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.
Read More..Narrated Abdur-Rahman bin Samurah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said to me: Abdur-Rahman bin Samurah, when you swear an oath and consider something else to be better than it, do the thing that is beter and make atonement for your oath. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad (b. Hanbal) permitting to make atonement before breaking the oath.
Read More..A similar tradition has been transmitted by Abdur-Rahman bin Samurah through a different chain if narrators. This version has: Make atonement for your oath and then do the thing that is better. Abu Dawud said: The version of this tradition transmitted by Abu Musa al-Ashari, Adi bin Hatim and Abu Hurairah are variant. Some of them indicate breaking the oath before making atonement, and other making atonement before breaking the oath.
Read More..Narrated Safiyyah bint Huyayy: Ibn Harmalah said: Umm Habib gave us a sa' and told us narration from the nephew of Safiyyah on the authority of Safiyyah that it was the sa' of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. Anas ibn Ayyad said: I tested it and found its capacity two and half mudd according to the mudd of Hisham.
Read More..Narrated Muhammad bin Muhmmad bin Khattab Abu Umar: We had a makkuk which was called Makkuk Khalid. Its capacity was two measurements according to the measurements of Harun. The narrator said: The sa' of Khalid was the sa' of Hisham bin Abd al-Malik.
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