Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

When the Prophet (ﷺ) died and Abu Bakr became his successor and some of the Arabs reverted to
disbelief, `Umar said, “O Abu Bakr! How can you fight these people although Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, ‘I
have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,
‘and whoever said, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, Allah will save his property and
his life from me, unless (he does something for which he receives legal punishment) justly, and his
account will be with Allah?’ “Abu Bakr said, “By Allah! I will fight whoever differentiates between
prayers and Zakat as Zakat is the right to be taken from property (according to Allah’s Orders). By
Allah! If they refused to pay me even a kid they used to pay to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), I would fight with
them for withholding it.” `Umar said, “By Allah: It was nothing, but I noticed that Allah opened Abu
Bakr’s chest towards the decision to fight, therefore I realized that his decision was right.”

A man said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Shall we be punished for what we did in the Prelslamic Period of
ignorance?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever does good in Islam will not be punished for what he did in
the Pre-lslamic Period of ignorance and whoever does evil in Islam will be punished for his former
and later (bad deeds).

Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to `Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn
`Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) forbade
it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according
to the statement of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.’”

The Prophet. said, “The biggest of the great sins are: To join others in worship with Allah, to be
undutiful to one’s parents, and to give a false witness.” He repeated it thrice, or said, “….a false
statement,” and kept on repeating that warning till we wished he would stop saying it. (See Hadith
No.7, Vol. 8)

A bedouin came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! What are the biggest sins?: The Prophet (ﷺ)
said, “To join others in worship with Allah.” The bedouin said, “What is next?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “To
be undutiful to one’s parents.” The bedouin said “What is next?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said “To take an oath
‘Al-Ghamus.” The bedouin said, “What is an oath ‘Al-Ghamus’?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The false oath
through which one deprives a Muslim of his property (unjustly).

A Jew whose face had been slapped (by someone), came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, “O Muhammad! A
man from your Ansari companions slapped me. ” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Call him”. They called him and
the Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, “Why did you slap his face?” He said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! While I was passing
by the Jews, I heard him saying, ‘By Him Who chose Moses above all the human beings.’ I said
(protestingly), ‘Even above Muhammad?’ So I became furious and slapped him.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
“Do not give me preference to other prophets, for the people will become unconscious on the Day of
Resurrection and I will be the first to gain conscious, and behold, I will Find Moses holding one of the
pillars of the Throne (of Allah). Then I will not know whether he has become conscious before me or
he has been exempted because of his unconsciousness at the mountain (during his worldly life) which
he received.”

When the Verse: ‘It is those who believe and confuse not their belief with wrong (i.e., worshipping
others besides Allah): (6.82) was revealed, it became very hard on the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) and
they said, “Who among us has not confused his belief with wrong (oppression)?” On that, Allah’s
Apostle said, “This is not meant (by the Verse). Don’t you listen to Luqman’s statement: ‘Verily!
Joining others in worship with Allah is a great wrong indeed.’ (31.13)

I asked `Ali “Do you have anything Divine literature besides what is in the Qur’an?” Or, as Uyaina
once said, “Apart from what the people have?” `Ali said, “By Him Who made the grain split
(germinate) and created the soul, we have nothing except what is in the Qur’an and the ability (gift) of
understanding Allah’s Book which He may endow a man, with and what is written in this sheet of
paper.” I asked, “What is on this paper?” He replied, “The legal regulations of Diya (Blood-money)
and the (ransom for) releasing of the captives, and the judgment that no Muslim should be killed in
Qisas (equality in punishment) for killing a Kafir (disbeliever).

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Do not prefer some prophets to others.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “There is no Diya for a person injured or killed by an animal (going about without
somebody to control it) and similarly, there is no Diya for the one who falls and dies in a well, and
also the one who dies in a mine. As regards the Ar-Rikaz (buried wealth), one-fifth thereof is for the
state.”