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Aisha said that Barira came to seek her help in the writing of her emancipation. Aisha said to her, "If you wish, I will pay your masters (your price) and the wala will be for me." When Allah's Apostle (SAW) came, she told him about it. The Prophet (SAW) said to her, "Buy her (i.e. Barira) and manumit her, for the Wala is for the one who manumits." Then Allah's Apostle (SAW) ascended the pulpit and said, "What about those people who stipulate conditions which are not in Allah's Laws? Whoever stipulates such conditions as are not in Allah's Laws, then those conditions are invalid even if he stipulated a hundred such conditions."

While I was riding a (slow) and tired camel, the Prophet (SAW) passed by and beat it and prayed for Allah's Blessings for it. The camel became so fast as it had never been before. The Prophet (SAW) then said, "Sell it to me for one Uqiya (of gold)." I said, "No." He again said, "Sell it to me for one Uqiya (of gold)." I sold it and stipulated that I should ride it to my house. When we reached (Medina) I took that camel to the Prophet (SAW) and he gave me its price. I returned home but he sent for me (and when I went to him) he said, "I will not take your camel. Take your camel as a gift for you." (Various narrations are mentioned here with slight variations in expressions relating the condition that Jabir had the right to ride the sold camel up to Medina).

Aisha said, "Barira came to me and said, 'My people (masters) have written the contract for my emancipation for nine Awaq (of gold) to be paid in yearly installments, one Uqiya per year; so help me.' " Aisha said (to her), "If your masters agree, I will pay them the whole sum provided the Wala will be for me." Barira went to her masters and told them about it, but they refused the offer and she returned from them while Allah's Apostle (SAW)s was sitting. She said, "I presented the offer to them, but they refused unless the Wala would be for them." When the Prophet (SAW) heard that and Aisha told him about it, he said to her, "Buy Barira and let them stipulate that her Wala will be for them, as the Wala is for the manumitter." Aisha did so. After that Allah's Apostle (SAW) got up amidst the people, Glorified and Praised Allah and said, "What is wrong with some people who stipulate things which are not in Allah's Laws? Any condition which is not in Allah's Laws is invalid even if there were a hundred such conditions. Allah's Rules are the most valid and Allah's Conditions are the most solid. The Wala is for the manumitter."

Allah's Apostle (SAW) said, "Allah has ninety nine names, i.e. one hundred minus one, and whoever counts them (believes in their meanings and acts accordingly) will enter Paradise." (Please see Hadith No. 419 Vol. 8)

Allah's Apostle (SAW) said, "It is not permissible for any Muslim who has something to will to stay for two nights without having his last will and testament written and kept ready with him."

(The brother of the wife of Allah's Apostle (SAW). Juwairiya bint Al-Harith) When Allah's Apostle (SAW) died, he did not leave any Dirham or Dinar (i.e. money), a slave or a slave woman or anything else except his white mule, his arms and a piece of land which he had given in charity.

I recommend that people reduce the proportion of what they bequeath by will to the fourth (of the whole legacy), for Allah's Apostle (SAW) said, "One-third, yet even one third is too much."

I fell sick and the Prophet (SAW) paid me a visit. I said to him, "O Allah's Apostle (SAW)! I invoke Allah that He may not let me expire in the land whence I migrated (i.e. Makkah)." He said, "May Allah give you health and let the people benefit by you." I said, "I want to will my property, and I have only one daughter and I want to will half of my property (to be given in charity)." He said," Half is too much." I said, "Then I will one third." He said, "One-third, yet even one-third is too much." (The narrator added, "So the people started to will one third of their property and that was Permitted for them.")

When the people of Khaibar dislocated Abdullah bin Umar's hands and feet, Umar got up delivering a Khutba (sermon) saying, "No doubt, Allah's Apostle (SAW) made a contract with the Jews concerning their properties, and said to them, 'We allow you (to stand in your land) as long as Allah allows you.' Now Abdullah bin Umar went to his land and was attacked at night, and his hands and feet were dislocated, and as we have no enemies there except those Jews, they are our enemies and the only people whom we suspect, I have made up my mind to exile them." When Umar decided to carry out his decision, a son of Abu Al-Haqiq's came and addressed Umar, "O chief of the believers, will you exile us although Muhammad allowed us to stay at our places, and made a contract with us about our properties, and accepted the condition of our residence in our land?" Umar said, "Do you think that I have forgotten the statement of Allah's Apostle (SAW), i.e.: What will your condition be when you are expelled from Khaibar and your camel will be carrying you night after night?" The Jew replied, "That was joke from Abul-Qasim." Umar said, "O the enemy of Allah! You are telling a lie." Umar then drove them out and paid them the price of their properties in the form of fruits, money, camel saddles and ropes, etc."

Urwa said, "Aisha told me that Allah's Apostle (SAW) used to examine the women emigrants. We have been told also that when Allah revealed the order that the Muslims should return to the pagans what they had spent on their wives who emigrated (after embracing Islam) and that the Muslims should not keep unbelieving women as their wives, Umar divorced two of his wives, Qariba, the daughter of Abu Umaiyya and the daughter of Jarwal Al-Khuzai. Later on Muawlya married Qariba and Abu Jahm married the other." When the pagans refused to pay what the Muslims had spent on their wives, Allah revealed: "And if any of your wives have gone from you to the disbelievers..." (60.11) So, Allah ordered that the Muslim whose wife, has gone, should be given, as a compensation of the Mahr he had given to his wife, from the Mahr of the wives of the Mushrikun who had emigrated deserting their husbands. We do not know any of the women emigrants who deserted Islam after embracing it. We have also been told that Abu Basir bin Asid Ath-Thaqafi came to the Prophet (SAW) as a Muslim emigrant during the truce. Al-Akhnas bin Shariq wrote to the Prophet (SAW) requesting him to return Abu Basir.