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A man said, "O Allah's Apostle! Which sin is the greatest in Allah's Sight?" The
Prophet said, "To set up a rival unto Allah though He Alone created you . " The
man said, "What is next?" The Prophet said, "To kill your son lest he should share
your food with you." The man said, "What is next?" The Prophet said, "To commit
illegal sexual intercourse with the wife of your neighbor." So Allah revealed in
confirmation of this narration:--'And those who invoke not with Allah, any other god. Nor kill, such life as Allah
has forbidden except for just cause nor commit illegal sexual intercourse. And
whoever does this shall receive the punishment.' (25.68)
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 2:Allah's Apostle said, "A faithful believer remains at liberty regarding his religion
unless he kills somebody unlawfully."One of the evil deeds with bad consequence from which there is no escape for the
one who is involved in it is to kill someone unlawfully.
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 4:The Prophet said, "The first cases to be decided among the people (on the Day of
Resurrection) will be those of blood-shed."An ally of Bani Zuhra who took part in the battle of Badr with the Prophet, that he
said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I meet an unbeliever and we have a fight, and he strikes
my hand with the sword and cuts it off, and then takes refuge from me under a
tree, and says, 'I have surrendered to Allah (i.e. embraced Islam),' may I kill him
after he has said so?" Allah's Apostle said, "Do not kill him." Al-Miqdad said, "But
O Allah's Apostle! He had chopped off one of my hands and he said that after he
had cut it off. May I kill him?" The Prophet said. "Do not kill him for if you kill him,
he would be in the position in which you had been before you kill him, and you
would be in the position in which he was before he said the sentence." The Prophet
also said to Al-Miqdad, "If a faithful believer conceals his faith (Islam) from the
disbelievers, and then when he declares his Islam, you kill him, (you will be sinful).
Remember that you were also concealing your faith (Islam) at Mecca before."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 6:The Prophet said, "No human being is killed unjustly, but a part of responsibility for
the crime is laid on the first son of Adam who invented the tradition of killing
(murdering) on the earth. (It is said that he was Qabil).
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 7:The Prophet said, "After me (i.e. after my death), do not become disbelievers, by
striking (cutting) the necks of one another.The Prophet said during Hajjat-al-Wada', "Let the people be quiet and listen to
me. After me, do not become disbelievers, by striking (cutting) the necks of one
another."The Prophet said, "Al-Kaba'ir (the biggest sins) are: To join others (as partners) in
worship with Allah, to be undutiful to one's parents," or said, "to take a false oath."
(The sub-narrator, Shu'ba is not sure) Mu'adh said: Shu'ba said, "Al-kaba'ir (the
biggest sins) are: (1) Joining others as partners in worship with Allah, (2) to take a
false oath (3) and to be undutiful to one's parents," or said, "to murder (someone
unlawfully).The Prophet said, "The biggest of Al-Kaba'ir (the great sins) are (1) to join others
as partners in worship with Allah, (2) to murder a human being, (3) to be undutiful
to one's parents (4) and to make a false statement," or said, "to give a false
witness."Allah's Apostle sent us (to fight) against Al-Huraqa (one of the sub-tribes) of
Juhaina. We reached those people in the morning and defeated them. A man from
the Ansar and I chased one of their men and when we attacked him, he said,
"None has the right to be worshipped but Allah." The Ansari refrained from killing
him but I stabbed him with my spear till I killed him. When we reached (Medina),
this news reached the Prophet. He said to me, "O Usama! You killed him after he
had said, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah?"' I said, "O Allah's
Apostle! He said so in order to save himself." The Prophet said, "You killed him
after he had said, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah." The Prophet
kept on repeating that statement till I wished I had not been a Muslim before that
day.I was among those Naqibs (selected leaders) who gave the Pledge of allegiance to
Allah's Apostle. We gave the oath of allegiance, that we would not join partners in
worship besides Allah, would not steal, would not commit illegal sexual
intercourse, would not kill a life which Allah has forbidden, would not commit
robbery, would not disobey (Allah and His Apostle), and if we fulfilled this pledge
we would have Paradise, but if we committed any one of these (sins), then our
case will be decided by Allah.The Prophet said, "Whoever carries arms against us, is not from us."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 14:I went to help that man (i.e., 'Ali), and on the way I met Abu Bakra who asked
me, "Where are you going?" I replied, "I am going to help that man." He said, "Go
back, for I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'If two Muslims meet each other with their
swords then (both) the killer and the killed one are in the (Hell) Fire.' I said, 'O
Allah's Apostle! It is alright for the killer, but what about the killed one?' He said,
'The killed one was eager to kill his opponent."A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones, and the girl was asked,
"Who has done that to you, so-and-so or so and so?" (Some names were
mentioned for her) till the name of that Jew was mentioned (whereupon she
agreed). The Jew was brought to the Prophet and the Prophet kept on questioning
him till he confessed, whereupon his head was crushed with stones.
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 16:A girl wearing ornaments, went out at Medina. Somebody struck her with a stone.
She was brought to the Prophet while she was still alive. Allah's Apostle asked her,
"Did such-and-such a person strike you?" She raised her head, denying that. He
asked her a second time, saying, "Did so-and-so strike you?" She raised her head,
denying that. He said for the third time, "Did so-and-so strike you?" She lowered
her head, agreeing. Allah's Apostle then sent for the killer and killed him between
two stones.Allah's Apostle said, "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right
to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in
three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual
intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the
Muslims."A Jew killed a girl so that he may steal her ornaments. He struck her with a stone,
and she was brought to the Prophet while she was still alive. The Prophet asked
her, "Did such-and-such person strike you?" She gestured with her head,
expressing denial. He asked her for the second time, and she again gestured with
her head, expressing denial. When he asked her for the third time, she beckoned,
"Yes." So the Prophet killed him (the Jew) with two stones.
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 19:In the year of the Conquest of Mecca, the tribe of Khuza'a killed a man from the
tribe of Bam Laith in revenge for a killed person belonging to them in the
Pre-lslamic Period of Ignorance. So Allah's Apostle got up saying, "Allah held
back the (army having) elephants from Mecca, but He let His Apostle and the
believers overpower the infidels (of Mecca). Beware! (Mecca is a sanctuary)!
Verily! Fighting in Mecca was not permitted for anybody before me, nor will it be
permitted for anybody after me; It was permitted for me only for a while (an hour
or so) of that day. No doubt! It is at this moment a sanctuary; its thorny shrubs
should not be uprooted; its trees should not be cut down; and its Luqata (fallen
things) should not be picked up except by the one who would look for its owner.
And if somebody is killed, his closest relative has the right to choose one of two
things, i.e., either the Blood money or retaliation by having the killer killed." Then a
man from Yemen, called Abu Shah, stood up and said, "Write that) for me, O
Allah's Apostle!" Allah's Apostle said (to his companions), "Write that for Abu
Shah." Then another man from Quraish got up, saying, "O Allah's Apostle! Except
Al-Idhkhir (a special kind of grass) as we use it in our houses and for graves."
Allah's Apostle said, "Except Al-idhkkir."For the children of Israel the punishment for crime was Al-Qisas only (i.e., the law
of equality in punishment) and the payment of Blood money was not permitted as
an alternate. But Allah said to this nation (Muslims): 'O you who believe! Qisas is
prescribed for you in case of murder, .....(up to) ...end of the Verse. (2.178)
Ibn 'Abbas added: Remission (forgiveness) in this Verse, means to accept the
Blood-money in an intentional murder. Ibn 'Abbas added: The Verse: 'Then the
relatives should demand Blood-money in a reasonable manner.' (2.178) means that
the demand should be reasonable and it is to be compensated with handsome
gratitude.The Prophet said, "The most hated persons to Allah are three: (1) A person who
deviates from the right conduct, i.e., an evil doer, in the Haram (sanctuaries of
Mecca and Medina); (2) a person who seeks that the traditions of the Pre-lslamic
Period of Ignorance, should remain in Islam (3) and a person who seeks to shed
somebody's blood without any right."The pagans were defeated on the day (of the battle) of Uhud. Satan shouted
among the people on the day of Uhud, "O Allah's worshippers! Beware of what is
behind you!" So the front file of the army attacked the back files (mistaking them
for the enemy) till they killed Al-Yaman. Hudhaifa (bin Al-Yaman) shouted, "My
father!" My father! But they killed him. Hudhaifa said, "May Allah forgive you."
(The narrator added: Some of the defeated pagans fled till they reached Taif.)
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 23:A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. It was said to her. "Who has
done this to you, such-and-such person, such-and-such person?" When the name
of the Jew was mentioned, she nodded with her head, agreeing. So the Jew was
brought and he confessed. The Prophet ordered that his head be crushed with the
stones. (Hammam said, "with two stones.")Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet killed a Jew for killing a girl in order to take
her ornaWe poured medicine into the mouth of the Prophet during his ailment. He said,
"Don't pour medicine into my mouth." (We thought he said that) out of the aversion
a patient usually has for medicines. When he improved and felt better he said,
"There is none of you but will be forced to drink medicine, except Al-'Abbas, for
he did not witness your deed."That he heard Allah's Apostle saying, "We (Muslims) are the last (to come) but
(will be) the foremost (on the Day of Resurrection)." And added, "If someone is
peeping (looking secretly) into your house without your permission, and you throw
a stone at him and destroy his eyes, there will be no blame on you."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 27:Humaid said, "A man peeped into the house of the Prophet and the Prophet aimed
an arrow head at him to hit him." I asked, "Who told you that?" He said, "Anas bin
Malik" (See Hadith No. 258 and 259, Vol. 8)"When it was the day of (the battle of) Uhud, the pagans were defeated. Then
Satan shouted, "O Allah's worshipers! Beware of what is behind you!" So the front
files attacked the back files of the army. Hudhaifa looked, and behold, there was
his father, Al-Yaman (being attacked) ! He shouted (to his companions), "O
Allah's worshipers, my father, my father!" But by Allah, they did not stop till they
killed him (i.e., Hudhaifa's father). Hudhaifa said, "May Allah forgive you." ('Urwa
said, Hudhaifa continued asking Allah's Forgiveness for the killer of his father till he
died.We went out with the Prophet to Khaibar. A man (from the companions) said, "O
'Amir! Let us hear some of your Huda (camel-driving songs.)" So he sang some of
them (i.e. a lyric in harmony with the camels walk). The Prophet said, "Who is the
driver (of these camels)?" They said, "Amir." The Prophet said, "May Allah bestow
His Mercy on him !" The people said, "O Allah's Apostle! Would that you let us
enjoy his company longer!" Then 'Amir was killed the following morning. The
people said, "The good deeds of 'Amir are lost as he has killed himself." I returned
at the time while they were talking about that. I went to the Prophet and said, "O
Allah's Prophet! Let my father be sacrificed for you! The people claim that 'Amir's
good deeds are lost." The Prophet said, "Whoever says so is a liar, for 'Amir will
have a double reward as he exerted himself to obey Allah and fought in Allah's
Cause. No other way of killing would have granted him greater reward."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 30:A man bit another man's hand and the latter pulled his hand out of his mouth by
force, causing two of his incisors (teeth) to fall out. They submitted their case to the
Prophet, who said, "One of you bit his brother as a male camel bites. (Go away),
there is no Diya (Blood-money) for you."I went out in one of the Ghazwa and a man bit another man and as a result, an
incisor tooth of the former was pulled out. The Prophet cancelled the case.
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 32:The daughter of An-Nadr slapped a girl and broke her incisor tooth. They (the
relatives of that girl), came to the Prophet and he gave the order of Qisas (equality
in punishment).The Prophet said, "This and this are the same." He meant the little finger and the
thumb.I heard the Prophet (saying the same as above Hadith 34).
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 35:We poured medicine into the mouth of Allah's Apostle during his illness, and he
pointed out to us intending to say, "Don't pour medicine into my mouth." We
thought that his refusal was out of the aversion a patient usually has for medicine.
When he improved and felt a bit better he said (to us.) "Didn't I forbid you to pour
medicine into my mouth?" We said, "We thought (you did so) because of the
aversion, one usually have for medicine." Allah's Apostle said, "There is none of
you but will be forced to drink medicine, and I will watch you, except Al-'Abbas,
for he did not witness this act of yours."(a man from the Ansar) that a number of people from his tribe went to Khaibar and
dispersed, and then they found one of them murdered. They said to the people
with whom the corpse had been found, "You have killed our companion!" Those
people said, "Neither have we killed him, nor do we know his killer." The
bereaved group went to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! We went to
Khaibar and found one of us murdered." The Prophet said, "Let the older among
you come forward and speak." Then the Prophet said, to them, "Bring your proof
against the killer." They said "We have no proof." The Prophet said, "Then they
(the defendants) will take an oath." They said, "We do not accept the oaths of the
Jews." Allah's Apostle did not like that the Blood-money of the killed one be lost
without compensation, so he paid one-hundred camels out of the camels of Zakat
(to the relatives of the deceased) as Diya (Blood-money).
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 37:Once 'Umar bin 'Abdul 'Aziz sat on his throne in the courtyard of his house so that
the people might gather before him. Then he admitted them and (when they came
in), he said, "What do you think of Al-Qasama?" They said, "We say that it is
lawful to depend on Al-Qasama in Qisas, as the previous Muslim Caliphs carried
out Qisas depending on it." Then he said to me, "O Abu Qilaba! What do you say
about it?" He let me appear before the people and I said, "O Chief of the
Believers! You have the chiefs of the army staff and the nobles of the Arabs. If fifty
of them testified that a married man had committed illegal sexual intercourse in
Damascus but they had not seen him (doing so), would you stone him?" He said,
"No." I said, "If fifty of them testified that a man had committed theft in Hums,
would you cut off his hand though they did not see him?" He replied, "No." I said,
"By Allah, Allah's Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three
situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a
married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought
against Allah and His Apostle and deserted Islam and became an apostate." Then
the people said, "Didn't Anas bin Malik narrate that Allah's Apostle cut off the
hands of the thieves, branded their eyes and then, threw them in the sun?" I said, "I
shall tell you the narration of Anas. Anas said: "Eight persons from the tribe of 'Ukl
came to Allah's Apostle and gave the Pledge of allegiance for Islam (became
Muslim). The climate of the place (Medina) did not suit them, so they became sick
and complained about that to Allah's Apostle. He said (to them ), "Won't you go
out with the shepherd of our camels and drink of the camels' milk and urine (as
medicine)?" They said, "Yes." So they went out and drank the camels' milk and
urine, and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of Allah's Apostle
and took away all the camels. This news reached Allah's Apostle , so he sent
(men) to follow their traces and they were captured and brought (to the Prophet).
He then ordered to cut their hands and feet, and their eyes were branded with
heated pieces of iron, and then he threw them in the sun till they died." I said,
"What can be worse than what those people did? They deserted Islam, committed
murder and theft."Then 'Anbasa bin Said said, "By Allah, I never heard a narration like this of today."
I said, "O 'Anbasa! You deny my narration?" 'Anbasa said, "No, but you have
related the narration in the way it should be related. By Allah, these people are in
welfare as long as this Sheikh (Abu Qilaba) is among them." I added, "Indeed in
this event there has been a tradition set by Allah's Apostle. The narrator added:
Some Ansari people came to the Prophet and discussed some matters with him, a
man from amongst them went out and was murdered. Those people went out after
him, and behold, their companion was swimming in blood. They returned to Allah's
Apostle and said to him, "O Allah's Apostle, we have found our companion who
had talked with us and gone out before us, swimming in blood (killed)." Allah's
Apostle went out and asked them, "Whom do you suspect or whom do you think
has killed him?" They said, "We think that the Jews have killed him." The Prophet
sent for the Jews and asked them, "Did you kill this (person)?" They replied, "No."
He asked the Al-Ansars, "Do you agree that I let fifty Jews take an oath that they
have not killed him?" They said, "It matters little for the Jews to kill us all and then
take false oaths." He said, "Then would you like to receive the Diya after fifty of
you have taken an oath (that the Jews have killed your man)?" They said, "We will
not take the oath." Then the Prophet himself paid them the Diya (Blood-money)."
The narrator added, "The tribe of Hudhail repudiated one of their men (for his evil
conduct) in the Pre-lslamic period of Ignorance.Then, at a place called Al-Batha' (near Mecca), the man attacked a Yemenite
family at night to steal from them, but a. man from the family noticed him and struck
him with his sword and killed him. The tribe of Hudhail came and captured the
Yemenite and brought him to 'Umar during the Hajj season and said, "He has killed
our companion." The Yemenite said, "But these people had repudiated him (i.e.,
their companion)." 'Umar said, "Let fifty persons of Hudhail swear that they had
not repudiated him." So forty-nine of them took the oath and then a person
belonging to them, came from Sham and they requested him to swear similarly, but
he paid one-thousand Dirhams instead of taking the oath. They called another man
instead of him and the new man shook hands with the brother of the deceased.
Some people said, "We and those fifty men who had taken false oaths
(Al-Qasama) set out, and when they reached a place called Nakhlah, it started
raining so they entered a cave in the mountain, and the cave collapsed on those fifty
men who took the false oath, and all of them died except the two persons who had
shaken hands with each other. They escaped death but a stone fell on the leg of the
brother of the deceased and broke it, whereupon he survived for one year and
then died." I further said, "'Abdul Malik bin Marwan sentenced a man to death in
Qisas (equality in punishment) for murder, basing his judgment on Al-Qasama, but
later on he regretted that judgment and ordered that the names of the fifty persons
who had taken the oath (Al-Qasama), be erased from the register, and he exiled
them in Sham."A man peeped into one of the dwelling places of the Prophet. The Prophet got up
and aimed a sharp-edged arrow head (or wooden stick) at him to poke him
stealthily.A man peeped through a hole in the door of Allah's Apostle's house, and at that
time, Allah's Apostle had a Midri (an iron comb or bar) with which he was rubbing
his head. So when Allah's Apostle saw him, he said (to him), "If I had been sure
that you were looking at me (through the door), I would have poked your eye with
this (sharp iron bar)." Allah's Apostle added, "The asking for permission to enter
has been enjoined so that one may not look unlawfully (at what there is in the
house without the permission of its people)."Abul Qasim said, "If any person peeps at you without your permission and you
poke him with a stick and injure his eye, you will not be blamed."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 40:Two women from the tribe of Hudhail (fought with each other) and one of them
threw (a stone at) the other, causing her to have a miscarriage and Allah's Apostle
gave his verdict that the killer (of the fetus) should give a male or female slave (as a
Diya).Narrated Hisham's father from Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba:
'Umar consulted the companions about the case of a woman's abortion (caused by
somebody else). Al-Mughlra said: The Prophet gave the verdict that a male or
female slave should be given (as a Diya). Then Muhammad bin Maslama testified
that he had witnessed the Prophet giving such a verdict.
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 42:'Umar asked the people, "Who heard the Prophet giving his verdict regarding
abortions?" Al-Mughira said, "I heard him judging that a male or female slave
should be given (as a Diya)." 'Umar said, "Present a witness to testify your
statement." Muhammad bin Maslama said, "I testify that the Prophet gave such a
judgment."I heard Al-Maghira bin Shu'ba narrating that 'Umar had consulted them about the
case of abortion (similarly as narrated in No. 42).
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 44:Allah's Apostle gave a verdict regarding an aborted fetus of a woman from Bani
Lihyan that the killer (of the fetus) should give a male or female slave (as a Diya)
but the woman who was required to give the slave, died, so Allah's Apostle gave
the verdict that her inheritance be given to her children and her husband and the
Diya be paid by her 'Asaba.Two women from Hudhail fought with each other and one of them hit the other
with a stone that killed her and what was in her womb. The relatives of the killer
and the relatives of the victim submitted their case to the Prophet who judged that
the Diya for the fetus was a male or female slave, and the Diya for the killed
woman was to be paid by the 'Asaba (near relatives) of the killer.
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 46:Anas said, "When Allah's Apostle arrived at Medina, Abu Talha took hold of my
hand and brought me to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Anas is an
intelligent boy, so let him serve you." Anas added, "So I served the Prophet L at
home and on journeys; by Allah, he never said to me for anything which I did: Why
have you done this like this or, for anything which I did not do: 'Why have you not
done this like this?"Allah's Apostle said, "There is no Diya for persons killed by animals or for the one
who has been killed accidentally by falling into a well or for the one killed in a mine.
And one-fifth of Rikaz (treasures buried before the Islamic era) is to be given to
the state."The Prophet said, "There is no Diya for a person injured or killed by an animal
(going about without somebody to control it) and similarly, there is no Diya for the
one who falls and dies in a well, and also the one who dies in a mine. As regards
the Ar-Rikaz (buried wealth), one-fifth thereof is for the state."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 49:The Prophet said, "Whoever killed a Mu'ahid (a person who is granted the pledge
of protection by the Muslims) shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise though its
fragrance can be smelt at a distance of forty years (of traveling)."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 50:I asked 'Ali "Do you have anything Divine literature besides what is in the Quran?"
Or, as Uyaina once said, "Apart from what the people have?" 'Ali said, "By Him
Who made the grain split (germinate) and created the soul, we have nothing except
what is in the Quran and the ability (gift) of understanding Allah's Book which He
may endow a man, with and what is written in this sheet of paper." I asked, "What
is on this paper?" He replied, "The legal regulations of Diya (Blood-money) and the
(ransom for) releasing of the captives, and the judgment that no Muslim should be
killed in Qisas (equality in punishment) for killing a Kafir (disbeliever)."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 51:The Prophet said, "Do not prefer some prophets to others."
Volume 9, Book 83, Number 52:A Jew whose face had been slapped (by someone), came to the Prophet and said,
"O Muhammad! A man from your Ansari companions slapped me. " The Prophet
said, "Call him". They called him and the Prophet asked him, "Why did you slap his
face?" He said, "O Allah's Apostle! While I was passing by the Jews, I heard him
saying, 'By Him Who chose Moses above all the human beings.' I said
(protestingly), 'Even above Muhammad?' So I became furious and slapped him."
The Prophet said, "Do not give me preference to other prophets, for the people
will become unconscious on the Day of Resurrection and I will be the first to gain
conscious, and behold, I will Find Moses holding one of the pillars of the Throne
(of Allah). Then I will not know whether he has become conscious before me or he
has been exempted because of his unconsciousness at the mountain (during his
worldly life) which he received."When the Verse: 'It is those who believe and confuse not their belief with wrong
(i.e., worshipping others besides Allah): (6.82) was revealed, it became very hard
on the companions of the Prophet and they said, "Who among us has not confused
his belief with wrong (oppression)?" On that, Allah's Apostle said, "This is not
meant (by the Verse). Don't you listen to Luqman's statement: 'Verily! Joining
others in worship with Allah is a great wrong indeed.' (31.13)
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 54:The Prophet. said, "The biggest of the great sins are: To join others in worship with
Allah, to be undutiful to one's parents, and to give a false witness." He repeated it
thrice, or said, "....a false statement," and kept on repeating that warning till we
wished he would stop saying it. (See Hadith No.7, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 55:A bedouin came to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! What are the biggest
sins?: The Prophet said, "To join others in worship with Allah." The bedouin said,
"What is next?" The Prophet said, "To be undutiful to one's parents." The bedouin
said "What is next?" The Prophet said "To take an oath 'Al-Ghamus." The bedouin
said, "What is an oath 'Al-Ghamus'?" The Prophet said, "The false oath through
which one deprives a Muslim of his property (unjustly)."
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 56:A man said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we be punished for what we did in the
Prelslamic Period of ignorance?" The Prophet said, "Whoever does good in Islam
will not be punished for what he did in the Pre-lslamic Period of ignorance and
whoever does evil in Islam will be punished for his former and later (bad deeds)."
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57:Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this
event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have
burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with
Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of
Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 58:Abu Musa said, "I came to the Prophet along with two men (from the tribe) of
Ash'ariyin, one on my right and the other on my left, while Allah's Apostle was
brushing his teeth (with a Siwak), and both men asked him for some employment.
The Prophet said, 'O Abu Musa (O 'Abdullah bin Qais!).' I said, 'By Him Who
sent you with the Truth, these two men did not tell me what was in their hearts and
I did not feel (realize) that they were seeking employment.' As if I were looking
now at his Siwak being drawn to a corner under his lips, and he said, 'We never
(or, we do not) appoint for our affairs anyone who seeks to be employed. But O
Abu Musa! (or 'Abdullah bin Qais!) Go to Yemen.'" The Prophet then sent
Mu'adh bin Jabal after him and when Mu'adh reached him, he spread out a cushion
for him and requested him to get down (and sit on the cushion). Behold: There was
a fettered man beside Abu Muisa. Mu'adh asked, "Who is this (man)?" Abu Muisa
said, "He was a Jew and became a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism."
Then Abu Muisa requested Mu'adh to sit down but Mu'adh said, "I will not sit
down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and His Apostle (for such
cases) and repeated it thrice. Then Abu Musa ordered that the man be killed, and
he was killed. Abu Musa added, "Then we discussed the night prayers and one of
us said, 'I pray and sleep, and I hope that Allah will reward me for my sleep as
well as for my prayers.'"When the Prophet died and Abu Bakr became his successor and some of the
Arabs reverted to disbelief, 'Umar said, "O Abu Bakr! How can you fight these
people although Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till
they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, 'and whoever said,
'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah', Allah will save his property and
his life from me, unless (he does something for which he receives legal punishment)
justly, and his account will be with Allah?' "Abu Bakr said, "By Allah! I will fight
whoever differentiates between prayers and Zakat as Zakat is the right to be taken
from property (according to Allah's Orders). By Allah! If they refused to pay me
even a kid they used to pay to Allah's Apostle, I would fight with them for
withholding it." 'Umar said, "By Allah: It was nothing, but I noticed that Allah
opened Abu Bakr's chest towards the decision to fight, therefore I realized that his
decision was right."A Jew passed by Allah's Apostle and said, "As-Samu 'Alaika." Allah's Apostle
said in reply, "We 'Alaika." Allah's Apostle then said to his companions, "Do you
know what he (the Jew) has said? He said, 'As-Samu 'Alaika.'" They said, "O
Allah's Apostle! Shall we kill him?" The Prophet, said, "No. When the people of
the Book greet you, say: 'Wa 'Alaikum.'"A group of Jews asked permission to visit the Prophet (and when they were
admitted) they said, "As-Samu 'Alaika (Death be upon you)." I said (to them), "But
death and the curse of Allah be upon you!" The Prophet said, "O 'Aisha! Allah is
kind and lenient and likes that one should be kind and lenient in all matters." I said,
"Haven't you heard what they said?" He said, "I said (to them), 'Wa 'Alaikum (and
upon you).Allah's Apostle said, "When the Jews greet anyone of you they say: 'Sam'Alaika
(death be upon you); so you should say; 'Wa 'Alaika (and upon you).'"
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 63:As if I am looking at the Prophet while he was speaking about one of the prophets
whose people have beaten and wounded him, and he was wiping the blood off his
face and saying, "O Lord! Forgive my, people as they do not know."
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 64:Whenever I tell you a narration from Allah's Apostle, by Allah, I would rather fall
down from the sky than ascribe a false statement to him, but if I tell you something
between me and you (not a Hadith) then it was indeed a trick (i.e., I may say things
just to cheat my enemy). No doubt I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "During the last
days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but
their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go
out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever
you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of
Resurrection."That they visited Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri and asked him about Al-Harauriyya, a
special unorthodox religious sect, "Did you hear the Prophet saying anything about
them?" Abu Sa'id said, "I do not know what Al-Harauriyya is, but I heard the
Prophet saying, "There will appear in this nation---- he did not say: From this
nation ---- a group of people so pious apparently that you will consider your
prayers inferior to their prayers, but they will recite the Quran, the teachings of
which will not go beyond their throats and will go out of their religion as an arrow
darts through the game, whereupon the archer may look at his arrow, its Nasl at its
Risaf and its Fuqa to see whether it is blood-stained or not (i.e. they will have not
even a trace of Islam in them)."Regarding Al-Harauriyya: The Prophet said, "They will go out of Islam as an arrow
darts out of the game's body.'While the Prophet was distributing (something, 'Abdullah bin Dhil Khawaisira
At-Tamimi came and said, "Be just, O Allah's Apostle!" The Prophet said, "Woe
to you ! Who would be just if I were not?" 'Umar bin Al-Khattab said, "Allow me
to cut off his neck ! " The Prophet said, " Leave him, for he has companions, and if
you compare your prayers with their prayers and your fasting with theirs, you will
look down upon your prayers and fasting, in comparison to theirs. Yet they will go
out of the religion as an arrow darts through the game's body in which case, if the
Qudhadh of the arrow is examined, nothing will be found on it, and when its Nasl is
examined, nothing will be found on it; and then its Nadiyi is examined, nothing will
be found on it. The arrow has been too fast to be smeared by dung and blood. The
sign by which these people will be recognized will be a man whose one hand (or
breast) will be like the breast of a woman (or like a moving piece of flesh). These
people will appear when there will be differences among the people (Muslims)."
Abu Sa'id added: I testify that I heard this from the Prophet and also testify that
'Ali killed those people while I was with him. The man with the description given by
the Prophet was brought to 'Ali. The following Verses were revealed in connection
with that very person (i.e., 'Abdullah bin Dhil-Khawaisira At-Tarnimi): 'And among
them are men who accuse you (O Muhammad) in the matter of (the distribution of)
the alms.' (9.58)I asked Sahl bin Hunaif, "Did you hear the Prophet saying anything about
Al-Khawarij?" He said, "I heard him saying while pointing his hand towards Iraq.
"There will appear in it (i.e, Iraq) some people who will recite the Quran but it will
not go beyond their throats, and they will go out from (leave) Islam as an arrow
darts through the game's body.' "Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established till two (huge) groups fight
against each other, their claim being one and the same."
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 70:When the Verse:--'Those who believe and did not confuse their belief with wrong
(worshipping others besides Allah).' (6.82) was revealed, it was hard on the
companions of the Prophet and they said, "Who among us has not wronged
(oppressed) himself?" Allah's Apostle said, "The meaning of the Verse is not as
you think, but it is as Luqman said to his son, 'O my son! Join not in worship others
with Allah, Verily! Joining others in worship with Allah is a great wrong indeed.'"
(31.13)Once Allah's Apostle came to me in the morning, and a man among us said,
"Where is Malik bin Ad-Dukhshun?" Another man from us replied, "He is a
hypocrite who does not love Allah and His Apostle." The Prophet said, "Don't you
think that he says: None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, only for Allah's
sake?" They replied, "Yes" The Prophet said, "Nobody will meet Allah with that
saying on the Day of Resurrection, but Allah will save him from the Fire."
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 72:Abu 'Abdur-Rahman and Hibban bin 'Atiyya had a dispute. Abu 'Abdur-Rahman
said to Hibban, "You know what made your companions (i.e. Ali) dare to shed
blood." Hibban said, "Come on! What is that?" 'Abdur-Rahman said, "Something I
heard him saying." The other said, "What was it?" 'AbdurRahman said, "'Ali said,
Allah's Apostle sent for me, Az-Zubair and Abu Marthad, and all of us were
cavalry men, and said, 'Proceed to Raudat-Hajj (Abu Salama said that Abu
'Awana called it like this, i.e., Hajj where there is a woman carrying a letter from
Hatib bin Abi Balta'a to the pagans (of Mecca). So bring that letter to me.' So we
proceeded riding on our horses till we overtook her at the same place of which
Allah's Apostle had told us. She was traveling on her camel. In that letter Hatib had
written to the Meccans about the proposed attached of Allah's Apostle against
them. We asked her, "Where is the letter which is with you?' She replied, 'I haven't
got any letter.' So we made her camel kneel down and searched her luggage, but
we did not find anything. My two companions said, 'We do not think that she has
got a letter.' I said, 'We know that Allah's Apostle has not told a lie.'"
Then 'Ali took an oath saying, "By Him by Whom one should swear! You shall
either bring out the letter or we shall strip off your clothes." She then stretched out
her hand for her girdle (round her waist) and brought out the paper (letter). They
took the letter to Allah's Apostle. 'Umar said, "O Allah's Apostle! (Hatib) has
betrayed Allah, His Apostle and the believers; let me chop off his neck!" Allah's
Apostle said, "O Hatib! What obliged you to do what you have done?" Hatib
replied, "O Allah's Apostle! Why (for what reason) should I not believe in Allah
and His Apostle? But I intended to do the (Mecca) people a favor by virtue of
which my family and property may be protected as there is none of your
companions but has some of his people (relatives) whom Allah urges to protect his
family and property." The Prophet said, "He has said the truth; therefore, do not
say anything to him except good." 'Umar again said, "O Allah's Apostle! He has
betrayed Allah, His Apostle and the believers; let me chop his neck off!" The
Prophet said, "Isn't he from those who fought the battle of Badr? And what do you
know, Allah might have looked at them (Badr warriors) and said (to them), 'Do
what you like, for I have granted you Paradise?' " On that, 'Umar's eyes became
flooded with tears and he said, "Allah and His Apostle know best."
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 85:The Prophet used to invoke Allah in his prayer, "O Allah! Save 'Aiyash bin Abi
Rabi'a and Salama bin Hisham and Al-Walid bin Al-Walid; O Allah! Save the
weak among the believers; O Allah! Be hard upon the tribe of Mudar and inflict
years (of famine) upon them like the (famine) years of Joseph."
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 74:Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever possesses the (following) three qualities will have
the sweetness of faith (1): The one to whom Allah and His Apostle becomes
dearer than anything else; (2) Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah's
Sake; (3) who hates to revert to atheism (disbelief) as he hates to be thrown into
the Fire."I heard Sa'id bin Zaid saying, "I have seen myself tied and forced by 'Umar to
leave Islam (Before 'Umar himself embraced Islam). And if the mountain of Uhud
were to collapse for the evil which you people had done to 'Uthman, then Uhud
would have the right to do so." (See Hadith No. 202, Vol. 5)
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 76:We complained to Allah's Apostle (about our state) while he was leaning against
his sheet cloak in the shade of the Ka'ba. We said, "Will you ask Allah to help us?
Will you invoke Allah for us?" He said, "Among those who were before you a
(believer) used to be seized and, a pit used to be dug for him and then he used to
be placed in it. Then a saw used to be brought and put on his head which would be
split into two halves. His flesh might be combed with iron combs and removed
from his bones, yet, all that did not cause him to revert from his religion. By Allah!
This religion (Islam) will be completed (and triumph) till a rider (traveler) goes from
San'a' (the capital of Yemen) to Hadramout fearing nobody except Allah and the
wolf lest it should trouble his sheep, but you are impatient." (See Hadith No. 191,
Vol. 5)While we were in the mosque, Allah's Apostle came out to us and said, "Let us
proceed to the Jews." So we went along with him till we reached Bait-al-Midras (a
place where the Torah used to be recited and all the Jews of the town used to
gather). The Prophet stood up and addressed them, "O Assembly of Jews!
Embrace Islam and you will be safe!" The Jews replied, "O Aba-l-Qasim! You
have conveyed Allah's message to us." The Prophet said, "That is what I want
(from you)." He repeated his first statement for the second time, and they said,
"You have conveyed Allah's message, O Aba-l-Qasim." Then he said it for the
third time and added, "You should Know that the earth belongs to Allah and His
Apostle, and I want to exile you fro,,, this land, so whoever among you owns some
property, can sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah
and His Apostle." (See Hadith No. 392, Vol. 4)That her father gave her in marriage when she was a matron and she disliked that
marriage. So she came and (complained) to the Prophets and he declared that
marriage invalid. (See Hadith No. 69, Vol. 7)I asked the Prophet, "O Allah's Apostle! Should the women be asked for their
consent to their marriage?" He said, "Yes." I said, "A virgin, if asked, feels shy and
keeps quiet." He said, "Her silence means her consent."
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 80:A man from the Ansar made his slave, a Mudabbar. And apart from that slave he
did not have any other property. This news reached Allah's Apostle and he said,
"Who will buy that slave from me?" So Nu'aim bin An-Nahham bought him for
800 Dirham. Jabir added: It was a coptic (Egyptian) slave who died that year.
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 81:wished, for they had more right to dispose of her than her own relativ
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 82:Allah's Apostle said, "(The Prophet) Abraham migrated with his wife Sarah till he
reached a town where there was a king or a tyrant who sent a message, to
Abraham, ordering him to send Sarah to him. So when Abraham had sent Sarah,
the tyrant got up, intending to do evil with her, but she got up and performed
ablution and prayed and said, 'O Allah ! If I have believed in You and in Your
Apostle, then do not empower this oppressor over me.' So he (the king) had an
epileptic fit and started moving his legs violently. "
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 83:Allah's Apostle said, "A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim. So he should
neither oppress him nor hand him over to an oppressor. And whoever fulfilled the
needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs."
Volume 9, Book 85, Number 84:Allah's Apostle said, "Help your brother whether he is an oppressor or an
oppressed," A man said, "O Allah's Apostle! I will help him if he is oppressed, but
if he is an oppressor, how shall I help him?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him
from oppressing (others), for that is how to help him."
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 86:The Prophet said, 'O people! The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions,
and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So,
whoever emigrated for Allah and His Apostle, then his emigration was for Allah
and His Apostle, and whoever emigrated to take worldly benefit or for a woman to
marry, then his emigration was for what he emigrated for."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 86:The Prophet said, "Allah does not accept prayer of anyone of you if he does
Hadath (passes wind) till he performs the ablution (anew)."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 87:That Abu Bakr wrote for him, Zakat regulations which Allah's Apostle had made
compulsory, and wrote that one should neither collect various portions (of the
property) nor divide the property into various portions in order to avoid paying
Zakat.A bedouin with unkempt hair came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's
Apostle! Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regards prayers." The Prophet
said, "You have to offer perfectly the five (compulsory) prayers in a day and a
night (24 hrs.), except if you want to perform some extra optional prayers." The
bedouin said, "Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regards fasting." The
Prophet said, "You have to observe fast during the month of Ramadan except if
you fast some extra optional fast." The bedouin said, "Tell me what Allah has
enjoined on me as regard Zakat." The Prophet then told him the Islamic laws and
regulations whereupon the bedouin said, "By Him Who has honored you, I will not
perform any optional deeds of worship and I will not leave anything of what Allah
has enjoined on me." Allah's Apostle said, "He will be successful if he has told the
truth (or he will enter Paradise if he said the truth)." And some people said, "The
Zakat for one-hundred and twenty camels is two Hiqqas, and if the Zakat payer
slaughters the camels intentionally or gives them as a present or plays some other
trick in order to avoid the Zakat, then there is no harm (in it) for him.
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 89:Allah's Apostle said, "On the Day of Resurrection the Kanz (Treasure or wealth of
which, Zakat has not been paid) of anyone of you will appear in the shape of a
huge bald headed poisonous male snake and its owner will run away from it, but it
will follow him and say, 'I am your Kanz.'" The Prophet added, "By Allah, that
snake will keep on following him until he stretches out his hand and let the snake
swallow it." Allah's Apostle added, "If the owner of camels does not pay their
Zakat, then, on the Day of Resurrection those camels will come to him and will
strike his face with their hooves." Some people said: Concerning a man who has
camels, and is afraid that Zakat will be due so he sells those camels for similar
camels or for sheep or cows or money one day before Zakat becomes due in
order to avoid payment of their Zakat cunningly! "He has not to pay anything." The
same scholar said, "If one pays Zakat of his camels one day or one year prior to
the end of the year (by the end of which Zakat becomes due), his Zakat will be
valid."Sa'd bin 'Ubada Al-Ansari sought the verdict of Allah's Apostle regarding a vow
made by his mother who had died before fulfilling it. Allah's Apostle said, "Fulfill it
on her behalf." Some people said, "If the number of camels reaches twenty, then
their owner has to pay four sheep as Zakat; and if their owner gives them as a gift
or sells them in order to escape the payment of Zakat cunningly before the
completion of a year, then he is not to pay anything, and if he slaughters them and
then dies, then no Zakat is to be taken from his property."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 90:Nafi narrated to me that 'Abdullah said that Allah's Apostle forbade the Shighar. I
asked Nafi', "What is the Shighar?" He said, "It is to marry the daughter of a man
and marry one's daughter to that man (at the same time) without Mahr (in both
cases); or to marry the sister of a man and marry one's own sister to that man
without Mahr." Some people said, "If one, by a trick, marries on the basis of
Shighar, the marriage is valid but its condition is illegal." The same scholar said
regarding Al-Mut'a, "The marriage is invalid and its condition is illegal." Some
others said, "The Mut'a and the Shighar are permissible but the condition is illegal."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 91:'Ali was told that Ibn 'Abbas did not see any harm in the Mut'a marriage. 'Ali said,
"Allah's Apostle forbade the Mut'a marriage on the Day of the battle of Khaibar
and he forbade the eating of donkey's meat." Some people said, "If one, by a
tricky way, marries temporarily, his marriage is illegal." Others said, "The marriage
is valid but its condition is illegal."Allah's Apostle said, "One should not prevent others from watering their animals
with the surplus of his water in order to prevent them from benefiting by the surplus
of grass."A man mentioned to the Prophet that he had always been cheated in bargains. The
Prophet said, "Whenever you do bargain, say, 'No cheating.'"
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 95:That he asked 'Aisha regarding the Verse: 'If you fear that you shall not be able to
deal justly with the orphan girls, marry (other) women of your choice.' (4.3) 'Aisha
said, "It is about an orphan girl under the custody of her guardian who being
attracted by her wealth and beauty wants to marry her with Mahr less than other
women of her status. So such guardians were forbidden to marry them unless they
treat them justly by giving them their full Mahr. Then the people sought the verdict
of Allah's Apostle for such cases, whereupon Allah revealed: 'They ask your
instruction concerning women..' (4.127) (The sub-narrator then mentioned the
Hadith.)The Prophet said, "For every betrayer there will be a flag by which he will be
recognized on the Day of Resurrection. "The Prophet said, "I am only a human being, and you people have disputes. May
be some one amongst you can present his case in a more eloquent and convincing
manner than the other, and I give my judgment in his favor according to what I
hear. Beware! If ever I give (by error) somebody something of his brother's right
then he should not take it as I have only, given him a piece of Fire." (See Hadith
No. 638. Vol. 3)The Prophet said, "A virgin should not be married till she is asked for her consent;
and the matron should not be married till she is asked whether she agrees to marry
or not." It was asked, "O Allah's Apostle! How will she(the virgin) express her
consent?" He said, "By keeping silent." Some people said, "If a virgin is not asked
for her consent and she is not married, and then a man, by playing a trick presents
two false witnesses that he has married her with her consent and the judge confirms
his marriage as a true one, and the husband knows that the witnesses were false
ones, then there is no harm for him to consummate his marriage with her and the
marriage is regarded as valid."A woman from the offspring of Ja'far was afraid lest her guardian marry her (to
somebody) against her will. So she sent for two elderly men from the Ansar,
'AbdurRahman and Mujammi', the two sons of Jariya, and they said to her, "Don't
be afraid, for Khansa' bint Khidam was given by her father in marriage against her
will, then the Prophet cancelled that marriage." (See Hadith No. 78)
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 100:Allah's Apostle said, "A lady slave should not be given in marriage until she is
consulted, and a virgin should not be given in marriage until her permission is
granted." The people said, "How will she express her permission?" The Prophet
said, "By keeping silent (when asked her consent)." Some people said, "If a man,
by playing a trick, presents two false witnesses before the judge to testify that he
has married a matron with her consent and the judge confirms his marriage, and the
husband is sure that he has never married her (before), then such a marriage will be
considered as a legal one and he may live with her as husband."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 101:Allah's Apostle said, "It is essential to have the consent of a virgin (for the
marriage). I said, "A virgin feels shy." The Prophet; said, "Her silence means her
consent." Some people said, "If a man falls in love with an orphan slave girl or a
virgin and she refuses (him) and then he makes a trick by bringing two false
witnesses to testify that he has married her, and then she attains the age of puberty
and agrees to marry him and the judge accepts the false witness and the husband
knows that the witnesses were false ones, he may consummate his marriage."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 102:Allah's Apostle used to like sweets and also used to like honey, and whenever he
finished the 'Asr prayer, he used to visit his wives and stay with them. Once he
visited Hafsa and remained with her longer than the period he used to stay, so I
enquired about it. It was said to me, "A woman from her tribe gave her a leather
skin containing honey as a present, and she gave some of it to Allah's Apostle to
drink." I said, "By Allah, we will play a trick on him." So I mentioned the story to
Sauda (the wife of the Prophet) and said to her, "When he enters upon you, he will
come near to you whereupon you should say to him, 'O Allah's Apostle! Have you
eaten Maghafir?' He will say, 'No.' Then you say to him, 'What is this bad smell? '
And it would be very hard on Allah's Apostle that a bad smell should be found on
his body. He will say, 'Hafsa has given me a drink of honey.' Then you should say
to him, 'Its bees must have sucked from the Al-'Urfut (a foul smelling flower).' I
too, will tell him the same. And you, O Saifya, say the same."
So when the Prophet entered upon Sauda (the following happened). Sauda said,
"By Him except Whom none has the right to be worshipped, I was about to say to
him what you had told me to say while he was still at the gate because of fear from
you. But when Allah 's Apostle came near to me, I said to him, 'O Allah's Apostle!
Have you eaten Maghafir?' He replied, 'No.' I said, 'What about this smell?' He
said, 'Hafsa has given me a drink of honey.' I said, 'Its bees must have sucked
Al-'Urfut.' " When he entered upon me, I told him the same as that, and when he
entered upon Safiya, she too told him the same. So when he visited Hafsa again,
she said to him, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall I give you a drink of it (honey)?" He
said, "I have no desire for it." Sauda said, Subhan Allah! We have deprived him of
it (honey)." I said to her, "Be quiet!"'Umar bin Al-Khattab left for Sham, and when he reached a placed called Sargh,
he came to know that there was an outbreak of an epidemic (of plague) in Sham.
Then 'AbdurRahman bin 'Auf told him that Allah's Apostle said, "If you hear the
news of an outbreak of an epidemic (plague) in a certain place, do not enter that
place: and if the epidemic falls in a place while you are present in it, do not leave
that place to escape from the epidemic." So 'Umar returned from Sargh.
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 104:That he heard Usama bin Zaid speaking to Sa'd, saying, "Allah's Apostle
mentioned the plague and said, 'It is a means of punishment with which some
nations were punished and some of it has remained, and it appears now and then.
So whoever hears that there is an outbreak of plague in some land, he should not
go to that land, and if the plague breaks out in the land where one is already
present, one should not run away from that land, escaping from the plague."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 105:The Prophet said, "The one who takes back his gift is like a dog swallowing its
own vomit, and we (believers) should not act according to this bad example."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 106:The Prophet has decreed that preemption is valid in all cases where the real estate
concerned has not been divided, but if the boundaries are established and the ways
are made, then there is no preemption. A man said, "Preemption is only for the
neighbor," and then he makes invalid what he has confirmed. He said, "If someone
wants to buy a house and being afraid that the neighbor (of the house) may buy it
through preemption, he buys one share out of one hundred shares of the house and
then buys the rest of the house, then the neighbor can only have the right of
preemption for the first share but not for the rest of the house; and the buyer may
play such a trick in this case."Al-Miswar bin Makhrama came and put his hand on my shoulder and I
accompanied him to Sa'd. Abu Rafi' said to Al-Miswar, "Won't you order this (i.e.
Sa'd) to buy my house which is in my yard?" Sa'd said, "I will not offer more than
four hundred in installments over a fixed period." Abu Rafi said, "I was offered five
hundred cash but I refused. Had I not heard the Prophet saying, 'A neighbor is
more entitled to receive the care of his neighbor,' I would not have sold it to you."
The narrator said, to Sufyan: Ma'mar did not say so. Sufyan said, "But he did say
so to me." Some people said, "If someone wants to sell a house and deprived
somebody of the right of preemption, he has the right to play a trick to render the
preemption invalid. And that is by giving the house to the buyer as a present and
marking its boundaries and giving it to him. The buyer then gives the seller
one-thousand Dirham as compensation in which case the preemptor loses his right
of preemption."Narrated 'Amr bin Ash-Sharid: Abu Rafi' said that Sa'd offered him four hundred
Mithqal of gold for a house. Abu Rafi ' said, "If I had not heard Allah's Apostle
saying, 'A neighbor has more right to be taken care of by his neighbor,' then I
would not have given it to you." Some people said, "If one has bought a portion of
a house and wants to cancel the right of preemption, he may give it as a present to
his little son and he will not be obliged to take an oath."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 108:Allah's Apostle appointed a man called Ibn Al-Lutabiyya to collect the Zakat from
Bani Sulaim's tribe. When he returned, the Prophet called him to account. He said
(to the Prophet, 'This is your money, and this has been given to me as a gift." On
that, Allah's Apostle said, "Why didn't you stay in your father's and mother's house
to see whether you will be given gifts or not if you are telling the truth?" Then the
Prophet addressed us, and after praising and glorifying Allah, he said: "Amma
Ba'du", I employ a man from among you to manage some affair of what Allah has
put under my custody, and then he comes to me and says, 'This is your money and
this has been given to me as a gift. Why didn't he stay in his father's and mother's
home to see whether he will be given gifts or not? By Allah, not anyone of you
takes a thing unlawfully but he will meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection, carrying
that thing. I do not want to see any of you carrying a grunting camel or a mooing
cow or a bleating sheep on meeting Allah." Then the Prophet raised both his hands
till the whiteness of his armpits became visible, and he said, "O Allah! Haven't I
have conveyed (Your Message)?" The narrator added: My eyes witnessed and my
ears heard (that Hadith).The Prophet said, "The neighbor has more right to be taken care of by his neighbor
(than anyone else)." Some men said, "If one wants to buy a house for 20,000
Dirhams then there is no harm to play a trick to deprive somebody of preemption
by buying it (just on paper) with 20,000 Dirhams but paying to the seller only
9,999 Dirhams in cash and then agree with the seller to pay only one Dinar in cash
for the rest of the price (i.e. 10,001 Dirhams). If the preemptor offers 20,000
Dirhams for the house, he can buy it otherwise he has no right to buy it (by this
trick he got out of preemption). If the house proves to belong to somebody else
other than the seller, the buyer should take back from the seller what he has paid,
i.e., 9,999 Dirhams and one Dinar, because if the house proves to belong to
somebody else, so the whole bargain (deal) is unlawful. If the buyer finds a defect
in the house and it does not belong to somebody other than the seller, the buyer
may return it and receive 20,000 Dirhams (instead of 9999 Dirham plus one Dinar)
which he actually paid.' Abu 'Abdullah said, "So that man allows (some people) the
playing of tricks amongst the Muslims (although) the Prophet said, 'In dealing with
Muslims one should not sell them sick (animals) or bad things or stolen things."
Volume 9, Book 86, Number 110:Abu Rafi' sold a house to Sa'd bin Malik for four-hundred Mithqal of gold, and
said, "If I had not heard the Prophet saying, 'The neighbor has more right to be
taken care of by his neighbor (than anyone else),' then I would not have sold it to
you."The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah's Apostle was in the form of
good righteous (true) dreams in his sleep. He never had a dream but that it came
true like bright day light. He used to go in seclusion (the cave of) Hira where he
used to worship(Allah Alone) continuously for many (days) nights. He used to take
with him the journey food for that (stay) and then come back to (his wife) Khadija
to take his food like-wise again for another period to stay, till suddenly the Truth
descended upon him while he was in the cave of Hira. The angel came to him in it
and asked him to read. The Prophet replied, "I do not know how to read." (The
Prophet added), "The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I
could not bear it anymore. He then released me and again asked me to read, and I
replied, "I do not know how to read," whereupon he caught me again and pressed
me a second time till I could not bear it anymore. He then released me and asked
me again to read, but again I replied, "I do not know how to read (or, what shall I
read?)." Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me and then
released me and said, "Read: In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that
exists). Has created man from a clot. Read and Your Lord is Most Generous...up
to..... ..that which he knew not." (96.15)Then Allah's Apostle returned with the Inspiration, his neck muscles twitching with
terror till he entered upon Khadija and said, "Cover me! Cover me!" They covered
him till his fear was over and then he said, "O Khadija, what is wrong with me?"
Then he told her everything that had happened and said, 'I fear that something may
happen to me." Khadija said, 'Never! But have the glad tidings, for by Allah, Allah
will never disgrace you as you keep good reactions with your Kith and kin, speak
the truth, help the poor and the destitute, serve your guest generously and assist the
deserving, calamity-afflicted ones." Khadija then accompanied him to (her cousin)
Waraqa bin Naufal bin Asad bin 'Abdul 'Uzza bin Qusai. Waraqa was the son of
her paternal uncle, i.e., her father's brother, who during the Pre-Islamic Period
became a Christian and used to write the Arabic writing and used to write of the
Gospels in Arabic as much as Allah wished him to write. He was an old man and
had lost his eyesight. Khadija said to him, "O my cousin! Listen to the story of your
nephew." Waraqa asked, "O my nephew! What have you seen?" The Prophet
described whatever he had seen.Waraqa said, "This is the same Namus (i.e., Gabriel, the Angel who keeps the
secrets) whom Allah had sent to Moses. I wish I were young and could live up to
the time when your people would turn you out." Allah's Apostle asked, "Will they
turn me out?" Waraqa replied in the affirmative and said: "Never did a man come
with something similar to what you have brought but was treated with hostility. If I
should remain alive till the day when you will be turned out then I would support
you strongly." But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was
also paused for a while and the Prophet became so sad as we have heard that he
intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains and every
time he went up the top of a mountain in order to throw himself down, Gabriel
would appear before him and say, "O Muhammad! You are indeed Allah's
Apostle in truth" whereupon his heart would become quiet and he would calm
down and would return home. And whenever the period of the coming of the
inspiration used to become long, he would do as before, but when he used to
reach the top of a mountain, Gabriel would appear before him and say to him what
he had said before. (Ibn 'Abbas said regarding the meaning of: 'He it is that
Cleaves the daybreak (from the darkness)' (6.96) that Al-AsBahá means the light
of the sun during the day and the light of the moon at night).
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 112:Allah's Apostle said, "A good dream (that comes true) of a righteous man is one of
forty-six parts of prophetism."The Prophet said, "A true good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from
Satan."The Prophet said, "If anyone of you sees a dream that he likes, then it is from
Allah, and he should thank Allah for it and narrate it to others; but if he sees
something else, i.e., a dream that he dislikes, then it is from Satan, and he should
seek refuge with Allah from its evil, and he should not mention it to anybody, for it
will not harm him."The Prophet said, "A good dream that comes true is from Allah, and a bad dream
is from Satan, so if anyone of you sees a bad dream, he should seek refuge with
Allah from Satan and should spit on the left, for the bad dream will not harm him."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 116:The Prophet said, "The (good) dreams of a faithful believer is a part of the forty-six
parts of prophetism:'Allah's Apostle said, "The (good) dream of a faithful believer is a part of the
forty-six parts of prophetism."I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "A good dream is a part of the forty six parts of
prophetism."I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "Nothing is left of the prophetism except
Al-Mubashshirat." They asked, "What are Al-Mubashshirat?" He replied, "The
true good dreams (that conveys glad tidings)."Some people were shown the Night of Qadr as being in the last seven days (of the
month of Ramadan). The Prophet said, "Seek it in the last seven days (of
Ramadan)."Allah's Apostle said, "If I stayed in prison as long as Joseph stayed and then the
messenger came, I would respond to his call (to go out of the prison) ."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 122:I heard the Prophet saying, "Whoever sees me in a dream will see me in his
wakefulness, and Satan cannot imitate me in shape." Abu 'Abdullah said, "Ibn Sirin
said, 'Only if he sees the Prophet in his (real) shape.'"
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 123:The Prophet said, "Whoever has seen me in a dream, then no doubt, he has seen
me, for Satan cannot imitate my shape.The Prophet said, "A good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan.
So whoever has seen (in a dream) something he dislike, then he should spit without
saliva, thrice on his left and seek refuge with Allah from Satan, for it will not harm
him, and Satan cannot appear in my shape."The Prophet said, "Whoever sees me (in a dream) then he indeed has seen the
truth ."The Prophet said, "Who ever sees me (in a dream) then he indeed has seen the
truth, as Satan cannot appear in my shape."The Prophet said, "I have been given the keys of eloquent speech and given victory
with awe (cast into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping last night, the
keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me till they were put in my
hand." Abu Huraira added: Allah's Apostle left (this world) and now you people
are carrying those treasures from place to place.Allah's Apostle said, "I saw myself (in a dream) near the Ka'ba last night, and I
saw a man with whitish red complexion, the best you may see amongst men of that
complexion having long hair reaching his earlobes which was the best hair of its
sort, and he had combed his hair and water was dropping from it, and he was
performing the Tawaf around the Ka'ba while he was leaning on two men or on the
shoulders of two men. I asked, 'Who is this man?' Somebody replied, '(He is)
Messiah, son of Mary.' Then I saw another man with very curly hair, blind in the
right eye which looked like a protruding out grape. I asked, 'Who is this?'
Somebody replied, '(He is) Messiah, Ad-Dajjal.'"About a man who came to Allah's Apostle and said, "I was shown in a dream last
night..." Then Ibn 'Abbas mentioned the narration.
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 130:Allah's Apostle used to visit Um Haram bint Milhan she was the wife of 'Ubada bin
As-Samit. One day the Prophet visited her and she provided him with food and
started looking for lice in his head. Then Allah's Apostle slept and afterwards woke
up smiling. Um Haram asked, "What makes you smile, O Allah's Apostle?" He
said, "Some of my followers were presented before me in my dream as fighters in
Allah's Cause, sailing in the middle of the seas like kings on the thrones or like
kings sitting on their thrones." (The narrator Ishaq is not sure as to which
expression was correct). Um Haram added, 'I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Invoke
Allah, to make me one of them;" So Allah's Apostle invoked Allah for her and then
laid his head down (and slept). Then he woke up smiling (again). (Um Haram
added): I said, "What makes you smile, O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "Some
people of my followers were presented before me (in a dream) as fighters in
Allah's Cause." He said the same as he had said before. I said, "O Allah's Apostle!
Invoke Allah to make me from them." He said, "You are among the first ones."
Then Um Haram sailed over the sea during the Caliphate of Muawiya bin Abu
Sufyan, and she fell down from her riding animal after coming ashore, and died.
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 131:Um Al-'Ala an Ansari woman who had given a pledge of allegiance to Allah's
Apostle told me:, "The Muhajirln (emigrants) were distributed amongst us by
drawing lots, and we got 'Uthman bin Maz'un in our share. We made him stay with
us in our house. Then he suffered from a disease which proved fatal. When he died
and was given a bath and was shrouded in his clothes. Allah's Apostle came, I
said, (addressing the dead body), 'O Aba As-Sa'ib! May Allah be Merciful to
you! I testify that Allah has honored you.' Allah's Apostle said, 'How do you know
that Allah has honored him?" I replied, 'Let my father be sacrificed for you, O
Allah's Apostle! On whom else shall Allah bestow. His honor?' Allah's Apostle
said, 'As for him, by Allah, death has come to him. By Allah, I wish him all good
(from Allah). By Allah, in spite of the fact that I am Allah's Apostle, I do not know
what Allah will do to me.", Um Al-'Ala added, "By Allah, I will never attest the
righteousness of anybody after that."Regarding the above narration, The Prophet said, "I do not know what Allah will
do to him (Uthman bin Maz'un)." Um Al-'Ala said, "I felt very sorry for that, and
then I slept and saw in a dream a flowing spring for 'Uthman bin Maz'un, and told
Allah's Apostle of that, and he said, "That flowing spring symbolizes his good
deeds."(a companion of the Prophet and one of his cavalry men) "I heard Allah's Apostle
saying, "A good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan; so, if anyone
of you had a bad dream which he disliked, then he should spit on his left and seek
refuge with Allah from it, for it will not harm him."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 134:I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of
milk (in a dream), and I drank of it to my fill until I noticed its wetness coming out
of my nails, and then I gave the rest of it to 'Umar." They (the people) asked,
"What have you interpreted (about the dream)? O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "(It is
Religious) knowledge."Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of milk (in the
dream) and I drank from it (to my fill) till I noticed its wetness coming out of my
limbs. Then I gave the rest of it to 'Umar bin Al-Khattab." The persons sitting
around him, asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream) O Allah's
Apostle?" He said, "(It is religious) knowledge."Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, some people were displayed before
me (in a dream). They were wearing shirts, some of which were merely covering
their breasts, and some a bit longer. Then there passed before me, 'Umar bin
Al-Khattab wearing a shirt he was dragging it (on the ground behind him.)" They
(the people) asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream) O Allah's
Apostle?" He said, "The Religion."I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I saw (in a dream) the
people being displayed before me, wearing shirts, some of which (were so short
that it) reached as far as their breasts and some reached below that. Then 'Umar
bin Al-Khattab was shown to me and he was wearing a shirt which he was
dragging (behind him)." They asked. What have you interpreted (about the
dream)? O Allah's Apostle?" He said, "The religion."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 138:I was sitting in a gathering in which there was Sa'd bin Malik and Ibn 'Umar.
'Abdullah bin Salam passed in front of them and they said, "This man is from the
people of Paradise." I said to 'Abdullah bin Salam, "They said so-and-so." He
replied, "Subhan Allah! They ought not to have said things of which they have no
knowledge, but I saw (in a dream) that a post was fixed in a green garden. At the
top of the post there was a handhold and below it there was a servant. I was
asked to climb (the post). So I climbed it till I got hold of the handhold." Then I
narrated this dream to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle said, "'Abdullah will die
while still holding the firm reliable handhold (i.e., Islam)."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 139:Allah's Apostle said (to me), "You were shown to me twice in (my) dream.
Behold, a man was carrying you in a silken piece of cloth and said to me, "She is
your wife, so uncover her,' and behold, it was you. I would then say (to myself), 'If
this is from Allah, then it must happen.' "Allah's Apostle said to me, "You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I
married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to
him, 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from
Allah, then it must happen.' Then you were shown to me, the angel carrying you in
a silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her), and behold, it was you.
I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' "
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 141:I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "I have been sent with Jawami al-Kalim (i.e., the
shortest expression carrying the widest meanings), and I was made victorious with
awe (caste into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the
treasures of the earth were brought to me and were put in my hand." Muhammad
said, Jawami'-al-Kalim means that Allah expresses in one or two statements or
thereabouts the numerous matters that used to be written in the books revealed
before (the coming of) the Prophet .(In a dream) I saw myself in a garden, and there was a pillar in the middle of the
garden, and there was a handhold at the top of the pillar. I was asked to climb it. I
said, "I cannot." Then a servant came and lifted up my clothes and I climbed (the
pillar), and then got hold of the handhold, and I woke up while still holding it. I
narrated that to the Prophet who said, "The garden symbolizes the garden of Islam,
and the handhold is the firm Islamic handhold which indicates that you will be
adhering firmly to Islam until you die."I saw in a dream a piece of silken cloth in my hand, and in whatever direction in
Paradise I waved it, it flew, carrying me there. I narrated this (dream) to (my sister)
Hafsa and she told it to the Prophet who said, (to Hafsa), "Indeed, your brother is
a righteous man," or, "Indeed, 'Abdullah is a righteous man."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 144:Allah's Apostle said, "When the Day of Resurrection approaches, the dreams of a
believer will hardly fail to come true, and a dream of a believer is one of forty-six
parts of prophetism, and whatever belongs to prothetism can never be false."
Muhammad bin Sirin said, "But I say this." He said, "It used to be said, 'There are
three types of dreams: The reflection of one's thoughts and experiences one has
during wakefulness, what is suggested by Satan to frighten the dreamer, or glad
tidings from Allah. So, if someone has a dream which he dislikes, he should not tell
it to others, but get up and offer a prayer." He added, "He (Abu Huraira) hated to
see a Ghul (i.e., iron collar around his neck in a dream) and people liked to see
fetters (on their feet in a dream). The fetters on the feet symbolizes one's constant
and firm adherence to religion." And Abu 'Abdullah said, "Ghuls (iron collars) are
used only for necks."Um Al-'Ala an Ansari woman who had given the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's
Apostle said, "'Uthman bin Maz'un came in our share when the Ansars drew lots to
distribute the emigrants (to dwell) among themselves, He became sick and we
looked after (nursed) him till he died. Then we shrouded him in his clothes. Allah's
Apostle came to us, I (addressing the dead body) said, "May Allah's Mercy be on
you, O Aba As-Sa'ib! I testify that Allah has honored you." The Prophet said,
'How do you know that?' I replied, 'I do not know, by Allah.' He said, 'As for him,
death has come to him and I wish him all good from Allah. By Allah, though I am
Allah's Apostle, I neither know what will happen to me, nor to you.'" Um Al-'Ala
said, "By Allah, I will never attest the righteousness of anybody after that." She
added, "Later I saw in a dream, a flowing spring for 'Uthman. So I went to Allah's
Apostle and mentioned that to him. He said, 'That is (the symbol of) his good
deeds (the reward for) which is going on for him.' "
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 146:Allah's Apostle said, "(I saw in a dream that) while I was standing at a well and
drawing water therefrom, suddenly Abu Bakr and 'Umar came to me. Abu Bakr
took the bucket and drew one or two buckets (full of water), but there was
weakness in his pulling, but Allah forgave him. Then Ibn Al-Khattab took the
bucket from Abu Bakr's hand and the bucket turned into a very large one in his
hand. I have never seen any strong man among the people doing such a hard job
as 'Umar did, till (the people drank to their satisfaction) and water their camels to
their fill and they sat near the water."about the Prophet's dream in which he has seen Abu Bakr and 'Umar: The Prophet
said, "I saw (in a dream) that the people had gathered. Then Abu Bakr stood up
and pulled out one or two buckets full of water (from a well) and there was
weakness in his pulling -- may Allah forgive him. Then Ibn Al-Khattab stood up,
and the bucket turned into a very large one and I have never seen any strong man
among the people doing such a hard job. He pulled out so much water that the
people (drank to their satisfaction) and watered their camels to their fill, (and then
after quenching their thirst) they sat beside the water."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 148:Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I saw myself standing at a well over
which there was a bucket. I pulled out from it as many buckets of water as Allah
wished, and then Ibn Abi Quhafa (Abu Bakr) took the bucket from me and pulled
out one or two full buckets, and there was weakness in his pull--may Allah forgive
him. Then the bucket turned into a very large one and 'Umar bin Al-Khattab took
it. I have never seen any strong man among the people, drawing water with such
strength as 'Umar did, till the people (drank to their satisfaction and) watered their
camels to their fill; whereupon the camels sat beside the water."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 149:Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I saw myself standing over a tank
(well) giving water to the people to drink. Then Abu Bakr came to me and took
the bucket from me in order to relieve me and he pulled out one or two full
buckets, and there was weakness in his pulling --may Allah forgive him. Then Ibn
Al-Khattab took it from him and went on drawing water till the people left (after
being satisfied) while the tank was over flowing with water."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 150:We were sitting with Allah's Apostle, he said, "While I was sleeping, I saw myself
in Paradise. Suddenly I saw a woman performing ablution beside a palace. I
asked, "For whom is this palace?" They (the angels) replied, "It is for 'Umar bin
Al-Khattab." Then I remembered 'Umar's ghira and went back hurriedly." On
hearing that, 'Umar started weeping and said, " Let my father and mother be
sacrificed for you. O Allah's Apostle! How dare I think of my Ghira being
offended by you?Allah's Apostle said: (I saw in a dream that) I entered Paradise, and behold, there
was a palace built of gold! I asked, 'For whom is this palace?' They (the angels)
replied, 'For a man from the Quraish.' " The Prophet added, "O Ibn Al-Khattab!
Nothing stopped me from entering it except your Ghira." 'Umar said, "How dare I
think of my Ghira being offended by you, O Allah's Apostle?"
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 152:We were sitting with Allah's Apostle he said, "While I was sleeping, I saw myself in
Paradise, and behold, a woman was performing ablution by the side of a palace. I
asked, 'For whom is this palace?' They replied, 'For 'Umar' Then I remembered
the Ghira of 'Umar and returned immediately." 'Umar wept (on hearing that) and
said, " Let my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Allah's Apostle! How
dare I think of my Ghira being offended by you.'Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I saw myself performing the Tawaf of
the Ka'ba. Behold, there I saw a whitish-red lank-haired man (holding himself)
between two men with water dropping from his hair. I asked, 'Who is this?' The
people replied, 'He is the son of Mary.' Then I turned my face to see another man
with red complexion, big body, curly hair, and blind in the right eye which looked
like a protruding out grape. I asked, 'Who is he?' They replied, 'He is Ad-Dajjal.'
Ibn Qatan resembles him more than anybody else among the people and Ibn
Qatan was a man from Bani Al-Mustaliq from Khuza'a."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 154:I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I saw a bowl full of milk was
brought to me and I drank of it (to my fill) till I noticed its wetness flowing (in my
body). Then I gave the remaining of it to 'Umar." They asked, "O Allah's Apostle!
What have you interpreted (about the dream)? He said, "(It is Religious)
knowledge." (See Hadith No. 134)Men from the companions of Allah's Apostle used to see dreams during the lifetime
of Allah's Apostle and they used to narrate those dreams to Allah's Apostle.
Allah's Apostle would interpret them as Allah wished. I was a young man and used
to stay in the mosque before my wedlock. I said to myself, "If there were any good
in myself, I too would see what these people see." So when I went to bed one
night, I said, "O Allah! If you see any good in me, show me a good dream." So
while I was in that state, there came to me (in a dream) two angels. In the hand of
each of them, there was a mace of iron, and both of them were taking me to Hell,
and I was between them, invoking Allah, "O Allah! I seek refuge with You from
Hell." Then I saw myself being confronted by another angel holding a mace of iron
in his hand. He said to me, "Do not be afraid, you will be an excellent man if you
only pray more often." So they took me till they stopped me at the edge of Hell,
and behold, it was built inside like a well and it had side posts like those of a well,
and beside each post there was an angel carrying an iron mace. I saw therein many
people hanging upside down with iron chains, and I recognized therein some men
from the Quraish. Then (the angels) took me to the right side. I narrated this dream
to (my sister) Hafsa and she told it to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle said, "No
doubt, 'Abdullah is a good man." (Nafi' said, "Since then 'Abdullah bin 'Umar used
to pray much.)I was a young unmarried man during the lifetime of the Prophet. I used to sleep in
the mosque. Anyone who had a dream, would narrate it to the Prophet. I said, "O
Allah! If there is any good for me with You, then show me a dream so that Allah's
Apostle may interpret it for me." So I slept and saw (in a dream) two angels came
to me and took me along with them, and they met another angel who said to me,
"Don't be afraid, you are a good man." They took me towards the Fire, and
behold, it was built inside like a well, and therein I saw people some of whom I
recognized, and then the angels took me to the right side. In the morning, I
mentioned that dream to Hafsa. Hafsa told me that she had mentioned it to the
Prophet and he said, "'Abdullah is a righteous man if he only prays more at night."
(Az-Zuhri said, "After that, 'Abdullah used to pray more at night.")
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 157:I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I saw that a cup full of milk
was brought to me and I drank of it and gave the remaining of it to 'Umar bin
Al-Khattab." They asked. What have you interpreted (about the dream)? O
Allah's Apostle?" The Prophet said. "(It is Religious) knowledge."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 158:Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, two golden bangles were put in my
two hands, so I got scared (frightened) and disliked it, but I was given permission
to blow them off, and they flew away. I interpret it as a symbol of two liars who
will appear." 'Ubaidullah said, "One of them was Al-'Ansi who was killed by Fairuz
at Yemen and the other was Musailama (at Najd) .The Prophet said, "I saw in a dream that I was migrating from Mecca to a land
where there were date palm trees. I thought that it might be the land of
Al-Yamama or Hajar, but behold, it turned out to be Yathrib (i.e. Medina). And I
saw cows (being slaughtered) there, but the reward given by Allah is better (than
worldly benefits). Behold, those cows proved to symbolize the believers (who
were killed) on the Day (of the battle) of Uhud, and the good (which I saw in the
dream) was the good and the reward and the truth which Allah bestowed upon us
after the Badr battle. (or the Battle of Uhud) and that was the victory bestowed by
Allah in the Battle of Khaibar and the conquest of Mecca) .
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 160:Allah's Apostle said, "We (Muslims) are the last (to come) but (will be) the
foremost (on the Day of Resurrection)." Allah's Apostle further said, ''While
sleeping, I was given the treasures of the world and two golden bangles were put in
my hands, but I felt much annoyed, and those two bangles distressed me very
much, but I was inspired that I should blow them off, so I blew them and they flew
away. Then I interpreted that those two bangles were the liars between whom I
was (i.e., the one of San'a' and the one of Yamama)."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 161:The Prophet said, "I saw (in a dream) a black woman with unkempt hair going out
of Medina and settling at Mahai'a, i.e., Al-Juhfa. I interpreted that as a symbol of
epidemic of Medina being transferred to that place (Al-Juhfa)."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 162:concerning the dream of the Prophet in Medina: The Prophet said, "I saw (in a
dream) a black woman with unkempt hair going out of Medina and settling at
Mahai'a. I interpreted that as (a symbol of) the epidemic of Medina being
transferred to Mahai'a, namely, Al-Juhfa."The Prophet said, "I saw (in a dream) a black woman with unkempt hair going out
of Medina and settling in Mahai'a. I interpreted that as (a symbol of) epidemic of
Medina being transferred to Mahai'a, namely, Al-Juhfa."
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 164:The Prophet said, "I saw in a dream that I waved a sword and it broke in the
middle, and behold, that symbolized the casualties the believers suffered on the
Day (of the battle) of Uhud. Then I waved the sword again, and it became better
than it had ever been before, and behold, that symbolized the Conquest (of
Mecca) which Allah brought about and the gathering of the believers. "
Volume 9, Book 87, Number 165:The Prophet said, "Whoever claims to have seen a dream which he did not see,
will be ordered to make a knot between two barley grains which he will not be
able to do; and if somebody listens to the talk of some people who do not like him
(to listen) or they run away from him, then molten lead will be poured into his ears
on the Day of Resurrection; and whoever makes a picture, will be punished on the
Day of Resurrection and will be ordered to put a soul in that picture, which he will
not be able to do."Allah's Apostle said, "The worst lie is that a person claims to have seen a dream
which he has not seen."I used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard Abu Qatada saying,
"I too, used to see a dream which would make me sick till I heard the Prophet
saying, "A good dream is from Allah, so if anyone of you saw a dream which he
liked, he should not tell it to anybody except to the one whom he loves, and if he
saw a dream which he disliked, then he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil
and from the evil of Satan, and spit three times (on his left) and should not tell it to
anybody, for it will not harm him. "I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "If anyone of you saw a dream which he liked, then
that was from Allah, and he should thank Allah for it and tell it to others; but if he
saw something else, i.e, a dream which he did not like, then that is from Satan and
he should seek refuge with Allah from it and should not tell it to anybody for it will
not harm him."A man came to Allah's Apostle and said, "I saw in a dream, a cloud having shade.
Butter and honey were dropping from it and I saw the people gathering it in their
hands, some gathering much and some a little. And behold, there was a rope
extending from the earth to the sky, and I saw that you (the Prophet) held it and
went up, and then another man held it and went up and (after that) another (third)
held it and went up, and then after another (fourth) man held it, but it broke and
then got connected again." Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Apostle! Let my father be
sacrificed for you! Allow me to interpret this dream." The Prophet said to him,
"Interpret it." Abu Bakr said, "The cloud with shade symbolizes Islam, and the
butter and honey dropping from it, symbolizes the Quran, its sweetness dropping
and some people learning much of the Quran and some a little. The rope which is
extended from the sky to the earth is the Truth which you (the Prophet) are
following. You follow it and Allah will raise you high with it, and then another man
will follow it and will rise up with it and another person will follow it and then
another man will follow it but it will break and then it will be connected for him and
he will rise up with it. O Allah's Apostle! Let my father be sacrificed for you! Am I
right or wrong?" The Prophet replied, "You are right in some of it and wrong in
some." Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Prophet! By Allah, you must tell me in what I
was wrong." The Prophet said, "Do not swear."Allah's Apostle very often used to ask his companions, "Did anyone of you see a
dream?" So dreams would be narrated to him by those whom Allah wished to tell.
One morning the Prophet said, "Last night two persons came to me (in a dream)
and woke me up and said to me, 'Proceed!' I set out with them and we came
across a man Lying down, and behold, another man was standing over his head,
holding a big rock. Behold, he was throwing the rock at the man's head, injuring it.
The rock rolled away and the thrower followed it and took it back. By the time he
reached the man, his head returned to the normal state. The thrower then did the
same as he had done before. I said to my two companions, 'Subhan Allah! Who
are these two persons?' They said, 'Proceed!' So we proceeded and came to a
man Lying flat on his back and another man standing over his head with an iron
hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of the man's mouth and tear
off that side of his face to the back (of the neck) and similarly tear his nose from
front to back and his eye from front to back. Then he turned to the other side of
the man's face and did just as he had done with the other side. He hardly
completed this side when the other side returned to its normal state. Then he
returned to it to repeat what he had done before. I said to my two companions,
'Subhan Allah! Who are these two persons?' They said to me, 'Proceed!' So we
proceeded and came across something like a Tannur (a kind of baking oven, a pit
usually clay-lined for baking bread)." I think the Prophet said, "In that oven t here
was much noise and voices." The Prophet added, "We looked into it and found
naked men and women, and behold, a flame of fire was reaching to them from
underneath, and when it reached them, they cried loudly. I asked them, 'Who are
these?' They said to me, 'Proceed!' And so we proceeded and came across a
river." I think he said, ".... red like blood." The Prophet added, "And behold, in the
river there was a man swimming, and on the bank there was a man who had
collected many stones. Behold. while the other man was swimming, he went near
him. The former opened his mouth and the latter (on the bank) threw a stone into
his mouth whereupon he went swimming again. He returned and every time the
performance was repeated, I asked my two companions, 'Who are these (two)
persons?' They replied, 'Proceed! Proceed!' And we proceeded till we came to a
man with a repulsive appearance, the most repulsive appearance, you ever saw a
man having! Beside him there was a fire and he was kindling it and running around
it. I asked my companions, 'Who is this (man)?' They said to me, 'Proceed!
Proceed!' So we proceeded till we reached a garden of deep green dense
vegetation, having all sorts of spring colors. In the midst of the garden there was a
very tall man and I could hardly see his head because of his great height, and
around him there were children in such a large number as I have never seen. I said
to my companions, 'Who is this?' They replied, 'Proceed! Proceed!' So we
proceeded till we came to a majestic huge garden, greater and better than I have
ever seen! My two companions said to me, 'Go up and I went up' The Prophet
added, "So we ascended till we reached a city built of gold and silver bricks and
we went to its gate and asked (the gatekeeper) to open the gate, and it was
opened and we entered the city and found in it, men with one side of their bodies
as handsome as the handsomest person you have ever seen, and the other side as
ugly as the ugliest person you have ever seen. My two companions ordered those
men to throw themselves into the river. Behold, there was a river flowing across
(the city), and its water was like milk in whiteness. Those men went and threw
themselves in it and then returned to us after the ugliness (of their bodies) had
disappeared and they became in the best shape." The Prophet further added, "My
two companions (angels) said to me, 'This place is the Eden Paradise, and that is
your place.' I raised up my sight, and behold, there I saw a palace like a white
cloud! My two companions said to me, 'That (palace) is your place.' I said to
them, 'May Allah bless you both! Let me enter it.' They replied, 'As for now, you
will not enter it, but you shall enter it (one day) I said to them, 'I have seen many
wonders tonight. What does all that mean which I have seen?' They replied, 'We
will inform you: As for the first man you came upon whose head was being injured
with the rock, he is the symbol of the one who studies the Quran and then neither
recites it nor acts on its orders, and sleeps, neglecting the enjoined prayers. As for
the man you came upon whose sides of mouth, nostrils and eyes were torn off from
front to back, he is the symbol of the man who goes out of his house in the morning
and tells so many lies that it spreads all over the world. And those naked men and
women whom you saw in a construction resembling an oven, they are the
adulterers and the adulteresses;, and the man whom you saw swimming in the river
and given a stone to swallow, is the eater of usury (Riba) and the bad looking man
whom you saw near the fire kindling it and going round it, is Malik, the gatekeeper
of Hell and the tall man whom you saw in the garden, is Abraham and the children
around him are those children who die with Al-Fitra (the Islamic Faith)." The
narrator added: Some Muslims asked the Prophet, "O Allah's Apostle! What
about the children of pagans?" The Prophet replied, "And also the children of
pagans." The Prophet added, "My two companions added, 'The men you saw half
handsome and half ugly were those persons who had mixed an act that was good
with another that was bad, but Allah forgave them.'"
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 88:The Prophet said, "I will be at my Lake-Fount (Kauthar) waiting for whoever will
come to me. Then some people will be taken away from me whereupon I will say,
'My followers!' It will be said, 'You do not know they turned Apostates as
renegades (deserted their religion).'" (Ibn Abi Mulaika said, "Allah, we seek refuge
with You from turning on our heels from the (Islamic) religion and from being put to
trial").The Prophet said, "I am your predecessor at the Lake-Fount (Kauthar) and some
men amongst you will be brought to me, and when I will try to hand them some
water, they will be pulled away from me by force whereupon I will say, 'O Lord,
my companions!' Then the Almighty will say, 'You do not know what they did after
you left, they introduced new things into the religion after you.'"
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 174:I heard the Prophet saying, "I am your predecessor at the Lake-Fount (Kauthar),
and whoever will come to it, will drink from it, and whoever will drink from it, will
never become thirsty after that. There will come to me some people whom I know
and they know me, and then a barrier will be set up between me and them." Abu
Sa'id Al-Khudri added that the Prophet further said: "I will say those people are
from me. It will be said, 'You do not know what changes and new things they did
after you.' Then I will say, 'Far removed (from mercy), far removed (from mercy),
those who changed (the religion) after me! "Allah's Apostle said to us, "You will see after me, selfishness (on the part of other
people) and other matters that you will disapprove of." They asked, "What do you
order us to do, O Allah's Apostle? (under such circumstances)?" He said, "Pay
their rights to them (to the rulers) and ask your right from Allah."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 176:The Prophet said, "Whoever disapproves of something done by his ruler then he
should be patient, for whoever disobeys the ruler even a little (little = a span) will
die as those who died in the Pre-lslamic Period of Ignorance. (i.e. as rebellious
Sinners).The Prophet said, "Whoever notices something which he dislikes done by his ruler,
then he should be patient, for whoever becomes separate from the company of the
Muslims even for a span and then dies, he will die as those who died in the
Pre-lslamic period of Ignorance (as rebellious sinners). (Fateh-Al-Bari page 112,
Vol. 16)We entered upon 'Ubada bin As-Samit while he was sick. We said, "May Allah
make you healthy. Will you tell us a Hadith you heard from the Prophet and by
which Allah may make you benefit?" He said, "The Prophet called us and we gave
him the Pledge of allegiance for Islam, and among the conditions on which he took
the Pledge from us, was that we were to listen and obey (the orders) both at the
time when we were active and at the time when we were tired, and at our difficult
time and at our ease and to be obedient to the ruler and give him his right even if he
did not give us our right, and not to fight against him unless we noticed him having
open Kufr (disbelief) for which we would have a proof with us from Allah."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 179:A man came to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! You appointed
such-and-such person and you did not appoint me?" The Prophet said, "After me
you will see rulers not giving you your right (but you should give them their right)
and be patient till you meet me."I heard the truthful and trusted by Allah (i.e., the Prophet ) saying, "The destruction
of my followers will be through the hands of young men from Quraish."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 181:The Prophet got up from his sleep with a flushed red face and said, "None has the
right to be worshipped but Allah. Woe to the Arabs, from the Great evil that is
nearly approaching them. Today a gap has been made in the wall of Gog and
Magog like this." (Sufyan illustrated by this forming the number 90 or 100 with his
fingers.) It was asked, "Shall we be destroyed though there are righteous people
among us?" The Prophet said, "Yes, if evil increased."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 182:Once the Prophet stood over one of the high buildings of Medina and then said (to
the people), "Do you see what I see?" They said, "No." He said, "I see afflictions
falling among your houses as rain drops fall."The Prophet said, "Time will pass rapidly, good deeds will decrease, miserliness
will be thrown (in the hearts of the people) afflictions will appear and there will be
much 'Al-Harj." They said, "O Allah's Apostle! What is "Al-Harj?" He said,
"Killing! Killing!" (See Hadith No. 63, Vol. 8)The Prophet said, "Near the establishment of the Hour there will be days during
which Religious ignorance will spread, knowledge will be taken away (vanish) and
there will be much Al-Harj, and Al-Harj means killing."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 185:The Prophet said, "Near the establishment of the Hour there will be days during
which (religious) knowledge will be taken away (vanish) and general ignorance will
spread, and there will be Al-Harj in abundance, and Al-Harj means killing."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 186:The Prophet said...(as above, 185). And Harj, in the Ethiopian language, means
killing.The Prophet said, "Near the establishment of the Hour, there will be the days of
Al-Harj, and the religious knowledge will be taken away (vanish i.e. by the death
of Religious scholars) and general ignorance will spread." Abu Musa said,
"Al-Harj, in the Ethiopian language, means killing," Ibn Mas'ud added: I heard
Allah's Apostle saying; (It will be) from among the most wicked people who will
be living at the time when the Hour will be established."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 188:We went to Anas bin Malik and complained about the wrong we were suffering at
the hand of Al-Hajjaj. Anas bin Malik said, "Be patient till you meet your Lord, for
no time will come upon you but the time following it will be worse than it. I heard
that from the Prophet."(the wife of the Prophet) Allah's Apostle woke up one night in a state of terror and
said, "Subhan Allah, How many treasures Allah has sent down! And how many
afflictions have been sent down! Who will go and wake the lady dwellers (wives of
the Prophet) up of these rooms (for prayers)?" He meant his wives, so that they
might pray. He added, "A well-dressed (soul) in this world may be naked in the
Hereafter."The statement of the Prophet: Whoever takes up arms against us, is not from us."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 191:Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever takes up arms against us, is not from us."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 192:The Prophet said, "Whoever takes up arms against us, is not from us."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 193:The Prophet said, "None of you should point out towards his Muslim brother with
a weapon, for he does not know, Satan may tempt him to hit him and thus he
would fall into a pit of fire (Hell)"I said to 'Amr, "O Abu Muhammad! Did you hear Jabir bin 'Abdullah saying, 'A
man carrying arrows passed through the mosque and Allah's Apostle said to him,
'Hold the arrows by their heads! "'Amr replied, "Yes."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 195:A man passed through the mosque and he was carrying arrows, the heads of which
were exposed (protruding). The man was ordered (by the Prophet) to hold the
iron heads so that it might not scratch (injure) any Muslim.
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 196:The Prophet said, "If anyone of you passed through our mosque or through our
market while carrying arrows, he should hold the iron heads," or said, "..... he
should hold (their heads) firmly with his hand lest he should injure one of the
Muslims with it."The Prophet, said, "Abusing a Muslim is Fusuq (evil doing) and killing him is Kufr
(disbelief)."I heard the Prophet saying, "Do not revert to disbelief after me by striking (cutting)
the necks of one another."Allah's Apostle addressed the people saying, "Don't you know what is the day
today?" They replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better." We thought that he
might give that day another name. The Prophet said, "Isn't it the day of An-Nahr?"
We replied, "Yes. O Allah's Apostle." He then said, "What town is this? Isn't it the
forbidden (Sacred) Town (Mecca)?" We replied, "Yes, O Allah's Apostle." He
then said, "Your blood, your properties, your honors and your skins (i.e., bodies)
are as sacred to one another like the sanctity of this day of yours in this month of
yours in this town of yours. (Listen) Haven't I conveyed Allah's message to you?"
We replied, "Yes" He said, "O Allah! Be witness (for it). So it is incumbent upon
those who are present to convey it (this message of mine) to those who are absent
because the informed one might comprehend what I have said better than the
present audience who will convey it to him.)" The narrator added: In fact, it was
like that. The Prophet added, "Beware! Do not renegade as disbelievers after me
by striking (cutting) the necks of one another."The Prophet said, "Beware! Do not renegade as (disbelievers) after me by striking
(cutting) the necks of one another."The Prophet said to me during Hajjat-al-Wada', "Let the people keep quiet and
listen." Then he said (addressing the people), "Beware! Do not renegade as
disbelievers after me by striking (cutting) the necks of one another."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 202:Allah's Apostle said, "There will be afflictions (in the near future) during which a
sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better
than the walking one, and the walking one will be better than the running one, and
whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever
can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 203:Allah's Apostle said, "There will be afflictions (in the near future) during which a
sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better
than a walking one, and the walking one will be better than a running one, and
whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever
can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 204:(Al-Ahnaf said:) I went out carrying my arms during the nights of the affliction (i.e.
the war between 'Ali and 'Aisha) and Abu Bakra met me and asked, "Where are
you going?" I replied, "I intend to help the cousin of Allah's Apostle (i.e.,'Ali)." Abu
Bakra said, "Allah's Apostle said, 'If two Muslims take out their swords to fight
each other, then both of them will be from amongst the people of the Hell-Fire.' It
was said to the Prophet, 'It is alright for the killer but what about the killed one?'
He replied, 'The killed one had the intention to kill his opponent.'" (See Hadith No.
30, Vol. 1)The people used to ask Allah's Apostle about the good but I used to ask him
about the evil lest I should be overtaken by them. So I said, "O Allah's Apostle!
We were living in ignorance and in an (extremely) worst atmosphere, then Allah
brought to us this good (i.e., Islam); will there be any evil after this good?" He said,
"Yes." I said, 'Will there be any good after that evil?" He replied, "Yes, but it will
be tainted (not pure.)'' I asked, "What will be its taint?" He replied, "(There will be)
some people who will guide others not according to my tradition? You will
approve of some of their deeds and disapprove of some others." I asked, "Will
there be any evil after that good?" He replied, "Yes, (there will be) some people
calling at the gates of the (Hell) Fire, and whoever will respond to their call, will be
thrown by them into the (Hell) Fire." I said, "O Allah s Apostle! Will you describe
them to us?" He said, "They will be from our own people and will speak our
language." I said, "What do you order me to do if such a state should take place in
my life?" He said, "Stick to the group of Muslims and their Imam (ruler)." I said, "If
there is neither a group of Muslims nor an Imam (ruler)?" He said, "Then turn away
from all those sects even if you were to bite (eat) the roots of a tree till death
overtakes you while you are in that state."An army unit was being recruited from the people of Medina and my name was
written among them. Then I met 'Ikrima, and when I informed him about it, he
discouraged me very strongly and said, "Ibn 'Abbas told me that there were some
Muslims who were with the pagans to increase their number against Allah's
Apostle (and the Muslim army) so arrows (from the Muslim army) would hit one of
them and kill him or a Muslim would strike him (with his sword) and kill him. So
Allah revealed:--'Verily! As for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging
themselves (by staying among the disbelievers).' (4.97)
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 208:Allah's Apostle related to us, two prophetic narrations one of which I have seen
fulfilled and I am waiting for the fulfillment of the other. The Prophet told us that the
virtue of honesty descended in the roots of men's hearts (from Allah) and then they
learned it from the Quran and then they learned it from the Sunna (the Prophet's
traditions). The Prophet further told us how that honesty will be taken away: He
said: "Man will go to sleep during which honesty will be taken away from his heart
and only its trace will remain in his heart like the trace of a dark spot; then man will
go to sleep, during which honesty will decrease further still, so that its trace will
resemble the trace of blister as when an ember is dropped on one's foot which
would make it swell, and one would see it swollen but there would be nothing
inside. People would be carrying out their trade but hardly will there be a
trustworthy person. It will be said, 'in such-and-such tribe there is an honest man,'
and later it will be said about some man, 'What a wise, polite and strong man he
is!' Though he will not have faith equal even to a mustard seed in his heart." No
doubt, there came upon me a time when I did not mind dealing (bargaining) with
anyone of you, for if he was a Muslim his Islam would compel him to pay me what
is due to me, and if he was a Christian, the Muslim official would compel him to
pay me what is due to me, but today I do not deal except with such-and-such
person.That he visited Al-Hajjaj (bin Yusuf). Al-Hajjaj said, "O son of Al-Akwa! You
have turned on your heels (i.e., deserted Islam) by staying (in the desert) with the
bedouins." Salama replied, "No, but Allah's Apostle allowed me to stay with the
bedouin in the desert." Narrated Yazid bin Abi Ubaid: When 'Uthman bin Affan
was killed (martyred), Salama bin Al-Akwa' went out to a place called
Ar-Rabadha and married there and begot children, and he stayed there till a few
nights before his death when he came to Medina.Allah's Apostle said, "There will come a time when the best property of a Muslim
will be sheep which he will take to the tops of mountains and the places of rainfall
so as to flee with his religion from the afflictions.
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 211:The people started asking the Prophet too many questions importunately. So one
day he ascended the pulpit and said, "You will not ask me any question but I will
explain it to you." I looked right and left, and behold, every man was covering his
head with his garment and weeping. Then got up a man who, whenever quarreling
with somebody, used to be accused of not being the son of his father. He said, "O
Allah's Apostle! Who is my father?" The Prophet replied, "Your father is
Hudhaifa." Then 'Umar got up and said, "We accept Allah as our Lord, Islam as
our religion and Muhammad as our Apostle and we seek refuge with Allah from
the evil of afflictions." The Prophet said, " I have never seen the good and bad like
on this day. No doubt, Paradise and Hell was displayed in front of me till I saw
them in front of that wall," Qatada said: This Hadith used to be mentioned as an
explanation of this Verse:-- 'O you who believe! Ask not questions about things
which, if made plain to you, may cause you trouble.' (5.101)
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 212:The Prophet stood up beside the pulpit (and pointed with his finger towards the
East) and said, "Afflictions are there! Afflictions are there, from where the side of
the head of Satan comes out," or said, "..the side of the sun.."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 213:I heard Allah's Apostle while he was facing the East, saying, "Verily! Afflictions are
there, from where the side of the head of Satan comes out."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 214:The Prophet said, "O Allah! Bestow Your blessings on our Sham! O Allah!
Bestow Your blessings on our Yemen." The People said, "And also on our Najd."
He said, "O Allah! Bestow Your blessings on our Sham (north)! O Allah! Bestow
Your blessings on our Yemen." The people said, "O Allah's Apostle! And also on
our Najd." I think the third time the Prophet said, "There (in Najd) is the place of
earthquakes and afflictions and from there comes out the side of the head of
Satan."'Abdullah bin 'Umar came to us and we hoped that he would narrate to us a good
Hadith. But before we asked him, a man got up and said to him, "O Abu
'Abdur-Rahman! Narrate to us about the battles during the time of the afflictions,
as Allah says:--'And fight them until there is no more afflictions (i.e. no more worshipping of others
besides Allah).'" (2.193) Ibn 'Umar said (to the man), "Do you know what is
meant by afflictions? Let your mother bereave you! Muhammad used to fight
against the pagans, for a Muslim was put to trial in his religion (The pagans will
either kill him or chain him as a captive). His fighting was not like your fighting
which is carried on for the sake of ruling."I heard Hudhaifa saying, "While we were sitting with 'Umar, he said, 'Who among
you remembers the statement of the Prophet about the afflictions?' Hudhaifa said,
"The affliction of a man in his family, his property, his children and his neighbors are
expiated by his prayers, Zakat (and alms) and enjoining good and forbidding evil."
'Umar said, "I do not ask you about these afflictions, but about those afflictions
which will move like the waves of the sea." Hudhaifa said, "Don't worry about it, O
chief of the believers, for there is a closed door between you and them." 'Umar
said, "Will that door be broken or opened?" I said, "No. it will be broken." 'Umar
said, "Then it will never be closed," I said, "Yes." We asked Hudhaifa, "Did 'Umar
know what that door meant?" He replied, "Yes, as I know that there will be night
before tomorrow morning, that is because I narrated to him a true narration free
from errors." We dared not ask Hudhaifa as to whom the door represented so we
ordered Masruq to ask him what does the door stand for? He replied, "'Umar."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 217:The Prophet went out to one of the gardens of Medina for some business and I
went out to follow him. When he entered the garden, I sat at its gate and said to
myself, "To day I will be the gatekeeper of the Prophet though he has not ordered
me." The Prophet went and finished his need and went to sit on the constructed
edge of the well and uncovered his legs and hung them in the well. In the meantime
Abu Bakr came and asked permission to enter. I said (to him), "Wait till I get you
permission." Abu Bakr waited outside and I went to the Prophet and said, "O
Allah's Prophet! Abu Bakr asks your permission to enter." He said, "Admit him,
and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise." So Abu Bakr entered and sat
on the right side of the Prophet and uncovered his legs and hung them in the well.
Then 'Umar came and I said (to him), "Wait till I get you permission." The Prophet
said, "Admit him and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise." So Umar
entered and sat on the left side of the Prophet and uncovered his legs and hung
them in the well so that one side of the well became fully occupied and there
remained no place for any-one to sit. Then 'Uthman came and I said (to him),
"Wait till I get permission for you." The Prophet said, "Admit him and give him the
glad tidings of entering Paradise with a calamity which will befall him." When he
entered, he could not find any place to sit with them so he went to the other edge
of the well opposite them and uncovered his legs and hung them in the well. I
wished that a brother of mine would come, so I invoked Allah for his coming. (Ibn
Al-Musaiyab said, "I interpreted that (narration) as indicating their graves. The first
three are together and the grave of 'Uthman is separate from theirs.")
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 218:Someone said to Usama, "Will you not talk to this (Uthman)?" Usama said, "I
talked to him (secretly) without being the first man to open an evil door. I will never
tell a ruler who rules over two men or more that he is good after I heard Allah's
Apostle saying, 'A man will be brought and put in Hell (Fire) and he will
circumambulate (go around and round) in Hell (Fire) like a donkey of a (flour)
grinding mill, and all the people of Hell (Fire) will gather around him and will say to
him, O so-and-so! Didn't you use to order others for good and forbid them from
evil?' That man will say, 'I used to order others to do good but I myself never used
to do it, and I used to forbid others from evil while I myself used to do evil.' "
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 219:During the battle of Al-Jamal, Allah benefited me with a Word (I heard from the
Prophet). When the Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had
made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen (ruler), he said, "Never will succeed
such a nation as makes a woman their ruler."When Talha, AzZubair and 'Aisha moved to Basra, 'Ali sent 'Ammar bin Yasir and
Hasan bin 'Ali who came to us at Kufa and ascended the pulpit. Al-Hasan bin 'Ali
was at the top of the pulpit and 'Ammar was below Al-Hasan. We all gathered
before him. I heard 'Ammar saying, "'Aisha has moved to Al-Busra. By Allah! She
is the wife of your Prophet in this world and in the Hereafter. But Allah has put you
to test whether you obey Him (Allah) or her ('Aisha)."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 221:'Ammar stood on the pulpit at Kufa and mentioned 'Aisha and her coming (to
Busra) and said, "She is the wife of your Prophet in this world and in the Hereafter,
but you people are being put to test in this issue."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 222:Abu Musa and Abii Mas'ud went to 'Ammar when 'Ali had sent him to Kufa to
exhort them to fight (on 'Ali's side). They said to him, "Since you have become a
Muslim, we have never seen you doing a deed more criticizable to us than your
haste in this matter." 'Ammar said, "Since you (both) became Muslims, I have
never seen you doing a deed more criticizable to me than your keeping away from
this matter." Then Abu Mas'ud provided 'Ammar and Abu Musa with two-piece
outfits to wear, and one of them went to the mosque (of Kufa).
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 223:I was sitting with Abu Mas'ud and Abu Musa and 'Ammar. Abu Mas'ud said (to
'Ammar), "There is none of your companions but, if I wish, I could find fault with
him except with you. Since you joined the company of the Prophet I have never
seen anything done by you more criticizable by me than your haste in this issue."
'Ammar said, O Abu Mas'ud ! I have never seen anything done by you or by this
companion of yours (i.e., Abu Musa) more criticizable by me than your keeping
away from this issue since the time you both joined the company of the Prophet."
Then Abu Mas'ud who was a rich man, said (to his servant), "O boy! Bring two
suits." Then he gave one to Abu Musa and the other to 'Ammar and said (to them),
"Put on these suits before going for the Friday prayer. "
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 224:Allah's Apostle said, "If Allah sends punishment upon a nation then it befalls upon
the whole population indiscriminately and then they will be resurrected (and
judged) according to their deeds. "When Al-Hasan bin 'Ali moved with army units against Muawiya, 'Amr bin AL-As
said to Muawiya, "I see an army that will not retreat unless and until the opposing
army retreats." Muawiya said, "(If the Muslims are killed) who will look after their
children?" 'Amr bin Al-As said: I (will look after them). On that, 'Abdullah bin
'Amir and 'Abdur-Rahman bin Samura said, "Let us meet Muawaiya and suggest
peace." Al-Hasan Al-Basri added: No doubt, I heard that Abu Bakra said, "Once
while the Prophet was addressing (the people), Al-Hasan (bin 'Ali) came and the
Prophet said, 'This son of mine is a chief, and Allah may make peace between two
groups of Muslims through him."(Usama's Maula) Usama (bin Zaid) sent me to 'Ali (at Kufa) and said, "'Ali will ask
you, 'What has prevented your companion from joining me?' You then should say
to him, 'If you ('Ali) were in the mouth of a lion, I would like to be with you, but in
this matter I won't take any part.' " Harmala added: "'Ali didn't give me anything
(when I conveyed the message to him) so I went to Hasan, Hussain and Ibn Ja'far
and they loaded my camels with much (wealth)."When the people of Medina dethroned Yazid bin Muawiya, Ibn 'Umar gathered
his special friends and children and said, "I heard the Prophet saying, 'A flag will be
fixed for every betrayer on the Day of Resurrection,' and we have given the oath of
allegiance to this person (Yazid) in accordance with the conditions enjoined by
Allah and His Apostle and I do not know of anything more faithless than fighting a
person who has been given the oath of allegiance in accordance with the conditions
enjoined by Allah and His Apostle , and if ever I learn that any person among you
has agreed to dethrone Yazid, by giving the oath of allegiance (to somebody else)
then there will be separation between him and me."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 228:When Ibn Ziyad and Marwan were in Sham and Ibn Az-Zubair took over the
authority in Mecca and Qurra' (the Kharijites) revolted in Basra, I went out with
my father to Abu Barza Al-Aslami till we entered upon him in his house while he
was sitting in the shade of a room built of cane. So we sat with him and my father
started talking to him saying, "O Abu Barza! Don't you see in what dilemma the
people has fallen?" The first thing heard him saying "I seek reward from Allah for
myself because of being angry and scornful at the Quraish tribe. O you Arabs! You
know very well that you were in misery and were few in number and misguided,
and that Allah has brought you out of all that with Islam and with Muhammad till
He brought you to this state (of prosperity and happiness) which you see now; and
it is this worldly wealth and pleasures which has caused mischief to appear among
you. The one who is in Sham (i.e., Marwan), by Allah, is not fighting except for the
sake of worldly gain: and those who are among you, by Allah, are not fighting
except for the sake of worldly gain; and that one who is in Mecca (i.e., Ibn
Az-Zubair) by Allah, is not fighting except for the sake of worldly gain."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 229:Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman said, 'The hypocrites of today are worse than those of the
lifetime of the Prophet, because in those days they used to do evil deeds secretly
but today they do such deeds openly.'Hudhaifa said, 'In fact, it was hypocrisy that existed in the lifetime of the Prophet
but today it is Kufr (disbelief) after belief.'The Prophet said, "The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of
somebody and says, 'Would that I were in his place.' "
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 232:Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established till the buttocks of the
women of the tribe of Daus move while going round Dhi-al-Khalasa."
Dhi-al-Khalasa was the idol of the Daus tribe which they used to worship in the
Pre Islamic Period of ignorance.Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established till a man from Qahtan
appears, driving the people with his stick."Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established till a fire will come out of
the land of Hijaz, and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 235:Allah's Apostle said, "Soon the river "Euphrates" will disclose the treasure (the
mountain) of gold, so whoever will be present at that time should not take anything
of it." Al-A'raj narrated from Abii Huraira that the Prophet said the same but he
said, "It (Euphrates) will uncover a mountain of gold (under it)."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 236:I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "Give in charity because there will come a time on
the people when a person will go out with his alms from place to place but will not
find anybody to accept it."Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established (1) till two big groups fight
each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and
they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, (2) till about thirty
Dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle,
(3) till the religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of Religious scholars)
(4) earthquakes will increase in number (5) time will pass quickly, (6) afflictions will
appear, (7) Al-Harj, (i.e., killing) will increase, (8) till wealth will be in abundance
---- so abundant that a wealthy person will worry lest nobody should accept his
Zakat, and whenever he will present it to someone, that person (to whom it will be
offered) will say, 'I am not in need of it, (9) till the people compete with one
another in constructing high buildings, (10) till a man when passing by a grave of
someone will say, 'Would that I were in his place (11) and till the sun rises from the
West. So when the sun will rise and the people will see it (rising from the West)
they will all believe (embrace Islam) but that will be the time when: (As Allah said,)
'No good will it do to a soul to believe then, if it believed not before, nor earned
good (by deeds of righteousness) through its Faith.' (6.158) And the Hour will be
established while two men spreading a garment in front of them but they will not be
able to sell it, nor fold it up; and the Hour will be established when a man has
milked his she-camel and has taken away the milk but he will not be able to drink
it; and the Hour will be established before a man repairing a tank (for his livestock)
is able to water (his animals) in it; and the Hour will be established when a person
has raised a morsel (of food) to his mouth but will not be able to eat it."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 238:Nobody asked the Prophet as many questions as I asked regarding Ad-Dajjal.
The Prophet said to me, "What worries you about him?" I said, "Because the
people say that he will have a mountain of bread and a river of water with him (i.e.
he will have abundance of food and water)" The Prophet said, "Nay, he is too
mean to be allowed such a thing by Allah"' (but it is only to test mankind whether
they believe in Allah or in Ad-Dajjal.)The Prophet said, "Ad-Dajjal will come and encamp at a place close to Medina
and then Medina will shake thrice whereupon every Kafir (disbeliever) and
hypocrite will go out (of Medina) towards him."The Prophet said, "The terror caused by Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal will not enter
Medina and at that time Medina will have seven gates and there will be two angels
at each gate (guarding them).Allah's Apostle stood up amongst the people and then praised and glorified Allah
as He deserved and then he mentioned Ad-Dajjal, saying, "I warn you of him, and
there was no prophet but warned his followers of him; but I will tell you something
about him which no prophet has told his followers: Ad-Dajjal is one-eyed whereas
Allah is not."Allah's Apostle said. "While I was sleeping, I saw myself (in a dream) performing
Tawaf around the Ka'ba. Behold, I saw a reddish-white man with lank hair, and
water was dropping from his head. I asked, "Who is this?' They replied, 'The son
of Mary.' Then I turned my face to see another man with a huge body, red
complexion and curly hair and blind in one eye. His eye looked like a protruding
out grape. They said (to me), He is Ad-Dajjal." The Prophet added, "The man he
resembled most is Ibn Qatan, a man from the tribe of Khuza'a. "
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 243:I heard Allah's Apostle in his prayer, seeking refuge with Allah from the afflictions
of Ad-Dajjal.The Prophet said about Ad-Dajjal that he would have water and fire with him:
(what would seem to be) fire, would be cold water and (what would seem to be)
water, would be fire.The Prophet said, "No prophet was sent but that he warned his followers against
the one-eyed liar (Ad-Dajjal). Beware! He is blind in one eye, and your Lord is
not so, and there will be written between his (Ad-Dajjal's) eyes (the word) Kafir
(i.e., disbeliever)." (This Hadith is also quoted by Abu Huraira and Ibn 'Abbas).
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 246:One day Allah's Apostle narrated to us a long narration about Ad-Dajjal and
among the things he narrated to us, was: "Ad-Dajjal will come, and he will be
forbidden to enter the mountain passes of Medina. He will encamp in one of the
salt areas neighboring Medina and there will appear to him a man who will be the
best or one of the best of the people. He will say 'I testify that you are Ad-Dajjal
whose story Allah's Apostle has told us.' Ad-Dajjal will say (to his audience),
'Look, if I kill this man and then give him life, will you have any doubt about my
claim?' They will reply, 'No,' Then Ad-Dajjal will kill that man and then will make
him alive. The man will say, 'By Allah, now I recognize you more than ever!'
Ad-Dajjal will then try to kill him (again) but he will not be given the power to do
so."Allah's Apostle said, "There are angels at the mountain passes of Medina (so that)
neither plague nor Ad-Dajjal can enter it.'The Prophet said, "Ad-Dajjal will come to Medina and find the angels guarding it.
So Allah willing, neither Ad-Dajjal, nor plague will be able to come near it."
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 249:That one day Allah's Apostle entered upon her in a state of fear and said, "None
has the right to be worshipped but Allah! Woe to the Arabs from the Great evil
that has approached (them). Today a hole has been opened in the dam of Gog and
Magog like this." The Prophet made a circle with his index finger and thumb.
Zainab bint Jahsh added: I said, "O Alllah's Apostle! Shall we be destroyed though
there will be righteous people among us?" The Prophet said, "Yes, if the (number)
of evil (persons) increased."The Prophet said, "A hole has been opened in the dam of Gog and Magog."
Wuhaib (the sub-narrator) made the number 90 (with his index finger and thumb).
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 89:Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever obeys me, obeys Allah, and whoever disobeys me,
disobeys Allah, and whoever obeys the ruler I appoint, obeys me, and whoever
disobeys him, disobeys me."Allah's Apostle said, "Surely! Everyone of you is a guardian and is responsible for
his charges: The Imam (ruler) of the people is a guardian and is responsible for his
subjects; a man is the guardian of his family (household) and is responsible for his
subjects; a woman is the guardian of her husband's home and of his children and is
responsible for them; and the slave of a man is a guardian of his master's property
and is responsible for it. Surely, everyone of you is a guardian and responsible for
his charges."That while he was included in a delegation of Quraish staying with Muawiya,
Muawiya heard that 'Abdullah bin 'Amr had said that there would be a king from
Qahtan tribe, whereupon he became very angry. He stood up, and after glorifying
and praising Allah as He deserved, said, "To proceed, I have come to know that
some of you men are narrating things which are neither in Allah's Book, nor has
been mentioned by Allah's Apostle . Such people are the ignorant among you.
Beware of such vain desires that mislead those who have them. I have heard
Allah's Apostle saying, 'This matter (of the caliphate) will remain with the Quraish,
and none will rebel against them, but Allah will throw him down on his face as long
as they stick to the rules and regulations of the religion (Islam).'"
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 254:Allah's Apostle said, "This matter (caliphate) will remain with the Quraish even if
only two of them were still existing."Allah's Apostle said, "Do not wish to be like anyone, except in two cases: (1) A
man whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it righteously. (2) A man whom
Allah has given wisdom (knowledge of the Quran and the Hadith) and he acts
according to it and teaches it to others."Allah's Apostle said, "You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an
Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 257:The Prophet said, "If somebody sees his Muslim ruler doing something he
disapproves of, he should be patient, for whoever becomes separate from the
Muslim group even for a span and then dies, he will die as those who died in the
Pre-lslamic period of ignorance (as rebellious sinners). (See Hadith No. 176 and
177)The Prophet said, "A Muslim has to listen to and obey (the order of his ruler)
whether he likes it or not, as long as his orders involve not one in disobedience (to
Allah), but if an act of disobedience (to Allah) is imposed one should not listen to it
or obey it. (See Hadith No. 203, Vol. 4)The Prophet sent an army unit (for some campaign) and appointed a man from the
Ansar as its commander and ordered them (the soldiers) to obey him. (During the
campaign) he became angry with them and said, "Didn't the Prophet order you to
obey me?" They said, "Yes." He said, "I order you to collect wood and make a fire
and then throw yourselves into it." So they collected wood and made a fire, but
when they were about to throw themselves into, it they started looking at each
other, and some of them said, "We followed the Prophet to escape from the fire.
How should we enter it now?" So while they were in that state, the fire
extinguished and their commander's anger abated. The event was mentioned to the
Prophet and he said, "If they had entered it (the fire) they would never have come
out of it, for obedience is required only in what is good." (See Hadith No. 629.
Vol. 5)The Prophet said, "O 'Abdur-Rahman! Do not seek to be a ruler, for if you are
given authority on your demand then you will be held responsible for it, but if you
are given it without asking (for it), then you will be helped (by Allah) in it. If you
ever take an oath to do something and later on you find that something else is
better, then you should expiate your oath and do what is better."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 261:Allah's Apostle said, "O 'Abdur-Rahman bin Samura! Do not seek to be a ruler,
for if you are given authority on your demand, you will be held responsible for it,
but if you are given it without asking for it, then you will be helped (by Allah) in it.
If you ever take an oath to do something and later on you find that something else
is better, then do what is better and make expiation for your oath."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 262:The Prophet said, "You people will be keen to have the authority of ruling which
will be a thing of regret for you on the Day of Resurrection. What an excellent wet
nurse it is, yet what a bad weaning one it is!"Two men from my tribe and I entered upon the Prophet. One of the two men said
to the Prophet, "O Allah's Apostle! Appoint me as a governor," and so did the
second. The Prophet said, "We do not assign the authority of ruling to those who
ask for it, nor to those who are keen to have it."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 264:I heard the Prophet saying, "Any man whom Allah has given the authority of ruling
some people and he does not look after them in an honest manner, will never feel
even the smell of Paradise."Allah's Apostle said, "If any ruler having the authority to rule Muslim subjects dies
while he is deceiving them, Allah will forbid Paradise for him."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 266:I saw Safwan and Jundab and Safwan's companions when Jundab was advising.
They said, "Did you hear something from Allah's Apostle?" Jundab said, "I heard
him saying, 'Whoever does a good deed in order to show off, Allah will expose his
intentions on the Day of Resurrection (before the people), and whoever puts the
people into difficulties, Allah will put him into difficulties on the Day of
Resurrection.'" The people said (to Jundab), "Advise us." He said, "The first thing
of the human body to purify is the abdomen, so he who can eat nothing but good
food (Halal and earned lawfully) should do so, and he who does as much as he can
that nothing intervene between him and Paradise by not shedding even a handful of
blood, (i.e. murdering) should do so."Apostle." The Prophet said, "You will be with the one whom you love."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 268:Anas bin Malik said to a woman of his family, "Do you know such-and-such a
woman?" She replied, "Yes." He said, "The Prophet passed by her while she was
weeping over a grave, and he said to her, 'Be afraid of Allah and be patient.' The
woman said (to the Prophet). 'Go away from me, for you do not know my
calamity.'" Anas added, "The Prophet left her and proceeded. A man passed by
her and asked her, 'What has Allah's Apostle said to you?' She replied, 'I did not
recognize him.' The man said, 'He was Allah's Apostle."' Anas added, "So that
woman came to the gate of the Prophet and she did not find a gate-keeper there,
and she said, 'O Allah's Apostle! By Allah. I did not recognize you!' The Prophet
said, 'No doubt, patience is at the first stroke of a calamity.'"
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 269:Qais bin Sa'd was to the Prophet like a chief police officer to an Amir (chief).
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 270:that the Prophet sent him and sent Mu'adh after him (as rulers to Yemen).
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 271:A man embraced Islam and then reverted back to Judaism. Mu'adh bin Jabal came
and saw the man with Abu Musa. Mu'adh asked, "What is wrong with this (man)?"
Abu Musa replied, "He embraced Islam and then reverted back to Judaism."
Mu'adh said, "I will not sit down unless you kill him (as it is) the verdict of Allah
and His ApostleAbu Bakra wrote to his son who was in Sijistan: 'Do not judge between two
persons when you are angry, for I heard the Prophet saying, "A judge should not
judge between two persons while he is in an angry mood."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 273:A man came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! By Allah, I fail to
attend the morning congregational prayer because so-and-so (i.e., Muadh bin
Jabal) prolongs the prayer when he leads us for it." I had never seen the Prophet
more furious in giving advice than he was on that day. He then said, "O people!
some of you make others dislike (good deeds, i.e. prayers etc). So whoever
among you leads the people in prayer, he should shorten it because among them
there are the old, the weak and the busy (needy having some jobs to do). (See
Hadith No. 90, Vol. 1)That he had divorced his wife during her menses. 'Umar mentioned that to the
Prophet. Allah's Apostle became angry and said, "He must take her back (his wife)
and keep her with him till she becomes clean from her menses and then to wait till
she gets her next period and becomes clean again from it and only then, if he wants
to divorce her, he may do so."Hind bint 'Utba bin Rabia came and said. "O Allah's Apostle! By Allah, there was
no family on the surface of the earth, I like to see in degradation more than I did
your family, but today there is no family on the surface of the earth whom I like to
see honored more than yours." Hind added, "Abu Sufyan is a miser. Is it sinful of
me to feed our children from his property?" The Prophet said, "There is no blame
on you if you feed them (thereof) in a just and reasonable manner.
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 276:When the Prophet intended to write to the Byzantines, the people said, "They do
not read a letter unless it is sealed (stamped)." Therefore the Prophet took a silver
ring----as if I am looking at its glitter now----and its engraving was: 'Muhammad,
Apostle of Allah'That when he went to 'Umar during his Caliphate. 'Umar said to him, "Haven't I
been told that you do certain jobs for the people but when you are given payment
you refuse to take it?" 'Abdullah added: I said, "Yes." 'Umar said, "Why do you do
so?" I said, "I have horses and slaves and I am living in prosperity and I wish that
my payment should be kept as a charitable gift for the Muslims." 'Umar said, "Do
not do so, for I intended to do the same as you do. Allah's Apostles used to give
me gifts and I used to say to him, 'Give it to a more needy one than me.' Once he
gave me some money and I said, 'Give it to a more needy person than me,'
whereupon the Prophet said, 'Take it and keep it in your possession and then give
it in charity. Take what ever comes to you of this money if you are not keen to
have it and not asking for it; otherwise (i.e., if it does not come to you) do not seek
to have it yourself.' "Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar: I have heard 'Umar saying, "The Prophet used to
give me some money (grant) and I would say (to him), 'Give it to a more needy
one than me.' Once he gave me some money and I said, 'Give it to a more needy
one than me.' The Prophet said (to me), 'Take it and keep it in your possession
and then give it in charity. Take whatever comes to you of this money while you
are not keen to have it and not asking for it; take it, but you should not seek to
have what you are not given. ' "I witnessed a husband and a wife who were involved in a case of Lian. Then (the
judgment of) divorce was passed. I was fifteen years of age, at that time.
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 279:(the brother of Bani Sa'ida) A man from the Ansar came to the Prophet and said,
"If a man finds another man sleeping with his wife, should he kill him?" That man
and his wife then did Lian in the mosque while I was present.
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 280:A man came to Allah's Apostle while he was in the mosque, and called him, saying,
"O Allah's Apostle! I have committed illegal sexual intercourse." The Prophet
turned his face to the other side, but when the man gave four witnesses against
himself, the Prophet said to him, "Are you mad?" The man said, "No." So the
Prophet said (to his companions), "Take him away and stone him to death. "
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 281:Allah's Apostle said, "I am only a human being, and you people (opponents) come
to me with your cases; and it may be that one of you can present his case
eloquently in a more convincing way than the other, and I give my verdict
according to what I hear. So if ever I judge (by error) and give the right of a
brother to his other (brother) then he (the latter) should not take it, for I am giving
him only a piece of Fire." (See Hadith No. 638, Vol. 3).
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 282:Allah's Apostle said on the Day of (the battle of) Hunain, "Whoever has killed an
infidel and has a proof or a witness for it, then the salb (arms and belongings of that
deceased) will be for him." I stood up to seek a witness to testify that I had killed
an infidel but I could not find any witness and then sat down. Then I thought that I
should mention the case to Allah's Apostle I (and when I did so) a man from those
who were sitting with him said, "The arms of the killed person he has mentioned,
are with me, so please satisfy him on my behalf." Abu Bakr said, "No, he will not
give the arms to a bird of Quraish and deprive one of Allah's lions of it who fights
for the cause of Allah and His Apostle." Allah's Apostle I stood up and gave it to
me, and I bought a garden with its price, and that was my first property which I
owned through the war booty.The people of Hijaz said, "A judge should not pass a judgment according to his
knowledge, whether he was a witness at the time he was the judge or before that"
And if a litigant gives a confession in favor of his opponent in the court, in the
opinion of some scholars, the judge should not pass a judgment against him till the
latter calls two witnesses to witness his confession. And some people of Iraq said,
"A judge can pass a judgement according to what he hears or witnesses (the
litigant's confession) in the court itself, but if the confession takes place outside the
court, he should not pass the judgment unless two witnesses witness the
confession." Some of them said, "A judge can pass a judgement depending on his
knowledge of the case as he is trust-worthy, and that a witness is Required just to
reveal the truth. The judge's knowledge is more than the witness." Some said, "A
judge can judge according to his knowledge only in cases involving property, but in
other cases he cannot." Al-Qasim said, "A judge ought not to pass a judgment
depending on his knowledge if other people do not know what he knows, although
his knowledge is more than the witness of somebody else because he might expose
himself to suspicion by the Muslims and cause the Muslims to have unreasonable
doubt. "Safiya bint (daughter of) Huyai came to the Prophet (in the mosque), and when she
returned (home), the Prophet accompanied her. It happened that two men from the
Ansar passed by them and the Prophet called them saying, "She is Safiya!" those
two men said, "Subhan Allah!" The Prophet said, "Satan circulates in the human
body as blood does."The Prophet sent my father and Mu'adh bin Jabal to Yemen and said (to them),
"Make things easy for the people and do not put hurdles in their way, and give
them glad tiding, and don't let them have aversion (i.e. to make people to hate
good deeds) and you both should work in cooperation and mutual understanding"
Abu Musa said to Allah's Apostle, "In our country a special alcoholic drink called
Al-Bit', is prepared (for drinking)." The Prophet said, "Every intoxicant is
prohibited. "The Prophet said, "Set free the captives and accept invitations."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 286:The Prophet appointed a man from the tribe of Bani Asad, called Ibn Al-Utabiyya
to collect the Zakat. When he returned (with the money) he said (to the Prophet),
"This is for you and this has been given to me as a gift." The Prophet stood up on
the pulpit (Sufyan said he ascended the pulpit), and after glorifying and praising
Allah, he said, "What is wrong with the employee whom we send (to collect Zakat
from the public) that he returns to say, 'This is for you and that is for me?' Why
didn't he stay at his father's and mother's house to see whether he will be given gifts
or not? By Him in Whose Hand my life is, whoever takes anything illegally will
bring it on the Day of Resurrection by carrying it over his neck: if it is a camel, it
will be grunting: if it is a cow, it will be mooing: and if it is a sheep it will be
bleating!" The Prophet then raised both his hands till we saw the whiteness of his
armpits (and he said), "No doubt! Haven't I conveyed Allah's Message?" And he
repeated it three times.Salim, the freed salve of Abu Hudhaifa used to lead in prayer the early Muhajirin
(emigrants) and the companions of the Prophet in the Quba mosque. Among those
(who used to pray behind him) were Abu Bakr, 'Umar, Abu Salama, and Amir bin
Rabi'a.Marwan bin Al-Hakam and Al-Miswar bin Makhrama told him that when the
Muslims were permitted to set free the captives of Hawazin, Allah's Apostle said,
"I do not know who amongst you has agreed (to it) and who has not. Go back so
that your 'Urafa' may submit your decision to us." So the people returned and their
'Urafa' talked to them and then came back to Allah's Apostle and told him that the
people had given their consent happily and permitted (their captives to be freed).
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 289:Narrated Muhammad bin Zaid bin Abdullah bin 'Umar:
Some people said to Ibn 'Umar, "When we enter upon our ruler(s) we say in their
praise what is contrary to what we say when we leave them." Ibn 'Umar said, "We
used to consider this as hypocrisy."Allah's Apostles said, "The worst of all mankind is the double-faced one, who
comes to some people with one countenance and to others, with another
countenance."Hind (bint 'Utba) said to the Prophet "Abu Sufyan is a miserly man and I need to
take some money of his wealth." The Prophet said, "Take reasonably what is
sufficient for you and your children "(the wife of the Prophet) Allah's Apostle heard some people quarreling at the door
of his dwelling, so he went out to them and said, "I am only a human being, and
litigants with cases of dispute come to me, and someone of you may happen to be
more eloquent (in presenting his case) than the other, whereby I may consider that
he is truthful and pass a judgment in his favor. If ever I pass a judgment in favor of
somebody whereby he takes a Muslim's right unjustly, then whatever he takes is
nothing but a piece of Fire, and it is up to him to take or leave."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 293:(the wife of the Prophet) 'Utba bin Abi Waqqas said to his brother Sa'd bin Abi
Waqqas, "The son of the slave girl of Zam'a is from me, so take him into your
custody." So in the year of Conquest of Mecca, Sa'd took him and said. (This is)
my brother's son whom my brother has asked me to take into my custody." 'Abd
bin Zam'a got up before him and said, (He is) my brother and the son of the slave
girl of my father, and was born on my father's bed." So they both submitted their
case before Allah's Apostle. Sa'd said, "O Allah's Apostle! This boy is the son of
my brother and he entrusted him to me." 'Abd bin Zam'a said, "This boy is my
brother and the son of the slave girl of my father, and was born on the bed of my
father." Allah's Apostle said, "The boy is for you, O 'Abd bin Zam'a!" Then Allah's
Apostle further said, "The child is for the owner of the bed, and the stone is for the
adulterer," He then said to Sauda bint Zam'a, "Veil (screen) yourself before him,"
when he saw the child's resemblance to 'Utba. The boy did not see her again till he
met Allah.The Prophet said, "If somebody on the demand of a judge takes an oath to grab (a
Muslim's) property and he is liar in it, he will meet Allah Who will be angry with
him". So Allah revealed,:--'Verily! those who purchase a small gain at the cost of Allah's Covenant and their
oaths..' (3.77) 'Al-Ashath came while Abdullah was narrating (this) to the people.
Al-Ashath said, "This verse was revealed regarding me and another man with
whom I had a quarrel about a well. The Prophet said (to me), "Do you have any
evidence?' I replied, 'No.' He said, 'Let your opponent take an oath.' I said: I am
sure he would take a (false) oath." Thereupon it was revealed: 'Verily! those who
purchase a small gain at the cost of Allah's Covenant....' (3.77) (See Hadith No.
72, Vol 6).The Prophet heard the voices of some people quarreling near his gate, so he went
to them and said, "I am only a human being and litigants with cases of disputes
come to me, and maybe one of them presents his case eloquently in a more
convincing and impressive way than the other, and I give my verdict in his favor
thinking he is truthful. So if I give a Muslim's right to another (by mistake), then that
(property) is a piece of Fire, which is up to him to take it or leave it." (See Hadith
No. 281 )The Prophet came to know that one of his companions had given the promise of
freeing his slave after his death, but as he had no other property than that slave, the
Prophet sold that slave for 800 dirhams and sent the price to him.
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 297:Allah's Apostle sent an army unit headed by Usama bin Zaid and the people
criticized his leadership. The Prophet said (to the people), "If you are criticizing his
leadership now, then you used to criticize his father's leadership before. By Allah,
he (Usama's father) deserved the leadership and used to be one of the most
beloved persons to me, and now his son (Usama) is one of the most beloved
persons to me after him. " (See Hadith No. 745, Vol. 5)
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 298:Allah's Apostle said, "The most hated person in the sight of Allah, is the most
quarrelsome person."The Prophet sent (an army unit under the command of) Khalid bin Al-Walid to
fight against the tribe of Bani Jadhima and those people could not express
themselves by saying, "Aslamna," but they said, "Saba'na! Saba'na! " Khalid kept
on killing some of them and taking some others as captives, and he gave a captive
to everyone of us and ordered everyone of us to kill his captive. I said, "By Allah, I
shall not kill my captive and none of my companions shall kill his captive!" Then we
mentioned that to the Prophet and he said, "O Allah! I am free from what Khalid
bin Al-Walid has done," and repeated it twice.There was some quarrel (sighting) among Bani 'Amr, and when this news reached
the Prophet, he offered the Zuhr prayer and went to establish peace among them.
In the meantime the time of 'Asr prayer was due, Bilal pronounced the Adhan and
then the Iqama for the prayer and requested Abu Bakr (to lead the prayer) and
Abu Bakr went forward. The Prophet arrived while Abu Bakr was still praying. He
entered the rows of praying people till he stood behind Abu Bakr in the (first) row.
The people started clapping, and it was the habit of Abu Bakr that whenever he
stood for prayer, he never glanced side-ways till he had finished it, but when Abu
Bakr observed that the clapping was not coming to an end, he looked and saw the
Prophet standing behind him.The Prophet beckoned him to carry on by waving his hand. Abu Bakr stood there
for a while, thanking Allah for the saying of the Prophet and then he retreated,
taking his steps backwards. When the Prophet saw that, he went ahead and led
the people in prayer. When he finished the prayer, he said, "O Abu Bakr! What
prevented you from carrying on with the prayer after I beckoned you to do so?"
Abu Bakr replied, "It does not befit the son of Abi Quhafa to lead the Prophet in
prayer." Then the Prophet said to the people, "If some problem arises during
prayers, then the men should say, Subhan Allah!; and the women should clap."
(See Hadith No. 652, Vol. 1)Abu Bakr sent for me owing to the large number of casualties in the battle of
Al-Yamama, while 'Umar was sitting with him. Abu Bakr said (to me), 'Umar has
come to my and said, 'A great number of Qaris of the Holy Quran were killed on
the day of the battle of Al-Yamama, and I am afraid that the casualties among the
Qaris of the Quran may increase on other battle-fields whereby a large part of the
Quran may be lost. Therefore I consider it advisable that you (Abu Bakr) should
have the Quran collected.' I said, 'How dare I do something which Allah's Apostle
did not do?' 'Umar said, By Allah, it is something beneficial.' 'Umar kept on
pressing me for that till Allah opened my chest for that for which He had opened
the chest of 'Umar and I had in that matter, the same opinion as 'Umar had." Abu
Bakr then said to me (Zaid), "You are a wise young man and we do not have any
suspicion about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah's
Apostle. So you should search for the fragmentary scripts of the Quran and collect
it (in one Book)." Zaid further said: By Allah, if Abu Bakr had ordered me to shift
a mountain among the mountains from one place to another it would not have been
heavier for me than this ordering me to collect the Quran. Then I said (to 'Umar
and Abu Bakr), "How can you do something which Allah's Apostle did not do?"
Abu Bakr said, "By Allah, it is something beneficial." Zaid added: So he (Abu
Bakr) kept on pressing me for that until Allah opened my chest for that for which
He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and I had in that matter, the
same opinion as theirs.So I started compiling the Quran by collecting it from the leafless stalks of the
date-palm tree and from the pieces of leather and hides and from the stones, and
from the chests of men (who had memorized the Quran). I found the last verses of
Sirat-at-Tauba: ("Verily there has come unto you an Apostle (Muhammad) from
amongst yourselves--' (9.128-129) ) from Khuzaima or Abi Khuzaima and I
added to it the rest of the Sura. The manuscripts of the Quran remained with Abu
Bakr till Allah took him unto Him. Then it remained with 'Umar till Allah took him
unto Him, and then with Hafsa bint 'Umar.Narrated Abu Laila bin 'Abdullah bin Abdur-Rahman bin Sahl:
Sahl bin Abi Hathma and some great men of his tribe said, 'Abdullah bin 'Sahl and
Muhaiyisa went out to Khaibar as they were struck with poverty and difficult living
conditions. Then Muhaiyisa was informed that Abdullah had been killed and
thrown in a pit or a spring. Muhaiyisa went to the Jews and said, "By Allah, you
have killed my companion." The Jews said, "By Allah, we have not killed him."
Muhaiyisa then came back to his people and told them the story. He, his elder
brother Huwaiyisa and 'Abdur-Rahman bin Sahl came (to the Prophet) and he
who had been at Khaibar, proceeded to speak, but the Prophet said to Muhaiyisa,
"The eldest! The eldest!" meaning, "Let the eldest of you speak." So Huwaiyisa
spoke first and then Muhaiyisa. Allah's Apostle said, "The Jews should either pay
the blood money of your (deceased) companion or be ready for war." After that
Allah's Apostle wrote a letter to the Jews in that respect, and they wrote that they
had not killed him. Then Allah's Apostle said to Huwaiyisa, Muhaiyisa and
'Abdur-Rahman, "Can you take an oath by which you will be entitled to take the
blood money?" They said, "No." He said (to them), "Shall we ask the Jews to take
an oath before you?" They replied, "But the Jews are not Muslims." So Allah's
Apostle gave them one-hundred she-camels as blood money from himself. Sahl
added: When those she-camels were made to enter the house, one of them kicked
me with its leg.Narrated Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani:
A bedouin came and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Judge between us according to
Allah's Book (Laws)." His opponent stood up and said, "He has said the truth, so
judge between us according to Allah's Laws." The bedouin said, "My son was a
laborer for this man and committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife. The
people said to me, 'Your son is to be stoned to death,' so I ransomed my son for
one hundred sheep and a slave girl. Then I asked the religious learned men and
they said to me, 'Your son has to receive one hundred lashes plus one year of
exile.' " The Prophet said, "I shall judge between you according to Allah's Book
(Laws)! As for the slave girl and the sheep, it shall be returned to you, and your
son shall receive one-hundred lashes and be exiled for one year. O you, Unais!"
The Prophet addressed some man, "Go in the morning to the wife of this man and
stone her to death." So Unais went to her the next morning and stoned her to
death.That Abu Sufyan bin Harb told him that Heraclius had called him along with the
members of a Quraish caravan and then said to his interpreter, "Tell them that I
want to ask this (Abu Sufyan) a question, and if he tries to tell me a lie, they should
contradict him." Then Abu Sufyan mentioned the whole narration and said that
Heraclius said to the inter Peter, "Say to him (Abu Sufyan), 'If what you say is true,
then he (the Prophet) will take over the place underneath my two feet.' "
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 305:The Prophet employed Ibn Al-Utbiyya to collect Zakat from Bani Sulaim, and
when he returned (with the money) to Allah's Apostle the Prophet called him to
account, and he said, "This (amount) is for you, and this was given to me as a
present." Allah's Apostle said, "Why don't you stay at your father's house or your
mother's house to see whether you will be given gifts or not, if you are telling the
truth?" Then Allah's Apostle stood up and addressed the people, and after
glorifying and praising Allah, he said: Amma Ba'du (then after) I employ some men
from among you for some job which Allah has placed in my charge, and then one
of you comes to me and says, 'This (amount) is for you and this is a gift given to
me.' Why doesn't he stay at the house of his father or the house of his mother and
see whether he will be given gifts or not if he was telling the truth by Allah, none of
you takes anything of it (i.e., Zakat) for himself (Hisham added: unlawfully) but he
will meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection carrying it on his neck! I do not want to
see any of you carrying a grunting camel or a mooing cow or a bleating sheep on
meeting Allah." Then the Prophet raised both his hands till I saw the whiteness of
his armpits, and said, "(No doubt)! Haven't I conveyed Allah's Message!"
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 306:The Prophet said, "Allah never sends a prophet or gives the Caliphate to a Caliph
but that he (the prophet or the Caliph) has two groups of advisors: A group
advising him to do good and exhorts him to do it, and the other group advising him
to do evil and exhorts him to do it. But the protected person (against such evil
advisors) is the one protected by Allah.' "We gave the oath of allegiance to Allah's Apostle that we would listen to and obey
him both at the time when we were active and at the time when we were tired and
that we would not fight against the ruler or disobey him, and would stand firm for
the truth or say the truth wherever we might be, and in the Way of Allah we would
not be afraid of the blame of the blamers. (See Hadith No. 178 and 320)
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 308:The Prophet went out on a cold morning while the Muhajirin (emigrants) and the
Ansar were digging the trench. The Prophet then said, "O Allah! The real goodness
is the goodness of the Here after, so please forgive the Ansar and the Muhajirin."
They replied, "We are those who have given the Pledge of allegiance to
Muhammad for to observe Jihad as long as we remain alive."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 309:Whenever we gave the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle for to listen to and
obey, he used to say to us, for as much as you can"
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 310:I witnessed Ibn 'Umar when the people gathered around 'Abdul Malik. Ibn 'Umar
wrote: I gave the Pledge of allegiance that I will listen to and obey Allah's Slave,
'Abdul Malik, Chief of the believers according to Allah's Laws and the Traditions
of His Apostle as much as I can; and my sons too, give the same pledge.'
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 311:I gave the Pledge of allegiance to the Prophet that I would listen and obey, and he
told me to add: 'As much as I can, and will give good advice to every Muslim.'
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 312:When the people took the oath of allegiance to 'Abdul Malik, 'Abdullah bin 'Umar
wrote to him: "To Allah's Slave, 'Abdul Malik, Chief of the believers, I give the
Pledge of allegiance that I will listen to and obey Allah's Slave, 'Abdul Malik, Chief
of the believers, according to Allah's Laws and the Traditions of His Apostle in
whatever is within my ability; and my sons too, give the same pledge."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 313:I said to Salama, "For what did you give the Pledge of allegiance to the Prophet on
the Day of Hudaibiya?" He replied, "For death."The group of people whom 'Umar had selected as candidates for the Caliphate
gathered and consulted each other. Abdur-Rahman said to them, "I am not going
to compete with you in this matter, but if you wish, I would select for you a caliph
from among you." So all of them agreed to let 'Abdur-Rahman decide the case. So
when the candidates placed the case in the hands of 'Abdur-Rahman, the people
went towards him and nobody followed the rest of the group nor obeyed any after
him. So the people followed 'Abdur-Rahman and consulted him all those nights till
there came the night we gave the oath of allegiance to 'Uthman. Al-Miswar (bin
Makhrama) added: 'Abdur-Rahman called on me after a portion of the night had
passed and knocked on my door till I got up, and he said to me, "I see you have
been sleeping! By Allah, during the last three nights I have not slept enough. Go
and call Az-Zubair and Sa'd.' So I called them for him and he consulted them and
then called me saying, 'Call 'Ali for me." I called 'Ali and he held a private talk with
him till very late at night, and then 'Al, got up to leave having had much hope (to be
chosen as a Caliph) but 'Abdur-Rahman was afraid of something concerning 'Ali.
'Abdur-Rahman then said to me, "Call 'Uthman for me." I called him and he kept
on speaking to him privately till the Mu'adhdhin put an end to their talk by
announcing the Adhan for the Fajr prayer. When the people finished their morning
prayer and that (six men) group gathered near the pulpit, 'Abdur-Rahman sent for
all the Muhajirin (emigrants) and the Ansar present there and sent for the army
chief who had performed the Hajj with 'Umar that year. When all of them had
gathered, 'Abdur-Rahman said, "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,"
and added, "Now then, O 'Ali, I have looked at the people's tendencies and
noticed that they do not consider anybody equal to 'Uthman, so you should not
incur blame (by disagreeing)." Then 'Abdur-Rahman said (to 'Uthman), "I gave the
oath of allegiance to you on condition that you will follow Allah's Laws and the
traditions of Allah's Apostle and the traditions of the two Caliphs after him." So
'Abdur-Rahman gave the oath of allegiance to him, and so did the people including
the Muhajirin (emigrants) and the Ansar and the chiefs of the army staff and all the
Muslims.We gave the oath of allegiance to the Prophet under the tree. He said to me, "O
Salama! Will you not give the oath of allegiance?" I replied, "O Allah's Apostle! I
have already given the oath of allegiance for the first time." He said, (Give it again)
for the second time.A bedouin gave the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle for Islam and the
bedouin got a fever where upon he said to the Prophet "Cancel my Pledge." But
the Prophet refused. He came to him (again) saying, "Cancel my Pledge.' But the
Prophet refused. Then (the bedouin) left (Medina). Allah's Apostle said: "Medina is
like a pair of bellows (furnace): It expels its impurities and brightens and clears its
good."who was born during the lifetime of the Prophet that his mother, Zainab bint
Humaid had taken him to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Take his
Pledge of allegiance (for Islam)." The Prophet said, "He ('Abdullah bin Hisham) is
a little child," and passed his hand over his head and invoked Allah for him.
'Abdullah bin Hisham used to slaughter one sheep as a sacrifice on behalf of all of
his family.A bedouin gave the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle for Islam. Then the
bedouin got fever at Medina, came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's
Apostle! Cancel my Pledge," But Allah's Apostle refused. Then he came to him
(again) and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Cancel my Pledge." But the Prophet refused
Then he came to him (again) and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Cancel my Pledge." But
the Prophet refused. The bedouin finally went out (of Medina) whereupon Allah's
Apostle said, "Medina is like a pair of bellows (furnace): It expels its impurities and
brightens and clears its good.Allah's Apostle said, "There will be three types of people whom Allah will neither
speak to them on the Day of Resurrection nor will purify them from sins, and they
will have a painful punishment: They are, (1) a man possessed superfluous water
(more than he needs) on a way and he withholds it from the travelers. (2) a man
who gives a pledge of allegiance to an Imam (ruler) and gives it only for worldly
benefits, if the Imam gives him what he wants, he abides by his pledge, otherwise
he does not fulfill his pledge; (3) and a man who sells something to another man
after the 'Asr prayer and swears by Allah (a false oath) that he has been offered so
much for it whereupon the buyer believes him and buys it although in fact, the seller
has not been offered such a price." (See Hadith No. 838, Vol. 3)
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 320:Allah's Apostle said to us while we were in a gathering, "Give me the oath (Pledge
of allegiance for: (1) Not to join anything in worship along with Allah, (2) Not to
steal, (3) Not to commit illegal sexual intercourse, (4) Not to kill your children, (5)
Not to accuse an innocent person (to spread such an accusation among people),
(6) Not to be disobedient (when ordered) to do good deeds. The Prophet added:
Whoever amongst you fulfill his pledge, his reward will be with Allah, and whoever
commits any of those sins and receives the legal punishment in this world for that
sin, then that punishment will be an expiation for that sin, and whoever commits any
of those sins and Allah does not expose him, then it is up to Allah if He wishes He
will punish him or if He wishes, He will forgive him." So we gave the Pledge for
that. (See Hadith No. 17, Vol. 1)The Prophet used to take the Pledge of allegiance from the women by words only
after reciting this Holy Verse:--(60.12) "..that they will not associate anything in
worship with Allah." (60.12) And the hand of Allah's Apostle did not touch any
woman's hand except the hand of that woman his right hand possessed. (i.e. his
captives or his lady slaves).We gave the Pledge of allegiance to the Prophet and he recited to me the verse
(60.12). That they will not associate anything in worship with Allah (60.12). And
he also prevented us from wailing and lamenting over the dead. A woman from us
held her hand out and said, "Such-and-such a woman cried over a dead person
belonging to my family and I want to compensate her for that crying" The Prophet
did not say anything in reply and she left and returned. None of those women
abided by her pledge except Um Sulaim, Um Al-'Ala', and the daughter of Abi
Sabra, the wife of Al-Muadh or the daughter of Abi Sabra, and the wife of
Mu'adh.A bedouin came to the Prophet and said, "Please take my Pledge of allegiance for
Islam." So the Prophet took from him the Pledge of allegiance for Islam. He came
the next day with a fever and said to the Prophet "Cancel my pledge." But the
Prophet refused and when the bedouin went away, the Prophet said, "Medina is
like a pair of bellows (furnace): It expels its impurities and brightens and clears its
good."'Aisha said, "O my head!" Allah's Apostle said, "If that (i.e., your death) should
happen while I am still alive, I would ask Allah to forgive you and would invoke
Allah for you." 'Aisha said, "O my life which is going to be lost! By Allah, I think
that you wish for my death, and if that should happen then you would be busy
enjoying the company of one of your wives in the last part of that day." The
Prophet said, "But I should say, 'O my head!' I feel like calling Abu Bakr and his
son and appoint (the former as my successors lest people should say something or
wish for something. Allah will insist (on Abu Bakr becoming a Caliph) and the
believers will prevent (anyone else from claiming the Caliphate)," or "..Allah will
prevent (anyone else from claiming the Caliphate) and the believers will insist (on
Abu Bakr becoming the Caliph)."It was said to 'Umar, "Will you appoint your successor?" Umar said, "If I appoint a
Caliph (as my successor) it is true that somebody who was better than I (i.e., Abu
Bakr) did so, and if I leave the matter undecided, it is true that somebody who was
better than I (i.e., Allah's Apostle) did so." On this, the people praised him. 'Umar
said, "People are of two kinds: Either one who is keen to take over the Caliphate
or one who is afraid of assuming such a responsibility. I wish I could be free from
its responsibility in that I would receive neither reward nor retribution I won't bear
the burden of the caliphate in my death as I do in my life."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 326:That he heard 'Umar's second speech he delivered when he sat on the pulpit on the
day following the death of the Prophet 'Umar recited the Tashahhud while Abu
Bakr was silent. 'Umar said, "I wish that Allah's Apostle had outlived all of us, i.e.,
had been the last (to die). But if Muhammad is dead, Allah nevertheless has kept
the light amongst you from which you can receive the same guidance as Allah
guided Muhammad with that. And Abu Bakr is the companion of Allah's Apostle
He is the second of the two in the cave. He is the most entitled person among the
Muslims to manage your affairs. Therefore get up and swear allegiance to him."
Some people had already taken the oath of allegiance to him in the shed of Bani
Sa'ida but the oath of allegiance taken by the public was taken at the pulpit. I heard
'Umar saying to Abu Bakr on that day. "Please ascend the pulpit," and kept on
urging him till he ascended the pulpit whereupon, all the people swore allegiance to
him.A woman came to the Prophet and spoke to him about something and he told her
to return to him. She said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I come and do not find you?" (As
if she meant, "...if you die?") The Prophet said, "If you should not find me, then go
to Abu Bakr."Abu Bakr said to the delegate of Buzakha. "Follow the tails of the camels till Allah
shows the Caliph (successor) of His Prophet and Al-Muhajirin (emigrants)
something because of which you may excuse yourselves "
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 329:I heard the Prophet saying, "There will be twelve Muslim rulers (who will rule all
the Islamic world)." He then said a sentence which I did not hear. My father said,
"All of them (those rulers) will be from Quraish."
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 330:Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hands my life is, I was about to order for
collecting fire wood and then order someone to pronounce the Adhan for the
prayer and then order someone to lead the people in prayer and then I would go
from behind and burn the houses of men who did not present themselves for the
(compulsory congregational) prayer. By Him in Whose Hands my life is, if anyone
of you had known that he would receive a bone covered with meat or two (small)
pieces of meat present in between two ribs, he would come for 'Isha' prayer." (See
Hadith No. 617, Vol. 1)Who was Ka'b's guide from among his sons when Ka'b became blind: I heard
Ka'b bin Malik saying, "When some people remained behind and did not join
Allah's Apostle in the battle of Tabuk.." and then he described the whole narration
and said, "Allah's Apostle forbade the Muslims to speak to us, and so we (I and
my companions) stayed fifty nights in that state, and then Allah's Apostle
announced Allah's acceptance of our repentance."I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "By Him in Whose Hands my life is! Were it not for
some men who dislike to be left behind and for whom I do not have means of
conveyance, I would not stay away (from any Holy Battle). I would love to be
martyred in Allah's Cause and come to life and then get, martyred and then come
to life and then get martyred and then get resurrected and then get martyred.
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 333:Abu Huraira said, Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hand my life is, I would
love to fight in Allah's Cause and then get martyred and then resurrected (come to
life) and then get martyred and then resurrected (come to life) and then get
martyred, and then resurrected (come to life) and then get martyred and then
resurrected (come to life)." Abu Huraira used to repeat those words three times
and I testify to it with Allah's Oath.The Prophet said, "If I had gold equal to the mountain of Uhud, I would love that,
before three days had passed, not a single Dinar thereof remained with me if I
found somebody to accept it excluding some amount that I would keep for the
payment of my debts.''Allah's Apostle said, "If I had formerly known hat I came to know lately, I would
not have driven the Hadi with me and would have finished the state of Ihram along
with the people when they finished itWe were in the company of Allah's Apostle and we assumed the state of Ihram of
Hajj and arrived at Mecca on the fourth of Dhul-Hijja. The Prophet ordered us to
perform the Tawaf around the Ka'ba and (Sa'i) between As-Safa and Al-Marwa
and use our lhram just for 'Umra, and finish the state of Ihram unless we had our
Hadi with us. None of us had the Hadi with him except the Prophet and Talha.
1AIj came from Yemen and brought the Hadi with him. 'Ali said, 'I had assumed
the state of Ihram with the same intention as that with which Allah's Apostle had
assumed it. The people said, "How can we proceed to Mina and our male organs
are dribbling?" Allah's Apostle said, "If I had formerly known what I came to know
latterly, I would not have brought the Hadi, and had there been no Hadi with me, I
would have finished my Ihram." Suraqa (bin Malik) met the Prophet while he was
throwing pebbles at the Jamrat-al-'Aqaba, and asked, "O Allah's Apostle! Is this
(permitted) for us only?" The Prophet replied. "No, it is forever" 'Aisha had arrived
at Mecca while she was menstruating, therefore the Prophet ordered her to
perform all the ceremonies of Hajj except the Tawaf around the Ka'ba, and not to
perform her prayers unless and until she became clean . When they encamped at
Al-Batha, 'Aisha said, "O Allah's Apostle! You are proceeding after performing
both Hajj and 'Umra while I am proceeding with Hajj only?" So the Prophet
ordered 'Abdur-Rahman bin Abu Bakr As-Siddiq to go with her to At-Tan'im,
and so she performed the 'Umra in Dhul-Hijja after the days of the Hajj.
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 337:One night the Prophet was unable to sleep and said, "Would that a righteous man
from my companions guarded me tonight." Suddenly we heard the clatter of arms,
whereupon the Prophet said, "Who is it?" It was said, "I am Sa'd, O Allah's
Apostle! I have come to guard you." The Prophet then slept so soundly that we
heard him snoring. Abu 'Abdullah said: 'Aisha said: Bilal said, "Would that I but
stayed overnight in a valley with Idhkhir and Jalil (two kinds of grass) around me
(i.e., in Mecca)." Then I told that to the Prophet .
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 338:Allah's Apostle said, "Not to wish to be the like except of two men. A man whom
Allah has given the (knowledge of the) Quran and he recites it during the hours of
night and day and the one who wishes says: If I were given the same as this (man)
has been given, I would do what he does, and a man whom Allah has given wealth
and he spends it in the just and right way, in which case the one who wishes says,
'If I were given the same as he has been given, I would do what he does.' " (See
Hadith No. 543 and 544, Vol 6)If I had not heard the Prophet saying, "You should not long for death," I would
have longed (for it).We went to pay a visit to Khabbab bin Al-Art and he had got himself branded at
seven spots over his body. He said, "If Allah's Apostle had not forbidden us to
invoke Allah for death, I would have invoked for it."
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 341:(the Maula of 'Abdur-Rahman bin Azhar) Allah's Apostle said, "None of you
should long for death, for if he is a good man, he may increase his good deeds, and
if he is an evil-doer, he may stop the evil deeds and repent."
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 342:The Prophet was carrying earth with us on the day of the battle of Al-Ahzab
(confederates) and I saw that the dust was covering the whiteness of his abdomen,
and he (the Prophet ) was saying, "(O Allah) ! Without You, we would not have
been guided, nor would we have given in charity, nor would we have prayed. So
(O Allah!) please send tranquility (Sakina) upon us as they, (the chiefs of the
enemy tribes) have rebelled against us. And if they intend affliction (i.e. want to
frighten us and fight against us) then we would not (flee but withstand them). And
the Prophet used to raise his voice with it. (See Hadith No. 430 and 432, Vol. 5)
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 343:Allah's Apostle said, "Do not long for meeting your enemy, and ask Allah for safety
(from all sorts of evil)." (See Hadith No. 266, Vol. 4)
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 344:Ibn 'Abbas mentioned the case of a couple on whom the judgment of Lian has
been passed. 'Abdullah bin Shaddad said, "Was that the lady in whose case the
Prophet said, "If I were to stone a lady to death without a proof (against her)?'
"Ibn 'Abbas said, "No! That was concerned with a woman who though being a
Muslim used to arouse suspicion by her outright misbehavior." (See Hadith No.
230, Vol.7)One night the Prophet delayed the Isha' prayer whereupon 'Umar went to him and
said, "The prayer, O Allah's Apostle! The women and children had slept." The
Prophet came out with water dropping from his head, and said, "Were I not afraid
that it would be hard for my followers (or for the people), I would order them to
pray Isha prayer at this time." (Various versions of this Hadith are given by the
narrators with slight differences in expression but not in content).
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 346:Allah's Apostle said, "Were I not afraid that it would be hard on my followers, I
would order them to use the siwak (as obligatory, for cleaning the teeth)
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 347:The Prophet fasted Al-Wisal on the last days of the month. Some people did the
same, and when the news reached the Prophet he said, "If the month had been
prolonged for me, then I would have fasted Wisal for such a long time that the
most exaggerating ones among you would have given up their exaggeration. I am
not like you; my Lord always makes me eat and drink."
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 348:Allah's Apostle forbade Al-Wisal. The people said (to him), "But you fast
Al-'Wisal," He said, "Who among you is like me? When I sleep (at night), my Lord
makes me eat and drink. But when the people refused to give up Al-Wisal, he
fasted Al-Wisal along with them for two days and then they saw the crescent
whereupon the Prophet said, "If the crescent had not appeared I would have
fasted for a longer period," as if he intended to punish them herewith.
Volume 9, Book 90, Number 349:I asked the Prophet about the wall (outside the Ka'ba). "Is it regarded as part of
the Ka'ba?" He replied, "Yes." I said, "Then why didn't the people include it in the
Ka'ba?" He said, "(Because) your people ran short of money." I asked, "Then why
is its gate so high?" He replied, ''Your people did so in order to admit to it whom
they would and forbid whom they would. Were your people not still close to the
period of ignorance, and were I not afraid that their hearts might deny my action,
then surely I would include the wall in the Ka'ba and make its gate touch the
ground."Allah's Apostle said, "But for the emigration, I would have been one of the Ansar:
and if the people took their way in a valley (or a mountain pass), I would take the
Ansar's valley or the mountain pass."The Prophet said, "But for the emigration, I would have been one of the Ansar;
and if the people took their way in a valley (or a mountain pass), I would take
Ansar's valley or their mountain pass."We came to the Prophet and we were young men nearly of equal ages and we
stayed with him for twenty nights. Allah's Apostle was a very kind man and when
he realized our longing for our families, he asked us about those whom we had left
behind. When we informed him, he said, "Go back to your families and stay with
them and teach them (religion) and order them (to do good deeds). The Prophet
mentioned things some of which I remembered and some I did not. Then he said,
"Pray as you have seen me praying, and when it is the time of prayer, one of you
should pronounce the call (Adhan) for the prayer and the eldest of you should lead
the prayer. "Allah's Apostle said, "The (call for prayer) Adhan of Bilal should not stop anyone
of you from taking his Suhur for he pronounces the Adhan in order that whoever
among you is praying the night prayer, may return (to eat his Suhur) and whoever
among you is sleeping, may get up, for it is not yet dawn (when it is like this)."
(Yahya, the sub-narrator stretched his two index fingers side ways).
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 354:The Prophet said, "Bilal pronounces the Adhan at night so that you may eat and
drink till Ibn Um Maktum pronounces the Adhan (for the Fajr prayer)."
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 355:The Prophet led us in Zuhr prayer and prayer five Rakat. Somebody asked him
whether the prayer had been increased." He (the Prophet ) said, "And what is
that?" They (the people) replied, "You have prayed five Rakat." Then the Prophet
offered two prostrations (of Sahu) after he had finished his prayer with the Taslim.
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 356:Allah's Apostle finished his prayer after offerings two Rakat only. Dhul-Yaddain
asked him whether the prayer had been reduced, or you had forgotten?" The
Prophet said, "Is Dhul-Yaddain speaking the truth?" The people said, "Yes." Then
Allah's Apostle stood up and performed another two Rakat and then finished
prayer with Taslim, and then said the Takbir and performed a prostration similar to
or longer than his ordinary prostrations; then he raised his head, said Takbir and
prostrated and then raised his head (Sahu prostrations).
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 357:While the people were at Quba offering the morning prayer, suddenly a person
came to them saying, "Tonight Divine Inspiration has been revealed to Allah's
Apostle and he has been ordered to face the Ka'ba (in prayers): therefore you
people should face it." There faces were towards Sham, so they turned their faces
towards the Ka'ba (at Mecca).When Allah's Apostle arrived at Medina, he prayed facing Jerusalem for sixteen or
seventeen months but he wished that he would be ordered to face the Ka'ba. So
Allah revealed: --'Verily! We have seen the turning of your face towards the heaven; surely we shall
turn you to a prayer direction (Qibla) that shall please you.' (2.144) Thus he was
directed towards the Ka'ba. A man prayed the 'Asr prayer with the Prophet and
then went out, and passing by some people from the Ansar, he said, "I testify. that
I have prayed with the Prophet and he (the Prophet) has prayed facing the Ka'ba."
Thereupon they, who were bowing in the 'Asr prayer, turned towards the Ka'ba.
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 359:I used to offer drinks prepared from infused dates to Abu Talha Al-Ansari, Abu
'Ubada bin Al Jarrah and Ubai bin Ka'b. Then a person came to them and said,
"All alcoholic drinks have been prohibited." Abii Talha then said, "O Anas! Get up
and break all these jars." So I got up and took a mortar belonging to us, and hit the
jars with its lower part till they broke.The Prophet said to the people of Najran, "I will send to you an honest person
who is really trustworthy." The Companion, of the Prophet each desired to be that
person, but the Prophet sent Abu 'Ubaida.The Prophet said, "For every nation there is an Amin (honest, trustworthy person)
and the Amin of this nation is Abu 'Ubaida."There was a man from the Ansar (who was a friend of mine). If he was not present
in the company of Allah's Apostle I used to be present with Allah's Apostle, I
would tell him what I used to hear from Allah's Apostle, and when I was absent
from Allah's Apostle he used to be present with him, and he would tell me what he
used to hear from Allah's Apostle .The Prophet , sent an army and appointed some man their commander The man
made a fire and then said (to the soldiers), "Enter it." Some of them intended to
enter it while some others said, 'We have run away from it (i.e., embraced Islam to
save ourselves from the 'fire')." They mentioned that to the Prophet, and he said
about people who had intended to enter the fire. ''If they had entered it, they would
have remained In it till the Day of Resurrection.'' Then he said to others, "No
obedience for evil deeds, obedience is required only in what is good ."
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 364:While we were with Allah's Apostle a bedouin got up and said, "O Allah's
Apostle! Settle my case according to Allah's Book (Laws)." Then his opponent got
up and said, "O Allah's Apostle! He has said the truth! Settle his case according to
Allah's Book (Laws.) and allow me to speak," He said, "My son was a laborer for
this man and he committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife. The people told
me that my son should be stoned to death but I ransomed him with one-hundred
sheep and a slave girl. Then I asked the religious learned people and they told me
that his wife should be stoned to death and my son should receive one-hundred
lashes and be sentenced to one year of exile.' The Prophet said, "By Him in Whose
Hands my life is, I will judge between you according to Allah's Book (Laws): As
for the slave girl and the sheep, they are to be returned; and as for your son, he
shall receive one-hundred lashes and will be exiled for one year. You, O Unais!"
addressing a man from Bani Aslam, "Go tomorrow morning to the wife of this
(man) and if she confesses, then stone her to death." The next morning Unais went
to the wife and she confessed, and he stoned her to death.
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 366:On the day of (the battle of) the Trench, the Prophet called the people (to bring
news about the enemy). Az-Zubair responded to his call. He called them again and
Az-Zubair responded to his call again; then he called them for the third time and
again Az-Zubair responded to his call whereupon the Prophet said, "Every prophet
has his Hawairi (helper), and Az-Zubair is my Hawari."
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 367:The Prophet entered a garden and told me to guard its gate. Then a man came and
asked permission to enter. The Prophet, said, "Permit him and give him the good
news that he will enter Paradise." Behold! It was Abu Bakr. Then 'Umar came,
and the Prophet said, "Admit him and give him the good news that he will enter
Paradise." Then 'Uthman came and the Prophet said, "Admit him and give him the
good news that he will enter Paradise. "I came and behold, Allah's Apostle was staying on a Mashroba (attic room) and a
black slave of Allah's Apostle was at the top if its stairs. I said to him, "(Tell the
Prophet) that here is 'Umar bin Al-Khattab (asking for permission to enter)." Then
he admitted me.Allah's Apostle sent a letter to Khosrau and told his messenger to give it first to the
ruler of Bahrain, and tell him to deliver it to Khosrau. When Khosrau had read it,
he tore it into pieces. (Az-Zuhri said: I think Ibn Al-Musaiyab said, "Allah's
Apostle invoked Allah to tear them (Khosrau and his followers) into pieces."
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 370:Allah's Apostle said to a man from the tribe of Al-Aslam, "Proclaim among your
people (or the people) on the day of 'Ashura' (tenth of Muharram), 'Whosoever
has eaten anything should fast for the rest of the day; and whoever has not eaten
anything, should complete his fast.' "When the delegate of 'Abd Al-Qais came to Allah's Apostle, he said, "Who are
the delegate?" They said, "The delegate are from the tribe of Rabi'a." The Prophet
said, "Welcome, O the delegate, and welcome! O people! Neither you will have
any disgrace nor will you regret." They said, "O Allah's Apostle! Between you and
us there are the infidels of the tribe of Mudar, so please order us to do something
good (religious deeds) that by acting on them we may enter Paradise, and that we
may inform (our people) whom we have left behind, about it." They also asked (the
Prophet) about drinks. He forbade them from four things and ordered them to do
four things. He ordered them to believe in Allah, and asked them, "Do you know
what is meant by belief in Allah?" They said, "Allah and His Apostle know best."
He said, ''To testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, the
One, Who has no partners with Him, and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle; and
to offer prayers perfectly and to pay Zakat." (the narrator thinks that fasting in
Ramadan is included), "and to give one-fifth of the war booty (to the state)." Then
he forbade four (drinking utensils): Ad-Duba', Al-Hantam, Al-Mazaffat and
An-Naqir, or probably, Al-Muqaiyar. And then the Prophet said, "Remember all
these things by heart and preach it to those whom you have left behind."
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 372:Ash-'Sha'bi asked me, "Did you notice how Al-Hasan used to narrate Hadiths
from the Prophets? I stayed with Ibn 'Umar for about two or one-and-half years
and I did not hear him narrating any thing from the Prophet except his (Hadith): He
(Ibn 'Umar) said, "Some of the companions of the Prophet including Sa'd, were
going to eat meat, but one of the wives of the Prophet called them, saying, 'It is the
neat of a Mastigure.' The people then stopped eating it. On that Allah's Apostle
said, 'Carry on eating, for it is lawful.' Or said, 'There is no harm in eating it, but it
is not from my meals."A Jew said to 'Umar, "O Chief of the Believers, if this verse: 'This day I have
perfected your religion for you, completed My favors upon you, and have chosen
for you, Islam as your religion.' (5.3) had been revealed upon us, we would have
taken that day as an 'Id (festival) day." 'Umar said, "I know definitely on what day
this Verse was revealed; it was revealed on the day of 'Arafat, on a Friday."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 374:That he heard 'Umar speaking while standing on the pulpit of the Prophet in the
morning (following the death of the Prophet), when the people had sworn
allegiance to Abu Bakr. He said the Tashah-hud before Abu Bakr, and said,
"Amma Ba'du (then after) Allah has chosen for his Apostle what is with Him
(Paradise) rather than what is with you (the world). This is that Book (Quran) with
which Allah guided your Apostle, so stick to it, for then you will be guided on the
right path as Allah guided His Apostle with it."The Prophet embraced me and said, "O Allah! Teach him (the knowledge of) the
Book (Quran)."Abu Barza said, "(O people!) Allah makes you self-sufficient or has raised you
high with Islam and with Muhammad'Abdullah Bin 'Umar wrote to 'Abdul Malik bin Marwan, swearing allegiance to
him: 'I swear allegiance to you in that I will listen and obey what is in accordance
with the Laws of Allah and the Tradition of His Apostle as much as I can.'
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 378:Abu Huraira said that Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with
'Jawami-al-Kalim ' (the shortest expression with the widest meaning) and have
been made victorious with awe (cast in my enemy's hearts), and while I was
sleeping, I saw that the keys of the treasures of the world were placed in my hand."
Abu Huraira added: Allah's Apostle has gone, and you people are utilizing those
treasures, or digging those treasures out." or said a similar sentence.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 379:The Prophet said, "There was no prophet among the prophets but was given
miracles because of which people had security or had belief, but what I was given
was the Divine Inspiration which Allah revealed to me. So I hope that my followers
will be more than those of any other prophet on the Day of Resurrection."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 380:I sat with Shaiba in this Mosque (Al-Masjid-Al-Haram), and he said, "'Umar once
sat beside me here as you are now sitting, and said, 'I feel like distributing all the
gold and silver that are in it (i.e., the Ka'ba) among the Muslims'. I said, 'You
cannot do that.' 'Umar said, 'Why?' I said, 'Your two (previous) companions (the
Prophet and Abu Bakr) did not do it. 'Umar said, 'They are the two persons whom
one must follow.'" (See Hadith No. 664, Vol. 2)Allah's Apostle said to us, "Honesty descended from the Heavens and settled in
the roots of the hearts of men (faithful believers), and then the Quran was revealed
and the people read the Quran, (and learnt it from it) and also learnt it from the
Sunna." Both Quran and Sunna strengthened their (the faithful believers') honesty.
(See Hadith No. 208)The best talk (speech) is Allah's Book 'Quran), and the best way is the way of
Muhammad, and the worst matters are the heresies (those new things which are
introduced into the religion); and whatever you have been promised will surely
come to pass, and you cannot escape (it).We were with the Prophet when he said (to two men), "I shall judge between you
according to Allah's Book (Laws)."Allah's Apostle said, "All my followers will enter Paradise except those who
refuse." They said, "O Allah's Apostle! Who will refuse?" He said, "Whoever
obeys me will enter Paradise, and whoever disobeys me is the one who refuses (to
enter it)."Some angels came to the Prophet while he was sleeping. Some of them said, "He
is sleeping." Others said, "His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake." Then they
said, "There is an example for this companion of yours." One of them said, "Then
set forth an example for him." Some of them said, "He is sleeping." The others said,
"His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake." Then they said, "His example is that
of a man who has built a house and then offered therein a banquet and sent an
inviter (messenger) to invite the people. So whoever accepted the invitation of the
inviter, entered the house and ate of the banquet, and whoever did not accept the
invitation of the inviter, did not enter the house, nor did he eat of the banquet."
Then the angels said, "Interpret this example to him so that he may understand it."
Some of them said, "He is sleeping.'' The others said, "His eyes are sleeping but his
heart is awake." And then they said, "The houses stands for Paradise and the call
maker is Muhammad; and whoever obeys Muhammad, obeys Allah; and whoever
disobeys Muhammad, disobeys Allah. Muhammad separated the people (i.e.,
through his message, the good is distinguished from the bad, and the believers from
the disbelievers)."Hudhaifa said, "O the Group of Al-Qurra! Follow the straight path, for then you
have taken a great lead (and will be the leaders), but if you divert right or left, then
you will go astray far away."The Prophet said, "My example and the example of what I have been sent with is
that of a man who came to some people and said, 'O people! I have seen the
enemy's army with my own eyes, and I am the naked warner; so protect
yourselves!' Then a group of his people obeyed him and fled at night proceeding
stealthily till they were safe, while another group of them disbelieved him and
stayed at their places till morning when the army came upon them, and killed and
ruined them completely So this is the example of that person who obeys me and
follows what I have brought (the Quran and the Sunna), and the example of the
one who disobeys me and disbelieves the truth I have brought."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 388:When Allah's Apostle died and Abu Bakr was elected as a Caliph after him, some
of the Arabs reverted to disbelief, 'Umar said to Abu Bakr, "How dare you fight
the people while Allah's Apostle said, I have been ordered to fight the people till
they say 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah' And whoever says: None
has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' waves his wealth and his life from me
unless he deserves a legal punishment lusty, and his account will be with Allah! Abu
Bakr said, "By Allah, I will fight him who discriminates between Zakat and prayers,
for Zakat is the Compulsory right to be taken from the wealth By Allah, if they
refuse to give me even a tying rope which they use to give to Allah's Apostle, I
would fight them for withholding it." 'Umar said, 'By Allah, It was nothing, except I
saw that Allah had opened the chest of Abu Bakr to the fight, and I came to know
for certain that was the truth."Uyaina bin Hisn bin Hudhaifa bin Badr came and stayed (at Medina) with his
nephew Al-Hurr bin Qais bin Hisn who has one of those whom 'Umar used to
keep near him, as the Qurra' (learned men knowing Quran by heart) were the
people of Umar's meetings and his advisors whether they were old or young.
'Uyaina said to his nephew, "O my nephew! Have you an approach to this chief so
as to get for me the permission to see him?" His nephew said, "I will get the
permission for you to see him." (Ibn 'Abbas added: ) So he took the permission for
'Uyaina, and when the latter entered, he said, "O the son of Al-Khattab! By Allah,
you neither give us sufficient provision nor judge among us with justice." On that
'Umar became so furious that he intended to harm him. Al-Hurr, said, "O Chief of
the Believers!" Allah said to His Apostle 'Hold to forgiveness, command what is
good (right), and leave the foolish (i.e. do not punish them).' (7.199) and this
person is among the foolish." By Allah, 'Umar did not overlook that Verse when
Al-Hurr recited it before him, and 'Umar said to observe (the orders of) Allah's
Book strictly." (See Hadith No. 166, Vol. 6)I came to 'Aisha during the solar eclipse. The people were standing (offering
prayer) and she too, was standing and offering prayer. I asked, "What is wrong
with the people?" She pointed towards the sky with her hand and said, Subhan
Allah!'' I asked her, "Is there a sign?" She nodded with her head meaning, yes.
When Allah's Apostle finished (the prayer), he glorified and praised Allah and said,
"There is not anything that I have not seen before but I have seen now at this place
of mine, even Paradise and Hell. It has been revealed to me that you people will be
put to trial nearly like the trial of Ad-Dajjal, in your graves. As for the true believer
or a Muslim (the sub-narrator is not sure as to which of the two (words Asma' had
said) he will say, 'Muhammad came with clear signs from Allah, and we responded
to him (accepted his teachings) and believed (what he said)' It will be said (to him)
'Sleep in peace; we have known that you were a true believer who believed with
certainty.' As for a hypocrite or a doubtful person, (the sub-narrator is not sure as
to which word Asma' said) he will say, 'I do not know, but I heard the people
saying something and so I said the same.' "The Prophet said, "Leave me as I leave you) for the people who were before you
were ruined because of their questions and their differences over their prophets.
So, if I forbid you to do something, then keep away from it. And if I order you to
do something, then do of it as much as you can."The Prophet said, "The most sinful person among the Muslims is the one who
asked about something which had not been prohibited, but was prohibited because
of his asking."The Prophet took a room made of date palm leaves mats in the mosque. Allah's
Apostle prayed in it for a few nights till the people gathered (to pray the night
prayer (Tarawih) (behind him.) Then on the 4th night the people did not hear his
voice and they thought he had slept, so some of them started humming in order that
he might come out. The Prophet then said, "You continued doing what I saw you
doing till I was afraid that this (Tarawih prayer) might be enjoined on you, and if it
were enjoined on you, you would not continue performing it. Therefore, O people!
Perform your prayers at your homes, for the best prayer of a person is what is
performed at his home except the compulsory congregational) prayer." (See
Hadith No. 229,Vol. 3) (See Hadith No. 134, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 394:Allah's Apostle was asked about things which he disliked, and when the people
asked too many questions, he became angry and said, "Ask me (any question)." A
man got up and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Who is my father?" The Prophet replied,
"Your father is Hudhaifa." Then another man got up and said, "O Allah's Apostle!
Who is my father?" The Prophet said, "Your father is Salim, Maula Shaiba." When
'Umar saw the signs of anger on the face of Allah's Apostle, he said, "We repent to
Allah."(The clerk of Al-Mughira) Muawiya wrote to Al-Mughira 'Write to me what you
have heard from Allah's Apostle.' So he (Al-Mughira) wrote to him: Allah's
Prophet used to say at the end of each prayer: "La ilaha illalla-h wahdahu la sharika
lahu, lahul Mulku, wa lahul Hamdu wa hula ala kulli shai'in qadir. 'Allahumma la
mani' a lima a'taita, wala mu'tiya lima mana'ta, wala yanfa'u dhuljadd minkal-jadd."
He also wrote to him that the Prophet used to forbid (1) Qil and Qal (idle useless
talk or that you talk too much about others), (2) Asking too many questions (in
disputed Religious matters); (3) And wasting one's wealth by extravagance; (4)
and to be undutiful to one's mother (5) and to bury the daughters alive (6) and to
prevent your favors (benevolence to others (i.e. not to pay the rights of others (7)
And asking others for something (except when it is unavoidable).
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 396:We were with 'Umar and he said, "We have been forbidden to undertake a difficult
task beyond our capability (i.e. to exceed the religious limits e.g., to clean the
inside of the eyes while doing ablution)."The Prophet came out after the sun had declined and offered the Zuhr prayer (in
congregation). After finishing it with Taslim, he stood on the pulpit and mentioned
the Hour and mentioned there would happen great events before it. Then he said,
"Whoever wants to ask me any question, may do so, for by Allah, you will not ask
me about anything but I will inform you of its answer as long as I am at this place of
mine." On this, the Ansar wept violently, and Allah's Apostle kept on saying, "Ask
Me! " Then a man got up and asked, ''Where will my entrance be, O Allah's
Apostle?" The Prophet said, "(You will go to) the Fire." Then 'Abdullah bin
Hudhaifa got up and asked, "Who is my father, O Allah's Apostle?" The Prophet
replied, "Your father is Hudhaifa." The Prophet then kept on saying (angrily), "Ask
me! Ask me!" 'Umar then knelt on his knees and said, "We have accepted Allah as
our Lord and Islam as our religion and Muhammad as an Apostle." Allah's Apostle
became quiet when 'Umar said that. Then Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose
Hand my life is, Paradise and Hell were displayed before me across this wall while
I was praying, and I never saw such good and evil as I have seen today."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 398:A man said, "O Allah's Prophet! Who is my father?" The Prophet said, "Your
father is so-and-so." And then the Divine Verse:-- 'O you who believe! Ask not
questions about things..(5.101)Allah's Apostle said, "People will not stop asking questions till they say, 'This is
Allah, the Creator of everything, then who created Allah?' "
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 400:I was with the Prophet at one of the farms of Medina while he was leaning on a
date palm leaf-stalk. He passed by a group of Jews and some of them said to the
other, Ask him (the Prophet) about the spirit. Some others said, "Do not ask him,
lest he should tell you what you dislike" But they went up to him and said, "O Abal
Qasim! Inform us bout the spirit." The Prophet stood up for a while, waiting. I
realized that he was being Divinely Inspired, so I kept away from him till the
inspiration was over. Then the Prophet said, "(O Muhammad) they ask you
regarding the spirit, Say: The spirit its knowledge is with my Lord (i.e., nobody has
its knowledge except Allah)" (17.85) (This is a miracle of the Quran that all the
scientists up till now do not know about the spirit, i.e, how life comes to a body
and how it goes away at its death) (See Hadith No. 245, Vol. 6)
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 401:The Prophet wore a gold ring and then the people followed him and wore gold
rings too. Then the Prophet said, "I had this golden ring made for myself. He then
threw it away and said, "I shall never put it on." Thereupon the people also threw
their rings away.The Prophet said (to his companions), "Do not fast Al-Wisal." They said, "But you
fast Al-Wisail." He said, "I am not like you, for at night my Lord feeds me and
makes me drink." But the people did not give up Al-Wisal, so the Prophet fasted
Al-Wisal with them for two days or two nights, and then they saw the crescent
whereupon the Prophet said, "If the crescent had delayed, I would have continued
fasting (because of you)," as if he wanted to vanquish them completely (because
they had refused to give up Al Wisal).Ali addressed us while he was standing on a brick pulpit and carrying a sword
from which was hanging a scroll He said "By Allah, we have no book to read
except Allah's Book and whatever is on this scroll," And then he unrolled it, and
behold, in it was written what sort of camels were to be given as blood money, and
there was also written in it: 'Medina is a sanctuary form 'Air (mountain) to such and
such place so whoever innovates in it an heresy or commits a sin therein, he will
incur the curse of Allah, the angles, and all the people and Allah will not accept his
compulsory or optional good deeds.' There was also written in it: 'The asylum
(pledge of protection) granted by any Muslims is one and the same, (even a
Muslim of the lowest status is to be secured and respected by all the other
Muslims, and whoever betrays a Muslim in this respect (by violating the pledge)
will incur the curse of Allah, the angels, and all the people, and Allah will not
accept his compulsory or optional good deeds.' There was also written in it:
'Whoever (freed slave) befriends (takes as masters) other than his real masters
(manumitters) without their permission will incur the curse of Allah, the angels, and
all the people, and Allah will not accept his compulsory or optional good deeds. '
(See Hadith No. 94, Vol. 3)The Prophet did something as it was allowed from the religious point of view but
some people refrained from it. When the Prophet heard of that, he, after glorifying
and praising Allah, said, "Why do some people refrain from doing something which
I do? By Allah, I know Allah more than they."Once the two righteous men, i.e., Abu Bakr and 'Umar were on the verge of
destruction (and that was because): When the delegate of Bani Tamim came to the
Prophet, one of them (either Abu Bakr or 'Umar) recommended Al-Aqra' bin
Habis At-Tamimi Al-Hanzali, the brother of Bani Majashi (to be appointed as their
chief), while the other recommended somebody else. Abu Bakr said to 'Umar,
"You intended only to oppose me." 'Umar said, "I did not intend to oppose you!"
Then their voices grew louder in front of the Prophet whereupon there was
revealed: 'O you who believe! Do not raise your voices above the voice of the
Prophet..a great reward.' (49.2-3) Ibn Az-Zubair said, 'Thence forward when
'Umar talked to the Prophet, he would talk like one who whispered a secret and
would even fail to make the Prophet hear him, in which case the Prophet would
ask him (to repeat his words)."(the mother of believers) Allah's Apostle during his fatal ailment said, "Order Abu
Bakr to lead the people in prayer." I said, "If Abu Bakr stood at your place (in
prayers, the people will not be able to hear him because of his weeping, so order
'Umar to lead the people in prayer." He again said, "Order Abu Bakr to lead the
people in prayer " Then I said to Hafsa, "Will you say (to the Prophet), 'If Abu
Bakr stood at your place, the people will not be able to hear him be cause of his
weeping, so order 'Umar to lead the people in prayer?" Hafsa did so, whereupon
Allah's Apostle said, "You are like the companions of Joseph (See Quran,
12:30-32). Order Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayer." Hafsa then said to me,
"I have never received any good from you!"'Uwaimir Al-'Ajlani came to 'Asim bin 'Adi and said, "If a man found another man
with his wife and killed him, would you sentence the husband to death (in Qisas,)
i.e., equality in punishment)? O 'Asim! Please ask Allah's Apostle about this matter
on my behalf." 'Asim asked the Prophet but the Prophet disliked the question and
disapproved of it. 'Asim returned and informed 'Uwaimir that the Prophet disliked
that type of question. 'Uwaimir said, "By Allah, I will go (personally) to the
Prophet." 'Uwaimir came to the Prophet when Allah had already revealed Quranic
Verses (in that respect), after 'Asim had left (the Prophet ). So the Prophet said to
'Uwaimir, "Allah has revealed Quranic Verses regarding you and your wife." The
Prophet then called for them, and they came and carried out the order of Lian.
Then 'Uwaimir said, "O Allah's Apostle! Now if I kept her with me, I would be
accused of telling a lie." So 'Uwaimir divorced her although the Prophet did not
order him to do so. Later on this practice of divorcing became the tradition of
couples involved in a case of Li'an. The Prophet said (to the people). "Wait for
her! If she delivers a red short (small) child like a Wahra (a short red animal). then
I will be of the opinion that he ('Uwaimir) has told a lie but if she delivered a black
big-eyed one with big buttocks, then I will be of the opinion that he has told the
truth about her." 'Ultimately she gave birth to a child that proved the accusation.
(See Hadith No. 269, Vol. 6)I proceeded till I entered upon 'Umar (and while I was sitting there), his
gate-keeper Yarfa came to him and said, " 'Uthman, 'Abdur-Rahman, Az-Zubair
and Sa'd ask your permission to come in." 'Umar allowed them. So they entered,
greeted, and sat down. (After a while the gatekeeper came) and said, "Shall I
admit 'Ali and 'Abbas?'' 'Umar allowed them to enter. Al-'Abbas said "O Chief of
the believers! Judge between me and the oppressor ('Ali)." Then there was a
dispute (regarding the property of Bani Nadir) between them ('Abbas and 'Ali).
'Uthman and his companions said, "O Chief of the Believers! Judge between them
and relieve one from the other." Umar said, "Be patient! beseech you by Allah,
with Whose permission the Heaven and the Earth Exist! Do you know that Allah's
Apostle said, 'Our property is not to be inherited, and whatever we leave is to be
given in charity,' and by this Allah's Apostle meant himself?" On that the group
said, "He verily said so." 'Umar then faced 'Ali and 'Abbas and said, "I beseech
you both by Allah, do you both know that Allah's Apostle said so?" They both
replied, "Yes". 'Umar then said, "Now I am talking to you about this matter (in
detail) . Allah favored Allah's Apostle with some of this wealth which He did not
give to anybody else, as Allah said: 'What Allah bestowed as Fai (Booty on His
Apostle for which you made no expedition... ' (59.6)
So that property was totally meant for Allah's Apostle, yet he did not collect it and
ignore you, nor did he withhold it with your exclusion, but he gave it to you and
distributed it among you till this much of it was left behind, and the Prophet, used to
spend of this as the yearly expenditures of his family and then take what remained
of it and spent it as he did with (other) Allah's wealth. The Prophet did so during all
his lifetime, and I beseech you by Allah, do you know that?" They replied, "Yes."
'Umar then addressed 'Ali and 'Abbas, saying, "I beseech you both by Allah, do
you know that?" Both of them replied, "Yes." 'Umar added, "Then Allah took His
Apostle unto Him. Abu Bakr then said 'I am the successor of Allah's Apostle' and
took over all the Prophet's property and disposed of it in the same way as Allah's
Apostle used to do, and you were present then." Then he turned to 'Ali and 'Abbas
and said, "You both claim that Abu Bakr did so-and-so in managing the property,
but Allah knows that Abu Bakr was honest, righteous, intelligent, and a follower of
what is right in managing it.Then Allah took Abu Bakr unto Him, 'I said: I am the successor of Allah's Apostle
and Abu Bakr.' So I took over the property for two years and managed it in the
same way as Allah's Apostle, and Abu Bakr used to do. Then you both ('Ali and
'Abbas) came to me and asked for the same thing! (O 'Abbas! You came to me to
ask me for your share from nephew's property; and this ('Ali) came to me asking
for his wives share from her father's property, and I said to you both, 'If you wish,
I will place it in your custody on condition that you both will manage it in the same
way as Allah's Apostle and Abu Bakr did and as I have been doing since I took
charge of managing it; otherwise, do not speak to me anymore about it.'
Then you both said, 'Give it to us on that (condition).' So I gave it to you on that
condition. Now I beseech you by Allah, did I not give it to them on that
condition?" The group (whom he had been addressing) replied, "Yes." 'Umar then
addressed 'Abbas and 'Ali saying, "I beseech you both by Allah, didn't I give you
all that property on that condition?" They said, "Yes." 'Umar then said, "Are you
now seeking a verdict from me other than that? By Him with Whose Permission
the Heaven and the Earth exists I will not give any verdict other than that till the
Hour is established; and if you both are unable to manage this property, then you
can hand it back to me, and I will be sufficient for it on your behalf." (See, Hadith
No. 326, Vol. 4)I said to Anas, "Did Allah's Apostle make Medina a sanctuary?" He replied, "Yes,
(Medina is a sanctuary from such-and-such place to such-and-such place. It is
forbidden to cut its trees, and whoever innovates an heresy in it or commits a sin
therein, will incur the curse of Allah, the angels, and all the people." Then Musa bin
Anas told me that Anas added, "..... or gives refuge to such an heretic or a
sinner..."I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah will not deprive you of knowledge after he has
given it to you, but it will be taken away through the death of the religious learned
men with their knowledge. Then there will remain ignorant people who, when
consulted, will give verdicts according to their opinions whereby they will mislead
others and go astray."I asked Abu Wail, "Did you witness the battle of Siffin between 'Ali and
Muawiya?" He said, "Yes," and added, "Then I heard Sahl bin Hunaif saying, 'O
people! Blame your personal opinions in your religion. No doubt, I remember
myself on the day of Abi Jandal; if I had the power to refuse the order of Allah's
Apostle, I would have refused it.We have never put our swords on our shoulders to get involved in a situation that
might have been horrible for us, but those swords brought us to victory and peace,
except this present situation.' " Abu Wail said, "I witnessed the battle of Siffin, and
how nasty Siffin was!"I fell ill, Allah's Apostle and Abu Bakr came to visit me on foot. The Prophet came
to me while I was unconscious. Allah's Apostle performed ablution and poured the
Remaining water of his ablution over me whereupon I became conscious and said,
'O Allah's Apostle! How should I spend my wealth? Or how should I deal with my
wealth?" But the Prophet did not give me any reply till the Verse of the laws of
inheritance was revealed.A woman came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Men (only)
benefit by your teachings, so please devote to us from (some of) your time, a day
on which we may come to you so that you may teach us of what Allah has taught
you." Allah's Apostle said, "Gather on such-and-such a day at such-and-such a
place." They gathered and Allah's Apostle came to them and taught them of what
Allah had taught him. He then said, "No woman among you who has lost her three
children (died) but that they will screen her from the Fire." A woman among them
said, "O Allah's Apostle! If she lost two children?" She repeated her question
twice, whereupon the Prophet said, "Even two, even two, even two!" (See Hadith
No. 341, Vol. 2)The Prophet said, "A group of my follower swill remain predominant (victorious)
till Allah's Order (the Hour) comes upon them while they are still predominant
(victorious)."I heard Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan delivering a sermon. He said, "I heard the
Prophet saying, "If Allah wants to do a favor to somebody, He bestows on him,
the gift of understanding the Quran and Sunna. I am but a distributor, and Allah is
the Giver. The state of this nation will remain good till the Hour is established, or till
Allah's Order comes."When the (following) Verse was revealed to Allah's Apostle: 'Say: He has power
to send torment on you from above,'..(6.65) he said, "O Allah! I seek refuge with
Your Face (from that punishment)." And when this was revealed: '..or from
beneath your feet.' (6.65) he said, "O Allah! I seek refuge with Your Face (from
that)." And when this Verse was revealed: '..or to cover you with confusion in
party-strife, and make you to taste the violence of one another,'...(6.65) he said:
"These two warnings are easier (than the previous ones)."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 417:A bedouin came to Allah's Apostle and said, "My wife has delivered a black boy,
and I suspect that he is not my child." Allah's Apostle said to him, "Have you got
camels?" The bedouin said, "Yes." The Prophet said, "What color are they?" The
bedouin said, "They are red." The Prophet said, "Are any of them Grey?" He said,
"There are Grey ones among them." The Prophet said, "Whence do you think this
color came to them?" The bedouin said, "O Allah's Apostle! It resulted from
hereditary disposition." The Prophet said, "And this (i.e., your child) has inherited
his color from his ancestors." The Prophet did not allow him to deny his paternity
of the child.A woman came to the Prophet and said, "My mother vowed to perform the Hajj
but she died before performing it. Should I perform the Hajj on her behalf?" He
said, "Yes! Perform the Hajj on her behalf. See, if your mother had been in debt,
would you have paid her debt?" She said, "Yes." He said, "So you should pay
what is for Him as Allah has more right that one should fulfill one's obligations to
Him. "Allah's Apostle said, "Do not wish to be like anybody except in two cases: The
case of a man whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, and
that of a man whom Allah has given religious wisdom (i.e., Quran and Sunna) and
he gives his verdicts according to it and teaches it." (to others i.e., religious
knowledge of Quran and Sunna (Prophet's Traditions)). "
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 420:'Umar bin Al-Khattab asked (the people) about the Imlas of a woman, i.e., a
woman who has an abortion because of having been beaten on her abdomen,
saying, "Who among you has heard anything about it from the Prophet?" I said, "I
did.'' He said, "What is that?" I said, "I heard the Prophet saying, "Its Diya (blood
money) is either a male or a female slave.' " 'Umar said, "Do not leave till you
present witness in support of your statement." So I went out, and found
Muhammad bin Maslama. I brought him, and he bore witness with me that he had
heard the Prophet saying, "Its Diya (blood money) is either a male slave or a
female slave."The Prophet said, "The Hour will not be established till my followers copy the
deeds of the previous nations and follow them very closely, span by span, and
cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch)." It was said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do you mean
by those (nations) the Persians and the Byzantines?" The Prophet said, "Who can it
be other than they?"The Prophet said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who were before
you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if
they entered a hole of a mastigure, you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's
Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 423:The Prophet said, "None is killed unjustly, but the first son of Adam will have a
part of its burden." Sufyan said, "..a part of its blood because he was the first to
establish the tradition of murdering"A bedouin gave the Pledge of allegiance for embracing Islam to Allah's Apostle,
and then he got an attack of fever in Medina and came to Allah's Apostle: and
said, "O Allah's Apostle! Cancel my pledge." Allah's Apostle refused to do so. The
bedouin came to him again and said, "Cancel my pledge," but he refused again, and
then again, the bedouin came to him and said, "Cancel my pledge," and Allah's
Apostle refused. The bedouin finally went away, and Allah's Apostle said, "Medina
is like a pair of bellows (furnace), it expels its impurities while it brightens and
clears its good.'I used to teach Quran to 'Abdur-Rahman bin Auf. When Umar performed his last
Hajj, 'Abdur-Rahman said (to me) at Mina, "Would that you had seen Chief of the
believers today! A man came to him and said, "So-and-so has said, "If Chief of the
Believers died, we will give the oath of allegiance to such-and-such person,' 'Umar
said, 'I will get up tonight and warn those who want to usurp the people's rights.' I
said, 'Do not do so, for the season (of Hajj) gathers the riffraff mob who will form
the majority of your audience, and I am afraid that they will not understand (the
meaning of) your saying properly and may spread (an incorrect statement)
everywhere. You should wait till we reach Medina, the place of migration and the
place of the Sunna (the Prophet's Traditions). There you will meet the companions
of Allah's Apostle from the Muhajirin and the Ansar who will understand your
statement and place it in its proper position' 'Umar said, 'By Allah, I shall do so the
first time I stand (to address the people) in Medina.' When we reached Medina,
'Umar (in a Friday Khutba-sermon) said, "No doubt, Allah sent Muhammad with
the Truth and revealed to him the Book (Quran), and among what was revealed,
was the Verse of Ar-Rajm (stoning adulterers to death).'" (See Hadith No.
817,Vol. 8)We were with Abu Huraira while he was wearing two linen garments dyed with
red clay. He cleaned his nose with his garment, saying, "Bravo! Bravo! Abu
Huraira is cleaning his nose with linen! There came a time when I would fall
senseless between the pulpit of Allah's Apostle and 'Aisha's dwelling whereupon a
passerby would come and put his foot on my neck, considering me a mad man, but
in fact, I had no madness, I suffered nothing but hunger."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 426:Ibn 'Abbas was asked, "Did you offer the Id prayer with the Prophet?" He said,
"Yes, had it not been for my close relation to the Prophet, I would not have
performed it (with him) because of my being too young The Prophet came to the
mark which is near the home of Kathir bin As-Salt and offered the Id prayer and
then delivered the sermon. I do not remember if any Adhan or Iqama were
pronounced for the prayer. Then the Prophet ordered (the women) to give alms,
and they started stretching out their hands towards their ears and throats (giving
their ornaments in charity), and the Prophet ordered Bilal to go to them (to collect
the alms), and then Bilal returned to the ProphetThe Prophet used to go to the Quba' mosque, sometimes walking, sometimes
riding.'Aisha said to 'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair, "Bury me with my female companions (i.e.
the wives of the Prophet) and do not bury me with the Prophet in the house, for I
do not like to be regarded as sanctified (just for being buried there).''
Narrated Hisham's father: 'Umar sent a message to 'Aisha, saying, "Will you allow
me to be buried with my two companions (the Prophet and Abu Bakr) ?" She said,
"Yes, by Allah." though it was her habit that if a man from among the companions
(of the Prophet ) sent her a message asking her to allow him to be buried there, she
would say, "No, by Allah, I will never give permission to anyone to be buried with
them."Allah's Apostle used to perform the 'Asr prayer and then one could reach the
'Awali (a place in the outskirts of Medina) while the sun was still quite high.
Narrated Yunus: The distance of the 'Awali (from Medina) was four or three miles.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 430:The Sa' (a kind of measure) during the lifetime of the Prophet used to be equal to
the one Mudd (another kind of measure) and one third of a Mudd which we use
today, but the Sa' of today has become large.Allah's Apostle said, "O Allah! Bestow Your Blessings on their measures, and
bestow Your Blessings on their Sa' and Mudd." He meant those of the people of
Medina.The Jews brought a man and a woman who had committed illegal sexual
intercourse, to the Prophet and the Prophet ordered them to be stoned to death,
and they were stoned to death near the mosque where the biers used to be placed.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 433:The Mountain of Uhud came in sight of Allah's Apostle who then said, "This is a
mountain that loves us and is loved by us. O Allah! Abraham made Mecca a
sanctuary and I make the area between its (Medina's) two mountains a sanctuary."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 434:The distance between the pulpit and the wall of the mosque on the side of the
Qibla was just sufficient for a sheep to pass through.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 435:Allah's Apostle said, "Between my house and my pulpit there is a garden from one
of the gardens of Paradise, and my pulpit is over my Lake-Tank. (Kauthar);
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 436:'Abdullah said, "The Prophet arranged for a horse race, and the prepared horses
were given less food for a few days before the race to win the race, and were
allowed to run from Al-Hafya to Thaniyat-al-Wada', and the unprepared horses
were allowed to run between Thaniyat-al-Wada' and the mosque of Bani Zuraiq,"
'Abdullah was one of those who participated in the race.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 437:I heard 'Umar (delivering a sermon) on the pulpit of the Prophet.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 438:That he heard 'Uthman bin 'Affan delivering a sermon on the pulpit of the Prophet
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 439:This big copper vessel used to be put for me and Allah's Apostle and we would
take water from it together (on taking a bath) .The Prophet brought the Ansar and the Quarish people into alliance in my house at
Medina, and he invoked Allah for one month against the tribe of Bani Sulaim in
(the last Rak'a of each compulsory) prayer.When I arrived at Medina, 'Abdullah bin Salam met me and said to me,
"Accompany me to my house so that I may make you drink from a bowl from
which Allah's Apostle used to drink, and that you may offer prayer in the mosque
in which the Prophet used to pray." I accompanied him, and he made me drink
Sawiq and gave me dates to eat, and then I prayed in his mosque.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 442:The Prophet said to me, "Someone came to me tonight from my Lord while I was
in the 'Aqiq (valley), and said to me, "Offer prayer in this blessed valley and say:
'Labbaik' for the (performance of) 'Umra and Hajj."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 443:Ibn 'Umar said, "The Prophet fixed Qarn as the Miqat (for assuming the Ihram) for
the people of Najd, and Al-Juhfa for the people of Sham, and Dhul-Hulaifa for the
people of Medina." Ibn 'Umar added, "I heard this from the Prophet, and I have
been informed that the Prophet said, 'The Miqat for the Yemenites is Yalamlam.'
"When Iraq was mentioned, he said, "At that time it was not a Muslim country."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 444:The Prophet had a dream in the last portion of the night when he was sleeping at
Dhul-Hulaifa. (I n the dream) it was said to him, "You are in a blessed Batha' (i.e.,
valley)."That he heard the Prophet, after raising his head from the bowing in morning
prayer, saying, "O Allah, our Lord! All the praises are for you." And in the last
(Rak'a) he said, "O Allah! Curse so-and-so and so--and-so." And then Allah
revealed:-- 'Not for you (O Muhammad) is the decision, (but for Allah), whether
He turns in mercy to them or punish them, for they are indeed wrongdoers.'
(3.128)That Allah's Apostle came to him and Fatima the daughter of Allah's Apostle at
their house at night and said, "Won't you pray?" 'Ali replied, "O Allah's Apostle!
Our souls are in the Hands of Allah and when he wants us to get up, He makes us
get up." When 'Ali said that to him, Allah's Apostle left without saying anything to
him. While the Prophet was leaving, 'Ali heard him striking his thigh (with his hand)
and saying, "But man is quarrelsome more than anything else." (18.54)
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 447:While we were in the mosque, Allah's Apostle came out and said, "Let us proceed
to the Jews." So we went out with him till we came to Bait-al-Midras. The Prophet
stood up there and called them, saying, "O assembly of Jews! Surrender to Allah
(embrace Islam) and you will be safe!" They said, "You have conveyed Allah's
message, O Aba-al-Qasim" Allah's Apostle then said to them, "That is what I
want; embrace Islam and you will be safe." They said, "You have conveyed the
message, O Aba-al-Qasim." Allah's Apostle then said to them, "That is what I
want," and repeated his words for the third time and added, "Know that the earth
is for Allah and I want to exile you from this land, so whoever among you has
property he should sell it, otherwise, know that the land is for Allah and His
Apostle."Allah's Apostle said, "Noah will be brought (before Allah) on the Day of
Resurrection, and will be asked, 'Did you convey the message of Allah?" He will
reply, 'Yes, O Lord.' And then Noah's nation will be asked, 'Did he (Noah)
convey Allah's message to you?' They will reply, 'No warner came to us.' Then
Noah will be asked, 'Who are your witnesses?' He will reply. '(My witnesses are)
Muhammad and his followers.' Thereupon you (Muslims) will be brought and you
will bear witness." Then the Prophet recited: 'And thus We have made of you
(Muslims) a just and the best nation, that you might be witness over the nations,
and the Apostle a witness over you.' (2.143)Allah's Apostle sent the brother of the tribe of Bani Adi Al-Ansari as governor of
Khaibar. Then the man returned, bringing Janib (a good kind of date). Allah's
Apostle asked him, "Are all the dates of Khaibar like that?" He replied, "No, by
Allah, O Allah's Apostle! We take one Sa' of these (good) dates for two Sas of
mixed dates." Allah's Apostle then said, "Do not do so. You should either take one
Sa of this (kind) for one Sa' of the other; or sell one kind and then buy with its
price the other kind (of dates), and you should do the same in weighing."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 450:That he heard Allah's Apostle saying, "If a judge gives a verdict according to the
best of his knowledge and his verdict is correct (i.e. agrees with Allah and His
Apostle's verdict) he will receive a double reward, and if he gives a verdict
according to the best of his knowledge and his verdict is wrong, (i.e. against that of
Allah and His Apostle) even then he will get a reward ."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 451:Abu Musa asked permission to enter upon 'Umar, but seeing that he was busy, he
went away. 'Umar then said, "Didn't I hear the voice of 'Abdullah bin Qais? Allow
him to come in." He was called in and 'Umar said to him, "What made you do what
you did." He replied, "We have been instructed thus by the Prophet" 'Umar said,
"Bring proof (witness) for this, other wise I will do so-and-so to you." Then
'Abdullah bin Qais went to a gathering of the Ansar who then said, "None but the
youngest of us will give the witness for it." So Abu Said Al-Khudri got up and said,
"We used to be instructed thus (by the Prophet)." 'Umar said, "This tradition of the
Prophet remained hidden from me. Business in the market kept me busy."
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 452:Abu Huraira said, "You people claim that Abu Huraira narrates many narrations of
Allah's Apostle. (Anyhow) with Allah will be our appointment. I was a poor man,
and used to stick to Allah's Apostle contented with what will fill my stomach, and
the Muhajirin (emigrants) used to be busy trading in the markets, and the Ansar
used to be busy looking after their properties. One-day I heard Allah's Apostle
saying, 'Who will spread his Rida' (a garment covering the upper part of the body)
till I finished my speech and then fold it, (i.e. wrap it over your body), in which
case he will never forget anything he had heard from me." So I spread my garment
which I was wearing; and by Him Who sent Muhammad with the Truth, ever since,
I have never forgotten whatever I heard from him (the Prophet)" (See, Hadith No.
119, Vol. 1)I saw Jabir bin 'Abdullah swearing by Allah that Ibn Sayyad was the Dajjal. I said
to Jabir, "How can you swear by Allah?" Jabir said, "I have heard 'Umar swearing
by Allah regarding this matter in the presence of the Prophet and the Prophet did
not disapprove of it."Allah's Apostle said, "Horses may be used for three purposes: For a man they may
be a source of reward (in the Hereafter); for another, a means of protection; and
for another, a source of sin. The man for whom they are a source of reward, is the
one who keeps them for Allah's Cause and ties them with long ropes and lets them
graze in a pasture or garden. Whatever those long ropes allow them to eat of that
pasture or garden, will be written as good deeds for him and if they break their
ropes and run one or two rounds, then all their footsteps and dung will be written
as good deeds for him, and if they pass a river and drink from it though he has had
no intention of watering them, even then, that will be written as good deeds for him.
So such horses are a source of reward for that man. For the man who keeps
horses for his livelihood in order not to ask others for help or beg his bread, and at
the same time he does not forget Allah's right of what he earns through them and of
their backs (that he presents it to be used in Allah's Cause), such horses are a
shelter for him (from poverty). For the man who keeps them just out of pride and
for showing off, they are a source of sin." Then Allah's Apostle was asked about
donkeys. He said, "Allah has not revealed anything to me regarding them except
this comprehensive Verse:"Then anyone who has done good, equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant)
shall see it, and any one who has done evil, equal to the weight of an atom (or a
small ant) shall see it." (99.7-8)A woman asked the Prophet about the periods: How to take a bath after the
periods. He said, "Take a perfumed piece of cloth and clean yourself with it." She
said,' "How shall I clean myself with it, O Allah's Apostle?" The Prophet said,
"Clean yourself" She said again, "How shall I clean myself, O Allah's Apostle?"
The Prophet said, "Clean yourself with it." Then I knew what Allah's Apostle
meant. So I pulled her aside and explained it to her.
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 457:Um Hufaid bint Al-Harith bin Hazn presented the Prophet with some butter, dried
yoghurt (curd milk) and mastigures as a gift. The Prophet then asked for a meal
(mastigures etc. to be put) and it was eaten over his table cloth, but the Prophet
did not eat of it, as he had aversion to it. But if it had been illegal to eat, it would
not have been eaten over his table cloth nor would he have ordered that
(mastigures meat) to be eatenThe Prophet said, "Whoever has eaten garlic or onion, should keep away from us,
or should keep away from our mosque and should stay at home." Ibn Wahb said,
"Once a plate full of cooked vegetables was brought to the Prophet at Badr.
Detecting a bad smell from it, he asked about the dish and was informed of the
kinds of vegetables in contained. He then said, "Bring it near," and so it was
brought near to one of his companions who was with him. When the Prophet saw
it, he disliked eating it and said (to his companion), "Eat, for I talk in secret to ones
whom you do not talk to."A lady came to Allah's Apostle and she talked to him about something, and he
gave her some order. She said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I should not find you?" He
said, "If you should not find me, then go to Abu Bakr." Ibrahim bin Sa'd said, "As
if she meant the death (of the Prophet)."The people of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and then explain it in
Arabic to the Muslims. Allah's Apostle said (to the Muslims). "Do not believe the
people of the Book, nor disbelieve them, but say, 'We believe in Allah and
whatever is revealed to us, and whatever is revealed to you.' "
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 461:Ibn 'Abbas said, "Why do you ask the people of the scripture about anything while
your Book (Quran) which has been revealed to Allah's Apostle is newer and the
latest? You read it pure, undistorted and unchanged, and Allah has told you that
the people of the scripture (Jews and Christians) changed their scripture and
distorted it, and wrote the scripture with their own hands and said, 'It is from
Allah,' to sell it for a little gain. Does not the knowledge which has come to you
prevent you from asking them about anything? No, by Allah, we have never seen
any man from them asking you regarding what has been revealed to you!"
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 462:After the slanderers had given a forged statement against her, Allah's Apostle
called 'Ali bin Abi Talib and Usama bin Zaid when the Divine Inspiration was
delayed. He wanted to ask them and consult them about the question of divorcing
me. Usama gave his evidence that was based on what he knew about my
innocence, but 'Ali said, "Allah has not put restrictions on you and there are many
women other than her. Furthermore you may ask the slave girl who will tell you the
truth." So the Prophet asked Barira (my salve girl), "Have you seen anything that
may arouse your suspicion?" She replied, "I have not seen anything more than that
she is a little girl who sleeps, leaving the dough of her family (unguarded) that the
domestic goats come and eat it." Then the Prophet stood on the pulpit and said, "O
Muslims! Who will help me against the man who has harmed me by slandering my
wife? By Allah, I know nothing about my family except good." The narrator added:
Then the Prophet mentioned the innocence of 'Aisha. (See Hadith No. 274, Vol.
6)Allah's Apostle addressed the people, and after praising and glorifying Allah, he
said, "What do you suggest me regarding those people who are abusing my wife? I
have never known anything bad about her." The sub-narrator, 'Urwa, said: When
'Aisha was told of the slander, she said, "O Allah's Apostle! Will you allow me to
go to my parents' home?" He allowed her and sent a slave along with her. An
Ansari man said, "Subhanaka! It is not right for us to speak about this. Subhanaka!
This is a great lie!"I heard Jabir bin 'Abdullah in a gathering saying, "We, the companions of Allah's
Apostle assumed the state of Ihram to perform only Hajj without 'Umra." Jabir
added, "The Prophet arrived (at Mecca) on the fourth of Dhul-Hijja. And when we
arrived (in Mecca) the Prophet ordered us to finish the state of Ihram, saying,
"Finish your lhram and go to your wives (for sexual relation)." Jabir added, "The
Prophet did not oblige us (to go to our wives) but he only made that legal for us.
Then he heard that we were saying, "When there remains only five days between
us and the Day of Arafat he orders us to finish our Ihram by sleeping with our
wives in which case we will proceed to 'Arafat with our male organs dribbling with
semen?' (Jabir pointed out with his hand illustrating what he was saying). Allah's
Apostle stood up and said, 'You (People) know that I am the most Allah-fearing,
the most truthful and the best doer of good deeds (pious) from among you. If I had
not brought the Hadi with me, I would have finished my Ihram as you will do, so
finish your Ihram. If I had formerly known what I came to know lately, I would not
have brought the Hadi with me.' So we finished our Ihram and listened to the
Prophet and obeyed him." (See Hadith No. 713, Vol. 2)
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 465:The Prophet said, "Perform (an optional) prayer before Maghrib prayer." (He
repeated it thrice) and the third time he said, "Whoever wants to offer it can do
so," lest the people should take it as a Sunna (tradition). (See Hadith No. 277,
Vol. 2)Allah's Apostle said, "Recite (and study) the Quran as long as you are in agreement
as to its interpretation and meanings, but when you have differences regarding its
interpretation and meanings, then you should stop reciting it (for the time being.)
(See Hadith No 581, Vol. 6)Allah's Apostle said, "Recite (and study) the Quran as long as your hearts are in
agreement as to its meanings, but if you have differences as regards its meaning,
stop reading it then."When the time of the death of the Prophet approached while there were some men
in the house, and among them was 'Umar bin Al-Khatttab, the Prophet said,
"Come near let me write for you a writing after which you will never go astray."
'Umar said, "The Prophet is seriously ill, and you have the Quran, so Allah's Book
is sufficient for us." The people in the house differed and disputed. Some of them
said, "Come near so that Allah's Apostle may write for you a writing after which
you will not go astray," while some of them said what 'Umar said. When they made
much noise and differed greatly before the Prophet, he said to them, "Go away and
leave me." Ibn 'Abbas used to say, "It was a great disaster that their difference and
noise prevented Allah's Apostle from writing that writing for them.
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 93:When the Prophet sent Muadh to Yemen, he said to him, "You are going to a
nation from the people of the Scripture, so let the first thing to which you will invite
them, be the Tauhid of Allah. If they learn that, tell them that Allah has enjoined on
them, five prayers to be offered in one day and one night. And if they pray, tell
them that Allah has enjoined on them Zakat of their properties and it is to be taken
from the rich among them and given to the poor. And if they agree to that, then
take from them Zakat but avoid the best property of the people."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 470:The Prophet said, "O Mu'adh! Do you know what Allah's Right upon His slaves
is?" I said, "Allah and His Apostle know best." The Prophet said, "To worship Him
(Allah) Alone and to join none in worship with Him (Allah). Do you know what
their right upon Him is?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know best." The Prophet
said, "Not to punish them (if they do so)."A man heard another man reciting (in the prayers): 'Say (O Muhammad): "He is
Allah, the One." (112.1) And he recited it repeatedly. When it was morning, he
went to the Prophet and informed him about that as if he considered that the
recitation of that Sura by itself was not enough. Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in
Whose Hand my life is, it is equal to one-third of the Quran."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 472:The Prophet sent (an army unit) under the command of a man who used to lead his
companions in the prayers and would finish his recitation with (the Sura 112): 'Say
(O Muhammad): "He is Allah, the One." ' (112.1) When they returned (from the
battle), they mentioned that to the Prophet. He said (to them), "Ask him why he
does so." They asked him and he said, "I do so because it mentions the qualities of
the Beneficent and I love to recite it (in my prayer)." The Prophet; said (to them),
"Tell him that Allah loves him"Allah's Apostle said, "Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to
mankind."We were with the Prophet when suddenly there came to him a messenger from
one of his daughters who was asking him to come and see her son who was dying.
The Prophet said (to the messenger), "Go back and tell her that whatever Allah
takes is His, and whatever He gives is His, and everything with Him has a limited
fixed term (in this world). So order her to be patient and hope for Allah's reward."
But she sent the messenger to the Prophet again, swearing that he should come to
her. So the Prophets got up, and so did Sa'd bin 'Ubada and Mu'adh bin Jabal
(and went to her). When the child was brought to the Prophet his breath was
disturbed in his chest as if it were in a water skin. On that the eyes of the Prophet .
became flooded with tears, whereupon Sa'd said to him, "O Allah's Apostle! What
is this?" The Prophet said, "This is mercy which Allah has put in the heart of His
slaves, and Allah bestows His mercy only on those of His slaves who are merciful
(to others)." (See Hadith No. 373, Vol. 2)The Prophet said, "None is more patient than Allah against the harmful and
annoying words He hears (from the people): They ascribe children to Him, yet He
bestows upon them health and provision .The Prophet said, "The keys of the unseen are five and none knows them but
Allah: (1) None knows what is in the womb, but Allah: (2) None knows what will
happen tomorrow, but Allah; (3) None knows when it will rain, but Allah; (4)
None knows where he will die, but Allah (knows that); (5) and none knows when
the Hour will be established, but Allah."'Aisha said, "If anyone tells you that Muhammad has seen his Lord, he is a liar, for
Allah says: 'No vision can grasp Him.' (6.103) And if anyone tells you that
Muhammad has seen the Unseen, he is a liar, for Allah says: "None has the
knowledge of the Unseen but Allah."We used to pray behind the Prophet and used to say: "As-Salamu 'Al-Allah. The
Prophet said, "Allah himself is As-Salam (Name of Allah), so you should say:
'At-Tahiyatu lil-laihi was- sala-watu wat-taiyibatu, as-sallamu 'Alasia
aiyuha-n-nabiyyu wa rahrmatu-l-lahi wa barak-atuhu, As-salamu 'alaina wa 'ala
'ibaldi-l-lahi as-salihin. Ashhadu an la ilaha il-lallah, wa ash-hadu anna
Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasuluhu."'The Prophet said, "On the Day of Resurrection Allah will hold the whole earth and
fold the heaven with His right hand and say, 'I am the King: where are the kings of
the earth?" 'The Prophet used to say, "I seek refuge (with YOU) by Your 'Izzat, None has the
right to be worshipped but You Who does not die while the Jinns and the human
beings die."The Prophet said, "(The people will be thrown into Hell ( Fire) and it will keep on
saying, 'Is there any more?' till the Lord of the worlds puts His Foot over it,
whereupon its different sides will come close to each other, and it will say, 'Qad!
Qad! (enough! enough!) By Your 'Izzat (Honor and Power) and YOUR KARAM
(Generosity)!' Paradise will remain spacious enough to accommodate more people
until Allah will create some more people and let them dwell in the superfluous
space of Paradise. "The Prophet used to invoke Allah at night, saying, "O Allah: All the Praises are for
You: You are the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth. All the Praises are for You;
You are the Maintainer of the Heaven and the Earth and whatever is in them. All
the Praises are for You; You are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. Your
Word is the Truth, and Your Promise is the Truth, and the Meeting with You is the
Truth, and Paradise is the Truth, and the (Hell) Fire is the Truth, and the Hour is
the Truth. O Allah! I surrender myself to You, and I believe in You and I depend
upon You, and I repent to You and with You (Your evidences) I stand against my
opponents, and to you I leave the judgment (for those who refuse my message). O
Allah! Forgive me my sins that I did in the past or will do in the future, and also the
sins I did in secret or in public. You are my only God (Whom I worship) and there
is no other God for me (i.e. I worship none but You)."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 483:(regarding the above narration) that the Prophet added, "You are the Truth, and
Your Word is the Truth."We were with the Prophet on a journey, and whenever we ascended a high place,
we used to say, "Allahu Akbar." The Prophet said, "Don't trouble yourselves too
much! You are not calling a deaf or an absent person, but you are calling One
Who Hears, Sees, and is very near." Then he came to me while I was saying in my
heart, "La hawla wala quwwatta illa billah (There is neither might nor power but
with Allah)." He said, to me, "O 'Abdullah bin Qais! Say, 'La hawla wala quwwata
illa billah (There is neither might nor power but with Allah), for it is one of the
treasures of Paradise." Or said, "Shall I tell you of it?"
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 485:Abu Bakr As-Siddiq said to the Prophet "O Allah's Apostle! Teach me an
invocation with which I may invoke Allah in my prayers." The Prophet said, "Say:
O Allah! I have wronged my soul very much (oppressed myself), and none
forgives the sins but You; so please bestow Your Forgiveness upon me. No doubt,
You are the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."The Prophet said, "Gabriel called me and said, 'Allah has heard the statement of
your people and what they replied to you.'"As-Salami: Allah's Apostle used to teach his companions to perform the prayer of
Istikhara for each and every matter just as he used to teach them the Suras from
the Quran He used to say, "If anyone of you intends to do some thing, he should
offer a two rakat prayer other than the compulsory prayers, and after finishing it, he
should say: O Allah! I consult You, for You have all knowledge, and appeal to
You to support me with Your Power and ask for Your Bounty, for You are able
to do things while I am not, and You know while I do not; and You are the
Knower of the Unseen. O Allah If You know It this matter (name your matter) is
good for me both at present and in the future, (or in my religion), in my this life and
in the Hereafter, then fulfill it for me and make it easy for me, and then bestow
Your Blessings on me in that matter. O Allah! If You know that this matter is not
good for me in my religion, in my this life and in my coming Hereafter (or at present
or in the future), then divert me from it and choose for me what is good wherever it
may be, and make me be pleased with it." (See Hadith No. 391, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 488:The Prophet frequently used to swear, "No, by the One Who turns the hearts."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 489:Allah's Apostle said, "Allah has ninety-nine Names, one-hundred less one; and he
who memorized them all by heart will enter Paradise." To count something means
to know it by heart.The Prophet said, "When anyone of you goes to bed, he should dust it off thrice
with the edge of his garment, and say: Bismika Rabbi wada'tu janbi, wa bika
arfa'hu. In amsakta nafsi faghfir laha, wa in arsaltaha fahfazha bima tahfaz bihi
'ibadaka-s-salihin."When the Prophet went to bed, he used to say, "Allhumma bismika ahya wa
amut." And when he got Up in the mornings he used to say, "Alhamdu lillahi
al-ladhi ahyana ba'da ma amatana wa ilaihi-n-nushur."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 492:When the Prophet went to bed at night, he used to say: "Bismika namutu wa
nahya." And when he got up in the morning, he used to say, "Alhamdu lillahi
al-ladhi ahyana ba'da ma amatana, wa ilaihi-n-nushur."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 493:Allah's Apostle said, "If anyone of you, when intending to have a sexual relation
(sleep) with his wife, says: Bismillah, Allahumma jannibna ashShaitan, wa Jannib
ash-Shaitana ma razaqtana, Satan would never harm that child, should it be
ordained that they will have one. (Because of that sleep)."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 494:I asked the Prophet, "I send off (for a game) my trained hunting dogs; (what is
your verdict concerning the game they hunt?" He said, "If you send off your trained
hunting dogs and mention the Name of Allah, then, if they catch some game, eat
(thereof). And if you hit the game with a mi'rad (a hunting tool) and it wounds it,
you can eat (it)."The people said to the Prophet , "O Allah's Apostle! Here are people who have
recently embraced Islam and they bring meat, and we do not know whether they
had mentioned Allah's Name while slaughtering the animals or not." The Prophet
said, "You should mention Allah's Name and eat."The Prophet slaughtered two rams as sacrifice and mentioned Allah's Name and
said, "Allahu-Akbar" while slaughtering).That he witnessed the Prophet on the Day of Nahr. The Prophet offered prayer
and then delivered a sermon saying, "Whoever slaughtered his sacrifice before
offering prayer, should slaughter another animal in place of the first; and whoever
has not yet slaughtered any, should slaughter a sacrifice and mention Allah's Name
while doing so."The Prophet said, "Do not swear by your fathers; and whoever wants to swear
should swear by Allah."Allah's Apostle sent ten persons to bring the enemy's secrets and Khubaib
Al-Ansari was one of them. 'Ubaidullah bin 'Iyad told me that the daughter of
Al-Harith told him that when they gathered (to kill Khubaib Al Ansari) he asked
for a razor to clean his pubic region, and when they had taken him outside the
sanctuary of Mecca in order to kill him, he said in verse, "I don't care if I am killed
as a Muslim, on any side (of my body) I may be killed in Allah's Cause; for that is
for the sake of Allah's very Self; and if He will, He will bestow His Blessings upon
the torn pieces of my body." Then Ibn Al-Harith killed him, and the Prophet
informed his companions of the death of those (ten men) on the very day they were
killed.The Prophet said, "There is none having a greater sense of Ghira than Allah, and
for that reason He has forbidden shameful deeds and sins (illegal sexual intercourse
etc.) And there is none who likes to be praised more than Allah does." (See Hadith
No. 147, Vol. 7)The Prophet said, "When Allah created the Creation, He wrote in His Book--and
He wrote (that) about Himself, and it is placed with Him on the Throne--'Verily
My Mercy overcomes My Anger.'"The Prophet said, "Allah says: 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to
do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers
Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he
remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than
they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if
he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer
to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 503:when this Verse:--'Say (O Muhammad!): He has Power to send torments on you
from above,' (6.65) was revealed; The Prophet said, "I take refuge with Your
Face." Allah revealed:-- '..or from underneath your feet.' (6.65) The Prophet then
said, "I seek refuge with Your Face!" Then Allah revealed:--'...or confuse you in
party-strife.' (6.65) Oh that, the Prophet said, "This is easier."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 504:Ad-Dajjal was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet. The Prophet said, "Allah
is not hidden from you; He is not one-eyed," and pointed with his hand towards his
eye, adding, "While Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal is blind in the right eye and his eye looks
like a protruding grape."The Prophet said, "Allah did not send any prophet but that he warned his nation of
the one-eyed liar (Ad-Dajjal). He is one-eyed while your Lord is not one-eyed,
The word 'Kafir' (unbeliever) is written between his two eyes."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 506:That during the battle with Bani Al-Mustaliq they (Muslims) captured some females
and intended to have sexual relation with them without impregnating them. So they
asked the Prophet about coitus interrupt us. The Prophet said, "It is better that you
should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of
Resurrection." Qaza'a said, "I heard Abu Sa'id saying that the Prophet said, 'No
soul is ordained to be created but Allah will create it."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 507:The Prophet said, "Allah will gather the believers on the Day of Resurrection in the
same way (as they are gathered in this life), and they will say, 'Let us ask someone
to intercede for us with our Lord that He may relieve us from this place of ours.'
Then they will go to Adam and say, 'O Adam! Don't you see the people (people's
condition)? Allah created you with His Own Hands and ordered His angels to
prostrate before you, and taught you the names of all the things. Please intercede
for us with our Lord so that He may relieve us from this place of ours.' Adam will
say, 'I am not fit for this undertaking' and mention to them the mistakes he had
committed, and add, "But you d better go to Noah as he was the first Apostle sent
by Allah to the people of the Earth.' They will go to Noah who will reply, 'I am not
fit for this undertaking,' and mention the mistake which he made, and add, 'But
you'd better go to Abraham, Khalil Ar-Rahman.'They will go to Abraham who will reply, 'I am not fit for this undertaking,' and
mention to them the mistakes he made, and add, 'But you'd better go to Moses, a
slave whom Allah gave the Torah and to whom He spoke directly' They will go to
Moses who will reply, 'I am not fit for this undertaking,' and mention to them the
mistakes he made, and add, 'You'd better go to Jesus, Allah's slave and His
Apostle and His Word (Be: And it was) and a soul created by Him.' They will go
to Jesus who will say, 'I am not fit for this undertaking, but you'd better go to
Muhammad whose sins of the past and the future had been forgiven (by Allah).' So
they will come to me and I will ask the permission of my Lord, and I will be
permitted (to present myself) before Him. When I see my Lord, I will fall down in
(prostration) before Him and He will leave me (in prostration) as long as He
wishes, and then it will be said to me, 'O Muhammad! Raise your head and speak,
for you will be listened to; and ask, for you will be granted (your request); and
intercede, for your intercession will be accepted.' I will then raise my head and
praise my Lord with certain praises which He has taught me, and then I will
intercede. Allah will allow me to intercede (for a certain kind of people) and will fix
a limit whom I will admit into Paradise.I will come back again, and when I see my Lord (again), I will fall down in
prostration before Him, and He will leave me (in prostration) as long as He wishes,
and then He will say, 'O Muhammad! Raise your head and speak, for you will be
listened to; and ask, for you will be granted (your request); and intercede, for your
intercession will be accepted.' I will then praise my Lord with certain praises which
He has taught me, and then I will intercede. Allah will allow me to intercede (for a
certain kind of people) and will fix a limit to whom I will admit into Paradise, I will
return again, and when I see my Lord, I will fall down (in prostration) and He will
leave me (in prostration) as long as He wishes, and then He will say, 'O
Muhammad! Raise your head and speak, for you will be listened to, and ask, for
you will be granted (your request); and intercede, for your intercession will be
accepted.' I will then praise my Lord with certain praises which He has taught me,
and then I will intercede. Allah will allow me to intercede (for a certain kind of
people) and will fix a limit to whom I will admit into Paradise. I will come back and
say, 'O my Lord! None remains in Hell (Fire) but those whom Quran has
imprisoned therein and for whom eternity in Hell (Fire) has become inevitable.' "
The Prophet added, "There will come out of Hell (Fire) everyone who says: 'La
ilaha illal-lah,' and has in his heart good equal to the weight of a barley grain. Then
there will come out of Hell (Fire) everyone who says: ' La ilaha illal-lah,' and has in
his heart good equal to the weight of a wheat grain. Then there will come out of
Hell (Fire) everyone who says: 'La ilaha illal-lah,' and has in his heart good equal to
the weight of an atom (or a smallest ant)."Allah's Apostle said, "Allah's Hand is full, and (its fullness) is not affected by the
continuous spending, day and night." He also said, "Do you see what He has spent
since He created the Heavens and the Earth? Yet all that has not decreased what is
in His Hand." He also said, "His Throne is over the water and in His other Hand is
the balance (of Justice) and He raises and lowers (whomever He will)." (See
Hadith No. 206, Vol. 6)Allah's Apostle said, "On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will grasp the whole Earth
by His Hand, and all the Heavens in His right, and then He will say, 'I am the
King." Abu Huraira said, "Allah's Apostle said," Allah will grasp the Earth...' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 510:A Jew came to the Prophet and said, "O Muhammad! Allah will hold the heavens
on a Finger, and the mountains on a Finger, and the trees on a Finger, and all the
creation on a Finger, and then He will say, 'I am the King.' " On that Allah's
Apostle smiled till his premolar teeth became visible, and then recited:--
'No just estimate have they made of Allah such as due to him....(39.67) 'Abdullah
added: Allah's Apostle smiled (at the Jew's statement) expressing his wonder and
believe in what was said.A man from the people of the scripture came to the Prophet and said, "O
Abal-Qasim! Allah will hold the Heavens upon a Finger, and the Earth on a Finger
and the land on a Finger, and all the creation on a Finger, and will say, 'I am the
King! I am the King!' " I saw the Prophet (after hearing that), smiling till his
premolar teeth became visible, and he then recited: -- 'No just estimate have they
made of Allah such as due to him... (39.67)Sa'd bin 'Ubada said, "If I saw a man with my wife, I would strike him (behead
him) with the blade of my sword." This news reached Allah's Apostle who then
said, "You people are astonished at Sa'd's Ghira. By Allah, I have more Ghira than
he, and Allah has more Ghira than I, and because of Allah's Ghira, He has made
unlawful Shameful deeds and sins (illegal sexual intercourse etc.) done in open and
in secret. And there is none who likes that the people should repent to Him and
beg His pardon than Allah, and for this reason He sent the warners and the givers
of good news. And there is none who likes to be praised more than Allah does,
and for this reason, Allah promised to grant Paradise (to the doers of good)."
'Abdul Malik said, "No person has more Ghira than Allah."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 513:The Prophet said to a man, "Have you got anything of the Quran?" The man said,
"Yes, such-and-such Sura, and such-and-such Sura," naming the Suras.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 514:While I was with the Prophet , some people from Bani Tamim came to him. The
Prophet said, "O Bani Tamim! Accept the good news!" They said, "You have
given us the good news; now give us (something)." (After a while) some Yemenites
entered, and he said to them, "O the people of Yemen! Accept the good news, as
Bani Tamim have refused it. " They said, "We accept it, for we have come to you
to learn the Religion. So we ask you what the beginning of this universe was." The
Prophet said "There was Allah and nothing else before Him and His Throne was
over the water, and He then created the Heavens and the Earth and wrote
everything in the Book." Then a man came to me and said, 'O Imran! Follow your
she-camel for it has run away!" So I set out seeking it, and behold, it was beyond
the mirage! By Allah, I wished that it (my she-camel) had gone but that I had not
left (the gathering). "The Prophet said, "The Right (Hand) of Allah Is full, and (Its fullness) is not
affected by the continuous spending night and day. Do you see what He has spent
since He created the Heavens and the Earth? Yet all that has not decreased what is
in His Right Hand. His Throne is over the water and in His other Hand is the
Bounty or the Power to bring about death, and He raises some people and brings
others down." (See Hadith No. 508)Zaid bin Haritha came to the Prophet complaining about his wife. The Prophet
kept on saying (to him), "Be afraid of Allah and keep your wife." Aisha said, "If
Allah's Apostle were to conceal anything (of the Quran he would have concealed
this Verse." Zainab used to boast before the wives of the Prophet and used to say,
"You were given in marriage by your families, while I was married (to the Prophet)
by Allah from over seven Heavens." And Thabit recited, "The Verse:-- 'But (O
Muhammad) you did hide in your heart that which Allah was about to make
manifest, you did fear the people,' (33.37) was revealed in connection with Zainab
and Zaid bin Haritha."The Verse of Al-Hijab (veiling of women) was revealed in connection with Zainab
bint Jahsh. (On the day of her marriage with him) the Prophet gave a wedding
banquet with bread and meat; and she used to boast before other wives of the
Prophet and used to say, "Allah married me (to the Prophet in the Heavens."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 518:The Prophet said, "When Allah had finished His creation, He wrote over his
Throne: 'My Mercy preceded My Anger.'The Prophet said, "Whoever believes in Allah and His Apostle offers prayers
perfectly and fasts (the month of) Ramadan then it is incumbent upon Allah to
admit him into Paradise, whether he emigrates for Allah's cause or stays in the land
where he was born." They (the companions of the Prophet) said, "O Allah's
Apostle! Should we not inform the people of that?" He said, "There are
one-hundred degrees in Paradise which Allah has prepared for those who carry on
Jihad in His Cause. The distance between every two degrees is like the distance
between the sky and the Earth, so if you ask Allah for anything, ask Him for the
Firdaus, for it is the last part of Paradise and the highest part of Paradise, and at its
top there is the Throne of Beneficent, and from it gush forth the rivers of Paradise."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 520:I entered the mosque while Allah's Apostle was sitting there. When the sun had set,
the Prophet said, "O Abu Dharr! Do you know where this (sun) goes?" I said,
"Allah and His Apostle know best." He said, "It goes and asks permission to
prostrate, and it is allowed, and (one day) it, as if being ordered to return whence it
came, then it will rise from the west." Then the Prophet recited, "That: "And the sun
runs on its fixed course (for a term decreed)," (36.38) as it is recited by 'Abdullah.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 521:Abu Bakr sent for me, so I collected the Quran till I found the last part of
Surat-at-Tauba with Abi Khuzaima Al-Ansari and did not find it with anybody
else. (The Verses are): -- 'Verily, there has come to you an Apostle (Muhammad)
from amongst yourselves..(till the end of Surat Bara'a) (i.e., At-Tauba).'
(9.128-129)The Prophet used to say at the time of difficulty, 'La ilaha il-lallah Al-'Alimul-Halim.
La-ilaha il-lallah Rabul- Arsh-al-Azim, La ilaha-il-lallah Rabus-Samawati
Rab-ul-Ard; wa Rab-ul-Arsh Al-Karim.' (See Hadith No. 356 and 357, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 524:The Prophet said, "The people will fall unconscious on the Day of Resurrection,
then suddenly I will see Moses holding one of the pillars of the Throne." Abu
Huraira said: The Prophet said, "I will be the first person to be resurrected and will
see Moses holding the Throne."Allah's Apostle said, "(A group of) angels stay with you at night and (another group
of) angels by daytime, and both groups gather at the time of the 'Asr and Fajr
prayers. Then those angels who have stayed with you overnight, ascend (to
Heaven) and Allah asks them (about you) ---- and He knows everything about
you. "In what state did you leave My slaves?' The angels reply, 'When we left
them, they were praying, and when we reached them they were praying.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 525y:Allah's Apostle said, "If somebody gives in charity something equal to a date from
his honestly earned money ----for nothing ascends to Allah except good---- then
Allah will take it in His Right (Hand) and bring it up for its owner as anyone of you
brings up a Báby horse, till it becomes like a mountain." Abu Huraira said: The
Prophet. said, "Nothing ascends to Allah except good."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 526:Allah's Apostle used to say at the time of difficulty, "None has the right to be
worshipped but Allah, the Majestic, the Most Forbearing. None has the right to be
worshipped but Allah, the Lord of the Tremendous Throne. None has the right to
be worshipped but Allah, the Lord of the Heavens and the Lord of the Honourable
Throne. (See Hadith No. 357, Vol. 8)When 'Ali was in Yemen, he sent some gold in its ore to the Prophet. The Prophet
distributed it among Al-Aqra' bin Habis Al-Hanzali who belonged to Bani Mujashi,
'Uyaina bin Badr Al-Fazari, 'Alqama bin 'Ulatha Al-'Amiri, who belonged to the
Bani Kilab tribe and Zaid AI-Khail At-Ta'i who belonged to Bani Nabhan. So the
Quraish and the Ansar became angry and said, "He gives to the chiefs of Najd and
leaves us!" The Prophet said, "I just wanted to attract and unite their hearts (make
them firm in Islam)." Then there came a man with sunken eyes, bulging forehead,
thick beard, fat raised cheeks, and clean-shaven head, and said, "O Muhammad!
Be afraid of Allah! " The Prophet said, "Who would obey Allah if I disobeyed
Him? (Allah). He trusts me over the people of the earth, but you do not trust me?"
A man from the people (present then), who, I think, was Khalid bin Al-Walid,
asked for permission to kill him, but the Prophet prevented him. When the man
went away, the Prophet said, "Out of the offspring of this man, there will be people
who will recite the Quran but it will not go beyond their throats, and they will go
out of Islam as an arrow goes out through the game, and they will kill the Muslims
and leave the idolators. Should I live till they appear, I would kill them as the
Killing of the nation of 'Ad."I asked the Prophet regarding the Verse:--'And the sun runs on its fixed course for
a term decreed for it.' (36.28) He said, "Its fixed course is underneath Allah's
Throne."We were sitting with the Prophet and he looked at the moon on the night of the
full-moon and said, "You people will see your Lord as you see this full moon, and
you will have no trouble in seeing Him, so if you can avoid missing (through sleep
or business, etc.) a prayer before sunrise (Fajr) and a prayer before sunset (Asr)
you must do so." (See Hadith No. 529, Vol. 1)The Prophet said, "You will definitely see your Lord with your own eyes."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 531:Allah's Apostle came out to us on the night of the full moon and said, "You will see
your Lord on the Day of Resurrection as you see this (full moon) and you will have
no difficulty in seeing Him."On the authority of Abu Huraira: The people said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we
see our Lord on the Day of Resurrection?" The Prophet said, "Do you have any
difficulty in seeing the moon on a full moon night?" They said, "No, O Allah's
Apostle." He said, "Do you have any difficulty in seeing the sun when there are no
clouds?" They said, "No, O Allah's Apostle." He said, "So you will see Him, like
that. Allah will gather all the people on the Day of Resurrection, and say, 'Whoever
worshipped something (in the world) should follow (that thing),' so, whoever
worshipped the sun will follow the sun, and whoever worshiped the moon will
follow the moon, and whoever used to worship certain (other false) deities, he will
follow those deities. And there will remain only this nation with its good people (or
its hypocrites). (The sub-narrator, Ibrahim is in doubt.) Allah will come to them
and say, 'I am your Lord.' They will (deny Him and) say, 'We will stay here till our
Lord comes, for when our Lord comes, we will recognize Him.' So Allah will
come to them in His appearance which they know, and will say, 'I am your Lord.'
They will say, 'You are our Lord,' so they will follow Him.
Then a bridge will be laid across Hell (Fire)' I and my followers will be the first
ones to go across it and none will speak on that Day except the Apostles. And the
invocation of the Apostles on that Day will be, 'O Allah, save! Save!' In Hell (or
over The Bridge) there will be hooks like the thorns of As-Sa'dan (thorny plant).
Have you seen As-Sa'dan? " They replied, "Yes, O Allah's Apostle!" He said, "So
those hooks look like the thorns of As-Sa'dan, but none knows how big they are
except Allah. Those hooks will snap the people away according to their deeds.
Some of the people will stay in Hell (be destroyed) because of their (evil) deeds,
and some will be cut or torn by the hooks (and fall into Hell) and some will be
punished and then relieved. When Allah has finished His Judgments among the
people, He will take whomever He will out of Hell through His Mercy. He will then
order the angels to take out of the Fire all those who used to worship none but
Allah from among those whom Allah wanted to be merciful to and those who
testified (in the world) that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah. The
angels will recognize them in the Fire by the marks of prostration (on their
foreheads), for the Fire will eat up all the human body except the mark caused by
prostration as Allah has forbidden the Fire to eat the mark of prostration. They will
come out of the (Hell) Fire, completely burnt and then the water of life will be
poured over them and they will grow under it as does a seed that comes in the mud
of the torrent.Then Allah will finish the judgments among the people, and there will remain one
man facing the (Hell) Fire and he will be the last person among the people of Hell
to enter Paradise. He will say, 'O my Lord! Please turn my face away from the fire
because its air has hurt me and its severe heat has burnt me.' So he will invoke
Allah in the way Allah will wish him to invoke, and then Allah will say to him, 'If I
grant you that, will you then ask for anything else?' He will reply, 'No, by Your
Power, (Honor) I will not ask You for anything else.' He will give his Lord
whatever promises and covenants Allah will demand.
So Allah will turn his face away from Hell (Fire). When he will face Paradise and
will see it, he will remain quiet for as long as Allah will wish him to remain quiet,
then he will say, 'O my Lord! Bring me near to the gate of Paradise.' Allah will say
to him, 'Didn't you give your promises and covenants that you would never ask for
anything more than what you had been given? Woe on you, O Adam's son! How
treacherous you are!' He will say, 'O my lord,' and will keep on invoking Allah till
He says to him, 'If I give what you are asking, will you then ask for anything else?'
He will reply, 'No, by Your (Honor) Power, I will not ask for anything else.'
Then he will give covenants and promises to Allah and then Allah will bring him
near to the gate of Paradise. When he stands at the gate of Paradise, Paradise will
be opened and spread before him, and he will see its splendor and pleasures
whereupon he will remain quiet as long as Allah will wish him to remain quiet, and
then he will say, O my Lord! Admit me into Paradise.' Allah will say, 'Didn't you
give your covenants and promises that you would not ask for anything more than
what you had been given?' Allah will say, 'Woe on you, O Adam's son! How
treacherous you are! 'The man will say, 'O my Lord! Do not make me the most miserable of Your
creation,' and he will keep on invoking Allah till Allah will laugh because of his
sayings, and when Allah will laugh because of him, He will say to him, 'Enter
Paradise,' and when he will enter it, Allah will say to him, 'Wish for anything.' So he
will ask his Lord, and he will wish for a great number of things, for Allah Himself
will remind him to wish for certain things by saying, '(Wish for) so-and-so.' When
there is nothing more to wish for, Allah will say, 'This is for you, and its equal (is for
you) as well."'Ata' bin Yazid added: Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri who was present with Abu Huraira,
did not deny whatever the latter said, but when Abu Huraira said that Allah had
said, "That is for you and its equal as well," Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri said, "And ten
times as much, O Abu Huraira!" Abu Huraira said, "I do not remember, except his
saying, 'That is for you and its equal as well.'" Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri then said, "I
testify that I remember the Prophet saying, 'That is for you, and ten times as much.'
' Abu Huraira then added, "That man will be the last person of the people of
Paradise to enter Paradise."We said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we see our Lord on the Day of Resurrection?"
He said, "Do you have any difficulty in seeing the sun and the moon when the sky is
clear?" We said, "No." He said, "So you will have no difficulty in seeing your Lord
on that Day as you have no difficulty in seeing the sun and the moon (in a clear
sky)." The Prophet then said, "Somebody will then announce, 'Let every nation
follow what they used to worship.' So the companions of the cross will go with
their cross, and the idolators (will go) with their idols, and the companions of every
god (false deities) (will go) with their god, till there remain those who used to
worship Allah, both the obedient ones and the mischievous ones, and some of the
people of the Scripture. Then Hell will be presented to them as if it were a mirage.
Then it will be said to the Jews, "What did you use to worship?' They will reply,
'We used to worship Ezra, the son of Allah.' It will be said to them, 'You are liars,
for Allah has neither a wife nor a son. What do you want (now)?' They will reply,
'We want You to provide us with water.' Then it will be said to them 'Drink,' and
they will fall down in Hell (instead). Then it will be said to the Christians, 'What did
you use to worship?'They will reply, 'We used to worship Messiah, the son of Allah.' It will be said,
'You are liars, for Allah has neither a wife nor a son. What: do you want (now)?'
They will say, 'We want You to provide us with water.' It will be said to them,
'Drink,' and they will fall down in Hell (instead). When there remain only those who
used to worship Allah (Alone), both the obedient ones and the mischievous ones, it
will be said to them, 'What keeps you here when all the people have gone?' They
will say, 'We parted with them (in the world) when we were in greater need of
them than we are today, we heard the call of one proclaiming, 'Let every nation
follow what they used to worship,' and now we are waiting for our Lord.' Then the
Almighty will come to them in a shape other than the one which they saw the first
time, and He will say, 'I am your Lord,' and they will say, 'You are not our Lord.'
And none will speak: to Him then but the Prophets, and then it will be said to them,
'Do you know any sign by which you can recognize Him?' They will say. 'The
Shin,' and so Allah will then uncover His Shin whereupon every believer will
prostrate before Him and there will remain those who used to prostrate before Him
just for showing off and for gaining good reputation. These people will try to
prostrate but their backs will be rigid like one piece of a wood (and they will not
be able to prostrate). Then the bridge will be laid across Hell." We, the
companions of the Prophet said, "O Allah's Apostle! What is the bridge?'
He said, "It is a slippery (bridge) on which there are clamps and (Hooks like) a
thorny seed that is wide at one side and narrow at the other and has thorns with
bent ends. Such a thorny seed is found in Najd and is called As-Sa'dan. Some of
the believers will cross the bridge as quickly as the wink of an eye, some others as
quick as lightning, a strong wind, fast horses or she-camels. So some will be safe
without any harm; some will be safe after receiving some scratches, and some will
fall down into Hell (Fire). The last person will cross by being dragged (over the
bridge)." The Prophet said, "You (Muslims) cannot be more pressing in claiming
from me a right that has been clearly proved to be yours than the believers in
interceding with Almighty for their (Muslim) brothers on that Day, when they see
themselves safe.They will say, 'O Allah! (Save) our brothers (for they) used to pray with us, fast
with us and also do good deeds with us.' Allah will say, 'Go and take out (of Hell)
anyone in whose heart you find faith equal to the weight of one (gold) Dinar.' Allah
will forbid the Fire to burn the faces of those sinners. They will go to them and find
some of them in Hell (Fire) up to their feet, and some up to the middle of their legs.
So they will take out those whom they will recognize and then they will return, and
Allah will say (to them), 'Go and take out (of Hell) anyone in whose heart you find
faith equal to the weight of one half Dinar.' They will take out whomever they will
recognize and return, and then Allah will say, 'Go and take out (of Hell) anyone in
whose heart you find faith equal to the weight of an atom (or a smallest ant), and so
they will take out all those whom they will recognize." Abu Sa'id said: If you do not
believe me then read the Holy Verse:--'Surely! Allah wrongs not even of the weight of an atom (or a smallest ant) but if
there is any good (done) He doubles it.' (4.40) The Prophet added, "Then the
prophets and Angels and the believers will intercede, and (last of all) the Almighty
(Allah) will say, 'Now remains My Intercession. He will then hold a handful of the
Fire from which He will take out some people whose bodies have been burnt, and
they will be thrown into a river at the entrance of Paradise, called the water of life.
They will grow on its banks, as a seed carried by the torrent grows. You have
noticed how it grows beside a rock or beside a tree, and how the side facing the
sun is usually green while the side facing the shade is white. Those people will
come out (of the River of Life) like pearls, and they will have (golden) necklaces,
and then they will enter Paradise whereupon the people of Paradise will say,
'These are the people emancipated by the Beneficent. He has admitted them into
Paradise without them having done any good deeds and without sending forth any
good (for themselves).' Then it will be said to them, 'For you is what you have seen
and its equivalent as well.'"The Prophet said, "The believers will be kept (waiting) on the Day of Resurrection
so long that they will become worried and say, "Let us ask somebody to intercede
far us with our Lord so that He may relieve us from our place.
Then they will go to Adam and say, 'You are Adam, the father of the people. Allah
created you with His Own Hand and made you reside in His Paradise and ordered
His angels to prostrate before you, and taught you the names of all things will you
intercede for us with your Lord so that He may relieve us from this place of ours?
Adam will say, 'I am not fit for this undertaking.' He will mention his mistakes he
had committed, i.e., his eating off the tree though he had been forbidden to do so.
He will add, 'Go to Noah, the first prophet sent by Allah to the people of the
Earth.' The people will go to Noah who will say, 'I am not fit for this undertaking'
He will mention his mistake which he had done, i.e., his asking his Lord without
knowledge.' He will say (to them), 'Go to Abraham, Khalil Ar-Rahman.' They will
go to Abraham who will say, 'I am not fit for this undertaking. He would mention
three words by which he told a lie, and say (to them). 'Go to Moses, a slave whom
Allah gave the Torah and spoke to, directly and brought near Him, for
conversation.'They will go to Moses who will say, 'I am not fit for this undertaking. He will
mention his mistake he made, i.e., killing a person, and will say (to them), 'Go to
Jesus, Allah's slave and His Apostle, and a soul created by Him and His Word.'
(Be: And it was.) They will go to Jesus who will say, 'I am not fit for this
undertaking but you'd better go to Muhammad the slave whose past and future sins
have been forgiven by Allah.' So they will come to me, and I will ask my Lord's
permission to enter His House and then I will be permitted. When I see Him I will
fall down in prostration before Him, and He will leave me (in prostration) as long
as He will, and then He will say, 'O Muhammad, lift up your head and speak, for
you will be listened to, and intercede, for your intercession will be accepted, and
ask (for anything) for it will be granted:' Then I will raise my head and glorify my
Lord with certain praises which He has taught me. Allah will put a limit for me (to
intercede for a certain type of people) I will take them out and make them enter
Paradise." (Qatada said: I heard Anas saying that), the Prophet said, "I will go out
and take them out of Hell (Fire) and let them enter Paradise, and then I will return
and ask my Lord for permission to enter His House and I will be permitted.
When I will see Him I will fall down in prostration before Him and He will leave me
in prostration as long as He will let me (in that state), and then He will say, 'O
Muhammad, raise your head and speak, for you will be listened to, and intercede,
for your intercession will be accepted, and ask, your request will be granted.' " The
Prophet added, "So I will raise my head and glorify and praise Him as He has
taught me. Then I will intercede and He will put a limit for me (to intercede for a
certain type of people). I will take them out and let them enter Paradise." (Qatada
added: I heard Anas saying that) the Prophet said, 'I will go out and take them out
of Hell (Fire) and let them enter Paradise, and I will return for the third time and
will ask my Lord for permission to enter His house, and I will be allowed to enter.
When I see Him, I will fall down in prostration before Him, and will remain in
prostration as long as He will, and then He will say, 'Raise your head, O
Muhammad, and speak, for you will be listened to, and intercede, for your
intercession will be accepted, and ask, for your request will be granted.' So I will
raise my head and praise Allah as He has taught me and then I will intercede and
He will put a limit for me (to intercede for a certain type of people). I will take
them out and let them enter Paradise." (Qatada said: I heard Anas saying that) the
Prophet said, "So I will go out and take them out of Hell (Fire) and let them enter
Paradise, till none will remain in the Fire except those whom Quran will imprison
(i.e., those who are destined for eternal life in the fire)." The narrator then recited
the Verse:-- "It may be that your Lord will raise you to a Station of Praise and
Glory.' (17.79) The narrator added: This is the Station of Praise and Glory which
Allah has promised to your Prophet.Allah's Apostle sent for the Ansar and gathered them in a tent and said to them,
"Be patient till you meet Allah and His Apostle, and I will be on the lake-Tank
(Al-Kauthar)."Whenever the Prophet offered his Tahajjud prayer, he would say, "O Allah, our
Lord! All the praises are for You; You are the Keeper (Establisher or the One
Who looks after) of the Heavens and the Earth. All the Praises are for You; You
are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is therein. You are the
Truth, and Your saying is the Truth, and Your promise is the Truth, and the
meeting with You is the Truth, and Paradise is the Truth, and the (Hell) Fire is the
Truth. O Allah! I surrender myself to You, and believe in You, and I put my trust in
You (solely depend upon). And to You I complain of my opponents and with
Your Evidence I argue. So please forgive the sins which I have done in the past or
I will do in the future, and also those (sins) which I did in secret or in public, and
that which You know better than I. None has the right to be worshipped but You."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 535:Allah's Apostle said, "There will be none among you but his Lord will speak to
him, and there will be no interpreter between them nor a screen to screen Him."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 536:The Prophet said, "(There will be) two Paradises of silver and all the utensils and
whatever is therein (will be of silver); and two Paradises of gold, and its utensils
and whatever therein (will be of gold), and there will be nothing to prevent the
people from seeing their Lord except the Cover of Majesty over His Face in the
Paradise of Eden (eternal bliss)."The Prophet said, "Whoever takes the property of a Muslim by taking a false oath,
will meet Allah Who will be angry with him." Then the Prophet recited the Verse:--
'Verily those who purchase a small gain at the cost of Allah's Covenant and their
oaths, they shall have no portion in the Hereafter, neither will Allah speak to them,
nor look at them.' (3.77)The Prophet said, "(There are) three (types of persons to whom) Allah will neither
speak to them on the Day of Resurrections, nor look at them (They are):--(1) a
man who takes a false oath that he has been offered for a commodity a price
greater than what he has actually been offered; (2) and a man who takes a false
oath after the 'Asr (prayer) in order to grab the property of a Muslim through it; (3)
and a man who forbids others to use the remaining superfluous water. To such a
man Allah will say on the Day of Resurrection, 'Today I withhold My Blessings
from you as you withheld the superfluous part of that (water) which your hands did
not create.' "The Prophet said, "Time has come back to its original state which it had when
Allah created the Heavens and the Earth, the year is twelve months, of which four
are sacred; (and out of these four) three are in succession, namely, Dhul-Qa'da,
Dhul-Hijja and Muharram, and (the fourth one) Rajab Mudar which is between
Jumad (Ath-Tham) and Sha'ban." The Prophet then asked us, "Which month is
this?" We said, "Allah and His Apostle know (it) better." He kept quiet so long that
we thought he might call it by another name. Then he said, "Isn't it Dhul-Hijja?" We
said, "Yes." He asked "What town is this?" We said, "Allah and His Apostle know
(it) better.' Then he kept quiet so long that we thought he might call it by another
name. He then said, "Isn't it the (forbidden) town (Mecca)?" We said, "Yes." He
asked, "What is the day today?" We said, "Allah and His Apostle know (it) better.
Then he kept quiet so long that we thought that he might call it by another name.
Then he said, "Isn't it the Day of An-Nahr (slaughtering of sacrifices)?" We said,
"Yes." Then he said, "Your blood (lives), your properties," (the sub narrator
Muhammad, said: I think he also said): "..and your honor) are as sacred to one
another like the sanctity of this Day of yours, in this town of yours, in this month of
yours.You shall meet your Lord and He will ask you about your deeds. Beware! Don't
go astray after me by striking the necks of one another. Lo! It is incumbent upon
those who are present to inform it to those who are absent for perhaps the
informed one might comprehend it (understand it) better than some of the present
audience." Whenever the sub-narrator Muhammad mentioned that statement, he
would say, "The Prophet said the truth.") And then the Prophet added, "No doubt!
Haven't I conveyed Allah's Message to you! No doubt! Haven't I conveyed
Allah's Message to you?"A son of one of the daughters of the Prophet was dying, so she sent a person to
call the Prophet. He sent (her a message), "What ever Allah takes is for Him, and
whatever He gives is for Him, and everything has a limited fixed term (in this world)
so she should be patient and hope for Allah's reward." She then sent for him again,
swearing that he should come. Allah's Apostle got up, and so did Mu'adh bin
Jabal, Ubai bin Ka'b and 'Ubada bin As-Samit. When he entered (the house), they
gave the child to Allah's Apostle while its breath was disturbed in his chest. (The
sub-narrator said: I think he said, "...as if it was a water skin.") Allah's Apostle
started weeping whereupon Sa'd bin 'Ubada said, "Do you weep?" The Prophet
said, "Allah is merciful only to those of His slaves who are merciful (to others)."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 541:The Prophet said, "Paradise and Hell (Fire) quarrelled in the presence of their
Lord. Paradise said, 'O Lord! What is wrong with me that only the poor and
humble people enter me ?' Hell (Fire) said, I have been favored with the arrogant
people.' So Allah said to Paradise, 'You are My Mercy,' and said to Hell, 'You are
My Punishment which I inflict upon whom I wish, and I shall fill both of you.'" The
Prophet added, "As for Paradise, (it will be filled with good people) because Allah
does not wrong any of His created things, and He creates for Hell (Fire)
whomever He will, and they will be thrown into it, and it will say thrice, 'Is there
any more, till Allah (will put) His Foot over it and it will become full and its sides
will come close to each other and it will say, 'Qat! Qat! Qat! (Enough! Enough!
Enough!) .The Prophet said, "Some people who will be scorched by Hell (Fire) as a
punishment for sins they have committed, and then Allah will admit them into
Paradise by the grant of His Mercy. These people will be called,
'Al-JahannamiyyLin' (the people of Hell)."A Jewish Rabbi came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Muhammad! Allah will put
the Heavens on one finger and the earth on one finger, and the trees and the rivers
on one finger, and the rest of the creation on one finger, and then will say, pointing
out with His Hand, 'I am the King.' "On that Allah's Apostle smiled and said, "No
just estimate have they made of Allah such as due to Him. (39.67)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 544:Once I stayed overnight at the house of (my aunt ) Maimuna while the Prophet was
with her, to see how was the night prayer of Allah s Apostle Allah's Apostle talked
to his wife for a while and then slept. When it was the last third of the night (or part
of it), the Prophet got up and looked towards the sky and recited the Verse:--
'Verily! In the creation of the Heavens and the Earth....there are indeed signs for
the men of understanding.' (3.190)Then He got up and performed the ablution, brushed his teeth and offered eleven
Rakat. Then Bilal pronounced the Adhan whereupon the Prophet offered a
two-Rak'at (Sunna) prayer and went out to lead the people in Fajr (morning
compulsory congregational prayer.Allah's Apostle said, "When Allah created the creations, He wrote with Him on His
Throne: 'My Mercy has preceded My Anger."Allah's Apostle the true and truly inspired, narrated to us, "The creation of
everyone of you starts with the process of collecting the material for his body
within forty days and forty nights in the womb of his mother. Then he becomes a
clot of thick blood for a similar period (40 days) and then he becomes like a piece
of flesh for a similar period. Then an angel is sent to him (by Allah) and the angel is
allowed (ordered) to write four things; his livelihood, his (date of) death, his deeds,
and whether he will be a wretched one or a blessed one (in the Hereafter) and then
the soul is breathed into him. So one of you may do (good) deeds characteristic of
the people of Paradise so much that there is nothing except a cubit between him
and Paradise but then what has been written for him decides his behavior and he
starts doing (evil) deeds characteristic of the people of Hell (Fire) and (ultimately)
enters Hell (Fire); and one of you may do (evil) deeds characteristic of the people
of Hell (Fire) so much so that there is nothing except a cubit between him and Hell
(Fire), then what has been written for him decides his behavior and he starts doing
(good) deeds characteristic of the people of Paradise and ultimately) enters
Paradise." (See Hadith No. 430, Vol. 4)The Prophet said, "O Gabriel, what prevents you. from visiting us more often than
you do?" Then this Verse was revealed:--'And we angels descend not but by
Command of your Lord. To Him belongs what is before us and what is behind us..'
(19.64) So this was the answer to Muhammad.While I was walking with Allah's Apostle in one of the fields of Medina and he was
walking leaning on a stick, he passed a group of Jews. Some of them said to the
others, "Ask him (the Prophet) about the spirit." Others said, "Do not ask him." But
they asked him and he stood leaning on the stick and I was standing behind him
and I thought that he was being divinely inspired. Then he said, "They ask you
concerning the spirit say: The spirit, its knowledge is with My Lord. And of
knowledge you (O men!) have been given only a little." ...(17.85) On that some of
the Jews said to the others, "Didn't we tell you not to ask?"
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 549:Allah's Apostle said, "Allah guarantees to the person who carries out Jihad for His
Cause and nothing compelled him to go out but the Jihad in His Cause, and belief
in His Words, that He will either admit him into Paradise or return him with his
reward or the booty he has earned to his residence from where he went out." (See
Hadith No. 555).A man came to the Prophet and said, "A man fights for pride and haughtiness
another fights for bravery, and another fights for showing off; which of these
(cases) is in Allah's Cause?" The Prophet said, "The one who fights that Allah's
Word (Islam) should be superior, fights in Allah's Cause." (See Hadith No. 65,
Vol. 4)I heard the Prophet saying, "Some people from my followers will continue to be
victorious over others till Allah's Order (The Hour) is established." (See Hadith
No. 414)I heard the Prophet saying, "A group of my followers will keep on following Allah's
Laws strictly and they will not be harmed by those who will disbelieve them or
stand against them till Allah's Order (The Hour) will come while they will be in that
state."The Prophet stood before Musailama (the liar) who was sitting with his
companions then, and said to him, "If you ask me for this piece (of palm-leaf stalk),
even then I would not give it to you. You cannot avoid what Allah has ordained for
you, and if you turn away from Islam, Allah will surely ruin you! "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 554:While I was walking in company with the Prophet in one of the fields of Medina,
the Prophet was reclining on a palm leave stalk which he carried with him. We
passed by a group of Jews. Some of them said to the others, "Ask him about the
spirit." The others said, "Do not ask him, lest he would say something that you
hate." Some of them said, "We will ask him." So a man from among them stood up
and said, 'O Abal-Qasim! What is the spirit?" The Prophet kept quiet and I knew
that he was being divinely inspired. Then he said: "They ask you concerning the
Spirit, Say: The Spirit; its knowledge is with my Lord. And of knowledge you
(mankind) have been given only a little." (17.85)Allah's Apostle said, "Allah guarantees (the person who carries out Jihad in His
Cause and nothing compelled him to go out but Jihad in His Cause and the belief in
His Word) that He will either admit him into Paradise (Martyrdom) or return him
with reward or booty he has earned to his residence from where he went out."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 556:Allah's Apostle said, "Whenever anyone of you invoke Allah for something, he
should be firm in his asking, and he should not say: 'If You wish, give me...' for
none can compel Allah to do something against His Will."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 557:That one night Allah's Apostle visited him and Fatima, the daughter of Allah's
Apostle and said to them, "Won 't you offer (night) prayer?.. 'Ali added: I said, "O
Allah's Apostle! Our souls are in the Hand of Allah and when He Wishes to bring
us to life, He does." Then Allah's Apostle went away when I said so and he did not
give any reply. Then I heard him on leaving while he was striking his thighs, saying,
'But man is, more quarrelsome than anything.' (18.54)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 558:Allah's Apostle said, "The example of a believer is that of a fresh green plant the
leaves of which move in whatever direction the wind forces them to move and
when the wind becomes still, it stand straight. Such is the similitude of the believer:
He is disturbed by calamities (but is like the fresh plant he regains his normal state
soon). And the example of a disbeliever is that of a pine tree (which remains) hard
and straight till Allah cuts it down when He will." (See Hadith No. 546 and 547,
Vol. 7).I heard Allah's Apostle while he was standing on the pulpit, saying, "The remaining
period of your stay (on the earth) in comparison to the nations before you, is like
the period between the 'Asr prayer and sunset. The people of the Torah were
given the Torah and they acted upon it till midday, and then they were worn out
and were given for their labor, one Qirat each. Then the people of the Gospel were
given the Gospel and they acted upon it till the time of the 'Asr prayer, and then
they were worn out and were given (for their labor), one Qirat each. Then you
people were given the Quran and you acted upon it till sunset and so you were
given two Qirats each (double the reward of the previous nations)." Then the
people of the Torah said, 'O our Lord! These people have done a little labor
(much less than we) but have taken a greater reward.' Allah said, 'Have I withheld
anything from your reward?' They said, 'No.' Then Allah said, 'That is My Favor
which I bestow on whom I wish.' "I, along with a group of people, gave the pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle.
He said, "I take your Pledge on the condition that you (1) will not join partners in
worship with Allah, (2) will not steal, (3) will not commit illegal sexual intercourse,
(4) will not kill your offspring, (5) will not slander, (6) and will not disobey me
when I order you to do good. Whoever among you will abide by his pledge, his
reward will be with Allah, and whoever commits any of those sins and receives the
punishment in this world, that punishment will be an expiation for his sins and
purification; but if Allah screens him, then it will be up to Allah to punish him if He
will or excuse Him, if He will."Allah's Prophet Solomon who had sixty wives, once said, "Tonight I will have
sexual relation (sleep) with all my wives so that each of them will become pregnant
and bring forth (a boy who will grow into) a cavalier and will fight in Allah's
Cause." So he slept with his wives and none of them (conceived and) delivered (a
child) except one who brought a half (body) boy (deformed). Allah's Prophet said,
"If Solomon had said; 'If Allah Will,' then each of those women would have
delivered a (would-be) cavalier to fight in Allah's Cause." (See Hadith No. 74 A,
Vol. 4).Allah's Apostle entered upon a sick bedouin in whom he went to visit and said to
him, "Don't worry, Tahur (i.e., your illness will be a means of cleansing of your
sins), if Allah Will." The bedouin said, "Tahur! No, but it is a fever that is burning in
the body of an old man and it will make him visit his grave." The Prophet said,
"Then it is so."When the people slept till so late that they did not offer the (morning) prayer, the
Prophet said, "Allah captured your souls (made you sleep) when He willed, and
returned them (to your bodies) when He willed." So the people got up and went to
answer the call of nature, performed ablution, till the sun had risen and it had
become white, then the Prophet got up and offered the prayer.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 564:"A man from the Muslims and a man from the Jews quarrelled, and the Muslim
said, "By Him Who gave superiority to Muhammad over all the people!" The Jew
said, "By Him Who gave superiority to Moses over all the people!' On that the
Muslim lifted his hand and slapped the Jew. The Jew went to Allah's Apostle and
informed him of all that had happened between him and the Muslim. The Prophet
said, "Do not give me superiority over Moses, for the people will fall unconscious
on the Day of Resurrection, I will be the first to regain consciousness and behold,
Moses will be standing there, holding the side of the Throne. I will not know
whether he has been one of those who have fallen unconscious and then regained
consciousness before me, or if he has been one of those exempted by Allah (from
falling unconscious)." (See Hadith No. 524, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 565:Allah's Apostle said, "Ad-Dajjal will come to Medina and find the angels guarding
it. If Allah will, neither Ad-Dajjal nor plague will be able to come near it."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 566:Allah's Apostle said, "For every Prophet there is one invocation which is definitely
fulfilled by Allah, and I wish, if Allah will, to keep my that (special) invocation as to
be the intercession for my followers on the Day of Resurrection."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 567:Allah's Apostle said, "While I was sleeping, I saw myself (in a dream) standing by
a well. I drew from it as much water as Allah wished me to draw, and then Ibn
Quhafa (Abu Bakr) took the bucket from me and drew one or two buckets, and
there was weakness in his drawing----may Allah forgive him! Then 'Umar took the
bucket which turned into something like a big drum. I had never seen a powerful
man among the people working as perfectly and vigorously as he did. (He drew so
much water that) the people drank to their satisfaction and watered their camels
that knelt down there. (See Hadith No. 16, Vol. 5)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 568:Whenever a beggar or a person in need of something came to the Prophet , he
used to say (to his companions), "Intercede (for him) and you will be rewarded for
that, and Allah will fulfill what He will through His Apostle's tongue."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 569:The Prophet said, "None of you should say: 'O Allah! Forgive me if You wish,' or
'Bestow Your Mercy on me if You wish,' or 'Provide me with means of
subsistence if You wish,' but he should be firm in his request, for Allah does what
He will and nobody can force Him (to do anything)."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 570:That he differed with Al-Hurr bin Qais bin Hisn Al-Fazari about the companion of
Moses, (i.e., whether he was Kha,dir or not). Ubai bin Ka'b Al-Ansari passed by
them and Ibn 'Abbas called him saying, 'My friend (Hur) and I have differed about
Moses' Companion whom Moses asked the way to meet. Did you hear Allah's
Apostle mentioning anything about him?" Ubai said, "Yes, I heard Allah's Apostle
saying, "While Moses was sitting in the company of some Israelites a man came to
him and asked, 'Do you know Someone who is more learned than you (Moses)?'
Moses said, 'No.' So Allah sent the Divine inspiration to Moses:--
'Yes, Our Slave Khadir is more learned than you' Moses asked Allah how to meet
him ( Khadir) So Allah made the fish as a sign for him and it was said to him,
'When you lose the fish, go back (to the place where you lose it) and you will meet
him.' So Moses went on looking for the sign of the fish in the sea. The boy servant
of Moses (who was accompanying him) said to him, 'Do you remember (what
happened) when we betook ourselves to the rock? I did indeed forget to tell you
(about) the fish. None but Satan made me forget to tell you about it' (18.63)
Moses said:'That is what we have been seeking." Sa they went back retracing their footsteps.
(18.64). So they both found Kadir (there) and then happened what Allah
mentioned about them (in the Quran)!' (See 18.60-82)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 571:Allah's Apostle said, "If Allah will, tomorrow we will encamp in Khaif Bani Kinana,
the place where the pagans took the oath of Kufr (disbelief) against the Prophet.
He meant Al-Muhassab. (See Hadith No. 659, Vol. 2)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 572:The Prophet besieged the people of Ta'if, but he did not conquer it. He said,
"Tomorrow, if Allah will, we will return home. On this the Muslims said, "Then we
return without conquering it?" He said, 'Then carry on fighting tomorrow." The next
day many of them were injured. The Prophet said, "If Allah will, we will return
home tomorrow." It seemed that statement pleased them whereupon Allah's
Apostle smiled.The Prophet said, "When Allah ordains something on the Heaven the angels beat
with their wings in obedience to His Statement which sounds like that of a chain
dragged over a rock. His Statement: "Until when the fear is banished from their
hearts, the Angels say, 'What was it that your Lord said?' 'They reply, '(He has
said) the Truth. And He is the Most High, The Great. " (34.23)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 574:Allah's Apostle said, "Allah never listens to anything as He listens to the Prophet
reciting Quran in a pleasant sweet sounding voice." A companion of Abu Huraira
said, "He means, reciting the Quran aloud."The Prophet said, "Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection), 'O Adam!' Adam
will reply, 'Labbaik wa Sa'daik! ' Then a loud Voice will be heard (Saying) 'Allah
Commands you to take out the mission of the Hell Fire from your offspring.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 576:I never felt so jealous of any woman as I felt of Khadija, for Allah ordered him (the
Prophet ) to give Khadija the glad tidings of a palace in Paradise (for her).
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 577:Allah's Apostle said, "If Allah loves a person, He calls Gabriel, saying, 'Allah loves
so and so, O Gabriel love him' So Gabriel would love him and then would make an
announcement in the Heavens: 'Allah has loved so and-so therefore you should
love him also.' So all the dwellers of the Heavens would love him, and then he is
granted the pleasure of the people on the earth." (See Hadith No. 66, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 578:Allah's Apostle said, "There are angels coming to you in succession at night, and
others during the day, and they all gather at the time of 'Asr and Fajr prayers. Then
the angels who have stayed with you overnight ascend (to the heaven) and He
(Allah) asks them though He perfectly knows their affairs. 'In what state have you
left my slaves?' They say, 'When we left them, they were praying and when we
came to them they were praying.' "The Prophet said, Gabriel came to me and gave me the glad tidings that anyone
who died without worshipping anything besides Allah, would enter Paradise. I
asked (Gabriel), 'Even if he committed theft, and even if he committed illegal sexual
intercourse?' He said, '(Yes), even if he committed theft, and even if he Committed
illegal sexual intercourse."Allah's Apostle said, "O so-and-so, whenever you go to your bed (for sleeping)
say, 'O Allah! I have surrendered myself over to you and have turned my face
towards You, and leave all my affairs to You and depend on You and put my trust
in You expecting Your reward and fearing Your punishment. There is neither
fleeing from You nor refuge but with You. I believe in the Book (Quran) which
You have revealed and in Your Prophet (Muhammad) whom You have sent.' If
you then die on that night, then you will die as a Muslim, and if you wake alive in
the morning then you will receive the reward." (See Hadith No. 323, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 581:Allah's Apostle said on the Day of (the battle of) the Clans, "O Allah! The
Revealer of the Holy Book, The Quick Taker of Accounts! Defeat the clans and
shake them."(regarding the Verse):-- 'Neither say your prayer aloud, nor say it in a low tone.'
(17.110) This Verse was revealed while Allah's Apostle was hiding himself in
Mecca, and when he raised his voice while reciting the Quran, the pagans would
hear him and abuse the Quran and its Revealer and to the one who brought it. So
Allah said:--'Neither say your prayer aloud, nor say it in a low tone.' (17.110) That is, 'Do not
say your prayer so loudly that the pagans can hear you, nor say it in such a low
tone that your companions do not hear you.' But seek a middle course between
those (extremes), i.e., let your companions hear, but do not relate the Quran
loudly, so that they may learn it from you.The Prophet said, "Allah said: "The son of Adam hurts Me by abusing Time, for I
am Time; in My Hands are all things and I cause the revolution of night and day.' "
(See Hadith No. 351, Vol. 6)The Prophet said, "Allah said: The Fast is for Me and I will give the reward for it,
as he (the one who observes the fast) leaves his sexual desire, food and drink for
My Sake. Fasting is a screen (from Hell) and there are two pleasures for a fasting
person, one at the time of breaking his fast, and the other at the time when he will
meet his Lord. And the smell of the mouth of a fasting person is better in Allah's
Sight than the smell of musk." (See Hadith No. 128, Vol. 3).
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 585:The Prophet said, "Once while Job (Aiyub) was taking a bath in a naked state.
Suddenly a great number of gold locusts started falling upon him and he started
collecting them in his clothes. His Lord called him, 'O Job! Didn't I make you rich
enough to dispense with what you see now?' Job said, 'Yes, O Lord! But I cannot
dispense with Your BlessingsAllah's Apostle said, "Every night when it is the last third of the night, our Lord, the
Superior, the Blessed, descends to the nearest heaven and says: Is there anyone to
invoke Me that I may respond to his invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me so that
I may grant him his request? Is there anyone asking My forgiveness so that I may
forgive him?. " (See Hadith No. 246,Vol. 2)Allah's Apostle said, "We (Muslims) are the last (to come) but will be the foremost
on the Day of Resurrection." The narrators of this Hadith said: Allah said (to man),
'Spend (in charity), for then I will compensate you (generously).' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 588:The Prophet said that Gabriel said, "Here is Khadija coming to you with a dish of
food or a tumbler containing something to drink. Convey to her a greeting from her
Lord (Allah) and give her the glad tidings that she will have a palace in Paradise
built of Qasab wherein there will be neither any noise nor any fatigue (trouble)."
(See Hadith No. 168, Vol. 5)the Prophet said, "Allah said, "I have prepared for My righteous slaves (such
excellent things) as no eye has ever seen, nor an ear has ever heard nor a human
heart can ever think of.' "Whenever the Prophet offered the night (Tahajjud) prayer, he used to say, "O
Allah! All the Praises are for You; You are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth.
And all the Praises are for You; You are the Keeper of the Heavens and the Earth.
All the Praises are for You; You are the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth and
whatever is therein. You are the Truth, and Your Promise is the Truth, and Your
Speech is the Truth, and meeting You is the Truth, and Paradise is the Truth and
Hell (Fire) is the Truth and all the prophets are the Truth and the Hour is the Truth.
O Allah! I surrender to You, and believe in You, and depend upon You, and
repent to You, and in Your cause I fight and with Your orders I rule. So please
forgive my past and future sins and those sins which I did in secret or in public. It is
You Whom I worship, None has the right to be worshipped except You ." (See
Hadith No. 329,Vol. 8)Sa'id bin Al-Musaiyab, 'Alqama bin Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah
regarding the narrating of the forged statement against 'Aisha, the wife of the
Prophet, when the slanderers said what they said and Allah revealed her
innocence. 'Aisha said, "But by Allah, I did not think that Allah, (to confirm my
innocence), would reveal Divine Inspiration which would be recited, for I consider
myself too unimportant to be talked about by Allah through Divine Inspiration
revealed for recitation, but I hoped that Allah's Apostle might have a dream in
which Allah would reveal my innocence. So Allah revealed:-- 'Verily! Those who
spread the slander are a gang among you...' (The ten Verses in Surat-an-Nur)
(24.11-20)Allah's Apostle said, "Allah says, "If My slave intends to do a bad deed then (O
Angels) do not write it unless he does it; if he does it, then write it as it is, but if he
refrains from doing it for My Sake, then write it as a good deed (in his account).
(On the other hand) if he intends to go a good deed, but does not do it, then write
a good deed (in his account), and if he does it, then write it for him (in his account)
as ten good deeds up to seven-hundred times.' "Allah's Apostle said, "Allah created the creation, and when He finished from His
creation the Rahm (womb) got up, and Allah said (to it). "Stop! What do you
want? It said; "At this place I seek refuge with You from all those who sever me
(i.e. sever the ties of Kinship.)" Allah said: "Would you be pleased that I will keep
good relation with the one who will keep good relation with you, and I will sever
the relation with the one who will sever the relation with you. It said: 'Yes, 'O my
Lord.' Allah said (to it), 'That is for you.'' And then Abu Huraira recited the
Verse:-- "Would you then if you were given the authority, do mischief in the land,
and sever your ties of kinship." (47.22)It rained (because of the Prophet's invocation for rain) and the Prophet said, "Allah
said, 'Some of My slaves have become disbelievers in Me, and some others,
believers in Me.'"Allah's Apostle said, "Allah said, 'If My slaves loves the meeting with Me, I too
love the meeting with him; and if he dislikes the meeting with Me, I too dislike the
meeting with him.' " (See Hadith No. 514, Vol. 8)Allah's Apostle said, "Allah said, 'I am to my slave as he thinks of Me, (i.e. I am
able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him). (See Hadith No. 502)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 597:Allah's Apostle said, "A man who never did any good deed, said that if he died, his
family should burn him and throw half the ashes of his burnt body in the earth and
the other half in the sea, for by Allah, if Allah should get hold of him, He would
inflict such punishment on him as He would not inflict on anybody among the
people. But Allah ordered the sea to collect what was in it (of his ashes) and
similarly ordered the earth to collect what was in it (of his ashes). Then Allah said
(to the recreated man ), 'Why did you do so?' The man replied, 'For being afraid
of You, and You know it (very well).' So Allah forgave him."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 598:I heard the Prophet saying, "If somebody commits a sin and then says, 'O my
Lord! I have sinned, please forgive me!' and his Lord says, 'My slave has known
that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for it, I therefore have forgiven
my slave (his sins).' Then he remains without committing any sin for a while and
then again commits another sin and says, 'O my Lord, I have committed another
sin, please forgive me,' and Allah says, 'My slave has known that he has a Lord
who forgives sins and punishes for it, I therefore have forgiven my slave (his sin).
Then he remains without Committing any another sin for a while and then commits
another sin (for the third time) and says, 'O my Lord, I have committed another sin,
please forgive me,' and Allah says, 'My slave has known that he has a Lord Who
forgives sins and punishes for it I therefore have forgiven My slave (his sin), he can
do whatever he likes."The Prophet mentioned a man from the people of the past or those who preceded
you. The Prophet said a sentence meaning: Allah had given him wealth and
children. When his death approached, he said to his sons, "What kind of father
have I been to you?" They replied, "You have been a good father." He told them
that he had not presented any good deed before Allah, and if Allah should get hold
of him He would punish him.' "So look!" he added, "When I die, burn me, and
when I turn into coal, crush me, and when there comes a windy day, scatter my
ashes in the wind." The Prophet added, "Then by Allah, he took a firm promise
from his children to do so, and they did so. (They burnt him after his death) and
threw his ashes on a windy day. Then Allah commanded to his ashes. "Be," and
behold! He became a man standing! Allah said, "O My slave! What made you do
what you did?" He replied, "For fear of You." Nothing saved him then but Allah's
Mercy (So Allah forgave him).I heard the Prophet saying, "On the Day of Resurrection I will intercede and say,
"O my Lord! Admit into Paradise (even) those who have faith equal to a mustard
seed in their hearts." Such people will enter Paradise, and then I will say, 'O (Allah)
admit into Paradise (even) those who have the least amount of faith in their hearts."
Anas then said: As if I were just now looking at the fingers of Allah's Apostle.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 601:We, i.e., some people from Basra gathered and went to Anas bin Malik, and we
went in company with Thabit Al-Bunnani so that he might ask him about the Hadith
of Intercession on our behalf. Behold, Anas was in his palace, and our arrival
coincided with his Duha prayer. We asked permission to enter and he admitted us
while he was sitting on his bed. We said to Thabit, "Do not ask him about anything
else first but the Hadith of Intercession." He said, "O Abu Hamza! There are your
brethren from Basra coming to ask you about the Hadith of Intercession." Anas
then said, "Muhammad talked to us saying, 'On the Day of Resurrection the people
will surge with each other like waves, and then they will come to Adam and say,
'Please intercede for us with your Lord.' He will say, 'I am not fit for that but you'd
better go to Abraham as he is the Khalil of the Beneficent.' They will go to
Abraham and he will say, 'I am not fit for that, but you'd better go to Moses as he
is the one to whom Allah spoke directly.' So they will go to Moses and he will say,
'I am not fit for that, but you'd better go to Jesus as he is a soul created by Allah
and His Word.' (Be: And it was) they will go to Jesus and he will say, 'I am not fit
for that, but you'd better go to Muhammad.'They would come to me and I would say, 'I am for that.' Then I will ask for my
Lord's permission, and it will be given, and then He will inspire me to praise Him
with such praises as I do not know now. So I will praise Him with those praises
and will fall down, prostrate before Him. Then it will be said, 'O Muhammad, raise
your head and speak, for you will be listened to; and ask, for your will be granted
(your request); and intercede, for your intercession will be accepted.' I will say, 'O
Lord, my followers! My followers!' And then it will be said, 'Go and take out of
Hell (Fire) all those who have faith in their hearts, equal to the weight of a barley
grain.' I will go and do so and return to praise Him with the same praises, and fall
down (prostrate) before Him. Then it will be said, 'O Muhammad, raise your head
and speak, for you will be listened to, and ask, for you will be granted (your
request); and intercede, for your intercession will be accepted.' I will say, 'O Lord,
my followers! My followers!' It will be said, 'Go and take out of it all those who
have faith in their hearts equal to the weight of a small ant or a mustard seed.' I will
go and do so and return to praise Him with the same praises, and fall down in
prostration before Him. It will be said, 'O, Muhammad, raise your head and speak,
for you will be listened to, and ask, for you will be granted (your request); and
intercede, for your intercession will be accepted.' I will say, 'O Lord, my
followers!' Then He will say, 'Go and take out (all those) in whose hearts there is
faith even to the lightest, lightest mustard seed. (Take them) out of the Fire.' I will
go and do so."'When we left Anas, I said to some of my companions, "Let's pass by Al-Hasan
who is hiding himself in the house of Abi Khalifa and request him to tell us what
Anas bin Malik has told us." So we went to him and we greeted him and he
admitted us. We said to him, "O Abu Said! We came to you from your brother
Anas Bin Malik and he related to us a Hadith about the intercession the like of
which I have never heard." He said, "What is that?" Then we told him of the Hadith
and said, "He stopped at this point (of the Hadith)." He said, "What then?" We
said, "He did not add anything to that." He said, Anas related the Hadith to me
twenty years ago when he was a young fellow. I don't know whether he forgot or if
he did not like to let you depend on what he might have said." We said, "O Abu
Said ! Let us know that." He smiled and said, "Man was created hasty. I did not
mention that, but that I wanted to inform you of it.
Anas told me the same as he told you and said that the Prophet added, 'I then
return for a fourth time and praise Him similarly and prostrate before Him me the
same as he 'O Muhammad, raise your head and speak, for you will be listened to;
and ask, for you will be granted (your request): and intercede, for your intercession
will be accepted .' I will say, 'O Lord, allow me to intercede for whoever said,
'None has the right to be worshiped except Allah.' Then Allah will say, 'By my
Power, and my Majesty, and by My Supremacy, and by My Greatness, I will take
out of Hell (Fire) whoever said: 'None has the right to be worshipped except
Allah.' ''Allah's Apostle said, "The person who will be the last one to enter Paradise and
the last to come out of Hell (Fire) will be a man who will come out crawling, and
his Lord will say to him, 'Enter Paradise.' He will reply, 'O Lord, Paradise is full.'
Allah will give him the same order thrice, and each time the man will give Him the
same reply, i.e., 'Paradise is full.' Thereupon Allah will say (to him), 'Ten times of
the world is for you.' "Allah's Apostle said, "There will be none among you but his Lord will talk to him,
and there will be no interpreter between him and Allah. He will look to his right and
see nothing but his deeds which he has sent forward, and will look to his left and
see nothing but his deeds which he has sent forward, and will look in front of him
and see nothing but the (Hell) Fire facing him. So save yourself from the (Hell) Fire
even with half a date (given in charity)." Al-A'mash said: 'Amr bin Murra said,
Khaithama narrated the same and added, '..even with a good word.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 604:A priest from the Jews came (to the Prophet) and said, "On the Day of
Resurrection, Allah will place all the heavens on one finger, and the Earth on one
finger, and the waters and the land on one finger, and all the creation on one finger,
and then He will shake them and say. 'I am the King! I am the King!'" I saw the
Prophet smiling till his premolar teeth became visible expressing his amazement and
his belief in what he had said. Then the Prophet recited: 'No just estimate have they
made of Allah such as due to Him (up to)...; High is He above the partners they
attribute to Him.' (39.67)A man asked Ibn 'Umar, "What have you heard from Allah's Apostle regarding
An-Najwa?" He said, "Everyone of you will come close to His Lord Who will
screen him from the people and say to him, 'Did you do so-and-so?' He will reply,
'Yes.' Then Allah will say, 'Did you do so-and-so?' He will reply, 'Yes.' So Allah
will question him and make him confess, and then Allah will say, 'I screened your
sins in the world and forgive them for you today.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 606:The Prophet said, "Adam and Moses debated with each other and Moses said,
'You are Adam who turned out your offspring from Paradise.' Adam said, "You
are Moses whom Allah chose for His Message and for His direct talk, yet you
blame me for a matter which had been ordained for me even before my creation?'
Thus Adam overcame Moses."Allah's Apostle said, "The believers will be assembled on the Day of Resurrection
and they will say, 'Let us look for someone to intercede for us with our Lord so
that He may relieve us from this place of ours.' So they will go to Adam and say,
'You are Adam, the father of mankind, and Allah created you with His Own Hands
and ordered the Angels to prostrate before you, and He taught you the names of
all things; so please intercede for us with our Lord so that He may relieve us.'
Adam will say, to them, 'I am not fit for that,' and then he will mention to them his
mistake which he has committed.' "The night Allah's Apostle was taken for a journey from the sacred mosque (of
Mecca) Al-Ka'ba: Three persons came to him (in a dreamy while he was sleeping
in the Sacred Mosque before the Divine Inspiration was revealed to Him. One of
them said, "Which of them is he?" The middle (second) angel said, "He is the best
of them." The last (third) angle said, "Take the best of them." Only that much
happened on that night and he did not see them till they came on another night, i.e.
after The Divine Inspiration was revealed to him. (Fateh-Al-Bari Page 258, Vol.
17) and he saw them, his eyes were asleep but his heart was not----and so is the
case with the prophets: their eyes sleep while their hearts do not sleep. So those
angels did not talk to him till they carried him and placed him beside the well of
Zam-Zam. From among them Gabriel took charge of him. Gabriel cut open (the
part of his body) between his throat and the middle of his chest (heart) and took all
the material out of his chest and abdomen and then washed it with Zam-Zam water
with his own hands till he cleansed the inside of his body, and then a gold tray
containing a gold bowl full of belief and wisdom was brought and then Gabriel
stuffed his chest and throat blood vessels with it and then closed it (the chest). He
then ascended with him to the heaven of the world and knocked on one of its
doors.The dwellers of the Heaven asked, 'Who is it?' He said, "Gabriel." They said,
"Who is accompanying you?" He said, "Muhammad." They said, "Has he been
called?" He said, "Yes" They said, "He is welcomed." So the dwellers of the
Heaven became pleased with his arrival, and they did not know what Allah would
do to the Prophet on earth unless Allah informed them. The Prophet met Adam
over the nearest Heaven. Gabriel said to the Prophet, "He is your father; greet
him." The Prophet greeted him and Adam returned his greeting and said,
"Welcome, O my Son! O what a good son you are!" Behold, he saw two flowing
rivers, while he was in the nearest sky. He asked, "What are these two rivers, O
Gabriel?" Gabriel said, "These are the sources of the Nile and the Euphrates."
Then Gabriel took him around that Heaven and behold, he saw another river at the
bank of which there was a palace built of pearls and emerald. He put his hand into
the river and found its mud like musk Adhfar. He asked, "What is this, O Gabriel?"
Gabriel said, "This is the Kauthar which your Lord has kept for you." Then Gabriel
ascended (with him) to the second Heaven and the angels asked the same
questions as those on the first Heaven, i.e., "Who is it?" Gabriel replied, "Gabriel".
They asked, "Who is accompanying you?" He said, "Muhammad." They asked,
"Has he been sent for?" He said, "Yes." Then they said, "He is welcomed.'' Then
he (Gabriel) ascended with the Prophet to the third Heaven, and the angels said the
same as the angels of the first and the second Heavens had said.
Then he ascended with him to the fourth Heaven and they said the same; and then
he ascended with him to the fifth Heaven and they said the same; and then he
ascended with him to the sixth Heaven and they said the same; then he ascended
with him to the seventh Heaven and they said the same. On each Heaven there
were prophets whose names he had mentioned and of whom I remember Idris on
the second Heaven, Aaron on the fourth Heavens another prophet whose name I
don't remember, on the fifth Heaven, Abraham on the sixth Heaven, and Moses on
the seventh Heaven because of his privilege of talking to Allah directly. Moses said
(to Allah), "O Lord! I thought that none would be raised up above me."
But Gabriel ascended with him (the Prophet) for a distance above that, the
distance of which only Allah knows, till he reached the Lote Tree (beyond which
none may pass) and then the Irresistible, the Lord of Honor and Majesty
approached and came closer till he (Gabriel) was about two bow lengths or (even)
nearer. (It is said that it was Gabriel who approached and came closer to the
Prophet. (Fate Al-Bari Page 263, 264, Vol. 17). Among the things which Allah
revealed to him then, was: "Fifty prayers were enjoined on his followers in a day
and a night."Then the Prophet descended till he met Moses, and then Moses stopped him and
asked, "O Muhammad ! What did your Lord en join upon you?" The Prophet
replied," He enjoined upon me to perform fifty prayers in a day and a night."
Moses said, "Your followers cannot do that; Go back so that your Lord may
reduce it for you and for them." So the Prophet turned to Gabriel as if he wanted
to consult him about that issue. Gabriel told him of his opinion, saying, "Yes, if you
wish." So Gabriel ascended with him to the Irresistible and said while he was in his
place, "O Lord, please lighten our burden as my followers cannot do that." So
Allah deducted for him ten prayers where upon he returned to Moses who
stopped him again and kept on sending him back to his Lord till the enjoined
prayers were reduced to only five prayers.Then Moses stopped him when the prayers had been reduced to five and said, "O
Muhammad! By Allah, I tried to persuade my nation, Bani Israel to do less than
this, but they could not do it and gave it up. However, your followers are weaker
in body, heart, sight and hearing, so return to your Lord so that He may lighten
your burden."The Prophet turned towards Gabriel for advice and Gabriel did not disapprove of
that. So he ascended with him for the fifth time. The Prophet said, "O Lord, my
followers are weak in their bodies, hearts, hearing and constitution, so lighten our
burden." On that the Irresistible said, "O Muhammad!" the Prophet replied,
"Labbaik and Sa'daik." Allah said, "The Word that comes from Me does not
change, so it will be as I enjoined on you in the Mother of the Book." Allah added,
"Every good deed will be rewarded as ten times so it is fifty (prayers) in the
Mother of the Book (in reward) but you are to perform only five (in practice)."
The Prophet returned to Moses who asked, "What have you done?" He said, "He
has lightened our burden: He has given us for every good deed a tenfold reward."
Moses said, "By Allah! I tried to make Bani Israel observe less than that, but they
gave it up. So go back to your Lord that He may lighten your burden further."
Allah's Apostle said, "O Moses! By Allah, I feel shy of returning too many times to
my Lord." On that Gabriel said, "Descend in Allah's Name." The Prophet then
woke while he was in the Sacred Mosque (at Mecca).
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 609:The Prophet said, "Allah will say to the people of Paradise, "O the people of
Paradise!" They will say, 'Labbaik, O our Lord, and Sa'daik, and all the good is in
Your Hands!' Allah will say, "Are you satisfied?' They will say, 'Why shouldn't we
be satisfied, O our Lord as You have given us what You have not given to any of
Your created beings?' He will say, 'Shall I not give you something better than that?'
They will say, 'O our Lord! What else could be better than that?' He will say, 'I
bestow My Pleasure on you and will never be angry with you after that.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 610:Once the Prophet was preaching while a bedouin was sitting there. The Prophet
said, "A man from among the people of Paradise will request Allah to allow him to
cultivate the land Allah will say to him, 'Haven't you got whatever you desire?' He
will reply, 'yes, but I like to cultivate the land (Allah will permit him and) he will
sow the seeds, and within seconds the plants will grow and ripen and (the yield)
will be harvested and piled in heaps like mountains. On that Allah will say (to him),
"Take, here you are, O son of Adam, for nothing satisfies you.' "On that the
bedouin said, "O Allah's Apostle! Such man must be either from Quraish or from
Ansar, for they are farmers while we are not." On that Allah's Apostle smiled .
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 611:I asked Allah's Apostle "What is the biggest sin in the sight of Allah?" He said, "To
set up rivals unto Allah though He alone created you." I said, "In fact, that is a
tremendous sin," and added, "What next?" He said, "To kill your son being afraid
that he may share your food with you." I further asked, "What next?" He said, "To
commit illegal sexual intercourse with the wife of your neighbor."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 612:Two person of Bani Thaqif and one from Quarish (or two persons from Quraish
and one from Bani Thaqif) who had fat bellies but little wisdom, met near the
Ka'ba. One of them said, "Did you see that Allah hears what we say? " The other
said, "He hears us if we speak aloud, but He does not hear if we speak in stealthy
quietness (softly)." The third fellow said, "If He hears when we speak aloud, then
He surely hears us if we speak in stealthy quietness (softly)." So Allah revealed the
Verse:--'And you have not been screening against yourselves, lest your ears, and your eyes
and your skins should testify against you..." (41.22)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 613:Ibn 'Abbas said, "How can you ask the people of the Scriptures about their Books
while you have Allah's Book (the Quran) which is the most recent of the Books
revealed by Allah, and you read it in its pure undistorted form?"
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 614:'Abdullah bin 'Abbas said, "O the group of Muslims! How can you ask the people
of the Scriptures about anything while your Book which Allah has revealed to your
Prophet contains the most recent news from Allah and is pure and not distorted?
Allah has told you that the people of the Scriptures have changed some of Allah's
Books and distorted it and wrote something with their own hands and said, 'This is
from Allah, so as to have a minor gain for it. Won't the knowledge that has come
to you stop you from asking them? No, by Allah, we have never seen a man from
them asking you about that (the Book Al-Quran ) which has been revealed to you.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 615:Sa'id bin Jubair reported from Ibn 'Abbas (regarding the explanation of the Verse:
'Do not move your tongue concerning (the Quran) to make haste therewith) . He
said, "The Prophet used to undergo great difficulty in receiving the Divine
Inspiration and used to move his lips.' Ibn 'Abbas said (to Sa'id), "I move them
(my lips) as Allah's Apostle used to move his lips." And Said said (to me), "I move
my lips as I saw Ibn 'Abbas moving his lips," and then he moved his lips. So Allah
revealed:--'(O Muhammad!) Do not move your tongue concerning (the Quran) to make haste
therewith. It is for Us to collect it and give you (O Muhammad) the ability to recite
it. (i.e., to collect it in your chest and then you recite it).' (75.16-17) But when We
have recited it, to you (O Muhammad through Gabriel) then follow you its recital.'
(75.18) This means, "You should listen to it and keep quiet and then it is upon Us
to make you recite it."The narrator added, "So Allah's Apostle used to listen whenever Gabriel came to
him, and when Gabriel left, the Prophet would recite the Quran as Gabriel had
recited it to him."regarding the explanation of the Verse:-- '(O Muhammad!) Neither say your
prayer aloud, nor say it in a low tone.' (17.110) This Verse was revealed while
Allah's Apostle was hiding himself at Mecca. At that time, when he led his
companions in prayer, he used to raise his voice while reciting the Quran; and if
the pagans heard him, they would abuse the Quran, its Revealer, and the one who
brought it. So Allah said to His Prophet: "Neither say your prayer aloud. i.e., your
recitation (of Quran) lest the pagans should hear (it) and abuse the Quran" nor say
it in a low tone, "lest your voice should fail to reach your companions, "but follow a
way between." (17.110)The Verse:-- '(O Muhammad!) Neither say your prayer aloud nor say it in a low
tone.' (17.110) was revealed in connection with the invocations.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 618:Abu Huraira said, "Allah's Apostle said, 'Whoever does not recite Quran in a nice
voice is not from us,' and others said extra," (that means) to recite it aloud."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 619:Allah's Apostle said, "Not to wish to be the like of except the like of two men: a
man whom Allah has given the Quran and he recites it during the hours of the night
and the hours of the day, in which case one may say, "If I were given the same as
this man has been given, I would do the same as he is doing.' The other is a man
whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, in which case one
may say, 'If I were given the same as he has been given, I would do the same as he
is doing."The Prophet said, "Not to wish to be the like of except the like of two (persons): a
man whom Allah has given the knowledge of the Quran and he recites it during the
hours of the night and the hours of the day; and a man whom Allah has given
wealth and he spends it (in Allah's Cause) during the hours of the night and during
the hours of the day."Our Prophet has informed us our Lord's Message that whoever of us is martyred,
will go to Paradise.Whoever tells you that the Prophet concealed something of the Divine Inspiration,
do not believe him, for Allah said: 'O Apostle Muhammad! Proclaim (the
Message) which has been sent down to you from your Lord, and if you do it not,
then you have not conveyed His Message.' (5.67)A man said, "O Allah's Apostle! Which sin is the biggest in Allah's Sight?" The
Prophet said, "To set up rivals unto Allah though He Alone created you." That man
said, "What is next?" The Prophet said, "To kill your son lest he should share your
food with you.'' The man said, "What is next?" The Prophet said, "To commit
illegal sexual intercourse with the wife of your neighbor." Then Allah revealed in
confirmation of that: "And those who invoke not with Allah any other god, nor kill
such life as Allah has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual
intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment..... (25.68)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 624:Allah's Apostle said, "Your stay (in this world) in comparison to the stay of the
nations preceding you, is like the period between 'Asr prayer and the sun set (in
comparison to a whole day). The people of the Torah were given the Torah and
they acted on it till midday and then they were unable to carry on. And they were
given (a reward equal to) one Qirat each. Then the people of the Gospel were
given the Gospel and they acted on it till 'Asr Prayer and then they were unable to
carry on, so they were given la reward equal to) one Qirat each. Then you were
given the Quran and you acted on it till sunset, therefore you were given (a reward
equal to) two Qirats each. On that, the people of the Scriptures said, 'These
people (Muslims) did less work than we but they took a bigger reward.' Allah said
(to them). 'Have I done any oppression to you as regards your rights?' They said,
"No." Then Allah said, 'That is My Blessing which I grant to whomsoever I will.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 625:A man asked the Prophet "What deeds are the best?" The Prophet said: (1) To
perform the (daily compulsory) prayers at their (early) stated fixed times, (2) To be
good and dutiful to one's own parents. (3) and to participate in Jihad in Allah's
Cause."'Amr bin Taghlib said, "Some property was given to the Prophet and he gave it to
some people and withheld it from some others. Then he came to know that they
(the latter) were dissatisfied. So the Prophet said, 'I give to one man and leave (do
not give) another, and the one to whom I do not give is dearer to me than the one
to whom I give. I give to some people because of the impatience and discontent
present in their hearts, and leave other people because of the content and
goodness Allah has bestowed on them, and one of them is 'Amr bin Taghlib." 'Amr
bin Taghlib said, "The sentence which Allah's Apostle said in my favor is dearer to
me than the possession of nice red camels."The Prophet said, "My Lord says, 'If My slave comes nearer to me for a span, I
go nearer to him for a cubit; and if he comes nearer to Me for a cubit, I go nearer
to him for the span of outstretched arms; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to
him running.' "Perhaps the Prophet mentioned the following (as Allah's Saying): "If My slave
comes nearer to Me for a span, I go nearer to him for a cubit; and if he comes
nearer to Me for a cubit; I go nearer to him for the span of outstretched arms. (See
Hadith No. 502)The Prophet said that your Lord said, "Every (sinful) deed can be expiated; and
the fast is for Me, so I will give the reward for it; and the smell which comes out of
the mouth of a fasting person, is better in Allah's Sight than the smell of musk."
(See Hadith No. 584)The Prophet said that his Lord said: "It does not befit a slave that he should say
that he is better than Jonah (Yunus) bin Matta.Mu'awiya bin Qurra reported that 'Abdullah bin Al-Maghaffal Al-Muzani said, "I
saw Allah's Apostle on the day of the Conquest of Mecca, riding his she-camel
and reciting Surat-al-Fath (48) or part of Surat-al-Fath. He recited it in a vibrating
and pleasant voice. Then Mu'awiya recited as 'Abdullah bin Mughaffal had done
and said, "Were I not afraid that the people would crowd around me, I would
surely recite in a vibrating pleasant voice as Ibn Mughaffal did, imitating the
Prophet." I asked Muawiya, "How did he recite in that tone?" He said thrice, "A,
A , A."The people of the Scripture used to read the Torah in Hebrew and explain it to the
Muslims in Arabic. Then Allah's Apostle said, "Do not believe the people of the
Scripture, and do not disbelieve them, but say, 'We believe in Allah and whatever
has been revealed...' (3.84)A Jew and Jewess were brought to the Prophet on a charge of committing an
illegal sexual intercourse. The Prophet asked the Jews, "What do you (usually) do
with them?" They said, "We blacken their faces and disgrace them." He said,
"Bring here the Torah and recite it, if you are truthful." They (fetched it and) came
and asked a one-eyed man to recite. He went on reciting till he reached a portion
on which he put his hand. The Prophet said, "Lift up your hand!" He lifted his hand
up and behold, there appeared the verse of Ar-Rajm (stoning of the adulterers to
death). Then he said, "O Muhammad! They should be stoned to death but we
conceal this Divine Law among ourselves." Then the Prophet ordered that the two
sinners be stoned to death and, and they were stoned to death, and I saw the man
protecting the woman from the stones. (See Hadith No. 809, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 634:that he heard the Prophet saying, "Allah does not listen to anything as He listens to
the recitation of the Quran by a Prophet who recites it in attractive audible sweet
sounding voice."(when the slanderers said what they said about her): I went to my bed knowing at
that time that I was innocent and that Allah would reveal my innocence, but by
Allah, I never thought that Allah would reveal in my favor a revelation which would
be recited, for I considered myself too unimportant to be talked about by Allah in
the Divine Revelation that was to be recited. So Allah revealed the ten Verses (of
Surat-an-Nur). 'Those who brought a false charge........' (24.11-20)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 636:I heard the Prophet reciting Surat at-Tin waz Zaitun (By the Fig and the Olive) in
the 'Isha' prayer and I have never heard anybody with a better voice or recitation
than his.The Prophet was hiding himself in Mecca and used to recite the (Quran) in a loud
voice. When the pagans heard him they would abuse the Quran and the one who
brought it, so Allah said to His Prophet: 'Neither say your prayer aloud, nor say it
in a low tone.' (17.110)that Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri said to him, "I see that you like sheep and the desert, so
when you are looking after your sheep or when you are in the desert and want to
pronounce the Adhan, raise your voice, for no Jinn, human being or any other
things hear the Mu'adh-dhin's voice but will be a witness for him on the Day of
Resurrection." Abu Sa'id added, "I heard this from Allah's Apostle."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 639:The Prophet used to recite the Quran with his head in my lap while I used to be in
my periods (having menses).I heard Hisham bin Hakim reciting Surat-al-Furqan during the lifetime of Allah's
Apostle, I listened to his recitation and noticed that he was reciting in a way that
Allah's Apostle had not taught me. I was about to jump over him while He was still
in prayer, but I waited patiently and when he finished his prayer, I put my sheet
round his neck (and pulled him) and said, "Who has taught you this Sura which I
have heard you reciting?" Hisham said, "Allah's Apostle taught it to me." I said,
"You are telling a lie, for he taught it to me in a way different from the way you
have recited it!" Then I started leading (dragged) him to Allah's Apostle and said
(to the Prophet), " I have heard this man reciting Surat-al-Furqan in a way that you
have not taught me." The Prophet said: "(O 'Umar) release him! Recite, O
Hisham." Hisham recited in the way I heard him reciting. Allah's Apostle said, "It
was revealed like this." Then Allah's Apostle said, "Recite, O 'Umar!" I recited in
the way he had taught me, whereupon he said, "It was revealed like this," and
added, "The Quran has been revealed to be recited in seven different ways, so
recite of it whichever is easy for you ." (See Hadith No. 514, Vol. 6)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 641:I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Why should a doer (people) try to do good deeds?'
The Prophet said, "Everybody will find easy to do such deeds as will lead him to
his destined place for which he has been created.'
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 642:While the Prophet was in a funeral procession, he took a stick and started scraping
the earth with it and said, "There is none of you but has his place assigned either in
Hell or in Paradise." They (the people) said, "Shall we not depend upon that (and
give up doing any deeds)?' He said, " Carry on doing (good deeds) for everybody
will find it easy to do such deeds as will lead him to his destined place for which he
has been created ." (And then the Prophet recited the Verse):-- 'As for him who
gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to Allah...' (92.5)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 643:I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "Before Allah created the creations, He wrote a
Book (wherein He has written): My Mercy has preceded my Anger." and that
(Book) is written with Him over the Throne."There were good relations and brotherhood between this tribe of Jurm and the
Ash'ariyyin. Once, while we were sitting with Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari, there was
brought to him a meal which contained chicken meat, and there was sitting beside
him, a man from the tribe of Bani Taimul-lah who looked like one of the Mawali.
Abu Musa invited the man to eat but the man said, "I have seen chicken eating
some dirty things, and I have taken an oath not to eat chicken." Abu Musa said to
him, "Come along, let me tell you something in this regard. Once I went to the
Prophet with a few men from Ash'ariyyin and we asked him for mounts. The
Prophet said, By Allah, I will not mount you on anything; besides I do not have
anything to mount you on.' Then a few camels from the war booty were brought to
the Prophet, and he asked about us, saying, 'Where are the group of Ash'ariyyin?'
So he ordered for five fat camels to be given to us and then we set out. We said,
'What have we done? Allah's Apostle took an oath that he would not give us
anything to ride and that he had nothing for us to ride, yet he provided us with
mounts. We made Allah's Apostle forget his oath! By Allah, we will never be
successful.' So we returned to him and reminded him of his oath. He said, 'I have
not provided you with the mount, but Allah has done so. By Allah, I may take an
oath to do something, but on finding something else which is better, I do that which
is better and make the expiation for my oath.' "The delegates of 'Abdul Qais came to Allah's Apostle and said, "The pagans of the
tribe of Mudar intervene between you and us therefore we cannot come to you
except in the Holy months. So please order us to do something good (Religious
deeds) by which we may enter Paradise (by acting on them) and we may inform
our people whom we have left behind to observe it." The Prophet said, "I order
you to do four things and forbid you from four things: I order you to believe in
Allah. Do you know what is meant by belief in Allah? It is to testify that none has
the right to be worshipped except Allah, to offer prayers perfectly, to give Zakat,
and to give Al-Khumus (one-fifth of the war booty) (in Allah's Cause). And I
forbid you four things, (i.e., Do not drink alcoholic drinks) Ad-Dubba, An-Naqir,
(pitched water skins), Az-Zuruf, Al-Muzaffat and Al--Hantam (names of utensils
used for the preparation of alcoholic drinks)." (See Hadith No. 50, Vol. 1)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 646:Allah's Apostle said, "The painter of these pictures will be punished on the Day of
Resurrection, and it will be said to them, Make alive what you have created.' "
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 647:The Prophet said, "The painters of these pictures will be punished on the Day of
Resurrection, and it will be said to them, 'Make alive what you have created."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 648:I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah said, 'Who are most unjust than those who try to
create something like My creation? I challenge them to create even a smallest ant,
a wheat grain or a barley grain.' "The Prophet said, 'The example of a believer who recites the Quran is that of a
citron (a citrus fruit) which is good in taste and good in smell. And the believer who
does not recite the Quran is like a date which has a good taste but no smell. And
the example of an impious person who recites the Quran is that of Ar-Rihana (an
aromatic plant) which smells good but is bitter in taste. And the example of an
impious person who does not recite the Quran is that of a colocynth which is bitter
in taste and has no smell."Some people asked the Prophet regarding the soothsayers. He said, "They are
nothing." They said, "O Allah's Apostle! Some of their talks come true." The
Prophet said, "That word which happens to be true is what a Jinn snatches away
by stealth (from the Heaven) and pours it in the ears of his friend (the foreteller)
with a sound like the cackling of a hen. The soothsayers then mix with that word,
one hundred lies."The Prophet said, "There will emerge from the East some people who will recite
the Quran but it will not exceed their throats and who will go out of (renounce) the
religion (Islam) as an arrow passes through the game, and they will never come
back to it unless the arrow, comes back to the middle of the bow (by itself) (i.e.,
impossible). The people asked, "What will their signs be?" He said, "Their sign will
be the habit of shaving (of their beards). (Fateh Al-Bari, Page 322, Vol. 17th)
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 652:The Prophet said, "(There are) two words which are dear to the Beneficent (Allah)
and very light (easy) for the tongue (to say), but very heavy in weight in the
balance. They are: 'Subhan Allah wa-bi hamdihi' and 'Subhan Allah Al-'Azim."
(See Hadith No. 673, Vol. 8).