Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah
ibn Abbas used to say, "The least difficult thing acceptable as a
sacrificial animal is a sheep."
Malik said, "That is what I
like most out of what I have heard about the matter, because Allah,
the Blessed and Exalted, says in His Book, 'O you who trust, do not
kill game while you are in ihram. Whoever of you kills it
intentionally, there shall be repayment the like of what he has slain,
from livestock, as shall be judged by two men of justice among you, a
sacrificial animal which will reach the Kaba, or food for poor people,
or the equivalent of that in fasting,' (Sura 5 ayat 95) and a sheep is
one of the animals which is judged to be acceptable as a sacrifice.
Allah has called it a sacrificial animal, and there is no dispute
among us about the matter. How, indeed, could anyone be in doubt about
the matter? A sheep is the kaffara for anything which does not reach
the extent of something for which a camel or a cow would be the
kaffara, and the kaffara for something which does not reach the extent
of something for which a sheep would be the kaffara is fasting, or
feeding poor people."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 171
I asked `Abdullah bin `Umar, "O Abu `Abdur-Rahman! I saw you doing four things which I never
saw being done by anyone of you companions?" `Abdullah bin `Umar said, "What are those, O Ibn
Juraij?" I said, "I never saw you touching any corner of the Ka`ba except these (two) facing south
(Yemen) and I saw you wearing shoes made of tanned leather and dyeing your hair with Hinna (a kind
of red dye). I also noticed that whenever you were in Mecca, the people assume Ihram on seeing the
new moon crescent (1st of Dhul-Hijja) while you did not assume the Ihlal (Ihram) -(Ihram is also
called Ihlal which means 'Loud calling' because a Muhrim has to recite Talbiya aloud when assuming
the state of Ihram) - till the 8th of Dhul-Hijja (Day of Tarwiya). `Abdullah replied, "Regarding the
corners of Ka`ba, I never saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) touching except those facing south (Yemen) and
regarding the tanned leather shoes, no doubt I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) wearing non-hairy shoes and he
used to perform ablution while wearing the shoes (i.e. wash his feet and then put on the shoes). So I
love to wear similar shoes. And about the dyeing of hair with Hinna; no doubt I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
dyeing his hair with it and that is why I like to dye (my hair with it). Regarding Ihlal, I did not see
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) assuming Ihlal till he set out for Hajj (on the 8th of Dhul-Hijja).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 4, Hadith 32
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If
someone changes his deen - strike his neck!"
The meaning of
the statement of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
in our opinion and Allah knows best, is that "if someone changes his
deen, strike his neck!" refers to those who leave Islam for other than
it - like the heretics and their like, about whom it is known. They
are killed without being called to tawba because their tawba is not
recognised. They were hiding their kufr and publishing their Islam, so
I do not think that one calls such people to tawba, and one does not
accept their word. As for the one who goes out of Islam to something
else and divulges it, one calls him to tawba. If he does not turn in
tawba, he is killed. If there are people in that situation, I think
that one should call them to Islam and call them to tawba. If they
turn in tawba, that is accepted from them. If they do not turn in
tawba, they are killed. That does not refer as we see it, and Allah
knows best, to those who come out of Judaism to Christianity or from
Christianity to Judaism, nor to someone who changes his deen from the
various forms of deen except for Islam. Whoever comes out of Islam to
other than it and divulges that, that is the one who is referred to,
and Allah knows best!
Muwatta Malik Book 36, Hadith 25
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi
Talha that Rafiibn Ishaq, a mawla of the family of ash-Shifa who was
known as the mawla of Abu Talha, heard Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, one of the
companions of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, say, while he was in Egypt, "By Allah! I don't know how to
deal with these lavatories." The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "When you go to defecate or urinate, do
not expose your genitals towards the qibla, and do not put your back
to it."
Muwatta Malik Book 14, Hadith 1
We went out in the company of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the day of (the battle of) Khaibar, and we did not
get any gold or silver as war booty, but we got property in the form of things and clothes. Then a man
called Rifa`a bin Zaid, from the tribe of Bani Ad-Dubaib, presented a slave named Mid`am to Allah's
Apostle. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) headed towards the valley of Al-Qura, and when he was in the valley of Al-
Qura an arrow was thrown by an unidentified person, struck and killed Mid`am who was making a
she-camel of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) kneel down. The people said, "Congratulations to him (the slave) for
gaining Paradise." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "No! By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, for the sheet which
he stole from the war booty before its distribution on the day of Khaibar, is now burning over him."
When the people heard that, a man brought one or two Shiraks (leather straps of shoes) to the Prophet.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "A Shirak of fire, or two Shiraks of fire."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 83, Hadith 84
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Habib, the mawla of
Sad ibn Abi Waqqas that Abu'l-Muthanna al-Juhani said, "I was with
Marwan ibn al-Hakam and Abu Said al-Khudri came to him. Marwan ibn al-
Hakam said to him, 'Have you heard that the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade blowing into drinks?' Abu
Said said to him, 'Yes.' A man said to him, 'Messenger of Allah, I am
not quenched from one breath.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said to him, 'Remove the cup from your mouth
and then breathe.' He said, 'Sometimes I see something floating in
it?' He said, 'Then pour it out.'"
Muwatta Malik Book 49, Hadith 12