Oaths and Vows

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) overtook Umar ibn al-Khattab when he was with a party of riders of about ten and Umar was swearing by his father. The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) called them and said, “Verily! Allah forbids you from swearing by your fathers. Therefore, if anyone swears, he must swear by Allah or keep silent.”

“Do not swear by your fathers, nor by your mothers, nor by the rivals (set up as equals with Allah); and do not swear by Allah except when you are speaking the truth.”

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Your oath will be about that matter which your adversary has required you to swear about so that he will believe you.” In another narration: “An oath is to be interpreted according to the intention of the one who requested it (Al-Mustahlif).”.

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “When you swear an oath and then consider something else to be better than it, make atonement for your oath and do the thing that is better.”. A wording of al-Bukhari has: “Do the thing that is better and make atonement for your oath.” In a narration by Abu Dawud: “Make atonement for your oath, then do the thing that is better.”.

“The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: ‘Whoever swears an oath, and then says: ‘If Allah Wills’, he is not held accountable if he breaks it.’.”

The Prophet’s oath (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) used to be: “No, by Him Who turns (changes) the hearts.”.

A desert Arab came to the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and said, “O Messenger of Allah, what are the major sins?” The narrator reported the Hadith and it contains: “The false oath.” It contains also: I asked, “What is the false oath?” The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) replied, “It is that (oath) by which one takes possession of the property of a Muslim person, while he is lying.”.

“Allah will not punish you for what is unintentional in your oaths (Al-Ma’idah 5:89).” She said: It (was sent down about such phrases as) a person’s sayying: ‘No, by Allah’ and ‘Yes, by Allah.’

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Verily! Allah has ninety-nine Names concerning which he who retains them in his memory will enter Paradise.”.

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said. “If one is done a kindness and.”

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) forbade making vows, and said, “It does not bring good. Indeed, it is only a means by which something is extracted from the miserly.”.

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “The atonement for a vow (Nadhr) is (the same as) the atonement an oath (Yamin).”.

“If anyone takes a vow but does not name it, its atonement is the same as that for an oath. If anyone takes a vow to do an act of disobedience, its atonement is the same as that for an oath. If anyone takes a vow which he is unable to fulfill, its atonement is the same as that for an oath.”.

(The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said) “If anyone vows to disobey Allah, then he must not disobey Him.”

(The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said) “There is no fulfillment of a vow involving an act of disobedience.”.

His sister took a vow to walk to Allah’s House (for pilgrimage) barefooted. Then, she ordered him to consult the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), so he consulted him for a religious verdict and the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) replied, “Let her walk and ride.”.

He said, “Verily! Allah, the Most High, will not do anything with the affliction your sister imposes on herself. Command her to cover her head and to ride, and to fast three days.”

Sad ibn Ubada asked the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) for a ruling regarding a vow taken by his mother who had died before fulfilling it, and he said, “Fulfill it on her behalf.”.

that in the time of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) a man took a vow to slaughter camels at Bawana. So, he came to the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and asked him (about that).

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) asked, “Did the place contain any idol which was worshiped (during Jahiliyya era)?” He said, “No.” He asked “Were any of their (Jahiliyya) festivals observed there?”

He said, “No.” He then said (to the man), “Fulfill your vow, for there is no fulfillment of a vow to do an act of disobedience to Allah, now to break the ties of relationship, nor to do something over which a human being has no control.”.

It has a Shahid (supporting narration) from the Hadith of Kardam reported by Ahmad.

A man said on the day of the Fath, “O Messenger of Allah, I have vowed that if Allah opens the conquest of Makkah at your hands I shall pray in Jerusalem.” He replied, “Pray here.” He asked him again and he replied, “Pray here.” He asked him again and he replied, “It’s up to you, then.”.

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “No (religious) journey is to be undertaken except to (pray in) the three mosques: The Sacred Mosque (Makkah), the Aqsa Mosque (Jerusalem), and this Mosque of mine (al-Madinah).”.

He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), I made a vow in the Jahiliyya times to spend a night in devotion (Itikaf) in the Sacred Mosque. He (the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)) said: “Fulfill your vow.”. al-Bukhari added in another narration: “Then, spend a night in devotion (in the Sacred Mosque).”