A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Bakr through a different chain of narrators. This version adds on the authority of Salim: Expiation (for breaking the oath) has not reached me.
Read More..Saeed ibn al-Musayyab said: There were two brothers among the Ansar who shared an inheritance. When one of them asked the other for the portion due to him, he replied: If you ask me again for the portion due to you, all my property will be devoted to the decoration of the Kabah. Umar said to him: The Kabah does not need your property. Make atonement for your oath and speak to your brother. I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: An oath or vow to disobey the Lord, or to break ties of relationship or about something over which one has no control is not binding on you.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: A vow is binding in those things by which the pleasure of Allah is sought, and an oath to break ties of relationship is not binding.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: An oath or a vow about something over which a human being has no control, and to disobey Allah, and to break ties of relationship is not binding. If anyone takes an oath and then considers something else better than it, he should give it up, and do what is better, for leaving it is its atonement. Abu Dawud said: All sound traditions from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: He should make atonement for his oath, except those versions which are not reliable. Abu Dawud said: I said to Ahmad: Yahya bin Saeed (al-Qattan) has transmitted this tradition from Yahya bin Ubaid Allah. He (Ahmad bin Hanbal) said: But he gave it up after that, and he was competent for doing it. Ahmad said: His (Yahya bin Ubaid Allah's) tradition are munkar (rejected) and his father is not known.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: Two men brought their dispute to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم asked the plaintiff to produce evidence, but he had no evidence. So he asked the defendant to swear. He swore by Allah There is no god but He. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Yes, you have done it, but you have been forgiven for the sincerity of the statement: There is no god but Allah. Abu Dawud said: This tradition means that he did not command him to make atonement
Read More..Narrated Abu Burdah: On the authority of his father that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: I swear by Allah that if Allah wills I shall swear on an oath and then consider something else to be better than it without making atonement for my oath and doing the thing that is better. Or he said (according to another version): But doing the thing that is better and making atonement for my oath.
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