“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: “O Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), tell me, which of the people has most right to my good companionship?' He said: 'Yes, by your father, you will certainly be told.' He said: 'Your mother,' He said: 'Then who?' He said: Then your mother.' He said: 'Then who?' He said: Then your mother.' He said: 'Then who?' He said: Then your father.' He said: 'Tell me, O Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about my wealth- how should I give in charity?' He said: 'Yes, by Allah (SWT) you will certainly be told. You should give in charity when you are still healthy and greedy for wealth, hoping for a long life and fearing poverty. Do not tarry until your soul reaches here and you say: “My wealth of for so-and-so,” and “My wealth of for so-and-so,” and it will be for them even though you dislike that.'”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 22, Hadith 12
I came to Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) along with a group of Ash'arites requesting to give us a mount. He (the Holy Prophet) said: By Allah, I cannot provide you with a mount, and there is nothing with me which I should give you as a ride. He (the narrator) said: We stayed there as long as Allah willed. Then there were brought to him (to the Holy Prophet) camels. He (the Holy Prophet) then ordered to give us three white humped camels, We started and said (or some of us said to the others): Allah will not bless us. We came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) begging him to provide us with riding camels. He swore that he could not provide us with a mount, but later on he provided us with that. They (some of the Prophet's Companions) came and informed him about this (rankling of theirs), whereupon he said: It was not I who provided you with a mount, but Allah has provided you with that. So far as I am concerned, by Allah, if He so wills, I would not swear, but if, later on, I would see better than it, I (would break the vow) and expiate it and do that which is better.
Sahih Muslim Book 27, Hadith 10
Yahya related to me from Malik, from 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn
Muhammad, that Amra bint 'Abd ar-Rahman told him that Ziyad ibn Abi
Sufyan once wrote to A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, saying, "'Abdullah ibn Abbas said that
whatever was haram for some one doing hajj was also haram for some one
who sent a sacrificial animal until the animal was sacrificed. I have
sent one, so write and tell me what you say about this, or tell the
man in charge of the animal what to do.
Amra said that A'isha
said, "It is notas Ibn Abbas has said. I once plaited the garlands for
the sacrificial animal of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, with my own two hands. Then after that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, himself
put the garlands on the animal and then sent it with my father. And
there was nothing that Allah had made halal forthe Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that was haram for him until
such time as the animal had been sacrificed."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 53
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Amir ibn Sad ibn Abi
Waqqas that his father said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, came to me to treat me for a pain which
became hard to bear in the year of the farewell hajj. I said,
'Messenger of Allah, you can see how far the pain has reached me. I
have property and only my daughter inherits from me. Shall I give two
thirds of my property as sadaqa?' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, 'No.' I said, 'Half?' He said,
'No.' Then the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, 'A third, and a third is a lot. Leaving your heirs rich
is better than leaving them poor to beg from people. You never spend
anything on maintenance desiring the Face of Allah by it, but that you
are rewarded for it, even what you appoint for your wife.' Sad said,
'Messenger of Allah, will I be left here in Makka after my companions
have departed for Madina?' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, 'If you are left behind, and do sound deeds
you will increase your degree and elevation by them. Perhaps you will
be left behind so that some people may benefit by you and others may
be harmed by you. O Allah! complete their hijra for my companions, and
do not turn them back on their heels. The unfortunate one is Said ibn
Khawla.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, was distressed on his account for he had died at Makka."
Yahya said that he heard Malik speak about a man who willed a
third of his property to a man and said as well, "My slave will serve
so-and-so (another man) for as long as he lives, then he is free,"
then that was looked into, and the slave was found to be a third of
the property of the deceased. Malik said, "The service of the slave is
evaluated. Then the two of them divide it between them. The one who
was willed a third takes his third, as a share, and the one who was
willed the service of the slave takes what was evaluated for him of
the slave's service. Each of them takes, from the service of the slave
or from his wage if he has a wage, according to his share. If the one
who was given the service of the slave for as long as he lived dies,
then the slave is freed."
Yahya said that he heard Malik
speak about someone who willed his third and said "So-and-so has such-
and-such, and so-and-so has such-and-such," naming some of his
property, and his heirs protested that it was more than a third."
Malik said, "The heirs then have an option between giving the
beneficiaries their full bequests and taking the rest of the property
of the deceased, or between dividing among the beneficiaries the third
of the property of the deceased and surrendering to them their third.
If they wish, their rights in it reach as far as they reach."
Muwatta Malik Book 37, Hadith 4
One day the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) appeared before the public so a man came to him and then said: Prophet of Allah, what is Iman? Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) replied: That you affirm your faith in Allah, His angels, His Books, His meeting, His Messengers and that you affirm your faith in the Resurrection hereafter. He said: Messenger of Allah, what is al-Islam? He replied: Al-Islam is that you worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him and you establish obligatory prayer and you pay the obligatory alms (Zakat) and you observe the fast of Ramadan. He said: Messenger of Allah, what is al-Ihsan? He replied: That you worship Allah as if you are seeing Him, and for if you fail to see Him. He said: Messenger of Allah, when is the Hour (of Doom)? He replied: The one who is asked about it is no better informed than the inquirer, however I will narrate some of its signs to you. When the slave-girl will give birth to her master, then that is from its signs. When the naked, barefooted would become the chiefs of the people, then that is from its signs. When the shepherds of the black (camels) would exult themselves in buildings, then that is from its signs. (The Hour is) Among one of the five which no one knows but Allah. Then he recited (the verse): "Verily Allah! with Him alone is the knowledge of the Hour and He it is Who sends down the rain and knows that which is in the wombs. And no soul knows what it shall earn tomorrow, and a soul knows not in what land it shall die. Verily Allah is Knowing, Aware."
He (Abu Huraira) said: Then the person turned back and went away. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Bring that man back to me. They went to bring him back, but they saw nothing there. Upon this the Messenger of Allah remarked: he was Gabriel, who came to teach the people their religion.
Sahih Muslim Book 1, Hadith 5
from Al-Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib who claimed that he was sitting in Al-Batha with a group, and the Messenger of Allah was sitting amongst them, when a cloud passed over them. They looked at it, and the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Di you know what its name it?’ They said: ‘Yes. This is As-Sahab (cloud).’ The Messenger of Allah saidl: ‘Al-Muzn (rain cloud)?’ They said: ‘Yes. This is As-Sahab (cloud).’ Then the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Do you know how much distance there is between the heavens and the earth?’ They said: ‘No, by Allah we do not know.’ He said: ‘The distance between every two of them is either seventy-one, or two, or three, years, and the heaven that is above that one is like that.’ Until he enumerated Seven heavens like that. Then he said: ‘Above the seventh heaven is a sea, Between its highest part and its lowest is just as there is between one heaven to another heaven. Then above their backs is the Throne. Between its lowest and highest parts is the same as what is between one heaven to another heaven, and Allah is above that.’”
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 47, Hadith 372
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn
Abd al-Aziz during his khalifate, wrote to one of his governors,
"Whatever a father, or guardian, who gives someone in marriage, makes
a condition in the way of unreturnable gift or of favour, belongs to
the woman if she wants it."
Malik spoke about a woman whose
father gave her in marriage and made an unreturnable gift a condition
of the bride-price which was to be given. He said, "Whatever is given
as a condition by which marriage occurs belongs to the woman if she
wants it. If the husband parts from her before the marriage is
consummated, the husband has half of the unreturnable gift by which
the marriage occurred."
Malik said about a man who married
off his young son and the son had no wealth at all, that the bride-
price was obliged of the father if the young man had no property on
the day of marriage. If the young man did have property the bride-
price was taken from his property unless the father stipulated that he
would pay the bride-price. The marriage was affirmed for the son if he
was a minor only if he was under the guardianship of his father.
Malik said that if a man divorced his wife before he had
consummated the marriage and she was a virgin, her father returned
half of the bride-price to him. That half was permitted to the husband
from the father to compensate him for his expenses.
Malik
said that that was because Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, said in
His Book, "Unless they (women with whom he had not consummated
marriage) make remission or he makes remission to him in whose hand is
the knot of marriage." (Sura 2 ayat 237). (He being the father of a
virgin daughter or the master of a female slave.)
Malik said,
"That is what I have heard about the matter, and that is how things
are done among us."
Malik said that a jewish or christian
woman who was married to a jew or christian and then became muslim
before the marriage had been consummated, did not keep anything from
the bride-price.
Malik said, "I do not think that women
should be married for less than a quarter of a dinar. That is the
lowest amount for which cutting off the hand is obliged ."
Muwatta Malik Book 28, Hadith 11
I left for Mecca for Hajj-at-Tamattu` assuming Ihram for `Umra. I reached Mecca three days before
the day of Tarwiya (8th Dhul-Hijja). Some people of Mecca said to me, "Your Hajj will be like the
Hajj performed by the people of Mecca (i.e. you will lose the superiority of assuming Ihram from the
Miqat). So I went to `Ata' asking him his view about it. He said, "Jabir bin `Abdullah narrated to me, 'I
performed Hajj with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the day when he drove camels with him. The people had
assumed Ihram for Hajj-al-Ifrad. The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered them to finish their Ihram after Tawaf round the
Ka`ba, and between Safa and Marwa and to cut short their hair and then to stay there (in Mecca) as
non-Muhrims till the day of Tarwiya (i.e. 8th of Dhul-Hijja) when they would assume Ihram for Hajj
and they were ordered to make the Ihram with which they had come as for `Umra only. They asked,
'How can we make it `Umra (Tamattu`) as we have intended to perform Hajj?' The Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'Do
what I have ordered you. Had I not brought the Hadi with me, I would have done the same, but I
cannot finish my Ihram till the Hadi reaches its destination (i.e. is slaughtered).' So, they did (what he
ordered them to do)."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 25, Hadith 54
The Prophet (ﷺ) continued for such-and-such period imagining that he has slept (had sexual relations)
with his wives, and in fact he did not. One day he said, to me, "O `Aisha! Allah has instructed me
regarding a matter about which I had asked Him. There came to me two men, one of them sat near my
feet and the other near my head. The one near my feet, asked the one near my head (pointing at me),
'What is wrong with this man? The latter replied, 'He is under the effect of magic.' The first one asked,
'Who had worked magic on him?' The other replied, 'Lubaid bin Asam.' The first one asked, 'What
material (did he use)?' The other replied, 'The skin of the pollen of a male date tree with a comb and
the hair stuck to it, kept under a stone in the well of Dharwan."' Then the Prophet (ﷺ) went to that well
and said, "This is the same well which was shown to me in the dream. The tops of its date-palm trees
look like the heads of the devils, and its water looks like the Henna infusion." Then the Prophet (ﷺ)
ordered that those things be taken out. I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Won't you disclose (the magic
object)?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah has cured me and I hate to circulate the evil among the people."
`Aisha added, "(The magician) Lubaid bin Asam was a man from Bani Zuraiq, an ally of the Jews."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 78, Hadith 93
`Ali bin Abu Talib came out of the house of the Prophet (ﷺ) during his fatal ailment. The people asked
(`Ali), "O Abu Hasan! How is the health of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) this morning?" `Ali said, "This morning
he is better, with the grace of Allah." Al-`Abbas held `Ali by the hand and said, "Don't you see him
(about to die)? By Allah, within three days you will be the slave of the stick (i.e., under the command
of another ruler). By Allah, I think that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) will die from his present ailment, for I know
the signs of death on the faces of the offspring of `Abdul Muttalib. So let us go to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to
ask him who will take over the Caliphate. If the authority is given to us, we will know it, and if it is
given to somebody else we will request him to recommend us to him. " `Ali said, "By Allah! If we ask
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) for the rulership and he refuses, then the people will never give it to us. Besides, I will
never ask Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) for it." (See Hadith No 728, Vol 5)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 79, Hadith 40
"The Messenger of Allah invaded Khaibar and we prayed Al-Ghadah (Fajr) there (early in the morning) when it was still dark. Then the Prophet rode and Abu Talha rode, and I was riding behind Abu Talha. The Prophet of Allah passed through the lane of Khaibar quickly, and my knee was touching the thigh of the Messenger of Allah, and I could see the whiteness of the thigh of the Prophet. When he entered the town he said: 'Allahu Akbar, Khaibar is destroyed! Whenever we approach a (hostile) nation to fight, evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.' He said this three times. The people came out for their work." (One of the narrators) 'Abdul-'Aziz said: "They said: 'Muhammad (has come)!'" 'Abdul-'Aziz said: "Some of our companions said: 'With his army.'"
"We conquered Khaibar and gathered the captives. Dihyah came and said: 'O Prophet of Allah, give me a slave girl from among the captives.' He said: 'Go and take a slave girl.' He took Safiyyah bint Huyayy. Then a man came to the Prophet and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, you gave Dihyah Safiyyah bint Huyayy, and she is the chief mistress of Quraizah and An-Nadir, and she is fit for no one but you.' He said: 'Call him to bring her.' When the Prophet saw her, he said: 'Take any other slave girl from among the captives.'" He said: "The Prophet of Allah set her free and married her." (One of the narrators) Thabit said to him: "O Abu Hamzah, what dowry did he give her?" He (Anas) said: "Herself; he set her free and married her." He said: "While on the road, Umm Sulaim fitted her out and presented her to him in the night, and the following morning he was a bridegroom. He said: 'Whoever has anything, let him bring it.' He spread out a leather cloth and men came with cottage cheese, dates, and ghee, and they made Hais, and that was the Walimah (wedding feast) of the Messenger of Allah."
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 26, Hadith 185
There was a black slave girl belonging to an 'Arab tribe and they manumitted her but she remained
with them. The slave girl said, "Once one of their girls (of that tribe) came out wearing a red leather
scarf decorated with precious stones. It fell from her or she placed it somewhere. A kite passed by that
place, saw it Lying there and mistaking it for a piece of meat, flew away with it. Those people
searched for it but they did not find it. So they accused me of stealing it and started searching me and
even searched my private parts." The slave girl further said, "By Allah! while I was standing (in that
state) with those people, the same kite passed by them and dropped the red scarf and it fell amongst
them. I told them, 'This is what you accused me of and I was innocent and now this is it.' " `Aisha
added: That slave girl came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and embraced Islam. She had a tent or a small room
with a low roof in the mosque. Whenever she called on me, she had a talk with me and whenever she
sat with me, she would recite the following: "The day of the scarf (band) was one of the wonders of
our Lord, verily He rescued me from the disbelievers' town. `Aisha added: "Once I asked her, 'What is
the matter with you? Whenever you sit with me, you always recite these poetic verses.' On that she
told me the whole story. "
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 8, Hadith 88
Yahya related to me from Malik from al-Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn
Ya'qub that he heard Abu's-Sa'ib, the mawla of Hisham ibn Zuhra, say
he had heard Abu Hurayra say, "I heard the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, 'Whoever prays a prayer
without reciting the umm al-Qur'an in it, his prayer is aborted, it is
aborted, it is aborted, incomplete.' So I said, 'Abu Hurayra,
sometimes I am behind the imam.'Hepulled my forearm and said, 'Recite
it to yourself, O Persian, for I heard the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, say that Allah the Blessed, the
Exalted, said, "I have divided the prayer into two halves between me
and my slave. One half of it is for Me and one half of it is for IVly
slave, and My slave has what he asks." ' The Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Recite." The slave says,
'Praise be to AIIah, the Lord of theWorlds.' Allah the Blessed, the
Exalted, says, 'My slave has praised Me.' The slave says, 'The
Merciful, the Compassionate.' Allah says, 'My slave has spoken well of
Me.' The slave says, 'Master of the Day of the Deen.' Allah says, 'My
slave has glorified Me.' The slave says, 'You alone we worship and You
alone we askforhelp.'Allahsays,'This ayat is between Me and My slave,
and for My slave is what he asks. 'The slave says, 'Guide us in the
straight Path, the Path of those whom You have blessed, not of those
with whom You are angry, nor those who are in error. ' Allah says,
'These are for My slaves, and for my slave is what he asks . ' " ' "
Muwatta Malik Book 3, Hadith 41
That he stayed overnight in the house of Maimuna the wife of the Prophet, his aunt. He added : I lay
on the bed (cushion transversally) while Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and his wife lay in the lengthwise direction of
the cushion. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) slept till the middle of the night, either a bit before or a bit after it and
then woke up, rubbing the traces of sleep off his face with his hands. He then, recited the last ten
verses of Sura Al-`Imran, got up and went to a hanging water-skin. He then Performed the ablution
from it and it was a perfect ablution, and then stood up to offer the prayer. I, too, got up and did as the
Prophet had done. Then I went and stood by his side. He placed his right hand on my head and caught
my right ear and twisted it. He prayed two rak`at then two rak`at and two rak`at and then two rak`at
and then two rak`at and then two rak`at (separately six times), and finally one rak`a (the witr). Then he
lay down again in the bed till the Mu'adh-dhin came to him where upon the Prophet (ﷺ) got up, offered a
two light rak`at prayer and went out and led the Fajr prayer.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 4, Hadith 49
Yahya related to me from Malik from Umara ibn Yasar that Ata ibn
Yasar told him that Abu Ayyub al-Ansari had told him, "We used to
sacrifice one sheep, and a man sacrificed for himself and his family.
Then later on people began to compete with each other and it became
boasting."
Malik said, "The best that I have heard about a
single camel, cow or sheep, is that a man should sacrifice a camel for
himself and his family. He sacrifices a cow or sheep which he owns for
his family, and shares with them in it. It is disapproved for a group
of people to buy a camel, cow or sheep, to share for the ritual and
sacrifices, each man giving a share of its price, and taking a share
of its meat. We have heard the tradition that people do not share in
the ritual. However, it may be that the people of one household can
share."
Muwatta Malik Book 23, Hadith 10
Some of the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) came across a tribe amongst the tribes of the Arabs, and that
tribe did not entertain them. While they were in that state, the chief of that tribe was bitten by a snake
(or stung by a scorpion). They said, (to the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) ), "Have you got any medicine
with you or anybody who can treat with Ruqya?" The Prophet's companions said, "You refuse to
entertain us, so we will not treat (your chief) unless you pay us for it." So they agreed to pay them a
flock of sheep. One of them (the Prophet's companions) started reciting Surat-al-Fatiha and gathering
his saliva and spitting it (at the snake-bite). The patient got cured and his people presented the sheep
to them, but they said, "We will not take it unless we ask the Prophet (whether it is lawful)." When
they asked him, he smiled and said, "How do you know that Surat-al-Fatiha is a Ruqya? Take it (flock
of sheep) and assign a share for me."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 76, Hadith 51
Mujammi' was one of the Qur'an-reciters (qaris), and he said: We were present with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at al-Hudaybiyyah. When we returned, the people were driving their camels quickly.
The people said to one another: What is the matter with them?
They said: Revelation has come down to the Prophet (ﷺ). We also proceeded with the people, galloping (our camels). We found the Prophet (ﷺ) standing on his riding-animal at Kura' al-Ghamim.
When the people gathered near him, he recited: "Verily We have granted thee a manifest victory.
A man asked: Is this a victory, Messenger of Allah? He replied: Yes. By Him in Whose hands the soul of Muhammad is, this is a victory. Khaybar was divided among those who had been at al-Hudaybiyyah, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) divided it into eighteen portions. The army consisted of one thousand five hundred men, of which three hundred were cavalry, and he gave two shares to a horseman and one to a foot-soldier.
Abu Dawud said: Abu Mu'awiyah's tradition is sounder, and it is one which is followed. I think the error is in the tradition of Mujammi', because he said: "three hundred horsemen." when there were only two hundred.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 15, Hadith 260
Yahya related to me from Malik that Humayd ibn Qays and Thawr ibn
Zayd adDili both informed him that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, (and one of them gave more detail than
the other),saw a man standing in the sun. The Messenger asked, "What's
wrong with him?" The people said, "He has vowed not to speak or to
seek shade from the sun or to sit and to fast." The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Go and tell him
to speak, seek shade, and sit, but let him complete his fast."
Malik said, "I have not heard that the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered the man in question to do
any kaffara. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, only ordered him to complete that in which there was obedience
to Allah and to abandon that in which there was disobedience to
Allah."
Muwatta Malik Book 22, Hadith 7