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Translation of Sahih Muslim, Book 27:
The Book Concerning the Use of Correct
Words (Kitab Al-Alfaz min Al-Adab wa Ghairiha)
Chapter 1: PROHIBITION OF ABUSING TIME (DAHR)
Book 027, Number 5580:
Abu Huraira reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: The son of Adam abuses Dahr
(the time), whereas I am Dahr since in My hand are the day and the night.
Book 027, Number 5581:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: The son of Adam displeases Me by
abusing Dahr (time), whereas I am Dahr--I alternate the night and the day.
Book 027, Number 5582:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: The son of Adam causes Me pain as
he says: Woe be upon the Time. None of you should say this: Woe be upon the Time, as I am
the Time (because) I alternate the day and the night, and when I wish I can finish them
up.
Book 027, Number 5583:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: None of you should say: Woe be upon the Time, for verily Allah is the
Time.
Book 027, Number 5584:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Do not abuse Time, for it is Allah Who is the Time.
Chapter 2: DISAPPROVAL OF NAMING THE VINE AS A KARM
Book 027, Number 5585:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: None of you should abuse Time for it is Allah Who is the Time, and none of
you should call 'Inab (grape) as al-karm, for karm is a Muslim person.
Book 027, Number 5586:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Do not use the word karm (for wine) for worthy of respect is the heart of
a believer.
Book 027, Number 5587:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Do not name grape as karm, for worthy of respect is a Muslim.
Book 027, Number 5588:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: None of you should use the word al-harin (for grape) for the heart of a
believer is karm (worthy of respect).
Book 027, Number 5589:
Abu Huraira reported from Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) various ahadith, one of which is this that he said: None of you should use the
word al-karm for 'Inab, for karm (worthy of respect) is a Muslim person.
Book 027, Number 5590:
'Alqama b. Wa'il reported, from his father, Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) having said: Do not say al-karm (for the word vine) but say
al-habala (that is grape). This hadith has been reported by Alqama b. Wa'il on the
authority of his father with a different chain of transmitters and with a slight variation
of wording.
Chapter 3: THE PROPER USE OF THE WORDS: BONDMAN,
SLAVE-GIRL, AL-MAULA AND AS-SAYYID
Book 027, Number 5591:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: None of you should say: My bondman and my slave-girl, for all of you are
the bondmen of Allah, and all your women are the slave-girls of Allah; but say: My
servant, my girl, and my young man and my young girl.
Book 027, Number 5592:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: None of you should say: My bondman, for all of you are the bondmen of
Allah, but say: My young man, and the servant should not say: My Lord, but should say: My
chief.
Book 027, Number 5593:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of al-A'mash
with the same chain of transmitters, and the words are that the servant should not say to
his chief: My Lord, and Abu Mu'awiya made an addition:" For it is Allah, the Exalted
and Glorious, Who is your Lord."
Book 027, Number 5594:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) so many ahadith and one of them is this that Allah's Messenaer (may peace be upon
him) said: None of you should say: Supply drink to your lord, feed your lord, hell) your
lord in performing ablution, and none of you should say: My Lord. He should say: My chief,
my patron; and none of you should say: My bondman, my slave-girl, but simply say: My boy,
my girl, my servant.
Chapter 4: DISAPPROVAL OF USING THE PHRASE:"
MY SOUL HAS BECOME EVIL"
Book 027, Number 5595:
'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: None of you should say:" My soul has become evil," but he should
say:" My soul has become remorseless." This hadith has been transmitted on the
authority of Abfl Bakr with a slight variation of wording.
Book 027, Number 5596:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abia
Mu'iwiya with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 027, Number 5597:
Abu Umama b. Sahl b. Hunaif, on the authority of his
father, reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: None of you should
say:" My soul has become evil," but he should say:" My soul has become
remorseless."
Chapter 5: THE USE OF MUSK AND THAT IS THE BEST
SCENT, AND THE DISAPPROVAL OF REJECTING THE GIFT OF SCENT AND FLOWER
Book 027, Number 5598:
Abd Sa'id Khudri reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) as saying: There was a woman from Bani Isra'il who was short-statured and she
walked in the company of two tall women with wooden sandals in her feet and a ring of gold
made of plates with musk filled in them and then looked up, and musk is the best of
scents; then she walked between two women and they (the people) did not recognise her, and
she made a gesture with her hand like this, and Shu'ba shook his hand in order to give an
indication how she shook her hand.
Book 027, Number 5599:
Abu Sa'id Khudri reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) made a mention of a woman of Bana Isra'il who had filled her ring with musk
and musk is the most fragrant of the scents.
Book 027, Number 5600:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: He who is presented with a flower should not reject it, for it is light to
carry and pleasant in odour.
Book 027, Number 5601:
Nafi' reported that when Ibn Umar wanted fumigation he got
it from aloeswood without mixing anything with it, or he put camphor along with aloeswood
and then said: This is how Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) fumigated.
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