Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

My mother asked my father to present me a gift from his property; and he gave it to me after some
hesitation. My mother said that she would not be satisfied unless the Prophet (ﷺ) was made a witness to it.
I being a young boy, my father held me by the hand and took me to the Prophet (ﷺ) . He said to the
Prophet, “His mother, bint Rawaha, requested me to give this boy a gift.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Do you
have other sons besides him?” He said, “Yes.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Do not make me a witness for
injustice.” Narrated Ash-Shu`bi that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “I will not become a witness for injustice.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “The Prophet (ﷺ) Abraham migrated with Sarah. The people (of the town where they
migrated) gave her Ajar (i.e. Hajar). Sarah returned and said to Abraham, “Do you know that Allah
has humiliated that pagan and he has given a slave-girl for my service?”

I heard `Imran bin Husain saying, “The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘The best people are those living in my
generation, then those coming after them, and then those coming after (the second generation).”
`Imran said “I do not know whether the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned two or three generations after your present
generation. The Prophet (ﷺ) added, ‘There will be some people after you, who will be dishonest and will
not be trustworthy and will give witness (evidences) without being asked to give witness, and will
vow but will not fulfill their vows, and obesity will appear among them.”

Once I gave a horse (for riding) in Allah’s Cause. Later I saw it being sold. I asked Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
(whether I could buy it). He said, “Don’t buy it, for you should not get back what you have given in
charity.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The people of my generation are the best, then those who follow them, and then
whose who follow the latter. After that there will come some people whose witness will go ahead of
their oaths, and their oaths will go ahead of their witness.” Ibrahim (a sub-narrator) said, “We used to
be beaten for taking oaths by saying, ‘I bear witness by the Name of Allah or by the Covenant of
Allah.”

About the story of `Aisha and their narrations were similar attesting each other, when the liars said
what they invented about `Aisha, and the Divine Inspiration was delayed, Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) sent for `Ali
and Usama to consult them in divorcing his wife (i.e. `Aisha). Usama said, “Keep your wife, as we
know nothing about her except good.” Barirah said, “I cannot accuse her of any defect except that she
is still a young girl who sleeps, neglecting her family’s dough which the domestic goats come to eat
(i.e. she was too simpleminded to deceive her husband).” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Who can help me to
take revenge over the man who has harmed me by defaming the reputation of my family? By Allah, I
have not known about my family-anything except good, and they mentioned (i.e. accused) a man
about whom I did not know anything except good.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and Ubai bin Ka`b Al-Ansari went to the garden where Ibn Saiyad used to live. When
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) entered (the garden), he (i.e. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) ) started hiding himself behind the date108
palms as he wanted to hear secretly the talk of Ibn Saiyad before the latter saw him. Ibn Saiyad
wrapped with a soft decorated sheet was lying on his bed murmuring. Ibn Saiyad’s mother saw the
Prophet hiding behind the stems of the date-palms. She addressed Ibn Saiyad saying, “O Saf, this is
Muhammad.” Hearing that Ibn Saiyad stopped murmuring (or got cautious), the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If she
had left him undisturbed, he would have revealed his reality.” (See Hadith No. 290, Vol 4 for details)

The wife of Rifa`a Al-Qurazi came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, “I was Rifa`a’s wife, but he divorced me
and it was a final irrevocable divorce. Then I married `Abdur-Rahman bin Az-Zubair but he is
impotent.” The Prophet (ﷺ) asked her ‘Do you want to remarry Rifa`a? You cannot unless you had a
complete sexual relation with your present husband.” Abu Bakr was sitting with Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and
Khalid bin Sa`id bin Al-`As was at the door waiting to be admitted. He said, “O Abu Bakr! Do you
hear what this (woman) is revealing frankly before the Prophet (ﷺ) ?”

`Uqba married the daughter of Abu Ihab bin `Aziz, and then a woman came and said, “I suckled
`Uqba and his wife.” `Uqba said to her, “I do not know that you have suckled me, and you did not
inform me.” He then sent someone to the house of Abu Ihab to inquire about that but they did not
know that she had suckled their daughter. Then `Uqba went to the Prophet (ﷺ) in Medina and asked him
about it. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, “How (can you keep your wife) after it has been said (that both of
you were suckled by the same woman)?” So, he divorced her and she was married to another
(husband).

People were (sometimes) judged by the revealing of a Divine Inspiration during the lifetime of Allah’s
Apostle but now there is no longer any more (new revelation). Now we judge you by the deeds you
practice publicly, so we will trust and favor the one who does good deeds in front of us, and we will
not call him to account about what he is really doing in secret, for Allah will judge him for that; but
we will not trust or believe the one who presents to us with an evil deed even if he claims that his
intentions were good.