Chapter 1: Prohibition of abusing time (dahr)
Chapter 2: Disapproval of naming the vine as a karm
Chapter 3: The proper use of the words: bondman, slave girl, al-maula and as-sayyid
Chapter 4: Disapproval of using the phrase: “My soul has become evil”
Chapter 5: The use of musk and that is the best scent, and the disapproval of rejecting the gift of scent and flower

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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: Number 5596: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abia Mu’iwiya with the same chain of transmitters.

Book 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: 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 27: Number 5601: Nafi’ reported that when Ibn Umar wanted fumigation he got it from aloes wood without mixing anything with it, or he put camphor along with aloes wood and then said: This is how Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) fumigated.