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1269. ‘Abdullāh bin Mas‘ūd narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Whoever takes a false oath to deprive a Muslim of his wealth, he will meet Allāh while He is angry with him.”
Al-Ash‘ath bin Qais said: “It is about me, by Allāh! There was a dispute about some land between myself and a man from the Jews who denied my ownership of it, so I took him to the Prophet ﷺ. the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to me: ‘Do you have any proof?’ I said: ‘No.’ So he said to the Jew: ‘Take an oath.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh! If he takes an oath then my property will be gone!’ So Allāh, Most High revealed: Verily those who purchase a small gain at the cost of Allāh’s Covenant and their oaths... until the end of the Āyah”[1] (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] There are narrations on this topic from Wā’il bin Hujr, Abū Mūsā, Abū Umāmah bin Tha’labah Al-Anṣārī, and ‘Imrān bin Ḥuṣain. The Ḥadīth of Ibn Mas‘ūd is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīth.
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[1] Āl ‘Imrān 3:77.
Commentary
This narration is a proof that if there is a dispute between two persons the claimant has to produce two witnesses in his favor, and if he fails to produce, the respondent will take an oath, and the decision will be given on the oath of the respondent, whether he swore a true oath or false.
