Category: Q n A

Some men came to Sahl bin Sa`d to ask him about the pulpit. He replied, “Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) sent for a
woman (Sahl named her) (this message): ‘Order your slave carpenter to make pieces of wood (i.e. a
pulpit) for me so that I may sit on it while addressing the people.’ So, she ordered him to make it from
the tamarisk of the forest. He brought it to her and she sent it to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) . Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
ordered it to be placed in the mosque: so, it was put and he sat on it.

An Ansari woman said to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Shall I make something for you to sit
on, as I have a slave who is a carpenter?” He replied, “If you wish.” So, she got a pulpit made for him.
When it was Friday the Prophet (ﷺ) sat on that pulpit. The date-palm stem near which the Prophet (ﷺ) used to
deliver his sermons cried so much so that it was about to burst. The Prophet (ﷺ) came down from the
pulpit to the stem and embraced it and it started groaning like a child being persuaded to stop crying
and then it stopped crying. The Prophet (ﷺ) said,”It has cried because of (missing) what it use to hear of
the religions knowledge.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) bought food grains from a Jew on credit and mortgaged his armor to him.

I was with the Prophet (ﷺ) in a Ghazwa (Military Expedition) and my camel was slow and exhausted. The
Prophet came up to me and said, “O Jabir.” I replied, “Yes?” He said, “What is the matter with you?” I
replied, “My camel is slow and tired, so I am left behind.” So, he got down and poked the camel with
his stick and then ordered me to ride. I rode the camel and it became so fast that I had to hold it from
going ahead of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) . He then asked me, have you got married?” I replied in the
affirmative. He asked, “A virgin or a matron?” I replied, “I married a matron.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
“Why have you not married a virgin, so that you may play with her and she may play with you?” Jabir
replied, “I have sisters (young in age) so I liked to marry a matron who could collect them all and
comb their hair and look after them.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “You will reach, so when you have arrived (at
home), I advise you to associate with your wife (that you may have an intelligent son).” Then he asked
me, “Would you like to sell your camel?” I replied in the affirmative and the Prophet (ﷺ) purchased it for
one Uqiya of gold. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) reached before me and I reached in the morning, and when I went
to the mosque, I found him at the door of the mosque. He asked me, “Have you arrived just now?” I
replied in the affirmative. He said, “Leave your camel and come into (the mosque) and pray two
rak`at.” I entered and offered the prayer. He told Bilal to weigh and give me one Uqiya of gold. So
Bilal weighed for me fairly and I went away. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent for me and I thought that he would
return to me my camel which I hated more than anything else. But the Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, “Take your
camel as well as its price.”

`Ukaz, Majanna and Dhul-Majaz were markets in the Pre-Islamic period. When the people embraced
Islam they considered it a sin to trade there. So, the following Holy Verse came:– ‘There is no harm
for you if you seek of the bounty of your Lord (Allah) in the Hajj season.” (2.198) Ibn `Abbas recited
it like this.

Here (i.e. in Mecca) there was a man called Nawwas and he had camels suffering from the disease of
excessive and unquenchable thirst. Ibn `Umar went to the partner of Nawwas and bought those
camels. The man returned to Nawwas and told him that he had sold those camels. Nawwas asked him,
“To whom have you sold them?” He replied, “To such and such Sheikh.” Nawwas said, “Woe to you;
By Allah, that Sheikh was Ibn `Umar.” Nawwas then went to Ibn `Umar and said to him, “My partner
sold you camels suffering from the disease of excessive thirst and he had not known you.” Ibn `Umar
told him to take them back. When Nawwas went to take them, Ibn `Umar said to him, “Leave them
there as I am happy with the decision of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) that there is no oppression . ”

We set out with Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) in the year of Hunain, (the Prophet (ﷺ) gave me an armor). I sold that
armor and bought a garden in the region of the tribe of Bani Salama and that was the first property I
got after embracing Islam.

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “The example of a good companion (who sits with you) in comparison with a
bad one, is like that of the musk seller and the blacksmith’s bellows (or furnace); from the first you
would either buy musk or enjoy its good smell while the bellows would either burn your clothes or
your house, or you get a bad nasty smell thereof.”

Abu Taiba cupped Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) so he ordered that he be paid one Sa of dates and ordered his
masters to reduce his tax (as he was a slave and had to pay a tax to them).

Once the Prophet (ﷺ) got his blood out (medically) and paid that person who had done it. If it had been
illegal, the Prophet (ﷺ) would not have paid him.