Sunan al-Nasa'i — The Book of Purification

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Perform Wudu’ from that which has been touched by fire.'”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Perform Wudu’ from that which has been touched by fire.'”

“I saw Abu Hurairah performing Wudu’ on the roof of the Masjid ans he said: ‘I ate some tough cheese, so I performed Wudu’ because of that. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanding us to do Wudu’ from that which has been touched by fire.'”

He asked Zaid bin Thabit about reciting with the Imam. He said: “There is no recitation with the Imam in anything.” And he claimed that he had recited: “By the star when it goes down (or vanishes)” to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he did not prostrate.

Abu Hurairah (led them in prayer and) recited: “When the heaven is split asunder.” and prostrated during it. When he had finished praying, he told them that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had prostrated during it.

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prostrated during: ‘When the heaven is split asunder.'”

“The Messenger of Allah forbade the price of a dog, the gift of a female fornicator, and the fee of a fortuneteller.”

“The Messenger of Allah said – among the things that be forbade – ‘And the price of a dog.”

On his father’s authority, said that his grandfather reported: Rabab ibn Hudhayfah married a woman and three sons were born to him from her. Their mother then died. They inherited her houses and had the right of inheritance of her freed slaves. Amr ibn al-‘As was the agnate of her sons. He sent them to Syria where they died. Amr ibn al-‘As then came. A freed slave of hers died and left some property. Her brothers disputed with him and brought the case to Umar ibn al-Khattab. Umar reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Whatever property a son or a father receives as an heir will go to his agnates, whoever they may be. He then wrote a document for him, witnessed by AbdurRahman ibn Awf, Zayd ibn Thabit and one other person. When AbdulMalik became caliph, they presented the case to Hisham ibn Isma’il or Isma’il ibn Hisham (the narrator is doubtful). He sent them to ‘Abd al-Malik who said: This is the decision which I have already seen. The narrator said: So he (‘Abd al-Malik) made the decision on the basis of the document of Umar ibn al-Khattab, and that is still with us till this moment.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The neighbour is most entitled to the right of pre-emption, and he should wait for its exercise even if he is absent, when the two properties have one road.

Gladden people and do not scare them; make things easy and do not make them difficult.

That the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): “A riding animal can be ridden while it is pawned, and a milking animal can be milked while it is pawned, and it is up to the one riding and drinking (the milk) to maintain it.” This Hadith is Hasan Sahih. We do now know of it being Marfu’ except by the narration of ‘Amir Ash-Sha’bi from Abu Hurairah. Others have reported this Hadith from Al-A’mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurairah in Mawquf form. This is acted upon according to some of the people of knowledge, and it is the view of Ahmad and Ishaq. Some of the people of knowledge said that one may not benefit in any way from what is pawned.

“The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah.” Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: ” He began with the dependants.” Then he said: “And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him.”

“I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): ‘Which is better prayer in my house or prayer in the mosque?’ He said: ‘Do you not see how close my house is to the mosque?’ But praying in my house is dearer to me than praying in the mosque, apart from the prescribed prayers.’”

“You sacrifice it yourself.”

“We, the family of Muhammad (ﷺ), would stay for a month during which no fire would be lit (for cooking) and we had only dates and water.”