Ka`b demanded his debt back from Ibn Abi Hadrad in the Mosque and their voices grew louder till
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) heard them while he was in his house. He came out to them raising the curtain of his
room and addressed Ka`b, "O Ka`b!" Ka`b replied, "Labaik, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)." (He said to him),
"Reduce your debt to one half," gesturing with his hand. Ka`b said, "I have done so, O Allah's
Apostle!" On that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to Ibn Abi Hadrad, "Get up and repay the debt, to him."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 44, Hadith 8
Abu Talha had the largest number of datepalms from amongst the Ansars of Medina. The dearest of
his property to him was Bairuha garden which was facing the (Prophet's) Mosque. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
used to enter it and drink of its good fresh water. When the Holy Verse:-- 'By no means shall you
attain righteousness unless you spend (in charity) of that which you love.' (3.92) was revealed, Abu
Talha got up and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Allah says: By no means shall you attain righteousness
unless you spend of that which you love,' and the dearest of my property to me is the Bairuha garden
and I want to give it in charity in Allah's Cause, seeking to be rewarded by Allah for that. So you can
spend it, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), where-ever Allah instructs you. ' Allah s Apostle said, "Good! That is a
perishable (or profitable) wealth" (`Abdullah is in doubt as to which word was used.) He said, "I have
heard what you have said but in my opinion you'd better give it to your kith and kin." On that Abu
Talha said, "I will do so, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" Abu Talha distributed that garden among his kith and kin
and cousins.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 74, Hadith 37
Malik said, "There is no harm in buying dates from specified
trees or a specified orchard or buying milk from specified sheep when
the buyer starts to take them as soon as he has payed the price. That
is like buying oil from a container. A man buys some of it for a dinar
or two and gives his gold and stipulates that it be measured out for
him. There is no harm in that. If the container breaks and the oil is
wasted, the buyer has his gold back and there is no transaction
between them."
Malik said, "There is no harm in everything
which is taken right away as it is, like fresh milk and fresh picked
dates which the buyer can take on a day-to-day basis. If the supply
runs out before the buyer has what he has paid for in full, the seller
gives him back the portion of the gold that is owed to him, or else
the buyer takes other goods from him to the value of what he is owed
and which they mutually agree about. The buyer should stay with the
seller until he has taken it. It is disapproved of for the seller to
leave because the transaction would then come into the forbidden
category of a debt for a debt. If a stated time period for payment or
delivery enters into the transaction, it is also disapproved. Delay
and deferment are not permitted in it, and are only acceptable when it
is standard practice on definite terms by which the seller guarantees
it to the buyer, but this is not to be from one specific orchard or
from any specific ewes."
Malik was asked about a man who
bought an orchard from another man in which there were various types
of palm-trees - excellent ajwa palms, good kabis palms, adhq palms and
othertypes. The seller kept aside from the sale the produce of a
certain palm of his choice. Malik said, "That is not good because if
he does that, and keeps aside, for instance, dates of the ajwa variety
whose yield would be 15 sa, and he picks the dates of the kabis in
their place, and the yield of their dates is 10 sa or he picks the
ajwa which yield 15 sa and leaves the kabis which yield 10 sa, it is
as if he bought the ajwa for the kabis making allowances for their
difference of quality. This is the same as if a man dealing with a man
who has heaps of dates before him - a heap of 15 sa of ajwa, a heap of
10 sa of kabis, and a heap of 12 sa of cadhq, gives the owner of the
dates a dinar to let him choose and take whichever of the heaps he
likes." Malik said, "That is not good."
Malik was asked what
a man who bought fresh dates from the owner of an orchard and advanced
him a dinar was entitled to if the crop was spoilt. Malik said, "The
buyer makes a reckoning with the owner of the orchard and takes what
is due to him of the dinar. If the buyer has taken two-thirds of a
dinar's worth of dates, he gets back the third of a dinar which is
owed him. If the buyer has taken three-quarters of a dinar's worth of
dates, then he gets back the quarter which is owed to him, or they
come to a mutual agreement, and the buyer takes what is owed him from
his dinar from the owner of the orchard in something else of his
choosing. If, for instance, he prefers to take dry dates or some other
goods, he takes them according to what is due. If he takes dry dates
or some other goods, he should stay with him until he has been paid in
full."
Malik said, "This is the same situation as hiring out
a specified riding-camel or hiring out a slave tailor, carpenter or
some other kind of worker or letting a house and taking payment in
advance for the hire of the slave or the rent of the house or camel.
Then an accident happens to what has been hired resulting in death or
something else. The owner of the camel, slave or house returns what
remains of the rent of the camel, the hire of the slave or the rent of
the house to the one who advanced him the money, and the owner reckons
what will settle that up in full. If, for instance, he has provided
half of what the man paid for, he returns the remaining half of what
he advanced, or according to whatever amount is due." Malik said,
"Paying in advance for something which is on hand is only good when
the buyer takes possession of what he has paid for as soon as he hands
over the gold, whether it be slave, camel, or house, or in the case of
dates, he starts to pick them as soon as he has paid the money."
It is not good that there be any deferment or credit in such a
transaction.
Malik said, "An example illustrating what is
disapproved of in this situation is that, for instance, a man may say
that he will pay someone in advance for the use of his camel to ride
in the hajj, and the hajj is still some time off, or he may say
something similar to that about a slave or a house. When he does that,
he only pays the money in advance on the understanding that if he
finds the camel to be sound at the time the hire is due to begin, he
will take it by virtue of what he has already paid. If an accident, or
death, or something happens to the camel, then he will get his money
back and the money he paid in advance will be considered as a loan."
Malik said, "This is distinct from someone who takes
immediate possession of what he rents or hires, so that it does not
fall into the category of 'uncertainty,' or disapproved payment in
advance. That is following a common practice. An example of that is
that a man buys a slave, or slave-girl, and takes possession of them
and pays their price. If something happens to them within the period
of the year indemnification contract, he takes his gold back from the
one from whom he bought it. There is no harm in that. This is the
precedent of the sunna in the matter of selling slaves."
Malik said, "Someone who rents a specified slave, or hires a specified
camel, for a future date, at which time he will take possession of the
camel or slave, has not acted properly because he did not take
possession of what he rented or hired, nor is he advancing a loan
which the person is responsible to pay back."
Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 26
`Abdullah (bin Masud) said. "Allah curses those ladies who practice tattooing and those who get
themselves tattooed, and those ladies who remove the hair from their faces and those who make
artificial spaces between their teeth in order to look more beautiful whereby they change Allah's
creation." His saying reached a lady from Bani Asd called Um Yaqub who came (to `Abdullah) and
said, "I have come to know that you have cursed such-and-such (ladies)?" He replied, "Why should I
not curse these whom Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has cursed and who are (cursed) in Allah's Book!" Um Yaqub
said, "I have read the whole Quran, but I did not find in it what you say." He said, "Verily, if you have
read it (i.e. the Quran), you have found it. Didn't you read:
'And whatsoever the Apostle gives you take it and whatsoever he forbids you, you abstain (from it).
(59.7)
She replied, "Yes, I did," He said, "Verily, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade such things." "She said, "But I see
your wife doing these things?" He said, "Go and watch her." She went and watched her but could not
see anything in support of her statement. On that he said, "If my wife was as you thought, I would not
keep her in my company."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 406
when he was in distress, the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) would supplicate: “There is none worthy of worship except Allah, the Forbearing, the Wise, there is none worthy of worship except Allah, the Lord of the Magnificent Throne, there is none worthy of worship except Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and the Lord of the Noble Throne (Lā ilāha illallāh al-`aliyyul ḥalīm, lā ilāha illallāh, rabbul-`arshil-`aẓīm, lā ilāha illallāh, rabbus-samāwāti wal-arḍi wa rabbul-`arshil-karīm).”
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 48, Hadith 66