Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: A vow is binding in those things by which the pleasure of Allah is sought, and an oath to break ties of relationship is not binding.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: An oath or a vow about something over which a human being has no control, and to disobey Allah, and to break ties of relationship is not binding. If anyone takes an oath and then considers something else better than it, he should give it up, and do what is better, for leaving it is its atonement. Abu Dawud said: All sound traditions from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: "He should make atonement for his oath, " except those versions which are not reliable. Abu Dawud said: I said to Ahmad: Yahya bin Saeed (al-Qattan) has transmitted this tradition from Yahya bin Ubaid Allah. He (Ahmad bin Hanbal) said: But he gave it up after that, and he was competent for doing it. Ahmad said: His (Yahya bin Ubaid Allah's) tradition are munkar (rejected) and his father is not known.

Narrated Aishah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: If anyone vows to obey Allah, let him obey Him, but if anyone vows to disobey Him, let him not disobey Him.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: No vow must be taken to do an act of disobedience, and the atonement for it is the same as for an oath.

Narrated Aishah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: No vow must be taken to do an act of disobedience, and the atonement for it is the same as for an oath. Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Marwazi said: The correct chain of this tradition is: Ali bin al-Mubarak, from Yahya bin Abi Kathir, from Muhammad bin al-Zubair, from his father, on the authority of Imran bin Husain from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم Abu Dawud said: By this he (al-Marwazi) means that the narrator Sulaiman bin Arqam had some misunderstanding about this tradition. Al-Zuhri narrated it from him and then transmitted it (omitting his name) from Abu Salamah on the authority of Aishah. Abu Dawud said: Baqiyyah has transmitted it from al-Auzai from Yahya, from Muhammad bin al-Zubair with a similar chain of Ibn al-Mubarak.

Narrated Thabit ibn ad-Dahhak: In the time of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم a man took a vow to slaughter a camel at Buwanah. So he came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said: I have taken a vow to sacrifice a camel at Buwanah. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم asked: Did the place contain any idol worshipped in pre-Islamic times? They (the people) said: No. He asked: Was any pre-Islamic festival observed there? They replied: No. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Fulfil your vow, for a vow to do an act of disobedience to Allah must not be fulfilled, neither must one do something over which a human being has no control.