Gifts

كتاب الهبة وفضلها والتحريض عليها

Chapter 3: Whoever asks his friends to grant him a gift

Abu Saeed said, the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “Give me an arrow for you.”
Narrated `Abdullah bin Abu Qatada Al-Aslami

That his father said, "One day I was sitting with some of the Prophet's companions on the way to Mecca. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was ahead of us. All of my companions were in the state of Ihram while I was a non-Muhrim. They saw an onager while I was busy repairing my shoes, so they did not tell me about it but they wished I had seen it. By chance I looked up and saw it. So, I turned to the horse, saddled it and rode on it, forgetting to take the spear and the whip. I asked them if they could hand over to me the whip and the spear but they said, 'No, by Allah, we shall not help you in that in any way.' I became angry and got down from the horse, picked up both the things and rode the horse again. I attacked the onager and slaughtered it, and brought it (after it had been dead). They took it (cooked some of it) and started eating it, but they doubted whether it was allowed for them to eat it or not, as they were in the state of Ihram. So, we proceeded and I hid with me one of its fore-legs. When we met Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and asked him about the case, he asked, 'Do you have a portion of it with you?' I replied in the affirmative and gave him that fleshy foreleg which he ate completely while he was in the state of Ihram .

Chapter 4: Whoever asks others to give him water

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) said to me, "Drink me."
Narrated Anas

Once Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) visited us in this house of ours and asked for something to drink. We milked one of our sheep and mixed it with water from this well of ours and gave it to him. Abu Bakr was sitting on his left side and `Umar in front of him and a bedouin on his right side. When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) finished, `Umar said to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) "Here is Abu Bakr." But Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) gave the remaining milk to the bedouin and said twice, "The (persons on the) right side! So, start from the right side." Anas added, "It is a Sunna (the Prophet's traditions)" and repeated it thrice.

Chapter 7: Accepting a gift

Narrated Sa`id bin Jubair

Ibn `Abbas said: Um Hufaid, Ibn `Abbas's aunt sent some dried yogurt (butter free), ghee (butter) and a mastigar to the Prophet (ﷺ) as a gift. The Prophet (ﷺ) ate the dried yogurt and butter but left the mastigar because he disliked it. Ibn `Abbas said, "The mastigar was eaten at the table of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and if it had been illegal to eat, it could not have been eaten at the table of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)."

Narrated Anas bin Malik

Some meat was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and it was said that the meat had been given in charity to Barirah. He said, "It was Sadaqa for Barirah but a gift for us."

Narrated Um 'Atiyya

Once the Prophet (ﷺ) went to `Aisha and asked her whether she had something (to eat). She said that she had nothing except the mutton which Um 'Atiyya had sent to (Barirah) in charity. The Prophet (ﷺ) said that it had reached its destination (i.e. it is no longer an object of charity.)

Chapter 14: Giving gifts by a husband to his wife, and by a wife to her husband

Abraham said a prize. Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz said, "They shall not return." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) asked permission for his wives to be sick in Aisha's house. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) said: "The one who returns in his gift is like a dog and returns in his vomit." Al-Zuhri said to the one who said to his wife, "Give me some or all of your friendship." Then he did not stay but a little until he divorced her and she returned to him and said he would return to her if he was her successor, and if she gave him willingly, there is nothing in his order deception, permissible, he said Allah Almighty: {If you are blessed for something of it a soul}.
Narrated Ibn `Abbas

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "One who takes back his gift (which he has already given) is like a dog that swallows its vomit."

Chapter 15: A woman giving gifts to someone other than husband

وَعِتْقُهَا إِذَا كَانَ لَهَا زَوْجٌ فَهْوَ جَائِزٌ، إِذَا لَمْ تَكُنْ سَفِيهَةً، فَإِذَا كَانَتْ سَفِيهَةً لَمْ يَجُزْ، قَالَ تَعَالَى: {وَلاَ تُؤْتُوا السُّفَهَاءَ أَمْوَالَكُمْ}.
Narrated Asma

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Give (in charity) and do not give reluctantly lest Allah should give you in a limited amount; and do not withhold your money lest Allah should withhold it from you."

Chapter 16: Who is to be given the gift first?

Narrated Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) that she manumitted her slave-girl and the Prophet (ﷺ) said to her, "You would have got more reward if you had given the slave-girl to one of your maternal uncles."

Chapter 18: If somebody gives another a present and dies before the gift reaches the other person

Ubaydah said that if he died and the guidance and the guidance have a neighborhood, then it is for his heir, and if it is not, then it will be. The good said: Which of them died before, so it is for the heir of the guidance for him. If the Messenger seizes them.
Narrated Jabir

The Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, "I will give you so much (the Prophet (ﷺ) pointed thrice with his hands) when funds of Bahrain will come to me." But the Prophet (ﷺ) died before the money reached him. (When it came) Abu Bakr ordered an announcer to announce that whoever had a money claim on the Prophet (ﷺ) or was promised to be given something, should come to Abu Bakr. I went to Abu Bakr and told him that the Prophet (ﷺ) had promised to give me so much. On that Abu Bakr gave me three handfuls (of money).

Chapter 3: Whoever asks his friends to grant him a gift

Abu Saeed said, the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “Give me an arrow for you.”
Narrated Sahl

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent for a woman from the emigrants and she had a slave who was a carpenter. The Prophet said to her "Order your slave to prepare the wood (pieces) for the pulpit." So, she ordered her slave who went and cut the wood from the tamarisk and prepared the pulpit, for the Prophet. When he finished the pulpit, the woman informed the Prophet (ﷺ) that it had been finished. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked her to send that pulpit to him, so they brought it. The Prophet (ﷺ) lifted it and placed it at the place in which you see now."

Chapter 7: Accepting a gift

Narrated Abu Huraira

Whenever a meal was brought to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), he would ask whether it was a gift or Sadaqa (something given in charity). If he was told that it was Sadaqa, he would tell his companions to eat it, but if it was a gift, he would hurry to share it with them.

Chapter 12: Giving gifts to one's sons

If some give his child something that is not rewarded, so that he may make amends among them and give others the same as him, and he will not bear witness to it. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) said: "Be just among your children in the gift." Is it permissible for the father to return his gift and what he eats from his child's wealth by virtue and not to transgress? The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) bought a camel from 'Umar and then Ibn 'Umar gave it to him and said, "Do whatever you want with it."
Narrated An-Nu`man bin Bashir

that his father took him to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "I have given this son of mine a slave." The Prophet asked, "Have you given all your sons the like?" He replied in the negative. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Take back your gift then."

Chapter 15: A woman giving gifts to someone other than husband

وَعِتْقُهَا إِذَا كَانَ لَهَا زَوْجٌ فَهْوَ جَائِزٌ، إِذَا لَمْ تَكُنْ سَفِيهَةً، فَإِذَا كَانَتْ سَفِيهَةً لَمْ يَجُزْ، قَالَ تَعَالَى: {وَلاَ تُؤْتُوا السُّفَهَاءَ أَمْوَالَكُمْ}.
Narrated Aisha

Whenever Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) wanted to go on a journey, he would draw lots as to which of his wives would accompany him. He would take her whose name came out. He used to fix for each of them a day and a night. But Sauda bint Zam`a gave up her (turn) day and night to `Aisha, the wife of the Prophet in order to seek the pleasure of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (by that action).

Chapter 17: Whoever refused to accept a present

Umar Bin Abdul Aziz said the gift at the time of the messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was a gift, and today it is a bribe.
Narrated `Abdullah bin `Abbas

That he heard As-Sa'b bin Jath-thama Al-Laithi, who was one of the companions of the Prophet, saying that he gave the meat of an onager to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) while he was at a place called Al-Abwa' or Waddan, and was in a state of Ihram. The Prophet (ﷺ) did not accept it. When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw the signs of sorrow on As-Sa'b's face because of not accepting his present, he said (to him), "We are not returning your present, but we are in the state of Ihram." (See Hadith No. 747)

Chapter 19: To take over the slave and property (given as gift)

Ibn 'Umar said, "I was on Bakr Saab, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) bought it and said, "It is yours, O servant of Allah."
Narrated Al-Miswar bin Makhrama

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) distributed some cloaks but did not give anything thereof to Makhrama. Makhrama said (to me), "O son! accompany me to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)." When I went with him, he said, "Call him to me." I called him (i.e. the Prophet (ﷺ) ) for my father. He came out wearing one of those cloaks and said, "We kept this (cloak) for you, (Makhrama)." Makhrama looked at the cloak and said, "Makhrama is pleased," (or the Prophet (ﷺ) said), "Is Makhrama pleased?"

Chapter 20: The receiver taking the gift into his possession

Narrated Abu Huraira

A man came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "I am ruined." The Prophet (ﷺ) asked, "What do you mean?" He said, "I had a sexual intercourse with my wife during Ramadan (while fasting)." The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, "Can you manumit a slave?" He replied in the negative. He then asked him, "Can you fast for two successive months continuously" He replied in the negative. The Prophet (ﷺ) then asked him, "Can you feed sixty poor persons?" He replied in the negative. In the meantime an Ansari came with a basket full of dates. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to the man, "Take it and give it in charity (as an expiation of your sin)." The man said "Should I give it to some people who are poorer than we O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)? By Him Who has sent you with the Truth, there is no family between Medina's two mountains poorer than we." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) told him to take it and provide his family with it."

Chapter 21: If a creditor gives the debt, due to him, as a gift, ...

Division said about the judgment is permissible. Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali (peace be upon them) gave it to a cleric and the Prophet Allah(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever has a right over him, let him give it to him, or let him decompose him from it." Jabir said, "My father was killed and he had a debt," and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) asked his rivals to accept the fruit of my wall and to dissolve my father.
Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah

My father was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Uhud and his creditors demanded the debt back in a harsh manner. So I went to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and informed him of that, he asked them to accept the fruits of my garden and excuse my father, but they refused. So, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not give them the fruits, nor did he cut them and distribute them among them, but said, "I will come to you tomorrow morning." So, he came to us the next morning and walked about in between the date-palms and invoked Allah to bless their fruits. I plucked the fruits and gave back all the rights of the creditors in full, and a lot of fruits were left for us. Then I went to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), who was sitting, and informed him about what happened. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) told `Umar, who was sitting there, to listen to the story. `Umar said, "Don't we know that you are Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)? By Allah! you are Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!"

Chapter 23: The received, unreceived, divided and undivided gifts

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) and his companions gave to Hawazen what they had gained from them, which is not divided.
Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) owed a man some debt (and that man demanded it very harshly). The companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) wanted to harm him, but the Prophet (ﷺ) said to them, "Leave him, as the creditor has the right to speak harshly." He then added, "Buy (a camel) of the same age and give it to him." They said, "We cannot get except a camel of an older age than that of his." He said, "Buy it and give it to him, as the best amongst you is he who pays back his debt in the most handsome way.'

Chapter 28: The acceptance of presents from Al-Mushrikun

وَقَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «هَاجَرَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ- عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ- بِسَارَةَ فَدَخَلَ قَرْيَةً فِيهَا مَلِكٌ أَوْ جَبَّارٌ فَقَالَ أَعْطُوهَا آجَرَ». And I was guided by the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, in which a sheep has a poison. Abu Hamid said, “The king of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, is a light of light, and made him a cold, and he wrote to him.
Narrated Anas bin Malik

A Jewess brought a poisoned (cooked) sheep for the Prophet (ﷺ) who ate from it. She was brought to the Prophet and he was asked, "Shall we kill her?" He said, "No." I continued to see the effect of the poison on the palate of the mouth of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) .

Chapter 29: Giving presents to Al-Mushrikun

And God Almighty said: {God does not forbid you from those who did not fight you in religion, and they did not bring you out of your homes to be justified and be able to do. ”
Narrated Ibn `Umar

`Umar saw a silken cloak over a man for sale and requested the Prophet (ﷺ) to buy it in order to wear it on Fridays and while meeting delegates. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "This is worn by the one who will have no share in the Hereafter." Later on Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) got some silken cloaks similar to that one, and he sent one to `Umar. `Umar said to the Prophet (ﷺ) "How can I wear it, while you said about it what you said?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I have not given it to you to wear, but to sell or to give to someone else." So, `Umar sent it to his brother at Mecca before he embraced Islam.