Companions & Prophets

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

we met ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Umar. We told him about divine decree and what they said about it. He then mentioned something similar to it. He added : A man of Muzainah or juhainah asked : What is the good...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

What is Islam? He replied : It means saying prayer, payment of zakat, performing HAJJ, fasting during RAMADAN, and taking a bath on account of sexual defilement. Abu Dawud said: 'Alqamah was a Murji'i.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to sit among his Companions. A stranger would come and not recognize him (the Prophet) until he asked (about him). So we asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to make a place where he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I went to Ubayy b. Ka’b and said him : I am confused about Divine decree, so tell me something by means of which Allah may remove the confusion from my mind. He replied : were Allah to punish everyone...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Son! You will not get the taste of the reality of faith until you know that what has come to you could not miss you, and that what has missed you could not come to you. I heard the Messenger...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Adam and Moses held a disputation. Moses said : Adam you are our father. You deprived us and caused us to come out from Paradise. Adam said : You are Moses Allah chose you for his speech and wrote the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Moses said : My lord, show us Adam who caused us and himself to come out from Paradise. So Allah showed him Adam. He asked : Are you our father, Adam? Adam said to him : Yes. He said :...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Muslim ibn Yasar al-Juhani said: When Umar ibn al-Khattab was asked about the verse "When your Lord took their offspring from the backs of the children of Adam" - al-Qa'nabi recited the verse--he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I was with ‘Umar b. al-Khattab when he transmitted this tradition. The tradition of Malik is more perfect.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The boy whom al-Khidr had killed was created an infidel. Had he lived, he would have moved his parents to rebellion and unbelief.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) explaining the verse “As for the youth his parents were people of Faith,” he was created infidel the day when he was created.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Ubayy b. Ka’b told me that the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : Al-khidr saw a youth playing with boys. He took him by his head and uprooted it. Moses then said : Hast thou slain...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) who spoke the truth and whose word was belief told us the following : The constituents of one of you are collected for forty days in his mother’s womb, then they...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) was asked : Is it known who are those who will go to paradise and those who will go to hell? He said : Yes. He asked : Then what is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Do not sit which 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)

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...