A lady came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I have come to you to offer myself to
you." He raised his eyes and looked at her and then lowered his head. When the lady saw that he did
not make any decision, she sat down. On that, a man from his companions got up and said. "O Allah's
Apostle! If you are not in need of this woman, then marry her to me." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do you
have anything to offer her?" He replied. "No, by Allah, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him,
"Go to your family and see if you can find something.' The man went and returned, saying, "No, by
Allah, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I have not found anything." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Try to find something, even
if it is an iron ring.'' He went again and returned, saying, "No, by Allah, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), not even
an iron ring, but I have this waist sheet of mine." The man had no upper garment, so he intended to
give her, half his waist sheet. So Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, ''What would she do with your waist sheet? If
you wear it, she will have nothing of it over her body, and if she wears it, you will have nothing over
your body." So that man sat for a long period and then got up, and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saw him going
away, so he ordered somebody to call him. When he came, the Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, " How much of the
Quran do you know?" He replied, "I know such Surat and such Surat and such Surat," and went on
counting it, The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, "Can you recite it by heart?" he replied, "Yes." The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
"Go, I have married this lady to you for the amount of the Quran you know by heart."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 66, Hadith 52
I participated in a Ghazwa along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) The Prophet (ﷺ) met me (on the way) while I was
riding a camel of ours used for irrigation and it had got so tired that it could hardly walk. The Prophet (ﷺ)
asked me, "What is wrong with the camel?" I replied, "It has got tired." So. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came from
behind it and rebuked it and prayed for it so it started surpassing the other camels and going ahead of
them. Then he asked me, "How do you find your camel (now)?" I replied, "I find it quite well, now as
it has received your blessings." He said, "Will you sell it to me?" I felt shy (to refuse his offer) though
it was the only camel for irrigation we had. So, I said, "Yes." He said, "Sell it to me then." I sold it to
him on the condition that I should keep on riding it till I reached Medina. Then I said, "O Allah's
Apostle! I am a bridegroom," and requested him to allow me to go home. He allowed me, and I set out
for Medina before the people till I reached Medina, where I met my uncle, who asked me about the
camel and I informed him all about it and he blamed me for that. When I took the permission of
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) he asked me whether I had married a virgin or a matron and I replied that I had
married a matron. He said, "Why hadn't you married a virgin who would have played with you, and
you would have played with her?" I replied, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! My father died (or was martyred) and
I have some young sisters, so I felt it not proper that I should marry a young girl like them who would
neither teach them manners nor serve them. So, I have married a matron so that she may serve them
and teach them manners." When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) arrived in Medina, I took the camel to him the next
morning and he gave me its price and gave me the camel itself as well.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 56, Hadith 176
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Imam is (appointed) to be followed. So do not differ from him, bow when he
bows, and say, "Rabbana-lakal hamd" if he says "Sami`a l-lahu liman hamidah"; and if he prostrates,
prostrate (after him), and if he prays sitting, pray sitting all together, and straighten the rows for the
prayer, as the straightening of the rows is amongst those things which make your prayer a correct and
perfect one. (See Hadith No. 657).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 10, Hadith 116
"What was said about me had been said, and I myself was unaware of it, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got up and addressed the people. He recited the Tashahhud and after praising and expressing gratitude to Allah, as He deserved, he said: 'To proceed: O people! Give me your opinion regarding those people who made a forged story against my wife. By Allah, I do not know anything bad about her at all. By Allah, they accused her of being with a man about whom I have never known anything bad, and he never entered my house unless I was present there, and whenever I went on a journey, he went with me.' Sa'd bin Mu'adh referring to Abu Bakr: 'to give their kinsmen, the poor, and those who left their homes for Allah's Cause.' - meaning Mistah - up to His saying: Do you not love that Allah should forgive you? And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (24:22).' On that, Abu Bakr said: 'Yes, by Allah! O our Lord! We wish that You forgive us.' So he returned to what he had been doing."
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 47, Hadith 232
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was asked, "Who are the most honorable of the people?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The most
honorable of them in Allah's Sight are those who keep their duty to Allah and fear Him. They said,
"We do not ask you about that." He said, "Then the most honorable of the people is Joseph, Allah's
prophet, the son of Allah's prophet, the son of Allah's prophet, the son of Allah's Khalil i.e. Abraham)
They said, "We do not ask you about that." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, Do you ask about (the virtues of the
ancestry of the Arabs?" They said, "Yes," He said, "Those who were the best amongst you in the Prelslamic
Period are the best amongst you in Islam if they comprehend (the Islamic religion).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 211
A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "I am ruined!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "What is the matter with you?"
He said, "I had sexual relation with my wife (while I was fasting) in Ramadan." The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
"Have you got enough to manumit a slave?" He said, "No." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Can you fast for two
successive months?" The man said, "No." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Can you feed sixty poor persons?" The
man said, "No." Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, "Sit down," and he sat down. Afterwards an 'Irq, i.e., a
big basket containing dates was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, "Take this and
give it in charity." The man said, "To poorer people than we?" On that, the Prophet (ﷺ) smiled till his
premolar teeth became visible, and then told him, "Feed your family with it." (See Hadith No. 157,
Vol 3)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 84, Hadith 2
Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban
and from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade mulamasa
and munabadha.
Malik said, "Mulamasa is when a man can feel a
garment but is not allowed to unfold it or examine what is in it, or
he buys by night and does not know what is in it. Munabadha is that a
man throws his garment to another, and the other throws his garment
without either of them making any inspection. Each of them says, 'this
is for this. 'This is what is forbidden of mulamasa and munabadha."
Malik said that selling bundles with a list of their contents
was different from the sale of the cloak concealed in a bag or the
cloth folded up and such things. What made it different was that it
was a common practice and it was what people were familiar with, and
what people had done in the past, and it was still among the permitted
transactions and trading of people in which they saw no harm because
in the sale of bundles with a list of contents without undoing them,
an uncertain transaction was not intended and it did not resemble
mulamasa.
Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 76