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‏الهبات (The Book of Gifts)
CHAPTER: DISAPPROVAL OF GIVING PREFERENCE TO SOME CHILDREN WHILE MAKING DONATION  

No. 3961

Nu'man b. Bashir reported that his father brought him to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: I have donated this slave of mine to my son. Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Have you donated to every one of your sons (a slave) like this? He said: No. Thereupon Allaah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) said: Then take him back.

No. 3962

Nu'man b. Bashir reported: My father brought me to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: I have donated this slave to my son. whereupon he said: Have you made (such) donation to every one or your sons? He said: No. Thereupon he (the-Prophet) said: Then take him back.

No. 3963

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zubri with different chains of transmitters and a slight variation of words.

No. 3964

Nu'man b. Bashir reported that his father had donated a slave to him. Allaah's Prophet (may peace he upon him) said: Who is this slave (how have you come to possess it)? Thereupon he (Nu'man b. Bashir) said: My father has donated it to me, whereupon he said: Have all brothers (of yours) been given this gift as given to you? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Then return him.

No. 3965

Nu'man b. Bashir reported: My father donated to me some of his property. My mother Amra bint Rawaha said: I shall not be pleased (with this act) until you make Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) a witness to it. My father went to Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) in order to make him the witness of the donation given to me. Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said to him: Have you done the same with every son of yours? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Fear Allaah, and observe equity in case of your children. My father returned and got back the gift.

No. 3966

Nu'man b. Bashir reported that his mother bint Rawaha asked his (Nu'man's) father about donating some gifts from his property to his son. He deferred the matter by one year, and then set forth to do that. She (Nu'man's mother) said: I shall not be pleased unless you call Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as witness to what you confer as a gift on your son. (Nu'man said): So father took hold of my hand and I was at that time a boy, and came to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam). and said: Allaah's Messenger, the mother of this son (of mine), daughter of Rawaha wishes that I should call you witness to what I confer as gift to her son. Allaah's Messenger (may pease be upon him) said: Bashir, have you any other son besides this (son of yours)? He said: Yes. He (the Prophet) said: Have you given gifts to all of them like this? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Then call me not as witness, for I cannot be witness to an injustice.

No. 3967

Nu'man b. Bashir, reported that Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) had said: Have you, besides him, other sons? He said: Yes. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Have you given gifts to all of them like this (as you have given to Nu'man)? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: I cannot bear witness to an injustice.

No. 3968

Nu'man b. Bashir (Allaah be pleased with them) reported that Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said to his father: Call me not as witness to an injustice.

No. 3969

Nu'man b. Bashir (Allaah be pleased with them) reported: My father took me to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: Allaah's Messenger, bear witness that I have given such and such gift to Nu'man from my property, whereupon he (the Prophet) said: Have you conferred upon all of your sons as you have conferred upon Nu'man? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Call someone else besides me as a witness. And he further said: Would it, please you that they (your children) should all behave virtuously towards you? He said: Yes. He (the Prophet) said: Then don't do that (i e. don't give gift to one to the exclusion of others).

No. 3970

Nu'man b. Bashir reported: My father conferred a gift upon me, and then brought me to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) to make him a witness (to it). He (the Prophet) said: Have you given such gift to every son of yours (as you have given to Nu'man)? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Don't you expect goodness from them as you expect from him? He said: Yes. of course. He (the Prophet) said: I am not going to bear witness to it (as it is injustice). Ibn Aun (one of the narrators) said: I narrated this hadith to Muhammad (the other narrator) who said: Verily we narrated that lie (the Prophet) had said: Observe equity amongst your children.

No. 3971

Jabir (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the wife of Bashir said (to her husband): Give to my son your slave as a gift, and make for me Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) a witness He came to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: The daughter of so and so (his wife Amra bint Rawaha) asked me to give my slave as a gift to her son, and call for me Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as a witness. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Has he (Nu'man) brothers? He (Bashir) said: Yes. He (further) said: Have you given to all others as you have given to him? He said: No. He said: Then it is not fair; and verily I cannot bear witness but only to what is just.




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