6. Business Transactions, Inheritances and Vows
10:3618 - Allah's Messenger said: A person should not enter into a transaction when his brother is already making a transaction and he should not make a proposal of marriage when his brother has already made a proposal except when he gives permission.
10:3621 - Allah's Messenger forbade the people meeting the caravan for entering into business transaction with them, and the selling of goods by a townsman on behalf of a man of the desert. {Muhammad was not too keen on brokerage transactions.}
10:3640 - Allah's Messenger said: He who buys food grain should not sell it until he has taken possession of it. {Muhammad obviously did not approve of futures trading.}
10:3650 - Salim b. 'Abdullah reported his father having said: I saw people being beaten during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger if they bought the food grain in bulk, and then sold them at that spot before taking it to their places.
10:3652 - Allah's Messenger forbade the transaction of food grains until full possession is taken of them. Marwan then addressed the people and forbade them to enter into such transactions with documents. Sulaiman said: I saw the sentinels (police) snatching documents from the people.
10:3704 - Allah's Messenger said: He who buys a slave, his property belongs to one who sells him except when a provision has been laid down by the buyer that it will be transferred to him with the slave.
10:3714 - Allah's Messenger forbade leasing of land, and selling ahead for years and selling of fruits before they become ripe.
10:3716 - Allah's Messenger said: He who has land should cultivate it himself, but if he does not cultivate it himself, then he should let his brother cultivate it.
10:3719 - Allah's Messenger said: He who has land should cultivate it, but if he does not find it possible to cultivate it he should lend it to his Muslim brother, but he should not accept rent from him.
10:3763 - When Allah's Messenger conquered Khaibar he made up his mind to expel the Jews from it because when that land was conquered, it came under the sway of Allah, that of His Messenger and that of the Muslims. The Jews asked Allah's Messenger to let them continue there on the condition that they would work on it, and would get in turn half of the fruit of the trees, whereupon Allah's Messenger said: We would let you continue there so long as we will desire. So they continued to cultivate the lands until 'Umar (the third Caliph) expelled them to Taima' and Ariha.
10:3808 - Abu Zubair said: I asked Jabir about the price of a dog and a cat; he said: Allah's Messenger disapproved of that.
10:3811 - Allah's Messenger ordered the killing of dogs and we would send men in Medina and its corners and we did not spare any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert.
10:3824 - Allah's Messenger said: He who kept a dog would lose out of his deeds equal to one qirat every day.
10:3840 - Allah's Messenger said: Verily Allah and His Messenger have forbidden the sale of wine, carcass, swine and idols. May Allah the Exalted and Majestic destroy the Jews; when Allah forbade the use of fat of the carcass for them, they melted it, and then sold it and made use of its price.
10:3842 - Allah's Messenger said: Let there be the curse of Allah upon the Jews that fat was declared forbidden for them, but they melted it and then sold it.
10:3854 - Allah's Messenger said: Gold is to be paid for by gold, silver by silver, wheat by wheat, barley by barley, dates by dates, salt by salt, like by like, payment being made hand to hand. He who made an addition to it, or asked for an addition, in fact dealt in usury (interest). The receiver and the giver are equally guilty.
10:3881 - Allah's Messenger cursed the accepter of interest and its payer, and one who records it, and the two witnesses, and he said: They are all equal.
11:3928 - Allah's Messenger said: A Muslim is not entitled to inherit from a non-Muslim, and a non-Muslim is not entitled to inherit from a Muslim.
11:3933 - Jabir b. 'Abdullah asked: Allah's Messenger, what should I do with my property? Muhammad revealed: “Allah enjoins you concerning your children: for the male is equal of the portion of two females.”
12:3950 - Umar donated a horse in the path of Allah {i.e. for jihad}. He found that it had languished in the hand of its possessor for he was a man of meagre resources. Umar intended to buy it back, whereupon Muhammad said: Don't buy that even if you get it for a dirham for he who gets back the charity is like a dog which swallows its vomit.
13:4014 - Muhammad said: “I make a will about three things; Turn out the polytheists {idol worshippers} from the territory of Arabia; show hospitality to the delegations as I used to show them hospitality.” The third was forgotten.
13:4016 - When Allah's Messenger was about to leave this world, he said: “Come, I may write for you a document so you would not go astray after that.” Thereupon Umar said: “Verily Allah's Messenger is deeply afflicted with pain. We have the Qur'an which is sufficient for us.” Those who were present in the house differed. Some of them said: Bring him the writing material so that he may write a document. They began to dispute in the presence of Allah's Messenger. Ibn Abbas used to say: There was a heavy loss that due to their dispute Allah's Messenger could not write the document for them. {From this we can clearly see that claims of Muhammad’s illiteracy are false.}
14:4019 - Allah's Messenger singled out one day forbidding us to take vows and said: It would not avert destiny; it is by which something is extracted from the miserly person.
15:4038 - Allah's Messenger said: Allah has forbidden you to take oath by your father. He who has to take an oath, he must take it by Allah or keep quiet.
15:4057 - Allah's Messenger said: He who took an oath, but he found something else better than that, should do that which is better and break his oath.
15:4043 - Allah's Messenger said: Do not swear by idols, nor by your fathers.
15:4070 - Allah's Apostle narrated: Solomon said I will go round in the night to my ninety wives, and every one of them will give birth to a child who will grow up as a horseman and fight in the cause of Allah. His companions said to him: Say “Insha Allah.” (If god so willing), but he did not say it. He went round all of them but none of them became pregnant but one, and she gave birth to a premature child. Allah's Messenger said: Had he said Insha' Allah he would not have failed and his desire would have been materialised.
15:4097 - Allah's Messenger said: When a slave looks to the welfare of his master and worships Allah well, he has two rewards for him. {Slaves that serve their masters well will be rewarded by Allah, of course only if the slave is a Muslim.}