Sayyiduna Nu’man bin Bashir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: My father, Sayyiduna Bashir bin Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him), presented himself before the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! (My wife) ‘Amrah bint Rawahah has given birth to a child, and I have named him Nu’man. She refused to nurse and raise the child until I gave him my garden, which is my best property. And this woman said: You should make the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) a witness to this matter. So the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Bashir (may Allah be pleased with him): Do you have any children other than him? He replied: Yes. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Make me a witness only to justice. I do not become a witness to injustice.

(Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) There is a difference in the wording of this incident of gift-giving that we have mentioned, which led a scholar to the misunderstanding that there is perhaps a contradiction in this narration, whereas this is not the case. Because this gift was given by Sayyiduna Bashir to his son, and it is narrated in two different places. That is, when Sayyiduna Nu’man was born for the first time, his mother, Sayyidah ‘Amrah, refused to raise him until Sayyiduna Bashir gave her a garden as a gift, so he did so. When he intended to make someone a witness to this, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Make me a witness only to justice, for I do not become a witness to injustice. As is mentioned in the narration of the narrator named Abu Hariz, and these words clarify that it is not permissible to show favoritism among children when giving gifts. Then, when the child grew up, ‘Amrah said to Sayyiduna Bashir: Give a gift to my son. He delayed it for a year or two, as is mentioned in the narration transmitted by Abu Hayyan Taymi and Mughira from Sha’bi. Then he gave him a slave as a gift. When he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) to make him a witness to this, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Do not make me a witness to injustice. So, it is possible that Sayyiduna Nu’man (may Allah be pleased with him) forgot the first ruling, or he misunderstood that the ruling had been abrogated, and the statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him):“Do not make me a witness to injustice,”was to emphasize even more the prohibition of this act the second time. And the evidence that the gift given in the form of a slave was also given to Sayyiduna Nu’man (may Allah be pleased with him) is that ‘Asim narrated from Sha’bi that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked Sayyiduna Nu’man (may Allah be pleased with him): Where did this slave come from? He said: This is the slave my father gave me as a gift. So these words guide you to the fact that this gift was other than the one mentioned in the narration transmitted by Abu Hariz, which is about the garden, because ‘Amrah’s refusal to raise him was at the time of his birth. This is contrary to the view of the one who claims that the narrations from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) are contradictory and there is a difference in them. The narrator named Abu Hariz was the judge of Sijistan.

Sayyiduna Khalid bin Zaid Juhani (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "If a person receives some good (i.e., wealth or similar) from his brother without asking for it and without greed, he should accept it and should not return it."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "When someone is presented with perfume, he should not refuse it, because its weight is not much and its fragrance is pure."

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was present in the house of Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him). Food was brought to him which contained garlic, so the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) did not eat it. He sent it to Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) also did not eat from it because he did not see any sign of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) having eaten from it. Then he went to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him about it. He said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), is this forbidden? The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No, but I disliked it because of its smell. Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: That which you dislike, I also dislike.

Sayyiduna Bahzi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) set out to travel towards Makkah. When he reached the place of Ruha, there was a zebra there whose leg was injured. This matter was mentioned to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), so he said: Leave it, soon its owner will come to it. Then Sayyiduna Bahzi (may Allah be pleased with him) arrived; he was its owner. He came to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! You may use this zebra. So the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding it. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) distributed it among his companions. Then the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) continued on his journey. When he reached the place of Athaya between Ruwaytha and ‘Arj, there was a deer sitting in the shade which had been struck by an arrow. Sayyiduna Bahzi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed a man to stay by the deer so that no one would disturb it until the people had passed by.

Sayyiduna Umair bin Salamah Zumri رضي الله عنه narrates: Once we were traveling with the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. When we reached near Rauha, we were all in the state of Ihram. There was a zebra there which was wounded, so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: Leave it, its owner will come to it. Then a man from the Bahzi tribe came; he was the one who had wounded the zebra. He said: O Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم)! You may use it. So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ordered Sayyiduna Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه, and he distributed its meat among the people.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: Once Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) went (to the market). He saw a cloak made of brocade being sold in the market, so he went to the service of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Please buy this and wear it on Fridays and when delegations come to you. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Only that person will wear it who will have no share in the Hereafter. The narrator says: Then three cloaks of the same kind were presented to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), so he gave one cloak to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), one to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and one to Sayyiduna Usamah (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), you had said such and such about this, and now you have sent it to me. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sell it and fulfill your needs with it, or cut it and make cloaks for your wives.

Lady Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: When the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) married me, he said, "I had sent a suit and a few ounces of musk as a gift to the Negus. I think he has passed away, so this gift will be returned. If that happens, it will be given to you." Lady Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Then it happened exactly as the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) had said—the Negus had passed away, and the gift was returned. So the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) sent one ounce of musk to each of his wives, and he gave the suit and the rest of the musk to Lady Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her).

Lady Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: She intended to buy Barirah in order to free her, but her owners set the condition of retaining her wala (allegiance). This matter was mentioned to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), so the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Buy her and set her free, for the right of wala belongs to the one who sets free. Once, meat was given to the Prophet (peace be upon him) as a gift, so I said to the Prophet (peace be upon him): This was given to Barirah as charity. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: It was charity for her and a gift for us. The narrator named Abdur Rahman states: The husband of this woman was a free man.

Lady Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Three legal rulings became evident regarding Barirah. When she was freed, she was given the choice to stay with her husband or to separate from him. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The right of wala’ (allegiance) belongs to the one who sets free. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) entered the house and saw that meat was being cooked in a pot. When bread and another household dish were presented to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), he asked: Did I not see meat in the pot? The people replied: Yes, O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), but that meat was given to Barirah as charity, and you do not eat charity. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It was charity for her, but for us it is a gift.