Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Amr
ibn Hazm from his father from Abu'n-Nadr as-Salami that the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If three of
a muslim's children die, and he remains content with that, they will
be a protection for him from the Fire." A woman who was with the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Or
two, Messengerof Allah?", and he said, "Or two."
Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 40
Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard Muhammad
ibn Yahya ibn Habban mentioning that a certain man passed Abu Dharr at
ar-Rabadha (which was about 30 miles from Madina) and Abu Dharr asked
him, "Where are you heading to?" and he replied, "I am intending to do
hajj." Abu Dharr questioned, "Has anything else brought you out?" and
he said, "No," so Abu Dharr said "Resume what you are doing
wholeheartedly."
The man related, "I went on till I came to
Makka and I stayed as long as Allah willed. Suddenly, one time, I was
with a crowd of people thronging about a man and I pushed through the
people to him and it was the old man that I had come across at ar-
Rabadha. When he saw me, he recognized me and said, 'Ah, you have done
what I told you.' "
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 264
Yahya related to me from Malik that Kathir ibn Farqad asked Abu
Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm about a man who sold food to be
delivered at a future date to a man for gold and then with the gold,
he bought dates before he had taken delivery of the gold. He
disapproved of that and forbade it.
Yahya related to me from
Malik from Ibn Shihab the like of that.
Malik said, ''Said
ibn al-Musayyab, Sulayman ibn Yasar, Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn
Hazm, and Ibn Shihab forbade that a man sell wheat for gold and then
buy dates with that gold before he had received the gold from the
transaction in which he sold the wheat. There is no harm for someone
to buy dates on delayed terms, on the strength of the gold for which
he sold the wheat, from someone other than the person to whom he sold
the wheat before taking possession of the gold, and to refer the one
from whom he bought the dates to his debtor who bought the wheat, for
the gold he is owed for the dates."
Malik said, "I asked more
than one of the people of knowledge about that and they did not see
any harm in it."
Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 48