because the murdered
person can be slain and then cast at the door of some people to shame
them by it. No one is responsible for the like of that."
Malik said about a group of people who fight with each other and when
the fight is broken up, a man is found dead or wounded, and it is not
known who did it, "The best of what is heard about that is that there
is blood-money for him, and the blood-money is against the people who
argued with him. If the injured or slain person is not from either of
the two parties, his blood-money is against both of the two parties
together."
Muwatta Malik Book 43, Hadith 38
that his mother Zainab bint Humaid took him to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Take the
pledge of allegiance from him." But he said, "He is still too young for the pledge," and passed his
hand on his (i.e. `Abdullah's) head and invoked for Allah's blessing for him. Zuhra bin Ma`bad stated
that he used to go with his grandfather, `Abdullah bin Hisham, to the market to buy foodstuff. Ibn
`Umar and Ibn Az-Zubair would meet him and say to him, "Be our partner, as the Prophet (ﷺ) invoked
Allah to bless you." So, he would be their partner, and very often he would win a camel's load and
send it home.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 47, Hadith 18