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.
Read More..Narrated Umayyah bin Khalid: When Khalid al-Qasri was made ruler (of Hijaz and Kufah), he doubled the measure of sa'. The sa' then measured sixteen rotls. Abu Dawud said: Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Khattab was slain by Negroes in confinement. He said while signing with his hand: in this way . Abu Dawud extended his hand and turned his palms towards earth and said: I saw him in the dream and asked him: How did Allah deal with you ? He replied: He admitted to Paradise. I said: Your detention did not harm you.
Read More..Narrated Muawiyah bin al-Hakam al-Sulami: I said: Messenger of Allah, I have a slave girl whom I slapped. This grieved the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. I said to him: Should I not emancipate her? He said: Bring her to me. He said: Then I brought her. He asked: Where is Allah ? She replied: In the heaven. He said: Who am I ? She replied: You are the Messenger of Allah. He said: Emancipate her, she is a believer.
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