51. Gifts

٥١۔ كتاب الهبة وفضلها والتحريض عليها

51.30 Not to take back presents or Sadaqa

٥١۔٣٠ باب لاَ يَحِلُّ لأَحَدٍ أَنْ يَرْجِعَ فِي هِبَتِهِ وَصَدَقَتِهِ

bukhari:2621Muslim b. Ibrāhīm > Hishām And Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ said, "He who takes back his present is like him who swallows his vomit."  

البخاري:٢٦٢١حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ وَشُعْبَةُ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْعَائِدِ فِي قَيْئِهِ  

bukhari:2622ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Mubārak > ʿAbd al-Wārith > Ayyūb > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ said, "The bad example is not for us. He who takes back his present is like a dog that swallows back its vomit."  

البخاري:٢٦٢٢حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لَيْسَ لَنَا مَثَلُ السَّوْءِ الَّذِي يَعُودُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَرْجِعُ فِي قَيْئِهِ  

bukhari:2623Yaḥyá b. Qazaʿah > Mālik > Zayd b. Aslam from his father > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

I gave a horse in Allah's Cause. The person to whom it was given, did not look after it. I intended to buy it from him, thinking that he would sell it cheap. When I asked the Prophet ﷺ he said, "Don't buy it, even if he gives it to you for one Dirham, as the person who takes back what he has given in charity, is like a dog that swallows back its vomit."  

البخاري:٢٦٢٣حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ قَزَعَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ يَقُولُ حَمَلْتُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَأَضَاعَهُ الَّذِي كَانَ عِنْدَهُ فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَشْتَرِيَهُ مِنْهُ وَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ بَائِعُهُ بِرُخْصٍ فَسَأَلْتُ

عَنْ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ لاَ تَشْتَرِهِ وَإِنْ أَعْطَاكَهُ بِدِرْهَمٍ وَاحِدٍ فَإِنَّ الْعَائِدَ فِي صَدَقَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ