Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 1 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud from Abdullah ibn Abbas that Sad ibn Ubada questioned the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said,”My mother died while she still had a vow which […]
Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.
Book 22, Vows and Oaths, discusses the rulings and implications of making vows and taking oaths.
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 2 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr that his paternal aunt related that her grandmother made a vow to walk to the Quba mosque. She died, and did not fulfill it, so Abdullah ibn Abbas asked her daughter to walk for her. Yahya said that […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 3 Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Abi Habiba said, “I said to a man, when I was young, ‘A man who only says that he must walk to the House of Allah and does not say that he has vowed to walk, does not have to […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 4 Yahya related to me from Malik that Urwa ibn Udhayna al-Laythi said, “I went out with my grandmother who had vowed to walk to the House of Allah. When we had gone part of the way, she could not go on. I sent one of her mawlas to question […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 5 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, “I vowed to walk, but I was struck by a pain in the kidney, so I rode until I came to Makka. I questioned Ata ibn Abi Rabah and others, and they said, ‘You must sacrifice an animal.’ […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 6 Yahya related to me from Malik that what he preferred of what he had heard from the people of knowledge about a man or woman who vowed to walk to the House of Allah, was that they fulfilled the oath when performing umra, by walking until they had done […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 7 Yahya related to me from Malik that Humayd ibn Qays and Thawr ibn Zayd adDili both informed him that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, (and one of them gave more detail than the other),saw a man standing in the sun. The Messenger […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 8 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard al-Qasim ibn Muhammad say, “A woman came to Abdullah ibn Abbas and said, ‘I have vowed to sacrifice my son.’ Ibn Abbas said, ‘Do not sacrifice your son. Do kaffara for your oath.’ An old man with Ibn […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 9 Yahya related to me from Malik from Talha ibn Abi al-Malik al- Ayli from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn as-Siddiq from A’isha that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Whoever vows to obey Allah, let him obey Him. Whoever vows to disobey Allah, […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 10 Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that A’isha, umm al-muminin said, “Rashness in oaths is that a man says, ‘By Allah, No! by Allah!’ ” i.e. out of habit. Malik said, “The best of what I have heard on the matter is […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 11 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, “Whoever swears by Allah and then says, ‘Allah willing’ and then does not do what he has sworn to, has not broken his oath.” Malik said, “The best I have heard on this reservation is that […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 12 Yahya related to me from Malik from Suhayl ibn Abi Salih from his father from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Whoever makes an oath and then sees that something else would be better than it, should do kaffara […]