CHAPTER: Is Al-Qasam An Oath?
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: Abu Bakr adjured the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Do not adjure an oath.
Narrated Ibn Abbas: Abu Hurairah narrated that a man came to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said: I had a dream last night, and he then mentioned it. So Abu Bakr interpreted it. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: You are partly right and partly wrong. He then said: I adjure you, Messenger of Allah, may my father be sacrificed on you, do tell me the mistake I have committed. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Do not adjure.
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Ibn Abbas through a different chain of narrators. In this version there is no mention of the word qasam (oath). It has the words: He did not inform him.