Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that he heard Muhammad
ibn al-Munkadir say, "Allah loves his slave who is generous when he
sells, and generous when he buys, generous when he repays, and
generous when he is repaid."
Malik said about a man who
bought camels or sheep or dry goods or slaves or any goods without
measuring precisely, "There is no buying without measuring precisely
in anything which can be counted . "
Malik said about a man
who gave a man goods to sell for him and set their price saying, "If
you sell them for this price as I have ordered you to do, you will
have a dinar (or something which he has specified, which they are both
satisfied with), if you do not sell them, you will have nothing,"
"There is no harm in that when he names a price to sell them at and
names a known fee. If he sells the goods, he takes the fee, and if he
does not sell them, he has nothing."
Malik said, "This is
like saying to another man, 'If you capture my runaway slave or bring
my stray camel, you will have such-and-such.' This is from the
category of reward, and not from the category of giving a wage. Had it
been from the category of giving a wage, it would not be good."
Malik said, "As for a man who is given goods and told that if he
sells them he will have a named percentage for every dinar, that is
not good because whenever he is a dinar less than the price of the
goods, he decreases the due which was named for him. This is an
uncertain transaction. He does not know how much he will be given."
Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 101
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from clsa ibn
Talha that Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As said, "The Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stopped for the people at
Mina, and they questioned him and a man came and said to him,
'Messenger of Allah, I was unclear about what to do and I shaved
before sacrificing,' and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, 'Sacrifice, and don't worry.' Then another
came to him and said 'Messenger of Allah, I was unclear about what to
do and I sacrificed before throwing the stones.' He advised, 'Throw,
and don't worry.' "
Amr continued, saying that the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was not asked about
anything done before or after without his saying, "Do it, and don't
worry."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 254
"When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went to Quba' he used to come to Umm Haram bint Milhan and she would feed him. Umm Haram was married to 'Ubadah bint As-Samit. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ entered upon her and she fed him and checked his head for lice. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) fell asleep, then he woke up smiling. She said: 'What is making you smile, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'Some people of my Ummah were shown to me, fighting in the cause of Allah and riding across the sea like kings on thrones.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah to make me one of them.' So the Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah to make me one of them.' So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed for her then he slept again.'" (One of narrators) Al-Harith, said (in his narration): "He slept then he woke up smiling. I said to him: 'What is making you smile, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'Some people of my Ummah were shown to me, fighting in the cause of Allah and riding across the sea like kings on thrones,' as he had said the first time. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah to make me one of them.' He said: 'You will be one of the first.' And she traveled by sea at the time of Mu'awiyah, then she fell from her mount when she came out of the sea and died."
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 25, Hadith 87
The Prophet (ﷺ) was the best among the people (both in shape and
character) and was the most generous of them, and was the bravest of
them. Once, during the night, the people of Medina got afraid (of a
sound). So the people went towards that sound, but the Prophet (ﷺ) having
gone to that sound before them, met them while he was saying, "Don't
be afraid, don't be afraid." (At that time) he was riding a horse
belonging to Abu Talha and it was naked without a saddle, and he was
carrying a sword slung at his neck. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I found it (the
horse) like a sea, or, it is the sea indeed."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 78, Hadith 63
Yahya related to me from Malik from more than one source that
when Abdullah ibn Masud was in Kufa, he was asked for an opinion about
marrying the mother after marrying the daughter when the marriage with
the daughter had not been consummated. He permitted it. When Ibn Masud
came to Madina, he asked about it and was told that it was not as he
had said, and that this condition referred to foster-mothers. Ibn
Masud returnedto Kufa,and he had just reached his dwelling when the
man who had asked him for the opinion came to visit and he ordered him
to separate from his wife.
Malik said that if a man married
the mother of a woman who was his wife and he had sexual relations
with the mother then his wife was haram for him, and he had to
separate from both of them. They were both haram to him forever, if he
had had sexual relations with the mother. If he had not had relations
with the mcther, his wife was not haram for him, and he separated from
the mother.
Malik explained further about the man who married
a woman, and then married her mother and cohabited with her, "The
mother will never be halal for him, and she is not halal for his
father or his son, and any daughters of hers are not halal for him and
so his wife is haram for him."
Malik said, "Fornication
however, does not make any of that haram because Allah, the Blessed,
the Exalted, mentioned 'the mothers of your wives,' as one whom
marriage made haram, and he didn't mention the making haram by
fornication. Every marriage in a halal manner in which a man cohabits
with his wife, is a halal marriage. This is what I have heard, and
this is how things are done among us."
Muwatta Malik Book 28, Hadith 24