Category:The Book of Oaths in Sahih Muslim

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1. Sahl Bin Abu Hathma and Rafi Bin Khadij reported that Abdullah Bin Sahl Bin Zaid and Muhayisa Bin Massuod Bin Zaid went out and as they reached Khaibar they were separated
2. Thereupon he said to them Are you prepared to take fifty oaths so that you may be entitled to blood wit of your companion or your man who has murdered They said How can we take an oath on a matter which we have not witnessed He the Holy Prophet said Then the Jews will exonerate themselves by fifty oaths
3. Anas Bin Malik reported There came to Allah Messenger eight persons from the tribe of Ukl but with this addition that he did not cauterise the wounds which hid been inflicted upon them while punishing them
4. The rest of the hadith is the same but with this addition There were by his the Prophets side about twenty young men of the Ansar he sent them behind them culprits and he also sent along with them one expert in following the track so that he might trace their footprints
5. He the man who lost his teeth referred the matter to Allah Messenger and he said What do you want me to do Do you ask me that I should order him to put his hand in your mouth and you should bite it as the camel bites If you want retaliation then the only way out is that you put your hand in his mouth allow him to bite that and then draw it away
6. Safwan Bin Yala Bin Munya reported on the authority of his father that there came to Allah Apostle a person who had bitten the hand of another person and who had withdrawn his hand and as a result thereof his foreteeth had fallen those which had bitten
7. Massuod reported Allah Messenger stood up and said By Him besides Whom there is no god but He the blood of a Muslim who bears the testimony that there is no god but Allah and I am His Messenger may be lawfully shed only in case of three persons the one who abandons Islam and deserts the community Ahmad one of the narrators is doubtful whether the Prophet used the word li Aljamaah or Aljamaah and the married adulterer and life for life
8. Thereupon he said Your blood your property Muhammad one of the narrators said I think he also said this and your honour are sacred to you like the sacredness of this day of yours in this city of yours and in this month of yours
9. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Bakra through another chain of transmitters and the words are Allah Messenger addressed us on the day of Nahr Sacrifice and said What day is this And the rest of the hadith is the same except that he did not make mention of your honour and also did not make mention of this He then turned his attention towards two rams and what follows and in a hadith the words pertaining to sacred ness are recorded in this way Like the sacredness of this day of yours in this month of yours in this city of yours to the day when you will meet your Lord
10. He the Holy Prophet said Why did you kill him He said I and he won striking down the leaves of a tree and he abused me and enraged me and to I struck his head with an axe and killed him whereupon Allah Messenger said Have you anything with you to pay blood wit on your behalf He said I do not possess any property but this robe of mine and this axe of mine
11. I caught hold of him according to your command whereupon Allah Messenger said Dont you like that he should take upon him the burden of your sin and the sin of your companion your brother He said Allah Apostle why not The Messenger of Allah may peace be
12. And the woman about whom the judgment was given for compensation died and thereupon Allah Messenger gave judgment that her inheritance goes to her sons and her husband and the payment of the blood wit lies with the family of one who struck her
13. One of the persons amongst the relatives of the murderer said Should we pay indemnity for one who neither ate nor drank nor made any noise who was just like a nonentity Thereupon Allah Messenger remarked He speaks rhymed phrases like the people of the desert
14. Some of her offenders relatives said Should we make compensation for one who never ate nor drank nor made any noise who was like a nonentity Thereupon Allah Messenger said He was talking rhymed phrases like the rhymed phrases of desert Arabs
15. nor did I speak in such terms and the narrator did not say on my own behalf or on behalf of someone else
16. Abu Huraira reported Allah Messenger as saying He who takes an oath in the course of which he says By Lat and AlUzza he should say There is no god but Allah and that if anyone says to his friend Come and I will gamble with you he should pay sadaqa
17. So far as I am concerned by Allah if He so wills I would not swear but if later on I would see better than it I would break the vow and expiate it and do that which is better
18. Abu Musa reported My friends sent me to Allah Messenger asking him to provide them with mounts as they were going along with him in jaish AlUsrah the army of destitutes or of meagre means or army setting out during the hard times and that is the occasion of the expedition of Tabuk I said Apostle of Allah my friends have sent me to you so that you may provide them with mounts
19. Abu Musa said I went along with them to my friends and said Verily Allah messenger has provided you with these animals for riding but by Allah I shall not leave you until some of you go along with me to him who had heard the talk of Allah Messenger then I asked him for you and his refusal for the first time and then his granting them to me subsequently so you should not think that I narrated to you something which he did not say
20. So Abu Musa went along withsome of the menfrom them until they came to those who had heard the words of Allah Messenger may peace be upon him and his refusal to provide them with animals and subsequently his granting the animals to them and they narrated to them exactly as Abu Masa had narrated to them
21. We went back to him and said Allah Messenger we came to you to provide us with riding animals and you took an oath that you would never equip us with mounts and then you have provided us with the riding beasts Allah Messenger have you forgotten Thereupon he said I swear by Allah that if Allah so wills I shall not swear an oath and then consider something else to be better than it without making atonement for my oath and doing the thing that is better
22. but he took an oath that he would not eat because of his children having gone to sleep without food He then gave precedence of breaking the vow and then expiating it and ate the food He then came to Allah s Messenger and made mention of that to him whereupon Allah Messenger may peace he upon him said He who took an oath and later on found something better than that should do that and expiate for breaking his vow
23. Tamim Bin Tarafa reported I heard Uodi Bin Hatim say that a person asked that and then narrated the hadith like one mentioned above but he made this addition Here are four hundred dirhams for you out of my gift
24. Abdulrahman Bin Samura reported that Allah Messenger said to me Abdulrahman Bin Samura dont ask for authority for if it is granted to you for asking for it you would be commissioned for it without having the support of Allah but if you are granted it without your asking for it
25. He one day said I will visit each one of them every night and every one of them will become pregnant and give birth to a male child who will be a horseman and fight in the cause of Allah
26. lbn Umar reported When Allah Apostle came back from the Battle of Hunain Umar asked Allah Messenger about the vow he had taken during the days of Ignorance that he would observe Itikaf for a day
27. He the narrator further said He took hold of a wood or something like it from the earth and said It freedom of a slave has not the reward evert equal to it but the fact that I heard Allah Messenger way peace be upon him say He who slaps his slave or beats him the expiation for it is that he should set him free
28. Abu Huraira reported Allah Messenger as saying When the slave of anyone amongst you prepares food for him and he serves him after having sat close to and undergoing the hardship of heat and smoke he should make him the slave sit along with him and make him eat along with him and if the food seems to run short then he should spare some portion for him from his own share another narrator Dawud said i
29. Abu Huraira reported Allah Apostle as saying He who emancipates his portion in a slave full emancipation may be secured for him out of his property if he has money if he has enough property to meet the required expenses but if he has not enough property the slave should be put to extra labour in order to earn money for buying his freedom but he should not be overburdened

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