Companions & Prophets

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Jews were split up into seventy-one or seventy-two sects; and the Christians were split up into seventy one or seventy-two sects; and my community will be split up into seventy-three sects.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Mu`awiyah b. Abi Sufiyan stood among us and said: Beware! The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us and said: Beware! The people of the Book before were split up into seventy two sects, and this community will be split...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited this verse: “He it is who has sent down to thee the Book: in it are verses basic or fundamental . . . .” Up to “men of understanding”. She said: The Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The best of the actions is to love for the sake of Allah and to hate for the sake of Allah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I heard Ka`b b. Malik - the transmitter Ibn al-Sarh then narrated the story of his remaining behind from the Prophet (ﷺ) during the campaign of Tabuk - say: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the Muslims to speak to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I came to my family when my hands had cracks. They dyed me with saffron. I then went to Prophet (ﷺ) and saluted him, but he did not return me salutation. He said: Go and wash it away from you.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The camel of Safiyyah daughter of Huyayy was fatigued, and Zainab had a surplus mount. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to Zainab : Give her the camel. She said: Should I give to that Jewess? Thereupon the Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Controverting about the Qur'an is disbelief.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Beware! I have been given the Qur'an and something like it, yet the time is coming when a man replete on his couch will say: Keep to the Qur'an; what you find in it to be...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when he hears something regarding me which I have commanded or forbidden and saying: We do not know. What we found in Allah's Book we...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

If any one introduces into this affair of ours anything which does not belong to it, it is rejected. Ibn `Isa said: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone practices any action in a way other than our practice, it is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

AbdurRahman ibn Amr as-Sulami and Hujr ibn Hujr said: We came to Irbad ibn Sariyah who was among those about whom the following verse was revealed: "Nor (is there blame) on those who come to thee to be provided with...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

"Beware! The extremists perished," saying it three times.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

If anyone summons other to follow right guidance, his reward will be equivalent to that of the people who follow him, without their rewards being diminished in any respect on that account; and if anyone summons others to follow error...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Muslim who offends most against the Muslims is he who enquires about something which has not been forbidden to men, and it is declared forbidden because of his enquiry.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Whenever he (mu’adh b. jabal) sat in a meeting for preaching, he would say: Allah is a just arbiter; those who doubt would perish. One day Mu’adh b. jabal said: In the times after you there would be trails in...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

A man wrote to 'Umar b. 'Abd al-Aziz asking him about Divine decree. He wrote to him: To begin with, I enjoin upon you to fear Allah, to be moderate in (obeying) His Command, to follow the sunnah (practice) of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Ibn ‘Umar had a friend from the people of Syria who used to correspond with him. ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Umar wrote to him: I have been informed that you have talked something about Divine decree. You should write it to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I said to al-Hasan: Abu Sa’id, tell me about Adam. Was he created for the heaven or the earth? He said: No, for the earth. I said: It was unavoidable for him. I said: Tell me about the following verse...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

“And for this did He create them.” He said: He created these for this and those for that.