“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Do not let the Bedouin make you change the name of this prayer of yours, for they delay the prayer until it is very dark because of their preoccupation with camels and milking them. Verily, it is ‘Isha’.'”
“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)said: ‘Let the one who has most knowledge of the Book of Allah lead the people in prayer. If they are equal in terms of knowledge of the Qur’h, let the one who emigrated first (lead them). If they are equal in terms of emigration, let the one who has more knowledge of the Sunnah, (lead them). If they are equal in terms of knowledge of the Sunnah, let the one who is oldest (lead them). Do not lead a man in prayer in his place of authority, and do not sit in his place of honor, unless he gives you permission.”‘
“There was some fighting among Banu ‘Amr bin ‘Awf, and news of that reached the Prophet (ﷺ). He prayed Zuhr, then he went to them to reconcile between them. Then he said to Bilal: ‘O Bilal, if the time for Asr comes and I have not come back, then tell Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayer.’ When the time (for Asr) came, Bilal called the Adhan, then the Iqamah, then he said to Abu Bakr: ‘Go forward. So Abu Bakr went forward and started to pray. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came and started passing through the rows of people until he stood behind Abu Bakr, and the people clapped. Abu Bakr was such that whenever he started praying, he would never glance sideways, but when he noticed that the clapping persisted he turned around. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gestured to him to carry on praying. Abu Bakr praised Allah the Mighty and Sublime for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) having told him to continue. Then Abu Bakr moved backward on his heels, and when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw that, he came forward and led the people in prayer. When he completed the prayer he said: ‘O Abu Bakr, when I gestured to you, what kept you from continuing (to lead the people)?’ He said: ‘It does not befit the son of Abu Quhafah to lead the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in prayer.’ And he (the Prophet) said to the people: ‘If you notice something (during the prayer), men should say Subhan Allah and women should clap.'”
“The Imam is appointed to be followed. When he bows, then bow, when he stands up, then stand up, when he prostrates, then prostrate, and when he says Sami’ Alldhu liman hamidah (Allah hears the one who praises Him), then say, Rabbanri lakal-hamd (Our Lord, to You be the praise).”
“Praying in congregation is twenty-five portions better than one of you praying alone.”
“My father, Talq bin ‘Ali visited me one day in Ramadan and stayed with us until the evening. He led us in praying Qiyam that night and prayed witr with us. Then he went down to a masjid and led his companions in prayer until only witr was left. Then he told a man to go forward and said to him: ‘Lead them in praying witr, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: There should not be two witrs in one night.”
“When ‘Abdullah bin Ubayy died, his son came to the Prophet and said: ‘Give me your shirt so that I may shroud him in it, and (some and) offer the (funeral) prayer for him, and pray for forgiveness for him’. So he gave him his shirt then he said: ‘When you have finished, inform me and I will offer the (funeral) prayer for him.’ But ‘Umar stopped him and said: ‘Hasn’t Allah forbidden you to offer the (funeral) prayer for the hypocrites?’ He said: ‘I have two options. Whether you ask forgiveness for them (hypocrites) or ask no forgiveness for them.” So he offered the (funeral) prayer for him. Then Allah, Most High, revealed: ‘And never pray (funeral prayer) for any of them (hypocrites) who dies, nor stand at his grave.’ So he stopped offering the (funeral) prayer for them.”
“The Prophet came to the grave of ‘Abdullah bin Ubayy when he had been placed in his grave and stood over it. He commanded that he be brought out to him and placed on his knees, and he dressed him in his shirt and blew on him (for blessing). And Allah knows best.”
“Should I fast while traveling?” He said: “If you wish then fast, and if you wish then do not fast.”
O Messenger of Allah, I am a man who fasts, so should I fast while traveling? He said: “If you wish then fast, and if you wish then do not fast.”
“Hamzah said to the Messenger of Allah: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should I fast while traveling?’ He used to fast a great deal. The Messenger of Allah said to him: “If you wish then fast and if you wish then do not fast.”‘
‘Ali came to some people of Az-Zutt, who worshipped idols, and burned them. Ibn ‘Abbas said: “But the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Whoever changes his religion, kill him.'”
“The Messenger of Allah forbade lending on the condition of a sale, selling what you do not have, and profiting on what you do not possess.
a Jew took some jewelry from a girl, then he crushed her head between two rocks. They found her as she was breathing her last, and they took her around among the people (saying); “Was it this one? Was it this one?” (When) she said yes, the Messenger of Allah ordered that his head be crushed between two rocks.
he hired a worker who fought with a man and bit his hand, and his from tooth fell out. So he referred the dispute to the Prophet who said: “Do you want to bite his hand as a stallion bites?”
“I heard the Messenger of Allah cursing Al-Mutanammisat, women who have their teeth separated, and women who have tattoos done, those who change the creation of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime.”
“I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘May Allah curse Al-Mutanammisat, women who have tattoos done and women who have their teeth separated, those who change the creation of Allah, Mighty and Sublime.”
He and a companion of his used to stay with Abu Raihanah to learn good things from him. He said: “One day my companion came and told me that he heard Abu Raihanah say: ‘The Messenger of Allah forbade filing (the teeth), tattoos, and plucking hairs.'”
“Abdullah used to say: ‘May Allah curse the women who have tattoos done and Al-Mutanammisat, and have the women who have their teeth separated. Should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah cursed?'”
The Messenger of Allah said to him: “O Ibn ‘Abis, shall I not tell you of the best thing with which those who seek refuge with Allah may do so?” He said: “Yes, O Messenger of Allah.” He said: “Say: I seek refuge with (Allah) the Lord of the daybreak.”, “Say: I seek refuge with (Allah) the Lord of mankind.” – these two Surahs.”
The Messenger of Allah used to say: “A’udhu billahi minal-kufri wal-faqr. (O Allah, I seek refuge with You from Kufr and poverty.)” A man said: “Are they equal?” He said: “Yes.”
Jabir said “A man from the Ansar came to the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) and said “I have a slave girl and I have intercourse with her. But I dislike her to conceive. He replied “Withdraw your penis from her if you wish for what is decreed for her will come to her.” After a time the man came to him and said “The girl has become pregnant”. He said “I told you that what was decreed for her would come to her.”
Ibn Umar was sent with a detachment of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The people wheeled round in flight. He said: I was one of those who wheeled round in flight. When we stopped, we said (i.e. thought): How should we do? We have run away from the battlefield and deserve Allah’s wrath. Then we said (thought): Let us enter Medina, stay there, and go there while no one sees us. So we entered (Medina) and thought: If we present ourselves before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and if there is a change of repentance for us, we shall stay; if there is something else, we shall go away. So we sat down (waiting) for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) before the dawn prayer. When he came out, we stood up to him and said: We are the ones who have fled. He turned to us and said: No, you are the ones who return to fight after wheeling away. We then approached and kissed his hand, and he said; I am the main body of the Muslims.
I was one of those who washed Umm Kulthum, daughter of the Prophet (ﷺ), when she died. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) first gave us lower garment, then shirt, then head-wear, then cloak (which covers the whole body), and then she was shrouded in another garment. She said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting at the door, and he had shroud with him. He gave us the garments one by one.
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: When a servant (of Allah) is placed in his grave, and his Companions depart from him, he hears the stepping sound of their shoes.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A man should not look at the private parts of another man, and a woman should not look at the private parts of another woman. A man should not lie with another man without wearing lower garment under one cover; and a woman should not be lie with another woman without wearing lower garment under one cover.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A man should not lie with another man and a woman should not lie with another woman without covering their private parts except a child or a father. He also mentioned a third thing which I forgot.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Mahdi will be of my family, of the descendants of Fatimah. Abdullah ibn Ja’far said: I heard AbulMalih praising Ali ibn Nufayl and describing his good qualities.
The narrator Hasan b. “All said: The transmitters have differed in the wordings (of this tradition) reported to me. Some said: He (Ma’iz) was tied to a tree, and others said: He was made to stand.
A man of the tribe of Asalam came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and made confession of fornication. He (the prophet) turned away from him. When he testified against him four times, the Prophet (ﷺ) said: Are you mad? He said: No. he asked: Are you married? He replied: Yes. The Prophet (ﷺ) then commanded regarding him and he was stoned in the place of prayer. Then when the stones hurt him, he fled, but was overtaken and stoned to death. The Prophet (ﷺ) then spoke well of him and did not pray over him.
A girl was found with her head crushed between two stoned. She was asked: Who did it with you ? Was it so and so ? Was it so and so ? Until the Jew was named. Thereupon she gave a sign with her head. The Jew was arrested and he admitted. So the Prophet (ﷺ) gave command that his head should be crushed with stones.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Musaddad’s version has: He addressed on the day of Conquest. The agreed version then goes: Beware! Every object of pride of pre-Islamic times, whether it is blood-vengeance or property, mentioned or claimed, has been put under my feet except supply of water to the pilgrims and custody of the House (the Ka’bah). He then said: Beware! The blood-wit for unintentional murder, such as is done with a whip and stick, is one hundred camels, forty of which are pregnant.
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Dubai’ah b. Husain al-Tha’labi through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
A man came and praised ‘Uthman in his face, al-Miqdad b. Al-Aswad took dust and threw it on his face, saying : The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) said : When you see those who are given to praising people, throw dust in their faces.
Allah’s Messenger said: “the key to Salat is the purification, its Tahrim is the Takbir, and its Tahlilis the Taslim, and there is no Salat for one who did not recite Al-Hamd and a Surah in the obligatory (prayer) or other prayers.”
Allah’s Messenger said: “Perform Witr before the morning comes upon you.”
“Imran bin Husain was asked about the traveler’s prayer. He said: ‘I performed Hajj with the Messenger of Allah, and he prayed two Rak’ah. I performed Hajj with Abu Bakr, and he prayed two Rak’ah and with Umar, and he prayed two Rak;ah; and with Uthman for six years of his Khilafah, or eight years, and he prayed two Rak’ah.”
“We were on a journey with the Messenger of Allah during the month of Ramadan. No one objected to the fast of the one fasting nor the fast breaking of the one who broke his fast.”
“We were on a journey with the Messenger of Allah. Some of us were fasting and some of us broke their fast. The one who broke their fast had no objection to the one who fasted, and the one who fasted had no objection to the one who broke his fast. They saw that whoever had the strength to fast then that was good, and whoever was weak, then breaking it was better.”
“I entered upon Khabab and he had been cauterized on his stomach. He said: ‘I do not know any of the Companions of the Prophet who met with the trial I have met with. Indeed I could not find a Dirham during the time of the Prophet, and (now) outside my house there are forty thousand. If it were not that the Messenger of Allah forbade us’ – or: ‘forbade’ – ‘from wishing for death, then I would wish for it.'”
“The Prophet kissed Uthman bin Maz’un when he died, and he was crying.” Or, he (one of the narrators) said: “His eyes were brimming with tears.”
“One of the daughters of the Prophet died, so he said: ‘Wash her an odd number of times, three, or five, or more than that as you see fit. Wash her with water and Sidr, and in the last (washing) add camphor, or something from camphor. When you are finished then inform me.’ When we finished we informed him so he gave us his waist-sheet and said ‘Wrap her in it.'”
“The idolaters wanted to purchase the body of a man who was from the idolaters. But the Prophet (ﷺ) refused to trade with them .” This Hadith is Hasan Gharib, we do not know of it except from a narration of Al-Hakam. Al-Hajjaj bin Artah also reported it from Al-Ahkam. Ahmad bin Al-Hasan said: “I heard Ahmad bin Hanbal saying: ‘Ibn Abi Laila’s narrations are not used as proof.” Muhammad bin Isma’il said: “Ibn Abi Laila is truthful, but his correct Ahadith are not recognizable from his weak ones. And I do not report anything from him.” Ibn Abi Laila is truthful, and Faqih, the problem is only in the chain. Nasr bin ‘Ali narrated to us, “Abdullah bin Dawud narrated us, from Sufyan Ath-Thawri who said: ‘Our Fuqaha’ are Ibn Abi Laila and ‘Abdullah bin Shubrumah.'”
That the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Indeed Allah is pleased with the slave who, upon eating his food or drinking his drink, he praises Him for it.” He said: There are narrations on this topic from ‘Uqbah bin ‘Amir, Abu Sa’eed, ‘Aishah, Abu Ayyub, and Abu Hurairah. This Hadith is Hasan. More than one narrator has reported it from Zakariyya bin Abi Za’idah similarly, and we do not know of it except through the narration of Zakariyya bin Abi Za’idah.
“Give gifts, for indeed the gift removes bad feelings from the chest. And let the neighbor not look down upon (the gift of) her neighbor, even if it be the lower shanks of sheep.” This Hadith is Gharib from this route. Abu Ma’shar’s name is Najih, the freed slave of Banu Hisham. Some of the people of knowledge criticized him due to his poor memory.
“We were with the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) and he was scraping the ground, when he raised his head to the heavens, then said: ‘There is not one of you but (his place) is known’ – Waki said: ‘His place has been decreed (be it) in the Fire, and (or) his place in Paradise.’ They said: ‘Shall we not rely upon this O Messenger of Allah?’ He said: ‘No. Work, for everyone is facilitated for what he was created.’”(Sahih)
from ‘Ubayy bin Ka’b, that the Prophet (ﷺ) would recite: “Qad Balaghta Min Ladunni ‘Udhra” (18:76) with heaviness (Muthaqqalah – meaning with Tashdid on the Nun in “Ladunni”).”
from Ubay bin Ka’b that the Prophet (ﷺ) recited: “Fi ‘Ainin Hami’ah” (18:86)
“When this Ayah was revealed: ‘Then on that Day, you shall be asked about the delights!’ the people said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! About which delights shall we be asked? For they are only the two black things, while the enemy is present and our swords are (at the ready) upon our shoulders?” He said: ‘But it is what shall come.’”
“When the Prophet (ﷺ) would see the wind he would say: ‘O Allah, indeed, I ask You for its good, the good of what is in it, and the good of what it has been sent with. And I seek refuge in You from its evil, the evil of what is in it, and the evil of what it has been sent with (Allāhumma innī as’aluka min khairihā wa khairi mā fīhā, wa khairi mā ursilat bihī, wa a`ūdhu bika min sharrihā wa sharri mā fīhā, wa sharri mā ursilat bih).’”
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying at his death: ‘O Allah, forgive me and have mercy on me, and join me with the Highest Company (Allāhummaghfirlī warḥamnī wa alḥiqnī bir-rafīqil a`lā).’”
that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Sufficient for you among the women of mankind are Mariam bint ‘Imran, Khadijah bint Khuwailid, Fatimah bint Muhammad and Asiyah the wife of Fir’awn.”
“Al-‘Ajam (non-Arabs) were mentioned before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) so the Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘I am supported more by them, or, by some of them, than I am by you, or some of you.'”
“We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when Surat Al-Jumu’ah was revealed, so he recited it until he reached: ‘And others among them who have not yet joined them (62:3).’ A man said to him: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Who are these people who have not yet joined us?’ But he did not say anything to him.” He said: “Salman Al-Farisi was among us.” He said: “So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) placed his hand upon Salman and said: ‘By the One Whose Hand is my soul! If faith were on Pleiades then men among these people would reach it.'”
“‘Ali called for water, and he washed his hands before putting them in the vessel, then he said: ‘This is what I saw the Messenger of Allah doing.'”
“They said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! What about the purification of the leather socks?’ He said: ‘For the traveler it is three days and nights, and for the resident it is one day and one night.'”
“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘No one who is sexually impure and no woman who is menstruating should recite Qur’an.'”
“Thirty of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who had been at Badr came together and said: ‘Come, let us estimate the length of the recitation of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for the prayer in which Qur’an is not recited out aloud.’ No two men among them disagreed, and they estimated the length of his recitation in the first Rak’ah of the Zuhr to be thirty Verses and in the second Rak’ah to be half of that. They estimated his recitation in ‘Asr to be half of the last two Rak’ah of Zuhr.”
It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that when the dawn illuminated, the Prophet (ﷺ) would pray two Rak’ah.
“The Prophet (ﷺ) saw a man praying two Rak’ah after the Subh prayer and said, ‘Is the Subh prayer to be offered twice?’ The man said to him: ‘I did not pray the two Rak’ah before it, so I prayed them (now).’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) remained silent.”
It was narrated from Muhammad bin ‘Ubaidullah bin Abu Rafi’, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to come to ‘Eid prayers walking.
“Then Ibrahim the son of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) died, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed and said: ‘He has a wet-nurse in Paradise, and if he had lived he would have been a Siddiq and a Prophet. If he had lived his maternal uncles, the Egyptians, would have been set free and no Egyptian would ever have been enslaved.’”
‘When it is the middle of Sha’ban, do not fast until Ramadan comes.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us and we brought food for him. Some of those who were with him were fasting, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘If food is eaten in the presence of one who is fasting, the angels send blessing upon him.’”
“I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘Do not believe in omens, and good fortune is only to be found in three things: A woman, a horse and a house.”‘
“I was with my father in Bawazij and the cows came back in the evening. He saw a cow did not recognize it. He said: ‘What is this?’ He said: ‘A cow that joined the herd.’ And he issued orders that it be driven away until it disappeared from view. Then he said: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “No one gives refuge to a stray animal but one who is also astray.”
“We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a man came to him and said: ‘I adjure you by Allah (SWT) to judge between us according to the Book of Allah (SWT).’ His opponent, who was more knowledgeable than him, said: ‘Judge between us according to the Book of Allah (SWT), but let me speak first.’ He said: ‘Speak.’ He said: ‘My son was a servant of this man, and he committed adultery with his wife, and I ransomed him for one hundred sheep and a servant. I asked some men of knowledge and I was told that my son should be given one hundred lashes and exiled for a year, and that the wife of this man should be stoned.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, I will judge between you according to the Book of Allah (SWT). The one hundred sheep and the servant are to be returned to you and your son is to be given one hundred lashes and exiled for a year. Go tomorrow, O Unais, to the wife of this man and if she admits I then stone her.’”
“I fear that after a long time has passed, some will say: ‘I do not find (the sentence of) stoning in the Book of Allah (ﷺ),’ and they will go astray by abandoning one of the obligations enjoined by Allah (SWT). Rather stoning is a must if a man is married (or previously married) and proof is established, or if pregnancy results or if he admits it. I have read it (in the Quran). “And if an old man and an old woman commit adultery, stone them both.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stoned (adulterers) and we stoned (them) after him.’ ”
“This and this are the same” – meaning the pinky finger, ring finger and thumb.
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Whoever ties a horse in the cause of Allah, then feeds it with his own hand, he will have one merit for every grain.’”
“Whatever the sea throws out or is left behind when the tide ebbs, eat it, but whatever rises to its surface, do not eat it.’”
“The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by a man who had dyed his hair with henna and said: ‘How handsome this is!’ Then he passed by another who had dyed his hair with henna and Katam, and said: ‘This one is more handsome than that one.’ Then he passed by another who had dyed his hair yellow and said: ‘This one is more handsome than all of them.’”
Prophet saas used to seek refuge with Allah from cowardice, miserliness, old age, the torment of the grave and the tribulation of the heart. (Da’if)(One of the narrators) Waki’ said: “Meaning when a man dies in a state of tribulation (Fitnah) and does not ask Allah to forgive him.”
“Whoever sees me in a dream, it is as if he has seen me when he is awake, for Satan is not able to resemble me.”
“Whoever tells of a false dream, will be ordered (on the Day of Resurrection) to tie two grains of barley together, and he will be punished for that.”
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘The affairs of the Children of Israel remained fair until Muwalladun emerged among them – the children of female slaves from other nations. They spoke of their own opinions (in religious matters) and so they went astray and led others astray.'”
“One day the Prophet (ﷺ) appeared among the people. A man came to him and said: ‘O messenger of Allah, what is Iman (faith)?’ He said: ‘To believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His Messengers and the meeting with, and to believe in the Final Resurrection.’ He said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is Islam?’ He said: ‘To worship Allah (alone) and not to associate anything with Him; to establish the prescribed prayers, to pay the obligatory Zakat, and to fast Ramadan.’ He said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is Ihsan? He said: ‘To worship Allah as if you see Him, for even though you do not see Him, He sees you.’ He said: “O Messenger of Allah, when will the Hour be?’ He said: ‘The one who is being asked about it does not know more than the one who is asking. But I will tell you about its signs. When the slave woman gives birth to her mistress that is one of its signs. When the shepherds compete in constructing tall buildings that is one of its signs. And there are five things which no one knows except Allah.’ Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited the Verse: “Verily, Allah, with Him (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain, and knows that which is in the wombs. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow, and no person knows in what land he will die. Verily, Allah is All-Knower, All-Aware (of things).”