I served the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) at Medina for
ten years. I was a boy. Every work that I did was not
according to the desire of my master, but he never said to
me: Fie, nor did he say to me: Why did you do this? or Why
did you not do this?
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used to sit
with us in meetings and talk to us. When he stood up we
also used to stand up and see him entering the house of
one of his wives. One day he talked to us and we stood up
as he stood up and we saw that an Arabi (a nomadic Arab)
caught hold of him and gave his cloak a violent tug making
his neck red.
AbuHurayrah said: The cloak was coarse. He turned to
him and the Arabi said to him: Load these two camels of
mine, for you do not give me anything from your property
or from your father's property.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said to him: No, I ask
Allah's forgiveness; no, I ask Allah's forgiveness; no, I
ask Allah's forgiveness. I shall not give you the
camel-load until you make amends for the way in which you
tugged at me.
Each time the Arabi said to him: I swear by Allah, I
shall not do so.
He then mentioned the rest of the tradition. He (the
Prophet), then called a man and said to him: Load these
two camels of his: one camel with barley and the other
with dates. He then turned to us and said: Go on your way
with the blessing of Allah.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: if
anyone suppresses anger when he is in a position to give
vent to it, Allah, the Exalted, will call him on the Day
of Resurrection over the heads of all creatures, and ask
him to choose any of the bright and large eyed maidens he
wishes.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: He then
mentioned a similar tradition described above. This
version has: Allah will fill his heart with security and
faith. He did not mention the words "Allah will call him".
This version further adds: He who gives up wearing
beautiful garments when he is able to do so (out of
humility, as Bishr's version has) will be clothed by Allah
with the robe of honour, and he who marries for Allah's
sake will be crowned by Allah with the crown of Kingdom.
Two men reviled each other in the presence of the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and one of them became
excessively angry so much so that I thought that his nose
will break up on account of excess of anger. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
said: I know a phrase which, if he repeated, he could get
rid of this angry feeling. They asked: What is it, Apostle
of Allah? He replied: He should say: I seek refuge in Thee
from the accursed devil. Mu'adh then began to ask him to
do so, but he refused and persisted in quarrelling, and
began to enhance his anger.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said to us:
When one of you becomes angry while standing, he should
sit down. If the anger leaves him, well and good;
otherwise he should lie down.
AbuWa'il al-Qass said: We entered upon Urwah ibn
Muhammad ibn as-Sa'di. A man spoke to him and made him
angry. So he stood and performed ablution; he then
returned and performed ablution, and said: My father told
me on the authority of my grandfather Atiyyah who reported
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) as saying: Anger
comes from the devil, the devil was created of fire, and
fire is extinguished only with water; so when one of you
becomes angry, he should perform ablution.
When the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) was informed of
anything of a certain man, he would not say: What is the
matter with so and so that he says? But he would say: What
is the matter with the people that they say such and such?
A man who had the mark of yellowness on him came to the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). The apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) rarely mentioned anything of a man
which he disliked before him. When he went out, he said:
Would that you asked him to wash it from him.
A man asked permission to see the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him),
and the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He is a bad
member of the tribe. When he entered, the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) treated in a frank and friendly way
and spoke to him. When he departed , I said: Apostle of
Allah! When he asked permission, you said: He is a bad
member of the tribe, but when he entered, you treated him
in a frank and friendly way. The Apostle of Allah replied:
Aisha! Allah does not like the one who is unseemly and
lewd in his language.
I never said that when any man brought his mouth to the
ear of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and he
withdrew his head until the man himself withdrew his head,
and I never saw that when any man took him by his hand and
he withdrew his hand, until the man himself withdrew his
hand.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: By his
good character a believer will attain the degree of one
who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I guarantee a
house in the surroundings of Paradise for a man who avoids
quarrelling even if he were in the right, a house in the
middle of Paradise for a man who avoids lying even if he
were joking, and a house in the upper part of Paradise for
a man who made his character good.
I went with a deputation of Banu Amir to the apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him), and we said: You are our lord (sayyid).
To this he replied: The lord is Allah, the Blessed and
Exalted. Then we said: And the one of us most endowed with
excellence and superiority. To this he replied: Say what
you have to say, or part of what you have to say, and do
not let the devil make you his agents.
Al-Miqdam ibn Shurayh, quoting his father, said: I
asked Aisha about living in the desert. She said: The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used to go to the
desert to these rivulets. Once he intended to go to the
desert and he sent to me a she-camel from the camel of
sadaqah which had not been used for riding so far. He said
to me: Aisha! show gentleness, for if gentleness is found
in anything, it beautifies it and when it is taken out
from anything it damages it.
The Immigrants (Muhajirun) said: Apostle of Allah! the
Helpers (Ansar) got the entire reward. He said: no, so
long as you pray to Allah for them and praise them.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If someone is
given something, he should give a return for it provided
he can afford; if he cannot afford, he should praise him.
He who praises him for it, thanks him, and he who conceals
it is ungrateful to him.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If someone is
donated something, and he mentions it, he thanks for it,
and if he conceals it, he is ungrateful for it.
A woman came to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
and said: Apostle of Allah: I have some need with you. He
said to her: Mother of so and so, sit in the corner of any
street you wish and I shall sit with you. So she sat and
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) also sat with her
till she fulfilled her need.
AbulQasim (peace_be_upon_him) said: When one of you is
in the sun (Shams)--Makhlad's version has "fay'"--and the
shadow withdraws from him so that he is partly in sun and
partly in shade, he should get up.
AbuHazim came when the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
was addressing. He stood in the sun. He ordered him (to
shift) and he shifted to the shade.
Sa'id ibn AbulHasan said: When AbuBakrah came to us to
give some evidence, a man got up from his place, but he
refused to sit in it saying: The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
forbade this, and the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) forbade
anyone to wipe his hand on the garment of anyone whose
clothing he had not himself provided.
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), another
man got up from his place for him, and when he went to sit
in it, the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) forbade him.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: A believer who
recites the Qur'an is like a citron whose fragrance is
sweet and whose taste is sweet, a believer who does not
recite the Qur'an is like a date which has no fragrance
but has sweet taste, a profligate who recites the Qur'an
is like basil whose fragrance is sweet but whose taste is
bitter, and the profligate who does not recite the Qur'an
is like the colocynth which has a bitter taste and has not
fragrance. A good companion is like a man who has musk; if
nothing of it goes to you, its fragrance will (certainly)
go to you; and a bad companion is like a man who has
bellows; if its (black) root does not go to you, its smoke
will (certainly) go to you.
I came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him). The people
began to praise me and make a mention of me. The Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: I know you, that is, he
knew him. I said: My father and mother be sacrificed for
you! you were my partner and how good a partner ; you
neither disputed nor quarrelled.
Maymun ibn AbuShabib said: A beggar passed by Aisha and
gave him a piece of bread. Another man who wore clothes
and had good appearance passed by her, and she made her
seated and he ate (with her). When she was asked about
that, she replied: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: treat the people according to their ranks.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Glorifying Allah
involves showing honour to a grey-haired Muslim and to one
who can expound the Qur'an, but not to one who acts
extravagantly regarding it, or turns away from it, and
showing honour to a just ruler.
She saw the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) sitting with
his arms round his legs. She said: When I saw the Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) in such humble condition in
the sitting position (according to Musa's version), I
trembled with fear.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came upon me
when I was sitting thus: having my left hand behind my
back and leaning on the fleshy part of it, and said: Are
you sitting in the manner of those with whom Allah is
angry?
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) would sit and
we would also sit around him. If he got up intending to
return, he would take off his sandals or something he was
wearing, and his Companions recognising his purpose (that
he would return) would stay where they were.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: People who get up
from an assembly in which they did not remember Allah will
be just as if they had got up from an ass's corpse, and it
will be a cause of grief to them.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone sits at
a place where he does not remember Allah, deprivation will
descend on him from Allah; and if he lies at a place where
he does not remember Allah, deprivation will descend on
him from Allah.
There are some expressions which a man utters three
times when he gets up from an assembly he will be forgiven
for what happened in the assembly; and no one utters them
in an assembly held for a noble cause or for remembrance
of Allah but that is stamped with them just as a document
is stamped with a signet-ring. These expressions are:
Glory be to Thee, O Allah, and I begin with praise of
Thee, there is no god but thou; I ask Thy pardon, and
return to Thee in repentance.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) intended
to get up from the assembly he used to say in the last.
Glory be to Thee. O Allah, and I begin with praise of
Thee, I testify that there is no god but Thou; I ask Thy
pardon, and return to Thee in repentance. The man asked:
Apostle of Allah! you utter the words now which you did
not do in the past? He replied: (This is an) atonement for
what takes place in the assembly.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) called me. He
intended to send me with some goods to AbuSufyan to
distribute among the Quraysh at Mecca after the conquest.
He said: Search for a companion. Then Amr ibn Umayyah
ad-Damri came to me and said: I have been told that you
are intending to make a journey and are seeking a
companion.
I said: Yes. He said: I am your companion. I then went
to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and said: I
have found a companion.
He asked: Who is he? I replied: Amr ibn Umayyah
ad-Damri. He said: When you come down to the territory of
his people, be careful of him, for a maxim says: If one is
your real brother, do not feel safe with him.
So we proceeded, and when I reached al-Abwa', he said
to me: I have some work with my people at Waddan, so stay
here till I come back. I said: Do not lose your way. When
he turned his back, I recalled the words of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). So I rode my camel and galloped
without stopping. When I reached al-Asafir, he was
pursuing me with a group of men. So I galloped and forged
ahead of him. When he saw me that I had outstripped him,
they returned and he came to me.
He said to me: I had some work with my people. I said:
Yes. We then went on until we reached Mecca, and I gave
the goods to AbuSufyan.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Meetings are
confidential except three: those for the purpose of
shedding blood unlawfully, or committing fornication, or
acquiring property unjustly.
I said to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): It is enough
for you in Safiyyah that she is such and such (the other
version than Musaddad's has:) meaning that she was
short-statured. He replied; You have said a word which
would change the sea if it were mixed in it. She said: I
imitated a man before him (out of disgrace). He said: I do
not like that I imitate anyone even if I should get such
and such.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The gravest sin
is going to lengths in talking unjustly against a Muslim's
honour, and it is a major sin to abuse twice for abusing
once.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When I was taken
up to heaven I passed by people who had nails of copper
and were scratching their faces and their breasts. I said:
Who are these people, Gabriel? He replied: They are those
who were given to back biting and who aspersed people's
honour.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: O community of
people, who believed by their tongue, and belief did not
enter their hearts, do not back-bite Muslims, and do not
search for their faults, for if anyone searches for their
faults, Allah will search for his fault, and if Allah
searches for the fault of anyone, He disgraces him in his
house.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone eats
once at the cost of a Muslim's honour, Allah will give him
a like amount of Jahannam to eat; if anyone clothes
himself with a garment at the cost of a Muslim's honour,
Allah will clothe him with like amount of Jahannam; and if
anyone puts himself in a position of reputation and show
Allah will disgrace him with a place of reputation and
show on the Day of Resurrection.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone guards
a believer from a hypocrite, Allah will send an angel who
will guard his flesh on the Day of Resurrection from the
fire of Jahannam; but if anyone attacks a Muslim saying
something by which he wishes to disgrace him, he will be
restrained by Allah on the bridge over Jahannam till he is
acquitted of what he said.
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah ; AbuTalhah ibn Sahl
al-Ansari:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: No (Muslim) man
will desert a man who is a Muslim in a place where his
respect may be violated and his honour aspersed without
Allah deserting him in a place here he wishes his help;
and no (Muslim) man who will help a Muslim in a place
where his honour may be aspersed and his respect violated
without Allah helping him in a place where he wishes his
help.
A desert Arab came and making his camel kneel and
tethering it, entered the mosque and prayed behind the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). When The Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) had given the salutation, he
went to his riding beast and, after untethering and riding
it, he called out: O Allah, show mercy to me and to
Muhammad and associate no one else in Thy mercy to us. The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then said: Do you
think that he or his camel is farther astray? Did you not
listen to what he said? They replied: Certainly.
Is one of you helpless to be like AbuDaygham or Damdam
(Ibn Ubayd is doubtful) who would say when morning came: O
Allah, I gave my honour as alms to Thy servants?
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
If you search for the faults of the people, you will
corrupt them, or will nearly corrupt them. AbudDarda'
said: These are the words which Mu'awiyah himself from the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him), and Allah benefited
him by them.
Zayd ibn Wahb said: A man was brought to Ibn Mas'ud. He
was told: This is so and so, and wine was dropping from
his beard. Abdullah thereupon said: We have been
prohibited to seek out (faults). If anything becomes
manifest to us, we shall seize it.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who sees
something which should be kept hidden and conceals it will
be like one who has brought to life a girl buried alive.
AbulHaytham quoted Dukhayn, the scribe of Uqbah ibn
Amir, saying: We had some neighbours who used to drink
wine. I for them, but they did not stop.
I then said to Uqbah ibn Amir: These neighbours of ours
drink wine, and I tried to prevent them but they did not
stop, and I am going to call the police about them.
He said: Leave them.
I again came to Uqbah ibn Amir and said: Our neighbours
have refused to refrain from drinking wine, and I am going
to call the police for them.
He said: Woe to thee! Leave them alone. I heard the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: he then
mentioned the tradition to the same effect as recorded
above on the authority of the narrator Muslim.
While the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) was
sitting with some of his companions, a man reviled AbuBakr
and insulted him. But AbuBakr remained silent. He insulted
him twice, but AbuBakr controlled himself. He insulted him
thrice and AbuBakr took revenge on him. Then the Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) got up when AbuBakr took
revenge.
AbuBakr said: Were you angry with me, Apostle of Allah?
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) replied: An
angel came down from Heaven and he was rejecting what he
had said to you. When you took revenge, a devil came down.
I was not going to sit when the devil came down.
Ibn Awn said: I asked about the meaning of intisar
(revenge) in the Qur'anic verse: "But indeed if any do
help and defend themselves (intasara) after a wrong (done)
to them, against them there is no cause of blame." Then
Ali ibn Zayd ibn Jad'an told me on the authority of Umm
Muhammad, the wife of his father.
Ibn Awn said: It was believed that she used to go to
the Mother of the Faithful (i.e. Aisha). She said: The
Mother of the Faithful said: The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) came upon me while Zaynab, daughter of
Jahsh, was with us. He began to do something with his
hand. I signalled to him until I made him understand about
her. So he stopped. Zaynab came on and began to abuse
Aisha. She tried to prevent her but she did not stop.
So he (the Prophet) said to Aisha: Abuse her.
So she abused her and dominated her. Zaynab then went
to Ali and said: Aisha abused you and did (such and such).
Then Fatimah came (to the Prophet) and he said to her: She
is the favourite of your father, by the Lord of the
Ka'bah!
She then returned and said to them: I said to him such
and such, and he said to me such and such. Then Ali came
to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and spoke to him about
that.
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
There were two men among Banu Isra'il, who were striving
for the same goal. One of them would commit sin and the
other would strive to do his best in the world. The man
who exerted himself in worship continued to see the other
in sin.
He would say: Refrain from it. One day he found him in
sin and said to him: Refrain from it.
He said: Leave me alone with my Lord. Have you been
sent as a watchman over me? He said: I swear by Allah,
Allah will not forgive you, nor will he admit you to
Paradise. Then their souls were taken back (by Allah), and
they met together with the Lord of the worlds.
He (Allah) said to this man who had striven hard in
worship; Had you knowledge about Me or had you power over
that which I had in My hand? He said to the man who
sinned: Go and enter Paradise by My mercy. He said about
the other: Take him to Hell.
AbuHurayrah said: By Him in Whose hand my soul is, he
spoke a word by which this world and the next world of his
were destroyed.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: There is no sin
more fitted to have punishment meted out by Allah to its
perpetrator in advance in this world along with what He
stores up for him in the next world than oppression and
severing ties of relationship.
Sahl ibn AbuUmamah said that he and his father
(AbuUmamah) visited Anas ibn Malik at Medina during the
time (rule) of Umar ibn AbdulAziz when he (Anas ibn Malik)
was the governor of Medina. He was praying a very short
prayer as if it were the prayer of a traveller or near it.
When he gave a greeting, my father said: May Allah have
mercy on you! Tell me about this prayer: Is it obligatory
or supererogatory?
He said: It is obligatory; it is the prayer performed
by the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). I did not
make a mistake except in one thing that I forgot.
He said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used
to say: Do not impose austerities on yourselves so that
austerities will be imposed on you, for people have
imposed austerities on themselves and Allah imposed
austerities on them. Their survivors are to be found in
cells and monasteries. (Then he quoted:) "Monasticism,
they invented it; we did not prescribe it for them."
Next day he went out in the morning and said: will you
not go out for a ride, so that you may see something and
take a lesson from it?
He said: Yes. Then all of them rode away and reached a
land whose inhabitants had perished, passed away and died.
The roofs of the town had fallen in.
He asked: Do you know this land? I said: Who acquainted
me with it and its inhabitants? (Anas said:) This is the
land of the people whom oppression and envy destroyed.
Envy extinguishes the light of good deeds, and oppression
confirms or falsifies it. The eye commits fornication, and
the palm of the hand, the foot, body, tongue and private
part of the body confirm it or deny it.
A man cursed the wind. The narrator Muslim's version
has: The wind snatched away a man's cloak during the time
of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and he cursed it. The
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Do not curse it, for it
is under command, and if anyone curses a thing
undeservedly, the curse returns upon him.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: It is not
allowable for a believer to keep from a believer for more
than three days. If three days pass, he should meet him
and give him a salutation, and if he replies to it they
will both have shared in the reward; but if he does not
reply he will bear his sin (according to Ahmad's version)
and the one who gives the salutation will have come forth
from the sin of keeping apart.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: It is
not right for a Muslim to keep apart from another Muslim
for more than three days. Then when he meets him and gives
three salutations, receiving during that time no response,
the other bears his sin.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: It is not
allowable for a Muslim to keep apart from his brother for
more than three days, for one who does so and dies will
enter Hell.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The believer is
the believer's mirror, and the believer is the believer's
brother who guards him against loss and protects him when
he is absent.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Shall I not
inform you of something more excellent in degree than
fasting, prayer and almsgiving (sadaqah)? The people
replied: Yes, Prophet of Allah! He said: It is putting
things right between people, spoiling them is the shaver
(destructive).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who forged in
order to put things right between two persons did not lie.
The version by Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Musaddad has: The
liar is not the one who puts things right between people,
saying what is good and increasing good.
Nafi' said: Ibn Umar heard a pipe, put his fingers in
his ears and went away from the road. He said to me: Are
you hearing anything? I said: No. He said: He then took
his fingers out of his ears and said: I was with the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), and he heard like this and he
did like this. AbuAli al-Lu'lu said: I heard AbuDawud say:
This is a rejected tradition.
Salam ibn Miskin, quoting an old man who witnessed
AbuWa'il in a wedding feast, said: They began to play,
amuse and sing. He united the support of his hand round
his knees that were drawn up, and said: I heard Abdullah
(ibn Mas'ud) say: I heard the apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: Singing produces hypocrisy in the
heart.
A hermaphrodite (mukhannath) who had dyed his hands and
feet with henna was brought to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). He asked: What is the matter with
this man? He was told: Apostle of Allah! he affects
women's get-up. So he ordered regarding him and he was
banished to an-Naqi'. The people said: Apostle of Allah!
should we not kill him? He said: I have been prohibited
from killing people who pray. AbuUsamah said: Naqi' is a
region near Medina and not a Baqi'.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) arrived
after the expedition to Tabuk or Khaybar (the narrator is
doubtful), the draught raised an end of a curtain which
was hung in front of her store-room, revealing some dolls
which belonged to her.
He asked: What is this? She replied: My dolls. Among
them he saw a horse with wings made of rags, and asked:
What is this I see among them? She replied: A horse. He
asked: What is this that it has on it? She replied: Two
wings. He asked: A horse with two wings? She replied: Have
you not heard that Solomon had horses with wings? She
said: Thereupon the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
laughed so heartily that I could see his molar teeth.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) married me
when I was seven or six. When we came to Medina, some
women came. according to Bishr's version: Umm Ruman came
to me when I was swinging. They took me, made me prepared
and decorated me. I was then brought to the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him), and he took up cohabitation
with me when I was nine. She halted me at the door, and I
burst into laughter.
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4915) has also been
transmitted by AbuUsamah in a similar manner through a
different chain of narrators.
This version has: "With good fortune. " She (Umm Ruman)
entrusted me to them. They washed my head and redressed
me. No one came to me suddenly except the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) in the forenoon. So they entrusted me
to him.
When we came to Medina, the women came to me when I was
playing on the swing, and my hair were up to my ears. They
brought me, prepared me, and decorated me. Then they
brought me to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and
he took up cohabitation with me, when I was nine.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The Compassionate
One has mercy on those who are merciful. If you show mercy
to those who are on the earth, He Who is in the heaven
will show mercy to you.
I swore allegiance to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) promising to hear and obey, and behave
sincerely towards every Muslim. AbuZur'ah said: Whenever
he sold and bought anything, he would say: What we took
from you is dearer to us than what we gave you. So choose
(as you like).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: On the Day of
Resurrection you will be called by your names and by your
father's names, so give yourselves good names.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Call yourselves
by the names of the Prophets. The names dearest to Allah
are Abdullah and AbdurRahman, the truest are Harith and
Hammam, and the worst are Harb and Murrah.
A man called Asram was among those who came to the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: What is your name? He replied:
Asram. He said: No, you are Zur'ah.
When Hani went with his people in a deputation to the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him), he heard them
calling him by his kunyah (surname), AbulHakam.
So the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) called him
and said: Allah is the judge (al-Hakam), and to Him
judgment belongs. Why are you given the kunyah AbulHakam?
He replied: When my people disagree about a matter,
they come to me, and I decide between them, and both
parties are satisfied with my decision.
He said: How good this is! What children have you? He
replied: I have Shurayh, Muslim and Abdullah. He asked;
Who is the oldest of them? I replied: Shurayh. He said:
Then you are AbuShurayh.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) asked: What is your
name? He replied: Hazn (rugged). He said: You are Sahl
(smooth). He said: No, smooth is trodden upon and
disgraced. Sa'id said: I then thought that ruggedness
would remain among us after it. AbuDawud said: The Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) changed the names al-'As, Aziz,
Atalah, Shaytan, al-Hakam, Ghurab, Hubab, and Shihab and
called him Hisham. He changed the name Harb (war) and
called him Silm (peace). He changed the name al-Munba'ith
(one who lies) and called him al-Mudtaji' (one who stands
up). He changed the name of a land Afrah (barren) and
called it Khadrah (green). He changed the name Shi'b
ad-Dalalah (the mountain path of a stray), the name of a
mountain path and called it Shi'b al-Huda (mountain path
of guidance). He changed the name Banu az-Zinyah (children
of fornication) and called them Banu ar-Rushdah (children
of those who are on the right path), and changed the name
Banu Mughwiyah (children of a woman who allures and goes
astray), and called them Banu Rushdah (children of a woman
who is on the right path). AbuDawud said: I omitted the
chains of these for the sake of brevity.
Masruq said: I met Umar ibn al-Khattab (Allah be
pleased with him) who said: Who are you? I replied: Masruq
ibn al-Ajda'. Umar then said: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: al-Ajda' (mutilated) is a devil.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If I survive (God
willing), I shall forbid my people to give the names Nafi'
(beneficial), Aflah (successful) and Barakah (blessing).
Al-A'mash said: I do not know whether he mentioned Nafi'
or not. When a man comes and asks: Is there Barakah
(blessing)? The people say: No.
This verse was revealed about us, the Banu Salimah:
"Nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming
is a name connoting wickedness (to be used of one) after
he has believed." He said: When the apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) came to us, every one of us had two or
three names. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
began to say: O so and so! But they would say: Keep
silence, Apostle of Allah! He becomes angry by this name.
So this verse was revealed: "Nor call each other by
(offensive nicknames."
Zayd ibn Aslam quoted his father as saying: Umar ibn
al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him) struck one of his
sons who was given the kunyah AbuIsa, and al-Mughirah ibn
Shu'bah had the kunyah AbuIsa. Umar said to him: Is it not
sufficient for you that you are called by the kunyah
AbuAbdullah? He replied: The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) gave me this kunyah. Thereupon he
said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) was
forgiven all his sins, past and those followed. But we are
among the people similar to us. Henceforth he was called
by the kunyah AbuAbdullah until he died.
AbuMas'ud asked Abdullah, or AbuAbdullah asked
AbuMas'ud: What did you hear the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say about za'amu (they alleged,
asserted, or it is said). He replied: I heard the Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: It is a bad riding-beast
for a man (to say) za'amu (they asserted).
AbulMalih reported on the authority of a man: I was
riding on a mount behind the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him).
It stumbled. Thereupon I said: May the devil parish! He
said: Do not say: May the devil perish! for if you say
that , he will swell so much so that he will be like a
house, and say: By my power. But say: In the name of
Allah; for when you say that, he will diminish so much so
that he will be like a fly.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone is
called by my name, he must not be given my kunyah
(surname), and if anyone uses my kunyah (surname), he must
not be called by my name.
A woman came to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) and said: Apostle of Allah! I have
given birth to a boy, and call him Muhammad and AbulQasim
as kunyah (surname), but I have been told that you
disapproved of that. He replied: What is it which has made
my name lawful and my kunyah unlawful, or what is it which
has made my kunyah unlawful and my name lawful?
Aisha said: Apostle of Allah! All my fellow-wives have
kunyahs? He said: Give yourself the kunyah by Abdullah,
your son - that is to say, her nephew (her sister's son).
Musaddad said: Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr. She was called
by the kunyah Umm Abdullah.
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
It is great treachery that you should tell your brother
something and have him believe you when you are lying.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: None of you must
say: "My slave" (abdi) and "My slave-woman" (amati), and a
slave must not say: "My lord" (rabbi or rabbati). The
master (of a slave) should say: "My young man" (fataya)
and "My young woman" (fatati), and a slave should say "My
master" (sayyidi) and "My mistress" (sayyidati), for you
are all (Allah's slave and the Lord is Allah, Most High.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When you
hear....(Musa's version has): When a man says people have
perished, he is the one who has suffered that fate most.
Salim ibn AbulJa'dah said: A man said: (Mis'ar said: I
think he was from the tribe of Khuza'ah): would that I had
prayed, and got comfort. The people objected to him for
it. Thereupon he said: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) as saying: O Bilal, call iqamah for
prayer: give us comfort by it.
I and my father went to the house of my father-in-law
from the Ansar to pay a sick visit to him. The time of
prayer came. He said to someone of his relatives: O girl!
bring me water for ablution so that I pray and get
comfort. We objected to him for it. He said: I heard the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: Get up, Bilal,
and give us comfort by the prayer.
My mother called me one day when the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) was sitting in our house. She said:
Come here and I shall give you something. The Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) asked her: What did you intend
to give him? She replied: I intended to give him some
dates. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: If
you were not to give him anything, a lie would be recorded
against you.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When a man makes
a promise to his brother with the intention of fulfilling
it and does not do so, and does not come at the appointed
time, he is guilty of no sin.
I bought something from the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
before he received his Prophetic commission, and as there
was something still due to him I promised him that I would
bring it to him at his place, but I forgot. When I
remembered three days later, I went to that place and
found him there. He said: You have vexed me, young man. I
have been here for three days waiting for you.
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said:
Apostle of Allah! give me a mount. The Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) said: We shall give you a she-camel's
child to ride on. He said: What shall I do with a
she-camel's child? The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
replied: Do any others than she-camels give birth to
camels?
When AbuBakr asked the permission of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) to come in, he heard Aisha speaking in
a loud voice.
So when he entered, he caught hold of her in order to
slap her, and said: Do I see you raising your voice to the
Apostle of Allah? The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) began to
prevent him and AbuBakr went out angry. The Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) said when AbuBakr went out: You see I
rescued you from the man.
AbuBakr waited for some days, then asked permission of
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) to enter, and
found that they had made peace with each other. He said to
them: Bring me into your peace as you brought me into your
war.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: We have done so:
we have done so.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: None of
you should take the property of his brother in amusement
(i.e. jest), nor in earnest. The narrator Sulayman said:
Out of amusement and out of earnest. If anyone takes the
staff of his brother, he should return it. The transmitter
Ibn Bashshar did not say "Ibn Yazid, and he said: The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said.
The Companions of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) told
us that they were travelling with the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). A man of them slept, and one of them
went to the rope which he had with him. He took it, by
which he was frightened. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
said: It is not lawful for a Muslim that he frightens a
Muslim.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah ,
the Exalted, hates the eloquent one among men who moves
his tongue round (among his teeth), as cattle do.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: On the Day of
resurrection Allah will not accept repentance or ransom
from him who learns excellence of speech to captivate
thereby the hearts of men, or of people.
One day when a man got up and spoke at length Amr ibn
al-'As said If he had been moderate in what he said: It
would have been better for him. I heard the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: I think (or, I have been
commanded) that I should be brief in what I say, for
brevity is better.
A desert Arab came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
and began to speak. Thereupon the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: In eloquence there is magic and
in poetry there is wisdom.
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
In eloquence there is magic, in knowledge ignorance, in
poetry wisdom, and in speech heaviness.
Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhan said: The Prophet of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) spoke the truth. His statement "In
eloquence there is magic" means: (For example), there is a
right due from a man who is more eloquent in reasoning
than the man who is demanding his right. He (the
defendant) charms the people by his speech and takes away
his right. His statement "In knowledge there is ignorance"
means: A scholar brings to his knowledge what he does not
know, and thus he becomes ignorant of that. His statement
"In poetry there is wisdom" means: These are the sermons
and examples by which people receive admonition. His
statement "In speech there is heaviness" means: That you
present your speech and your talk to a man who is not
capable of understanding it, and who does not want it.
Sa'id said: Umar passed by Hassan when he was reciting
verses in the mosque. He looked at him. Thereupon he said:
I used to recite verses when there was present in it the
one who was better than you (i.e. the Prophet).
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used to setup
a pulpit in the mosque for Hassan who would stand on it
and satirise those who spoke against the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him). The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) would say: The spirit of holiness
(i.e. Gabriel) is with Hassan so long as he speaks in
defence of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him).
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) finished
the dawn prayer, he would ask: Did any of you have a dream
last night? And he said: All that is left of Prophecy
after me is a good vision.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The vision
flutters over a man as long as it is not interpreted , but
when it is interpreted, it settles. And I think he said:
Tell it only to one who loves (i.e. friend) or one who has
judgment.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: One night it
seemed to me in a dream that we were in the house of Uqbah
ibn Rafi' and were brought some of the fresh dates of Ibn
tab. I interpreted it as meaning that to us is granted
eminence (rif'ah) in this world, a blessed hereafter
('aqibah), and that our religion has been good (tabah).
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) sneezed,
he placed his hand or a garment on his mouth, and lessened
the noise. The transmitter Yahya is doubtful about the
exact words khafada or ghadda (lessened).
Hilal ibn Yasar said: We were with Salim ibn Ubayd when
a man from among the people sneezed and said: Peace be
upon you.
Salim said: And upon you and your mother. Later he
said: Perhaps you found something (annoying) in what I
said to you.
He said: I wished you would not mention my mother with
good or evil. He said: I have just said to you what the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said. We were in the
presence of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) when
a man from among the people sneezed, saying: Peace be upon
you!
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: And upon
you and your mother. He then said: When one of you
sneezes, he should praise Allah. He further mentioned some
attributes (of Allah), saying: The one who is with him
should say to him: Allah have mercy on you, and he should
reply to them: Allah forgive us and you.
The tradition mentioned above (No. 5013) has also been
mentioned by Salim ibn Ubayd al-Ashja'i to the same effect
from the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) through a different
chain of narrators.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Invoke a blessing
on one who sneezes three times; (and if he sneezes more
often), then if you wish to invoke a blessing on him, you
may invoke, and if you wish (to stop), then stop.
The Jews used to try to sneezes in the presence of the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) hoping that he would say to
them: "Allah have mercy on you!" but he would say: May
Allah guide you and grant you well-being!
Ya'ish ibn Tikhfat al-Ghifari said: My father was one
of the people in the Suffah.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Come
with us to the house of Aisha. So we went and he said:
Give us food, Aisha. She brought hashishah and we ate. He
then said: Give us food, Aisha. She then brought haysah as
small in quantity as a pigeon and we ate. He then said:
Give us something to drink, Aisha. So she brought a bowl
of milk, and we drank. Again he said: Give us something to
drink, Aisha. She then brought a small cup and we drank.
He then said: If you wish, you may spend the night (here),
or if you wish, you may go to the mosque.
He said: While I was lying on my stomach because of
pain in the lung, a man began to shake me with his foot
and then said: This is a method of lying which Allah
hates. I looked and saw that he was the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone spends
the night on the roof of a house with no stone palisade,
Allah's responsibility to guard him no longer applies.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If a Muslim
sleeps while remembering Allah, in the state of
purification, is alarmed while asleep at night, and asks
Allah for good in this world and in the Hereafter. He
surely gives it to him. Thabit al-Bunani said: AbuZabyah
came to visit us and he transmitted this tradition to us
from Mu'adh ibn Jabal from the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). Thabit said: So and so said: I tried
my best to utter these (prayers) when I got up, but I
could not do.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) wanted to
go to sleep, he put his right hand under his cheek and
would then say three times: O Allah, guard me from Thy
punishment on the day when Thou raisest up Thy servants.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used to say
when he lay down: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thy noble
Person and in Thy perfect Words from the evil of what Thou
seizest by its forelock; O Allah! Thou removest debt and
sin; O Allah! thy troop's not routed, Thy promise is not
broken and the riches of the rich do not avail against
Thee. Glory and praise be unto Thee!.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) went to
his bed at night, he would say: in the name of Allah, I
have laid down my side for Allah. O Allah! forgive me my
sin, drive away my devil, free me from my responsibility,
and place me in the highest assembly.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used to recite
al-Musabbihat before going to sleep, and say: They contain
a verse which is better than a thousand verses.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) went to
his bed, he would say: Praise be to Allah Who has given me
sufficiency, has guarded me, given me food and drink, been
most gracious to me, and given to me most lavishly. Praise
be to Allah in every circumstance. O Allah! Lord and King
of everything, God of everything, I seek refuge in Thee
from Hell.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone lies on
his side where he does not remember Allah, deprivation
will descend on him on the Day of Resurrection; and if
anyone sits in a place where he does not remember Allah,
deprivation will descend on him on the Day of
Resurrection.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) awake at
night, he said: There is no god but thou, glory be to
Thee, O Allah, I ask Thy pardon for my sin and I ask Thee
for Thy mercy. O Allah! advance me in knowledge: do not
cause my heart to deviate (from guidance) after Thou hast
guided me, and grant me mercy from thyself; verily thou
art the grantor.
The tradition (No 5045, about Tasbih Fatimah) has been
transmitted by Ali to the same effect through a different
chain of narrators.
This version adds: Ali said: I did not leave them
(Tasbih Fatimah) since I heard them from the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) except on the night of Siffin,
for I remembered them towards the end of the night and
then I uttered them.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: There are two
qualities or characteristics which will not be returned by
any Muslim without his entering Paradise. While they are
easy, those who act upon them are few. One should say:
"Glory be to Allah" ten times after every prayer, "Praise
be to Allah" ten times and "Allah is Most Great" ten
times. That is a hundred and fifty on the tongue, but one
thousand and five hundred on the scale. When he goes to
bed, he should say: "Allah is Most Great" thirty-four
times, "Praise be to Allah" thirty-three times, and Glory
be to Allah thirty-three times, for that is a hundred on
the tongue and a thousand on the scale. (He said:) I saw
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) counting them on
his hand.
The people asked: Apostle of Allah! How is it that
while they are easy, those who act upon them are few?
He replied: The Devil comes to one of you when he goes
to bed and he makes him sleep, before he utters them, and
he comes to him while he is engaged in prayer and calls a
need to his mind before he utters them.
AbuBakr as-Siddiq said: Apostle of Allah! command me
something to say in the morning and in the evening. He
said: Say "O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth,
Who knowest the unseen and the seen, Lord and Possessor of
everything. I testify that there is no god but Thee; I
seek refuge in Thee from the evil within myself, from the
evil of the devil, and his (incitement to) attributing
partners (to Allah)." He said: Say this in the morning.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) used to say in the
morning: "O Allah, by Thee we come to the morning, by Thee
we come to the evening, by Thee are we resurrected." In
the evening he would say: "O Allah, by Thee we come to the
evening, by Thee we die, and to Thee are we resurrected."
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone says in
the morning or in the evening: "O Allah! in the morning we
call Thee, the bearers of Thy Throne, Thy angels and all
Thy creatures to witness that thou art Allah (God) than
Whom alone there is no god, and that Muhammad is Thy
Servant and Apostle," Allah will emancipate his fourth
from Hell; if anyone says twice, Allah will emancipate his
half; if anyone says it thrice, Allah will emancipate
three-fourth; and if he says four times, Allah will
emancipate him from Hell.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone says in
the morning or in the evening: "O Allah! Thou art my Lord;
there is no god but Thee, Thou hast created me, and I am
Thy servant and hold to Thy covenant and promise as much
as I can; I seek refuge in Thee from the evil of what I
have done: I acknowledge Thy favour to me, and I
acknowledge my sin; pardon me, for none but Thee pardons
sins, and dies during the daytime or during the night." he
will go to Paradise.
AbuSallam told that he was in the mosque of Hims. A man
passed him and the people said about him that he served
the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him).
He (AbuSallam) went to him and said: Tell me any
tradition which you heard from the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) and there were no man between him and
you. He said: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: If anyone says in the morning and
in the evening: "I am pleased with Allah as Lord, with
Islam as religion, with Muhammad as Prophet," Allah will
certainly please him.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone says in
the morning: "O Allah! whatever favour has come to me, it
comes from Thee alone Who has no partner; to Thee praise
is due and thanksgiving,'! he will have expressed full
thanksgiving for the day; and if anyone says the same in
the evening, he will have expressed full thanksgiving for
the night.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) never failed
to utter these supplications in the evening and in the
morning: O Allah, I ask Thee for security in this world
and in the Hereafter: O Allah! I ask Thee for forgiveness
and security in my religion and my worldly affairs, in my
family and my property; O Allah! conceal my fault or
faults (according to Uthman's version), and keep me safe
from the things which I fear; O Allah! guard me in front
of me and behind me, on my right hand and on my left, and
from above me: and I seek in Thy greatness from receiving
unexpected harm from below me." AbuDawud said: Waki' said:
That is to say, swallowing by the earth.
AbdulHamid, a client of Banu Hashim, said that his
mother who served some of the daughters of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) told him that one of the daughters of
the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said that the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) used to teach her saying: Say in the
morning: Glory be to Allah, and I begin with praise of
Him; there is no power but in Allah ; what Allah wills
comes to pass and what He does not will does not come to
pass; I know that Allah is Omnipotent and that Allah has
comprehended everything in knowledge" ; for whoever says
it in the morning will be guarded till the evening, and
whoever says it in the evening will be guarded till the
morning.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone repeats
in the morning: "So glory be to Allah in the evening and
in the morning; to Him is the praise in the heavens and
the earth, and in the late evening and at noon....thus
shall you be brought forth, " he will get that day what he
has missed; and if anyone repeats these words in the
evening he will get that night what he has missed.
Ar-Rabi' transmitted it from al-Layth.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: If
anyone says in the morning: "There is no god but Allah
alone Who has no partner; to Him belong the dominions, to
Him praise is due, and He is Omnipotent," he will have a
reward equivalent to that for setting free a slave from
among the descendants of Isma'il. He will have ten good
deeds recorded for him, ten evil deeds deducted from him,
he will be advanced ten degrees, and will be guarded from
the Devil till the evening. If he says them in the
evening, he will have a similar recompense till the
morning.
The version of Hammad says: A man saw the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) in a dream and said: Apostle of
Allah! AbuAyyash is relating such and such on your
authority.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone says in
the morning: "O Allah! in the morning we call Thee, the
bearers of Thy Throne, Thy angels, and all Thy creatures
to witness that Thou art Allah than Whom there is no god,
Thou being alone and without a partner, and that Muhammad
is Thy servant and Thy Apostle," Allah will forgive him
any sins that he commits that day; and if he repeats them
in the evening. Allah will forgive him any sins he commits
that night.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) told him
secretly: When you finish the sunset prayer, say: 'O
Allah, protect me from Hell" seven times; for if you say
that and die that night, protection from it would be
recorded for you; and when you finish the dawn prayer, say
it in a similar way, for if you die that day, protection
from it would be recorded for you. AbuSa'id told me that
al-Harith said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said this to us secretly, so we confine it to our
brethren.
Narrated Muslim ibn al-Harith ibn Muslim at-Tamimi:
A similar tradition (to No. 5061) has been transmitted
by Muslim ibn al-Harith ibn Muslim at-Tamimi on the
authority of his father from the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) through a different chain of
narrators, up to "protection from it".
But this version says: "before speaking to anyone". In
this version Ali ibn Sahl said that his father told him.
Ali and Ibn al-Musaffa said: The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) sent us on an expedition. When we
reached the place of attack, I galloped my horse and
outstripped my companions, and the people of that locality
received me with a great noise.
I said to them: Say "There is no god but Allah," and
you will be protected. They said this.
My companions blamed me, saying: You deprived us of the
booty. When we came to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him), they told him what I had done.
So he called me, appreciating what I had done, and
said: Allah has recorded for you so and so (a reward) for
every man of them.
AbdurRahman said: I forgot the reward. The Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then said: I shall write a will
for you after me. He did this and stamped it, and gave it
to me, saying....He then mentioned the rest of the
tradition to the same effect. Ibn al-Musaffa said: I heard
al-Harith ibn Muslim ibn al-Harith at-Tamimi transmitting
it from his father.
We went out one rainy and intensely dark night to look
for the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) to lead us in
prayer, and when we found him, he asked: Have you prayed?,
but I did not say anything. So he said: Say, but I did not
say anything. He again said: Say, but I did not say
anything. He then said: Say. So I said: What am I to say?
He said: Say: "Say, He is Allah, One," and
al-Mu'awwadhatan thirty three times in the morning and
evening; they will serve you for every purpose.
The people asked: Tell us a word which we repeat in the
morning, evening and when we rise.
So he commanded us to say: "O Allah! Creator of Heavens
and Earth; Knower of all that is hidden and open; Thou art
the Lord of everything; the angels testify that there is
no god but Thee, for we seek refuge in Thee from the evil
within ourselves, from the evil of the Devil accused and
from the evil of his suggestion about partnership with
Allah, and that we earn sin for ourselves or drag it to a
Muslim."
AbuDawud said: And through the same chain of
transmitters the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: When one rises in the morning, one should say: "We
have reached the morning, and in the morning the dominion
belongs to Allah, the Lord of the universe. O Allah! I ask
Thee for the good this day contains, for conquest,
victory, light, blessing and guidance during it; and I
seek refuge in Thee from the evil it contains and the evil
contained in what comes after it." In the evening he
should say the equivalent.
Shariq al-Hawzani and I came to Aisha (Allah be pleased
with her) and asked her: By which (prayer) the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) began when he woke up at night?
She replied: You asked me about a thing which no one asked
me before. When he woke up at night, he uttered: "Allah is
Most Great" ten times, and uttered "Praise be to Allah"
ten times, and said "Glory be to Allah and I begin with
His praise" ten times, and said: "Glory be to the King,
the Most Holy" ten times, and asked Allah's pardon ten
times, and said: "There is no god but Allah" ten times,
and then said: "O Allah! I seek refuge in Thee from the
strait of the Day of resurrection," ten times. He then
began the prayer.
If anyone says in the morning: "O Allah! whatever oath
I take, whatever word I speak, and whatever vow I take,
Thine will precedes all that: whatever Thou willeth,
occurs, and whatever Thou dost not will, dost not occur. O
Allah! pardon me and disregard me for it. O Allah!
whomsoever Thou sendest thine blessing, to him my blessing
is due, and whomsoever thou cursest, to him my curse is
due, " exemption from it will be granted to him that day.
Aban ibn Uthman said: I heard Uthman ibn Affan (his
father) say: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: If anyone says three times: "In
the name of Allah, when Whose name is mentioned nothing on
Earth or in Heaven can cause harm, and He is the Hearer,
the Knower" he will not suffer sudden affliction till the
morning, and if anyone says this in the morning, he will
not suffer sudden affliction till the evening.
Aban was afflicted by some paralysis and when a man who
heard the tradition began to look at him, he said to him:
Why are you looking at me? I swear by Allah, I did not
tell a lie about Uthman, nor did Uthman tell a lie about
the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), but that day when I was
afflicted by it, I became angry and forgot to say them.
AbdurRahman ibn AbuBakrah said that he told his father:
O my father! I hear you supplicating every morning: "O
Allah! Grant me health in my body. O Allah! Grant me good
hearing. O Allah! Grant me good eyesight. There is no god
but Thou." You repeat them three times in the morning and
three times in the evening.
He said: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) using these words as a supplication
and I like to follow his practice.
The transmitter, Abbas, said in this version: And you
say: "O Allah! I seek refuge in Thee from infidelity and
poverty. O Allah! I seek refuge in Thee from punishment in
the grave. There is no god but Thee". You repeat them
three times in the morning and three times in the evening,
and use them as a supplication. I like to follow his
practice.
He said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said:
The supplications to be used by one who is distressed are:
"O Allah! Thy mercy is what I hope for. Do not abandon me
to myself for an instant, but put all my affairs in good
order for me. There is no god but Thou." Some transmitters
added more than others.
When the Prophet of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) saw the
new moon, he said: "a new moon of good and right guidance;
a new moon of good and right guidance; a new moon of good
and right guidance. I believe in Him Who created you"
three times. He would then say: "Praise be to Allah Who
has made such and such a month to pass and has brought
such and such a month."
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) never went out
of my house without raising his eye to the sky and saying:
"O Allah! I seek refuge in Thee lest I stray or be led
astray, or slip or made to slip, or cause injustice, or
suffer injustice, or do wrong, or have wrong done to me."
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When a man goes
out of his house and says: "In the name of Allah, I trust
in Allah; there is no might and no power but in Allah,"
the following will be said to him at that time: "You are
guided, defended and protected." The devils will go far
from him and another devil will say: How can you deal with
a man who has been guided, defended and protected?
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When a man goes
into his house, he should say: "O Allah! I ask Thee for
good both when entering and when going out; in the name of
Allah we have entered, and in the name of Allah we have
gone out, and in Allah or Lord do we trust." He should
then greet his family.
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
The wind comes from Allah's mercy.
Salamah's version has: It is Allah's mercy; it
(sometimes) brings blessing and (sometimes) brings
punishment. So when you see it, do not revile it, but ask
Allah for some of its good, and seek refuge in Allah from
its evil.
When the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) saw a cloud
formation in the sky, he left work, even if he were at
prayer, and then would say: "O Allah! I seek refuge in
Thee from its evil. " If it rained, he would say: "O
Allah! send a beneficial downpour."
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When you hear the
barking of dogs and the braying of asses at night, seek
refuge in Allah, for they see which you do not see.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) as saying: Do
not go out much when there are few people about , for
Allah the Exalted scatters abroad of His beasts in that
hour (according to Ibn Marwan's version).
Ibn Marwan's version has: For Allah has creatures. He
then mentioned the barking of dogs and braying of asses in
a similar manner. He added in his version: Ibn al-Had
said: Shurahbil ibn al-Hajib told me on the authority of
Jabir ibn Abdullah from the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) similar to it.
Boys used to be brought to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him), and he would invoke blessings on
them. Yusuf added: "and soften some dates and rub their
palates with them". He did not mention "blessings".
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said to me:
Have the mugharribun been seen (or some other word) among
you? I asked: What do the mugharribun mean? He replied:
They are those in whom is a strain of the jinn.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone asks
(you) for refuge for the sake of Allah, give him refuge;
and if anyone asks you (for something) for the pleasure of
Allah, give him. Ubaydullah said: If anyone asks you for
the sake of Allah.
AbuZumayl said: I asked Ibn Abbas, saying: What is that
I find in my breast? He asked: What is it? I replied: I
swear by Allah, I cannot speak about it. He asked me: Is
it something doubtful? and he laughed. He then said: No
one could escape that, until Allah, the exalted, revealed:
"If thou went in doubt as to what we have revealed unto
thee, and ask those who have been reading the Book from
before thee." He said: If you find something in your
heart, say: He is the first and the Last, the Evident and
the Immanent, and He has full knowledge of all things.
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said:
Apostle of Allah! one of us has thoughts of such nature
that he would rather be reduced to charcoal than speak
about them. He said: Allah is Most Great, Allah is Most
Great, Allah is Most Great. Praise be to Allah Who has
reduced the guile of the devil to evil prompting. Ibn
Qudamah said "reduced his matter" instead of "reduced his
guile".
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah, Most High,
has removed from you the pride of the pre-Islamic period
and its boasting in ancestors. One is only a pious
believer or a miserable sinner. You are sons of Adam, and
Adam came from dust. Let the people cease to boast about
their ancestors. They are merely fuel in Jahannam; or they
will certainly be of less account with Allah than the
beetle which rolls dung with its nose.
AbdurRahman ibn AbuUqbah quoted his father AbuUqbah who
was a client from the people of Persia as saying: I was
present at Uhud along with the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him), and on smiting one of the polytheists
I said: Take this from me who is the young Persian. The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then turned to me and
said: Why did you not say: Take this from me who is the
young Ansari?
A man was with the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and a
man passed by him and said: Apostle of Allah! I love this
man. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then asked:
Have you informed him? He replied: No. He said: Inform
him. He then went to him and said: I love you for Allah's
sake. He replied: May He for Whose sake you love me love
you!
Make intercession, you will be rewarded, for I
purposely delay a matter so that you intercede and then
you are rewarded. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: If you make intercession, you will be rewarded.
Some of the children of al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami said:
Al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami was the governor of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) at al-Bahrayn, and when he wrote to
him he began with his won name.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) wrote a letter to
Heraclius: "From Muhammad, the Apostle of Allah, to Hiraql
(Heraclius), Chief of the Byzantines. Peace be to those
who follow the guidance." Ibn Yahya reported on the
authority of Ibn Abbas that AbuSufyan said to him: We then
came to see Hiraql (Heraclius) who seated us before him.
He then called for the letter from the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him). Its contents were: "In the name of
Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, from Muhammad the
Apostle of Allah, to Hiraql, chief of Byzantines. Peace be
to those who follow the guidance. To proceed."
A woman was my wife and I loved her, but Umar hated
her. He said to me: Divorce her, but I refused. Umar then
went to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and mentioned that
to him. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Divorce her.
I said: Apostle of Allah! to whom should I show
kindness? He replied: Your mother, next your mother, next
your mother, and then comes your father, and then your
relatives in order of relationship. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: If a man asks his slave whom he
freed for giving him property which is surplus with him
and he refuses to give it to him, the surplus property
which he refused to give will be called on the Day of
resurrection as a large bald snake.
Bakr went to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said:
Apostle of Allah! to whom should I show kindness? He said:
Your mother, your sister, your brother and the slave whom
you set free and who is your relative, a due binding (on
you), and a tie of relationship which should be joined.
While we were with the Apostle of Allah!
(peace_be_upon_him) a man of Banu Salmah came to Him and
said: Apostle of Allah is there any kindness left that I
can do to my parents after their death? He replied: Yes,
you can invoke blessings on them, forgiveness for them,
carry out their final instructions after their death, join
ties of relationship which are dependent on them, and
honour their friends.
I saw the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) distributing
flesh at Ji'irranah, and I was a boy in those days bearing
the bone of the camel, and when a woman who came forward
approach the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), he spread out
his cloak for her, and she sat on it. I asked: Who is she?
The people said: She is his foster-mother.
One day when the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
was sitting, his foster-father came forward. He spread out
of a part of his garment and he sit on it. Then his mother
came forward to him and he spread out the other side of
his garment and she sat on it. Again , his foster-brother
came forward. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
stood for him and seated him before himself.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone has a
female child, and does not bury her alive, or slight her,
or prefer his children (i.e. the male ones) to her, Allah
will bring him into Paradise. Uthman did not mention "male
children".
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone cares
for three daughters, disciplines them, marries them, and
does good to them, he will go to Paradise.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I and a woman
whose cheeks have become black shall on the Day of
Resurrection be like these two (pointing to the middle and
forefinger), i.e. a woman of rank and beauty who has been
bereft of her husband and devotes herself to her
fatherless children till they go their separate ways or
die.
Mujahid said that Abdullah ibn Amr slaughtered a sheep
and said: Have you presented a gift from it to my
neighbour, the Jew, for I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: Gabriel kept on commending the
neighbour to me so that I thought he would make an heir?
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Feed those of
your slaves who please you from what you eat and clothe
them with what you clothe yourselves, but sell those who
do not please you and do not punish Allah's creatures.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Treating
those under one's authority well produces prosperity, but
an evil nature produces evil fortune.
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and
asked: Apostle of Allah! how often shall I forgive a
servant? He gave no reply, so the man repeated what he had
said, but he still kept silence. When he asked a third
time, he replied: Forgive him seventy times daily.
I slapped a freed slave of ours. My father called him
and me and said: Take retaliation on him. We, the people
of Banu Muqarrin, were seven during the time of the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him),and we had only a female
servant. A man of us slapped her. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: Set her free. They said: We have
no other servant than her. He said: She must serve them
till they become well off. When they become well off, they
should set her free.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone peeps
into the house of a people without their permission and he
knocks out his eye, no responsibility is incurred for his
eye.
A man came. Uthman's version has: Sa'd ibn AbuWaqqas
came. He stood at the door. Uthman's version has: (He
stood) facing the door. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
said to him: Away from it, (stand) this side or that side.
Asking permission is meant to escape from the look of an
eye.
Safwan ibn Umayyah sent him with some milk, a young
gazelle and some small cucumbers to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) when he was in the upper part of
Mecca. I entered but I did not give a salutation. He said:
Go back and say: "Peace be upon you"! This happened after
Safwan ibn Umayyah and embraced Islam. Amr said: Ibn
Safwan told me all this on the authority of Kaladah ibn
Hanbal, and he did not say: I heard it from him.
A man of Banu Amir told that he asked the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) for permission (to enter the house)
when he was in the house, saying: May I enter ? The
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said to his servant: Go out to
this (man) and teach him how to ask permission to enter
the house, and say to him: "Say : Peace be upon you. May I
enter?" The man heard it and said: Peace be upon you! May
I enter ? The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) permitted him
and he entered.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came to visit
us in our house, and said: Peace and Allah's mercy be upon
you! Sa'd returned the greeting in a lower tone.
Qays said: I said: Do you not grant permission to the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) to enter?
He said: Leave him, he will give us many greetings. The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then said: Peace and
Allah's mercy be upon you! Sa'd again responded in a lower
tone. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) again said:
Peace and Allah's mercy be upon you! So the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) went away.
Sa'd went after him and said: Apostle of Allah! I heard
your greetings and responded in a lower tone so that you
might give us many greetings. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) returned with him. Sa'd then offered
to prepare bath-water for him, and he took a bath. He then
gave him a long wrapper dyed with saffron or wars and he
wrapped himself in it.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then raised
his hands and said: O Allah, bestow Thy blessings and
mercy on the family of Sa'd ibn Ubadah! The Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then shared their meals.
When he intended to return, Sa'd brought near him an
ass which was covered with a blanket. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) mounted it.
Sa'd said: O Qays, accompany the Apostle of Allah. Qays
said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said to me:
Ride. But I refused. He again said: Either ride or go
away. He said: So I went away.
Hisham said: AbuMarwan (transmitted) from Muhammad ibn
AbdurRahman ibn As'ad ibn Zurarah.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came to
some people's door, he did not face it squarely, but faced
the right or left corner, and said: Peace be upon you!
peace be upon you! That was because there were no curtains
on the doors of the house at that time.
I went out with the (Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) until I entered a garden, he said:
Keep on closing the door. The door was then closed. I then
said: Who is there ? He then narrated the rest of the
tradition.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When one of you
is invited to take meals and comes along with the
messenger, that serves as permission for him to enter.
Ikrimah said: A group of people from Iraq said: Ibn
Abbas, what is your opinion about the verse in which we
have been commanded whatever we have been commanded, but
no one acts upon it? The word of Allah, Most High, reads:
"O ye who believe! Let those whom your right hands
possess, and the (children) among you, who have not come
of age, ask your permission (before) they enter your
presence on three occasions: before morning prayer, while
you are undressing for the noonday heat, and after
late-night prayer. These are your three times of undress;
outside those times it is not wrong for you or for them to
move about."
Al-Qa'nabi recited the verse up to "full of knowledge
and wisdom".
Ibn Abbas said: Allah is Most Clement and Most Merciful
to the believers. He loves concealment. The people had
neither curtains nor curtained canopies in their houses.
Sometimes a servant, a child or a female orphan of a man
entered while the man was having sexual intercourse with
his wife. So Allah commanded them to ask permission in
those times of undress. Then Allah brought them curtains
and all good things. But I did not see anyone following it
after that.
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said:
Peace be upon you! He responded to his salutation. He then
sat down. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Ten.
Another man came and said: Peace and Allah's mercy be upon
you! He responded to his salutation when he sat down. He
said: Twenty. Another man came and said: Peace and Allah's
mercy and blessings be upon you! He responded to him and
said when he sat down: and blessings be upon you! He
responded to him and said when he sat down: Thirty.
(This version is same as previous No 5176 from the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), adding that): Afterwards
another man came and said: Peace and Allah's mercy,
blessings and forgiveness be upon you! whereupon he said:
Forty. adding: Thus are excellent qualities rewarded.
When one of you meets his brother, he should salute
him, then if he meets him again after a tree, wall or
stone has come between them, he should also salute him.
Umar came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) when he
was in his wooden oriel, and said to him: Peace be upon
you. Apostle of Allah, peace be upon you! May Umar enter ?
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came to us
when I was a boy among the boys. He saluted us and took me
by my hand. He then sent me with some message. He himself
sat in the shadow of a wall, or he said: near a wall until
I returned to him.
Suhayl ibn AbuSalih said: I went out with my father to
Syria. The people passed by the cloisters in which there
were Christians and began to salute them. My father said:
Do not give them salutation first, for AbuHurayrah
reported the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) as
saying: Do not salute them (Jews and Christians) first,
and when you meet them on the road, force them to go to
the narrowest part of it.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When one of you
comes to an assembly, he should give a salutation and if
he feels inclined to get up, he should give a salutation,
for the former is not more of a duty than the latter.
I came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said:
Upon you be peace, Apostle of Allah! He said: Do not say:
Upon you be peace, for "Upon you be peace" is the
salutation to the dead.
AbuDawud said: Al-Hasan ibn Ali traced this tradition
back to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): When people are
passing by, it is enough if one of them gives a salutation
on their behalf, and that it is enough for those who are
sitting if one of them replies.
When the people of the Yemen came, the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: The people of the Yemen have
come to you and they are first to shake hands.
Ayyub ibn Bushayr ibn Ka'b al-Adawi quoted a man of
Anazah who said that he asked AbuDharr when he left Syria:
I wish to ask you about a tradition of the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him). He said: I shall tell you
except that it is something secret. Did the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) shake hands with you when you
met him? He replied: I never met him without his shaking
hands with me. One day he sent for me when I was not at
home. When I came I was informed that he had sent for me.
I came to him and found him on a couch. He embraced me and
that was better and better.
I never saw anyone more like the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) in respect of gravity, calm
deportment, pleasant disposition - according to al-Hasan's
version: in respect of talk and speech. Al-Hasan did not
mention gravity, calm deportment, pleasant disposition -
than Fatimah, may Allah honour her face. When she came to
visit him (the Prophet) he got up to (welcome) her, took
her by the hand, kissed her and made her sit where he was
sitting; and when he went to visit her, she got up to
(welcome) him, took him by the hand, kissed him, and made
him sit where she was sitting.
I went in with AbuBakr when he had newly come to Medina
and he found his daughter Aisha lying down afflicted with
fever. AbuBakr went to her, and saying: How are you,
girlie? kissed her on the cheek.
AbdurRahman ibn AbuLayla, quoting Usayd ibn Hudayr, a
man of the Ansar, said that while he was given to jesting
and was talking to the people and making them laugh, the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) poked him under the ribs with
a stick. He said: Let me take retaliation. He said: Take
retaliation. He said: You are wearing a shirt but I am
not. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) then raised his shirt
and the man embraced him and began to kiss his side. Then
he said: This is what I wanted, Apostle of Allah!
Umm Aban, daughter of al-Wazi' ibn Zari', quoting his
grandfather, who was a member of the deputation of
AbdulQays, said: When we came to Medina, we raced to be
first to dismount and kiss the hand and foot of the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). But al-Mundhir
al-Ashajj waited until he came to the bundle of his
clothes. He put on his two garments and then he went to
the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him).
He said to him: You have two characteristics which
Allah likes: gentleness and deliberation.
He asked: Have I acquired them or has Allah has created
(them) my nature? He replied: No, Allah has created (them)
in your nature.
He then said: Praise be to Allah Who has created in my
nature two characteristics which Allah and His Apostle
like.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) addressed me, saying: O
AbuDharr! I replied: At thy service and at thy pleasure,
Apostle of Allah! may I be ransom for thee.
In the pre-Islamic period we used to say: "May Allah
make the eye happy for you," and "Good morning" but when
Islam came, we were forbidden to say that. AbdurRazzaq
said on the authority of Ma'mar: It is disapproved that a
man should say: "May Allah make the eye happy for you,"
but there is no harm in saying: "May Allah make your eye
happy.
AbuMijlaz said: Mu'awiyah went out to Ibn az-Zubayr and
Ibn Amir. Ibn Amir got up and Ibn az-Zubayr remained
sitting. Mu'awiyah said to Ibn Amir: Sit down, for I heard
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: Let him who
likes people to stand up before him prepare his place in
Hell.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came out to us
leaning on a stick. We stood up to show respect to him. He
said: Do not stand up as foreigners do for showing respect
to one another.
Ghalib said: When we were sitting at al-Hasan's door, a
man came along. He said: My father told me on the
authority of my grandfather, saying: My father sent me to
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and said: Go to
him and give him a greeting. So I went to him and said: My
father sends you a greeting. He said: Upon you and upon
your father be peace.
I was present with the Apostle of Allah at the battle
of Hunayn. We travelled on a hot day when the heat was
extreme. We halted under the shade of a tree. When the sun
passed the meridian, I put on my coat of mail and rode on
my horse. I came to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) who was in a tent.
I said: Peace, Allah's mercy and His blessings be upon
you! The time of departure has come.
He said: Yes. He then said: Rise, Bilal. He jumped out
from beneath a gum-acacia tree and its shade was like that
of a bird.
He said: I am at your service and at your pleasure, and
I make myself a sacrifice for you.
He said: Put the saddle on the horse for me. He then
took out a saddle, both sides of which were stuffed with
palm-leaves; it showed no arrogance and pride. So he rode
and we also rode. He then mentioned the rest of the
tradition.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came upon us
when my mother and I were plastering a wall of mine. He
asked: What is this, Abdullah ? I replied: It is something
I am repairing. He said! The matter is quicker for you
than that.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) came out, and
on seeing a high-domed building, he said: What is it?
His companions replied to him: It belongs to so and so,
one of the Ansar.
He said: he said nothing but kept the matter in mind.
When its owner came and gave him a greeting among the
people, he turned away from him. When he had done this
several times, the man realised that he was the cause of
the anger and the rebuff.
So he complained about it to his companions, saying: I
swear by Allah that I cannot understand the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him).
They said: He went out and saw your domed building. So
the man returned to it and demolished it, levelling it to
the ground. One day the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) came out and did not see it.
He asked: What has happened to the domed building?
They replied: Its owner complained to us about your
rebuff, and when we informed him about it, he demolished
it.
He said: Every building is a misfortune for its owner,
except what cannot, except what cannot, meaning except
that which is essential.
We came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and asked
him for some corn. He said: Go, Umar, and give them. He
ascended with us a room upstairs, took a key from his
apartment and opened it.
I asked Hisham ibn Urwah about the cutting of a
lote-tree when he was leaning against the house of Urwah.
He said: Do you not see these doors and leaves? These were
made of the lote-tree of Urwah which Urwah used to cut
from his hand? He said: There is no harm in it.
Humayd's version adds: You have brought an innovation,
O Iraqi! He said: The innovation is from you. I heard
someone say at Mecca: The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) cursed him who cuts a lote-tree. He
then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same
effect.
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: A
human being has three hundred and sixty joints for each of
which he must give alms. The people asked him: Who is
capable of doing this ? He replied: It may be mucus in the
mosque which you bury, and something which you remove from
the road; but if you do not find such, two rak'ahs in the
forenoon will be sufficient for you.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: In the morning
alms are due from every bone in man's fingers and toes.
Salutation to everyone he meets is alms; enjoining good is
alms; forbidding what is disreputable is alms; removing
what is harmful from the road is alms; having sexual
intercourse with his wife is alms. The people asked: He
fulfils his desire, Apostle of Allah; is it alms? He
replied: Tell me if he fulfilled his desire where he had
no right, would he commit a sin ? He then said: Two
rak'ahs which one prays in the forenoon serve instead of
all that.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: A man never did a
good deed but removed a thorny branch from the road; it
was either in the tree and someone cut it and threw it on
the road, or it was lying in it, he removed it. Allah
accepted this good deed of his and brought him into
Paradise.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: We have not made
peace with them since we fought with them, so he who
leaves any of them alone through fear does not belong to
us.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who leaves the
snakes along through fear of their pursuit, does not
belong to us. We have not made peace with them since we
have fought with them.
Al-Abbas said to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him): We wish to sweep out Zamzam, but in
it there are some of these Jinnan, meaning small snakes;
so the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) ordered that
they should be killed.
Muhammad ibn AbuYahya said that his father told that he
and his companion went to AbuSa'id al-Khudri to pay a sick
visit to him. He said: Then we came out from him and met a
companion of ours who wanted to go to him. We went ahead
and sat in the mosque. He then came back and told us that
he heard AbuSa'id al-Khudri say: The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: Some snakes are jinn; so when
anyone sees one of them in his house, he should give it a
warning three times. If it return (after that), he should
kill it, for it is a devil.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) was asked
about the house-snakes. He said: When you see one of them
in your dwelling, say: I adjure you by the covenant which
Noah made with you, and I adjure you by the covenant which
Solomon made with you not to harm us. Then if they come
back, kill them.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone kills a
gecko with the first blow, such and such number of good
deeds will be recorded for him, if he kills it with the
second blow, such and such number of good deeds will be
recorded for him less than the former; and if he kills it
with the third blow, such and such number of good deeds
will be recorded for him, less than the former.
A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said to her: Do not cut
severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable
for a husband.
AbuUsayd heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
say when he was coming out of the mosque, and men and
women were mingled in the road: Draw back, for you must
not walk in the middle of the road; keep to the sides of
the road. Then women were keeping so close to the wall
that their garments were rubbing against it.