Eschatology, Paradise & Hell

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“I know a word – (one of the narrators) ‘Uthman said: “a Verse” – which if all the people followed it, it would suffice them.” They said: “O Messenger of Allah, which Verse?” He said: “And whosoever fears Allah, He...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) addressed us in Nabawah” or Banawah – he (one of the narrators) said: “Nabawah is near Ta’if” – “And said: ‘Soon you will be able to tell the people of Paradise from the people of...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, how can I know, when I have done something good, that I have done well, and if I have done something bad, that I have done a...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“A man said to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): ‘How can I know when I have done well and when I have done something bad?’ The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘If you hear your neighbors saying that you have done well,...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“The people of Paradise are those whose ears Allah fills with the praise of people when they are listening, and the people of Hell- fire are those whom He fills their ears with condemnation when they are listening.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“I said to the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘(What do you say about when) a man does a deed for the sake of Allah, and people love him for it?’ He said: ‘That is the immediate glad tidings of the believer.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“A man said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I do a good deed, then others find out about it and that pleases me.’ He said: ‘You will have two rewards, the reward for doing it in secret and the reward for...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Actions are but by the intention and every man will have but that which he intended. So he whose emigration was for Allah and His Messenger, his emigration was for Allah and...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘The likeness of this nation is that of four people: A man to whom Allah gives wealth and knowledge, so he acts according to his knowledge with regard to his wealth, spending it as...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“People will be resurrected (and judged) according to their intentions.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“People will be gathered (on the Day of Resurrection) according to their intentions.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“Do you know what this is?” They said: “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said: “Man is the line in the middle, and these lines to his side are the sicknesses and problems that assail him from all places....

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“This is the son of Adam, and this is his life span at his neck,’ then he spread his hand in front of him and said: ‘And there is his hope.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“The heart of an old man is young in the love of two things: Love of life and much wealth.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“The son of Adam grows old but two things remain young in him: His craving for wealth and his craving for a long life.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“If the son of Adam had two valleys of wealth, he would love to have a third along with them. Nothing could satisfy him except dust. And Allah accepts the repentance of the one who repents.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“The ages of (the people in) my nation will be between sixty and seventy, and few of them will exceed that.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“By the One Who took his (ﷺ) soul, he did not die until most of his prayers were offered sitting down. And the most beloved of deeds to him was a righteous deed which a person persists in doing, even...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“There was a woman with me, and the Prophet (ﷺ) entered upon me and said: ‘Who is that?’ I said: ‘So-and-so; she does not sleep,’” – she mentioned her excessive praying. “The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘Keep quiet. You should do...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Zuhd

“We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and we spoke of Paradise and Hell until it was as if we could see them. Then I got up and went to my family and children, and I laughed and played...