“When this Ayah was revealed: And warn your near kindred….(26:214), the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: “O Safiyyah bint ‘Abdul-Muttalib! O Fatimah bint Muhammed! O Banu ‘Abdul-Muttalib! I have no authority on your behalf over Allah for anything. Ask me for whatever you want of my wealth.”
“A man who cries out of fearing Allah, will not be put into the Fire until milk returns to the udder; and dust raised in the cause of Allah and the smoke of Jahannam will not be gathered together.” Sahih. Muhammad bin ‘Abdur-Rahman is the Mawla of the family of Talbah, and he is from […]
“Indeed I see what you do not see, and I hear what you do not hear. The Heavens moan, and they have the right to moan. There is no spot, the size of four fingers in them, except that there is an angel placing his forehead in it, prostrating to Allah. By Allah! If you […]
“If you knew what I know, then you would laugh little and you would cry much.”
“Indeed a man may utter a statement that he does not see any harm in, but for which he will fall seventy autumns in the Fire.”
“Two favors that many of the people squander are health and free time.”
“Who will take these statements from me, so that he may act upon them, or teach one who will act upon them?” So Abu Hurairah said: “I said: ‘I shall O Messenger of Allah!’ So he (s.a.w) took my hand and enumerated five (things), he said: “Be on guard against the unlawful and you shall […]
“Race to do works against seven. Are you waiting but for overwhelming poverty, or distracting richness, or debilitating illness, or babbling senility, or sudden death, or the Dajjal, so that hidden evil is what is awaited, or the Hour? The Hour is more calamitous and more bitter.” (Daif)
“Increase in remembrance of the severer of pleasures.” Meaning death.
When ‘Uthman would stop at a grave he would cry until his beard was soaked (in tears). It was said to him: ‘The Paradise and the Fire were mentioned and you did not cry, yet you cry because of this?’ So he said: ‘Indeed the Messenger of Allah said: “Indeed the grave is the first […]