No. 3920

Sa'id b. Zaid b. 'Amr b. Nufail (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: He who wrongly took a span of land, Allaah shall make him carry around his neck seven earths.

No. 3921

Sa'id b. Zaid b. 'Amr b. Nufail (Allaah be pleased with them) reported that Arwi (bint Uwais) disputed with him (in regard to a part of the land) of his hodse. He said: Leave it and take off your claim from it, for I heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: He who took a span of land without his right would be made to wear around his neck seven earths on the Day of Resurrection. He (Sa'id b. Zaid) said: O Allaah, make her blind if she has told a lie and make her grave in her house. He (the narrator) said: I saw her blind groping (her way) by touching the walls and saying: The curse of Sa'id b. Zaid has hit me. And it so happened that as she was walking in her house, she passed by a well in her house and fell therein and that be- came her grave.

No. 3922

Hisham b. Urwa reported on the authority of his father (Allaah be pleased with him) that Arwa bint Uwais disputed with Sa'id b. Zaid that he had seized some of the land belonging to her. She brought this dispute before Marwan b. al-Hakam. Sa'id said: How could I take a part of her land, after what I heard from Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam)? He (Marwan) said: What did you hear from Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam)? He said: I heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) say: He who wrongly took a span of land would be made to wear around his neck seven earths. Marwan said: I do not ask any evidence from you after this. He (Sa'id) said: O Allaah, make her blind if she has told a lie and kill her in her own land. He (the narrator) said: She did not die until she had lost her eyesight, and (one day) as she was walking in her land, she fell down into a pit and died.

No. 3923

Sa'id b. Zaid reported: I heard Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) say: He who took a span of earth wrongly would be made to wear around his neck seven earths on the Day of Resurrection.

No. 3924

Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported Allaah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) as saying: One should not take a span of land without having legitimate right to it, otherwise Allaah would make him wear (around his neck) seven earths on the Day of Resurrection.

No. 3925

Muhammad b. Ibrahim said that Abu Salama reported to him that there was between him and his people dispute over a piece of land, and he came to 'A'isha and mentioned that to her, whereupon she said: Abu Salama, abstain from getting this land, for Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: He who usurps even a span of land would be made to wear around his neck seven earths.

No. 3926

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Salama with another chain of transmitters.