Narrated Zahdam:When Abu Musa arrived (at Kufa as a governor) he honored this family of Jarm (by paying them a visit). I was sitting near to him, and he was eating chicken as his lunch, and there was a man sitting amongst the people. Abu Musa invited the man to the lunch, but the latter said, "I saw chickens (eating something (dirty) so I consider them unclean." Abu Musa said, "Come on! I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) eating it (i.e. chicken)." The man said "I have taken an oath that I will not ea (chicken)" Abu Musa said." Come on! I will tell you about your oath. We, a group of Al-Ash`ariyin people went to the Prophet and asked him to give us something to ride, but the Prophet (ﷺ) refused. Then we asked him for the second time to give us something to ride, but the Prophet (ﷺ) took an oath that he would not give us anything to ride. After a while, some camels of booty were brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he ordered that five camels be given to us. When we took those camels we said, "We have made the Prophet (ﷺ) forget his oath, and we will not be successful after that." So I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah' Apostle ! You took an oath that you would not give us anything to ride, but you have given us." He said, "Yes, for if I take an oath and later I see a better solution than that, I act on the later (and gave the expiation of that oaths"
Reference
Sahih al-Bukhari 4385
In-book reference
Book 64, Hadith 408
USC-MSA web (English)
Vol. 5, Book 59, Hadith 668
Translation by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan · Language: EN
Sahih
It is related that Zahdam said, "When Abu Musa arrived, he honoured this clan of Jarm. I was sitting with him and he was having chicken for lunch. There was a man sitting among the people and he invited him to have lunch, and he said, 'I saw them [the chickens] eating something filthy.' He said, 'Come, I saw the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, eat it.' He said, 'I have taken an oath not to eat it.' He said, 'Come and I will inform you about that. We came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, among the group of the Ash'arites, asking him to give us mounts. He refused to give us mounts. Then we asked him again to give us mounts and he swore that he would not give us mounts. A short time later the the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was brought some camels as booty. He commanded for us five camels with white humps. When we took them, we said, 'We have made the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forget his oath and we will never be successful after that.' I went to him and said, 'Messenger of Allah, you swore that you would not give us mounts and then you gave us mounts?' He said, 'Yes, but I will never make an oath and then see something better than it without doing the thing that is better and doing expiation for it.'"
Reference
Sahih al-Bukhari 4385
In-book reference
Book 64, Hadith 408
USC-MSA web (English)
Vol. 5, Book 59, Hadith 668
Translation by Aisha Bewley · Language: EN
Sahih