Narrated Sa`d: I fell sick and the Prophet paid me a visit. I said to him, O Allah's Apostle! I invoke Allah that He may not let me expire in the land whence I migrated (i.e. Mecca). He said, May Allah give you health and let the people benefit by you. I said, I want to will my property, and I have only one daughter and I want to will half of my property (to be given in charity). He said, Half is too much. I said, Then I will one third. He said, One-third, yet even one-third is too much. (The narrator added, So the people started to will one third of their property and that was Permitted for them. )
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: (the wife of the Prophet) `Utba bin Abi Waqqas entrusted (his son) to his brother Sa`d bin Abi Waqqas saying, The son of the slave-girl of Zam`a is my (illegal) son, take him into your custody. So during the year of the Conquest (of Mecca) Sa`d took the boy and said, This is my brother's son whom my brother entrusted to me. 'Abu bin Zam's got up and said, He is my brother and the son of the slave girl of my father and was born on my father's bed. Then both of them came to Allah's Apostle and Sa`d said, O Allah's Apostle! This is my brother's son whom my brother entrusted to me. Then 'Abu bin Zam`a got up and said, This is my brother and the son of the slave-girl of my father. Allah's Apostle said, O Abu bin Zam`a! This boy is for you as the boy belongs to the bed (where he was born), and for the adulterer is the stone (i.e. deprivation). Then the Prophet said to his wife Sauda bint Zam`a, Screen yourself from this boy, when he saw the boy's resemblance to `Utba. Since then the boy did not see Sauda till he died.
Read More..Narrated Anas: A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. She was asked, Who has done so to you, soand- so? So-and-so? Till the name of the Jew was mentioned, whereupon she nodded (in agreement). So the Jew was brought and was questioned till he confessed. The Prophet then ordered that his head be crushed with stones.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The custom (in old days) was that the property of the deceased would be inherited by his offspring; as for the parents (of the deceased), they would inherit by the will of the deceased. Then Allah cancelled from that custom whatever He wished and fixed for the male double the amount inherited by the female, and for each parent a sixth (of the whole legacy) and for the wife an eighth or a fourth and for the husband a half or a fourth.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: A man asked the Prophet, O Allah's Apostle! What kind of charity is the best? He replied. To give in charity when you are healthy and greedy hoping to be wealthy and afraid of becoming poor. Don't delay giving in charity till the time when you are on the death bed when you say, 'Give so much to soand- so and so much to so-and so,' and at that time the property is not yours but it belongs to so-and-so (i.e. your inheritors).
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, The signs of a hypocrite are three: Whenever he speaks he tells a lie; whenever he is entrusted he proves dishonest; whenever he promises he breaks his promise.
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