Companions & Prophets

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Al-Aqra', the mu'adhdhin (announcer) of Umar ibn al-Khattab said: Umar sent me to a bishop and I called him. Umar said to him: Do you find me in the Book? He said: Yes. He asked: How do you find me?...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

the best of my people is the generation in which I have been sent, then their immediate followers, then their immediate followers. Allah knows best whether he mentioned the third or not. After them will be people who will give...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Do not revile my Companions; by him in whose hand my soul is, if one of you contributed the amount of gold equivalent to Uhud, it would not amount to as much as the mudd of one of them, or...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Hudhaifah was in al-Mada’in. He used to mention things which the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said to some people from among his Companions in anger. The people who heard from Hudhaifah would go to Salman and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

When the illness of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) became serious while I was with him among a group of people, Bilal called him for prayer. He said: Ask someone to lead the people in prayer. So Abdullah ibn Zam'ah...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

When the Prophet (May peace be upon him) heard ‘Umar’s voice, Ibn Zam’ah said: The Prophet (May peace be upon him) came out until he took out his head of his apartment. He then said : No, no, no; the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to al-Hasan ibn Ali. This son of mine is a Sayyid (chief), and I hope Allah may reconcile two parties of my community by means of him. Hammad's version has: And perhaps Allah may...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

There is no one who will be overtaken by trial regarding whom I do not fear except Muhammad ibn Maslamah, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Trial will not harm you.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

We entered upon Hudhaifah. He said: I know a man whom the trails will not harm. We came out and found that a tent was pitched. We entered and found in it Muhammad b. Maslamah. We asked him about it....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Dubai’ah b. Husain al-Tha’labi through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I said to ‘All (Allah be pleased with him) : Tell me about this march of yours. Is this an order that the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) had given you, or is this your opinion that...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

In the event of the dissension among Muslims an emerging sect will emerge ; one of the two parties that is nearer to the truth will kill it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Do not distinguish between the Prophets.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

It is not fitting for a servent to say that I (The Prophet) is better than Jonah son of Matta.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

It is not fitting for a prophet to say : I am better than Jonah son of matta.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

A man from among the Jews said : By him who chose Moses above the universe. So a Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew on his face. The Jew went to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

A man said to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him): O best of all creatures! The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : That was Abraham (peace be upon him).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I shall be pre-eminent among the descendants of Adam, the first from whom the earth will be cleft open the first intercessor, and the first whose intercession will be accepted.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I do not know whether Tubba was accursed or not, and ‘Uzair (Azra was a prophet or not).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) say : I am the nearest of kin among the people to (Jesus) son of Mary. The Prophet are brothers, sons of one father by co-wives. There is no...