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 that Malik asked Ibn Shihab about selling
animals, two for one with delayed terms. He said, "There is no harm in
it."
Malik said, "The generally agreed on way of doing things
among us is that there is no harm in bartering a camel for a camel
like it and adding some dirhams to the exchange, from hand to hand.
There is no harm in bartering a camel for a camel like it with some
dirhams on top of the exchange, the camels to be exchanged from hand
to hand, and the dirhams to be paid within a period." He said, "There
is no good however in bartering a camel for a camel like it with some
dirhams on top of it, with the dirhams paid in cash and the camel to
be delivered later. If both the camel and the dirhams are deferred
there is no good in that either."
Malik said, "There is no
harm in buying a riding camel with two or more pack-camels, if they
are from inferior stock. There is no harm in bartering two of them for
one with delayed terms, if they are different and their difference is
clear. If they resemble each other whether their species are different
or not, two are not to be taken for one with delayed terms."
Malik said, "The explanation of what is disapproved of in that, is
that a camel should not be bought with two camels when there is no
distinction between them in speed or hardiness. If this is according
to what I have described to you, then one does not buy two of them for
one with delayed terms. There is no harm in selling those of them you
buy before you complete the deal to somebody other than the one from
whom you bought them if you get the price in cash."
Malik
said, "It is permitted for someone to advance something on animals for
a fixed term and describe the amount and pay its price in cash.
Whatever the buyer and seller have described is obliged for them. That
is still permitted behaviour between people and what the people of
knowledge in our land do."
Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 61
I divorced my wife. I then came to Medina to sell my land that was there so that I could buy arms and fight in battle. I met a group of the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). They said: Six persons of us intended to do so (i.e. divorce their wives and purchase weapons), but the Prophet (ﷺ) prohibited them. He said: For you in the Messenger of Allah there is an excellent model. I then came to Ibn 'Abbas and asked him about the witr observed by the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: I point to you a person who is most familiar with the witr observed by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Go to 'Aishah. While going to her I asked Hakim b. Aflah to accompany me. He refused, but I adjured him. He, therefore, went along with me. We sought permission to enter upon 'Aishah. She said: Who is this ? He said: Hakim b. Aflah. She asked: Who is with you ? He replied: Sa'd b. Hisham. She said: Hisham son of 'Amir who was killed in the Battle of Uhud. I said: Yes. She said: What a good man 'Amir was! I said: Mother of faithful, tell me about the character of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). She asked: Do you not recite the Quran ? The character of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was the Qur'an. I asked: Tell me about his vigil and prayer at night. She replied: Do you not recite: "O thou folded in garments" (73:1). I said: Why not ?
When the opening of this Surah was revealed, the Companions stood praying (most of the night) until their fett swelled, and the concluding verses were not revealed for twelve months from heaven. At last the concluding verses were revealed and the prayer at night became voluntary after it was obligatory. I said: Tell me about the witr of the Prophet (ﷺ). She replied: He used to pray eight rak'ahs, sitting only during the eighth of them. Then he would stand up and pray another rak'ahs. He would sit only after the eighth and the ninth rak'ahs. He would utter salutation only after the ninth rak'ah. He would then pray two rak'ahs sitting and that made eleven rak'ahs, O my son. But when he grew old and became fleshy he observed a witr of seven, sitting only in sixth and seventh rak'ahs, and would utter salutation only after the seventh rak'ah. He would then pray two rak'ahs sitting, and that made nine rak'ahs, O my son. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would not pray through a whole night, or recite the whole Qur'an in a night or fast a complete month except in Ramadan. When he offered prayer, he would do that regularly. When he was overtaken by sleep at night, he would pray twelve rak'ahs.
The narrator said: I came to Ibn 'Abbas and narrated all this to him. By Allah, this is really a tradition. Has I been on speaking terms with her, I would have come to her and heard it from her mouth. I said: If I knew that you were not on speaking terms with her, I would have never narrated it to you.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 5, Hadith 93
Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Halhala
ad-Dili from Muhammad ibn lmran al-Ansari that his father said that
Abdullah ibn Umar came upon him while he stopped for a rest under a
tall tree on the road to Makka, and he said, "What has made you stop
under this tall tree?" He replied that he sought it's shade. Abdullah
ibn Umar said, "Anything besides that?" and he said, "No, that was the
only. reason he stopped for a rest," and Abdullah ibn Umar said, "The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'If
you are between al-Akhshabayn (which are two mountains) near Mina,'
indicating the east with his outspread hand, 'you will find a valley
called as-Surar with a tree in it beneath which the umbilical cords of
seventy prophets have been cut.' "
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 261
Yahya said that Malik said, "The generally agreed on way of doing
things among us about an investor who pays qirad money to an agent to
buy goods, and the agent then sells the goods for a price to be paid
later, and has a profit in the transaction, then the agent dies before
he has received payment, is that if his heirs want to take that money,
they have their father's stipulated portion from the profit. That is
theirs if they are trustworthy to take the payment. If they dislike to
collect it from the debtor and they refer him to the investor, they
are not obliged to collect it and there is nothing against them and
nothing for them by their surrendering it to the investor. If they do
collect it, they have a share of it and expenses like their father
had. They are in the position of their father. If they are not
trustworthy to do so, they can bring someone reliable and trustworthy
to collect the money. If he collects all the capital and all the
profit, they are in the position of their father."
Malik
spoke about an investor who paid qirad money to a man provided that he
used it and was responsible for any delayed payment for which he sold
it. He said, "This is obligatory on the agent. If he sells it for
delayed payment, he is responsible for it."
Muwatta Malik Book 32, Hadith 12
Sahal b. Hunaif stood up on the Day of Siffin and said: O ye people, blame yourselves (for want of discretion) ; we were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the Day of Hudaibiya. If we had thought it fit to fight, we could fight. This was in the truce between the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the polytheists. Umar b. Khattab came, approached the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah, aren't we fighting for truth and they for falsehood? He replied: By all means. He asked: Are not those killed from our side in Paradise and those killed. from their side in the Fire? He replied: Yes. He said: Then why should we put a blot upon our religion and return, while Allah has not decided the issue between them and ourselves? He said: Son of Khattab, I am the Messenger of Allah. Allah will never ruin me. (The narrator said): Umar went away, but he could not contain himself with rage. So he approached Abu Bakr and said: 'Abu Bakr, aren't we fighting for truth and they for falsehood? He replied: Yes. He asked: Aren't those killed from our side in Paradise and those killed from their side in the Fire? He replied: Why not? He (then) said: Why should we then disgrace our religion and return while God has not yet decided the issue between them and ourselves? Abu Bakr said: Son of Khattab, verily, he is the Messenger of Allah, and Allah will never ruin him. (The narrator continued): At this (a Sura of) the Qur'an (giving glad tidings of the victory) was revealed to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He sent for Umar and made him read it. He asked: Is (this truce) a victory? He (the Messenger of Allah) replied: Yes. At this Umar was pleased, and returned.
Sahih Muslim Book 32, Hadith 115
Two persons, a Muslim and a Jew, quarreled. The Muslim said, "By Him Who gave Muhammad
superiority over all the people! The Jew said, "By Him Who gave Moses superiority over all the
people!" At that the Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew on the face. The Jew went to the
Prophet and informed him of what had happened between him and the Muslim. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent for
the Muslim and asked him about it. The Muslim informed him of the event. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Do not
give me superiority over Moses, for on the Day of Resurrection all the people will fall unconscious
and I will be one of them, but I will. be the first to gain consciousness, and will see Moses standing
and holding the side of the Throne (of Allah). I will not know whether (Moses) has also fallen
unconscious and got up before me, or Allah has exempted him from that stroke."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 44, Hadith 2
A woman came to the Prophet (ﷺ) while we were with him.
She said: Messenger of Allah, my husband, Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal, beats me when I pray, and makes me break my fast when I keep a fast, and he does not offer the dawn prayer until the sun rises.
He asked Safwan, who was present, about what she had said. He replied: Messenger of Allah, as for her statement "he beats me when I pray", she recites two surahs (during prayer) and I have prohibited her (to do so).
He (the Prophet) said: If one surah is recited (during prayer), that is sufficient for the people.
(Safwan continued:) As regards her saying "he makes me break my fast," she dotes on fasting; I am a young man, I cannot restrain myself.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said on that day: A woman should not fast except with the permission of her husband.
(Safwan said:) As for her statement that I do not pray until the sun rises, we are a people belonging to a class, and that (our profession of supplying water) is already known about us. We do not awake until the sun rises. He said: When you awake, offer your prayer.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 14, Hadith 147
""Some meat was brought to the Prophet (s.a.w) and a foreleg was presented to him, and he used to like it, so he bit from it. Then he said: 'I will be the 'Leader' of the people on the Day of Resurrection. Do you know why that is? Allah will gather the people, the first and the last, on one level ground where they will (all) be able to hear a caller, and all of them will be visible, and the sun will be brought near such that the people will suffer distress and trouble that they cannot tolerate nor bear. Then some people will say: "Don't you see the state you have reached? Why don't you look for a person who can intercede for you with your Lord? " Some of them will say to others: " You should go to Adam." So they will go to Adam and say, "You are the father of all mankind, Allah created you with His Own Hands, and breathed into you from His spirit (which He creted for you) and ordered the angels to prostrate for you. Will you not intercede for us with your Lord? Don't you see what has happened to us? Don't you see the state we have reached?" On that Adam will reply, "Today my Lord has become angry such that He has never before been angry, and will never be thereafter. He forbade me (to eat from) the tree, but I disobeyed(Him), Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to somebody else; Go to Nuh." They will go to Nuh and say: "O Nuh! You are the first among the Messengers to the people of the earth, and Allah named you a thankful slave. Will you not intercede for us with your Lord? Don't you see what has happened to us? Don't you see the state we have reached?" Nuh will say to them : "Today my Lord has become angry as He has never before been angry, and will never be thereafter. I had been given one supplication, and I supplicated against my own people. Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to someone else! Go to Ibrahim." They will go to Ibrahim and say: "O Ibrahim! You are Allah's Prophet and His Khalil among the people of the earth, so intercede for us with your Lord, don't you see what hads happened to us?" He will say: "Today my Lord has become angry as He has never before been angry and will never be thereafter. Indeed I uttered three lies."- Abu Hayyyan (a narrator) mentioned them in his narration - " Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to someone else! Go to Musa." So they will go to Musa and say: "O Musa! You are the Messenger of Allah who Allah distinguished above the people with His Message and His Speech, intercede for us with your Lord. Don't you see what has happened to us?" So he will say "Today my Lord has become angry as He has never before been angry and will never be thereafter. Indeed I killed a person whom I was ordered not to kill. Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to someone else; Go to 'Eisa." They will go to 'Eisa and say: "O 'Eisa ! You are the Messenger of Allah and His Word which He placed into Mariam, and a Spirit from Him, and you spoke to the people in the cradle. Intercede for us with your Lord. Don't you see what has happened to us?" Then 'Eisa will say: "Today my Lord has become angry as He has never before been angry and will never be thereafter." He will not mention a sin, but will say: "Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to someone else! Go to Muhammad." He said: 'They will go to Muhammad(s.a.w) and they say: "O Muhammad! You are the Messenger of Allah and the last of the Prophets, and your past and future sins have been pardoned. Will you not intercede for us with your Lord, don't you see what has happened to us?" Then I will depart until I come to under the Throne to fall prostrating before my Lord. Then Allah will guide me to such praises and beautiful statements of glorification which He did not guide anyone to before me. Then He will say: "O Muhammad! Raise your head. Ask,so that you may be granted and intercede so that your intercession may be accepted." I will raise my head and say: "O Lord! My Ummah! O Lord! My Ummah! O Lord! My Ummah!" He will say: "O Muhammad! Let those of your Ummah who have no accounts enter the gate on the right among the gates of Paradise, and they shall share in the gates other than that with the people.'" Then he (s.a.w) said: 'By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! What is between every two gate-posts in Paradise is as what is between Makkah and Hajar, and what is between Makkah and Busra.'" Other chains report similar narrations.
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 37, Hadith 20
The sun eclipsed in the lifetime of the Prophet (p.b.u.h) . Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) offered the eclipse prayer
and stood for a long period equal to the period in which one could recite Surat-al-Baqara. Then he
bowed for a long time and then stood up for a long period which was shorter than that of the first
standing, then bowed again for a long time but for a shorter period than the first; then he prostrated
twice and then stood up for a long period which was shorter than that of the first standing; then he
bowed for a long time which was shorter than the previous one, and then he raised his head and stood
up for a long period which was shorter than the first standing, then he bowed for a long time which
was shorter than the first bowing, and then prostrated (twice) and finished the prayer. By then, the sun
(eclipse) had cleared. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said, "The sun and the moon are two of the signs of Allah.
They eclipse neither because of the death of somebody nor because of his life (i.e. birth). So when you
see them, remember Allah." The people say, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We saw you taking something from
your place and then we saw you retreating." The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "I saw Paradise and stretched my
hands towards a bunch (of its fruits) and had I taken it, you would have eaten from it as long as the
world remains. I also saw the Hell-fire and I had never seen such a horrible sight. I saw that most of
the inhabitants were women." The people asked, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Why is it so?" The Prophet (ﷺ)
replied, "Because of their ungratefulness." It was asked whether they are ungrateful to Allah. The
Prophet said, "They are ungrateful to their companions of life (husbands) and ungrateful to good
deeds. If you are benevolent to one of them throughout the life and if she sees anything (undesirable)
in you, she will say, 'I have never had any good from you.' "
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 16, Hadith 12
"I was present at the house when 'Uthman looked out over them and said: 'I adjure you by Allah and by Islam, are you aware that when the Messenger of Allah came to Al-Madinah, and it had no water that was considered sweet (suitable for drinking) except the well of Rumah, he said: "Who will buy the well of Rumah and dip his bucket in it alongside the buckets of the Muslims, in return for a better one in Paradise?" and I bought it with my capital and dipped my bucket into it alongside the buckets of the Muslims? Yet today you are preventing me from drinking from it, so that I have to drink salty water.' They said: 'By Allah, yes.' He said: 'I adjure you by Allah and by Islam, are you aware that I equipped the army of Al-'Usrah (Tabuk) from my own wealth?' They said: 'By Allah, yes.' He said: 'I adjure you by Allah and by Islam, are you aware that when the Masjid became too small for the people and the Messenger of Allah said: Who will buy the plot of the family of so and so and add it to the Masjid, in return for a better plot in Paradise? I bought it with my capital and added it to the Masjid? Yet now you are preventing me from praying two Rak'ahs therein.' They said: 'By Allah, yes.' He said: 'I adjure you by Allah and by Islam, are you aware that when the Messenger of Allah was atop Thabir -the Thabir in Makkah- and with him were Abu Bakr, 'Umar and myself, the mountain shook, and the Messenger of Allah kicked it with his foot and said: Be still, Thabir, for upon you are a Prophet, a Siddiq and two martyrs?' They said: 'By Allah, yes.' He said: 'Allahu Akbar! They have testified for me, by the Lord of the Ka'bah' -i.e., that I am a martyr."
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 29, Hadith 15
My father was martyred on the day (of the Ghazwa) of Uhud and left six daughters and some debts to
be paid. When the time of plucking the date-fruits came, I went to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's
Apostle! you know that my father was martyred on Uhud's day and owed much debt, and I wish that
the creditors would see you." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Go and collect the various kinds of dates and place
them separately in heaps"' I did accordingly and called him. On seeing him, the creditors started
claiming their rights pressingly at that time. When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw how they behaved, he went round
the biggest heap for three times and sat over it and said, "Call your companions (i.e. the creditors)."
Then he kept on measuring and giving them, till Allah cleared all my father's debts. By Allah, it would
have pleased me that Allah would clear the debts of my father even though I had not taken a single
date to my sisters. But by Allah, all the heaps were complete, (as they were) and I looked at the heap
where Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was sitting and noticed as if not a single date had been taken thereof.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 55, Hadith 44
Malik related to me from Hilal ibn Usama from Ata ibn Yasar that
Umar ibn al-Hakam said, "I went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, and said, 'Messenger of Allah, a slave
girl of mine was tending my sheep. I came to her and one of the sheep
was lost. I asked her about it and she said that a wolf had eaten it,
so I became angry and I am one of the children of Adam, so I struck
her on the face. As it happens, I have to set a slave free, shall I
free her?' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, questioned her, 'Where is Allah?' She said, 'In heaven.' He
said, 'Who am I?' She said, 'You are the Messenger of Allah.' The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
'Free her.' "
Muwatta Malik Book 38, Hadith 9
(The tribes of) Ril, Dhakwan, 'Usaiya and Bani Lihyan asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to provide them with
some men to support them against their enemy. He therefore provided them with seventy men from
the Ansar whom we used to call Al-Qurra' in their lifetime. They used to collect wood by daytime and
pray at night. When they were at the well of Ma'una, the infidels killed them by betraying them. When
this news reached the Prophet (ﷺ) , he said Al-Qunut for one month In the morning prayer, invoking evil
upon some of the 'Arab tribes, upon Ril, Dhakwan, 'Usaiya and Bani Libyan. We used to read a verse
of the Qur'an revealed in their connection, but later the verse was cancelled. It was: "convey to our
people on our behalf the information that we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us, and has
made us pleased." (Anas bin Malik added:) Allah's Prophet said Qunut for one month in the morning
prayer, invoking evil upon some of the 'Arab tribes (namely), Ril, Dhakwan, Usaiya, and Bani Libyan.
(Anas added:) Those seventy Ansari men were killed at the well of Mauna.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 64, Hadith 134