Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

that his father took him to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and said, “I have given this son of mine a slave.” The
Prophet asked, “Have you given all your sons the like?” He replied in the negative. The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
“Take back your gift then.”

That his father said, “One day I was sitting with some of the Prophet’s companions on the way to
Mecca. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) was ahead of us. All of my companions were in the state of Ihram while I was
a non-Muhrim. They saw an onager while I was busy repairing my shoes, so they did not tell me about
it but they wished I had seen it. By chance I looked up and saw it. So, I turned to the horse, saddled it
and rode on it, forgetting to take the spear and the whip. I asked them if they could hand over to me
the whip and the spear but they said, ‘No, by Allah, we shall not help you in that in any way.’ I became
angry and got down from the horse, picked up both the things and rode the horse again. I attacked the
onager and slaughtered it, and brought it (after it had been dead). They took it (cooked some of it) and
started eating it, but they doubted whether it was allowed for them to eat it or not, as they were in the
state of Ihram. So, we proceeded and I hid with me one of its fore-legs. When we met Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
and asked him about the case, he asked, ‘Do you have a portion of it with you?’ I replied in the
affirmative and gave him that fleshy foreleg which he ate completely while he was in the state of
Ihram .

I heard An-Nu`man bin Bashir on the pulpit saying, “My father gave me a gift but `Amra bint Rawaha
(my mother) said that she would not agree to it unless he made Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as a witness to it. So,
my father went to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and said, ‘I have given a gift to my son from `Amra bint Rawaha,
but she ordered me to make you as a witness to it, O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)!’ Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) asked, ‘Have
you given (the like of it) to everyone of your sons?’ He replied in the negative. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said,
‘Be afraid of Allah, and be just to your children.’ My father then returned and took back his gift.”

Once Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) visited us in this house of ours and asked for something to drink. We milked one
of our sheep and mixed it with water from this well of ours and gave it to him. Abu Bakr was sitting
on his left side and `Umar in front of him and a bedouin on his right side. When Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
finished, `Umar said to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) “Here is Abu Bakr.” But Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) gave the remaining
milk to the bedouin and said twice, “The (persons on the) right side! So, start from the right side.”
Anas added, “It is a Sunna (the Prophet’s traditions)” and repeated it thrice.

Ubaidullah bin `Abdullah told me that `Aisha had said, “When the Prophet (ﷺ) became sick and his
condition became serious, he requested his wives to allow him to be treated in my house, and they
allowed him. He came out leaning on two men while his feet were dragging on the ground. He was
walking between Al-`Abbas and another man.” ‘Ubaidullah said, “When I informed Ibn `Abbas of
what `Aisha had said, he asked me whether I knew who was the second man whom `Aisha had not
named. I replied in the negative. He said, ‘He was `Ali bin Abi Talib.”

We chased a rabbit at Mar-al-Zahran and the people ran after it but were exhausted. I overpowered
and caught it, and gave it to Abu Talha who slaughtered it and sent its hip or two thighs to Allah’s
Apostle. (The narrator confirms that he sent two thighs). The Prophet (ﷺ) accepted that. (The sub-narrator
asked Anas, “Did the Prophet; eat from it?” Anas replied, “He ate from it.”)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “One who takes back his gift (which he has already given) is like a dog that
swallows its vomit.”

An onager was presented to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) at the place called Al-Abwa’ or Waddan, but Allah’s
Apostle rejected it. When the Prophet (ﷺ) noticed the signs of sorrow on the giver’s face he said, “We
have not rejected your gift, but we are in the state of Ihram.” (i.e. if we were not in a state of Ihram we
would have accepted your gift, Fath-ul-Bari page 130, Vol. 6)

Once I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I have no property except what has been given to me by Az-Zubair
(i.e. her husband). May I give in charity?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Give in charity and do not withhold it;
otherwise Allah will withhold it back from you . ”

The people used to look forward for the days of my (`Aisha’s) turn to send gifts to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) in
order to please him.