Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
"We will never employ or we shall not employ (the narrator is doubtful) in our work one who wants it."
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Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the one who bribes and the one who takes bribe.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: O people, if any of you is put in an administrative post on our behalf and conceals from us a needle or more, he is acting unfaithfully, and will bring it on the Day of Resurrection....
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me to the Yemen as judge, and I asked: Messenger of Allah, are you sending me when I am young and have no knowledge of the duties of a judge? He replied: Allah will...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
"I am only a human being, and you bring your disputes to me, some perhaps being more eloquent in their plea than others, so that I give judgement on their behalf according to what I hear from them. Therefore, whatever...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
Two men came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who were disputing over their inheritance. They had no evidence except their claim. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said in a similar way. Thereupon both the men wept and each of them...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
I decide between you on the basis of my opinion in cases about which no revelation has been sent down to me.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
Umar said while he was (sitting) on the pulpit: O people, the opinion from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was right, because Allah showed (i.e. inspired) him; but from us it is sheer conjecture and artifice.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
Abu 'Uthman al-Shami, whose name is Hariz bin 'Uthman, told me. I think I did not see anyone from Syria better than him.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave the decision that the two adversaries should be made to sit in front of the judge.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: A judge should not decide between the two while he is in anger.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Qur'anic verse: "If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere" was abrogated by the verse: "So judge between them by what Allah hath revealed."
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
When this verse was revealed: "If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere....If thou judge, judge in equity between them." Banu an-Nadir used to pay half blood-money if they killed any-one from Banu Qurayzah....
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) intended to send Mu'adh ibn Jabal to the Yemen, he asked: How will you judge when the occasion of deciding a case arises? He replied: I shall judge in accordance with Allah's Book. He...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
Mu'adh bin Jabal said that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent him to the Yemen... He then narrated the rest of the tradition to the same effect.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Conciliation between Muslims is permissible. The narrator Ahmad added in his version: "except the conciliation which makes lawful unlawful and unlawful lawful." Sulayman ibn Dawud added: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Muslims are on (i.e....
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
"Ka'b!" He said: "At your service, Messenger of Allah." Thereupon he made a gesture with is hand indicating: Remit half the debt due to you. Ka'b said: "I shall do so, Messenger of Allah." The Prophet (ﷺ) then said: "Get...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
"Shall I not tell you of the best witnesses ? He is the one who produces his deposition or gives his evidence (the narrator is doubtful) before he is asked for it." 'Abd Allah bin Abi Bakr dobted which of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
We were sitting waiting for Abdullah ibn Umar who came out to us and sat. He then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone's intercession intervenes as an obstacle to one of the punishments prescribed...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
"He who assits in a dispute unjustly deserves the anger of Allah, Most High.