Bk 27 Concerning the Use of Correct Words
(Kitab Al−Alfaz min Al−Adab wa Ghairiha)
Chapter 1: PROHIBITION OF ABUSING TIME (DAHR)
Bk 27, Number 5580:
Abu Huraira reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said:
The son of Adam abuses Dahr (the time), whereas I am Dahr
since in My hand are the day and the night.
Bk 27, Number 5581:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: The son of
Adam displeases Me by abusing Dahr (time), whereas I am
Dahr−−I alternate the night and the day.
Bk 27, Number 5582:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: The son of
Adam causes Me pain as he says: Woe be upon the Time. None of
you should say this: Woe be upon the Time, as I am the Time
(because) I alternate the day and the night, and when I wish I
can finish them up.
Bk 27, Number 5583:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: None of you should say: Woe be upon the Time, for
verily Allah is the Time.
Bk 27, Number 5584:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Do not abuse Time, for it is Allah Who is the Time.
Chapter 2: DISAPPROVAL OF NAMING THE VINE AS A KARM
Bk 27, Number 5585:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: None of you should abuse Time for it is Allah Who
is the Time, and none of you should call 'Inab (grape) as
al−karm, for karm is a Muslim person.
Bk 27, Number 5586:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Do not use the word karm (for wine) for worthy of
respect is the heart of a believer.
Bk 27, Number 5587:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Do not name grape as karm, for worthy of respect is
a Muslim.
Bk 27, Number 5588:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: None of you should use the word al−harin (for
grape) for the heart of a believer is karm (worthy of
respect).
Bk 27, Number 5589:
Abu Huraira reported from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) various ahadith, one of which is this that he said: None
of you should use the word al−karm for 'Inab, for karm (worthy
of respect) is a Muslim person.
Bk 27, Number 5590:
'Alqama b. Wa'il reported, from his father, Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) having said: Do not say al−karm (for
the word vine) but say al−habala (that is grape). This hadith
has been reported by Alqama b. Wa'il on the authority of his
father with a different chain of transmitters and with a
slight variation of wording.
Chapter 3: THE PROPER USE OF THE WORDS: BONDMAN, SLAVE−GIRL,
AL−MAULA AND AS−SAYYID
Bk 27, Number 5591:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: None of you should say: My bondman and my
slave−girl, for all of you are the bondmen of Allah, and all
your women are the slave−girls of Allah; but say: My servant,
my girl, and my young man and my young girl.
Bk 27, Number 5592:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: None of you should say: My bondman, for all of you
are the bondmen of Allah, but say: My young man, and the
servant should not say: My Lord, but should say: My chief.
Bk 27, Number 5593:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of al−A'mash
with the same chain of transmitters, and the words are that
the servant should not say to his chief: My Lord, and Abu
Mu'awiya made an addition:" For it is Allah, the Exalted and
Glorious, Who is your Lord."
Bk 27, Number 5594:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
so many ahadith and one of them is this that Allah's Messenaer
(may peace be upon him) said: None of you should say: Supply
drink to your lord, feed your lord, hell) your lord in
performing ablution, and none of you should say: My Lord. He
should say: My chief, my patron; and none of you should say:
My bondman, my slave−girl, but simply say: My boy, my girl, my
servant.
Chapter 4: DISAPPROVAL OF USING THE PHRASE:" MY SOUL HAS
BECOME EVIL"
Bk 27, Number 5595:
'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: None of you should say:" My soul has become
evil," but he should say:" My soul has become remorseless."
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abfl Bakr
with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 27, Number 5596:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abia
Mu'iwiya with the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 27, Number 5597:
Abu Umama b. Sahl b. Hunaif, on the authority of his father,
reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
None of you should say:" My soul has become evil," but he
should say:" My soul has become remorseless."
Chapter 5: THE USE OF MUSK AND THAT IS THE BEST SCENT, AND THE
DISAPPROVAL OF REJECTING THE GIFT OF SCENT AND FLOWER
Bk 27, Number 5598:
Abd Sa'id Khudri reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: There was a woman from Bani Isra'il who was
short−statured and she walked in the company of two tall women
with wooden sandals in her feet and a ring of gold made of
plates with musk filled in them and then looked up, and musk
is the best of scents; then she walked between two women and
they (the people) did not recognise her, and she made a
gesture with her hand like this, and Shu'ba shook his hand in
order to give an indication how she shook her hand.
Bk 27, Number 5599:
Abu Sa'id Khudri reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) made a mention of a woman of Bana Isra'il who had
filled her ring with musk and musk is the most fragrant of the
scents.
Bk 27, Number 5600:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: He who is presented with a flower should not reject
it, for it is light to carry and pleasant in odour.
Bk 27, Number 5601:
Nafi' reported that when Ibn Umar wanted fumigation he got it
from aloeswood without mixing anything with it, or he put
camphor along with aloeswood and then said: This is how
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) fumigated.
