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Abu bin Zam`a and Sa`d bin Abi Waqqas carried the case of their claim of the (ownership) of the son
of a slave-girl of Zam`a before the Prophet. Sa`d said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! My brother, before his
death, told me that when I would return (to Mecca), I should search for the son of the slave-girl of
Zam`a and take him into my custody as he was his son.” ‘Abu bin Zam`a said, ‘the is my brother and
the son of the slave-girl of my father, and was born or my father’s bed.” The Prophet (ﷺ) noticed a
resemblance between `Utba and the boy but he said, “O ‘Abu bin Zam`a! You will get this boy, as the
son goes to the owner of the bed. You, Sauda, screen yourself from the boy.”

When `Abdullah (my father) died, he left behind children and debts. I asked the lenders to put down
some of his debt, but they refused, so I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) to intercede with them, yet they refused.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to me), “Classify your dates into their different kinds: ‘Adha bin Zaid, Lean and
‘Ajwa, each kind alone and call all the creditors and wait till I come to you.” I did so and the Prophet (ﷺ)
came and sat beside the dates and started measuring to each his due till he paid them fully, and the
amount of dates remained as it was before, as if he had not touched them.
(On another occasion) I took part in one of Ghazawat among with the Prophet (ﷺ) and I was riding one of
our camels. The camel got tired and was lagging behind the others. The Prophet (ﷺ) hit it on its back. He
said, “Sell it to me, and you have the right to ride it till Medina.” When we approached Medina, I took
the permission from the Prophet (ﷺ) to go to my house, saying, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I have newly
married.” The Prophet (ﷺ) asked, “Have you married a virgin or a matron (a widow or divorcee)?” I said,
“I have married a matron, as `Abdullah (my father) died and left behind daughters small in their ages,
so I married a matron who may teach them and bring them up with good manners.” The Prophet (ﷺ) then
said (to me), “Go to your family.” When I went there and told my maternal uncle about the selling of
the camel, he admonished me for it. On that I told him about its slowness and exhaustion and about
what the Prophet (ﷺ) had done to the camel and his hitting it. When the Prophet (ﷺ) arrived, I went to him
with the camel in the morning and he gave me its price, the camel itself, and my share from the war
booty as he gave the other people.

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) sent horsemen to Najd and they arrested and brought a man called Thumama bin
Uthal, the chief of Yamama, and they fastened him to one of the pillars of the Mosque. When Allah’s
Apostle came up to him; he asked, “What have you to say, O Thumama?” He replied, “I have good
news, O Muhammad!” Abu Huraira narrated the whole narration which ended with the order of the
Prophet “Release him!”

When `Abdullah (my father) died, he left behind children and debts. I asked the lenders to put down
some of his debt, but they refused, so I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) to intercede with them, yet they refused.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to me), “Classify your dates into their different kinds: ‘Adha bin Zaid, Lean and
‘Ajwa, each kind alone and call all the creditors and wait till I come to you.” I did so and the Prophet (ﷺ)
came and sat beside the dates and started measuring to each his due till he paid them fully, and the
amount of dates remained as it was before, as if he had not touched them.
(On another occasion) I took part in one of Ghazawat among with the Prophet (ﷺ) and I was riding one of
our camels. The camel got tired and was lagging behind the others. The Prophet (ﷺ) hit it on its back. He
said, “Sell it to me, and you have the right to ride it till Medina.” When we approached Medina, I took
the permission from the Prophet (ﷺ) to go to my house, saying, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I have newly
married.” The Prophet (ﷺ) asked, “Have you married a virgin or a matron (a widow or divorcee)?” I said,
“I have married a matron, as `Abdullah (my father) died and left behind daughters small in their ages,
so I married a matron who may teach them and bring them up with good manners.” The Prophet (ﷺ) then
said (to me), “Go to your family.” When I went there and told my maternal uncle about the selling of
the camel, he admonished me for it. On that I told him about its slowness and exhaustion and about
what the Prophet (ﷺ) had done to the camel and his hitting it. When the Prophet (ﷺ) arrived, I went to him
with the camel in the morning and he gave me its price, the camel itself, and my share from the war
booty as he gave the other people.

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent some horsemen to Najd and they arrested and brought a man called Thumama bin
Uthal from the tribe of Bani Hanifa, and they fastened him to one of the pillars of the Mosque.

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, “I am often betrayed in bargaining.” The Prophet (ﷺ) advised him,
“When you buy something, say (to the seller), ‘No deception.” The man used to say so afterwards.

That `Abdullah bin Abi Hadrad Al-Aslami owed him some debt. Ka`b met him and caught hold of
him and they started talking and their voices grew loudest. The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by them and addressed
Ka`b, pointing out to him to reduce the debt to one half. So, Ka`b got one half of the debt and
exempted the debtor from the other half.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah has forbidden for you, (1) to be undutiful to your mothers, (2) to bury your
daughters alive, (3) to not to pay the rights of the others (e.g. charity, etc.) and (4) to beg of men
(begging). And Allah has hated for you (1) vain, useless talk, or that you talk too much about others,
(2) to ask too many questions, (in disputed religious matters) and (3) to waste the wealth (by
extravagance).

I was a blacksmith In the Pre-Islamic period of ignorance, and ‘Asi bin Wail owed me some money. I
went to him to demand it, but he said to me, “I will not pay you unless you reject faith in
Muhammad.” I replied, “By Allah, I will never disbelieve Muhammad till Allah let you die and then
resurrect you.” He said, “Then wait till I die and come to life again, for then I will be given property
and offspring and will pay your right.” So, thus revelation came: “Have you seen him who disbelieved
in Our signs and yet says, ‘I will be given property and offspring?’ ” (19.77)

I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying, “Everyone of you is a guardian, and responsible for what is in his
custody. The ruler is a guardian of his subjects and responsible for them; a husband is a guardian of
his family and is responsible for it; a lady is a guardian of her husband’s house and is responsible for
it, and a servant is a guardian of his master’s property and is responsible for it.” I heard that from
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and I think that the Prophet (ﷺ) also said, “A man is a guardian of is father’s property and
is responsible for it, so all of you are guardians and responsible for your wards and things under your
care.”