Abdullah ibn Buraydah said: A man from the companions
of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) travelled to Fudalah
ibn Ubayd when he was in Egypt.
He came to him and said: I have not come to you to
visit you. But you and I heard a tradition from the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). I hope you may have
some knowledge of it.
He asked: What is it? He replied: So and so. He said:
Why do I see you dishevelled when you are the ruler of
this land?
He said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) has
forbidden us to indulge much in luxury.
He said: Why do I see you unshod? He replied: The
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) used to command us to go
barefoot at times.
The Companions of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
mentioned this word before him. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: Listen, listen! Wearing old clothes is a part of
faith, wearing old clothes is a part of faith.
Karimah, daughter of Hammam, told that a woman came to
Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) and asked her about
dyeing with henna. She replied: There is no harm, but I do
not like it. My beloved, the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him),
disliked its odour.
When Hind, daughter of Utbah, said: Prophet of Allah,
accept my allegiance, he replied; I shall not accept your
allegiance till you make a difference to the palms of your
hands; for they look like the paws of a beast of prey.
A woman made a sign from behind a curtain to indicate
that she had a letter for the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) closed his hand, saying: I
do not know this is a man's or a woman's hand. She said:
No, a woman. He said: If you were a woman, you would make
a difference to your nails, meaning with henna.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If a woman uses
perfume and passes the people so that they may get its
odour, she is so-and-so, meaning severe remarks.
A woman met him and he found the odour of perfume in
her. Her clothes were fluttering in the air. He said: O
maid-servant of the Almighty, are you coming from the
mosque? She replied: Yes. He said: For it did you use
perfume? She replied: Yes. He said: I heard my beloved
AbulQasim (peace_be_upon_him) say: The prayer of a woman
who uses perfume for this mosque is not accepted until she
returns and takes a bath like that of sexual defilement
(perfectly).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If a woman
fumigates herself with perfume, she must not attend the
night prayer with us. Ibn Nufayl said: Isha' means night
prayer.
I came to my family at night (after a journey) with my
hands chapped and they perfumed me with saffron. In the
morning I went to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and gave
him a greeting, but he did not respond to me nor did he
welcome me.
He said: Go away and wash this off yourself. I then
went away and washed it off me. I came to him but there
remained a spot of it on me. I give him a greeting, but he
did not respond to me nor did he welcome me.
He said: Go away and wash it off yourself. I then went
away and washed it off me. I then came and gave him a
greeting.
He responded to me and welcomed me, saying: The angels
do not attend the funeral of an unbeliever bringing good
to it, nor a man who smears himself with saffron, nor a
man who is sexually defiled. He said: He permitted the man
who was sexually defiled to perform ablution when he
slept, ate or drank.
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4164) has also been
transmitted by Ammar ibn Yasir through a different chain
of narrators.
This version has: Ammar said: I used khaluq. The first
version is more perfect; it mentioned "taking a bath". Ibn
Jurayj said: I said to Umar (a transmitter): They might be
wearing ihram (robe of pilgrim)? He replied: No, they were
residents.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The angels do not
come near three: the dead body of the unbeliever, one who
smears himself with khaluq, and the one who is sexually
defiled except that he performs ablution.
When the Prophet of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) conquered
Makkah. The people of Makkah began to bring their boys and
he would invoke a blessing on them and rub their heads. I
was brought, but as I had been perfumed with khaluq, he
did not touch me because of the khaluq.
A man came to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
and he had the mark of yellowness (of saffron). The
Prophet (peace be upon him rarely mentioned a thing which
he disliked before a man. When he went away, he said:
Would that you tell this man that he should wash this off
him.
When I parted the hair of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
I made a parting from the crow of his head and let his
forelock hang between his eyes.
I came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and I had
long hair. When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
saw me, he said: Evil, evil! He said: I then returned and
cut them off. I then came to him in the morning. He said
(to me): I did not intend to do evil to you. This is much
better.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) gave the children of
Ja'far three day' time to visit them. He then came to
visit them, and said: Do not weep over my brother after
this day. He said: Call to me the children of my brother.
We were brought to him as if we were chicken. He said:
Call a barber to me. He then ordered and our heads were
shaved.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) saw a boy with part of
his head shaved and part left unshaven. He forbade them to
do that, saying: Shave it all or leave it all.
I had a hanging lock of hair. My mother said to me: I
shall not cut it, for the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
used to stretch it our and hold it.
Al-Hajjaj ibn Hassan said: We entered upon Anas ibn
Malik. My sister al-Mughirah said: You were a boy in those
days and you had two locks of hair. He (Anas) rubbed your
head and invoked blessing on you. He said: Shave them
(i.e. the locks) or clip them, for this is the fashion of
the Jews.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Do not
pluck out grey hair. If any believer grows a grey hair in
Islam, he will have light on the Day of Resurrection.
(This is Sufyan's version). Yahya's version says: Allah
will record on his behalf a good deed for it, and will
blot out a sin for it.
I went with my father to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him).
He had locks hanging down as far as the lobes of the ears
stained with henna, and he was wearing two green garments.
This version adds (to the previous hadith No 4194): My
father said to him (the Prophet): Show me what is on your
back, for I am a physician. He (the Prophet) said: You are
only a soother. Its physician is He Who has credit it.
I and my father came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him).
He said to a man or to my father: Who is this? He replied:
He is my son. He said: Do not commit a crime on him. He
had stained his beard with henna.
When a man who had dyed himself with henna passed by
the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), he said: How fine this
is! When another man who had dyed himself with henna and
katam passed by, he said: This is better than that. Then
another man who had dyed himself with yellow dye, passed
by, he said: This is better than all that.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: At the end of
time there will be people who will use this black dye like
the crops of doves who will not experience the fragrance
of Paradise.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) went on a
journey, the last member of his family he saw was Fatimah,
and the first he visited on his return was Fatimah. Once
when he returned from an expedition she had hung up a
hair-cloth, or a curtain, at her door, and adorned al-Hasan
and al-Husayn with silver bracelets. So when he arrived,
he did not enter. Thinking that he had been prevented from
entering by what he had seen, she tore down the curtain,
unfastened the bracelets from the boys and cut them off.
They went weeping to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him),
and when he had taken them from them, he said: Take this
to so and so's family. Thawban. In Medina, these are my
family, and I did not like them to enjoy their good things
in the present life. Buy Fatimah a necklace or asb,
Thawban, and two ivory bracelets.
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