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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “A true good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan.”

Abu Rafi` sold a house to Sa`d bin Malik for four-hundred Mithqal of gold, and said, “If I had not
heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, ‘The neighbor has more right to be taken care of by his neighbor (than
anyone else),’ then I would not have sold it to you.”

The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) was in the form of good righteous
(true) dreams in his sleep. He never had a dream but that it came true like bright day light. He used to
go in seclusion (the cave of) Hira where he used to worship(Allah Alone) continuously for many
(days) nights. He used to take with him the journey food for that (stay) and then come back to (his
wife) Khadija to take his food like-wise again for another period to stay, till suddenly the Truth
descended upon him while he was in the cave of Hira. The angel came to him in it and asked him to
read. The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, “I do not know how to read.” (The Prophet (ﷺ) added), “The angel caught me
(forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it anymore. He then released me and again
asked me to read, and I replied, “I do not know how to read,” whereupon he caught me again and
pressed me a second time till I could not bear it anymore. He then released me and asked me again to
read, but again I replied, “I do not know how to read (or, what shall I read?).” Thereupon he caught
me for the third time and pressed me and then released me and said, “Read: In the Name of your Lord,
Who has created (all that exists). Has created man from a clot. Read and Your Lord is Most
Generous…up to….. ..that which he knew not.” (96.15)
Then Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) returned with the Inspiration, his neck muscles twitching with terror till he
entered upon Khadija and said, “Cover me! Cover me!” They covered him till his fear was over and
then he said, “O Khadija, what is wrong with me?” Then he told her everything that had happened and
said, ‘I fear that something may happen to me.” Khadija said, ‘Never! But have the glad tidings, for by
Allah, Allah will never disgrace you as you keep good reactions with your Kith and kin, speak the
truth, help the poor and the destitute, serve your guest generously and assist the deserving, calamityafflicted
ones.” Khadija then accompanied him to (her cousin) Waraqa bin Naufal bin Asad bin
`Abdul `Uzza bin Qusai. Waraqa was the son of her paternal uncle, i.e., her father’s brother, who
during the Pre-Islamic Period became a Christian and used to write the Arabic writing and used to
write of the Gospels in Arabic as much as Allah wished him to write. He was an old man and had lost
his eyesight. Khadija said to him, “O my cousin! Listen to the story of your nephew.” Waraqa asked,
“O my nephew! What have you seen?” The Prophet (ﷺ) described whatever he had seen.
Waraqa said, “This is the same Namus (i.e., Gabriel, the Angel who keeps the secrets) whom Allah
had sent to Moses. I wish I were young and could live up to the time when your people would turn
you out.” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) asked, “Will they turn me out?” Waraqa replied in the affirmative and said:
“Never did a man come with something similar to what you have brought but was treated with
hostility. If I should remain alive till the day when you will be turned out then I would support you
strongly.” But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was also paused for a while
and the Prophet (ﷺ) became so sad as we have heard that he intended several times to throw himself from
the tops of high mountains and every time he went up the top of a mountain in order to throw himself
down, Gabriel would appear before him and say, “O Muhammad! You are indeed Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) in
truth” whereupon his heart would become quiet and he would calm down and would return home. And
whenever the period of the coming of the inspiration used to become long, he would do as before, but
when he used to reach the top of a mountain, Gabriel would appear before him and say to him what he
had said before. (Ibn `Abbas said regarding the meaning of: ‘He it is that Cleaves the daybreak (from
the darkness)’ (6.96) that Al-Asbah. means the light of the sun during the day and the light of the
moon at night).

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) appointed a man called Ibn Al-Lutabiyya to collect the Zakat from Bani Sulaim’s
tribe. When he returned, the Prophet (ﷺ) called him to account. He said (to the Prophet, ‘This is your
money, and this has been given to me as a gift.” On that, Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Why didn’t you stay in
your father’s and mother’s house to see whether you will be given gifts or not if you are telling the
truth?” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) addressed us, and after praising and glorifying Allah, he said: “Amma
Ba’du”, I employ a man from among you to manage some affair of what Allah has put under my
custody, and then he comes to me and says, ‘This is your money and this has been given to me as a
gift. Why didn’t he stay in his father’s and mother’s home to see whether he will be given gifts or not?
By Allah, not anyone of you takes a thing unlawfully but he will meet Allah on the Day of
Resurrection, carrying that thing. I do not want to see any of you carrying a grunting camel or a
mooing cow or a bleating sheep on meeting Allah.” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) raised both his hands till the
whiteness of his armpits became visible, and he said, “O Allah! Haven’t I have conveyed (Your
Message)?” The narrator added: My eyes witnessed and my ears heard (that Hadith).

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The neighbor has more right to be taken care of by his neighbor (than anyone
else).” Some men said, “If one wants to buy a house for 20,000 Dirhams then there is no harm to play
a trick to deprive somebody of preemption by buying it (just on paper) with 20,000 Dirhams but
paying to the seller only 9,999 Dirhams in cash and then agree with the seller to pay only one Dinar in
cash for the rest of the price (i.e. 10,001 Dirhams). If the preemptor offers 20,000 Dirhams for the
house, he can buy it otherwise he has no right to buy it (by this trick he got out of preemption). If the
house proves to belong to somebody else other than the seller, the buyer should take back from the
seller what he has paid, i.e., 9,999 Dirhams and one Dinar, because if the house proves to belong to
somebody else, so the whole bargain (deal) is unlawful. If the buyer finds a defect in the house and it
does not belong to somebody other than the seller, the buyer may return it and receive 20,000 Dirhams
(instead of 9999 Dirham plus one Dinar) which he actually paid.’ Abu `Abdullah said, “So that man
allows (some people) the playing of tricks amongst the Muslims (although) the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘In
dealing with Muslims one should not sell them sick (animals) or bad things or stolen things.”

Al-Miswar bin Makhrama came and put his hand on my shoulder and I
accompanied him to Sa’d. Abu Rafi’ said to Al-Miswar, “Won’t you order
this (i.e. Sa’d) to buy my house which is in my yard?” Sa’d said, “I
will not offer more than four hundred in installments over a fixed
period.” Abu Rafi said, “I was offered five hundred cash but I
refused. Had I not heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, ‘A neighbor is more
entitled to receive the care of his neighbor,’ I would not have sold
it to you.” The narrator said, to Sufyan: Ma’mar did not say so.
Sufyan said, “But he did say so to me.” Some people said, “If someone
wants to sell a house and deprived somebody of the right of
preemption, he has the right to play a trick to render the preemption
invalid. And that is by giving the house to the buyer as a present and
marking its boundaries and giving it to him. The buyer then gives the
seller one-thousand Dirham as compensation in which case the preemptor
loses his right of preemption.”

Abu Rafi’ said that Sa’d offered him
four hundred Mithqal of gold for a house. Abu Rafi ‘ said, “If I had
not heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying, ‘A neighbor has more right to be
taken care of by his neighbor,’ then I would not have given it to
you.” Some people said, “If one has bought a portion of a house and
wants to cancel the right of preemption, he may give it as a present
to his little son and he will not be obliged to take an oath.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The one who takes back his gift is like a dog swallowing its own vomit, and we
(believers) should not act according to this bad example.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) has decreed that preemption is valid in all cases where the real estate concerned has not
been divided, but if the boundaries are established and the ways are made, then there is no preemption.
A man said, “Preemption is only for the neighbor,” and then he makes invalid what he has confirmed.
He said, “If someone wants to buy a house and being afraid that the neighbor (of the house) may buy
it through preemption, he buys one share out of one hundred shares of the house and then buys the rest
of the house, then the neighbor can only have the right of preemption for the first share but not for the
rest of the house; and the buyer may play such a trick in this case.”

`Umar bin Al-Khattab left for Sham, and when he reached a placed called Sargh, he came to know
that there was an outbreak of an epidemic (of plague) in Sham. Then `AbdurRahman bin `Auf told
him that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “If you hear the news of an outbreak of an epidemic (plague) in a
certain place, do not enter that place: and if the epidemic falls in a place while you are present in it, do
not leave that place to escape from the epidemic.” So `Umar returned from Sargh.