Sahih al-Bukhari — Hiring

I fought in Jaish-al-Usra (Ghazwa of Tabuk) along with the Prophet (ﷺ) and in my opinion that was the best of my deeds. Then I had an employee, who quarrel led with someone and one of the them bit and cut the other’s finger and caused his own tooth to fall out. He then went to the Prophet (with a complaint) but the Prophet (ﷺ) canceled the suit and said to the complainant, “Did you expect him to let his finger in your mouth so that you might snap and cut it (as does a stallion camel)?” Narrated Ibn Juraij from `Abdullah bin Abu Mulaika from his grandfather a similar story: A man bit the hand of another man and caused his own tooth to fall out, but Abu Bakr judged that he had no right for compensation (for the broken tooth).

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting when on the pulpit: ‘They will cry, “O Malik (Keeper of Hell) Let your Lord make an end of us.’ (43.77)

I went out in one of the Ghazwa and a man bit another man and as a result, an incisor tooth of the former was pulled out. The Prophet (ﷺ) cancelled the case.

“I prayed with the Prophet (ﷺ) in Al-Madinah, eight together and seven together. He delayed Zuhr and brought ‘Asr forward, and he delayed Maghrib and brought ‘Isha’ forward.”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Whoever does wudu’ properly, then walks to (attend) the prescribed prayer, and prays with the people or with the congregation or in the Masjid, Allah will forgive him his sins.”

“I watched the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he prayed, and I noticed that his standing, his bowing, his standing up after bowing, his prostration, his sitting between the two prostrations and his sitting between the taslim and departing were almost the same in length.”

“I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) praying while sitting cross-legged.”

“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘I have been commanded to fight the people until they say La ilaha illallah. If they say it, then their blood and wealth are prohibited for me, except for a right that is due, and their reckoning will be with Allah.'”

“We were with the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Do not kill him, for I have been commanded to fight the people until they say La ilaha illallah, and if they say it, their blood and their wealth are safe from me, except for a right that is due, and their reckoning will be with Allah.'”

“We came in a delegation to the messenger of Allah, each of us with a question to ask him. I was the last of them to come in to the Messenger of Allah, and I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I have left people behind me, and they are saying that emigration (Hijrah) has ceased.’ He said: ‘Emigration will not cease so long as the disbelievers are being fought.”‘

the Messenger of Allah forbade Fara’ and ‘Atirah.”

“When the Prophet traveled, he would seek refuge with Allah from the hardships of travel, and the sorrows of return, from loss after plenty, from the supplication of the one who has been wronged, and from seeing some calamity befall.”

“When the Messenger of Allah traveled and rode his mount, he gestured with his finger – and Shu’bah (one of the narrators) stretched out his finger – and said: ‘Allahumma, antas-sahibu fis-safari wal-khalifatu fil-ahli wal-mal. Allahumma, inni a’udhu bika min wa’tha’is-safari, wa kabatil-munqalabi (O Allah, You are our help when we are traveling and the One Who takes care of our families and wealth (in our absence). O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the hardships of travel and the sorrows of return.)'”

“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Seek refuge with Allah from a bad neighbor in one’s permanent abode, for one’s neighbor in the desert will change.'”

He disliked to sell raisins to one who would use them to make Nabidh.

It was rarely that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) set out on a journey on any day but on a Thursday.

When we are were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) he looked at the moon on the night when it was full, that is, fourteenth, and said : You will see your Lord as you see this (moon) and have no doubts about seeing him. If, therefore, you can keep from being prevented from prayer before the sun rises and before it sets, do so. He then recited :”Celebrate the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting”.

A believer’s vision is the forty-sixth part of Prophecy.

The Prophet (ﷺ) 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 Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) counting them on his hand. The people asked: Messenger 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.

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 Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) 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 attended Hajj with the Prophet. I prayed the Subh (Fajr) prayer with him in Masjid AI-Khaif.” He said: “When the Prophet finished, he turned (from the Qiblah) and saw two men at the back of the people who had not prayed with him. He said, ‘Bring them to me.’ So I brought then while they were shuddering with fear. He said: ‘What prevented you from praying with us?” They said: ‘O Messenger of Allah!’ We prayed at our camp.’ So he said: ‘Do not do that; when you pray in your camp then you come to a Masjid with a congregation, then pray with them. That will be a voluntary prayer for you.'”

the Prophet said: “The Salat during the night and the day is two and two.”

from his father that the Prophet (ﷺ) set aside a land reserve for him in Hadramawt. (One of the narrators added): “And he sent Mu’awiyah with him to reserve it for him.”

“There is no gift that a father gives his son more virtuous than good manners.”

“The Prophet would accept gifts and he would give something in return.”

“A man is upon the religion of his friend, so let one of you look at whom he befriends.”

“Three follow the deceased, two of them return, and one remains. He is followed by his family, his wealth, and his deeds. So his family and his wealth returns, and his deeds remain.”

“We were with the Messenger of Allah when Surat Al-Jumuah was revealed, so he recited it until he reached: And other among them who have not yet joined them, 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 was among us.” He said: “So the Messenger of Allah placed his hand upon Salman and said: ‘By the One in whose Hand is my soul! If faith were on Pleiades then men among these people would reach it.”’

The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Woe to the heels because of Hell-fire.'”

“Aishah saw ‘Abdur-Rahman performing abluti0on, and she said: Perform ablution properly, for I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘Woe to the Achilles’ tendon because of Hell-fire.'”

The Prophet said: “Woe to the heels because of Hell-fire.”

“I saw the Messenger of Allah wiping over his leather socks and turban.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed women who visit graves.”

“He used to fast all of Sha’ban, until he joined it to Ramadan.”

“Eat Suhur, for in Suhur there is a blessing.”

“Do not cut off (the thief’s hand) except for something worth one quarter of a Dinar or more

“The adulterer, at the time he is committing adultery, is not a believer; (the wine drinker) at the time he is drinking, is not a believer; the thief, at the time he is stealing, is not a believer; the plunderer, at the time he is plundering with the people looking on, is not a believer.”

“Whoever humbles himself one degree for the sake of Allah, Allah will raise him in status one degree, and whoever behaves arrogantly towards Allah one degree, Allah will lower him in status one degree, until He makes him among the lowest of the low.”