Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas: A man from Banu Sahm went out with Tamim ad-Dari and Adi ibn BAdda. The man of Banu Sahm died in the land where no Muslim was present. When they returned with his inheritance, they (the heirs) did not find a silver cup with lines of gold (in his property). The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم administered on oath to them. The cup was then found (with someone) at Makkah. They said: We have bought it from Tamim and Adi. Then two men from the heirs of the man of Banu Sahm got up and swore saying: Our witness is more reliable than their witness. They said that the cup belonged to their man. He (Ibn Abbas) said: The following verse was revealed about them: O ye who believe! when death approaches any of you. . . . .
Read More..Narrated Uncle of Umarah ibn Khuzaymah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم bought a horse from a Bedouin. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم took him with him to pay him the price of his horse. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم walked quickly and the Bedouin walked slowly. The people stopped the Bedouin and began to bargain with him for the horse as and they did not know that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم had bought it. The Bedouin called the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم saying: If you want this horse, (then buy it), otherwise I shall sell it. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم stopped when he heard the call of the Bedouin, and said: Have I not bought it from you? The Bedouin said: I swear by Allah, I have not sold it to you. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Yes, I have bought it from you. The Bedouin began to say: Bring a witness. Khuzaymah ibn Thabit then said: I bear witness that you have bought it. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم turned to Khuzaymah and said: On what (grounds) do you bear witness? He said: By considering you trustworthy, Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم! The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم made the witness of Khuzaymah equivalent to the witness of two people.
Read More..Ibn Abbas said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم gave a decision on the basis of an oath and a single witness.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Amr bin Dinar through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect. Salamah has in his version: Amr said: In the rights (of the people).
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم gave a decision on the basis of an oath and a single witness. Abu Dawud said: Al-Rabi bin Sulaiman al-muadhdhin told me some additional words in this tradition: Al-Shafi'i told me from Abd al-Aziz. I then mentioned it fo Suhail who said: Rabiah told me - and he is reliable in my opinion - that I told him this (tradition) and I do not remember it. Abd al-Aziz said: Suhail suffered from some disease which caused him to lose a little of his intelligence, and he forgot some of his traditions. Thereafter Suhail would narrate traditions from Rabiah on the authority of his father.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Rabiah through the chain of Abu Musab and to the same effect. Sulaiman said: I then met Suhail and asked him about this tradition. He said: I do not know it. I said to him: Rabiah transmitted it to me from you. He said: If Rabiah transmitted it to you from me, then retransmit it from Rabiah on my authority.
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