Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

I heard a man reciting a verse (of the Holy Qur’an) but I had heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting it differently.
So, I caught hold of the man by the hand and took him to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) who said, “Both of you are
right.” Shu`ba, the sub-narrator said, “I think he said to them, “Don’t differ, for the nations before you
differed and perished (because of their differences). ”

Two persons, a Muslim and a Jew, quarreled. The Muslim said, “By Him Who gave Muhammad
superiority over all the people! The Jew said, “By Him Who gave Moses superiority over all the
people!” At that the Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew on the face. The Jew went to the
Prophet and informed him of what had happened between him and the Muslim. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent for
the Muslim and asked him about it. The Muslim informed him of the event. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Do not
give me superiority over Moses, for on the Day of Resurrection all the people will fall unconscious
and I will be one of them, but I will. be the first to gain consciousness, and will see Moses standing
and holding the side of the Throne (of Allah). I will not know whether (Moses) has also fallen
unconscious and got up before me, or Allah has exempted him from that stroke.”

While Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) was sitting, a Jew came and said, “O Abul Qasim! One of your companions has
slapped me on my face.” The Prophet (ﷺ) asked who that was. He replied that he was one of the Ansar.
The Prophet (ﷺ) sent for him, and on his arrival, he asked him whether he had beaten the Jew. He (replied
in the affirmative and) said, “I heard him taking an oath in the market saying, ‘By Him Who gave
Moses superiority over all the human beings.’ I said, ‘O wicked man! (Has Allah given Moses
superiority) even over Muhammad I became furious and slapped him over his face.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
“Do not give a prophet superiority over another, for on the Day of Resurrection all the people will fall
unconscious and I will be the first to emerge from the earth, and will see Moses standing and holding
one of the legs of the Throne. I will not know whether Moses has fallen unconscious or the first
unconsciousness was sufficient for him.”

A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. The girl was asked who had crushed her head,
and some names were mentioned before her, and when the name of the Jew was mentioned, she
nodded agreeing. The Jew was captured and when he confessed, the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that his head be
crushed between two stones.

A man was often cheated in buying. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, “When you buy something, say (to the
seller), No cheating.” The man used to say so thenceforward .

A man manumitted a slave and he had no other property than that, so the Prophet (ﷺ) canceled the
manumission (and sold the slave for him). Nu’aim bin Al-Nahham bought the slave from him.

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Procrastination (delay) in repaying debts by a wealthy person is injustice.”

While I was in the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) in one of his Ghazawat, he asked, “What is wrong with
your camel? Will you sell it?” I replied in the affirmative and sold it to him. When he reached Medina,
I took the camel to him in the morning and he paid me its price.

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and demanded his debts and used harsh words. The companions of the
Prophet wanted to harm him, but the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Leave him, as the creditor (owner of the right) has
the right to speak.”

When we were with Ibrahim, we talked about mortgaging in deals of Salam. Ibrahim narrated from
Aswad that `Aisha had said, “The Prophet (ﷺ) bought some foodstuff on credit from a Jew and mortgaged
an iron armor to him.”