Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The vow does not bring anything near to the son of Adam which Allah has not ordained for him, but (at times) the vow coincides with Destiny, and this is how something is extracted from the miserly person, which that miser was not willing to give.
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ، قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ جَعْفَرٍ - عَنْ عَمْرٍو، - وَهْوَ ابْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو - عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ
إِنَّ النَّذْرَ لاَ يُقَرِّبُ مِنِ ابْنِ آدَمَ شَيْئًا لَمْ يَكُنِ اللَّهُ قَدَّرَهُ لَهُ وَلَكِنِ النَّذْرُ يُوَافِقُ الْقَدَرَ فَيُخْرَجُ بِذَلِكَ مِنَ الْبَخِيلِ مَا لَمْ يَكُنِ الْبَخِيلُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُخْرِجَ
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Isnad
7 transmitters- 1Yahya bin Ayoub al-GhafiqiEgypt · d. 168 AH
- 2Qutayba bin Sa'id bin JamilBulkh,Bakhalan, Baghdad · d. ~240 AH
- 3'Ali bin Hujr bin Iyas bin MaqatilBaghdad,Merv · d. 244 AH
- 4Isma'il bin Ja'far bin Abi KathirMedina, Baghdad · d. 180 AH
- 5'Amr bin Abi 'Amr (Maysayra)Medina · d. after 150 AH
- 6'Abdur Rahman bin Harmaz al-A'arajMedina · d. 117 AH
- 7Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 26, Hadith 9
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 14, Hadith 4025 (deprecated numbering scheme)