The Strong Language of the Prophet (SAW) on Riba.
Finally, the Prophet (SAW) himself
echoed the extreme gravity and dire warning in the Divine language by using the
strongest possible language in connection with riba: Abu Hurairah (RAA) said
that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said:
"Riba is of seventy different kinds, the least grave being equivalent to a man marrying (i.e., having sexual intercourse with) his own mother."
"Riba is of seventy different kinds, the least grave being equivalent to a man marrying (i.e., having sexual intercourse with) his own mother."
(Ibn Majah, Baihaqi)
Abdullah Ibn Hanzala (RAA) reported
that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "A dirham (silver coin) of riba,
which a man receives knowingly, is worse than committing adultery thirty-six
times."
(Ahmad)
Baihaqi transmitted it, on the
authority of Ibn Abbas (RAA), with the addition that the Prophet (SAW) continued
to say: "Hell is more fitting for him whose flesh is nourished by what is
haram." Abu Hurairah (RAA) reported Allah's Messenger (SAW) as saying:
"On the night I was taken up to heaven I came upon people whose bellies
were like houses which contained snakes which could be seen from outside their
bellies. I asked Jibra'il who they were and he told me that they were people
who had consumed riba."
(Ahmad, Ibn Majah)
Abu Hurairah (RAA) reported that
the Prophet (SAW) said: "Allah would be justified in not allowing four persons
to enter paradise or to taste its blessings: he who drinks habitually, he who
takes riba, he who usurps an orphan's property without right, and he who is
unmindful to his parents."
(Mustadrak Al-Hakim, Kitab
al-Buyu')
Samura Ibn Jundab (RAA) reported
that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "This night I dreamt that two men
came and took me to a holy land whence we proceeded on till we reached a river
of blood, where a man was standing, and on its bank was standing another man
with stones in his hand. The man in the middle of the river tried to come out,
but the other threw a stone in his mouth and forced him to go back to his
original place. Whenever he tried to come out the other would throw a stone in
his mouth and force him to go back. I asked, 'Who is this?' I was told, 'The
person in the river was one who consumed riba.'"
(Bukhari)
The Prophet (SAW) also reaffirmed
the declaration of war from Allah and His Messenger in connection with the
prohibition of riba in the following hadith:
Jabir Ibn Abdullah (RAA) said: I
heard the Messenger of Allah (SAW) say: "If any one of you does not leave
mukhabara he should take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger." Zaid
Ibn Thabit said: I asked: What is mukhabarah? He replied: "That you have
the land for cultivation for a half, a third, or a quarter (of the
produce)." (The danger here is that it leads deceptively to slave labor.)
(Abu Daud)
It should be clear from the
material presented above that the subject of the prohibition of riba is of supreme
importance. Riba poses the gravest of all dangers to which the Ummah of the
Prophet (SAW) is exposed today. Nearly every other danger pales into
insignificance when compared with it. What, then, should we do about it?
To Be Continued....
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