Sunan al-Nasa'i — The Book of Purification

“We were with ‘Umar when a man came to him and said: ‘O Commander of the Believers! sometimes we stay for a month or two without finding any water. Umar said: As if I did not find water, I would not pray until I found water.’ ‘Ammar bin Yasir said: ‘Do you remember, O Commander of the Believer, when you were in such and such a place and we were rearing the camels, and you know that we became Junub?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ ‘As for me I rolled in the dust, then we came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he laughed and said: “Clean earth would have been sufficient for you.” And he struck his hands on the earth then blew on them, then he wiped his face and part of his forearms. He (‘Umar) said: “Fear Allah, O ‘Ammar!'” He said: ‘O Commander of the Believers! If you wish I will not mention it.’ He said: ‘No, we will let you bear the burden of what you took upon yourself.'”

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon her and there were two girls with her who were beating the duff. Abu Bakr scolded them, but the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Leave them, for every people has an ‘Eid.”

“Pray in your houses and do not make them like graves.”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah say concerning Ramadan: ‘Whoeve spends its nights in prayer (Qiyam) out of faith and in the hope of reward, he will be forgiven his previous sins.” ‘

“At the time of the Messenger of Allah landowners used to lease their arable land in return for whatever grew on the banks of the streams for irrigation. They came to the Messenger of Allah and referred a dispute concerning such matters to him, and the Messenger of Allah forbade them to lease land on such terms, and said: ‘Lease it for gold or silver.'”

The Messenger of Allah said: “By the One in Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, none of you has believed until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself of goodness.”

The Messenger of Allah did not dye his hair; his gray hair were only a little beneath his lower lip and at his temples, and a little on his head.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Ibn ‘Umar from the Prophet (ﷺ) to the same effect as mentioned by Ibrahim b. Musa through a different chain.