Promise and Oaths

Once we were in the house of Abu Musa who presented a meal containing cooked chicken. A man from the tribe of Bani Taim Allah with red complexion as if he were from the Byzantine war prisoners, was ...

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade vowing and said, "In fact, vowing does not prevent anything, but it makes a miser to spend his property."

that he heard Ibn `Umar saying, "Weren't people forbidden to make vows?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'A vow neither hastens nor delays anything, but by the making of vows, some of the wealth of a miser is ...

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the making of vows and said, "It (a vow) does not prevent anything (that has to take place), but the property of a miser is spent (taken out) with it."

Both parties in a business transaction have the right to annul it so long as they have not separated; and if they speak the truth and make everything clear they will be blessed in their transaction; b...

The vow neither hastens anything nor defers anything, but is the means whereby (something) is extracted from the miserly person.

Do not take vows, for a vow has no effect against Fate; it is only from the miserly that something is extracted.

The expiation of the (breach of) a vow is the same as that of the (breach of an oath).

He who took an oath and then found another thing better than (this) should expiate for the oath (broken) by him and do (the better thing).

He who took an oath and (later on) found another thing better than that, he should do that which is better, and expiate for the vow (broken by him).