Narrated Ibn Abbas: A woman came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said (to him) that one month's fast was due from her mother who had died. May I fulfill them on her behalf? He asked: Suppose some debt was due from your mother, would you pay it ? She replied: Yes. He said: So the debt due to Allah is the one which most deserves to be paid.
Read More..Narrated Aishah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: If anyone dies when some fast due from him has been unfulfilled, his heir must fast on his behalf.
Read More..Narrated Amr bin Suhaib: On his father's authority, said that his grandfather said: A woman came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said: Messenger of Allah, I have taken a vow to play the tambourine over you. He said: Fulfil your vow. She said: And I have taken a vow to perform a sacrifice in such a such a place, a place in which people had performed sacrifices in pre-Islamic times. He asked: For an Idol? She replied: No. He asked: For an image? She replied: No. He said: Fulfil your vow.
Read More..Narrated Thabit ibn ad-Dahhak: In the time of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم a man took a vow to slaughter a camel at Buwanah. So he came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said: I have taken a vow to sacrifice a camel at Buwanah. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم asked: Did the place contain any idol worshipped in pre-Islamic times? They (the people) said: No. He asked: Was any pre-Islamic festival observed there? They replied: No. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Fulfil your vow, for a vow to do an act of disobedience to Allah must not be fulfilled, neither must one do something over which a human being has no control.
Read More..Narrated Maymunah, daughter of Kardam: I went out with my father to see the hajj performed by the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. I fixed my eyes on him. My father came near him while he was riding his she-camel. He had a whip like the whip of scribes. I heard the bedouin and the people say: The whip, the whip. My father came near him and held his foot. She said: He admitted his Prophethood and stood and listened to him. He said: Messenger of Allah, I have made a vow that if a son is born to me, I shall slaughter a number of sheep at the end of Buwanah in the dale of hill. The narrator said: I do not know (for certain) that she said: Fifty (sheep). The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Does it contain any idol? He said: No. Then he said: Fulfil your vow that you have taken for Allah. He then gathered them (i. e. the sheep) and began to slaughter them. A sheep ran away from them. He searched for it saying: O Allah, fulfil my vow on my behalf. So he succeeded (in finding it) and slaughtered it.
Read More..A similar tradition has also been transmitted in brief by Maimunah daughter of Kardam son of Sufyan on the authority of her father through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: (The Prophet asked): Does it contain an idol or was a festival of pre-Islamic times celebrated there ? He replied: No. I said: This mother of mine has taken a vow and walking (is binding on her). May I fulfill it on her behalf ? Sometimes the narrator Bashshar said: May we fulfill in on her behalf ? He said: Yes.
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