Companions & Prophets

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) entered the garden of the palm trees of Banu al-Najjar. He heard a voice and was terrified. He asked: Who are the people buried in these graves? The people replied: Messenger of Allah! These are some...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

When a man is placed in his grave and his friends leave him, he hears the beat of their sandals. Then two angles come and speak to him. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition nearly similar to the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) accompanying the bier of a man of the Ansar. When we reached his grave, it was not yet dug. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat down and we also sat...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Al-Bara’ (b. ‘Azib) from the prophet (May peace be upon him) through a different chain of narrators is a similar way.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

What makes you weep ? She replied : I thought of Hell and wept. Will you remember your family on the 4th Day of resurrection ? the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : There are three...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: There has been no Prophet after Noah who has not warned his people about the antichrist (Dajjal), and I warn you of him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) described him to us, saying: Perhaps...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) stood among the people and praised Allah in a way which is worthy of him, and mentioned the Antichrist (Dajjal), saying : I warn you of him, and there has been...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who separates from the community within a span takes off the noose of Islam from his neck.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

How will you deal with the rulers (imams) who appropriate to themselves this booty? I said : I swear by him who sent you with the truth that at that time I shall put my sword on my shoulder and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said: You will have commanders some of whom you will approve and some of whom you will disapprove. He who expresses disapproval with his tongue (Abu Dawud said : This is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

He who disapproves is guiltless, and he who disapproves is safe. Qatadah said : it means one who feels its disapproval in his heart, and one who expresses disapproval in his heart.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

various corruptions will arise in my community, so strike with sword the one who tries to cause separation in the matter of Muslims when they are united, whoever he be.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

‘Ali mentioned about the people of al Nahrawan, saying: Among them there will be a man with a defective hand or with a small hand. if you were not to overjoy. I would inform you of what Allah has promised...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

‘Ali sent some gold-mixed dust to the prophet (May peace be upon him). He divided it among the four : al-Aqra b. Habis al-Hanzall and then al-Mujashi, uyainah b. Badr al-fazari, zaid al-khail al-Ta’l, next to one of Banu nabhan,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Soon there will appear disagreement and dissension in my people; there will be people who will be good in speech and bad in work. They recite the Qur'an, but it does not pass their collar-bones. They...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Tasmid means uprooting the hair.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

When I mention a tradition to you from the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him), it is dearer to me that I fall from the heaven than I lie on him. But when I talk to you about...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Zaid b. Wahb al-Juhani told us that he was in the army which proceeded to (fight with) the Khawarij in the company of `Ali. `Ali then said: O people! I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: there will appear...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Search for the man with crippled hand. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition. This version has: They took him out from beneath the slain in the dust. Abu al-wadi said: As if I am looking at an Abyssinian...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

This man with the crippled hand was on that day with us in the mosque. We would sit with him by day and by night, and he was a poor man. I saw him attending the meals of ‘Ali (ra)...