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Hadith 34799
Yahya related to me from Malik that what he preferred of what he
had heard from the people of knowledge about a man or woman who vowed
to walk to the House of Allah, was that they fulfilled the oath when
performing umra, by walking until they had done say between Safa and
Marwa. When they had done say it was finished. If they vowed to walk
in the hajj, they walked until they came to Makka, then they walked
until they had finished all the rites.
Malik said, "Walking
is only for hajj or umra."
Muwatta Malik Book 22, Hadith 6
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Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, "I vowed
to walk, but I was struck by a pain in the kidney, so I rode until I
came to Makka. I questioned Ata ibn Abi Rabah and others, and they
said, 'You must sacrifice an animal.' When I came to Madina I
questioned the ulama there, and they ordered me to walk again from the
place from which I was unable to go on. So I walked."
Yahya
said that he had heard Malik say, "What is done among us regarding
someone who makes a vow to walk to the House of Allah, and then cannot
do it and so rides, is that he must return and walk from the place
from which he was unable to go on. If he cannot walk, he should walk
what he can and then ride, and he must sacrifice a camel, a cow, or a
sheep if that is all that he can find."
Malik, when asked
about a man who said to another, "I will carry you to the House of
Allah", answered, "If he intended to carry him on his shoulder, by
that he meant hardship and exhaustion to himself, and he does not have
to do that. Let him walk by foot and make sacrifice. If he did not
intend anything, let him do hajj and ride, and take the man on hajj
with him. That is because he said, 'I will carry you to the house of
Allah.' If the man refuses to do hajj with him, then there is nothing
against him, and what is demanded of him is cancelled."
Yahya
said that Malik was asked whether it was enough for a man who had made
a vow that he would walk to the House of Allah a certain (large)
number of times, or who had forbidden himself from talking to his
father and brother, if he did not fulfil a certain vow, and he had
taken upon himself, by the oath, something which he was incapable of
fulfilling in his lifetime, even though he were to try every year, to
fulfil only one or a (smaller) number of vows by Allah? Malik said,
"The only satisfaction for that that I know is fulfilling what he has
obliged himself to do. Let him walk for as long as he is able and draw
near Allah the Exalted by what he can of good." Muwatta Malik Book 22, Hadith 5
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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