This is Muhammad School-6

The Prophet Muhammad asked the people to be just and kind to each other.

As the supreme judge and arbitrator, as the leader of men, and apostle, he had always to deal with men and their affairs and yet he never deviated from the path of justice.

In administering justice, he made no distinction between believers and nonbelievers, friends and foes, high and low, noble and reticent etc.

From numerous instances reported in this respect, only six examples are given herein.

(1) Sakhr, a chief of a big tribe, had helped Muhammad greatly in the beginning of Islam.

The Prophet Muhammad used to appreciate his favors very much.

However, two charges were brought against Sakhr.

The Prophet Muhammad, upon investigating the two cases, decided against Sakhr and made him undo the wrong that he had done.

(2) Abdullah ibn Sahal, a Muhammad's companion, was deputized to collect rent from Jews of a place called Khaibar. Abdullah's cousin accompanied him. Upon reaching Khaibar, they had separated. Abdullah was found killed therein in Khaibar. Abdullah's cousin reported this crime to the Prophet Muhammad; however, there was no eye-witness to identify who was guilty among the Jews.  The Prophet Muhammad did not say anything to the Jews and paid the blood-money out of his money.

(3) A noble woman from a big family with good connections was found guilty of theft.   For the prestige of her and her family, some well-known people interceded to save her from punishment. The Prophet Muhammad refused to overlook the crime and expressed his displeasure by saying this productive Hadith:

"In the past, many a community ruined itself as they only punished the poor and ignored the offences of the exalted. By Allah, if my daughter Fatima would have committed theft, she would have been punished."

(4) The Jews, in spite of their antagonism to the Prophet Muhammad, were so impressed by his neutrality and intellect of justice that they used to bring their charges to him, and he judged their charges according to Torah.

(5) Once, while Prophet Muhammad was distributing the spoils of war, people gathered around him and one man almost fell upon him. He gently pushed the man with a stick causing a slight abrasion. He was so sorry about this that he told the man that he could have his retribution, but the man said,

"O messenger of Allah, I forgive you."

(6) In the illness before his death, the Prophet Muhammad made known in a concourse assembled at his house that:

1. If he owed anything to anyone the person concerned could claim it;
2. If he had ever hurt anyone's person, honour or property, he could have his price while he was yet in this world.

A silence fell on the crowd. One man came forward to claim a few coins of money which were paid to him at once.