Ques: Salam. I found in a book that Nabi (S.A.W) was not prepared to reply to the greeting of a person who was bare headed (Mishkat).
Can any brother quote the exact hadith and its context. i am sure our respected mufti saab is aware about it.
Ans: Brother, I can’t recall any hadith like that. However, we see some incidents in which Nabi (S.A.W) didn’t reply to salam. These r reported in Mishkat, as well as in other Hadith books. I shall quote four of them from Mishkat..
1. This is the famous incident, in which Sahabi Abu Juhaim (RaD) greeted Nabi (S.A.W) when He just came out of the toilet. So He didn’t reply him until He did tayammum.
2. This is the story of the early days in Islam. People used to greet each other during salat and it was permissible that time. After that when some Sahaba (Rad) went to Habasha, any type of talk during salat had been forbidden. So when those Sahaba (RAD) returned, and unknowingly greeted Nabi (S.A.W) during salat, he didn’t reply. And after salat, he informed them of the new rule.
3. This is the story of Sahabi Ammar bin Yaser (RAD), he had Zafran in his hand, and so Nabi (S.W.A) didn’t reply to his salam and rather said: “Go and wash it”.
4. Here Nabi (S.W.A) didn’t reply to a person wearing read clothes.
I have confirmed with my respected teacher who has been teaching Mishkat, Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi etc. for more than 12 years. He said, he never heard or read any hadith like that. So, may be the author had mis-quoted.
And Allah knows best.
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Answered by Yousuf
Sunniforum, 18 Apr ’09