Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

I recommend that people reduce the proportion of what they bequeath by will to the fourth (of the
whole legacy), for Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “One-third, yet even one third is too much.”

I fell sick and the Prophet (ﷺ) paid me a visit. I said to him, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I invoke Allah that He
may not let me expire in the land whence I migrated (i.e. Mecca).” He said, “May Allah give you
health and let the people benefit by you.” I said, “I want to will my property, and I have only one
daughter and I want to will half of my property (to be given in charity).” He said,” Half is too much.” I
said, “Then I will one third.” He said, “One-third, yet even one-third is too much.” (The narrator
added, “So the people started to will one third of their property and that was Permitted for them.”)

(the wife of the Prophet) `Utba bin Abi Waqqas entrusted (his son) to his brother Sa`d bin Abi
Waqqas saying, “The son of the slave-girl of Zam`a is my (illegal) son, take him into your custody.”
So during the year of the Conquest (of Mecca) Sa`d took the boy and said, “This is my brother’s son
whom my brother entrusted to me.” ‘Abu bin Zam’s got up and said, “He is my brother and the son of
the slave girl of my father and was born on my father’s bed.” Then both of them came to Allah’s
Apostle and Sa`d said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! This is my brother’s son whom my brother entrusted to
me.”
Then ‘Abu bin Zam`a got up and said, “This is my brother and the son of the slave-girl of my father.”
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “O Abu bin Zam`a! This boy is for you as the boy belongs to the bed (where he
was born), and for the adulterer is the stone (i.e. deprivation).” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said to his wife
Sauda bint Zam`a, “Screen yourself from this boy,” when he saw the boy’s resemblance to `Utba.
Since then the boy did not see Sauda till he died.

A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. She was asked, “Who has done so to you, soand-
so? So-and-so?” Till the name of the Jew was mentioned, whereupon she nodded (in agreement).
So the Jew was brought and was questioned till he confessed. The Prophet (ﷺ) then ordered that his head
be crushed with stones.

The custom (in old days) was that the property of the deceased would be inherited by his offspring; as
for the parents (of the deceased), they would inherit by the will of the deceased. Then Allah cancelled
from that custom whatever He wished and fixed for the male double the amount inherited by the
female, and for each parent a sixth (of the whole legacy) and for the wife an eighth or a fourth and for
the husband a half or a fourth.

A man asked the Prophet, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! What kind of charity is the best?” He replied. “To give
in charity when you are healthy and greedy hoping to be wealthy and afraid of becoming poor. Don’t
delay giving in charity till the time when you are on the death bed when you say, ‘Give so much to soand-
so and so much to so-and so,’ and at that time the property is not yours but it belongs to so-and-so
(i.e. your inheritors).

`Urwa said, “Aisha told me that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used to examine the women
emigrants. We have been told also that when Allah revealed the order that the Muslims should return
to the pagans what they had spent on their wives who emigrated (after embracing Islam) and that the
Muslims should not keep unbelieving women as their wives, `Umar divorced two of his wives,
Qariba, the daughter of Abu Umayyah and the daughter of Jarwal Al-Khuza`i. Later on Mu`awiya
married Qariba and Abu Jahm married the other.”
When the pagans refused to pay what the Muslims had spent on their wives, Allah revealed: “And if
any of your wives have gone from you to the unbelievers and you have an accession (by the coming
over of a woman from the other side) (then pay to those whose wives have gone) the equivalent of
what they had spent (on their Mahr).” (60.11)
So, Allah ordered that the Muslim whose wife has gone, should be given, as a compensation of the
Mahr he had given to his wife, from the Mahr of the wives of the pagans who had emigrated deserting
their husbands.
We do not know any of the women emigrants who deserted Islam after embracing it. We have also
been told that Abu Basir bin Asid Ath-Thaqafi came to the Prophet (ﷺ) as a Muslim emigrant during the
truce. Al-Akhnas bin Shariq wrote to the Prophet (ﷺ) requesting him to return Abu Basir.

Aisha told me that Barirah came to seek her help in writing for emancipation and at that time she had
not paid any part of her price. `Aisha said to her, “Go to your masters and if they agree that I will pay
your price (and free you) on condition that your Wala’ will be for me, I will pay the money.” Barirah
told her masters about that, but they refused, and said, “If `Aisha wants to do a favor she could, but
your Wala will be for us.” Aisha informed Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) of that and he said to her, “Buy and
manumit Barirah as the Wala’ will go to the manumitted.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) mentioned a person who asked an Israeli man to lend him one-thousand Dinars, and
the Israeli lent him the sum for a certain fixed period.

While I was riding a (slow) and tired camel, the Prophet (ﷺ) passed by and beat it and prayed for Allah’s
Blessings for it. The camel became so fast as it had never been before. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said, “Sell it
to me for one Uqiyya (of gold).” I said, “No.” He again said, “Sell it to me for one Uqiyya (of gold).” I
sold it and stipulated that I should ride it to my house. When we reached (Medina) I took that camel to
the Prophet (ﷺ) and he gave me its price. I returned home but he sent for me (and when I went to him) he
said, “I will not take your camel. Take your camel as a gift for you.” (Various narrations are
mentioned here with slight variations in expressions relating the condition that Jabir had the right to
ride the sold camel up to Medina).