Help related 166 hadith(s) in Muslim
The word
"help" appear 220 time(s) in 166 hadith(s) in Muslim translation.
(1) It is narrated on the
authority of Tariq b. Shihab: It was Marwan who initiated (the practice) of
delivering khutbah (address) before the prayer on the 'Id day. A man stood up and
said: Prayer should precede khutbah. He (Marwan) remarked, This (practice) has
been done away with. Upon this Abu Sa'id remarked: This man has performed (his
duty) laid on him. I heard the Messenger of Allah as saying: He who amongst you
sees something abominable should modify it with the
help
of his hand; and if he has not strength enough to do it, then he should do it
with his tongue, and if he has not strength enough to do it, (even) then he
should (abhor it) from his heart, and that is the least of faith.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0079)
(2) Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of
Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in
Allah and Jihad in His cause. I again asked: Who is the slave whose
emancipation is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: One who is valuable
for his master and whose price is high. I said: If I can't afford to do it? He
(the Holy Prophet) replied:
help an
artisan or make anything for the unskilled (labourer). I (Abu Dharr) said:
Messenger of Allah, you see that I am
helpless
in doing some of these deeds. He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Desist from doing
mischief to the people. That is the charity of your person on your behalf.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0149)
(3) It is narrated on the authority of Abu
Huraira: We participated in the Battle of Hunain along with the Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him). He (the Holy Prophet) said about a man who
claimed to be a Muslim that he was one of the denizens of the Fire (of Hell).
When we were in the thick of the battle that man fought desperately and was
wounded. It was said: Messenger of Allah, the person whom you at first called
as the denizen of Fire fought desperately and died. Upon this the Apostle of
Allah (may peace be upon him) remarked: He was doomed to the Fire (of Hell).
Some men were on the verge of doubt (about his fate) when it was said that he
was not dead but fatally wounded. When it was night he could not stand the
(pain of his) wound and killed himself. The Apostle (may peace be upon him) was
informed of that. He (the Holy Prophet) observed: Allah is Great, I bear
testimony to the fact that I am the servant of Allah and His messenger. He then
commanded Bilal to announce to the people that none but a Muslim would enter
Paradise. Verily Allah
helps this faith
even by a sinful person.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0205)
(4) It is narrated on the authority of Wa'il
that there came a person from Hadramaut and another one from Kinda to the
Apostle (may peace be upon him). One who had come from Hadramaut said:
Messenger of Allah, only this man has appropriated my land which belonged to my
father. The one who had came from Kinda contended. This is my land and is in my
possession: I cultivate it. There is no right for him in it. The Messenger of
Allah said to the Hadramite: Have you any evidence (to support you)? He replied
in the negative. He (the Apostle of Allah) said: Then your case is to be
decided on his oath. He (the Hadramite) said: Messenger of Allah, he is a liar
and cares not what he swears and has no regard for anything. Upon this he (the
Messenger of Allah) remarked: For you then there is no other
help to it. He (the man from Kinda) set out to
take an oath. When he turned his back the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) observed: If he took an oath on his property with a view to usurping it,
he would certainly meet his Lord in a state that He would turn away from him.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0257)
(5) A'isha, the wife of the Apostle of Allah
(may peace be upon him), reported: The first (form) with which was started the
revelation to the Messenger of Allah was the true vision in sleep. And he did
not see any vision but it came like the bright gleam of dawn. Thenceforth
solitude became dear to him and he used to seclude himself in the cave of
Hira', where he would engage in tahannuth (and that is a worship for a number
of nights) before returning to his family and getting provisions again for this
purpose. He would then return to Khadija and take provisions for a like period,
till Truth came upon him while he was in the cave of Hira'. There came to him
the angel and said: Recite, to which he replied: I am not lettered. He took
hold of me [the Apostle said] and pressed me, till I was hard pressed;
thereafter he let me off and said: Recite. I said: I am not lettered. He then
again took hold of me and pressed me for the second time till I was hard
pressed and then let me off and said: Recite, to which I replied: I am not
lettered. He took hold of me and pressed me for the third time, till I was hard
pressed and then let me go and said: Recite in the name of your Lord Who
created, created man from a clot of blood. Recite. And your most bountiful Lord
is He Who taught the use of pen, taught man what he knew not (al-Qur'an, xcvi.
1-4). Then the Prophet returned therewith, his heart was trembling, and he went
to Khadija and said: Wrap me up, wrap me up! So they wrapped him till the fear
had left him. He then said to Khadija: O Khadija! what has happened to me? and
he informed her of the happening, saying: I fear for myself. She replied: It
can't be. Be happy. I swear by Allah that He shall never humiliate you. By
Allah, you join ties of relationship, you speak the truth, you bear people's
burden, you
help the destitute, you
entertain guests, and you
help against
the vicissitudes which affect people. Khadija then took him to Waraqa b. Naufal
b. Asad b. 'Abd al-'Uzza, and he was the son of Khadija's uncle, i. e., the
brother of her father. And he was the man who had embraced Christianity in the
Days of Ignorance (i. e. before Islam) and he used to write books in Arabic
and, therefore, wrote Injil in Arabic as God willed that he should write. He
was very old and had become blind Khadija said to him: O uncle! listen to the
son of your brother. Waraqa b. Naufal said: O my nephew! what did you see? The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), then, informed him what he had
seen, and Waraqa said to him: It is namus that God sent down to Musa. Would
that I were then (during your prophetic career) a young man. Would that I might
be alive when your people would expel you! The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) said: Will they drive me out? Waraqa said: Yes. Never came a man with
a like of what you have brought but met hostilities. If I see your day I shall
help you wholeheartedly.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0301)
(6) Ibn Mas'ud reported: Verily the Messenger
of Allah said: The last to enter Paradise would be a man who would walk once
and stumble once and be burnt by the Fire once. Then when he gets beyond it, he
will turn to it and say: Blessed is He Who has saved me from thee. Allah has
given me something He has not given to any one of those in earlier or later
times. Then a tree would be raised up for him and he will say: O my Lord I
bring me near this tree so that I may take shelter in its shade and drink of
its water. Allah, the Exalted and Great, would say: O son of Adam, if I grant
you this, you will ask Me for something else. He would say: No. my Lord. And he
would promise Him that he would not ask for anything else. His Lord would
excuse him because He sees what he cannot
help
desiring; so He would bring him near it, and he would take shelter in its shade
and drink of its water. Afterwards a tree more beautiful than the first would
be raised up before him and he would say: O my Lord! bring me near this tree in
order that I may drink of its water and take shelter in its shade and I shall
not ask Thee for anything else. He (Allah) would say: O son of Adam, if I bring
you near it you may ask me for something else. He would promise Him that he
would not ask for anything else. His Lord will excuse him because He would see
something he cannot
help desiring. So He
would bring him near it and he would enjoy its shade and drink its water. Then
a tree would be raised up for him at the gate of the Paradise, more beautiful
than the first two. He would say: O my Lord! bring me near this (tree) so that
I may enjoy its shade and drink from its water. I shall not ask Thee for
anything else. He (Allah) would say: O son of Adam! did you not promise Me that
you would not ask Me anything else? He would say: Yes, my Lord, but I shall not
ask Thee for anything else. His Lord would excuse him for He sees something the
temptation of which he could not resist. He (Allah) would bring him near to it,
and when He would bring him near it he would hear the voices of the inhabitants
of the Paradise. He would say: O my Lord! admit me to it. He (Allah) would say:
O son of Adam, what will bring an end to your requests to Me? Will it please
you if I give you the whole world and a like one along with it? He will say: O
my Lord! art Thou mocking at me, though Thou art the Lord of the worlds? Ibn
Mas'ud laughed and asked (the hearers): Why don't you ask me what I am laughing
at. They (then) said: Why do you laugh? He said: It is in this way that the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) laughed. They (the companions of the
Holy Prophet) asked: Why do you laugh. Messenger of Allah? He said: On account
of the laugh of the Lord of the universe, when he ldesirer of Paradise) sai
Thou mocking at me though Thou art the Lord of the worlds? He would say: I am
not mocking at you, but I have power to do whatever I will.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0361)
(7) Abdullah b. al-Harith reported: I heard
Abbas say: I said: Messenger of Allah, verily Abu Talib defended you and
helped you; would it be beneficial for him? He
(the Holy Prophet) said: Yes; I found him in the lowest part of the Fire and I
brought him to the shallow part.
(Book #001,
Hadith #0409)
(8) Abu Huraira reported: He saw people
perform ablution with the
help of a water
jar and he said: Complete the Wudu for i heard Abu al-Qasim (may peace be upon
him) say: Woe to the hamstrings because of hell-fire.
(Book #002,
Hadith #0472)
(9) 'Urwah al Mughira reported it from his
father: He (Mughira)
helped the Apostle
(may peace be upon him) in performing the ablution, and he performed it and
wiped over his shoes. He (Mughira) said to him (about the washing of the feet
after putting them off), but he (the Holy Prophet) said: I put them (feet) in
when these were clean.
(Book #002,
Hadith #0530)
(10) Thauban, the freed slave of the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), said: While I was standing beside
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) one of the rabbis of the Jews
came and said: Peace be upon you, O Muhammad. I pushed him backwith a push that
he was going to fall. Upon this he said: Why do you push me? I said: Why don't
you say: O Messenger of Allah? The Jew said: We call him by the name by which
he was named by his family. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
said: My name is Muhammad with which I was named by my family. The Jew said: I
have come to ask you (something). The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said: Should that thing be of any benefit to you, if I tell you that? He
(the Jew) said: I will lend my ears to it. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) drew a line with the
help of
the stick that he had with him and then said: Ask (whatever you like).
Thereupon the Jew said: Where would the human beings be on the Daywhen the
earth would change into another earth and the heavens too (would change into
other heavens)? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: They would
be in darkness beside the Bridge. He (the Jew) again said: Who amongst people
would be the first to cross (this bridge).? He said: They would be the poor
amongst the refugees. The Jew said: What would constitute their breakfast when
they would enter Paradise? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: A caul of the
fish-liver. He (the Jew) said. What would be their food alter this? He (the
Holy Prophet) said: A bullockwhich was fed in the different quarters of
Paradise would be slaughtered for them. He (the Jew) said: What would be their
drink? He (the Holy Prophet) said: They would be given drink from the fountain
which is named" Salsabil". He (the Jew) said: I have come to ask you about
a thing which no one amongst the people on the earth knows except an apostle or
one or two men besides him. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Would it benefit you if
I tell you that? He (the Jew) said: I would lend ears to that. He then said: I
have come to ask you about the child. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The
reproductive substance of man is white and that of woman (i. e. ovum central
portion) yellow, and when they have sexual intercourse and the male's substance
(chromosomes and genes) prevails upon the female's substance (chromosomes and
genes), it is the male child that is created by Allah's Decree, and when the
substance of the female prevails upon the substance contributed by the male, a
female child is formed by the Decree of Allah. The Jew said: What you have said
is true; verily you are an Apostle. He then returned and went away. The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: He asked me about such and
such things of which I have had no knowledge till Allah gave me that.
(Book #003,
Hadith #0614)
(21) 'A'isha reported:
Never did I, see the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) after the
revelation (of these verses):" When Allah's
help
and victory came." observin- his prayer without making (this supplication)
or he said in it (supplication): Hallowed be Thee, my Lord, and with Thy
praise, O Allah, forgive me.
(Book #004,
Hadith #0983)
(22) 'A'isha reported: The Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) recited often these words: Hallowed be Allah and with
His praise, I seek the forgiveness of Allah and return to Him. She said: I
asked: Messenger of Allah, I see that you often repeat the saying" subhan
allahi bihamdihi astag firullahi watubuilaih" whereupon he said: My Lord
informed me that I would soon see a sign in my Ummah, so when I see it I often
recite (these) words: Hallowed be Allah and with His Praise, I seek forgiveness
of Allah and return to Him. Indeed I saw it (when this verse) was
revealed:" When Allah's
help and
victory came, it marked the victory of Mecca, and you see people entering into
Allah's religion in troops, celebrate the praise of Thy Lord and ask His
forgiveness. Surely He is ever returning to Mercy."
(Book #004,
Hadith #0984)
(23) Rabi'a b. Ka'b said: I was with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) one night. and I brought him water and what
he required. He said to me: Ask (anything you like). I said: I ask your company
in Paradise. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Or anything else besides it. I said:
That is all (what I require). He said: Then
help
me to achieve this for you by deyoting yourself often to prostration.
(Book #004,
Hadith #0990)
(24) Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon hlmg) said: I have been given superiority over the
other prophets in six respects: I have been given words which are concise but
comprehensive in meaning; I have been
helped
by terror (in the hearts of enemies): spoils have been made lawful to me: the
earth has been made for me clean and a place of worship; I have been sent to
all mankind and the line of prophets is closed with me.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1062)
(25) Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I have been commissioned with words which
are concise but comprehensive in meaning; I have been
helped by terror (in the hearts of enemies): and
while I was asleep I was brought the keys of the treasures of the earth which
were placed in my hand. And Abfi Huraira added: The Messenger of Allah (may
peace be upon him) has left (for his heavenly home) and you are now busy in
getting them.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1063)
(26) Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I have been
helped
by terror (in the heart of the enemy) ; I have been given words which are
concise but comprehensive in meaning; and while I was asleep I was brought the
keys of the treasures of the earth which were placed in my hand.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1066)
(27) Hammam b. Munabbih reported: That is
what Abu Huraira reported to us from the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) and he narrated (some) ahadith one of which is that the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) said: I have been
helped
by terror (in the hearts of enemies) and I have been given words which are
concise but comprehensive in meaning.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1067)
(28) Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) came to Medina and stayed in the upper part of
Medina for fourteen nights with a tribe called Banu 'Amr b 'Auf. He then sent
for the chiefs of Banu al-Najir, and they came with swords around their inecks.
He (the narrator) said: I perceive as if I am seeing the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) on his ride with Abu Bakr behind him and the chiefs of
Banu al-Najjar around him till he alighted in the courtyard of Abu Ayyub. He
(the narrator) said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said prayer
when the time came for prayer, and he prayed in the fold of goats and sheep. He
then ordered mosques to be built and sent for the chiefs of Banu al-Najjar, and
they came (to him). He (the Holy Prophet) said to them: O Banu al-Najjar, sell
these lands of yours to me. They said: No, by Allah. we would not demand their
price, but (reward) from the Lord. Anas said: There (in these lands) were trees
and graves of the polytheists, and ruins. The Messenger of Allah (may peace he
upon him) ordered that the trees should be cut, and the graves should be dug
out, and the ruins should be levelled. The trees (were thus) placed in rows
towards the qibla and the stones were set on both sides of the door, and (while
building the mosque) they (the Companions) sang rajaz verses along with the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him): O Allah: there is no good but the
good of the next world, So
help the Ansar
and the Muhajirin.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1068)
(29) 'Ali b. 'Abual-Rahman al-Mu'awi
reported: 'Abdullah b. Umar saw me playing with pebbles during prayer. After
finishing the prayer he forbade me (to do it) and said: Do as the Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) used to do. I said: How did Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) do? He said that he (the Messenger of Allah) sat at
tashahhud, placed his right palm on the right thigh and closed all his fingers
and pointed with the
help of finger next
to the thumb, and placed his left palm on his right thigh.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1204)
(30) 'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported: I have
seen the time when no one stayed away from prayer except a hypocrite, whose
hypocrisy was well known, or a sick man, but it a sick man could walk between
two persons (i. e. with the
help of two
persons with one on each side) he would come to prayer. And (further) said: The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) taught us the paths of right
guidance. among which is prayer in the mosque in which the Adzan is called.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1375)
(31) Abu Salama b. Abd
al-Rahman b. 'Auf heard Abu Huraira say: (When) Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) (wished to invoke curse or blessing on someone, he would do so at the
end) of the recitation in the dawn prayer, when he had pronounced Allah-o-Akbar
(for bending) and then lifted his head (saying):" Allah listened to him
who praised Him; our Lord! to Thee is all praise" ; he would then stand up
and say:" Rescue al-Walid b. Walid, Salama b. Hisham, and 'Ayyash b. Abd
Rabi'a, and the
helpless among the
Muslims. O Allah! trample severely Mudar and cause them a famine (which broke
out at the time) of Joseph. O Allah! curse Lihyan, Ri'l, Dhakwan, 'Usayya, for
they disobeyed Allah and His Messenger." (The narrator then adds): The
news reached us that he abandoned (this) when this verse was revealed:"
Thou but no concern in the matter whether He turns to them (mercifully) or
chastises them; surely they are wrongdoers" (ill. 127)
(Book #004,
Hadith #1428)
(32) Abu Salama reported it on the authority
of Abu Huraira that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) recited Qunut
after ruku' in prayer for one mouth at the time of reciting (these
words):" Allah listened to him who praised Him," and he said in
Qunut:" 0 Allah! rescue al-Walid b. al-Walid; O Allah! rescue Salama b.
Hisham; O Allah! rescue 'Ayyash b. Abu Rabi'a; O Allah! rescue the
helpless amongst the Muslims; O Allah! trample
Mudar severely; O Allah! cause them a famine like that (which was caused at the
time) of Joseph." Abu Huraira (further) said: I saw that the Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) afterwards abandoned this supplication. I,
therefore said: I see the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) abandoning
this blessing upon them. It was raid to him (Abu Huraira): Don't you see that
(those for whom was blessing invoked by the Holy Prophet) have come (i. e. they
have been rescued)?
(Book #004,
Hadith #1430)
(33) Abu Murra, the freed slave of Umm Hani,
daughter of Abu Talib, reported Umm Hani to be saying: I went to the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) on the day of the Conquest of Mecca and found
him taking bath, and Fatimah, his daughter, had provided him privacy with the
help of a cloth. I gave him salutation and he
said: Who is she? I said: It is Umm Hani, daughter of Abu Talib. He (the Holy
Prophet) said: Greeting for Umm Hani. When he had completed the bath, he stood
up and observed eight rak'ahs wrapped up in one cloth. When he turned back
(after the prayer), I said to him: Messenger of Allah, the son of my mother
'Ali b. Abu Talib is going to kill a person, Fulan b. Hubaira whom I have given
protection. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (way peace be upon him) said: We
too have given protection whom you have given protection, O Umm Hani. Umm Hani
said: It was the forenoon (prayer).
(Book #004,
Hadith #1555)
(34) Ibn Abbas reported that when the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) got up during the night to pray, he
used to say: O Allah, to Thee be the praise Thou art the light of the heavens
and the earth. To Thee be the praise; Thou art the Supporter of the heavens and
the earth. To Thee be the praise; Thou art the Lord of the heavens and the
earth and whatever is therein. Thou art the Truth; Thy promise is True, the
meeting with Thee is True. Paradise is true, Hell is true, the Hour is true. O
Allah, I submit to Thee; affirm my faith in Thee; repose my trust in Thee, and
I reurn to Thee for repentance; by Thy
help
I have disputed; and to Thee I have come for decision, so forgive me my earlier
and later sins, the sins that I committed in secret and openly. Thou art my
God. There is no god but Thee.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1691)
(35) Zaid b. Thabit reported: The Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) made an apartment with the
help of the leaves of date trees or of mats. The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) went out to pray in it. People
followed him and came to pray with him. Then they again came one night and
waited (for him), but the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) delayed in
coming out to them. And when he did not come out, they cried aloud and threw pebbles
at the door. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) came out in anger
and said to them: By what you have been constantly doing, I was inclined to
think that it (prayer) might not become obligatory for you. So you must observe
prayer (optional) in your houses, for the prayer observed by a man in the house
is better except an obligatory prayer.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1708)
(36) 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There should be no envy but only
in case of two persons: one having been endowed with wealth and power to spend
it in the cause of Truth, and (the other) who has been endowed with wisdom and
he decides cases with the
help of it and
teaches it (to others).
(Book #004,
Hadith #1779)
(37) Ibn Umar reported that the Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) observed prayer in danger on some day (in this
way): a group stood with him (the Holy Prophet) (for prayer) and the other
group stood In front of the enemy. Then those who were with (him) observed one
rak'ah of prayer and they went back and the others came and they observed one
rak'ah (with him). Then both the groups completed one rak'ah each. Ibn Umar
said: When there is greater danger, then observe prayer even on the ride or
with the
help of gestures in a standing
posture.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1825)
(38) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: There is a time on Friday at which no Muslim
servant would pray and would ask Allah for a thing (that is good) but He would
give it to him. Qutaiba pointed with the
help
of his hand that it (the time) is short.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1849)
(39) Jabir b. Abdullah said: When Allah's Messenger
(may peace he upon him) delivered the sermon, his eyes became red, his voice
rose. and his anger increased so that he was like one giving a warning against
the enemy and saying:" The enemy has made a morning attack on you and in
the evening too." He would also say:" The last Hour and I have been
sent like these two." and he would join his forefinger and middle finger;
and would further say:" The best of the speech is embodied in the Book of
Allah, and the beet of the guidance is the guidance given by Muhammad. And the
most evil affairs are their innovations; and every innovation is error."
He would further say:, I am more dear to a Muslim even than his self; and he
who left behind property that is for his family. and he who dies under debt or
leaves children (in
helplessness). the
responsibility (of paying his debt and bringing up his children) lies on
me."
(Book #004,
Hadith #1885)
(40) Ibn 'Abbas reported: Dimad came to Mecca
and he belonged to the tribe of Azd Shanu'a, and he used to protect the person
who was under the influence of charm. He heard the foolish people of Mecca say
that Muhammad (may peace be upon him) was under the spell. Upon this he said:
If 1 were to come across this man, Allah might cure him at my hand. He met him
and said: Muhammad, I can protect (one) who is under the influence of charm,
and Allah cures one whom He so desires at my hand. Do you desire (this)? Upon
this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Praise is due to
Allah, we praise Him, ask His
help; and
he whom Allah guides aright there is none to lead him astray, and he who is led
astray there is none to guide him, and I bear testimony to the fact that there
is no god but Allah, He is One, having no partner with Him, and that Muhammad
is His Servant and Messenger. Now after this he (Dimad) said: Repeat these
words of yours before me, and the messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
repeated these to him thrice; and he said I have heard the words of soothsayers
and the words of magicians, and the words of poets, but I have never heard such
words as yours, and they reach the depth (of the ocean of eloquence) ; bring
forth your hand so that I should take oath of fealty to you on Islam. So he
took an oath of allegiance to him. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said: It (this allegiance of yours) is on behalf of your people too. He
said: It is on behalf of my people too. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) sent an expedition and the flying column passed by his people. The
leader of the flying column said to the detachment: Did you find anything from
these people? One of the people said: I found a utensil for water. Upon this he
(the commander) said: Return it, for he is one of the people of Dimad.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1888)
(41) Ibn 'Abbas reported
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I have been
helped by the east wind and the 'Ad were destroyed
by the west wind.
(Book #004,
Hadith #1964)
(42) Umm Salama reported: When Abu Salama
died I said: I am a stranger in a strange land; I shall weep for him in a
manner that would be talked of. I made preparation for weeping for him when a
woman from the upper side of the city came there who intended to
help me (in weeping). She happened to come across
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and he said: Do you intend to
bring the devil into a house from which Allah has twice driven him out? I (Umm
Salama), therefore, refrained from weeping and I did not weep.
(Book #004,
Hadith #2007)
(43) Hafsa narrated on the authority of Umm
'Atiyya that she said: When this verse was revealed:" When believing women
came to thee giving thee a pledge that they will not associate aught with
Allah, and will not disobey thee in good" (lx. 12), she (Umm Atiyya) said:
In (this pledge) was also included wailing. I said: Messenger of Allah I except
members of such a tribe who
helped me (in
lamentation) during pre-Islamic days, there is left no alternative for me, but
that I should also
help them. Upon this
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: (Yes) but only in case of
the members of such a tribe.
(Book #004,
Hadith #2038)
(44) Abu Dharr reported: I went out one night
(and found) the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) walking all alone.
There was no man with him. I thought that he did not like anyone walking along
with him. So I began to walk in the light of the moon. He, however turned his
attention to me and saw me and said: Who is this? I said: It is Abu Dharr. Let
Allah make me as ransom for you. He said: Abu Dharr, come on. He (Abu Dharr)
said: So I walked along with him for some time and he said: The wealthy persons
would have little (reward) on the Day of Resurrection, except upon whom Allah
conferred goodness (wealth). He dispensed it to his right, left, in front of
him and at his back (just as the wind diffuses fragrance) and did good with it
(riches). I went along with him for some time when He said: Sit here. And he
made me sit at a safe place and there were stones around it, and he said to me:
Sit here till I come to you. He went away on the stony ground till I could not
see him. He stayed away from me, and he prolonged his stay. Then I heard him as
he came back and he was saying: Even if he committed theft and even if he
committed fornication. When he came I could not
help
asking him: Apostle of Allah, let Allah make me ransom for you, whom were you
speaking on the stony ground? I heard nobody responding to you. He (the Holy
Prophet) said: It was Gabriel who met me by the side of the stony ground and
said: Give glad tidings to your Ummah that he who died without associating
ought with Allah would go into Paradise. I said: Gabriel, even if he committed
theft and fornication? He said: Yes. I said: Even it he committed theft and
fornication? He said: Yes, I again said: Even if he committed theft and
fornication? He said: Yes, even if he drank wine.
(Book
#005,
Hadith #2175)
(45) Ahnaf b. Qais reported: While I was in
the company of the (elites) of Quraiah, Abu Dharr came there and he was saying:
Give glad tidings to the hoarders of riches that their backs would be branded
(so deeply) that (the hot Iron) would come out of their sides, and when the
backs of their necks would be branded, it would come out of their foreheads. He
(Abu Dharr) then went away and sat down. I asked who he was. They said: He is
Abu Dharr. I went to him and said to him: What is this that I heard from you
which you were saying before? He said: I said nothing but only that which I
heard from their Prophet (may peace be upon him). I again said: What do you say
about this gift? He said: Take it, for today it is a
help. But when it becomes a price for your religion, then
abandon it.
(Book #005,
Hadith #2177)
(46) Umm Salama said: I asked the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) whether there is a reward for me if I spend oh
Abu Salama's sons, and I am not going to abandon them in this state (of
helplessness) for they are my sons. He (the Holy
Prophet) said: Yes. For you is the reward for what you spend on them.
(Book #005,
Hadith #2190)
(47) Hammam b. Munabbih reported that-this is
out of (those ahadith) which Abu Huraira narrated to us from Muhammad, the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). And he while making a mention of
ahadith reported from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said this:
Sadaqa is due on every joint of a person, every day the sun rises. Administering
of justice between two men is also a Sadaqa. And assisting a man to ride upon
his beast, or
helping him load his
luggage upon it, is a Sadaqa; and a good word is a Sadaqa; and every step that
you take towards prayer is a Sadaqa, and removing of harmful things from the
pathway is a Sadaqa.
(Book #005,
Hadith #2204)
(48) 'Adi b. Hatim reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah will speak with everyone amongst you
without any interpreter between them. He (the man) would see towards his right
and would not find anything but (the deeds) which he had done before, and he
would see towards the left and would not find anything but (the deeds) which he
had done before. He would see in front of him and would find nothing but Fire
just before his face. So protect (yourselves) against Fire even if it is with
the
help of half a date. A hadith like
this has been transmitted by Khaithama and addition has been made in this of
(these words) ;" Even if it is with a good word."
(Book #005,
Hadith #2216)
(49) Adi b. Hatim reported that the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) made a mention of the Fire and sought refuge
(with Allah against it). He turned aside his face three times and then said:
Protect yourselves against Fire even if with half a date. But if you fail to
find it (then protect yourselves against Fire) with the
help of a pleasant word).
(Book #005,
Hadith #2218)
(50) Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: The most dreadful thing I
fear in your case is what Allah brings forth for you in the form of the
adornment of the world. They (the Prophet's Com panions) said: Messenger of
Allah, what is the adornment of the world? He said: Blessings (the natural
resources) of the earth. They (again) said: Messenger of Allah, does good
produce evil? He said: No, only good comes out of good. No, only good comes out
of good. No. only good comes out of good. All that which the spring rain
helps to grow kills or is about to kill but (the
animal) which feeds on vegetation. It eats and when its flanks are distended,
it faces the sun, it chews the cud, it has dunged and urinated. it returns and
eats. This wealth is green and sweet, and he who accepts it and applies it
rightly, finds it a good
help, but he who
takes it wrongfully is like one who eats without being satisfied.
(Book #005,
Hadith #2289)
(51) Anas b. Malik
reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) gathered the Ansar
and said: Is there someone alien among you? They said: No, but only the son of
our sister. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The
son of the sister of the people is included among the tribe, and (farther)
said: The Quraish have recently abandoned Jahillyya and have just been
delivered from distress; I, therefore, intend to
help
them and conciliate them. Don't you feel happy that the people should return
with worldly riches and you return with the Messenger of Allah to your houses?
(So far as my love for you is concerned I should say) if the people were to
tread a valley and the Ansar tread a narraw path (in a mountain) I would tread
the narrow path of the Ansar.
(Book #005,
Hadith #2306)
(52) Anas b. Malik reported that when it was
the Day of Hunain there came the tribes of Hawazin, Ghatafan and others along
with their children and animals, and there were with the Apostle of Allah (may
peace be upon him) that day ten thousand (soldiers), and newly freed men (of
Mecca after its conquest). All these men (once) turned their backs, till he
(the Holy Prophet) was left alone. He (the Messenger of Allah) on that day
called twice and he did not interpose anything between these two
(announcements) He turned towards his right and said: 0 people of Ansar! They
said: At thy beck and call (are we), Messenger of Allah. Be glad we are with
thee. He then turned towards his left and said: 0 people of Ansar. They said:
At thy beck and call (are we). Be glad we are with thee. He (the Holy Prophet) was
riding a white mule. He dismounted and said: I am the servant of Allah and His
Apostle. The polytheists suffered defeat. and the Messenger of Allah (may peace
he upon him) acquired a large quantity of spoils, and he distributed them among
the refugees and the people recently delivered (of Mecca) but did not give
anything to the Ansar. The Ansar said: In the hour of distress it is we who are
called (for
help). but the spoils are
given to other people besides us. This (remark) reached him (the Holy Prophet).
and he gathered them In a tent. and said: What is this news that has reached me
on your behalf? They kept silence. Upon this he said: 0 people of Ansar, don't
you like that people should go away with worldly (riches), and you go away with
Muhammad taking him to your houses? They said: Yes, happy we are. Messenger of
Allah. He (the Holy Prophet) said: If the people were to tread a valley, and
the Ansar were to tread a narrow path, I would take the narrow path of the
Ansar. Hisham said: I asked Abu Hamza if he was present there. He said: How
could Ibe absent from him?
(Book #005,
Hadith #2308)
(53) Anas (Allah be pleased with him)
reported: We were with the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) on a
journey. Some of us had been observing the fast and some of us had not been
fasting. We got down at a place on a hot day. Most of us had the cloth for
shelter. There were also those amongst us who sheltered (themselves against the
rays of the) sun with the
help of their
hands. The observers of the fast fell down (on account of weakness). Those who
had not observed it got up and pitched tents and watered the mounts. Thereupon
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The breakers of the fast
have taken away the reward today.
(Book #006,
Hadith #2484)
(54) Ya'la reported: We were with the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) that a person came to him with a
cloak on him having the traces of scent. He said, Messenger of Allah, I put on
Ihram for 'Umra: what should I do? He (the Holy Prophet) kept quiet and did not
make him any reply. And 'Umar screened him and it was (usual) with 'Umar that
when the revelation descended upon him, he provided him shade (with the
help of a piece of cloth). I (the person who came
to the Holy Prophet) said: I said to 'Umar I wish to project my head into the
cloth (to see how the Holy Prophet receives revelation). So when the revelation
began to descend upon him 'Umar wrapped him (the Holy Prophet) with cloth I
came to him and projected my head with him into the cloth, and saw him (the
Holy Prophet) (receiving the revelation). When he (the Holy Prophet) was
relieved (of its burden), he said: Where is the inquirer who was just inquiring
about 'Umra? That man came to him. Thereupon he (the Apostle of Allah) said:
Take off the cloak from (your body) and wash the traces of perfume which were
upon you, and do in 'Umra what you did in Hajj.
(Book
#007,
Hadith #2658)
(55) Abu Qatada reported: We went with the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) till we reached al-Qaha (a place
three stages away from Medina). Some of us were in the state of Ihram and some
of us were not. I saw my companions looking towards something, and as I saw I
found It to be a wild ass. I saddled my horse and took up my spear and then
mounted upon (the horse) and my whip, fell down. I said to my companions as
they were in the state of Ihram to pick up the whip for me but they said: By
Allah, we cannot
help you in any (such)
thing (i. e. hunting). So i dis- mounted (the horse) and picked it (whip) up
and mounted again and caught the wild ass after chasing it. It was behind a
hillock and I attacked it with my spear and killed it. Then I brought it to my
companions. Some of them said: Eat it, while others said: Do not eat it. The
Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) was in front of us. I moved my horse
and came to him (and asked him), whereupon he said: It is permis- sible, so eat
it.
(Book #007,
Hadith #2707)
(56) 'Abdullah b. Abu Qatada reported: My
father went with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in the year of
Hudaibiya. His Companions entered upon the state of Ihram whereas he did not,
for it was conveyed to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) that the
enemy (was hiding at) Ghaiqa. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
went forward. He (Abu Qatada) said: Meanwhile I was along with his Companions,
some of them smiled (to one another) As I cast a glance I saw a wild ass. I attacked
It with a spear and held it, and begged for their (i. e. of his companions)
assistance, but they refused to
help me
and we ate its meat. But we were afraid lest we should be separated (from the
Messenger of Allah). So I proceeded on (with a view to) seeking the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him). Some- times I'dashed my horse and sometimes I
made it run at a leisurely pace (keeping pace with others). (In the meanwhile)
I met a person from Banfu Ghifar in the middle of the night. I said to him: Where
did you meet the messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)? He said: I left
him at Ta'bin and he intended to halt at Suqya to spend the afternoon. I met
him and said: Messenger of Allah. your Companions convey salutations and
benedictions of Allah to you and they fear that they may not be separated from
you (and the enemy may do harm to you), so wait for them, and he (the Holy
Prophet) waited for them. I said: Messenger of Allah, I killed a game and there
is left with me (some of the meat). The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said to his people: Eat it. And they were in the state of Ihram.
(Book #007,
Hadith #2710)
(57) This hadith is narrated'on the authority
of 'Uthman b. 'Abdullah b. Mauhab with the same chain of transmitters. And in
the narration transmitted on the authority of Shaiban (the words are):"
The Messenoer of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Did any one of you command
him to attack it or point towards it?" And in the narration transmitted by
Shu'ba (the words are):" Did you point out or did you
help or did you hunt?" Shu'ba said: I do not
know whether he said:" Did you
help
or did you hunt?"
(Book #007,
Hadith #2712)
(58) Ibrahim b. 'Abdullah narrated on the
authorrity of his father that there cropped up a difference of opinion between
Abdullah b. 'Abbas and al-Miswar b. Makhrama at a place (called) Abwa'.
Abdullah b. 'Abbas contended that a Muhrim (is permitted) to wash his head,
whereas Miswar contended that a Muhrim is not (permit- fed) to wash his head.
So Ibn Abbas sent me (the father of Ibrabim) to Abu Ayyub al- Ansirl to ask him
about it. (So I went to him) and found him taking bath behind two poles covered
by a cloth. I gave him salutation, whereupon be asked: Who is this? I said: I
am 'Abdullah b. Hunain. 'Abdullah b. 'Abbas has sent me to you to find out how
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) washed his head in the state of
Ihram. Abu Ayyub (Allah be pleased with him) placed his hand on the cloth and
lowered it (a little) till his head became visible to me; and he said to the
man who was pouring water upon him to pour water. He poured water on his head.
He then moved his head with the
help of
his hands and moved them (the hands) forward and backward and then said: This
is how I saw him (the Messenger of Allah) doing.
(Book
#007,
Hadith #2744)
(59) Ja'far b Muhammad reported on the
authority of his father: We went to Jabir b. Abdullah and he began inquiring
about the people (who had gone to see him) till it was my turn. I said: I am
Muhammad b. 'Ali b. Husain. He placed his hand upon my head and opened my upper
button and then the lower one and then placed his palm on my chest (in order to
bless me), and I was, during those days, a young boy, and he said: You are
welcome, my nephew. Ask whatever you want to ask. And I asked him but as he was
blind (he could not respond to me immediately), and the time for prayer came.
He stood up covering himself in his mantle. And whenever he placed its ends
upon his shoulders they slipped down on account of being short (in size).
Another mantle was, however, lying on the clothes rack near by. And he led us
in the prayer. I said to him: Tell me about the Hajj of Allah's Messenger (May
peace be upon him). And he pointed with his hand nine, and then stated: The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) stayed in (Medina) for nine years
but did not perform Hajj, then he made a public announcement in the tenth year
to the effect that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was about to
perform the Hajj. A large number of persons came to Medina and all of them were
anxious to follow the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) and do
according to his doing. We set out with him till we reached Dhu'l-Hulaifa.
Asma' daughter of Umais gave birth to Muhammad b. Abu Bakr. She sent message to
the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) asking him: What should 1 do? He
(the Holy Prophet) said: Take a bath, bandage your private parts and put on
Ihram. The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) then prayed in the mosque
and then mounted al-Qaswa (his she-camel) and it stood erect with him on its
back at al-Baida'. And I saw as far as I could see in front of me but riders
and pedestrians, and also on my right and on my left and behind me like this.
And the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was prominent among us and
the (revelation) of the Holy Qur'an was descending upon him. And it is he who knows
(its true) significance. And whatever he did, we also did that. He pronounced
the Oneness of Allah (saying):" Labbaik,0 Allah, Labbaik, Labbaik. Thou
hast no partner, praise and grace is Thine and the Sovereignty too; Thou hast
no partner." And the people also pronounced this Talbiya which they
pronounce (today). The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) did not
reject anything out of it. But the Messenger of Allah (May peace. be upon him)
adhered to his own Talbiya. Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) said: We did not
have any other intention but that of Hajj only, being unaware of the Umra (at
that season), but when we came with him to the House, he touched the pillar and
(made seven circuits) running three of them and walking four. And then going to
the Station of Ibrahim, he recited:" And adopt the Station of Ibrahim as a
place of prayer." And this Station was between him and the House. My
father said (and I do not know whether he had made a mention of it but that was
from Allah's Apostle [May peace be upon him] that he recited in two
rak'ahs:" say: He is Allah One," and say:" Say: 0
unbelievers." He then returned to the pillar (Hajar Aswad) and kissed it.
He then went out of the gate to al-Safa' and as he reached near it he recited:"
Al-Safa' and al-Marwa are among the signs appointed by Allah," (adding: )
I begin with what Allah (has commanded me) to begin. He first mounted al-Safa'
till he saw the House, and facing Qibla he declared the Oneness of Allah and
glorified Him, and said:" There is no god but Allah, One, there is no
partner with Him. His is the Sovereignty. to Him praise is due. and He is
Powerful over everything. There is no god but Allah alone, Who fulfilled His
promise,
helped His servant and routed
the confederates alone." He then made supplication in the course of that
saying such words three times. He then descended and walked towards al-Marwa,
and when his feet came down in the bottom of the valley, he ran, and when he
began to ascend he walked till he reached al-Marwa. There he did as he had done
at al-Safa'. And when it was his last running at al-Marwa he said: If I had
known beforehand what I have come to know afterwards, I would not have brought
sacrificial animals and would have performed an 'Umra. So, he who among you has
not the sacrificial animals with him should put off Ihram and treat it as an
Umra. Suraqa b. Malik b. Ju'sham got up and said: Messenger of Allah, does it
apply to the present year, or does it apply forever? Thereupon the Messenger of
Allah (May peace be upon him) intertwined the fingers (of one hand) into
another and said twice: The 'Umra has become incorporated in the Hajj
(adding):" No, but for ever and ever." 'All came from the Yemen with
the sacrificial animals for the Prophet (May peace be upon him) and found
Fatimah (Allah be pleased with her) to be one among those who had put off Ihram
and had put on dyed clothes and had applied antimony. He (Hadrat'Ali) showed
disapproval to it, whereupon she said: My father has commanded me to do this.
He (the narrator) said that 'Ali used to say in Iraq: I went to the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) showing annoyance at Fatimah for what she had
done, and asked the (verdict) of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
regarding what she had narrated from him, and told him that I was angry with
her, whereupon he said: She has told the truth, she has told the truth. (The
Holy Prophet then asked 'Ali): What did you say when you undertook to go for
Hajj? I ('Ali) said: 0 Allah, I am putting on Ihram for the same purpose as Thy
Messenger has put it on. He said: I have with me sacrificial animals, so do not
put off the Ihram. He (Jabir) said: The total number of those sacrificial
animals brought by 'Ali from the Yemen and of those brought by the Apostle (may
peace be upon him) was one hundred. Then all the people except the Apostle (may
peace be upon him) and those who had with them sacrificial animals, put off
Ihram, and got their hair clipped; when it was the day of Tarwiya (8th of
Dhu'l-Hijja) they went to Mina and put on the Ihram for Hajj and the Messenger
of Ailah (may peace be upon him) rode and led the noon, afternoon, sunset
'Isha' and dawn prayers. He then waited a little till the sun rose, and
commanded that a tent of hair should be pitched at Namira. The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) then set out and the Quraish did not doubt that
he would halt at al-Mash'ar al-Haram (the sacred site) as the Quraish used to
do in the pre-Islamic period. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him),
however, passed on till he came to 'Arafa and he found that the tent had been
pitched for him at Namira. There he got down till the sun had passed the
meridian; he commanded that al-Qaswa should be brought and saddled for him.
Then he came to the bottom of the valley, and addressed the people saying:
Verily your blood, your property are as sacred and inviolable as the sacredness
of this day of yours, in this month of yours, in this town of yours. Behold!
Everything pertaining to the Days of Ignorance is under my feet completely
abolished. Abolished are also the blood-revenges of the Days of Ignorance. The
first claim of ours on blood-revenge which I abolish is that of the son of
Rabi'a b. al-Harith, who was nursed among the tribe of Sa'd and killed by
Hudhail. And the usury of she pre-Islamic period is abolished, and the first of
our usury I abolish is that of 'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib, for it is all
abolished. Fear Allah concerning women! Verily you have taken them on the
security of Allah, and intercourse with them has been made lawful unto you by
words of Allah. You too have right over them, and that they should not allow
anyone to sit on your bed whom you do not like. But if they do that, you can
chastise them but not severely. Their rights upon you are that you should
provide them with food and clothing in a fitting manner. I have left among you
the Book of Allah, and if you hold fast to it, you would never go astray. And
you would be asked about me (on the Day of Resurrection), (now tell me) what
would you say? They (the audience) said: We will bear witness that you have
conveyed (the message), discharged (the ministry of Prophethood) and given wise
(sincere) counsel. He (the narrator) said: He (the Holy Prophet) then raised
his forefinger towards the sky and pointing it at the people (said):" O
Allah, be witness. 0 Allah, be witness," saying it thrice. (Bilal then)
pronounced Adhan and later on Iqama and he (the Holy Prophet) led the noon
prayer. He (Bilal) then uttered Iqama and he (the Holy Prophet) led the afternoon
prayer and he observed no other prayer in between the two. The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) then mounted his camel and came to the place of
stay, making his she-camel al-Qaswa, turn towards the side where there we are
rocks, having the path taken by those who went on foot in front of him, and
faced the Qibla. He kept standing there till the sun set, and the yellow light
had somewhat gone, and the disc of the sun had disappeared. He made Usama sit
behind him, and he pulled the nosestring of Qaswa so forcefully that its head
touched the saddle (in order to keep her under perfect control), and he pointed
out to the people with his right hand to be moderate (in speed), and whenever
he happened to pass over an elevated tract of sand, he slightly loosened it
(the nose-string of his camel) till she climbed up and this is how he reached
al-Muzdalifa. There he led the evening and 'Isha prayers with one Adhan and two
Iqamas and did not glorify (Allah) in between them (i. e. he did not observe
supererogatory rak'ahs between Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers). The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) then lay down till dawn and offered the dawn
prayer with an Adhan and Iqama when the morning light was clear. He again
mounted al-Qaswa, and when he came to al-Mash'ar al-Haram, he faced towards
Qibla, supplicated Him, Glorified Him, and pronounced His Uniqueness (La ilaha
illa Allah) and Oneness, and kept standing till the daylight was very clear. He
then went quickly before the sun rose, and seated behind him was al-Fadl b.
'Abbas and he was a man having beautiful hair and fair complexion and handsome
face. As the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) was moving on, there
was also going a group of women (side by side with them). Al-Fadl began to look
at them. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) placed his hand on the
face of Fadl who then turned his face to the other side, and began to see, and
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) turned his hand to the other
side and placed it on the face of al-Fadl. He again turned his face to the
other side till he came to the bottom of Muhassir. 1680 He urged her (al-Qaswa)
a little, and, following the middle road, which comes out at the greatest
jamra, he came to the jamra which is near the tree. At this be threw seven
small pebbles, saying Allah-o-Akbar while throwing every one of them in a
manner in which the small pebbles are thrown (with the
help of fingers) and this he did in the bottom of
the valley. He then went to the place of sacrifice, and sacrificed sixty-three
(camels) with his own hand. Then he gave the remaining number to 'All who
sacrificed them, and he shared him in his sacrifice. He then commanded that a
piece of flesh from each animal sacrificed should be put in a pot, and when it
was cooked, both of them (the Holy Prophet and Hadrat 'All) took some meat out
of it and drank its soup. The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) again
rode and came to the House, and offered the Zuhr prayer at Mecca. He came to
the tribe of Abd al-Muttalib, who were supplying water at Zamzam, and said:
Draw water. O Bani 'Abd al-Muttalib; were it not that people would usurp this
right of supplying water from you, I would have drawn it along with you. So
they handed him a basket and he drank from it.
(Book
#007,
Hadith #2803)
(60) Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Rahman reported: A
person from Iraq said to him to inquire from 'Urwa b. Zubair for him whether a
person who puts on Ihram for Hajj is allowed to put it off or not as he
circumambulates the House. And if he says:" No, it can't be put off,"
then tell him that there is a person who makes such an assertion. He (Muhammad
b. 'Abd al-Rahman) then said: I asked him ( Urwa b. Zubair), where- upon he
said: The person who has entered into the state of Ihram for Hajj cannot get
out of it unless he has, completed the Hajj I (further) said (to him): (What)
if a person makes that assertion? Thereupon he said: It is indeed unfortunate
that he makes such an assertion. That person ('Iraqi) then met me and he asked
me and I narrated to him (the reply of 'Urwa), whereupon he (the Iraqi) said:
Tell him ('Urwa) that a person had informed him that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) had done that; and why is it that Asma' and Zubair have done
like this? He (Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Rahman) said: I went to him and made a
mention of that to him, whereupon he ('Urwa) said: Who is he (the 'Iraqi)? I
said: I do not know, whereupon he said: What is the matter that he does not
come to me himself and ask me? I suppose he is an 'Iraqi. I said: I do not
know, whereupon he said: He has told a lie. Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) performed Hajj, and 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) has told me
that the first thing with which he commenced (the rituals) when he arrived at
Mecca was that he performed ablution and then circumambulated the Ka'ba. Then
Abu Bakr performed Hajj and the first thing with which he commenced (the Hajj)
as the circumambulation of the Ka'ba and nothing besides it. So did 'Umar. Then
'Uthman performed Hajj and I saw that the first thing with which he commenced
the Hajj was the circumambulation of the Ka'ba and nothing besides it. Then
Mu'awiya and Abdullah b. 'Umar did that. Then I performed Hajj with my father
Zubair b. al-'Awwam, and the first thing with which he commenced (Hajj) was the
circumambulation of the House. He then did nothing besides it. I then saw the
emigrants (Muhajirin) and the
helpers
(Ansar) doing like this and nothing besides it. And the last one whom I saw
doing like this was Ibn 'Umar. And he did not break it (the Hajj) after performing
'Umra. And Ibn 'Umar is with them. Why don't they ask him (to testify it)? And
none amongst those who had passed away commenced (the rituals of Hajj) but by
circumambulating the Ka'ba on their (first arrival) and they did not put off
Ihram (without completing the Hajj), and I saw my mother and my aunt commencing
(their Hajj) with the circumambulation of the House, and they did not put off
Ihram. My mother informed me that she came and her sister, and Zubair and so
and so for 'Umra, and when they had kissed the corner (the Black Stone, after
Sa'i and circumambulation), they put off Ihram. And he (the 'Iraqi) has told a
lie in this matter.
(Book #007,
Hadith #2850)
(61) Ibn Abbas reported
that Mu'awiya had said to them: Do you know that I clipped some hair from the
head of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) at al- Marwa with the
help of a clipper? I said: I do not know it except
as it verdict against you.
(Book #007,
Hadith #2870)
(62) Musa b. Salama al-Hudhali reported: I
and Sinan b. Salama proceeded (to Mecca to perform Umra. Sinan had a
sacrificial camel with him which he was driving. The camel stopped in the way
being completely exhausted and this state of it made him (Sinan)
helpless. (He thought) if it stops proceeding
further how he would be able to take it, along with him and said: I would
definitely find out (the religious verdict) about it. I moved on in the morning
and as we encamped at al-Batha', (Sinan) said: Come (along with me) to Ibn
'Abbis (Allah be pleased with them) so that we should narrate to him (this
incident), and he (Sinan) reported to him the incident of the sacrificial
camel. He (Ibn Abbas) said: You have referred (the matter) to the well informed
person. (Now listen) Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent sixteen
sacrificial camels with a man whom he put in change of them. He set out and
came back and said: Messenger of Allah, what should I do with those who are
completely exhausted and become powerless to move on, whereupon he said:
Slaughter them, and dye their hoofs in their blood, and put them on the sides
of their humps, but neither you nor anyone among those who are with you must
eat any part of them.
(Book #007,
Hadith #3054)
(63) 'A'isha reported: I asked Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) about Hijr, and the rest of the hadith is the
same. I also said: Why is it that the door has been made on a higher level, and
one cannot (get into it) but with the
help
of a ladder? The rest of the hadith is the same as reported above and the
concluding words are: (I do not change it) out of the apprehension that their
hearts may disapprove of it."
(Book #007,
Hadith #3088)
(64) Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that whenever
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came back from the battle or from
expeditions or from Hajj or Umra and as he reached the top of the hillock or
upon the elevated hard ground, he uttered Allah-o- Akbar thrice, and then said:
There is no god but Allah. He is One, there is no partner with Him, His is the
sovereignty and His is the praise and He is Potent over everything. (We are)
returning, repenting, worshipping, prostrating before our Lord, and we praise
Him Allah fulfilled His promise and
helped
His servant, and routed the confederates alone.
(Book
#007,
Hadith #3116)
(65) Ibn Sirin reported: One who was
blameless (as a narrator) narrated to me for twenty years that Ibn 'Umar (Allah
be pleased with him) pronounced three divorces to his wife while she was in the
state of menses. He was commanded to take her back. I neither blamed them (the
narrators) nor recognised the hadith (to be perfectly genuine) until I met Abu
Ghallab Yunus b. Jubair al-Bahili and he was very authentic, and he narrated to
me that he had asked Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with there) and he narrated it
to him that he made one pronouncement of divorce to his wife as she was in the
state of menses, but he was commanded to take her back. I said: Was it counted
(as one pronouncement)? He said: Why not, was I
helpless
or foolish?
(Book #009,
Hadith #3481)
(66) Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them)
reported: I divorced my wife while she was in the state of menses. 'Umar (Allah
he pleased wish him) came toAllah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and made
mention of that to him, whereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) told
that be should take her back, and when she is pure he may divorce her. if he
would so wish. I (one of the narrators) said to Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased
with them): Did you count (this pronouncement of divorce) in her case? He said:
What (after all) prevents him from doing so? Do you find him (Ibn Umar) either
helpless or foolish?
(Book
#009,
Hadith #3485)
(67) Anas b. Sirin reported: I asked Ibn
'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) about the woman whom he had divorced. He
said: I divorced her while she was in the state of menses. It was mentioned to
'Umar (Allah be pleased with him) and he then made a mention of that to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him), whereupon he said: Command him to take her
back and when the period of menses is over, then (he may divorce her in the
state of her purity. He (Ibn Umar) said: So I took her back, then divorced her
in her purity. I (the narrator) said: Did you count that divorce which you
pronounced in the state of menses? He said: Why should I not have counted that?
Was I
helpless or foolish?
(Book #009,
Hadith #3486)
(68) 'Umar b. al-Khattab (Allah be pleased
with him) reported: When Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) kept himself
away from his wives, I entered the mosque, and found people striking the ground
with pebblesand saying: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) has divorced
his wives, and that was before they were commanded to observe seclusion 'Umar
said to himself: I must find this (actual position) today. So I went to 'A'isha
(Allah be pleased with her) and said (to her): Daughter of Abu Bakr, have you
gone to the extent of giving trouble to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him)? Thereupon she said: Son of Khattab, you have nothing to do with me, and I
have nothing to do with you. You should look to your own receptacle. He ('Umar)
said: I visited Hafsa daughter of 'Umar, and said to her: Hafsa, the (news) has
reached me that you cause Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) trouble.
You know that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) does not love you, and
had I not been (your father) he would have divorced you. (On hearing this) she
wept bitterly. I said to her: Where is Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him)? Shesaid: He is in the attic room. I went in and found Rabah, the servant
of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), sitting on the thresholds of the
window dangling his feet on the hollow wood of the date-palm with the
help of which Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) climbed (to the apartment) and came down. I cried: 0 Rabah, seek
permission for me from Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him). Rabah cast a
glance at the apartment and then looked toward me but said nothing. I again
said: Rabah, seek permission for me from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him). Rabah looked towards the apartment and then cast a glance at me, but said
nothig. I then raised my voice and said: 0 Rabah, seek permission for me from
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). I think that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) is under the impression that I have come for the sake of
Hafsa. By Allah, if Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) would command me
to strike her neck, I would certainly strike her neck. I raised my voice and he
pointed me to climb up (and get into his apartment). I visited Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he was lying on a mat. I sat down and he
drew up his lower garment over him and he had nothing (else) over him, and that
the mat had left its marks on his sides. I looked with my eyes in the store
room of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). I found only a handful of
barley equal to one sa' and an equal quantity of the leaves of Mimosa Flava
placed in the nook of the cell, and a semi-tanned leather bag hanging (in one
side), and I was moved to tears (on seeing this extremely austere living of the
Holy Piophet), and he said: Ibn Khattab, what wakes you weep? I said: Apostle
of Allah, why should I not shed tears? This mat has left its marks on your
sides and I do not see in your store room (except these few things) that I have
seen; Ceasar and Closroes are leading their lives in plenty whereas you are
Allah's Messenger. His chosen one, and that is your store! He said: Ibn
Khattab, aren't you satisfied that for us (there should be the prosperity) of
the Hereafter, and for them (there should be the prosperity of) this world? I
said: Yes. And as I had entered I had seen the signs of anger on his face, and
I therefore, said: Messenger of Allah, what trouble do you feel from your
wives, and if youhave divorced them, verily Allah is with you, His angels,
Gabriel, Mika'il, I and Abu Bakr and the believers are with you. And seldom I
talked and (which I uttered on that day) I hoped that Allah would testify to my
words that I uttered. And so the verse of option (Ayat al-Takhyir) was
revealed. Maybe his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives
better than you..." (Ixv. 5). And if you back up one another against him,
then surely Allah is his Patron, and Gabriel and the righteous believers, and
the angels after that are the aidera (lvi. 4). And it was 'A'isha, daughter of
Abu Bakr, and Hafsa who had prevailed upon all the wives of Allah's Prophet
(way peace be upon him) for (pressing them for mote money). I said: Messenger
of Allah, have you divorced them? He said: No. I said: Messenger of Allah, I
entered the mosque and found the Muslims playing with pebbles (absorbed in
thought) and saying: Allah's Messenger has divorced his wives. Should I get
down and inform there that you have not divorced them? He said: Yes, if you so
like. And I went on talking to him until I (found) the signs of anger
disappeared on his face and (his seriousness was changed to a happy mood and as
a result thereof) his face had the natural tranquillity upon it and he laughed
and his teeth were the most charming (among the teeth) of all people. Then
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) climbed down and I also climbed down
and catching hold of the wood of the palm-tree and Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) came down (with such ease) as if he was walking on the ground, not
touching anything with his hand (to get support). I said: Messenger of Allah,
you remained in your apartment for twenty-nine days. He said: (At times) the
month consists of twenty-nine days. I stood at the door of the mosque and I
called out at the top of my voice: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) has not divorced his wives (and it was on this occasion that this) verse
was revealed:" And if any matter pertaining to peace or alarm comes within
their ken, they broadcast it; whereas, if they would refer it to the Apostle
and those who have been entrusted with authority amongst them, those of them
who are engaged in obtaining intelligence would indeed know (what to do with)
it" (iv 83). And it was I who understood this matter, and Allah revealed
the verse pertaining to option (given to the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon
him in regard to the retaining or divorcing of his wives).
(Book #009,
Hadith #3507)
(69) 'A'isha (Allah be pjeased with her)
reported that Barira came to her in order to seek her
help in securing freedom, but she had (so far)
paid nothing out of that sum stipulated in the contract. 'A'isba said to her.
Go to your family (who owns you), and if they like that I should pay the amount
(of the contract) on your behalf (for purchasing your freedom), then I shall
have the right in your inheritance. (If they accepted it) I am prepared (to
make this payment). Barira made a mention of that to the (members of) her
family, but they refused and said: If she (Hadrat 'A'isha) wants to do good to
You for the sake of Allah, she may do it, but the right of inheritance will be
ours. She (Hadrat 'A'isha) made a mention of that to Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him), and he said to her: Buy her, and emancipate her, for the
right of inheritance vests with one who emancipates (the slave). Allah's
Messenger, may peace be upon him) then stood up and said: What has happened to
the people that they lay down conditions which are not (found) in the Book of
Allah? And he who laid down a condition not found in the Book of Allah, that is
not valid. even if it is laid down hundred times. The condition laid down by
Allah is the most weighty and the most valid.
(Book
#009,
Hadith #3585)
(70) 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her)
reported: Barira came to me and said: My family (owners) have made contract
with me (for granting freedom) for nine 'uqiyas (of silver) payable in nine
years, one 'uqiya every year.
help me (in
making this payment). I said to her: If your family so desires, I am prepared
to make them the full payment in one instalment, and thus secure freedom for
you, but the right of inheritance will vest in me, if I do so. She (Barira)
made a mention of that to her family, but they refused (except) on the
condition that the right of inheritance would vest in them. She came to me and
made mention of if She ('A'isha) said: I scolded her. She (Barira) said: By
Allah, it is not possible (they will never agree to it). And as she was saying
it, Allah's messenger (may peace be upon him) heard, and he asked me, I
informed him and he said: Buy her and emancipate her, and let the right of
inherit- ance vest in them, for they cannot claim it (rightfully) since the
right of inherritance vests with one who emancipates (the slave; therefore,
these people have no right to lay such false claims). And I did so. She
('A'isha) said: Then Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) delivered a
sermon in the evening. He extolled Allah and praised Him with what He deserves,
and then said afterwards,: What has happened to the people that they lay down
conditions which are not found in the Book of Allah? And the condition which is
not found in the Book of Allah is invalid, even if its number is one hundred.
The Book of Allah is more true (than any other deed) and the condition laid
down by Allah is more binding (than any other condition). What has happened to
the people among you that someone among you says:" Emancipate so and so,
but the right of inheritance vests in me"? Verily, the right of
inheritance vests in one who emancipates.
(Book #009,
Hadith #3587)
(71) Abu Huraira (Allah be
please with him) is reported to have said to Marwan: Have you made lawful the
transactions involving interest? Thereupon Marwan said: I have not done that.
Thereupon Abu Huraira (may peace be upon him) said: You have made lawful the
transactions with the
help of documents
only, whereas Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade the transaction
of foodgrains until full possession is taken of them. Marwan then addressed the
people and forbade them to enter into such transactions (as are done with the
help of documents). Sulaiman said: I saw the
sentinels snatching (these documents) from the people.
(Book #010,
Hadith #3652)
(72) Jabir (Allah be pleased with him)
reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: He who has land
should cultivate it, but if he does not find it possible to cultivate it, or
finds himself
helpless to do so, he
should lend it to his Muslim brother, but he should not accept rent from him.
(Book #010,
Hadith #3719)
(73) Jabir b. Abdullah (Allah be pleased with
them) reported: We used to get land (on rent) during the lifetime of Allah's
Messeuge, (may peace be upon him) with a share of one-third or one-fourth (of
the produce from the land irrigated) with the
help
of canals. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) stood up (to
address) and said: HRe who has land should cultivate it, and if he does not
cultivate it, he should lend it to his brother, and if he does not lend it to
his brother, he should then retain it.
(Book #010,
Hadith #3724)
(74) Abdullah b. Ka'ab b. Malik reported from
his father that he pressed in the mosque Ibn Abu Hadrad for the payment of the
debt that he owed to him during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him). (In this altercation) their voices became loud, until Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) heard them, while he was in the house, so
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came out towards them, and he lifted
the curtain of his apartment and he called upon Ka'b b. Malik and said: O Ka'b.
He said: At thy beck and call, Allah's Messenger. He pointed out with the
help of his hand to remit half of the loan due to
him. Ka'b said: Allah's Messenger, I am ready to do that, whereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said (to Ibn Abu Hadrad): Stand up and make
him the payment (of the rest).
(Book #010,
Hadith #3780)
(75) Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him)
reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) deputed a person to
collect revenue from Khaibar. He brought fine quality of dates, whereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Are all the dates of Khaibar
like this)? He said: No. We got one sa' (of fine dates) for two sa's (of
inferior dates), and (similarly) two sa's for three sa's. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Don't do that rather sell the inferior
quality of dates for dirhams (money), and then buy the superior quality with
the
help of dirhams.
(Book #010,
Hadith #3870)
(76) Abu Sa'id (Allah be pleased with him)
reported: Dates were brought to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), and
he said: These dates are not like our dates, whereupon a man said: We sold two
sa's of our dates (in order to get) one sa', of these (fine dates), whereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: That is interest; so return
(these dates of fine quality), and get your (inferior dates) ; then sell our
dates (for money) and buy for us (with the
help
of money) such (fine dates).
(Book #010,
Hadith #3872)
(77) Abu Nadra reported: I asked Ibn Umar and
Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) about the conversion of gold with gold
but they did not find any harm in that. I was sitting in the company of Abd
Sa'id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) and asked him about this exchange,
and he said: Whatever is addition is an' interest. I refused to accept it on
account of their statement (statement of Ibn 'Abbas and Ibn 'Umar). He said: I
am not narrating to you except what I heard from Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him). There came to him the owner of a date-palm with one sa' of fine
dates, and the dates of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) were of that
colour. Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said to him: Where did you get
these dates? I went with two sa's of (inferior dates) and bought one sa' of
(these fine dates), for that is the prevailing price (of inferior dates) in the
market and that is the price (of the fine quality of dates in the market),
whereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Woe be upon you! You
have dealt in interest, when you decide to do it (i. e. exchange superior
quality of dates for inferior quality) ; so you should sell your dates for
another commodity (or currency) and then with the
help
of that commodity buy the dates you like. Abu Sa'ad said: When dates are
exchanged for dates (with different qualities) there is the possibility (of the
element of) interest (creeping into that) or when gold is exchanged for gold
having different qualities. I subsequently came to Ibn 'Umar and he forbade me
(to do it), but I did not come to Ibn 'Abbas; (Allah be pleased with them). He
(the narrator) said: Abu as-Sahba' narrated to me: He asked Ibn Abbas (Allah be
pleased with them) in Mecca, and he too disapproved of it.
(Book #010,
Hadith #3875)
(78) Hammam b. Munabbih reported: This is
what Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) narratted to us from Allah's
Messenger (may peace he upon him). And he narrated many ahadith, and one was
this: Allali's Messenger (may peace be upon him said: I am, according to the
Book of Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, nearest to the believers of all the
human beings. So whoever amongst you dies in debt or leaves behind destitute
children, you should call me (for
help)
), for I am his guardian. And who amongst you leaves property, his inheritor is
entitled to get it, whoever he is.
(Book #011,
Hadith #3947)
(79) This hadith is narrated on the authority
of Jabir through other chains of transmitters, but (with this addition of
words) that thehadith transmitted on the authority of Ayyub (these words are
found):" The
helpers (Ansar)
conferred the benefit of 'Umra, upon the Emigrants (Muhajirin), whereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Keep your property to
yourselves.
(Book #012,
Hadith #3981)
(80) Abd al-Rahman b. Samura reported that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to me: Abd al-Rahman b. Samura,
don't ask for authority for if it is granted to you for asking for it, you
would be commissioned for it (without having the support of Allah), but if you
are granted it without your asking for it. You would be
helped (by Allah) in it. And when you take an oath
and find something else better than that, expiate for (breaking) your oath, and
do that which is better. This hadith has also been transmitted on the authority
of Ibn Farrukh.
(Book #015,
Hadith #4062)
(81) Al-Ma'rur b. Suwaid
said: We went to Abu Dharr (Ghifari) in Rabadha and he had a mantle over him,
and his slave had one like it. We said: Abu Dharr, had you joined them
together, it would have been a complete garment. Thereupon he said: There was
an altercation between me and one of the persons among my brothers. His mother
was a non-Arab. I reproached him for his mother. He complained against me to
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him). As I met Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) he said: Abu Dharr, you are a person who still has (in him the
remnants) of the days (of Ignorance). Thereupon I said: Allah's Messenger, he
who abuses (other) persons, they abuse (in return) his father and mother. He
(the Holy Prophet) said: Abu Dharr, you are a person who still has (the
remnants) of Ignorance in him They (your servants and slaves) are your
brothers. Allah has put them in your care, so feed them with what you eat,
clothe them with what you wear. and do not burden them beyond their capacities;
but if you burden them (with an unbearable burden), then
help them (by sharing their extra burden).
(Book #015,
Hadith #4092)
(82) This hadith has been narrated on the
authority of A'mash but with a slight variation of words, e. g. in the hadith
transmitted on the authority of Zuhair and Abu Mu'awiya after his words (these
words of the Holy Prophet):" You are a person having the remnants of
Ignorance in him." (these words also occur, that Abu Dharr) said: Even up
to this time of my old age? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Yes. In the tradition
transmitted on the authority of Abu Mu'awiya (the words are):" Yes, in
this time of your old age." In the tradition transmitted on the authority
of 'Isa (the words are):" If you burden him (with an unbearable burden),
you should sell him (and get another slave who can easily undertake this
burden)." In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Zuhair (the words
are):"
help him in that
(work)." In the hadith transmitted by Abu Mu'awiya (separately) there is
no such word: Then sell him or
help
him." This hadith concludes with these words:" Do not burden him
beyond his capacity."
(Book #015,
Hadith #4093)
(83) Ma'rur b. Suwaid reported: I saw Abu
Dharr wearing clothes, and his slave wearing similar ones. I asked him about
it, and he narrated that he had abused a person during the lifetime of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upoe. him) and he reproached him for his mother. That
person came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and made mention of that
to him. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: You are a
person who has (remnants of) Ignorance in him. Your slaves are brothers of
yours. Allah has placed them in your hand, and he who has his brother under
him, he should feed him with what he eats, and dress him with what he dresses
himself, and do not burden them beyond their capacities, and if you burden
them, (beyond their capacities), then
help
them.
(Book #015,
Hadith #4094)
(84) 'Alqama b. Wa'il reported on the
authority of his-father: While I was sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him), a person came there dragging another one with the
help of a strap and said: Allah's Messenger, this
man has killed my brother. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to
him: Did you kill him? And the other man said: (In case he did not make a
confession of this, I shall brine, a witness against him). He (the murderer)
said: Yes, I have killed him. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Why did you kill him?
He said: I and he won striking down the leaves of a tree and he abused me and
enraged me, and to I struck his head with an axe and killed him, whereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Have you anything with you to
pay blood-wit on your behalf? He said: I do not possess any property but this
robe of mine and this axe of mine. He (the Holy, Prophet) said: Do you think
your people will pay ransom for you? He said: I am more insignificant among my
people than this (that I would not be able to get this benefit from my tribe).
He (the Holy Prophet) threw the strap towards him (the claimant of the
blood-wit) saying: Take away your man. The man took him away, and as he
returned, Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: If he kills him, he
will be like him. He returned and said: Allah's Messenger, it has reached me
that you have said that" If he killed him, he would be like him." I
caught hold of him according to your command, whereupon Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: Don't you like that he should take upon him (the
burden) of your sin and the sin of your companion (your brother)? He said:
Allah's Apostle, why not? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be. upon him) said:
If it is so, then let it be. He threw away the strap (around the offender) and
set him free.
(Book #016,
Hadith #4164)
(85) Al-Bara' b. 'Azib reported: There
happened to pass by Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) a Jew blackened and
lashed. Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) called them (the Jews) and
said: Is this the punishment that you find in your Book (Torah) as a prescribed
punishment for adultery? They said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) called one of
the scholars amongst them and said: I ask you in the name of Allah Who sent
down the Torah on Moses if that is the prescribed punishment for adultery that
you find in your Book. He said: No. Had you not asked me in the name of Allah,
I would not have given you this information. We find stoning to death (as
punishment prescribed in the Torah). But this (crime) became quite common
amongst our aristocratic class. So when we caught hold of any rich person
(indulging in this offence) we spared him, but when we caught hold of a
helpless person we imposed the prescribed
punishment upon him. We then said: Let us argree (on a punishment) which we can
inflict both upon the rich and the poor. So We decided to blacken the face with
coal and flog as a substitute punishment for stoning. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: O Allah, I am the first to revive Thy
command when they had made it dead. He then commanded and he (the offender) was
stoned to death. Allah, the Majestic and Glorious, sent down (this verse):"
O Messenger, (the behaviour of) those who vie with one another in denying the
truth should not grieve you..." up to" is vouchsafed unto you, accept
it" (v. 41) 2176 It was said (by the Jews): Go to Muhammad; it he commands
you to blacken the face and award flogging (as punishment for adultery), then
accept it, but it he gives verdict for stoning, then avoid it. It was (then)
that Allah, the Majestic and Great, sent down (these verses):" And they
who do not judge in accordance with what Allah has revealed are, indeed,
deniers of the truth" (v. 44) ;" And they who do not judge in
accordance with what Allah has revealed-they, they indeed are the
wrongdoers" (v. 45) ;" And they who do not judge in accordance with
what God has revealed-they are the iniquitous (v. 47). (All these verses) were
revealed in connection with the non-believers.
(Book
#017,
Hadith #4214)
(86) It has been reported from Sulaiman b.
Buraid through his father that when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) appointed anyone as leader of an army or detachment he would especially
exhort him to fear Allah and to be good to the Muslims who were with him. He
would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against
those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war, do not embezzle the spoils; do
not break your pledge; and do not mutilate (the dead) bodies; do not kill the
children. When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three
courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and
withold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if
they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them.
Then invite them to migrate from their lands to the land of Muhairs and inform
them that, if they do so, they shall have all the privileges and obligations of
the Muhajirs. If they refuse to migrate, tell them that they will have the
status of Bedouin Muilims and will be subjected to the Commands of Allah like
other Muslims, but they will not get any share from the spoils of war or Fai'
except when they actually fight with the Muslims (against the disbelievers). If
they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay,
accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax,
seek Allah's
help and fight them. When
you lay siege to a fort and the besieged appeal to you for protection in the
name of Allah and His Prophet, do not accord to them the guarantee of Allah and
His Prophet, but accord to them your own guarantee and the guarantee of your
companions for it is a lesser sin that the security given by you or your
companions be disregarded than that the security granted in the name of Allah
and His Prophet be violated When you besiege a fort and the besieged want you
to let them out in accordance with Allah's Command, do not let them come out in
accordance with His Command, but do so at your (own) command, for you do not
know whether or not you will be able to carry out Allah's behest with regard to
them.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4294)
(87) It is narrated by Abu Nadr that he
learnt from a letter sent by a man from the Aslam tribe, who was a Companion of
the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) and whose name was 'Abdullah b. Abu
Aufa, to 'Umar b. 'Ubaidullah when the latter marched upon Haruriyya (Khawarij)
informing him that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in one of
those days when lie was confronting the enemy waited until the sun had
declined. Then he stood up (to address the people) and said: O ye men, do not
wish for an encounter with the enemy. Pray to Allah to grant you security;
(but) when you (have to) encounter them exercise patience, and you should know
that Paradise is under the shadows of the swords. Then the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) stood up (again) and said: O Allah. Revealer of the
Book, Disperser of the clouds, Defeater of the hordes, put our enemy to rout
and
help us against them.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4314)
(88) It is reported by Zuhri that this
tradition was narrated to him by Malik b. Aus who said: Umar b. al-Khattab sent
for me and I came to him when the day had advanced. I found him in his house
sitting on his bare bed-stead, reclining on a leather pillow. He said (to me):
Malik, some people of your tribe have hastened to me (with a request for
help). I have ordered a little money for them.
Take it and distribute it among them. I said: I wish you had ordered somebody
else to do this job. He said: Malik, take it (and do what you have been told).
At this moment (his man-servant) Yarfa' came in and said: Commander of the
Faithful, what do you say about Uthman, Abd al-Rabman b. 'Auf, Zubair and Sa'd
(who have come to seek an audience with you)? He said: Yes, and permitted them.
so they entered. Then he (Yarfa') came again and said: What do you say about
'Ali and Abbas (who are present at the door)? He said: Yes, and permitted them
to enter. Abbas said: Commander of the Faithful, decide (the dispute) between
me and this sinful, treacherous, dishonest liar. The people (who were present)
also said: Yes. Commander of the Faithful, do decide (the dispute) and have
mercy on them. Malik b. Aus said: I could well imagine that they had sent them
in advance for this purpose (by 'Ali and Abbas). 'Umar said: Wait and be
patient. I adjure you by Allah by Whose order the heavens and the earth are
sustained, don't you know that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
said:" We (prophets) do not have any heirs; what we leave behind is (to be
given in) charity"? They said: Yes. Then he turned to Abbas and 'Ali and
said: I adjure you both by Allah by Whose order the heavens and earth are
sustained, don't you know that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
said:" We do not have any heirs; what we leave behind is (to be given in)
charity"? They (too) said: Yes. (Then) Umar said: Allah, the Glorious and
Exalted, had done to His Messenger (may peace be upon him) a special favour
that He has not done to anyone else except him. He quoted the Qur'anic
verse:" What Allah has bestowed upon His Apostle from (the properties) of
the people of township is for Allah and His Messenger". The narrator said:
I do not know whether he also recited the previous verse or not. Umar
continued: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) distrbuted among you
the properties abandoned by Banu Nadir. By Allah, he never preferred himself
over you and never appropriated anything to your exclusion. (After a fair
distribution in this way) this property was left over. The Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) would meet from its income his annual expenditure, and
what remained would be deposited in the Bait-ul-Mal. (Continuing further) he
said: I adjure you by Allah by Whose order the heavens and the earth are
sustained. Do you know this? They said: Yes. Then he adjured Abbas and 'All as
he had adjured the other persons and asked: Do you both know this? They said:
Yes. He said: When the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) passed away,
Abu Bakr said:" I am the successor of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him)." Both of you came to demand your shares from the property (left
behind by the Messenger of Allah). (Referring to Hadrat 'Abbas), he said: You
demanded your share from the property of your nephew, and he (referring to
'Ali) demanded a share on behalf of his wife from the property of her father.
Abu Bakr (Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) had said:" We do not have any heirs; what we leave behind is (to
be given in) charity." So both of you thought him to be a liar, sinful,
treacherous and dishonest. And Allah knows that he was true, virtuous,
well-guided and a follower of truth. When Abu Bakr passed away and (I have
become) the successor of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and Abu
Bakr (Allah be pleased with him), you thought me to be a liar, sinful,
treacherous and dishonest. And Allah knows that I am true, virtuous,
well-guided and a follower of truth. I became the guardian of this property.
Then you as well as he came to me. Both of you have come and your purpose is
identical. You said: Entrust the property to us. I said: If you wish that I
should entrust it to you, it will be on the condition that both of you will
undertake to abide by a pledge made with Allah that you will use it in the same
way as the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used it. So both of you
got it. He said: Wasn't it like this? They said: Yes. He said: Then you have
(again) come to me with the request that I should adjudge between you. No, by
Allah. I will not give any other judgment except this until the arrival of the
Doomsday. If you are unable to hold the property on this condition, return it
to me.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4349)
(89) It has been narrated on the authority of
'Umar b. al-Khattab who said: When it was the day on which the Battle of Badr
was fought, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) cast a glance at the
infidels, and they were one thousand while his own Companions were three
hundred and nineteen. The Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) turned (his
face) towards the Qibla Then he stretched his hands and began his supplication
to his Lord:" O Allah, accomplish for me what Thou hast promised to me. O
Allah, bring about what Thou hast promised to me. O Allah, if this small band
of Muslims is destroyed. Thou will not be worshipped on this earth." He
continued his supplication to his Lord, stretching his hands, facing the Qibla,
until his mantle slipped down from his shoulders. So Abu Bakr came to him,
picked up his mantle and put it on his shoulders. Then he embraced him from
behind and said:. Prophet of Allah, this prayer of yours to your Lord will
suffice you, and He will fulfil for you what He has promised you. So Allah, the
Glorious and Exalted, revealed (the Qur'anic verse):" When ye appealed to
your Lord for
help, He responded to your
call (saying): I will
help you with one
thousand angels coming in succession." So Allah
helped him with angels. Abu Zumail said that the badith was
narrated to him by Ibn 'Abbas who said: While on that day a Muslim was chasing
a disbeliever who was going ahead of him, he heard over him' the swishing of
the whip and the voice of the rider saying: Go ahead, Haizi'm! He glanced at
the polytheist who had (now) fallen down on his back. When he looked at him
(carefully he found that) there was a scar on his nose and his face was torn as
if it had been lashed with a whip, and had turned green with its poison. An
Ansari came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and related this
(event) to him. He said: You have told the truth. This was the
help from the third heaven. The Muslims that day
(i. e. the day of the Battle of Badr) killed seventy persons and captured seventy.
The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to Abu Bakr and 'Umar
(Allah be pleased with them): What is your opinion about these captives? Abu
Bakr said: They are our kith and kin. I think you should release them after
getting from them a ransom. This will be a source of strength to us against the
infidels. It is quite possible that Allah may guide them to Islam. Then the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: What is your opinion. Ibn
Khattab? He said: Messenger of Allah. I do not hold the same opinion as Abu
Bakr. I am of the opinion that you should hand them over to us so that we may
cut off their heads. Hand over 'Aqil to 'Ali that he may cut off his head, and
hand over such and such relative to me that I may but off his head. They are
leaders of the disbelievers and veterans among them. The Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) approved the opinion of Abu Bakr and did not approve
what I said The next day when I came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him), I found that both he and Abu Bakr were sitting shedding tears. I
said: Messenger of Allah, why are you and your Companion shedding tears? Tell
me the reason. For I will weep ate, if not, I will at least pretend to weep in
sympathy with you. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I weep
for what has happened to your companions for taking ransom (from the
prisoners). I was shown the torture to which they were subjected. It was
brought to me as close as this tree. (He pointed to a tree close to him.) Then
God revealed the verse:" It is not befitting for a prophet that he should
take prisoners until the force of the disbelievers has been crushed..." to
the end of the verse:" so eat ye the spoils of war, (it is) lawful and
pure. So Allah made booty lawful for them."
(Book
#019,
Hadith #4360)
(90) It has been narratedon the authority of
Abu Ishaq who said: A man asked Bara' (b. 'Azib): Did you run away on the Day
of Hunain. O, Abu Umira? He said: No, by Allah, The Messenger of Allah (may
peace be upon him) did not turn his back; (what actually happened was that)
some young men from among his companions, who were hasty and who were either
without any arms or did not have abundant arms, advanced and met a party of
archers (who were so good shots) that their arrows never missed the mark. This
party (of archers) belonged to Banu Hawazin and Banu Nadir. They shot at the
advancing young men and their arrows were not likely to miss their targets. So
these young men turned to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) while
he was riding on his white mule and Abu Sufyan b. al-Harith b. 'Abd al-Muttalib
was leading him. (At this) he got down from his mule, invoked God's
help, and called out: I am the Prophet. This is no
untruth. I am the son of 'Abd al-Muttalib. Then he deplnved his men into battle
array.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4388)
(91) It has been narrated
(through a different chain of transmitters) by Abu Ishiq that a person said to
Bara' (b. 'Azib): Abu Umara, did you flee on the Day of Hunain? He replied: The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) did not retreat. (What actually
happened was that some hasty young men who were either inadequately armed or
were unarmed met a group of men from Banu Hawazin and Banu Nadir who happened
to be (excellent) archers. The latter shot at them a volley of arrows that did
not miss. The people turned to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him).
Abu Sufyan b. Harith was leading his mule. So he got down, prayed and invoked
God's
help. He said: I am the Prophet.
This is no untruth. I am the son of Abd al-Muttalib. O God, descend Thy
help. Bara' continued: When the battle grew
fierce. we, by God. would seek protection by his side, and the bravest among us
was he who confronted the onslaught and it was the Holy Prophet (may peace be
upon him).
(Book #019,
Hadith #4389)
(92) It has been reported on the authority of
Hudbaifa b. al-Yaman who said: Nothing prevented me from being present at! he
Battle of Badr except this incident. I came out with my father Husail (to
participate in the Battle), but we were caught by the disbelievers of Quraish.
They said: (Do) you intend to go to Muhammad? We said: We do not intend to go
to him, but we wish to go (back) to Medina. So they took from us a covenant in
the name of God that we would turn back to Medina and would not fight on the
side of Muhammad (may peace be upon him). So, we came to the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) and related the incident to him. He said: Both, of you
proceed (to Medina) ; we will fulfil the covenant made with them and seek God's
help against them.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4411)
(93) It has been narrated on the authority of
Salama b. al-Akwa' who said: We marched upon Khaibar with the Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him). We journeyed during the night. One of the people
said to (my brother) 'Amir b. al-Akwa': Won't you recite to us some of your
verses? Amir was a poet. So he began to chant his verses to urge the camels,
reciting: O God, if Thou hadst not guided us We would have neither been guided
rightly nor practised charity, Nor offered prayers. We wish to lay down our
lives for Thee; so forgive Thou our lapses, And keep us steadfast when we
encounter (our enemies). Bestow upon us peace and tranquillity. Behold, when
with a cry they called upon us to
help.
The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Who is this driver (of the
camels)? They said: It is 'Amir. He said: God will show mercy to him. A man
said: Martyrdom is reserved for him. Messenger of Allah, would that you had
allowed us to benefit ourselves from his life. (The narrator says): We reached
Khaibar and besieged them, and (we continued the siege) until extreme hunger
afflicted us. Then the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Behold,
God has conquered it for you. When it was evening of the day on which the city
was conquered. the Muslims lit many fires. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) said: What are these fires? And what are they cooking? They said:
They are cooking meat. He asked. Which meat? They said: That of domestic asses.
He said: Let them throw it away and break the pots (in which it is being
cooked). A man said: Or should they throw it away and wash the pots? He said:
They may do that. When the people drew themselves up in battle array 'Amir
caught hold of his sword that was rather short He drove a Jew before him to
strike him with it. (As he struck him), his sword recoiled and struck his own
knee, and 'Amir died of the wound. When the people returned (after the conquest
of Kliaibar) and he (Salama) had caught hold of my hand, and said: The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) saw that I was silent (and dejected)
; he said: What's the matter with thee? I said to him: My father and my mother
be thy ransom, people presume that 'Amir's sacrifice has been in vain. He
asked: Who has said that? I said: So and so and Usaid b. Hudair al-Ansari. He
said: Who has said that has lied. For him (for 'Amir) there is a double reward.
(He indicated this by putting two of his fingers together.) He was a devotee of
God and a warrior fighting for His cause. There will be hardly any Arab who can
fight as bravely as he did. Qutaiba has differed in a few words.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4440)
(94) According to still another version of
the tradition narrated by the same authority, and handed down through a
different chain of transmitters, it has been reported that they (the Companions
of the Holy Prophet) were reciting rajaz verses and the Messenger of Allah (may
peace be upon him) was (reciting) with them. And they were chanting: O God,
there is no good but the good of the Hereafter. So
help
Thou the Ansar and the Muhajirs. Shaiban substituted" So forgive
Thou" for" So
help Thou".
(Book #019,
Hadith #4447)
(95) It has been narrated on the authority of
Yazid b. Abu 'Ubaid who said that he heard Salama b. al-Akwa' say: I went out
before the Adhan for the morning prayer had been delivered. The milch
she-camels of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) were grazing at
Dhu Qarad. 'Abd al-Rahman b. Auf's slave met me and said: The milch she-camels
of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had been taken away. I said:
Who has taken them away? He said: (the people belonging to the tribe of)
Ghatafan. I cried thrice:
help! I made
the whole city between the two lavas hear my cry. Then I ran straight in their
pursuit until I overtook them at Dhu Qarad where they were just going to water
their animals. I, being an archer, began to shoot them with my arrows and was
saying: I am the son of al-Akwa'. And today is the day when the cowards will
meet their doom. I continued to chant until I rescued the milch she-camels from
them, and snatched from them thirty mantles. Now, the Messenger of Allah (may
peace be upon him) and some other people came along. I said: Prophet of Allah,
I have prevented them from water while they were thirsty. So you should send a
force (to punish them). He (the Holy Prophet) said: Ibn al-Akwa', you have
taken (what, you have taken). Now let them go. Then we returned and the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) made me mount behind him on his
she-camel until we entered Medina.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4449)
(96) It has been narrated on the authority of
Ibn Salama. He heard the tradition from his father who said: We arrived at
Hudaibiya with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and we were
fourteen hundred in number. There were fifty goats for them which could not be
watered (by the small quantity of water in the local well). So, the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) sat on the brink of the well. Either he prayed
or spat into the well The water welled up. We drank and watered (the beasts as
well). Then the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) called us to take
the vow of allegiance, as he was sitting at the base of a tree. I was the first
man to take the vow. Then other people took the vow. When half the number of
people had done so, he said to me: You take the vow, Salama. I said: I was one
of those who took the vow in the first instance. He said: (You may do) again.
Then the Messenger. of Allah (may peace be upon him) saw that I was without
weapons. He gave me a big or a small shield. Then he continued to administer
vows to the people until it was the last batch of them. He said (to me): Won't
you swear allegiance, Salama? I said: Messenger of Allah, I took the oath with
the first batch of the people and then again when you were in the middle of the
people. He said: (Doesn't matter), you may (do so) again. So I took the oath of
allegiance thrice. Then he said to me: Salama, where is the shield which I gave
to thee? I said: Messenger of Allah, my uncle 'Amir met me and he was without
any weapons. So I gave the shield to him. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) laughed and said: You are like a person of the days gone by who said:
O God. I seek a friend who is dearer to me than myself. (When all Companions
had sworn allegiance to the Holy Prophet), the polytheists sent messages of
peace, until people could move from our camp to that of the Meccans and vice
versa. Finally, the peace treaty was concluded. I was a dependant of Talha b.
Ubaidullah. I watered his horse, rubbed its back. I served Talha (doing odd
jobs for him) and partook from his food. I had left my family and my property
as an emigrant in the cause of Allah and His Messenger (may peace be uron him).
When we and the people of Mecca had concluded a peace treaty and the people of
one side began to mix with those of the other, I came to a tree, swept away its
thorns and lay down (for rest) at its base; (while I lay there), four of the
polytheists from the Meccans came to me and began to talk ill of the Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him). I got enraged with them and moved to another
tree. They hung their weapons (to the branches of the tree) and lay down (for
rest). (While they lay there), somebody from the lower part of the valley cried
out: Run up, O Muhajirs! Ibn Zunaim has been murdered. I drew my sword and
attacked these four while they were asleep. I seized their arms and collected
them up in my hand, and said: By the Being Who has conferred honour upon
Muhammad, none of you shall raise his head, else I will smite his face. (Then)
I came driving them along to the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him). (At the
same time). my uncle Amir came (to him) with a man from" Abalat called
Mikraz. Amir was dragging him on a horse with a thick covering on its back
along with seventy polytheists. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
cast a glance at them and said: Let them go (so that) they may prove guilty of
breach of trust more than once (before we take action against them). So the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) forgave them. On this occasion. God
revealed the Qur'anic verse:" It is He Who restrained their hands from you
and your hands from them in the valley of Mecca after He had granted you a
victory over them" (xlviii. 24). Then we moved returning to Medina, and
halted at a place where there was a mountain between us and Banu Lihyan who
were polytheists. The Messenaer of Allah (may peace be upon him) asked God's
forgiveness for one who ascended the mountain at night to act as a scout for
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and his Compinions. I ascended
(that mountain) twice or thrice that night. (At last) we reached Medina. The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent his camels with his slave,
Rabah, and I was with him. I (also) went to the pasture with the horse of Talha
along with the camels. When the day dawned, Abd al-Rahman al-Fazari made a raid
and drove away all the camels of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him), and killed the man who looked after them. I said: Rabah, ride this horse,
take it to Talha b. 'Ubaidullah and Inform the Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) that the polytheists have made away with his camels. Then I stood
upon a hillock and turning my face to Medina, shouted thrice: Come to our
help I Then I set out in pursuit of the raiders,
shooting at them with arrows and chanting a (self-eulogatory) verse in the
Iambic metre: I am the son of al-Akwa' And today is the day of defeat for the
mean. I would overtake a man from them, shoot at him an arrow which, piercing
through the saddle, would reach his shoulder. and I would say: Take it,
chanting at the same time the verse And I am the son of al-Akwa' And tody is
the day of defeat for the mean. By God, I continued shooting at them and
hamstringing their animals. Whenever a horseman turned upon me, I would come to
a tree and (hid myself) sitting at its base. Then I would shoot at him and
hamstring his horse. (At last) they entered a narrow mountain gorge. I ascended
that mountain and held them at bay throwing stones at them. I continued to
chase them in this way until I got all the camels of the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) released and no camel was left with them. They left me;
then I followed them shooting at them (continually) until they dropped more
than thirty mantles and thirty lances. lightening their burden. On everything
they dropped, I put a mark with the
help
of (a piece of) stone so that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
and his Companions might recognise them (that it was booty left by the enemy).
(They went on) until They came to a narrow valley when so and so, son of Badr
al-Fazari joined them. They (now) sat down to take their breakfast and I sat on
the top of a tapering rock. Al-Fazari said: Who is that fellow I am seeing?
They said: This fellow has harassed us. By God, he has not left us since dusk
and has been (continually) shooting at us until he has snatched everything from
our hands. He said: Four of you should make a dash at him (and kill him).
(Accordingly), four of them ascended the mountain coming towards me. When it
became possible for me to talk to them, I said: Do you recognise me? They said:
No. Who are thou? I said: I am Salama, son of al-Akwa'. By the Being Who has
honoured the countenance of Muhammad (may peace be upon him) I can kill any of
you I like but none of you will be able to kill me. One of them said: I think
(he is right). So they returned. I did not move from my place until I saw the
horsemen of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), who came riding
through the trees. Lo! the foremost among them was Akhram al-Asadi. Behind him
was Abu Qatada al-Ansari and behind him was al-Miqdad b. al-Aswad al-Kindi. I
caught hold of the rein of Akhram's horse (Seeing this). they (the raiders)
fled. I said (to Akhram): Akhram, guard yourself against them until Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and his Companions join you. He said: )
Salama, if you believe In Allah and the Day of Judgment and (if) you kaow that
Paradise is a reality and Hell is a reality, you should not stand between me
and martyrdom. so I let him go. Akhram and Abd al-Rahman (Fazari) met in
combat. Akhram hamstrung Abd al-Rahman's horse and the latter struck him with
his lance and killed him. Abd al-Rabman turned about riding Akhram's horse. Abu
Qatada, a horse-man of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), met 'Abd
al-Rahman (in combat), smote him with his lance and killed him. By the Being
Who honoured the countenance of Muhammad (may peace oe upon him), I followed
them running on my feet (so fast) that I couldn't see behind me the Companions
of Muhammad (may peace be upon him), nor any dust raised by their horses. (I
followed them) until before sunset they reached a valley which had a spring of
water, which was called Dhu Qarad, so that they could have a drink, for they
were thirsty. They saw me running towards them. I turned them out of the valley
before they could drink a drop of its water. They left the valley and ran down
a slope. I ran (behind them), overtook a man from them, shot him with an arrow
through the shoulder blade and said: Take this. I am the son of al-Akwa'; and
today is the day of annihilation for the people who are mean. The fellow (who
was wounded) said: May his mother weep over him! Are you the Akwa' who has been
chasing us since morning? I said: Yes, O enemy of thyself, the same Akwa'. They
left two horses dead tired on the hillock and I came dragging them along to the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). I met 'Amir who had with him a
container having milk diluted with water and a container having water. I
performed ablution with the water and drank the milk. Then I came to the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) while he was at (the spring of)
water from which I had driven them away. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) had captured those camels and everything else I had captured and all
the lances and mantles I had snatched from the polytheists and Bilal had
slaughtered a she-camel from the camels I had seized from the people, and was
roasting its liver and hump for the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him).
I said: Messenger of Allah, let me select from our people one hundred men and I
will follow the marauders and I will finish them all so that nobody is left to
convey the news (of their destruction to their people). (At these words of
mine), the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) laughed so much that his
molar teeth could be seen in the light of the fire, and he said: Salama, do you
think you can do this? I said: Yes, by the Being Who has honoured you. He said:
Now they have reached the land of Ghatafan where they are being feted. (At this
time) a man from the Ghatafan came along and said: So and so slaughtered a
camel for them. When they were exposing its skin, they saw dust (being raised
far off). They said: They (Akwa' and his companions) have come. So. they went
away fleeing. When it was morning, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said: Our best horseman today is Abu Qatada and our best footman today is
Salama. Then he gave me two shares of the booty-the share meant for the
horseman and the share meant for the footman, and combined both of them for me.
Intending to return to Medina, he made me mount behind him on his she-camel
named al-Adba'. While we were travelling, a man from the Ansar who could not be
beaten in a race said: Is there anyone who could compete (with me) in race to
Medina? Is there any competitor? He continued repeating this. When I heard his
talk, I said: Don't you show consideration to a dignified person and don't you
have awe for a noble man? He said: No, unless he be the Messenger of Allah (may
peace be upon him). I said: Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be thy
ransom, let me get down so that I may beat this man (in the race). He said: It
you wish, (you may). I said (to the man): I am coming to thee, I then turned my
feet. sprang up and tan and gasped (for a while) when one or two elevated places
were left and again followed his heel and again gasped (for a while) when one
or two elevated places were left and again dashed until I joined him and gave a
blow between his shoulders. I said: You have been overtaken, by God. He said: I
think so. Thus, I reached Medina ahead of him. By God, we had stayed there only
three nights when we set out to Khaibar with the Messenger of Allah (may peace
be upon him). (On the way) my uncle, Amir, began to recite the following rajaz
verses for the people: By God, if Thou hadst not guided us aright, We would
have neither practised charity nor offered prayers. (O God! ) We cannot do
without Thy favours; Keep us steadfast when we encounter the enemy, And descend
tranquillity upon us. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Who
is this? 'Amir said: it is 'Amir. He said: May thy God forgive thee! The
narrator said: Whenever the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) asked
forgiveness for a particular person, he was sure to embrace martyrdom. Umar b.
Khattab who was riding on his camel called out: Prophet of Allah, I wish you
had allowed us to benefit from Amir. Salama continued: When we reached Khaibar,
its king named Marhab advanced brandishing his sword and chanting: Khaibar
knows that I am Marhab (who behaves like) A fully armed, and well-tried
warrior. When the war comes spreading its flames. My uncle, Amir, came out to
combat with him, saying: Khaibar certainly knows that I am 'Amir, A fully armed
veteran who plunges into battles. They exchanged blows. Marbab's sword struck
the shield of 'Amir who bent forward to attack his opponent from below, but his
sword recoiled upon him and cut the main artery: in his forearm which caused
his death. Salama said: I came out and beard some people among the Companions of
the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) as saying: Amir's deed has gone waste;
he has killed himself. So I came to the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him)
weeping and I said: Messenger of Allah. Amir's deed has gone waste. The
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Who passed this remark? I said: Some of
your Companions. He said: He who has passed that remark has told a lie, for
'Amir there is a double reward. Then he sent me to 'Ali who had tore eyes, and
said: I will give the banner to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger or whom
Allah and His Messenger love. So I went to 'Ali, brought him beading him along
and he had sore eyes, and I took him to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him), who applied his saliva to his eyes and he got well. The Messenger of
Allah (may peace be upon him) gave him the banner (and 'Ali went to meet Marhab
in a single combat). The latter advanced chanting: Khaibar knows certainly that
I am Marhab, A fully armed and well-tried valorous warrior (hero) When war
comes spreading its flames. 'Ali chanted in reply: I am the one whose mother
named him Haidar, (And am) like a lion of the forest with a terror-striking
countenance. I give my opponents the measure of sandara in exchange for sa' (i.
e. return thir attack with one that is much more fierce). The narrator said:
'Ali struck at the head of Mirhab and killed him, so the victory (capture of
Khaibar) was due to him. This long tradition has also been handed down Through
a different chain of transmitters.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4450)
(97) It has been narrated on the authority of
A'isha, wife of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him), who said: The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) set out for Badr. When he reached
Harrat-ul-Wabara (a place four miles from Medina) a man met him who was known
for his valour and courage. The Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may peace
be upon him) were pleased to see him. He said: I have come so that I may follow
you and get a share from the booty. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said to him: Do you believe in Allah and His Apostle? He said: No. The
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Go back, I will not seek
help from a Mushrik (polytheist). He went on until
we reached Shajara, where the man met him again. He asked him the same question
again and the man gave him the same answer. He said: Go back. Im will not seek
help from a Mushrik. The man returned and overtook
him at Baida'? He asked him as he had asked previously: Do you believe in Allah
and His Apostle? The man said: Yes. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said to him: Then come along with us.
(Book #019,
Hadith #4472)
(98) It has been reported on the authority of
'Abd al-Rahman b. Samura who said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said to me: 'Abd al-Rahman, do not ask for a position of authority, for if
you are granted this position as a result of your asking for it, you will be
left alone (without God's
help to
discharge the responsibilities attendant thereon), and it you are granted it
without making any request for it, you will be
helped
(by God in the discharge of your duties).
(Book #020,
Hadith #4487)
(99) It has been reported on the authority of
Abu Musa who said: I went to the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) and with
me were two men from the Ash'ari tribe. One of them was on my right hand and
the other on my left. Both of them made a request for a position (of authority)
while the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) was brushing his teeth with a
tooth-stick. He said (to me): Abu Musa (or 'Abdullah b. Qais), what do you say
(about the request they have made)? I said: By God Who sent thee on thy mission
with truth, they did not disclose to me what they had in their minds, and I did
not know that they would ask for a position. The narrator says (while recalling
this hadith): I visualise as if I were looking at the miswak of the Holy Prophet
(may peace be upon him) between his lips. He (the Holy Prophet) said: We shall
not or shall never appoint to the public offices (in our State) those who with
to have them, but you may go, Abu Musa (or Abdullah b. Qais) (to take up your
assignment). He sent him to Yemen as governor. then he sent Mu'adh b. jabal in
his wake (to
help him in the discharge of
duties). When Mu'adh reached the camp of Abu Musa, the latter (received him
and) said: Please get yourself down; and he spread for him a mattress, while
there was a man bound hand and foot as a prisoner. Mu'adh said: Who is this?
Abu Musa said: He was a Jew. He embraced Islam. Then he reverted to his false
religion and became a Jew. Mu'adh said: I won't sit until he is killed
according to the decree of Allah and His Apostle (may peace be upon him) (in
this case). Abu Musa said: Be seated. It will be done. He said: I won't sit
unless he is killed in accordance with the decree of Allah and His Apostle (may
peace be upon him). He repeated these words thrice. Then Abu Musa ordered him
(to be killed) and he was kilied. Then the two talked of standing in prayer at
night. One of them, i. e. Mu'adh, said: I sleep (for a part of the night) and
stand in prayer (for a part) and I hope that I shall get the same reward for
steeping as I shall get for standing (in prayer).
(Book
#020,
Hadith #4490)
(100) It has been narrated on the authority
of Abu Huraira who said: One day the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
stood among us (to deliver a sermon). He talked about the misappropriation of
booty, and declared it to be a serious matter and a grave sin. Then he said: I
shouldn't find that any of you should come on the Day of Judgment with a
growling camel mounted on his neck, and should appeal to me for
help saying:" Messenger of Allah,
help me." and I should say: I have no
authority to
help you; I already
communicated to you. I shouldn't find that any of you should come on the Day of
Judgment with a bleating ewe mounted on his neck, and he should say to
me:" Messenger of Allah,
help
me," and I should say: I have no authority to
help
you; I conveyed to you. I shouldn't find that one of you should come on the Day
of Judgment with a Person crying loudly mounted on his neck, and he should say
to me:" Messenger of Allah,
help
me," and I should say: I have no authority to
help
you; I conveyed to you. I shouldn't find that any one of you should come on the
Day of Judgment with fluttering clothes wrapped round his neck and he should
say to me:" Messenger of Allah,
help
me," and I should say: I have no authority to
help
you; I conveyed to you. I shouldn't find that any of you should come on the Day
of Judgment with a heap of gold and silver placed on his neck and he should say
to me:" Messenger of Allah,
help
me." and I should say: I have no authority to
help
you; I already conveyed to you (the warning from the Almighty).
(Book #020,
Hadith #4505)
(101) It has been narrated
on the authority of 'Auf b. Malik that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) said: The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love
you, who invoke God's blessings upon you and you invoke His blessings upon
them. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you and
whom you curse and who curse you. It was asked (by those present): Shouldn't we
overthrow them with the
help of the
sword? He said: No, as long as they establish prayer among you. If you then
find anything detestable in them. You should hate their administration, but do
not withdraw yourselves from their obedience.
(Book
#020,
Hadith #4573)
(102) It has been narrated on the authority
of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Of the
men he lives the best life who holds the reins of his horse (ever ready to
march) in the way of Allah, flies on its back whenever he hears a fearful
shriek, or a call for
help, flies to it
seeking death at places where it can be expected. (Next to him) is a man who
lives with his sheep at a hill-top or in a valley, says his prayers regularly,
gives Zakat and worships his Lord until death comes to him. There is no better
person among men except these two.
(Book #020,
Hadith #4655)
(103) 'Adi b. Hatim reported that he asked
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) about (hunting) with the
help of an arrow having a stub end. He said: If it
strikes (the game) with its point, then eat, but if it strikes flatly and it
dies, that is Waqidh (beaten into death), do not eat that. I asked the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) about (hunting with the
help of) dogs, whereupon he said. When you send
your dog (for hunting) reciting the name of Allah, then eat (the game), but if
some part of it is eaten (by the dogs, then do not eat that, for it (your dog)
has caught that (the-game) for itself. I (again) said: If I find along with my
dog another dog, and do not know which of (the dogs) has caught (the game).
then (what should I do)? Thereupon he ('Allah's Messenger) said: Then don't eat
that, for you recited the name of Allah on your dog and not on the other one.
(Book #021,
Hadith #4734)
(104) Adi b. Hatim reported: I asked Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) about Mi'rad (i. e. hunting with the
help of arrow having a stub end, and he stated the
same (as we find in the previous hadith).
(Book #021,
Hadith #4735)
(105) 'Adi b. Hatim reported: I asked Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) about hunting the game with the
help of Mi'rad, whereupon he said: If it strikes
(the game) with its point, then eat it, but if it strikes flat, that is (the
game is) beaten (into death), (then do not eat that) 'Adi further said: I asked
him about hunting with the
help of a dog,
whereupon he said: If that (the dog) catches it (the game) for you and does not
eat out of that, then you eat (the game) for Dhakat (slaughtering) of that is
its being caught by it (by the dog). But if you find another dog besides it,
and you fear that that dog (the second one) had caught it (the game) along with
that (your dog) and killed it. then don't eat; for you recited the name of
Allah on your dog and did not recite that on the other one (which joined your
dog incidentally).
(Book #021,
Hadith #4737)
(106) Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani reported: I
came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's Messenger,
we are in the land of the People of the Book, (so) we eat in their utensils,
and (live) in a hunting region. where I hunt with, the
help of my bow, and hunt with my trained dog, or
with my dog which is not trained. So inform me what is lawful (Halal) for us
out of that. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Regarding what you have mentioned of
the fact that you live in the land belonging to the People of the Book and so
you eat in their utensils, but if you can get utensils other than theirs, then
don't eat in them; but if you do not find any, then wash them and eat in them.
And regarding what you have mentioned about (your living) in a hunting region,
what you hunt, (strike) with the
help of
your bow, recite the name of Allah (while shooting an arrow) and then eat; and
what you catch with the
help of your trained
dog, recite the name of Allah (while letting oil) the dog and then eat it, and
what you get with the
help of your
untrained dog, (if you find it alive) and slaughter it (according to the law of
the Shari'ah), eat it.
(Book #021,
Hadith #4743)
(107) Jabir reported: Allah's Messenger (may
peace he upon him) sent us (on an expedition) and appointed Abu 'Ubaida our
chief that we might intercept a caravan of the Quraish and provided us with a
bag of dates. And he found for us nothing besides it. Abu Ubaida gave each of
us one date (everyday). I (Abu Zubair, one of the narrators) said: What did you
do with that? He said: We sucked that just as a baby sucks and then drank water
over that, and it sufficed us for the day until night. We beat off leaves with
the
help of our staffs, then drenched
them with water and ate them. We then went to the coast of the sea, and there
rose before us on the coast of the sea something like a big mound. We came near
that and we found that it was a beast, called al-'Anbar (spermaceti whale). Abu
'Ubaida said. It is dead. He then said: No (but it does not matter), we have
been sent by the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in the path of
Allah and you are hard pressed (on account of the scarcity of food), so you eat
that. We three hundred in number stayed there for a month, until we grew bulky.
He (Jabir) said: I saw how we extracted pitcher after pitcher full of fat from
the cavity of its eye, and sliced from it compact piece of meat equal to a bull
or like a bull. Abu 'Ubaida called forth thirteen men from us and he made them
sit in the cavity of its eye, and he took hold of one of the ribs of its chest
and made it stand and then saddled the biggest of the camels we had with us and
it passed under it (the arched rib), and we provided ourselves with pieces of
boiled meat (especially for use in our journey). When we came back to Medina,
we went to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and made a mention of that
to him, whereupon he said: That was a provision which Allah had brought forth
for you. Is there any piece of meat (left) with you, so tnat you give to us
that? He (Jabir) said: We sent to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
tome of that (a piece of meat) and he ate it.
(Book
#021,
Hadith #4756)
(108) Rafi' b. Khadij is reported to have
said: Allah's Messenger, we are going to encounter the enemy tomorrow, but we
have no knives with us. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: Make haste or be careful (in making arrangements for procuring knives)
which would let the blood flow (and along with it) the name of Allah is also to
be recited. Then eat, but not the tooth or nail. And I am going to tell you why
it is not permissible to slaughter the animal with the
help of tooth and bone; and as for the nail. it is
a bone, and the bone is the knife of Abyssinians. He (the narrator) said: There
fell to our lot as spoils of war camels and goats, and one of the camels among
them became wild. A person (amongst usl struck It with an arrow which brought
it under control. whereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
This camel became wild like wild animals, so if you find any animal getting
wild, you do the same with that
(Book #022,
Hadith #4846)
(109) 'Amr b. Muslim b. 'Ammar al-Laithi
reported: While we were in a bathroom just before 'Id al-Adha some of the
persons tried to remove the hair with the
help
of hair-removing chemicals. Thereupon some of the people owning the bath (or
some of the people sitting therein) said that Sa'id b. Musayyib did not approve
of it, or he prohibited it. Then I met Sa'id b. Musayyib and made a mention of
that to him, whereupon he said: O my nephew, this is the hadith which has been
forgotten, and abandoned. Umm Salama, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him), narrated to me Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said
as narrated above.
(Book #022,
Hadith #4874)
(110) 'Ali b. Abu Talib reported; There fell
to my lot along with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) an old she-camel
from the spoils of Badr. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) granted me
another camel. I made them kneel down one day at the door of an Ansari, and I
wanted to carry on them Idhkhir (a kind of grass) in order to sell that. There
was with me a goldsmith of the tribe of Qainuqa'. I saught to give a wedding
feast (on the occasion of marriage with) Fatima with the
help of that (the price accrued from the sale of
this grass). And Hamza b. 'Abd al-Muttalib was busy in drinking in that house
in the company of a singing girl who was singing to him. She said: Hamza, get
up for slaughtering the fat she-camels. Hamza attacked them with the sword and
cut off their humps and ripped their haunches, and then took out their livers.
I said to Ibn Shihab: Did he take out anything from the hump? He said: He cut
off the humps altogether. Ibn Shihab reported 'Ali having said: I saw this
(horrible) sight and it shocked me, and I came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) and there was Zaid b, Haritha with him and communicated to him this
news. He came in the company of Zaid and I also went along with him and he went
to Hamza and he expressed anger with him. Hamza raised his eyes and said: Are you
(not) but the servants of my father? Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
turned back on his heels (on hearing this) until he went away from them.
(Book #023,
Hadith #4879)
(111) Husain b. 'Ali
reported 'Ali having said: There fell to my lot a she-camel out of the spoils
of war on the Day of Badr, and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) gave
me (another) she-camel on that day out of the Khums (one-fifth reserved for
Allah and His Messenger). When I made up my mind to consummate my marriage with
Fatima, the daughter of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), I prevailed
upon a goldsmith of the tribe of Qainuqa' to go along with me so that we might
bring Idhkhir wishing to sell that to the goldsmiths and thus I should be able
to arrange my wedding feast. While I was arranging the equipments. i. e.
litters, sacks and ropes, my two she-camels were sitting down at the side of
the apartment of a person of the Ansar. I collected (the different articles of
equipment) and found to my surprise that their humps had been chopped off and
their haunches had been cut off and their livers had been taken out. I could
not
help weeping when I saw that plight
of theirs. I said: Who has done that? They said: Hamza b. 'Abd al-Muttalib has
done this. and he is in this house dead drunk in the company of some of the
Ansair with asinging girl singing before him and his companions. She said in
her song: O Hamza. get up and attack these falty she-camels. Thereupon Hamza
stood up with a sword (in his hand) and cut off their humps and ripped their
haunches and tore out their livers. 'Ali said: I went away until I came to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and there was with him Zaid b.
Haritha. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) recognised from my face what
I had experienced, whereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
What has happened to you? I said: Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I have never
seen (such an unfortunate day) as this day. Hamza has committed aggression to
my she-camels, and has cut off their humps. and ripped their haunches, and he
is in a house in the company of some drunkards. (Hearing this) Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent for his mantle and, putting it on him,
he proceeded, and I and Zaid b. Haritha followed him, until he came to the door
(of the house) in which there was Hamza. He (the Holy Prophet) sought
permission which they granted him. and they were all drunk. Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) began to reprimand Hamza for what he had done. Hamza's
eyes were red. He cast a glance at Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
and then looked towards his knees. and then lifted his eyes and cast a glance
at his waist and then lifted his eyes and saw his face. And then Hamza said:
Are you anything but the slaves of my father? Alah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) came to know that he was intoxicated, and he thus turned upon his
heels, and came out, and we also came out along with him.
(Book #023,
Hadith #4881)
(112) Mu'awiya b. Suwaid b. Muqarrin
reporxed: I visited al-Bara' b. 'Azib and heard him say: Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) commanded us to do seven things and forbade us to do seven
(things). He commanded us to visit the sick, to follow the funeral procession,
to answer the sneezer, to fulfil the vow, to
help
the poor, to accept the invitation and to greet everybody, and he forbade us to
wear rings or gold rings, to drink in silver (vessels), and to use the saddle
cloth made of red silk, and to wear garments made of Qassi material, or
garments made of silk or brocade and velvet.
(Book #024,
Hadith #5129)
(113) Abu Sa'id Kbudri reported Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Avoid sitting on the paths. They
(his Companions) said: Allah's Messenger. there is no other
help to it (but to sit here as we) hold our
meetings and discuss matters there. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: If you have to sit at all, theg fulfil the rights, of the path.
They said: What are their rights? Thereupon he said: Keeping the eye downward
(so that you may not stare at the women), refraining from doing some harm to
the other and exchanging mutual greetings (saying as-Salamu 'Alaikum to one
another) and commanding the good and forbidding the evil.
(Book #024,
Hadith #5293)
(114) Sa, id b. Musayyib reported that
Mu'awiya said one day: Should I narrate to you the evil make-up. Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) forbade cheating. It was during that time that
a person came with a staff and there was a cloth on its head, whereupon Mu,
awiya said: Behold, that is cheating. Qatada said: This implies how women
artificially increase their hair with the
help
of rags.
(Book #024,
Hadith #5309)
(115) Abu Talha reported: While We were sitting
in front of the houses and talking amongst ourselves, Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) happened to come there. He stood by us and said: What about
you apd your meetings on the paths? Avoid these meetings on the paths. We said:
We were sitting here without (any intention of doing harm to the passers-by) ;
we are sitting to discuss matters and to hold conversation amongst ourselves.
Thereupon he said: If there is no
help
(for you but to sit on these paths), then give the paths their rights and these
are lowering of the gaze, exchanging of greetings and good conversation.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5375)
(116) Abu Sa'id Khudri reported Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Avoid sitting on the paths. They
(the Companions) said: Allah's Messenger, we cannot
help
but holding our meetings (in these paths) and discuss matters (there).
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: If you insist on
holding meetings, then give the path its due right. They said: What are its due
rights? Upon this he said: Lowering the gaze, refraining from doing harm,
exchanging of greetings. commanding of good and forbidding from evil.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5376)
(117) Umm Salama, the wife of Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him), reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said to a small girl in the house of Umm Salama that he had been seeing on
her face black stains and told her that that was due to the infiluence of an
evil eye, and he asked that she should be cured with the
help of incantation (hoping) that her face should
become spotles.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5450)
(118) Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported I had a maternal
uncle who treated the sting of the scorpion with the
help of incantation. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbade incantation. He came to him and said: Allah's Messenger, you forbade to
practise incantation, whereas I employ it for curing the sting of the scorpion,
whereupon he said: He who amongst you is capable of employing it as a means to
do good should do that.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5454)
(119) Abu Sa'id Khudri reported that some
persons amongst the Companions of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) set
out on a journey and they happened to pass by a tribe from the tribes of
Arabia. They demanded hospitality from the members of that tribe, but they did
not extend any hospitality to them. They said to them: Is there any incantator
amongst you, at the chief of the tribe has bgen stung by a scorpion? A person
amongst us said: 'Yes. So he came to him and he practised incan- tation with
the
help of Sura al-Fatiha and the person
became all right. He was given a flock of sheep (as recompense), but he refused
to accept that, saying: I shall make a mention of it to Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him), and if he approves of it. then I shall accept it. So we
came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and made a mention of that to
him and he (that person) said: Allah's Messenger by Allah, I did not practice
incantation but with the
help of Sura
al-Fatiha of the Holy Book. He (the Holy Prophet) smiled and said: How did you
come to know that it can be used (as incactation)? - and then said: Take out of
that and allocate a share for me along with your share.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5458)
(120) Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported. We landed
at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpiorn has bitten the chief
of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you? A person amongst us stood up
(and went with her). We had no idea that he had been a good incantator but he
practised incantation with the
help of
Sura al -Fatiha and the (the chief) was all right. They gave him a flock of
sheep and served us milk. We said (to him): Are you a good incantatory
Thereupon he said: I did not do it but by the
help
of Sura al-Fitiha. He caid: Do not drive (these goats) until we go to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and find out (whether it is permissible to
accept ( this reward of incantation). So we came to Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon hin) and made a rrention of that to him, whereupon he said: How did you
come to know that this (Sura al-Fatiha) could be used as an incantation? So
distribute them (amongst those who had been present there with him) and
allocate a share of mine also.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5460)
(121) 'Asim b. 'Umar b.
Qatada reported: There came to our house 'Abdullah and another person from
amongst the members of the household who complained of a wound. Jabir said:
What ails you? He said: There is a wound which is very painful for me,
whereupon he said: Boy, bring to me a cupper. He said: 'Abdullah, what do you
intend to do with the cupper? I said: I would get this wound cupped. He said:
By Allah. oven the touch of fly or cloth causes me pain (and cupping) would
thus cause me (unbearable) pain. And when he saw him feeling pain (at the idea
of cupping), he said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: If there is any effective remedy amongst your remedies, these are
(three): Cupping, drinking of honey and cauterisation with the
help of fire. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) had said: As for myself I do not like cauterisation. The cupper was called
and he cupped him and he was all right.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5468)
(122) Ibn Umar reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: The fever from the vehement raging of the
(heat of Hell), so cool it with the
help
of water.
(Book #026,
Hadith #5476)
(123) It is reported eithfr on the authority
of Ibn Abbas or on the authority of Abu Huraira that a person came to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's Messenger, I saw while I
was sleeping during the night (this vision) that there was a canopy from which
butter and honey were trickling and I also saw people collecting them in the
palms of their hands, some more, some less, and I also saw a rope connecting
the earth with the sky and I saw you catching hold of it and rising towards the
heaven; then another person after you catching hold of it and rising towards
(Heaven) ; then another person catching hold of it, but it was broken while it
was rejoined for him and he also climbed up. Abu Bakr said: Allah's Messenger,
may my father be sacrificed for you, by Allah, allow me to interpret it.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) sail: Well, give its interpretation.
Thereupon Abu Bakr said: The canopy signifies the canopy of Islam and that what
it trickles out of it in the form of butter and honey is the Holy Qur'an and
its sweetness and softness and what the people get hold of it in their palms
implies major portion of the Qur'an or the small portion; and so far as the
rope joining the sky with the earth is concerned, it is the Truth by which you
stood (in the worldly life) and by which Allah would raise you (to Heaven).
Then the person after you would take hold of it and he would also climb up with
the
help of it. Then another person would
take hold of it and climb up with the
help
of it. Then another person would take hold of it and it would be broken; then
it would be rejoined for him and he would climb up with the
help of it. Allah's Messenger, may my father be
taken as a ransom for you, tell me whether I have interpreted it currectly or I
have made an error. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: You have
interpreted a part of it correctly and you have erred in interpreting a part of
it. Thereupon he said: Allah's Messenger, by Allah, tell me that part where I
have committed an error. Thereupon he said: Don't take oath.
(Book #029,
Hadith #5643)
(124) Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: A child was born into me this night and
I named him after the name of my father Ibrihim. He then sent him to Umm Saif,
the wife of a blacksmith who was called Abu Saif. He (the Holy Prophet) went to
him and I followed him until we reached Abu Saif and he was blowing fire with
the
help of blacksmith's bellows and the
house was filled with smoke. I hastened my step and went ahead of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Abu Saif, stop it, as there comes
Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him). He stopped and Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him) called for the child. He embraced him and said what Allah
had desired. Anas said: I saw that the boy breathed his last in the presence of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). The eyes of Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) shed tears and he said: Ibrahim, our eyes shed tears and our
hearts are filled with grief, but we do not say anything except that by which
Allah is pleased. O Ibrahim, we are grieved for you.
(Book #030,
Hadith #5733)
(125) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) having said that Ibrahim circumcised himself with the
help of adz when he was eiclhty years old.
(Book #030,
Hadith #5844)
(126) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) never
told a lie but only thrice: two times for the sake of Allah (for example, his
words):" I am sick," and his words:" But it was the big one
amongst them which has done that" and because of Sara (his wife). He had
come in a land inhabited by haughty and cruel men along with Sara. She was very
good-looking amongst the people, so he said to her: If these were to know that
you are my wife they would snatch you away from me, so if they ask you tell
that you are my sister and in fact you are my sister in Islam, and I do not
know of any other Muslim in this land besides I and you. And when they entered
that land the tyrants came to see her and said to him (the king): 'there comes
to your land a woman, whom you alone deserve to possess, so he (the kings sent
someone (towards her) and she was brought and Ibrahim (peace be upon him) stood
in preyer, and when she visited him (the tyrant king came) he could
help but stretch his hand towards her and his hand
was tied up. He said: Supplicate Allah so that He may release my hand and I
will do no harm to you. She did that and the man repeated (the same
highhandedness) and his hand was again tied up more tightly than on the first
occasion and he said to her like that and she again did that (supplicated), but
he repeated (the same highhandedness and his hands were tied up more tightly
than on the previous occasion). He then again said: Supplicate your Lord so
that He may set my hand free; by. @ llah I shall do no harm to you. She did and
his hand was freed. Then he called the person who had brought her and said to
him: You have brought to me the satan and you have not brought to me a human
being, so turn them out from my land, and he gave Hajira as a gift to her. She
returned (along with Hajira) and when Ibrahim (peace be upon him) saw her, he
said: How have you returned? She said: With full safety (have I returned).
Allah held the hand of that debauch and he gave me a maid-servant. Abu Hiaraira
said: O sons of the rain of the sky, she is your mother.
(Book #030,
Hadith #5848)
(127) Abu Huraira reported that Moses was a
modest person. He was never seen naked and Banu Isra'iI said: (He was afraid to
expose his private part) because he had been suffering from scrotal hernia. He
(one day) took bath in water and placed his garments upon a stone. The stone
began to move on quickly. He followed that and struck it with the
help of a stone (saying): O stone, my garment; O
stone, my garments, O stone; until it stopped near the big gathering of
Isrii'll, and this verse was revealed (pertaining to the incident):" O you
who believe, be not Iike those who maligned Moses, but Allah cleared him of
what they said, and he was worthy of regard with Allah" (xxxiii. 69).
(Book #030,
Hadith #5850)
(128) Abu Musa al-Ash'ari reported that while
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was in one of the gardens of Medina,
reclining against a pillow and fixing a stick in a mud, that a person came
asking for the gate to be opened, whereupon he said: Open it for him and give
him glad tidings of Paradise and, lo, it was Abu Bakr. I opened (the gate) for
him and gave him the glad tidings of Paradise. Then another person asked for
the door to be opened, whereupon he said: Open it and give him the glad tidings
of Piradise. He said: I went away and, lo, it was 'Umar. I opened it for him
and gave him the glad tidings of Paradise. Then still another man asked for the
door to be opened, and thereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said:
Open it and give him the glad tidings of Paradise after a trial would afflict
him. I went and, lo, it was 'Uthman b. 'Affan. 1 opened the door and gave him
the glad tidings of Paradise and informed him (what the Holy Prophet had said).
Thereupon he said: O Allah, grant me steadfastness. Allah is one Whose
help is to be sought.
(Book
#031,
Hadith #5909)
(129) Mus'ab b. Sa'd reported on the
authority of his father that many verses of the Qur'an had been revealed in
connection with him. His mother Umm Sa'd had taken oath that she would never
talk with him until he abandoned his faith and she neither ate nor drank and
said: Allah has commanded you to treat well your parents and I am your mother
and I command you to do this. She passed three days in this state until she
fainted because of extreme hunger and at that time her son whose name was Umara
stood up and served her drink and she began to curse Sa'd that Allah, the
Exalted and Glorions, revealed these verses of the Holy Qur'an:" And We
have enjoined upon a person goodness to his parents but if they contend with thee
to associate (others) with Me of which you have no knowledge, then obey them
not" (xxix. 8) ; Treat thein with customary good in this world"
(xxxi. 15). He also reported that there fell to the lot of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) huge spoils of war and there was one sword in them. I
picked that up and came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said:
Bestow this sword upon me (as my share in the spoils of war) and you know my
state. Thereupon he said: Return it to the place from where you picked it up. I
went back until I decided to throw it in a store but my soul repulsed me so I
came back and asked him to give that sword to me. He said in a loud voice to
return it to the place from where I had picked it up. It was on this occasion
that this verse was revealed:" They asked about the spoils of war"
(viii. 1). He further said: I once fell ill and sent a message to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him). He visited me and I said to him: Permit me to
distribute (in charity) my property as much as I like. He did not agree. I
said: (Permit me to distribute) half of it. He did not agree. I said: (Permit
me to distribute) the third part, whereupon he kept quiet and it was after this
(that the distribution of one's property in charity) to the extent of one-third
was held valid. He further said: I came to a group of persons of the Ansir and
Muhajirin and they said: Come, so that we may serve you wine, and it was before
the use of wine had been prohibited. I went to them in a garden and there had
been with them the roasted head of a camel and a small water-skin containing
wine. I ate and drank along with them and there came under discussion the Ansr
(
helpers) and Muhajirin (immigrants). I
said: The immigrants are better than the Ansar, that a person picked up a
portion of the head (of the camel and struck me with it that my nose was
injured. I came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and informed him
of the situation that Aliah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed verses
pertaining to wine:" Intoxicants and the games of chance and (sacrificing
to) stones set up and (divining by) arrows are only an uncleanliness, the
devil's work" (v. 90).
(Book #031,
Hadith #5933)
(130) This hadith has been transmitted on the
authority of Simak and the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba (the words
are): When they intended to feed her (Sa'd'. s mother), they opened her mouth
with the
help of a stick and then put the
feed in her mouth, and in the same hadith the words are: He struck the nose of
Sa'd and it was injured and Sa'd had (the mark) of wound on his nose.
(Book #031,
Hadith #5934)
(131) Jabir b. Abdullah
reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) exhorting people on
the Day of the Battle of the Ditch to fight. Zubair said: I am ready (to
participate). He then again exhorted and he again said: I am ready to participate.
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Behold. for every
Prophet there is a
helper and my
helper is Zubair.
(Book
#031,
Hadith #5938)
(132) Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported: The dead
body of my father was brought and he was covered (with cloth) and it had been
mutilated. I made an attempt to lift the cloth, but my people prohibited me to
do so. I again made an attempt to lift the cloth, but my people prohibited me.
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) lifted it or he commanded
it to be lifted. He heard the noise (of a loud) weeping, or the noise of a
woman mourner. He inquired who she was. They said: The daughter of 'Amr or the
sister of Amr, whereupon he said: Why does she weep? The Angels provide him
shade with the
help of their Wings until
he would be lifted (to his heavenly abode)
(Book #031,
Hadith #6041)
(133) Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported: My father
fell as a martyr on the Day of Uhud and I attempted to uncover his face and
weep, but they (the Companions of the Holy Prophet) forbade me to do this,
whereas Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) did not forbid me and Fatima
bint Amr, the sister of my father, was also weeping There- upon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: You may weep or you may not weep; the
Angels provide him shade with the
help of
their wings until you lift him (to be buried in the grave).
(Book #031,
Hadith #6042)
(134) Qais b. 'Ubada reported: I was in the
company of some persons, amongst whom some were the Companions of Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) in Medina, that there came a person whose face
depicted the fear (of Allah). Some people said: He is a person from amongst the
people of Paradise; he is a person from amongst the people of Paradise. He
observed two short rak'ahs of prayer and then went out. I followed him and he
got into his house and I also got in and we began to converse with each other.
And when he became familiar (with me) I said to Him: When you entered (the
mosque) before (your entrance in the house) a person said so and so (that you
are amongst the people of Paradise), whereupon he said: It is not meet for
anyone to say anything which he does not know. I shall (now) tell you why they
(say) this. I saw a dream during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) and narrated it to him. I seemed to be in a garden [he described
its vastness, its rich fructification and its verdure]; in the midst of it,
there stood an iron pillar, with its base in the earth and its summit in the
sky: and upon its summit there was a handhold. It was said to me: Climb up this
(pillar). I said to him (visitant in the dream): I am unable to do it.
Thereupon a
helper came to me, and he
(supported) me (by catching hold of my) garment from behind and thus
helped me with his hand and so I climbed up till I
was at the summit of the pillar, and grasped the handhold. It was said to me:
Ho d it tightly. It was at this that I woke up when (the handhold) was in fthe
grip) of my hand. I narrated it (the dream) to Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him), whereupon he said: That garden implies al-Islam and that pillar
implies the pillar of Islam. And that handhold is the firmest faith (as refered
to in the Qur'an). And you will remain attached to Islam until you shall die.
And that man was 'Abdullah b. Salim.
(Book #031,
Hadith #6068)
(135) Qais b. 'Ubaida reported: I was
(sitting) in a company in which there were (besides others) Sa'd b. Malik and
Ibn 'Umar that 'Abdullah b. Saliim happened to pass (by that side). They (the
people sitting in that company) said: He is a person from amongst the dwellers
of Paradise. I stood up and said to him: They say such and such (thing about
you), whereupon he said: Hallowed be Allah, it is not meet for them to say
(anything) of which They have no knowledge. Verily I saw as if a pillar had
been raised in a green garden and there had been fixed at its (upper) end a
handhold and there was a
helper at its
base. It was said to me: Climb up. So I climbed up and caught hold of the
haildhold. I narrated (the contents of this dream) to Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him), whereupon he said: 'Abdullah would die in a state that he
would be catching hold of the firmest handhold (he would die holding fast to
the faith).
(Book #031,
Hadith #6069)
(136) Abu Huraira reported that 'Umar
happened to pass by Hassan as he was reciting verses in the mosque. He (Hadrat
'Umar) looked towards him (meaningfully), whereupon he (gassin) said: I used to
recite (verses) when one better than you (the Holy Prophet) had been present
(here). He then looked towards Abu Huraira and said to him: I adjure you by
Allah (to tell) if you had not heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: (Hassan), give a reply on my behalf; Allah I
help him with Ruh-ul-Qudus. He (Abu Huraira) said:
By Allah, it is so (i. e. the Holy Prophet actually said these words).
(Book #031,
Hadith #6071)
(137) 'Abd al-Rahman reported that he heard
Hassin b. Thabit al-Ansari call Abu Huraira to bear witness by saying: I adjure
you by Allah if you had not heard Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
saying: Hassin, give a reply on behalf of the Messenger of Allah. O Allah,
help him with Ruh-ul-Qudus. Abu Huraira said: Yes,
it is so.
(Book #031,
Hadith #6073)
(138) 'A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger
(may peace be uport him) said. Satirise against the (non-believing amongst the)
Quraish, for (the satire) is more grievous to them than the hurt of an arrow.
So he (the Holy Prophet) sent (someone) to Ibn Rawiha and asked him to satirise
against them, and he composed a satire, but it did not appeal to him (to the
Holy Prophet). He then sent (someone) to Ka'b b. Malik (to do the same, but
what he composed did not appeal to the Holy Prophet). He then sent one to
Hassan b. Thabit. As he got into his presence, Hassan said: Now you have called
for this lion who strikes (the enemies) with his tail. He then brought out his
tongue and began to move it and said: By Him Who has sent you with Truth, I
shall tear them with my tongue as the leather is torn. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Don't be hasty; (let) Abu Bakr who has
the best know- ledge of the lineage of the Quraish draw a distinction for you
in regard to my lineage, as my lineage is thesame as theirs. Hassan then came
to him (Abu Bakr) and after making inquiry (in regard to the lineage of the
Holy Prophet) came back to him (the holy Prophet) and said: Allah's Messenger,
he (Abu Bakr) has drawn a distinction in vour lineage (and that of the Quraish)
By Him Who has sent you with Truth, I shall draw out from them (your name) as
hair is drawn out from the flour. 'A'isha said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying to Hassin: Verily Ruh-ul- Qudus would continue to
help you so long as you put up a defence on behalf
of Allah and His Messenger. And she said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) saying: Hassan satirised against them and gave satisfaction to the
(Muslims) and disquieted (the non-Muslims). You satirised Muhammad, but I
replied on his behalf, And there is reward with Allah for this. You satirised
Muhammad. virtuous, righteous, The Apostle of Allah, whose nature is
truthfulness. So verily my father and his father and my honour Are a protection
to the honour of Muhammad; May I lose my dear daughter, if you don't see her,
Wiping away the dust from the two sides of Kada', They pull at the rein, going
upward; On their shoulders are spears thirsting (for the blood of the enemy) ;
our steeds are sweating-our women wipe them with their mantles. If you had not
interfered with us, we would have performed the 'Umra, And (then) there was the
Victory, and the darkness cleared away. Otherwise wait for the fighting on the
day in which Allah will honour whom He pleases. And Allah said: I have sent a
servant who says the Truth in which there is no ambiguity; And Allah said: I
have prepared an army-they are the Ansar whose object is fighting (the enemy),
There reaches every day from Ma'add abuse, or fighting or satire; Whoever
satirises the Apostle from amongst you, or praises him and
helps it is all the same, And Gabriel, the Apostle
of Allah is among us, and the Holy Spirit who has no match.
(Book #031,
Hadith #6081)
(139) Ubaidullah b. Rafi', who was the scribe
of 'All, reported: I heard 'Ali (Allah be pleased with him) as saying: Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent me and Zubair and Miqdad saying: Go to
the garden of, Khakh [it is a place between Medina and Mecca at a distance of
twelve miles from Medina] and there you will find a woman riding a camel. She
would be in possession of a letter, which you must get from her. So we rushed
on horses and when we met that woman, we asked her to deliver that letter to
us. She said: There is no letter with me. We said: Either bring out that letter
or we would take off your clothes. She brought out that letter from (the
plaited hair of) her head. We delivered that letter to Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) in which Hatib b. Abu Balta'a had informed some people
amongst the polytheists of Mecca about the affairs of Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him). Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Hatib, what
is this? He said: Allah's messenger, do not be hasty in judging my intention. I
was a person attached to the Quraish. Sufyan said: He was their ally but had no
relationship with them. (Hatib further said): Those who are with you amongst
the emigrants have blood-relationship with them (the Quraish) and thus they
would protect their families. I wished that when I had no blood-relationship
with them I should find some supporters from (amongst them) who would
help my family. I have not done this because of
any unbelief or apostasy and I have no liking for the unbelief after I have
(accepted) Islam. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: You
have told the truth. 'Umar said: Allah's Messenger, permit me to strike the
neck of this hypocrite. But he (the Holy Prophet) said: He was a participant in
Badr and you little know that Allah revealed about the people of Badr: Do what
you like for there is forgiveness for you. And Allah, the Exalted and Glorious,
said:" O you who believe, do not take My enemy and your enemy for
friends" (lx. 1). And there is no mention of this verse in the hadith
transmitted on the authority of Abu Bakr and Zubair and Ishaq has in his
narration made a mention of the recitation of this verse by Sufyan.
(Book #031,
Hadith #6087)
(140) Usair b. Jabir reported that when
people from Yemen came to
help (the
Muslim army at the time of jihad) he asked them: Is there amongst you Uwais b.
'Amir? (He continued finding him out) until he met Uwais. He said: Are you
Uwais b., Amir? He said: Yes. He said: Are you from the tribe of Qaran? He
said: Yes. He (Hadrat) 'Umar (again) said: Did you suffer from leprosy and then
you were cured from it but for the space of a dirham? He said: Yes. He ('Umar)
said: Is your mother (living)? He said: Yes. He ('Umar) said: I heard Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) say: There would come to you Uwais b. Amir
with the reinforcement from the people of Yemen. (He would be) from Qaran, (the
branch) of Murid. He had been suffering from leprosy from which he was cured
but for a spot of a dirham. His treatment with his mother would have been
excellent. If he were to take an oath in the name of Allah, He would honour
that. And if it is possible for you, then do ask him to beg forgiveness for you
(from your Lord). So he (Uwais) begged forgiveness for him. Umar said: Where do
you intend to go? He said: To Kufa. He ('Umar) said: Let me write a letter for
you to its governor, whereupon he (Uwais) said: I love to live amongst the poor
people. When it was the next year, a person from among the elite (of Kufa)
performed Hajj and he met Umar. He asked him about Uwais. He said: I left him
in a state with meagre means of sustenance. (Thereupon) Umar said: I heard
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There would come to you
Uwais b. 'Amir, of Qaran, a branch (of the tribe) of Murid, along with the
reinforcement of the people of Yemen. He had been suffering from leprosy which
would have been cured but for the space of a dirham. His treatment with his
mother would have been very kind. If he would take an oath in the name of Allah
(for something) He would honour it. Ask him to beg forgiveness for you (from
Allah) in case it is possible for you. So he came to Uwais and said.: Beg
forgiveness (from Allah) for me. He (Uwais) said: You have just come from a
sacred journey (Hajj) ; you, therefore, ask forgiveness for me. He (the person
who had performed Hajj) said: Ask forgiveness for me (from Allah). He (Uwais
again) said: You have just come from the sacred journey, so you ask forgiveness
for me. (Uwais further) said: Did you meet Umar? He said: Yes. He (Uwais) then
begged forgiveness for him (from Allah). So the people came to know about (the
status of religious piety) of Uwais. He went away (from that place). Usair said:
His clothing consisted of a mantle, and whosoever saw him said: From where did
Uwais get this mantle?
(Book #031,
Hadith #6172)
(141) Abu Naufal reported:
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 and said: May there
be peace upon you, Abu Khubaib (the Kunya of Hadrat 'Abdullah b. Zubair), may
there be peace upon you Abu Khubaib, may there be peace upon you, Abu Khubaib!
By Allah, I used to forbid you from this; by Allah, I used to forbid you from
this, by Allah I used to forbid you from this. By Allah, so far as I know, you
had been very much devoted to fasting and prayer and you had been paying very
much care to cementing the ties of blood. By Allah, the group to which you
belong (are labelled) as (a) wicked (person) is indeed a fine group. Then
'Abdullah b. 'Umar went away. The stand 'Abdullah (b. 'Umar) took in regard to
the inhuman treatment (meted out to 'Abdullah b. Zubair) and his words (in that
connection) were conveyed to Hajjaj (b. Yusuf) and (as a consequence of that)
he (the body of Abdullah b. Zubair) was brought down from the stump (the
scaffold) by which it was hanging and thrown into the graves of the Jews. He
(Hajjaj) sent (his messenger) to Asma' (bint Abu Bakr, 'Abdullah's mother). But
she refused to come. He again sent the messenger to her with the message that
she must come, otherwise he would bring her forcibly catching hold of her hair.
But she again refused and said: By Allah, I will not come to you until you send
one to me who would drag me by pulling my hair. Thereupon he said: Bring me my
shoes. He put on his shoes and walked on quickly swollen with vanity and pride
until he came to her and said: How do you find what I have done with the enemy
of Allah? She said: I find that you wronged him in this world, whereas he has
spoiled your next life. It has been conveyed to me that you used to call him
('Abdullah b. Zubair) as the son of one having two belts. By Allah, I am indeed
(a woman) of two belts. One is that with the
help
of which I used to suspend high the food of Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) and that of Abu Bakr (making it out of the reach) of animals and, so
far as the second belt is concerned, that is the belt which no woman can
dispense with. Verily Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) told us that in
Thaqif, there would be born a great liar and great murderer. The liar we have
seen, and as far as the murderer is concerned, I do not find anyone else
besides you. 'Thereupon he (Hajjaj) stood up and did not give any reply to her.
(Book #031,
Hadith #6176)
(142) Jabir b. Abdullah reported that two
young men, one from the Muhajirin (emigrants) and the other one from the Angr (
helpers) fell into dispute and the Muhajir called
his fellow Muhajirin, and the Ansari (the
helper)
called the Ansar (for
help). In the
meanwhile, Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came there and said: What
is this, the proclamation of the days of jahiliya (ignorance)? They said:
Allah's Messenger, there is nothing serious. The two young men fell into
dispute and the one struck at the back of the other. Thereupon he (the Holy
Prophet) said: Well, a person should
help
his brother whether he is an oppressor or an oppressed. If he is the oppressor
he should prevent him from doing it, for that is his
help; and if he is the oppressed he should be
helped (against oppression).
(Book #032,
Hadith #6254)
(143) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: A strong believer is better and is more
lovable to Allah than a weak believer, and there is good in everyone, (but)
cherish that which gives you benefit (in the Hereafter) and seek
help from Allah and do not lose heart, and if
anything (in the form of trouble) comes to you, don't say: If I had not done
that, it would not have happened so and so, but say: Allah did that what He had
ordained to do and your" if" opens the (gate) for the Satan.
(Book #033,
Hadith #6441)
(144) Anas (b. Malik) reported Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying. None of you should make a request
for death because of the trouble in which he is involved, but if there is no
other
help to it, then say: O Allah, keep
me alive as long as there is goodness in life for me and bring death to me when
there is goodness in death for me.
(Book #035,
Hadith #6480)
(145) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as say- ing: When any one of you goes to bed, he should
take hold of the hem of his lower garment and then should clean (his bed) with
the
help of that and then should recite
the name of Allah for he himself does tiot know what he left behind him on his
bed, and when he intends to lie on bed, he should lie on his right side and
utter these words:" Hallowed be Allah, my Lord. It is with Thine (grace)
that I place my side (upon the bed) and it is with Thee that I take it up
(after sleep), and in case Thou withholdst my being (if thou causest me to
die), then grant pardon to my being, and if Thou keepst (this process of
breathing on), then protect it with that with which Thou protected Thine pious
servants."
(Book #035,
Hadith #6554)
(146) Ibn 'Abbas reported that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) used to say:" O Allah, it is unto Thee
that I surrender myself. I affirm my faith in Thee and repose my trust in Thee
and turn to Thee in repentance and with Thy
help
fought my adversaries. O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee with Thine Power; there
is no god but Thou, lest Thou leadest me astray. Thou art ever-living that
dieth not, while the Jinn and mankind die."
(Book
#035,
Hadith #6561)
(147) This hadith has been transmitted on the
authority of Abu Huraira that Allah's Messenge; (may peace be upon him) used to
supplicate thus:" There is no god but Allah, the One Who conferred upon
His armies the honour of victory and
helped
His servant rout the clans; there is nothing after that."
(Book #035,
Hadith #6572)
(148) Ibn Shihab reported that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) made an expedition to Tabuk and he (the Holy
Prophet) had in his mind (the idea of threatening the) Christians of Arabia in
Syria and those of Rome. Ibn Shihab (further) reported that 'Abd al-Rahman b.
'Abdullah b. Ka'b informed him that Abdullah b. Ka'b who served as the guide of
Ka'b b. 'Malik as he became blind that he heard Ka'b b. Malik narrate the story
of his remaining behind Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) from the
Battle of Tabuk. Ka'b b. Malik said: I never remained behind Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) from any expedition which he undertook except the
Battle of Tabuk and that of the Battle of Badr. So far as the Battle of Badr is
concerned, nobody was blamed for remaining behind as Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) and the Muslims (did not set out for attack but for waylaying)
the caravan of the Quraish, but it was Allah Who made them confront their
enemies without their intention (to do so). I had the honour to be with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the night of 'Aqaba when we pledged our
allegiance to Islam and it was more dear to me than my participation in the
Battle of Badr, although Badr was more popular amongst people as compared with
that (Tabuk). And this is my story of remaining back from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) on the occasion of the Battle of Tabuk. Never did I
possess means enough and (my circumstances) more favourable than at the
occasion of this expedition. And, by Allah, I had never before this expedition
simultaneously in my possession two rides. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) set out for this expedition in extremely hot season; the journey was long
and the land (which he and his army had to cover) was waterless and he had to
confront a large army, so he informed the Muslims about the actual situation
(they had to face), so that they should adequately equip themselves for this
expedition, and he also told them the destination where he intended to go. And
the Muslims who accompanied Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) at that
time were large in numbers but there was no proper record of them. Ka'b
(further) said: Few were the persons who wanted to absent themselves, and were
under the impression that they could easily conceal themselves (and thus remain
undetected) until revelations from Allah, the Exalted and Glorious (descended
in connection with them). And Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) set out
on an expedition when the fruits were ripe and their shadows had been
lengthened. I had weakness for them and it was during this season that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) made preparations and the Muslims too along
with them. I also set out in the morning so that I should make preparations
along with them but I came back and did nothing and said to myself: I have
means enough (to make preparations) as soon as I like. And I went on doing this
(postponing my preparations) until people were about to depart and it was in
the morning that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) set out and the
Muslims too along with him, but I made no preparations. I went early in the
morning and came back, but I made no decision. I continued to do so until they
(the Muslims) hastened and covered a good deal of distance. I also made up my
mind to march on and to meet them. Would that I had done that but perhaps it
was not destined for me. After the departure of Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as I went out amongst people, I was shocked to find that I did not
find anyone like me but people who were labelled as hypocrites or the people
whom Allah granted exemption because of their incapacity and Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) took no notice of me until he had reached Tabuk. (One
day as he was sitting amongst the people in Tabuk) he said: What has happened
to Ka'b b. Malik? A person from Banu' Salama said: Allah's Messenger, the
(beauty) of his cloak and his appreciation of his sides have allured him and he
was thus detained. Mua'dh b. Jabal said: Woe be upon that what you contend.
Allah's Messenger, by Allah, we know nothing about him but good. Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him), however, kept quiet. It was during that time
that he (the Holy Prophet) saw a person (dressed in all white (garment)
shattering the illusion of eye (mirage). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: May he be Abu Khaithama and, lo, it was Abu Khaithama
al-Ansari and he was that person who contributed a sa' of dates and was scoffed
at by the hypocrites. Ka'b b. Malik farther said: When this news reached me
that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was on his way back from Tabuk I
was greatly perturbed. I thought of fabricating false stories and asked myself
how I would save myself from his anger on the following day. In this
connection, I sought the
help of every
prudent man from amongst the members of my family and when it was said to me
that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was about to arrive, all the
false ideas banished (from my mind) and I came to the conclusion that nothing
could save me but the telling of truth, so I decided to speak the truth and it
was in the morning that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) arrived (in
Medina). And it was his habit that as he came back from a journey he first went
to the mosque and observed two Rak'ahs of nafl prayer (as a mark of gratitude)
and then sat amongst people. And as he did that, those who had remained behind
him began to put forward their excuses and take an oath before him and they
were more than eighty persons. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
accepted their excuses on the very face of them and accepted their allegiance
and sought forgiveness for them and left their secret (intentions) to Allah,
until I presented myself to him. I greeted him and he smiled and there was a
tinge of anger in that. He (the Holy Prophet) then said to me: Come forward. I
went forward until I sat in front of him. He said to me: What kept you back?
Could you not afford to go in for a ride? I said: Allah's Messenger, by Allah,
if I were to sit in the presence of anybody else from amongst the worldly
people I would have definitely saved myself from his anger on one pretext (or
the other) and I have also the knack to fall into argumentation, but, by Allah,
I am fully aware of the fact that if I were to put forward before you a false
excuse to please you Allah would definitely provoke your wrath upon me, and if
I speak the truth you may be annoyed with me, but I hope that Allah would make
its end well and, by Allah, there is no valid excuse for me. By Allah, I never
possessed so good means, and I never had such favourable conditions for me as I
had when I stayed behind you (failed to join the expedition). Thereupon,
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: This man told the truth, so get
up until Allah gives a decision in your case. I stood up and some people of
Banu' Salama followed me in hot haste, and they said to me: By Allah, we do not
know about you that you committed a sin prior to this. You, however, showed
inability to put forward an excuse before Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as those who stayed behind him have put forward excuses. It would have
been enough for the forgiveness of your sin that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) would have sought forgiveness for you. By Allah, they continued to
incite me until I thought of going back to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) and contradict myself. Then I said to them: Has anyone else also met the
same fate? They said: Yes, two persons have met the same fate as has fallen to
you and they have made the sane statement as you have made, and the same
verdict has been delivered in their case as it has been delivered in your case.
I said: Who are they? They said: Murara b. ar-Rabi'a 'Amiri and Hilal b. Umayya
al-Waqafi. They made a mention of these two pious persons to me who had
participated in the Battle of Badr and there was an example for me in them. I
went away when they named these two persons. Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) forbade the Nluslims to talk with three of us from amongst those
(persons) who had stayed behind him. The people began to avoid us and their
attitude towards us underwent a change and it seemed as if the whole atmosphere
had turned (hostile) against us and it was in fact the same atmosphere ot which
I was fully aware and in which I had lived (for a fairly long time). We spent
fifty nights in this very state and my two friends confined themselves withen
their houses and spent (most of the) time in weeping, but as I was young and
strong amongst them I got (out of my house), participated in congregational prayers,
moved about in the bazar; but none spoke to me. I came to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as he sat amongst (people) after the prayer, greeted
him and asked myself whether his lips stirred in response to my greetings (or
not). Then I observed prayer beside him and looked at him with stealing glances
and when I attended to my prayer, he looked at me and when I cast a glance at
him he turned away his eyes from me. And when the harsh treatment of the
Muslims towards me extended to a (considerable) length of time, I walked until
I climbed upon the wall of the garden of Abu Qatada, and he was my cousin, and
I had the greatest love for him. I greeted him but, by Allah, he did not
respond to my greetings. I said to him: Abu Qatada, I adjure you by Allah,
arn't you well aware of the fact that I love Allah and His Messenger (may peace
be upon him) the most. He kept quiet. I again repeated saying: I adjure you by
Allah. arn't you well aware of the fact that I love Allah and His Messenger
(may peace be upon him) the most. He kept quiet. I again adjured him, whereupon
he said: Allah and the Messenger (may peace be upon him) are best aware of it.
My eyes began to shed tears and I came back climbing down from the wall and as
I was walking in the bazar of Medina a Nabatean from amongst the Nabateans of
Syria, who had come to sell foodgrains in Medina, asked people to direct him to
Ka'b b. Malik. People gave him the indication by pointing towards me. He came
to me and delivered to me a letter of the King of Ghassan and as I was a scribe
I read that letter and it was written like this:" Coming to my point, it
has been conveyed to us that your friend (the Holy Prophet) is subjecting you
to cruelty and Allah has not created you for a place where you are to be degraded
and where you cannot find your right place, so you come to us that we should
accord you honour. As I read that letter I said: This is also a calamity, so I
burnt it in the oven. When out of the fifty days, forty days had passed and
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) received no revelation, there came
the messenger of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) to me and said:
Verily, Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) has commanded you to remain
separate from your wife. I said: Should I divorce her or what (else) should I
do? He said: No, but only remain separate from her and don't have sexual
contact with her. The same message was sent to my companions. So I said to my
wife: You better go to your parents and stay there with them until Allah gives
the decision in my case. The wife of Hilal b. Umayya came to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's Messenger, Hilal b. Umayya is a
senile person, he has no servant. Do you disapprove of my serving him? He said:
No, but don't go near him. She said: By Allah, he has no such instinct in him.
By Allah, he spends his time in weeping from that day to this day. Some of the
members of my family said to me: Were you to seek permission from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) in regard to your wife as he has granted
permission to the wife of Hilal b. Umayya to serve him. I said: I would not
seek permission from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), for I cannot
say what Allah's Apostle may say in response to seeking my permission. Moreover,
I am a young man. It was in this state that I spent ten more nights and thus
fifty nights had passed that (people) had observed boycott with us. It was on
the morning of the fiftieth night that I observed my dawn prayer and was
sitting on one of the roofs of our houses. And I was in fact sitting in that
very state which Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, has described about us in
these words:" Life had become hard for myself and the earth had compressed
despite its vastness," that I heard the noise of an announcer from the
peak of the hill of Sal' saying at the top of his voice: Ka'b b. Malik, there
is glad tidings for you. I fell down in prostration and came to realise that
there was (a message of) relief for me. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) had informed the people of the acceptance of our repentance by Allah as he
offered the dawn prayer. So the people went on to give us glad tidings and some
of them went to my friends in order to give them the glad tidings and a person
galloped his horse and came from the tribe of Aslam and his horse reached me
more quickly than his voice. And when he came to me whose sound I heard, he
gave me the glad tidings. I took off my clothes and clothed him with them
because of his bringing good news to me and, by Allah, I possessed nothing else
(in the form of clothes) than these two on that occasion, and I asked one to
lend me two clothes and dressed myself in them. I came to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) and on my way I met groups of people who greeted me
because of (the acceptance of) repentance and they said: Here is a greeting for
you for your repentance being accepted by Allah. (I moved on) until I came to
the mosque and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had been sitting there
amongst persons. So Talha b. 'Ubaidullah got up and rushed towards me and he
shook hands with me and greeted me and, by Allah, no person stood up (to greet
me) from amongst the emigrants except he. Ka'b said that he never forgot (this
good gesture of) Talha. Ka'b further said: I greeted Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) with Assalam-o-'Alaikam and his face was glistening because
of delight, and he said: Let there be glad tidings and blessings for you, the
like of which (you have neither found nor you will find, as you find today)
since your mother gave your birth. I said: Allah's Messenger. is this
acceptance of repentance from you or from Allah? He said: No, (it is not from
ma), it is from Allah, and it was common with Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) that as he was happy his face brightened up and it looked like a part
of the moon and it was from this that we recognised it (his delight). As I sat
before him, I said: Allah's Messenger, am I allowed to give in charity my
wealth for Allah's sake and for the sake of His Messenger (may peace be upon
him)? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Keep some
property with you as it is better for you. I said: I shall keep with me that
part (of my property) which fell to my lot (on the occasion of the expedition
of) Khaibar. I said: Allah's Messenger, verily, Allah has granted me salvation
because of truth and, therefore, (I think) that repentance implies that I
should not speak anything but truth as long as I live. He said: By Allah, I do
not know whether anyone amongst the Muslims was put to more severe trial than I
by Allah because of telling the truth. And since I made a mention of this to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) up to this day I have not told any
lie and, by Allah, I have decided not to tell a lie and I hope that Allah would
save me (from trials) for the rest of my life and Allah, the Exalted and
Glorious, revealed these verses:" Certainly, Allah has turned in Mercy to
the Prophet and the emigrants and the
helpers
who followed him in the hour of hardship after the hearts of a part of them
were about to deviate; then He turned to them in mercy. Surely, to them He is
Compassionate, Merciful and (He turned in Mercy) to the three who were left
behind until the earth despite its vastness became strait for them and their
souls were also straitened to them." And this revelation reached up to the
(words):" O you who believe, develop God consciousness, and be with the
truthful" (ix. 117-118). Ka'b said: By Allah, since Allah directed me to
Islam there has been no blessing more significant for me than this truth of
mine which I spoke to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and if I were
to tell a lie I would have been ruined as were ruined those who told lies, for
in regard to those who told lies Allah used harshest words used for anyone as
He descended revelation (and the words of Allah are):" They will swear by
Allah to you when you return to them so that you may leave them alone. So leave
them alone. Surely, they are unclean and their resort is Hell, recompense for
what they earned. They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them but
if you are pleased with them, yet surely Allah is not pleased with the
transgressing people" (ix. 95-96). K'ab said that the matter of us three
persons was deferred as compared with those who took an oath in the presence of
Allahs Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he accepted their allegiance and
sought forgiveness for them and Allah did not give any decision in regard to
us. It was Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, Who gave decisions in our case,
three who remained behind. (The words of the Qur'an)" the three who were
left behind" do not mean that we remained back from Jihad but these imply
that He kept our matter behind them who took oath and presented excuse before
Him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same
chain of transmitters.
(Book #037,
Hadith #6670)
(149) Sa'id b. Musayyib, 'Urwa b. Zubair,
'Alqama b. Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah b. Abdullah b. 'Utba b. Mas'ud--all of them
reported the story of the false allegation against 'A'isha, the wife of Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him). And they (the slanderers) said what they had
to say, but Allah exonerated her of this charge and all of them reported a part
of the hadith and some of them who had better memories reported more and with
better retention, and I tried to retain this hadith (listening) from every one
of them that they reported to me and some of them attested the other. (The
sumaried substance of the false allegation is this): 'A'isha said: Whenever
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) intended to set out on a journey he
cast lots amongst his wives and he took one with him in whose favour the lot
was cast. It so happened that he cast lots amongst us while setting out on a
battle and it was cast in my favour, so I set out along with Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him). This relates to the period when the revelation
concerning the commands of veil had been made. I was carried in a haudaj and I
was brought down where we had to stay. In short, when we set out for return
journey from the expedition and our caravan was near Medina, Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) commanded one night to march forward. I also got up
when the command for the march was given and moved on until I went out of the
encampments of the army and after relieving myself I came to my place. I
touched my chest and found that my necklace which had been made of the stones
of zafar had been broken. I retraced my steps and tried to search my necklace
and this detained me there. The group of people who saddled my ride and placed
my haudaj carrying me upon the camels marched on. They were under the
impression that I was in it. The women in those days were light of weight and
they did not wear much flesh, as they ate less food; so they did not perceive
the weight of my haudaj as they placed it upon the camel as I was a young girl
at that time. So they drove the camel and Eet out and I found my necklace after
the army had marched. I came to my place and there was none to call and none to
respond (the call). I waited at my place under the impression that when the
people would riot find me they would come back. So I kept sitting at my place.
I was overpowered by sleep and slept. Safwan b. Mu'attal Sulami Dhakwini, who
had lagged behind the army because of taking rest came to my place walking in
the latter part of the night and he saw the body of a person who was asleep. He
came to me and recognised me as he had seen rue before it was enjoined to
observe purda. I got ap by his voice as he recited Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi
raji'un [we are for Allah and to Him we have to return. ] and I covered my head
with my headdress. By Allah, he did not speak to me a word and I did not hear a
word from him except Inna lillahi. He made his camel kneel down and I amounted
the camel as he pressed tLe camel's foreleg and he moved on leaning the camel
by the nose string on which I was riding until we came to the army where it had
encamped for rest because of extreme heat. Woe be upon those who harboured
doubts about me and the most notorious among them was 'Abdullah b. Ubayy, the
great hypocrite. We came to Medina and I fell sick for a month. The people had
been deliberating over the statements of those who had brought these calumnies
against me. I was absolutely unaware of anything concerning that. This,
however, caused doubt in my mind that I did not see Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him.) treating me with such kindness with which he treated me as
I fell ill before this. The Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) would coome
and greet me with Assalam-o-'Alaikum and only ask me how I was. This caused
doubt in my mind, but I was unaware of the evil. I wept outside despite my
failing health and there went along with me Umm Mistah and she said the
daughter of Abu Rhm b. Muttalib b. 'Abd Manaf and his mother was the daughter
of Sakhr b. 'Amir, the sister of the mother of Abu Bakr Sidiq and his son was
Mistah b. Uthatha b. 'Abbad b. Muttalib. I and the daughter of Abu Rahm set
towards the direction of my house. Something got into the head dress of Umm
Mistah and she said: Woe be upon Mistah. And I said. Woe be upon what you say.
Do you curse people who had participated in Badr? She said: Innocent woman,
have you not heard what he said? I said: What did he say? She conveyed to me
the statement of those who had brought false allegations against me. So my
illness was aggravated. I went to my house and Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) came to me and he greeted me and then said: How is that woman? I
said: Do you permit me to go to the (house) of my parents? She (further) said:
I had at that time made up my mind to confirm this news from them. Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) permitted me. So I came to (the house of) my
parents and said to my mother: Mother, do you know what the people are talking
about? She said: My daughter, you should not worry. By Allah, if there is a
handsome woman who is loved by her husband and he has co-wives also they talk
many a thing about her. I said: Hallowed be Allah, what are the people talking
about? I wept during the whole night until it was morning and I did not have a
wink of sleep and I wept even in the morning. As the revelation was delayed (in
regard to this matter), so Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) called
'Ali ibn Abi 'Talib and Usama b. Zaid in order to seek their advice in regard
to the separation of his wife. Usama b. Zaid told Allah's Messenger (may peace
be apen him) about the innocence of his wives and what he knew about his love
for them. He said: Allah's Messenger, they are your wives and we know nothing
else about thembut goodness. And as for 'Ali b. Abu Talib, he said: Allah has
not put any unnecessary burden upon you (in regard to your wives). There are a
number of women besides her and if you ask that maidservant (Barira) she will
tell you the truth. So, Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) called Bailra
and said: Barira, did you see anything in 'A'isha which can cause doubt about
her? Barira said: By Him Who sent thee with the truth, I have seen nothing
objectionable in her but only this much that she is a young girl and she goes
to sleep while kneading the flour and the lamb eats that. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) mounted the pulpit and sought vindication
against 'Abdullah b. Ubayy b. Salul, and he further said: Who would exonerate
me from imputations of that person who has troubled (me) in regard to my
family? By Allah, I find nothing in my wife but goodness and the person whom
the people have mentioned in this connection is, according to my knowledge, a
thoroughly pious person, and he did never get into my house but along with me.
Sa'd b. Mu'adh stood up and said: Allah's Messenger, I defend your honour
against him. If he belong to the tribe of Aus we would strike his neck and if
he belongs to the tribe of our brother Khazraj and you order us we would comply
with your order. Then Sa'd b. 'Ubada stood up. He was chief of the Khazraj
tribe. He was otherwise a pioas man but he had some what tribal partisanship in
him and he said to Sa'd b. Mu'adh: By the everlasting existence of Allah. you
are not stating the fact, you will not be able to kill him and you will not
have the power to do so. Thereupon, Usaid b. Hudair stood up, and he was the
first cousin of Sa'd b. Mu'adh and said to Sa'd b. 'Ubada: By the everlasting
existence of Allah, you are not stating the fact. We would kill him. You are a
hypocrite and so you argue in defence of the hypocrites, and thus both the
tribes Aus and Khazraj were flared up, until they were about to fall upon one
another and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) kept standing upon the
pulpit and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) tried to subside their
anger until they became silent and thus there was silence. 'A'isha further
reported: I spent the whole day in weeping and even the night and could not
have a wink of sleep even next night. My parents thought that this constant
weeping of mine would break my heart. I wept and they sat beside me. In the
meanwhile a woman of the Ansar came to see me. I permitted her to see me and
she also began to weep. And we were in this very state that Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) came and he greeted me and then sat down. He had never
sat with me since a month when this rumour was afloat, and there was no
revelation (to clarity) my case. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
recited Tashahhud (there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Apostle) and
then said: Coming to the point, 'A'isha, this is what has reached me about you
and if you are innocent, Allah would Himself vindicate your honour, and if
accidentally there has been a lapse on your part sock forgiveness of Allah; He
will pardon thee for when a servant makes a confession of his fault and turns
(to Him) penitently, Allah also turns to him (mercifully) accepting his
repentance. When Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) talked, my tears
dried up and not even a single drop of tear was perceived by me (rolling out of
my eyes). I said to my father: You give a reply to Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) on my behalf. He said: By Allah, I do not know what I should say
to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). I then said to my mother: Give a
reply to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) on my behalf, but she said:
By Allah, I do not know what I should say to Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him). I was a small girl at that time and I had not read much of the
Qur'an (but I said): By Allah, I perceive that you have heard about this and it
has settled down in your mind and you have taken it to be true, so if I say to
you that I am quite innocent, and Allah knows that I am innocent, you would
never believe me to be true, and if I confess to (the alleged) lapse before
you, whereas Allah knows that I am completely innocent (and I have not
committed this sin at all), in that case You will take me to be true and, by
Allah, I, therefore, find no other alternative for me and for you except that
what the father of Yousuf said:, (My course is) comely patience. And Allah it
is Whose
help is to be sought for in that
(predicament) which ye describe" (xii 18). After this I turned my face to
the other side and lay down on my bed. By Allah, I was fully aware of this fact
that I was innocent but I did not expect that Allah would descend Wahy Matlu
(Qur'anic Wahy) in my case as I did not think myself so much important that
Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, would speak in this matter in words to be
recited. I only hoped that Allah would in vision give an indication of my innocence
to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) during his sleep. And, by Allah,
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had not moved an inch from where he
had been sitting and none from the members of my family had gone that Allah,
the Exalted and Glorious, descended revelation upon Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) there and then and he felt the burden which he used to feel
at the time of receiving revelation. He began to perspire because of the burden
of words of Allah as they descended upon him even during the winter season and
there fell the drops of his sweat like silvery beads. When this state of
receiving revelation was over, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)
smiled and the first words which he spoke to me were that he said: 'A'isha,
there is glad tidings for you. Verily, Allah has vindicated your honour, and my
mother who had been standing by me said: Get up (and thank him, i. e. the Holy
Prophet). I said: By Allah, I shall not thank him and laud him but Allah Who
has descended revelation vindicating my honour. She ('A'isha) said: Allah, the
Exalted and Glorious, revealed:" 'Verily, those who spread the slander are
a gang among you" (and) ten (subsequent) verses in regard to my innocence.
She further said: Abu Bakr used to give to Mistah (some stipend) as a token of
kinship with him and for his poverty and he (Abu Bakr) said: By Allah, now I
would not spend anything for him. 'A'isha said: It was upon this that Allah the
Exalted and Glorious revealed this verse:" And let not those who possess
dignity and ease among you swear to give to the near of the kin" up
to" Yearn ye not that Allah may forgive you?" Hibban b. Musa' said
that 'Abdullah b. Mubarak used to say: It is a verse contained in the Book
which most (eminently) brightens the hope. Abu Bakr said: By Allah, I wish that
Allah should pardon me. I shall never stop this stipend. So he continued to
give him the stipend which he had withdrawn. 'A'isha said that Allah's
Messenger (way peace be upon him) asked Zainab, daughter of Jahsh, the wife of
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him), about me what she knew or what she had
seen in me, and she said: Allah's Messenger, I shall not say anything without
hearing (with my ears) and seeing with my eyes. By Allah, I find nothing in her
but goodness. (And she stated this in spite of the fact) that she was the only
lady who amongst the wives of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) used to
vie with me but Allah saved her in bringing false allegation against me because
of her God-consciousness. Her sister Hamna bint Jahsh, however, opposed her and
she was undone along with others.
(Book #037,
Hadith #6673)
(150) Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: There is none amongst you with
whom is not an attache from amongst the jinn (devil). They (the Companions)
said: Allah's Messenger, with you too? Thereupon he said: Yes, but Allah
helps me against him and so I am safe from his
hand and he does not command me but for good.
(Book
#039,
Hadith #6757)
(151) A'isha the wife of
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him), reported that one day Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) came out of her (apartment) during the night
and she felt jealous. Then he came and he saw me (in what agitated state of
mind) I was. He said: A'isha, what has happened to you? Do you feel jealous?
Thereupon she said: How can it he (that a woman like me) should not feel
jealous in regard to a husband like you. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: It was your devil who had come to you, and she said: Allah's
Mes- senger, is there along with me a devil? He said: Yes. I said: Is devil
attached to everyone? He said: Yes. I (Aisha) again said: Allah's Messenger, is
it with you also? He said: Yes, but my Lord has
helped
me against him and as such I am ab solutely safe from his mischief.
(Book #039,
Hadith #6759)
(152) 'Abdullah b. Zam'a reported that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) delivered an address and he made a
mention of the dromedary and also made a mention of one (base person) who cut
off Its hind legs, and he recited:" When the basest of them broke forth
with mischief" (xei. 12). When A mischievous person, strong even because
of the strength of a family like Abu Zam'a, broke forth. He then delivered
instruction in regard to the women saying: There is amongst you who beats his
woman, and in the narration on the authority of Abu Bakr, the words are: He
flogs her like a slave-girl. And in the narration of Abu Kuraib (the words
are): He flogs like a slave and then comforts his bed with the
help of that at the end of the day, and he then
advised in regard to laughing of people at the breaking of wind and said: One
of you laughs at that which you yourself do.
(Book #040,
Hadith #6837)
(153) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: Two are the types amongst the denizens of
Hell, the one possessing whips like the tail of an ox and they flog people with
their
help. (The second one) the women
who would be naked in spite of their being dressed, who are seduced (to wrong
paths) and seduce others with their hair high like humps. These women would not
get into Paradise and they would not perceive the odour of Paradise, although
its frag- rance can be perceived from such and such distance (from great
distance).
(Book #040,
Hadith #6840)
(154) 'Iyad b. Him-ar reported that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him), while delivering a sermon one day, said:
Behold, my Lord commanded me that I should teach you which you do not know and
which He has taught me today. (He has instructed thus): The property which I
have conferred upon them is lawful for them. I have created My servants as one
having a natural inclination to the worship of Allah but it is Satan who turns
them away from the right religion and he makes unlawful what has been declared
lawful for them and he commands them to ascribe partnership with Re, although
he has no justification for that. And verily, Allah looked towards the people
of the world and He showed hatred for the Arabs and the non-Arabs, but with the
exception of some remnants from the People of the Book. And He (further) said:
I have sent thee (the Holy Prophet) in order to put you to test and put (those
to test) through you. And I sent the Book to you which cannot be washed away by
water, so that you may recite it while in the state of wakefulness or sleep.
Verily, Allah commanded me to burn (kill) the Quraish. I said: My Lord, they
would break my head (like the tearing) of bread, and Allah said: You turn them
out as they turned you out, you fight against them and We shall
help you in this, you should spend and you would
be conferred upon. You send an army and I would send an army five times greater
than that. Fight against those who disobey you along with those who obey you.
The inmates of Paradise are three: One who wields authority and is just and
fair, one who Is truthful and has been endowed with power to do good deeds. And
the person who is merciful and kind hearted towards his relatives and to every
pious Muslim, and one who does not stretch his hand in spite of having a large
family to support. And He said: The inmates of Hell are five: the weak who lack
power to (avoid evil), the (carefree) who pursue (everything irrespective of
the fact that it is good or evil) and who do not have any care for their family
or for their wealth. And those dishonest whose greed cannot be concealed even
in the case of minor things. And the third. who betray you. morning and evening,
in regard to your family and your property. He also made a mention of the miser
and the liar and those who are in the habit of abusing people and using obscene
and foul language. Abu Ghassan in his narration did not make mention of"
Spend and there would be spent for you."
(Book
#040,
Hadith #6853)
(155) Zainab bint Jahsh reported that Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) got up from sleep saying: There is no god but
Allah; there is a destruction in store for Arabia because of turmoil which is
at hand, the barrier of Gog and Magog has opened so much. And Sufyan made a
sign of ten with the
help of his hand (in
order to indicate the width of the gap) and I said: Allah's Messenger, would we
be perished in spite of the fact that there would be good people amongst us?
Thereupon he said: Of course, but only when the evil predominates.
(Book #041,
Hadith #6881)
(156) Zainab bint Jahsh, the wife of Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him), reported that one day Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) came out in a state of excitement with his face quite red.
And he was saying: There is no god but Allah; there is a destruction in store
for Arabia beciuse of the turmoil which is near at hand as the barrier of Gog
and Magog has been opened like it, and he (in order to explain it) made a ring
with the
help o his thumb and forefinger.
I said: Allah's Messenger, would we be destroyed despite the fact that there
would be pious people amongst us? He said: Yes, when the evil would
predominate.
(Book #041,
Hadith #6883)
(157) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) as saying: Today the wall (barrier) of Gog and Magog
has been opened so much, and WUhaib (in order to explain it) made the figure of
ninety with the
help of his hand.
(Book #041,
Hadith #6885)
(158) Abu Bakra reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: There would soon be turmoil. Behold! there
would be turmoil in which the one who would be seated would be better than one
who would stand and the one who would stand would be better than one who would
run. Behold! when the turmoil comes or it appears, the one who has camel should
stick to his camel and he who has sheep or goat should stick to his sheep and
goat and he who has land should stick to the land. A person said: 'Allah's
Messenger, what is your opinion about one who has neither camel nor sheep nor
land? Thereupon, he said: He should take hold of his sword and beat its edge with
the
help of stone and then try to find a
way of escape. O Allah, I have conveyed (Thy Message) ; O Allah, I have
conveyed (Thy Message) ; O Allah, I have conveyed (Thy Message). A person said:
Allah's Messenger, what is your opinion it I am drawn to a rank in spite of
myself, or in one of the groups and made to march and a man strikes with his
sword or there comes an arrow and kills me? Thereupon he said: He will bear the
punishment of his sin and that of yours and he would be one amongst the denizens
of Hell.
(Book #041,
Hadith #6896)
(159) Ahnaf b. Qais reported: I set out with
the intention of
helping this person
(Hadrat 'Ali) that Abu Bakra met me. He said: Ahnaf, where do you intend to go?
I said: I intend to
help the cousin of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), viz. 'Ali. Thereupon he said to me:
Ahnaf, go back, for I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: When two Muslims confront one another with swords (in hands) both the
slayer and the slain would be in Fire. He (Ahnaf) said: I said, or it was said:
Allah's Messenger, it may be the case of one who kills. but what about the
slain (why he would be put in Hell-Fire)? Thereupon he said: He also intended
to kill his companion.
(Book #041,
Hadith #6898)
(160) Amir b. Sharahil Sha'bi Sha'b Hamdan
reported that he asked Fatima, daughter of Qais and sister of ad-Dahhak b. Qais
and she was the first amongst the emigrant women: Narrate to me a hadith which
you had heard directly from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and there
is no extra link in between them. She said: Very well, if you like, I am prepared
to do that, and he said to her: Well, do It and narrate that to me. She said: I
married the son of Mughira and he was a chosen young man of Quraish at that
time, but he fell as a martyr in the first Jihad on the side of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him). When I became a widow, 'Abd al-Rahman b.
Auf, one amongst the group of the Companions of Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him), sent me the proposal of marriage. Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) also sent me such a message for his freed slave Usama b. Zaid. And it
had been conveyed to me that Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) had said
(about Usama): He who loves me should also love Usima. When Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) talked to me (about this matter), I said: My affairs
are in your hand. You may marry me to anyone whom you like. He said: You better
shift now to the house of Umm Sharik, and Umm Sharik was a rich lady from
amongst the Anqir. She spent generously for the cause of Allah and entertained
guests very hospitably. I said: Well, I will do as you like. He said: Do not do
that for Umm Sharik is a woman who is very frequently vizited by guests and I
do not like that your head may be uncovered or the cloth may be removed from
your shank and the strangers may catch sight of them which you abhor. You
better shift to the house of your cousin 'Abdullah b. 'Amr b. Umm Maktum and he
is a person of the Bani Fihr branch of the Quraish, and he belonged to that
tribe (to which Fatima) belonged. So I shifted to that house, and when my
period of waiting was over, I heard the voice of an announcer making an
announcement that the prayer would be observed in the mosque (where)
congregational prayer (is observed). So I set out towards that mosque and
observed prayer along with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and I was
in the row of the women which was near the row of men. When Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) had finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit smiling
and said: Every worshipper should keep sitting at his place. He then said: Do
you know why I had asked you to assemble? They said: Allah and His Messenger
know best. He said: By Allah. I have not made you assemble for exhortation or
for a warning, but I have detained you here, for Tamim Dari, a Christian, who
came and accepted Islam, told me something, which agrees with what I
was-telling, yuu about the Dajjal. He narrated to me that he had sailed in a
ship along with thirty men of Bani Lakhm and Bani Judham and had been tossed by
waves in the ocean for a month. Then these (waves) took them (near) the land
within the ocean (island) at the time of sunset. They sat in a small side-boat
and entered that Island. There was a beast with long thick hair (and because of
these) they could not distinguish his face from his back. They said: Woe to
you, who can you be? Thereupon it said: I am al-Jassasa. They said: What is
al-Jassasa? And it said: O people, go to this person in the monastery as he is
very much eager to know about you. He (the narrator) said: When it named a
person for us we were afraid of it lest it should be a Devil. Then we hurriedly
went on till we came to that monastery and found a well-built person there with
his hands tied to his neck and having iron shackles between his two legs up to
the ankles. We said: Woe be upon thee, who are you? And he said: You would soon
come to know about me. but tell me who are you. We said: We are people from
Arabia and we embarked upon a boat but the sea-waves had been driving us for
one month and they brought as near this island. We got Into the side-boats and
entered this island and here a beast met us with profusely thick hair and
because of the thickness of his hair his face could not be distinguished from
his back. We said: Woe be to thee, who are you? It said: I am al- Jassasa. We
said: What is al-Jassasa? And it said: You go to this very person in the
monastery for he is eagerly waiting for you to know about you. So we came to
you in hot haste fearing that that might be the Devil. He (that chained person)
said: Tell me about the date-palm trees of Baisan. We &aid: About what
aspect of theirs do you seek information? He said: I ask you whether these
trees bear fruit or not. We said: Yes Thereupon he said: I think these would
not bear fruits. He said: Inform me about the lake of Tabariyya? We said: Which
aspect of it do you want to know? He said: Is there water in it? They said:
There is abundance of water in it. Thereupon he said: I think it would soon
become dry. He again said: Inform me about the spring of Zughar. They said:
Which aspect of it you want to know? He (the chained person) said: Is there
water in it and does it irrigate (the land)? We said to him: Yes, there is
abundance of water in it and the inhabitants (of Medina) irrigate (land) with
the
help of it, He said: Inform me about
the unlettered Prophet; what has he done? We said: He has come out from Mecca
and has settled In Yathrib (Medina). He said: Do the Arabs fight against him?
We said: Yes. He said: How did he deal with him? We informed him that he had
overcome those in his neighbourhood and they had submitted themselves before
him. Thereupon he said to us: Had it actually happened? We said: Yes. Thereupon
he said: If it is so that is better for them that they should show obedience to
him. I am going to tell you about. myself and I am Dajjal and would be soon
permitted to get out and so I shall get out and travel in the land, and will
not spare any town where I would not stay for forty nights except Mecca and
Medina as these two (places) are prohibited (areas) for me and I would not make
an attempt to enter any one of these two. An angel with a sword in his hand
would confront me and would bar my way and there would be angels to guard every
passage leading to it; then Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) striking
the pulpit with the
help of the end of
his staff said: This implies Taiba meaning Medina. Have I not, told you an
account (of the Dajjal) like this? 'The people said: Yes, and this account
narrated by Tamim Dari was liked by me for it corroborates the account which I
gave to you in regard to him (Dajjal) at Medina and Mecca. Behold he (Dajjal)
is in the Syrian sea (Mediterranian) or the Yemen sea (Arabian sea). Nay, on
the contrary, he As In the east, he is in the east, he is in the east, and he
pointed with his hand towards the east. I (Fatima bint Qais) said: I preserved
It In my mind (this narration from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him).
(Book #041,
Hadith #7028)
(161) Abu Huraira,
narrated that he beard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
There were three persons in Bani Isra'il, one suffering from leprosy, the other
bald-headed and the third one blind. Allah decided to test them. So He sent an
angel who came to one who was suffering from leprosy and said: Which thing do
you like most? He said: Beautiful colour and fine skin and removal of that
which makes me detestable in the eye of people. He wiped him and his illness
was no more and he was conferred upon beautiful colour and beautiful skin. He
(the angel) again said: Which property do you like most? He said: Camels, or he
said: The cow the narrator is, however, doubtful about it, but (out of the
persons) suffering from leprosy or baldness one of them definitely said: The
came]. And the other one said: Cow. And he (one who demanded came]) was bestowed
upon a she-camel, in an advanced stage of pregnancy, and while giving he said:
May Allah bless you in this I Then he came to the bald-headed person and said:
Which thing do you like most? He said: Beautiful hair and that (this baldness)
may be removed from me because of which people hate me He wiped his body and
his illness was removed and he was bestowed upon beautiful hair, and the angel
said: Which wealth do you like most? He said: The cow. And he was given a
pregnant cow and while handing it over to him he (the angel) said: May Allah
bless you in this I Then he came to the blind man and he said: Which thing do
you like most? He said: Allah should restore my eyesight so that I should be
able to see people with the
help of that.
He wiped his body and Allah restored to him his eyesight, and he (the angel)
also said: Which wealth do you like most? He said. The flock of sheep. And he
was given a pregnant goat and that gave birth to young ones and it so happened
that one valley abounded in camels and the other one in goats and the third one
in sheep. He then came to one suffering from leprosy in his (old) form and
shape and he said: I am a poor person and my provision has run short in my
journey and there is none to take me to my destination except with the
help of Allah and your favour. I beg of you in His
name Who gave you fine colour and fine skin, and the camel in the shape of
wealth (to confer upon me) a camel which should carry me in my journey. He
said: I have many responsibilities to discharge. Thereupon he said: I perceive
as if I recognise you. Were you not suffering from leprosy whom people hated
and you were a destitude and Allah conferred upon you (wealth) He said: I have
inherited this property from my forefathers. Thereupon he said: If you are a
liar may Allah change you to that very position in which you had been. He then
came to the one who was bald-headed in his (old) form and said to him the same
what he had said to him (one suffering from leprosy) and he gave him the same
reply as he had given him and he said: If you 'are a liar, may Allah turn you
to your previous position in which you had been. And then he came to the blind
man in his (old) form and shape and he said: I am a destitute person and a
wayfarer. My provision have ran short and today there is no way to reach the
destination but with the
help of Allah
and then with your
help and I beg of you
in the (name) of One Who restored your eyesight and gave you the flock of sheep
to give me a sheep by which I should be able to make my provisions for the
journey. He said: I was blind and Allah restored to me my eyesight; you take
whatever you like and leave whatever you like. By Allah. I shall not stand in
your way today for what you take in the name of God. Thereupon, he said: You
keep with you what you have (in your possession). The fact is that you three
were put to test and Allah is well pleased with you and He is annoyed with your
companions.
(Book #042,
Hadith #7071)
(162) Abu Huraira reported: While a person
was in the wilderness he heard a voice from the cloud (commanding it thus):
Irrigate the garden of so and so. (After that the clouds slinked aside and
poured water on a stony ground. It filled a channel amongst the channels of
that land and that person followed that water and he found a person standing in
the garden busy in changing the course of water with the
help of a hatchet. He said to him: Servant of
Allah, what is your name? he said: So and so. And it was that very name which
he had heard from the clouds. and he said to him: Servant of Allah, why do you
ask me my name? He said: I beard a voice from the clouds of which It is the
downpour, saying: Water the garden of so and to. like your name. What do you do
(for the favour) shown to you by Allah in this matter? He said: Now as you
state so. I look what yield I get from it. and I give one-third as charity out
of it and I and my children eat one-third of it and one-third I return to it as
investment.
(Book #042,
Hadith #7112)
(163) The son of Abu Said al-Khudri reported
on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: When one of you yawns, he should keep his mouth shut with the
help of his hand, for it is the devil that enters
therein.
(Book #042,
Hadith #7130)
(164) The son of Abu Said al-Khudri reported
on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: When one of you yawns, he should try to restrain it with cue
help of his hand since it is the Satan that enters
therein.
(Book #042,
Hadith #7131)
(165) 'Ubadab. Walid b. Samit reported: I and
my father set out in search of knowledge to a tribe of the Ansar before their
death (i. e. before the Companions of the Holy Prophet left the world) and I
was the first to meet Abu Yasar, a Companion of Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) and there was a young man with him who carried the record of letters
with him and there was a mantle prepared by the tribe of Ma'afiri upon him. And
his servant too had a Ma'afiri mantle over him. My father said to him: My
uncle, I see the signs of anger or that of agony on your face. He said: Yes,
such and such person, the son of so and so, of the tribe of Harami owed me a
debt. I went to his family, extended salutations and said: Where is he? They
said: He is not here. Then came out to me his son who was at the threshold of
his youth. I said to him: Where is your father? He said: No sooner did he hear
your sound than he hid himself behind my mother's bedstead. I said to him: Walk
out to me, for I know where you are. He came out. I said to him: What prompted
you to hide yourself from me? He said: By God, whatever I would say to you
would not be a lie. By Allah, I fear that I should tell a lie to you and in
case of making promise with you I should break it, as you are the Companion of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). The fact is that I was hard up in
regard to money. I said: Do you adjure by Allah? He said: I adjure by Allah. I
said: Do you adjure by Allah? He said: I adjure by Allah. I said: Do you adjure
by Allah? He said: I adjure by Allah. Then he brought his promissory note and
he wrote off (the debt) with his hand and said: Make payment when you find
yourself solvent enough to pay me back; if you are not, then there is no
liability upon you. These two eyes of mine saw, and he (Abu'I-Yasar) placed his
fingers upon his eyes and these two ears of mine heard and my heart retained,
and he pointed towards his heart that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: He who gives time to one who is financially hard up (in the payment of
debt) or writes off his debt, Allah will provide him His shadow. I said to him:
My uncle, if you get the cloak of your servant and you give him your two clothes,
or take his two clothes of Ma'afir and give him your cloak, then there would be
one dress for you and one for him. He wiped my head and said: O Allah, bless
the son of my brother. O, son of my brother, these two very eyes of mine saw
and these two ears of mine listened to and this heart of mine retained this,
and he pointed towards the heart that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: Feed them (the servants) and clothe them (the servants) what you wear,
and if I give him the goods of the world, it is easy for me than this that he
should take my virtues on the Day of Resurrection. We went on till we came to
Jabir b. Abdullah in the mosque and he was busy in observing prayer in one
cloth which he had joined at its opposite ends. I made my way through the
people till I sat between him and the Qibla and I said: May Allah have mercy
upon you. Do you observe prayer with one cloth on your body whereas your mantle
is lying at your side? He pointed me with his hand towards my breast just like
this and he separated his fingers and bent them in the shape of a bow. And (he
said): I thought that a fool like you should come to me so that he should see
me as I do and he should then also do like it. Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) came to us in this very mosque and he had in his hand the twig of the
palm-tree and he saw mucus towards the Qibla of the mosque and he erased it
with the
help of the twig. He then came
to us and said: Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from
him? We were afraid. He then again said: Who amongst you likes that Allah
should turn His face away from him? We were afraid. He again said: Who amongst
you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him? We said: Allah's
Messenger, none of us likes it. And he said: If one amongst you stands for
prayer, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, is before him he should not spit in
front of him, or on his right side, but should spit on his left side beneath
his left foot and if he is impelled to do so all of a sudden (in spite of
himself) he should then spit in his cloth and fold it in some part of it. (and
he further said: ) Bring some sweet-smelling thing. A young man who belonged to
our tribe stood up, went and brought scent in his palm. Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) took that and applied it to the end of that twig and then
touched the place where there had been mucus. Jabir said: This is why you
should apply scent to your mosques. It is reported on the same authority: We
set out along with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) on an expedition
of Batn Buwat. He (the Holy Prophet) was in search of al-Majdi b. 'Amr
al-Juhani. (We had so meagre equipment) that five. six or seven of us had one
camel to ride and so we mounted it turn by turn. Once there wan. the turn of an
Ansari to ride upon the camel. He made it kneel down to ride over it (and after
having. mounted it), he tried to raise it up but it hesitated. So he said. May
there be curse of Allah upon you! Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: Who is there to curse his camel? He said: Allah's Messenger,
it' is I. Thereupon he said: Get down from the camel and let us not have in our
company the cursed one. Don't curse your own selves, nor your children. nor
your belongings. There is the possibility that your curse may synchronies with
the time when Allah is about to confer upon you what you demand and thus your
prayer may be readily responded. It is reported on the same authority: We set
out on an expedition along with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) until
it was evening, and we had been near a. water reservoir of Arabia. Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Who would be the person who would go
ahead and set right the reservoir and drink water himself and serve us with it?
Jabir said: I stood up and said: Allah's Messenger, it is I who am ready to do
that. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Who is the
person to accompany Jabir? And then Jabbar b. Sakhr stood up. So we went to
that well and poured in that tank a bucket or two of water and plastered it
with clay and then began to fill it (with water) until it was filled to the
brim. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was the first who appeared
before us, and he said: Do you (both) permit me to drink water out of it? We
said: Yea, Allah's Messenger. He led his camel to drink water and it drank. He
then pulled its rein and it stretched its legs and began to urinate. He then
took it aside and made it kneel down at another place and then came to the tank
and performed ablution. I then got up and performed ablution like the ablution
of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), and Jabbar b. Sakhr went in order
to relieve himself and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) got up to
observe prayer and there was a mantle over me. I tried to invert its ends but
it was too short (to cover my body easily). It had its borders. I then inverted
it (the mantle) and drew its opposite ends and then tied them at my neck. I
then came and stood upon the left side of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him). He caught hold of me and made me go round behind him, until he made me
stand on his right side. Then Jabbar b. Sakhr came. He performed ablution and
then came and stood on the left side of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him). Then Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) caught hold of our hands
together, pushed us back and made us stand behind him. Then Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) began to look upon me with darting looks, but I did not
perceive that. After that I became aware of it and he pointed with the gesture
of his hand that I should wrap my loin-cloth. When Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) had finished the prayer, he said: Jabir! I said: Allah's
Messenger, at thy beck and call. He said: When the cloth around you is
inadequate, then tie the opposite ends but when it is small, tie it over the
lower body. Jabir reported: We set out on an expedition with Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) and the only means of sustenance for every person
amongst us was only one date for a day and we used to chew it. And we struck
the leaves with the
help of our bow and
ate them until the sides of our mouths were injured. It so happened one day
that a person was overlooked and not given a date. We carried that person and
bore witness to the fact that he had not been given that date so he was offered
that and he got up and received that. Jabir reported: We set out on an
expedition along with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) until we got
down at a spacious valley and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) went to
relieve himself. I followed him with a bucket full of water and Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) looked about and he found no privacy but two
trees at the end of the valley and Allah's Messenger (may. peace be upon him)
went to one of them and took hold of one of its twigs and said: Be thou under
my control by the permission of Allah, and so it came under his control like
the camel who has its nosestring in the hand of its rider, and then he came to
the second tree and took hold of a twig and said: Be thou under my control with
the permission of Allah, and it came under his control, and when he came in the
middle of the two trees he joined together the two twigs and said: join with
the permission of Allah. Jabir said: I was afraid lest Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) should be aware of my nearness and go still farther. And
Muhammad b. Abbad has used the word" faitab'd" and I began to talk to
myself. And as I saw, I suddenly found Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) before me and the two trees were separated and each one of them was
standing at its place. I saw Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) standing
for a short time, nodding his head towards right and left. Isma'il pointed
towards the right and left with the
help
of his head (in order to demonstrate how the Holy Prophet had pointed). Then he
(the Holy Prophet) came to me and said: Jabir did you see my place where I was
standing? I said: Allah's Messenger, yes. He then said: Then you should go to
those two trees and cut a twig from each of them and go to that place with them
where I was standing and stand there where I was standing and place a twig on
the right and a twig on the left. Jabir said: I set out and took hold of a
stone and broke it and sharpened it and then I came to those trees and cut a
twig from each one of them. I then came dragging them until I stood at the
place where Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had been standing and
placed a twig on the right and a twig on the left. Then I met him and said:
Allah's Messenger, I have done that, but (kindly) explain to me the reason for
it. Thereupon he said: I passed by two graves the occupants of which had been
undergoing torment. I liked to make intercession for them so that the might be
relieved of this torment y as long as these twigs remain fresh. Jabir said: We
came back to the (camp of the) army and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Jabir, call people for per- forming wudu. I cried: Come and perform
wudu, come and perform wudu, come and perform wudu. I said: Allah's Messenger,
there is not even a drop of water in the army camp, and there. was a person who
used to cool the water for Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) in the old
water-skin which kept hanging by the twig. He asked me to go to such and such
Ansari and ask him to see if there was any water in that skin. I went to him
and cast a glance in it but did not find anything but a drop in the mouth of that
water-skin and if I were to draw that, the water-skin's,. dried part would suck
it up. I came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's
Messenger, I have not found anything in it but a drop of water in the mouth of
the water-skin and now if I were to draw that, it would be absorbed. He said:
Go and bring that to me. I brought that to him. He took hold of it -and began
to utter something which I could not understand and then pressed it with his
hand and gave that to me and said: Jabir, announce for the tub to be brought.
So I announced that the tub of the army (be brought). It was brought
accordingly and I placed it before him (the Holy Prophet). Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) placed his hands in the tub like this: with
his fingers stretched out, and then he placed his fingers at the bottom of the
tub and said: Jabir, take it (that waters-skin) and pour water over me, by
reciting Bismillah, and I poured water and I said: Bismillah, and found water
sprouting out between the fingers of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him).
Then that tub gushed forth until it was filled up and the Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: Jabir, make an announcement to the effect: He who needs
water should take that. Jabir said: The people came and got water until they
were all satiated. I said: Is there anyone left who wants to get it? And
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) then lifted up his hand from that tub
and it was still full. Then the people made a complaint to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) about hunger and he said: May Allah provide you food!
We came to the bank of the ocean and the ocean was tossing and it threw out a
big animal and we lit fire and cooked it and took it until we had eaten to our
heart's content. Jabir said: I and such and such five persons entered Its
socket and nobody could see us until we had come out, and we took hold of one
of its ribs and twisted it into a sort of arch, then we called the tallest of
the persons of the army and the hugest of the camels of the army and it had the
big saddle over it, and it could easily pass through it without the rider
having need to bend down.
(Book #042,
Hadith #7149)
(166) Ubaidullah b. 'Abdullah b. 'Utba
reported: Ibn Abbas said to me: Do you know-and in the words of Harun (another
narrator): Are you aware of-the last Sura which was revealed in the Qur'an as a
whole? I said: Yes," When came the
help
from Allah and the victory" (cx.). Thereupon, he said: You have told the
truth. And in the narration of Abu Shaiba (the words are): Do you know the
Sura? And he did not mention the words" the last one".
(Book #043,
Hadith #7174)
