Hazrat Muhammad bin Qais narrates that I said to Hazrat Saeed bin Al-Musayyib, "I have sworn an oath that if I speak to this companion of mine, I will walk to Makkah Mukarramah with this sheet of mine." He said, "Are you regretful about it?" I replied, "Yes." He said, "Go and wear your clothes; the Ka'bah has no need of you or your clothes, and say that Saeed has ordered me." Then I went to Hazrat Qasim bin Muhammad, and he said the same thing that Hazrat Saeed had said. Then, when I left him, his messenger came to me and asked, "Do you have a dirham?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Give it in charity and say that Qasim has ordered me."

Ibrahim says that if a person says, "I have given as a gift a sea," meaning a great amount of wealth, but does not specify the amount, he (Ibrahim) said: He will give as a gift whatever he owns.

Hazrat Ata says that there is an expiation for an oath.

Hazrat Tawus, Hazrat Ata, and Hazrat Mujahid state that whatever is offered as a sacrificial gift for the House of Allah should be sold and a camel should be purchased with it, and that should be given in charity.

Hazrat Alaa bin Al-Musayyib narrates that I asked Hazrat Ata: A woman has sent seven dirhams as a gift for the House of Allah (Baitullah)? Hazrat Ata replied: Your house (the House of Allah) is independent of your dirhams, but give this to its poor people; indeed, camels are the gifts for the House of Allah.

Hazrat Qais narrates that a woman says: I was with Ummul Momineen Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) when a woman came with her jewelry and said, "I have brought this as a gift for the House of Allah." Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said to her: "If you had given it in the way of Allah to orphans and the needy, (that would have been better). Surely, for this House, spending and gifts are given from the treasures of Allah."

Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "It is more beloved to me that I give this ring of mine in charity than that I offer a thousand sacrificial animals for the Ka'bah."

Hazrat Qasim bin Muhammad says that for me to give one dirham in charity in the way of Allah is more beloved than to present one hundred thousand dirhams as a gift to the House of Allah (the Ka'bah). If an entire valley full of wealth were to flow towards me (were given to me), I would not present even a single dirham from it as a gift to the House of Allah.

12758 - Abu Bakr narrated to us, he said: Mahbub al-Qawariri narrated to us from (1) Malik from Habib from Salim who said: A man asked him about a gift to the Kaaba, so he said: "The Kaaba is in no need of your gift; give it to a poor person or a needy one and feed him a morsel."

Hazrat Harith narrates that Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) did not separate the three days of fasting for an oath (he would observe them consecutively).