The Prophet (ﷺ) drew a square and then drew a line in the middle of it and let it extend outside the square
and then drew several small lines attached to that central line, and said, "This is the human being, and
this, (the square) in his lease of life, encircles him from all sides (or has encircled him), and this (line),
which is outside (the square), is his hope, and these small lines are the calamities and troubles (which
may befall him), and if one misses him, an-other will snap (i.e. overtake) him, and if the other misses
him, a third will snap (i.e. overtake) him."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 81, Hadith 6
Yahya related to me from Yahya ibn Said that Umar ibn al-Khattab
asked a man what his name was. He said, "Jamra (live coal)." "The son
of who?" He said, "Ibn Shihab (meteor, flame)." "From whom?" He said,
"From al-Huraqa (burning)." "Where do you live?" He said, "At Harrat
an-Nar (lava field of the fire). "At which one of them?" He said, "At
Dhati Ladha (one with flames)." Umar said, "Go and look at your family
- they have been burned."
Yahya added, "It was as Umar ibn
al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said."
Muwatta Malik Book 54, Hadith 25
Malik said, "The generally agreed-on way of doing things in our
community is that any setting-free which a man makes in a bequest that
he wills in health or illness can be rescinded by him when he likes
and changed when he likes as long as it is not a tadbir. There is no
way to rescind a tadbir once he has made it.
"As for every
child born to him by a slave-girl who he wills to be set free but he
does not make mudabbara, her children are not freed with her when she
is freed. That is because her master can change his will when he likes
and rescind it when he likes, and being set free is not confirmed for
her. She is in the position of a slave-girl whose master says, 'If so-
and-so remains with me until I die, she is free.' " (i.e. he does not
make a definite contract.)
Malik said, "If she fulfils that,
that is hers. If he wishes, before that, he can sell her and her child
because he has not entered her child into any condition he has made
for her.
"The bequest in setting free is different from the
tadbir. The precedent of the sunna makes a distinction between them.
Had a bequest been in the position of a tadbir, no testator would be
able to change his will and what he mentioned in it of setting free.
His property would be tied up and he would not be able to use it."
Malik said about a man who made all his slaves mudabbar while
he was well and they were his only property, "If he made some of them
mudabbar before the others, one begins with the first until the third
of his property is reached. (i.e. their value is matched against the
third, and those whose value is covered are free.) If he makes the
mall mudabbar in his illness, and says in one statement, 'So-and-so is
free. So-and-so is free. So-and-so is free if my death occurs in this
illness,' or he makes them all mudabbar in one statement, they are
matched against the third and one does not begin with any of them
before the others. It is a bequest and they have a third of his
property divided between them in shares. Then the third of his
property frees each of them according to the extent of his share.
"No single one of them is given preference when that all occurs in
his illness."
Malik spoke about a master who made his slave a
mudabbar and then he died and the only property he had was the
mudabbar slave and the slave had property. He said, "A third of the
mudabbar is freed and his property remains in his possession."
Malik said about a mudabbar whose master gave him a kitaba and
then the master died and did not leave any property other than him, "A
third of him is freed and a third of his kitaba is reduced, and he
owes two-thirds."
Malik spoke about a man who freed half of
his slave while he was ill and made irrevocable his freeing half of
him or all of him, and he had made another slave of his mudabbar
before that. He said, "One begins with the slave he made mudabbar
before the one he freed while he was ill. That is because the man
cannot revoke what he has made mudabbar and cannot follow it with a
matter which will rescind it. When this mudabbar is freed, then what
remains of the third goes to the one who had half of him freed so as
to complete his setting-free entirely in the third of the property of
the deceased. If what is left of the third does not cover that,
whatever is covered by what is left of the third is freed after the
first mudabbar is freed . "
Muwatta Malik Book 40, Hadith 3
It was
narrated from Jabir bin ‘Abdullah that the Prophet (ﷺ) led
his
Companions in the fear prayer. He led them all in bowing, then the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the row nearest him prostrated, and the
others stood up, then when he stood up, they prostrated twice by
themselves. Then the front row moved back and took their place, and
they moved forward until they formed the front row. Then the Prophet
(ﷺ) led them all in bowing, then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and
the row nearest to him prostrated, and when they raised their heads,
the others prostrated twice. So all of them bowed with the Prophet
(ﷺ) and some of them prostrated by themselves, and the enemy was in
the direction of the Qiblah.
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 5, Hadith 458
"There was a time when we did not pass so many judgments, but now that time is over. Now Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, has decreed that we reach a time when, as you see, (we are asked to pass many judgments). Whoever among you is asked to pass a judgment after this day, let him pass judgment according to what is in the Book of Allah. If he is faced with a matter that is not mentioned in the Book of Allah, let him pass judgment according to the way His Prophet passed judgment. If he is faced with a matter that is not mentioned in the Book of Allah, and concerning which His Prophet did not pass judgment, then let him pass judgment according to the way the righteous passed judgment. And let him not say 'I am afraid, I am afraid.' For that which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful is clear, and between them are matters which are not as clear. Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt."
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 49, Hadith 20
Yahya related to me from Malik, from Ibn Shihab, from Ubaydullah
ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud, from Abdullah ibn Abbas, that as-Sab
ibn Jaththama al-Laythi once gave a wild ass to the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was at al-
Abwa, or Waddan, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, gave it back to him. However, when the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw the expression on
the man's face he said, "We only gave it back to you because we are in
ihram."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 85
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was traveling on one of his journeys, and `Umar bin Al-Khattab was traveling along
with him at night. `Umar asked him about something, but Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not answer him. He
asked again, but he did not answer. He asked for the third time, but he did not answer. On that, `Umar
said to himself, "May your mother lose you! You have asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) three times, but he did
not answer at all!" `Umar said, "So I made my camel go fast till I was ahead of the people, and I was
afraid that something might be revealed about me. After a little while I heard a call maker calling me,
I said, 'I was afraid that some Quranic Verse might be revealed about me.' So I went to Allah's
Apostle and greeted him. He said, 'Tonight there has been revealed to me a Surah which is dearer to
me than that on which the sun shines (i.e. the world).' Then he recited: 'Verily! We have given you (O
Muhammad), a manifest victory.' " (Surat al-Fath) No. (48.1).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 66, Hadith 34