“I was behind Abu Hurairah when he performed Wudu’ for Salah. He washed his hand up to the armpit, and I said: ‘O Abu Hurairah! What is this Wudu’?’ He said to me: ‘O Banu Farrukh! You are here! If I had known that you were here I would not have performed Wudu’ like this. I heard my close friend (i.e., the Prophet (ﷺ)) says: “The jewelry of the believer will reach as far as his Wudu reached.”
“Do you remember when we were on a campaign, and I became Junub and rolled in the dust, then I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he said: ‘This would have been sufficient.'” (One of the narrators) Shu’bah struck his hands on his knees and blew into his hands, then he wiped his face and palms with them once.
It was narrated from ‘Aishah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed ‘Asr when the sun was in her room and the shadow had not appeared on her wall.
He heard the Prophet (ﷺ), when he raised his head in the last rak’ah of the subh prayer, say: “O Allah, curse so-and-so and so-and-so,” supplicating against some of the hypocrites. Then Allah revealed the words: “Not for you is the decision; whether He turns in mercy to (pardon) them or punishes them; verily, they are the wrongdoers.”
“The Messenger of Allah said:’ whoever keeps a dog except one that is trained for hunting or a dog for herding livestock, two Qirats will be deducted from his reward each day.”
AbdulAziz ibn Muhammad said: Abbad ibn Kathir came to Medina and went to the assembly of al-Ala’. He caught hold of his hand and made him stand and said: O Allah, he narrates a tradition from his father on the authority of AbuHurayrah who reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When the middle of Sha’ban comes, do not fast. Al-Ala’ said: O Allah, my father narrated this tradition on the authority of AbuHurayrah from the Prophet (ﷺ)
I swore allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) 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).
if anyone says seven times morning and evening; “Allah sufficeth me: there is no god but He; on him is my trust- he, the Lord of the Throne (of glory) Supreme”, Allah will be sufficient for him against anything which grieves him, whether he is true or false in (repeating) them.
I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) 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 (ﷺ), 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.
“The Prophet (S) would perform the Qunut in the Subh and Maghrib prayers.”
“I said to my father: ‘O my father! You offered Salat behind Allah’s Messenger (S), Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali bin Abi Talib here in Al-Kufah for about five years. Did they say the Qunut?’ He said: ‘It is a newly invented matter my son.'”
“When the Prophet (ﷺ) was expelled from Makkah, Abu Bakr said: ‘They have driven out their Prophet to their own doom.’ So Allah, Most High, revealed: ‘Permission (to fight) is given to those who are fought against, because they have been wronged; and surely, Allah is able to give them victory (22:39).’ So Abu Bakr said: ‘Then I knew that there would be fighting.'”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered prayer, and I am not sure whether he did something extra or omitted something. He asked, and we told him, so he turned to face the Qiblah and prostrated twice, then he said the Salam. Then he turned to face us and said: ‘If any new command has been revealed concerning the prayer, I would certainly have told you. But I am only human and I forget and you forget. If I forget, then remind me. And if anyone of you is uncertain about the prayer, let him do what is closest to what is correct, then complete the prayer, say the Salam and prostrate twice.”
“While we were sitting in the mosque, a man entered riding a camel; he made it kneel in the mosque, then he hobbled it and said to them: ‘Which of you is Muhammad?’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was reclining among them, so they said: ‘This fair- skinned man who is reclining.’ The man said to him: ‘O son of ‘Abdul- Muttalib!’ The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘I am listening to you.’ The man said: O Muhammad! I am asking you and will be stern in asking, so do not bear any ill-feelings towards me.’ He said: ‘Ask whatever you think.’ The man said: ‘I adjure you by your Lord and the Lord of those who came before you, has Allah sent you to all of mankind?’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘By Allah, yes.; He said: ‘I adjure you by Allah, has Allah commanded you to pray the five prayers each day and night?’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘By Allah, yes.’ He said: ‘I adjure you by Allah, has Allah commanded you to fast this month of each year?’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘By Allah, yes.’ He said: ‘I adjure you by Allah, has Allah commanded you to take this charity from our rich and distribute it among our poor?’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘By Allah, yes.’ The man said: ‘I believe in what you have brought, and I am the envoy of my people who are behind me. I am Dimam bin Tha’labah, the brother of Banu Sa’d bin Bakr.’”
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered the funeral prayer, then he came to the grave of the deceased and scattered three handfuls of earth from the side of (the deceased’s) head.
“We were forbidden (to eat) the game caught by their dogs and birds – meaning the Zoroastrians.”
“I heard ‘Ali say: ‘The best of people after the Messenger of Allah is Abu Bakr, and the best of people after Abu Bakr is ‘Umar.'”