Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
Text and translation
English translation
1335. Mu'ādḥ bin Jabal narrated: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ dispatched me to Yemen. When I had left, he sent a message after me, so I returned and he said: 'Do you know why I sent a message to you? Do not take anything without my permission, for that will be Ghulūl,[1] and whoever commits
Ghulūl, he comes with what he took on the Day of Judgement. This is why I called you, so now go and do your job.”) (Da'if)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Adī bin 'Umayr, Buraidah, Al-Mustawrid bin Shaddād, Abū Humaid, and Ibn 'Umar.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The Hadīth of Mu'ādī is a Hasan Gharīb Hadīth, we do not know of it except from this route, as a narration of Abū Umāmah from Dāwūd Al-Awdī.
Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
Footnotes
1
[1] See Hadīth no. 1.
Commentary
When a person gets a post and position of authority in some government department, usually people from the general public go to visit him and offer congratulations, and present gifts as a token of good will. These gifts are not presented to him but to his authoritative post. So accepting such gifts is unlawful. These gifts, according to this narration, come under the category of bribery and misuse of authority.
