No. 2457

Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that a person came to the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: Messenger of Allaah, I am undone. He (the Prophet) said: What has brought about your ruin? He said: I have had intercourse with my wife during the month of Ramadan. Upon this he (the Prophet) said: Can you find a slave to set him free? He said: NO He (the Prophet again) said: Can you observe fast for two consecutive months? He said: No. He (the Prophet) said: Can you provide food to sixty poor people?, He said: No. He then sat down and (in the meanwhile) there was brought to the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) a basket which contained dates. He (the Prophet) said: Give these (dates) in charity. He (the man) said: Am I to give to one who is poorer than I? There is no family poorer than mine between the two lava plains of Medina. The Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) laughed so that his molar teeth became visible and said: Go and give it to your family to eat.

No. 2458

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Mubammad b. Muslim al-Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters, and he said: There was brought an 'araq containing dates, an 'araq being a huge basket. But in this hadith no men- tion has been made of (the fact) that the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) laughed till his molar teeth became visible.

No. 2459

Abu Huraira reported that a person had intercourse with his wife during Ramadan (while fasting). He asked for the religious verdict (about it) from the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), whereupon he (the Prophet) said: Can you find a slave (to grant him freedom)? He said: No. He (the Prophet again) said: Can you afford to observe fasts for two (consecutive) months? He said: No. He (the Prophet) said: Then feed sixty poor men.

No. 2460

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters that a person broke fast in Ramadan whereupon the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) commanded him to free a slave (as an atonement), and the rest of the hadith is the same as narrated by Ibn Uyaina.

No. 2461

Humaid b. 'Abd al-Rahman reported that Abu Huraira had narrated to him that the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) commanded the person (who) broke the fast in Ramadan to free a slave or observe fasts for two (consecutive) months or feed sixty poor persons.

No. 2462

This hadith has been narrated with the same chain of transmitters on the authority of Zuhri.

No. 2463

'A'isha (Allaah be pleased with her) reported that a person came to the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: I am burnt, whereupon the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: How is it? He (the person) said: I had intercourse with my wife during the day in Ramadan. Upon this (the Prophet) said: Give charity, give charity. He (the person) said: There is nothing with me. He commanded him to sit down, (In the meanwhile) there were brought to him (to the Prophet) two baskets containing eatables, whereupon the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) told him to give them as sadaqa.

No. 2464

'Abbad b. Abdullah b. Zubair narrated that he heard 'A'isha (Allaah be pleased with her) saying: A person came to the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), and he then narrated the hadith. But (neither these words are found):" Give charity, give charity" (nor) his words:" during the day time".

No. 2465

Abbad b. Abdullah b. Zubair reported that he had heard 'A'isha, the wife of the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), as saying: A person came to the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) in the mosque during (the month of) Ramadan and said: Messenger of Allaah, I am burnt I am burnt, whereupon the Mes- senger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) asked him as to what the matter was. Upon this he said: I had intercourse with my wife (in a state of fasting) Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Give charity. Upon this he said: Prophet of Allaah, I swear by God, there is nothing with me (to give in charity) as I do not possess anything. He (the Prophet) said: Sit down. So he sat down and he was in this very state when there came a person urging a donkey with a load of eatables upon it. The Mes- senger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Where is that burnt one who was just here? Thereupon the person stood up. The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Give this (eatables brought by the man) in charity. Upon this the person said: Messenger of Allaah, can there be anyone else (more deserving than I)? By Allaah. we are hungry, we have nothing with us. Upon this he (the Prophet) said: Then eat (these eatables).