Companions & Prophets

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Allah knows best about what they were doing.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I said : Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) what happens to the offspring of believers ? He replied : They are joined to their parents. I asked : Messenger of Allah! Although they have done nothing ?...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (May peace be upon him) was invited to the funeral of a boy who belonged to the ANSAR and I said; Messenger of Allah! This one is blessed, for he has done no evil, nor has he known...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Every child is born on Islam, but his parents make him a Jew and a Christian, just as a beast is born whole. Do you find some among them (born) maimed? The people asked : Messenger of Allah! What do...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Malik was asked : The heretics argue from this tradition against us. Malik said : Argue against them from its last part which goes. The people asked : What do you think about the one who died while he was...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

In our opinion it means that covenant which Allah had taken in the loins of their fathers when He said : “Am I not your Lord? They said: Yes.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The woman who buries alive her new-born girl and the girl who is buried alive both will go to Hell. This tradition has also been transmitted by Ibn Mas’ud from the Prophet (May peace be upon him) to the same...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

A man asked : where is my father, Messenger of Allah? He replied! Your father is in Hell. When he turned his back, he said : My father and your father are in Hell.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The devil flows in a man like his blood.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Do not sit with those who believe in free will and do not address them before they address you.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

People will continue to ask one another(questions) till this is pronounced: Allah created all things, but who created Allah ? Whoever comes across anything of that, he should say: I believe in Allah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: He then mentioned a tradition like it. This version adds: When they propound that, say: "Say Allah is one. Allah is He to Whom men repair. He has not begotten and He...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I was sitting in al-Batha with a company among whom the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting, when a cloud passed above them. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) looked at it and said: What do you call this? They said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Simak through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The tradition mentioned above has again been transmitted by Simak through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect as this lengthy tradition.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

An A’rab(a nomadic Arab) came to the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) and said: People suffering distress, the children are hungry, the crops are withered, and the animals are perished, so ask Allah to grant us rain, for we seek you as...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I have been permitted to tell about one of Allah’s angels who bears the throne that the distance between the lobe of his ear and his shoulder is a journey of seven hundred years.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I heard Abu Hurairah recite this verse : “Allah doth command you to render back your trusts to those to whom they are due” up to “For Allah is he who heareth and seeth all things”. He said : I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

When we are were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) he looked at the moon on the night when it was full, that is, fourteenth, and said : You will see your Lord as you...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The people asked : Messenger of Allah! Shall we see our lord, the Exalted, on the Day of resurrection? He replied : Do you feel any trouble in seeing the sun at noon when it is not in the cloud?...