Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) while he was in the Mosque. (Mas`ar thinks, that Jabir went in the forenoon.)
After the Prophet (ﷺ) told me to pray two rak`at, he repaid me the debt he owed me and gave me an extra
amount.

My father was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Uhud, and he was in debt. His creditors
demanded their rights persistently. I went to the Prophet (and informed him about it). He told them to
take the fruits of my garden and exempt my father from the debts but they refused to do so. So, the
Prophet did not give them my garden and told me that he would come to me the next morning. He
came to us early in the morning and wandered among the date-palms and invoked Allah to bless their
fruits. I then plucked the dates and paid the creditors, and there remained some of the dates for us.

When my father died he owed a Jew thirty Awsuq (of dates). I requested him to give me respite for
repaying but he refused. I requested Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) to intercede with the Jew. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) went to
the Jew and asked him to accept the fruits of my trees in place of the debt but the Jew refused. Allah’s
Apostle entered the garden of the date-palms, wandering among the trees and ordered me (saying),
“Pluck (the fruits) and give him his due.” So, I plucked the fruits for him after the departure of Allah’s
Apostle and gave his thirty Awsuq, and still had seventeen Awsuq extra for myself. Jabir said: I went
to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) to inform of what had happened, but found him praying the `Asr prayer. After the
prayer I told him about the extra fruits which remained. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) told me to inform (`Umar) Ibn
Al-Khattab about it. When I went to `Umar and told him about it, `Umar said, “When Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
walked in your garden, I was sure that Allah would definitely bless it.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used to invoke Allah in the prayer saying, “O Allah, I seek refuge with you from all
sins, and from being in debt.” Someone said, O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! (I see you) very often you seek refuge
with Allah from being in debt. He replied, “If a person is in debt, he tells lies when he speaks, and
breaks his promises when he promises.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If someone leaves some property, it will be for the inheritors, and if he leaves some
weak offspring, it will be for us to support them.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “I am closer to the believers than their selves in this world and in the Hereafter, and
if you like, you can read Allah’s Statement: “The Prophet (ﷺ) is closer to the believers than their own
selves.” (33.6) So, if a true believer dies and leaves behind some property, it will be for his inheritors
(from the father’s side), and if he leaves behind some debt to be paid or needy offspring, then they
should come to me as I am the guardian of the deceased.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, I will drive some people out from my (sacred)
Fount on the Day of Resurrection as strange camels are expelled from a private trough.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the sale of Muzabana, i.e. selling of fruits for fruits, except in the case of
‘Araya; he allowed the owners of ‘Araya such kind of sale.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “May Allah be merciful to the mother of Ishmael! If she had left the water of
Zamzam (fountain) as it was, (without constructing a basin for keeping the water), (or said, “If she had
not taken handfuls of its water”), it would have been a flowing stream. Jurhum (an Arab tribe) came
and asked her, ‘May we settle at your dwelling?’ She said, ‘Yes, but you have no right to possess the
water.’ They agreed.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “There are three types of people whom Allah will neither talk to, nor look at, on the
Day of Resurrection. (They are):
-1. A man who takes an oath falsely that he has been offered for his goods so much more than what he
is given,
-2. a man who takes a false oath after the `Asr prayer in order to grab a Muslim’s property, and
-3. a man who withholds his superfluous water. Allah will say to him, “Today I will withhold My
Grace from you as you withheld the superfluity of what you had not created.”