CHAPTER: The One Who Damages Something Is Liable To Replace It With Something Similar.
Anas said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was with one of his wives. One of the Mothers of faithful sent a bowl containing food through a servant of hers. She struck with her hand and broke the bowl. Ibn al-Muthanna's version has: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم took the pieces of the bowl, and joined one with the other, and began to collect the food in it, saying: Your mother is jealous. Ibn al-Muthanna added: Eat. They ate till a bowl of the one in whose house he was brought. Abu Dawud said: We then returned to the version of the tradition of Musaddad: He said: Eat. He detained the servant and the bowl till they were free. Then he returned the sound bowl to the messenger and detained the broken one (bowl) in his house.
Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: I saw no one cooking food like Safiyyah. She cooked food for the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and sent it. I became angry and broke the vessel. I then asked: Messenger of Allah, what is the atonement for what I have done? He replied: A vessel like (this) vessel and food like (this) food.