We went out with the Prophet (ﷺ) to Khaibar. A man among the people said, "O 'Amir! Will you please
recite to us some of your poetic verses?" So 'Amir got down and started chanting among them, saying,
"By Allah! Had it not been for Allah, we would not have been guided." 'Amir also said other poetic
verses which I do not remember. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Who is this (camel) driver?" The people said,
"He is 'Amir bin Al-Akwa`," He said, "May Allah bestow His Mercy on him." A man from the People
said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Would that you let us enjoy his company longer." When the people
(Muslims) lined up, the battle started, and 'Amir was struck with his own sword (by chance) by
himself and died. In the evening, the people made a large number of fires (for cooking meals). Allah's
Apostle said, "What is this fire? What are you making the fire for?" They said, "For cooking the meat
of donkeys." He said, "Throw away what is in the pots and break the pots!" A man said, "O Allah's
Prophet! May we throw away what is in them and wash them?" He said, "Never mind, you may do
so." (See Hadith No. 509, Vol. 5).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 80, Hadith 28
'Aishah, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) told him that there were four types of marriage during Pre-Islamic period of Ignorance. One type was similar to that of the present day i.e. a man used to ask somebody else for the hand of a girl under his guardianship or for his daughter's hand, and give her Mahr and then marry her. The second type was that a man would say to his wife after she had become clean from her period. "Send for so-and-so and have sexual intercourse with him." Her husband would then keep away from her and would never sleep with her till she got pregnant from the other man with whom she was sleeping. When her pregnancy became evident, he husband would sleep with her if he wished. Her husband did so (i.e. let his wife sleep with some other man) so that he might have a child of noble breed. Such marriage was called as Al-Istibda'. Another type of marriage was that a group of less than ten men would assemble and enter upon a woman, and all of them would have sexual relation with her. If she became pregnant and delivered a child and some days had passed after delivery, she would sent for all of them and none of them would refuse to come, and when they all gathered before her, she would say to them, "You (all) know waht you have done, and now I have given birth to a child. So, it is your child so-and-so!" naming whoever she liked, and her child would follow him and he could not refuse to take him. The fourth type of marriage was that many people would enter upon a lady and she would never refuse anyone who came to her. Those were the prostitutes who used to fix flags at their doors as sign, and he who would wished, could have sexual intercourse with them. If anyone of them got pregnant and delivered a child, then all those men would be gathered for her and they would call the Qa'if (persons skilled in recognizing the likeness of a child to his father) to them and would let the child follow the man (whom they recognized as his father) and she would let him adhere to him and be called his son. The man would not refuse all that. But when Muhammad (ﷺ) was sent with the Truth, he abolished all the types of marriages observed in pre-Islamic period of Ignorance except the type of marriage the people recognize today.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 63
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the people
of knowledge did not disapprove of people fasting using tooth-sticks
at any hour of the day in Ramadan, whether at the beginning or the
end, nor had he heard any of the people of knowledge disapproving of
or forbidding the practice.
Yahya said that he heard Malik
say, about fasting for six days after breaking the fast at the end of
Ramadan, that he had never seen any of the people of knowledge and
fiqh fasting them. He said, "I have not heard that any of our
predecessors used to do that, and the people of knowledge disapprove
of it and they are afraid that it might become a bida and that common
and ignorant people might join to Ramadan what does not belong to it,
if they were to think that the people of knowledge had given
permission for that to be done and were seen doing it.
Yahya
said that he heard Malik say, "I have never heard any of the people of
knowledge and fiqh and those whom people take as an example forbidding
fasting on the day of jumua. Fasting on it is good, and I have seen
one of the people of knowledge fasting it, and it seemed to me that he
was keen to do so."
Muwatta Malik Book 18, Hadith 66