“O Messenger of Allah, Allah is not shy to tell the truth. Does a women have to perform Ghusl if she has a wet dream?” He said: “Yes, if she sees water.” Umm Salamah laughed and said: “Do women really have wet dreams?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “How else would her child resemble her?” That is, if she has an emission of the fluid of an orgasm.
‘Where were you, O Abu Hurairah?’ He said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, you met us but I was Junub, and I did not want to sit in your presence until I had performed Ghusl.’ He said: ‘Subhan Allah! The believer is not made impure (Najis).'”
“The Prophet (ﷺ) prayed Zuhr when the length of (a person’s shadow) was between three and five feet in summer, and between five and seven feet in winter.”
“When a man goes out of his house to his Masjid, one foot records a good deed and the other erases a bad deed.”
“Abdullah bin Tawus prayed beside me at Mina, in Masjid Al-Khaif, and when he made the first prostration he raised his head and raised his hands up to his face. I found that strange and I said to Wuhaib bin Khalid: “This man does something that I have never seen anyone do.” Wuhaib said to him: ‘You do something that I have never seen anyone do.’ Abdullah bin Tawus said: ‘I saw my father do it, and my father said: “I saw Ibn ‘Abbas do it and ‘Abullah bin Abbas said: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) doing it.'”
“I said to Jabir bin Samurah: ‘Did you used to sit with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?” He said: ‘Yes.’ When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had prayed fajr, he would sit in the place where he had prayed until the sun rose, and his companions would talk and remember things from the time of Jahilliyah and recite poetry, and they would laugh and he would smile.'”
On the night on which he was taken on the Night Journey, the Prophet (ﷺ) passed by Musa, peace be upon him, and he was praying in his grave.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘On the night on which I was taken on the Night Journey, I passed by Musa and he was praying in his grave.’
“When the Muaddhin fell silent after the Adhan for the beginning of Fajr, he would pray two brief rak’ahs, then he would lie down on his right side.”
‘I came to ‘Umar and told him the story, apart from the words: ‘Hey you!”’
“My father told me: ‘We came to Jabir bin `Abdullah and asked him about the Hajj of the Prophet (ﷺ). He told us: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stayed in al-Madinah for nine years of Hajj, then it was announced to the people that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was going to perform Hajj this year. Many people came to al-Madinah, all of them hoping to learn from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and to do as he did. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) set out when there were five days left of Dhul-Qa`dah, and we set out with him,: Jabir said; “And the Messenger of Allah was among us; the Qur’an was being revealed to him, and he knew what it meant. Whatever he did based on it (the Qur’an), we did, and we set out with no intention other than Hajj.
they were on a march, somr of them in Ihram and some not in Ihram. He said: “I saw an onager so I mounted my horse and picked up a spear. I asked them to help me but they refused to help me. I snatched a whip from one of them and chased the onager and caught it. They ate of it but they were scared. The prophet was asked about that and he said: ‘Did you pint (at it) or help him?’ They said, ‘No.’ He said: Then eat.'”
“I head him say ‘I saw ‘Umar in Al-Muzdalifah and he said: The people of the Jahiliyyah would not depart until the sun had risen, and they would say: Shine, O Thabir! The Messenger of Allah differed from them and departed before the sun had risen.
“I heard ‘Aishah say: The Messenger of Allah said: ‘What becomes unlawful (for marriage) through breast-feeding is that which becomes unlawful through birth.'”
“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘If you swear an oath, offer expiation for your oath, then do that which is better.'”
“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘whoever keeps a dog, two Qirats will be detracted from his reward each day, except a trained hunting dog, or a dog for herding livestock.”
“We were with the Prophet at a funeral, and he said: ‘I there anyone from banu so and so here? He said this three times. Then a man stood up, and he said to him: ‘What kept you form answering the first two times? I am not going to say anything but good to you, so and so (mentioning the name of a man from among them) has died and he is being detained (from entering Paradise) because of his debt.”‘
A man came to the Prophet and said: “My father is an old man, can I perform Hajj on his behalf?” He said: “Yes. Don’t you think that if he owed a debt and you paid it off, that would suffice him?”
On the authority of his father that ‘Aishah said: O my nephew, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not prefer one of us to the other in respect of his division of the time of his staying with us. It was very rare that he did not visit us any day (i.e. he visited all of us every day). He would come near each of his wives without having intercourse with her until he reached the one who had her day and passed his night with her. When Saudah daughter of Zam’ah became old and feared that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would divorce her, she said: Messenger of Allah, I give to ‘Aishah the day you visit me. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) accepted it from her. She said: We think that Allah, the Exalted, revealed about this or similar matter the Qur’anic verse: “If a wife fears cruelty or desertion on her husband’s part….”
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Qais bin Al Harith through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
Anas bin Malik said “Whenever the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) went to Quba, he used to visit Umm Haram daughter of Milhan who was married to ‘Ubadah bin Al Samit. One day when he visited her she gave him food an sat clearing his head of lice. The narrator narrated the rest of the tradition. Abu Dawud said “Daughter of Milhan died in Cyprus”.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Keep to every sorrel horse with a white blaze and white on the legs, or dark bay with a white blaze. He then mentioned something similar. Muhammad ibn al-Muhajir said: I asked him: Why was a sorrel horse preferred? He replied: Because the Prophet (ﷺ) had sent a contingent, and the man who first brought the news of victory was the rider of a sorrel horse.
‘Abd Allaah bin Masud reported the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) as saying “Listening and Obedience are binding on a Muslim whether he likes or dislikes, so long as he is not commanded for disobedience (to Allaah). If he is commanded to disobedience (to Allaah), no listening and disobedience are binding (on him).
I supplied water to my companions on the day of Badr.
The Prophet (ﷺ) sacrificed two horned rams which were white with black markings and had been castrated. When he made them face the qiblah, he said: I have turned my face towards Him. Who created the heavens and the earth, following Abraham’s religion, the true in faith, and I am not one of the polytheists. My prayer, and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the Universe, Who has no partner. That is what I was commanded to do, and I am one of the Muslims. O Allah it comes from Thee and is given to Thee from Muhammad and his people. In the name of Allah, and Allah is Most Great. He then made sacrifice.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He said: He who sticks to a king is perverted. This version adds: The nearer a servant (of Allah) goes to a king, the farther he keeps away from Allah.
Al-Miqdad went to Baqi’ al-Khabkhabah for a certain need. He found a mouse taking out a dinar from a hole. It then continued to take out dinars one by one until it took out seventeen dinars. It then took out a red purse containing a dinar. There were thus eighteen dinars. He took them to the Prophet (ﷺ), informed him and said to him: Take its sadaqah. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him: Did you extend your hand toward the hole? He replied: No. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: May Allah bless you in it.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw a man that he was supported between his sons. He asked about him, and (the people) said: He has taken a vow to walk (on foot). Thereupon he said: Allah has no need that this man should punish himself, and he ordered him to ride. Abu Dawud said: ‘Amr b. Abi ‘Amir has also narrated a similar tradition from al-A’raj on the authority of Abu Hurairah from the Prophet (ﷺ).
Abu Safwan said: I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at Mecca before his immigration. He then narrated the rest of the tradition, but he did not mention the words “who was weighing for payment”. Abu Dawud sad: Qais also transmitted it as Sufyan said: The version of Sufyan is authoritative.
The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the sale of fruits till they were clearly in good condition , and (ordered that) they should not be sold but for dinar or dirham except Araya.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade muzabanah, muhaqalah and thunya except it is known.
When the Prophet (ﷺ) conquered Khaibar. He then narrated it like the tradition of Zaid (b. Abu al-Zarqa’). This version has: He then assessed the produce of the palm-trees and said: I take the job of picking the fruit myself, and I shall give you half of (the amount) I said.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Both parties in a business transaction have a right of option (to annul it) so long as they are not separated ; and if they tell the truth and make everything clear, they will be blessed in their transaction, but it they conceal anything and lie, the blessing on their transaction will be blotted out. Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Sa’id b. Abi ‘Arubah and Hammad. As regards with Hammam, he said in his version: Until they separate or exercise the right of option (to annul the transaction), saying the words of option three times.
Messenger of Allah! I have a fellow-wife; will it be wrong for me to boast of receiving from my husband what he does not give me? He replied: the one who boasts of receiving what he has not been given is like him who has put on two garments of falsehood.