Companions & Prophets

Sahih Muslim

The Book of the Merits of the Companions

If you were to come to the people of 'Uman, they would have neither reviled you nor beaten you.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of the Merits of the Companions

I saw (the dead body) of Abdullah b. Zubair hanging on the road of Medina (leading to Mecca). The Quraish passed by it and other people too, that Abdullah b. Umar happened to pass by it. He stood up there...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of the Merits of the Companions

If the din were at the Pleiades, even then a person from Persia would have taken hold of it, or one amongst the Persian descent would have surely found it.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of the Merits of the Companions

We were sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) that Sura al-Jumu'a was revealed to him and when he recited (these words):" Others from amongst them who have not yet joined them," a person amongst them (those who were...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of the Merits of the Companions

You would find people like one hundred camels and you would not find even one (camel) fit for riding.

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.