Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

That he was in the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) on a journey, riding a troublesome camel belonging to
`Umar. The camel used to go ahead of the Prophet, so Ibn `Umar’s father would say, “O `Abdullah!
No one should go ahead of the Prophet.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, “Sell it to me.” `Umar said to the
Prophet “It is for you.” So, he bought it and said, “O `Abdullah! It is for you, and you can do with it
what you like.”

Narrated Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) that she manumitted her slave-girl and the Prophet (ﷺ) said to her, “You would have got more reward if you had given the slave-girl to one of your maternal uncles.”

We were in the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) on a journey, and I was riding a troublesome camel. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked ‘Umar to sell that camel to him. So, ‘Umar sold it to him. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said, “O ‘Abdullah! The camel is for you.”

I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I have two neighbors; which of them should I give a gift to?” The Prophet (ﷺ)
said, “(Give) to the one whose door is nearer to you.”

That he heard As-Sa’b bin Jath-thama Al-Laithi, who was one of the companions of the Prophet,
saying that he gave the meat of an onager to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) while he was at a place called Al-Abwa’
or Waddan, and was in a state of Ihram. The Prophet (ﷺ) did not accept it. When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw the signs
of sorrow on As-Sa’b’s face because of not accepting his present, he said (to him), “We are not
returning your present, but we are in the state of Ihram.” (See Hadith No. 747)

The Prophet (ﷺ) appointed a man from the tribe of Al-Azd, called Ibn ‘Utbiyya for collecting the Zakat.
When he returned he said, “This (i.e. the Zakat) is for you and this has been given to my as a present.”
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Why hadn’t he stayed in his father’s or mother’s house to see whether he would be
given presents or not? By Him in Whose Hands my life is, whoever takes something from the
resources of the Zakat (unlawfully) will be carrying it on his neck on the Day of Resurrection; if it be
a camel, it will be grunting; if a cow, it will be mooing; and if a sheep, it will be bleating.” The
Prophet then raised his hands till we saw the whiteness of his armpits, and he said thrice, “O Allah!
Haven’t I conveyed Your Message (to them)?”

The wives of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) were in two groups. One group consisted of `Aisha, Hafsa, Safiyya and
Sauda; and the other group consisted of Um Salama and the other wives of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). The
Muslims knew that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) loved `Aisha, so if any of them had a gift and wished to give to
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), he would delay it, till Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) had come to `Aisha’s home and then he would
send his gift to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) in her home. The group of Um Salama discussed the matter together
and decided that Um Salama should request Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) to tell the people to send their gifts to him
in whatever wife’s house he was. Um Salama told Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) of what they had said, but he did not
reply.
Then they (those wives) asked Um Salama about it. She said, “He did not say anything to me.” They
asked her to talk to him again. She talked to him again when she met him on her day, but he gave no
reply. When they asked her, she replied that he had given no reply. They said to her, “Talk to him till
he gives you a reply.” When it was her turn, she talked to him again. He then said to her, “Do not hurt
me regarding Aisha, as the Divine Inspirations do not come to me on any of the beds except that of
Aisha.” On that Um Salama said, “I repent to Allah for hurting you.” Then the group of Um Salama
called Fatima, the daughter of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and sent her to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) to say to him, “Your
wives request to treat them and the daughter of Abu Bakr on equal terms.”
Then Fatima conveyed the message to him. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “O my daughter! Don’t you love whom
I love?” She replied in the affirmative and returned and told them of the situation. They requested her
to go to him again but she refused. They then sent Zainab bint Jahsh who went to him and used harsh
words saying, “Your wives request you to treat them and the daughter of Ibn Abu Quhafa on equal
terms.” On that she raised her voice and abused `Aisha to her face so much so that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
looked at `Aisha to see whether she would retort. `Aisha started replying to Zainab till she silenced
her. The Prophet (ﷺ) then looked at `Aisha and said, “She is really the daughter of Abu Bakr.”

When I went to Thumama bin `Abdullah, he gave me some perfume and said that Anas would not
reject the gifts of perfume. Anas said: The Prophet (ﷺ) used not to reject the gifts of perfume.

When the delegates of the tribe of Hawazin came to the Prophet (ﷺ) he stood up amongst the people,
Glorified and Praised Allah as He deserved, and said, “Then after: Your brethren have come to you
with repentance and I see it logical to return to them their captives; so whoever amongst you likes to
do that as a favor, then he can do it, and whoever of you like to stick to his share till we give him his
right from the very first Fai (war booty) (1) which Allah will bestow on us, then (he can do so).” The
people replied, “We do that (to return the captives) willingly as a favor for your sake.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used to accept gifts and used to give something in return.