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Sunan Abi Dawud 3567 (Book 24, Hadith 152) #23857
Kindness and Mercy of the Prophet

SUMMARY: The Prophet ﷺ showed kindness and mercy to a servant by forgiving her mistake of breaking a bowl and returning the sound one back to its owner.

Anas said: The Messenger of Allah was with one of his wives. One of the Mothers of faithful sent a bowl containing food through a servant of hers. She struck with her hand and broke the bowl. Ibn al-Muthanna's version has: The Prophet took the pieces of the bowl, and joined one with the other, and began to collect the food in it, saying: Your mother is jealous. Ibn al-Muthanna added: Eat. They ate till a bowl of the one in whose house he was brought. Abu Dawud said: We then returned to the version of the tradition of Musaddad: He said: Eat. He detained the servant and the bowl till they were free. Then he returned the sound bowl to the messenger and detained the broken one (bowl) in his house.
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَانَ عِنْدَ بَعْضِ نِسَائِهِ فَأَرْسَلَتْ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَعَ خَادِمِهَا بِقَصْعَةٍ فِيهَا طَعَامٌ قَالَ فَضَرَبَتْ بِيَدِهَا فَكَسَرَتِ الْقَصْعَةَ - قَالَ ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى - فَأَخَذَ النَّبِيُّ الْكِسْرَتَيْنِ فَضَمَّ إِحْدَاهُمَا إِلَى الأُخْرَى فَجَعَلَ يَجْمَعُ فِيهَا الطَّعَامَ وَيَقُولُ ‏"‏ غَارَتْ أُمُّكُمْ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ زَادَ ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ‏"‏ كُلُوا ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى جَاءَتْ قَصْعَتُهَا الَّتِي فِي بَيْتِهَا ثُمَّ رَجَعْنَا إِلَى لَفْظِ حَدِيثِ مُسَدَّدٍ وَقَالَ ‏"‏ كُلُوا ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَحَبَسَ الرَّسُولَ وَالْقَصْعَةَ حَتَّى فَرَغُوا فَدَفَعَ الْقَصْعَةَ الصَّحِيحَةَ إِلَى الرَّسُولِ وَحَبَسَ الْمَكْسُورَةَ فِي بَيْتِهِ

TOPICS
kindness  *  mercy  *  forgiveness  *  bowl  *  rahmah  *  maghfirah

QUICK LESSONS:
Showing kindness towards others even when they make mistakes or do something wrong; instead of punishing them we should forgive them for their mistakes just like how our beloved Prophet did in this situation.

EXPLANATIONS:
This hadith is about the kindness and mercy that was shown by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). It is narrated that Anas said that once, one of the Mothers of faithful sent a bowl containing food through a servant. Unfortunately, she struck with her hand and broke it. Instead of punishing her for this mistake, he took the pieces of the bowl and joined them together again. He then collected all the food in it saying “Your mother is jealous” before allowing them to eat from it. He even detained both his servant as well as his own broken bowl until they were free from any blame or guilt before returning it back to its rightful owner. This hadith teaches us about how we should show kindness towards others even when they make mistakes or do something wrong; instead of punishing them we should forgive them for their mistakes just like how our beloved Prophet did in this situation.

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