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Merits of
the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 120:
Narrated Ghailan bin
Jarir:
I asked Anas, "Tell me
about the name 'Al-Ansar.; Did you call yourselves by it or did Allah
call you by it?" He said, "Allah called us by it." We used to visit
Anas (at Basra) and he used to narrate to us the virtues and deeds of
the Ansar, and he used to address me or a person from the tribe of Al-Azd
and say, "Your tribe did so-and-so on such-and-such a day."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 121:
Narrated 'Aisha:
The day of Bu'ath (i.e.
Day of fighting between the two tribes of the Ansar, the Aus and
Khazraj) was brought about by Allah for the good of His Apostle so
that when Allah's Apostle reached (Medina), the tribes of Medina had
already divided and their chiefs had been killed and wounded. So Allah
had brought about the battle for the good of H is Apostle in order
that they (i.e. the Ansar) might embrace Islam.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 122:
Narrated Anas:
On the day of the
Conquest of Mecca, when the Prophet had given (from the booty) the
Quraish, the Ansar said, "By Allah, this is indeed very strange: While
our swords are still dribbling with the blood of Quraish, our war
booty are distributed amongst them." When this news reached the
Prophet he called the Ansar and said, "What is this news that has
reached me from you?" They used not to tell lies, so they replied,
"What has reached you is true." He said, "Doesn't it please you that
the people take the booty to their homes and you take Allah's Apostle
to your homes? If the Ansar took their way through a valley or a
mountain pass, I would take the Ansar's valley or a mountain pass."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 123:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet or Abul-Qasim
said, "If the Ansar took their way through a valley or a mountain
pass, I would take Ansar's valley. And but for the migration, I would
have been one of the Ansar." Abu Huraira used to say, "The Prophet is
not unjust (by saying so). May my parents be sacrificed for him, for
the Ansar sheltered and helped him," or said a similar sentence.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 124:
Narrated Sa'd's father:
When the emigrants
reached Medina. Allah's Apostle established the bond of fraternity
between 'Abdur-Rahman and Sad bin Ar-Rabi. Sad said to 'Abdur-Rahman,
"I am the richest of all the Ansar, so I want to divide my property
(between us), and I have two wives, so see which of the two you like
and tell me, so that I may divorce her, and when she finishes her
prescribed period (i.e. 'Idda) of divorce, then marry her."
Abdur-Rahman said, "May Allah bless your family and property for you;
where is your market?" So they showed him the Qainuqa' market. (He
went there and) returned with a profit in the form of dried yogurt and
butter. He continued going (to the market) till one day he came,
bearing the traces of yellow scent. The Prophet asked, "What is this
(scent)?" He replied, "I got married." The Prophet asked, "How much
Mahr did you give her?" He replied, "I gave her a date-stone of gold
or a gold piece equal to the weight of a date-stone." (The narrator,
Ibrahim, is in doubt as to which is correct.)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 125:
Narrated Anas:
When 'Abdur-Rahman bin
'Auf came to us, Allah's Apostle made a bond of fraternity between him
and Sad bin Ar-Rabi' who was a rich man, Sad said, "The Ansar know
that I am the richest of all of them, so I will divide my property
into two parts between me and you, and I have two wives; see which of
the two you like so that I may divorce her and you can marry her after
she becomes lawful to you by her passing the prescribed period (i.e. 'Idda)
of divorce. 'Abdur Rahman said, "May Allah bless you your family (i.e.
wives) for you." (But 'Abdur-Rahman went to the market) and did not
return on that day except with some gain of dried yogurt and butter.
He went on trading just a few days till he came to Allah's Apostle
bearing the traces of yellow scent over his clothes. Allah's Apostle
asked him, "What is this scent?" He replied, "I have married a woman
from the Ansar." Allah's Apostle asked, "How much Mahr have you
given?" He said, "A date-stone weight of gold or a golden date-stone."
The Prophet said, "Arrange a marriage banquet even with a sheep."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 126:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Ansar said (to the
Prophet ), "Please divide the date-palm trees between us and them
(i.e. emigrants)." The Prophet said, "No." The Ansar said, "Let them
(i.e. the emigrants) do the labor for us in the gardens and share the
date-fruits with us." The emigrants said, "We accepted this."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 127:
Narrated Al-Bara:
I heard the Prophet
saying (or the Prophet said), "None loves the Ansar but a believer,
and none hates them but a hypocrite. So Allah will love him who loves
them, and He will hate him who hates them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 128:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, "The
sign of Belief is to love the Ansar, and the sign of hypocrisy is to
hate the Ansar."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 129:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet saw the women
and children (of the Ansar) coming forward. (The sub-narrator said, "I
think that Anas said, 'They were returning from a wedding party.") The
Prophet stood up and said thrice, "By Allah! You are from the most
beloved people to me."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 130:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Once an Ansari woman,
accompanied by a son of hers, came to Allah's Apostle. Allah's Apostle
spoke to her and said twice, "By Him in Whose Hand my life is, you are
the most beloved people to me."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 131:
Narrated Zaid bin Al-Arqam:
The Annwar said, "O
Allah's Apostle! Every prophet has his own followers and we have
followed you. So will you invoke Allah to let our followers be
considered from us (as Ansar too)?" So he invoked Allah accordingly.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 132:
Narrated Abu Hamza:
(A man from the Ansar)
The Ansar said, "Every nation has followers and (O Prophet) we have
followed you, so invoke Allah to let our followers be considered from
us (as Ansar like ourselves)." So the Prophet said, "O Allah! Let
their followers be considered as Ansar like themselves."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 133:
Narrated Abu Usaid:
The Prophet said, "The
best of the Ansar's families (homes) are those of Banu An-Najjar and
then (those of) Banu 'Abdul Ash-hal, then (those of) Banu Al-Harith
bin Al-Khazraj and then (those of) Banu Sa'ida; nevertheless, there is
good in all the families (houses) of the Ansar." On this, Sad (bin
Ubada) said, "I see that the Prophet has preferred some people to us."
Somebody said (to him), "No, but he has given you superiority to
many."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 134:
Narrated Abu Usaid:
That he heard the Prophet
saying, "The best of the Ansar, or the best of the Ansar families
(homes) are Banu An-Najjar, Bani 'Abdul Ash-hal, Banu Al-Harith and
Banu Sai'da."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 135:
Narrated Abu Humaid:
The Prophet said, "The
best of the Ansar families (homes) are the families (homes) of Banu
An-Najjar, and then that of Banu 'Abdul Ash-hal, and then that of Banu
Al-Harith, and then that of Banu Saida; and there is good in all the
families (homes) of the Ansar." Sad bin 'Ubada followed us and said,
"O Abu Usaid ! Don't you see that the Prophet compared the Ansar and
made us the last of them in superiority?
Then Sad met the Prophet
and said, "O Allah's Apostle! In comparing the Ansar's families
(homes) as to the degree of superiority, you have made us the last of
them." Allah's Apostle replied, "Isn't it sufficient that you are
regarded amongst the best?"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 136:
Narrated Usaid bin Hudair:
A man from the Ansar
said, "O Allah's Apostle! Will you appoint me as you have appointed
so-and-so?" The Prophet said, "After me you will see others given
preference to you; so be patient till you meet me at the Tank (i.e.
Lake of Kauthar). (on the Day of Resurrection)."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 137:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said to the
Ansar, "After me you will see others given preference to you; so be
patient till you meet me, and your promised place (of meeting) will be
the Tank (i.e. Lake of Kauthar)."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 138:
Narrated Yahya bin Said:
That he heard Anas bin
Malik when he went with him to Al-Walid, saying, "Once the Prophet
called the Ansar in order to give them the territory of Bahrain they
said, 'No, unless you give to our emigrant brethren a similar share.'
On that he said 'If you do not agree to it, then be patient till you
meet me, for after me others will be given preference to you."'
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 139:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle said,
"There is no life except the life of the Hereafter; so, O Allah!
Improve the state of the Ansar and the Muhajirun." And Anas added that
the Prophet also said, "O Allah! Forgive the Ansar."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 140:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
On the day of the battle
of the Trench (i.e. Ghazwat-ul-Khandaq) the Ansar used to say, "We are
those who have given the pledge of allegiance to Muhammad for Jihad
(i.e. holy fighting) as long as we live." The Prophet , replied to
them, "O Allah! There is no life except the life of the Hereafter; so
please honor the Ansar and the Emigrants."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 141:
Narrated Sahl:
Allah's Apostle came to
us while we were digging the trench and carrying out the earth on our
backs. Allah's Apostle then said, "O Allah ! There is no life except
the life of the Hereafter, so please forgive the Emigrants and the
Ansar."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 142:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
A man came to the
Prophet. The Prophet sent a messenger to his wives (to bring something
for that man to eat) but they said that they had nothing except water.
Then Allah's Apostle said, "Who will take this (person) or entertain
him as a guest?" An Ansar man said, "I." So he took him to his wife
and said to her, "Entertain generously the guest of Allah's Apostle "
She said, "We have got nothing except the meals of my children." He
said, "Prepare your meal, light your lamp and let your children sleep
if they ask for supper." So she prepared her meal, lighted her lamp
and made her children sleep, and then stood up pretending to mend her
lamp, but she put it off. Then both of them pretended to be eating,
but they really went to bed hungry. In the morning the Ansari went to
Allah's Apostle who said, "Tonight Allah laughed or wondered at your
action." Then Allah revealed:
"But give them
(emigrants) preference over themselves even though they were in need
of that And whosoever is saved from the covetousness Such are they who
will be successful." (59.9)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 143:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Abu Bakr and Al-'Abbas
passed by one of the gatherings of the Ansar who were weeping then. He
(i.e. Abu Bakr or Al-'Abbas) asked, "Why are you weeping?" They
replied, "We are weeping because we remember the gathering of the
Prophet with us." So Abu Bakr went to the Prophet and told him of
that. The Prophet came out, tying his head with a piece of the hem of
a sheet. He ascended the pulpit which he never ascended after that
day. He glorified and praised Allah and then said, "I request you to
take care of the Ansar as they are my near companions to whom I
confided my private secrets. They have fulfilled their obligations and
rights which were enjoined on them but there remains what is for them.
So, accept the good of the good-doers amongst them and excuse the
wrongdoers amongst them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 144:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
Allah's Apostle (in his
fatal illness) came out wrapped in a sheet covering his shoulders and
his head was tied with an oily tape of cloth till he sat on the
pulpit, and after praising and glorifying Allah, he said, "Then-after,
O people! The people will go on increasing, but the Ansar will go on
decreasing till they become just like salt in a meal. So whoever
amongst you will be the ruler and have the power to harm or benefit
others, should accept the good of the good-doers amongst them and
excuse the wrong-doers amongst them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 145:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, "The
Ansar are my near companions to whom I confided my private secrets,
People will go on increasing but the Ansar will go on decreasing; so
accept the good of the good-doers amongst them and excuse the
wrong-doers amongst them. "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 146:
Narrated Al-Bara:
A silken cloth was given
as a present to the Prophet . His companions started touching it and
admiring its softness. The Prophet said, "Are you admiring its
softness? The handkerchiefs of Sad bin Muadh (in Paradise) are better
and softer than it."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 147:
Narrated Jabir:
I heard the Prophet
saying, "The Throne (of Allah) shook at the death of Sad bin Muadh."
Through another group of narrators, Jabir added, "I heard the Prophet
: saying, 'The Throne of the Beneficent shook because of the death of
Sad bin Muadh."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 148:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Some people (i.e. the
Jews of Bani bin Quraiza) agreed to accept the verdict of Sad bin
Muadh so the Prophet sent for him (i.e. Sad bin Muadh). He came riding
a donkey, and when he approached the Mosque, the Prophet said, "Get up
for the best amongst you." or said, "Get up for your chief." Then the
Prophet said, "O Sad! These people have agreed to accept your
verdict." Sad said, "I judge that their warriors should be killed and
their children and women should be taken as captives." The Prophet
said, "You have given a judgment similar to Allah's Judgment (or the
King's judgment)."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 149:
Narrated Anas:
Two men left the Prophet
on a very dark night. Suddenly a light came in front of them, and when
they separated, the light also separated along with them.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 150:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
'Amr:
I heard the Prophet
saying, "Learn the recitation of Qur'an from four persons: Ibn Mas'ud,
Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudhaifa, Ubai and Muadh bin Jabal."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 151:
Narrated the virtue of
Sad bin Ubada:
Aisha said, "Before that,
he (i.e. Sad) was a pious man."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 152:
Narrated Abu Usaid:
Allah's Apostle said,
"The best of the Ansar's houses are those of Bani An-Najjar, then
those of Bani 'Abdul Ash-hal, then those of Bani Al-Harith bin
Al-Khazraj, then those of Bani Saida; but there is goodness in all the
houses of the Ansar." Sad bin Ubada who was one of those who embraced
Islam early, said, "I see that Allah's Apostle is giving others
superiority above us." Some people said to him, "But he has given you
superiority above many other people."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 153:
Narrated Masruq:
'Abdullah bin Masud was
mentioned before Abdullah bin 'Amr who said, "That is a man I still
love, as I heard the Prophet saying 'Learn the recitation of Quran
from four from 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud --he started with him--Salim, the
freed slave of Abu Hudaifa, Mu'adh bin Jabal and Ubai bin Ka'b."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 154:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said to Ubai,
"Allah has ordered me to recite to you: 'Those who disbelieve
(Surat-al-Bayina 98).' " Ubai said, "Has He mentioned my name?" The
Prophet said, "Yes." On hearing this, Ubai started weeping.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 155:
Narrated Qatada:
Anas said, "The Quran was
collected in the lifetime of the Prophet by four (men), all of whom
were from the Ansar: Ubai, Muadh bin Jabal, Abu Zaid and Zaid bin
Thabit." I asked Anas, "Who is Abu Zaid?" He said, "One of my uncles."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 156:
Narrated Anas:
On the day of the battle
of Uhud, the people ran away, leaving the Prophet , but Abu- Talha was
shielding the Prophet with his shield in front of him. Abu Talha was a
strong, experienced archer who used to keep his arrow bow strong and
well stretched. On that day he broke two or three arrow bows. If any
man passed by carrying a quiver full of arrows, the Prophet would say
to him, "Empty it in front of Abu Talha." When the Prophet stated
looking at the enemy by raising his head, Abu Talha said, "O Allah's
Prophet! Let my parents be sacrificed for your sake! Please don't
raise your head and make it visible, lest an arrow of the enemy should
hit you. Let my neck and chest be wounded instead of yours." (On that
day) I saw 'Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakr and Um Sulaim both lifting
their dresses up so that I was able to see the ornaments of their
legs, and they were carrying the water skins of their arms to pour the
water into the mouths of the thirsty people and then go back and fill
them and come to pour the water into the mouths of the people again.
(On that day) Abu Talha's sword fell from his hand twice or thrice.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 157:
Narrated Sad bin Abi
Waqqas:
I have never heard the
Prophet saying about anybody walking on the earth that he is from the
people of Paradise except 'Abdullah bin Salam. The following Verse was
revealed concerning him: "And a witness from the children of Israel
testifies that this Qur'an is true" (46.10)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 158:
Narrated Qais bin Ubad:
While I was sitting in
the Mosque of Medina, there entered a man (Abdullah bin Salam) with
signs of solemnity over his face. The people said, "He is one of the
people of Paradise." He prayed two light Rakat and then left. I
followed him and said, "When you entered the Mosque, the people said,
'He is one of the people of Paradise.' " He said, "By Allah, one ought
not say what he does not know; and I will tell you why. In the
lifetime of the Prophet I had a dream which I narrated to him. I saw
as if I were in a garden." He then described its extension and
greenery. He added: In its center there was an iron pillar whose lower
end was fixed in the earth and the upper end was in the sky, and at
its upper end there was a (ring-shaped) hand-hold. I was told to climb
it. I said, "I can't." "Then a servant came to me and lifted my
clothes from behind and I climbed till I reached the top (of the
pillar). Then I got hold of the hand-hold, and I was told to hold it
tightly, then I woke up and (the effect of) the hand-hold was in my
hand. I narrated al I that to the Prophet who said, 'The garden is
Islam, and the hand-hold is the Most Truth-worthy Hand-Hold. So you
will remain as a Muslim till you die." The narrator added: "The man
was 'Abdullah bin Salam."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 159:
Narrated Abu Burda:
When I came to Medina. I
met Abdullah bin Salam. He said, "Will you come to me so that I may
serve you with Sawiq (i.e. powdered barley) and dates, and let you
enter a (blessed) house that in which the Prophet entered?" Then he
added, "You are In a country where the practice of Riba (i.e. usury)
is prevalent; so if somebody owe you something and he sends you a
present of a load of chopped straw or a load of barley or a load of
provender then do not take it, as it is Riba."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 160:
Narrated Jarir bin
'Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle has never
refused to admit me since I embraced Islam, and whenever he saw me, he
would smile. (In another narration) Jarir bin 'Abdullah narrated:
There was a house called Dhul-Khalasa in the Pre-lslamic Period and it
was also called Al-Ka'ba Al-Yamaniya or Al-Ka'ba Ash-Shamiya. Allah's
Apostle said to me, "Will you relieve me from Dhul-Khalasa?" So I left
for it with 150 cavalrymen from the tribe of Ahmas and then we
destroyed it and killed whoever we found there. Then we came to the
Prophet and informed him about it. He invoked good upon us and upon
the tribe of Ahmas.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 161:
Narrated 'Aisha:
On the day of the battle
of Uhud the pagans were defeated completely. Then Satan shouted
loudly, "O Allah's slaves! Beware the ones behind you!" So the front
files attacked the back ones. Then Hudhaifa looked and saw his father,
and said loudly, "O Allah's slaves! My father! My father!" By Allah,
they did not stop till they killed him (i.e. Hudaifa's father).
Hudhaifa said, "May Allah forgive you!" The sub-narrator said, "By
Allah, because of what Hudhaifa said, he remained in a good state till
he met Allah (i.e. died)."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 162:
Narrated 'Ali:
I heard Allah's Apostle
saying (as below).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 163:
Narrated 'Ali:
The Prophet said, "The
best of the world's women is Mary (at her lifetime), and the best of
the world's women is Khadija (at her lifetime)."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 164:
Narrated
'Aisha: I did not feel
jealous of any of the wives of the Prophet as much as I did of Khadija
(although) she died before he married me, for I often heard him
mentioning her, and Allah had told him to give her the good tidings
that she would have a palace of Qasab (i.e. pipes of precious stones
and pearls in Paradise), and whenever he slaughtered a sheep, he would
send her women-friends a good share of it.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 165:
Narrated 'Aisha:
I did not feel jealous of
any woman as much as I did of Khadija because Allah's Apostle used to
mention her very often. He married me after three years of her death,
and his Lord (or Gabriel) ordered him to give her the good news of
having a palace of Qasab in Paradise.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 166:
Narrated 'Aisha:
I did not feel jealous of
any of the wives of the Prophet as much as I did of Khadija though I
did not see her, but the Prophet used to mention her very often, and
when ever he slaughtered a sheep, he would cut its parts and send them
to the women friends of Khadija. When I sometimes said to him, "(You
treat Khadija in such a way) as if there is no woman on earth except
Khadija," he would say, "Khadija was such-and-such, and from her I had
children."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 167:
Narrated Ismail:
I asked 'Abdullah bin Abi
Aufa, "Did the Prophet give glad tidings to Khadija?" He said, "Yes,
of a palace of Qasab (in Paradise) where there will be neither any
noise nor any fatigue."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 168:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Gabriel came to the
Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! This is Khadija coming to you
with a dish having meat soup (or some food or drink). When she reaches
you, greet her on behalf of her Lord (i.e. Allah) and on my behalf,
and give her the glad tidings of having a Qasab palace in Paradise
wherein there will be neither any noise nor any fatigue (trouble) . "
Narrated 'Aisha: Once
Hala bint Khuwailid, Khadija's sister, asked the permission of the
Prophet to enter. On that, the Prophet remembered the way Khadija used
to ask permission, and that upset him. He said, "O Allah! Hala!" So I
became jealous and said, "What makes you remember an old woman amongst
the old women of Quraish an old woman (with a teethless mouth) of red
gums who died long ago, and in whose place Allah has given you
somebody better than her?"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 169:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
'Umar:
The Prophet met Zaid bin
'Amr bin Nufail in the bottom of (the valley of) Baldah before any
Divine Inspiration came to the Prophet. A meal was presented to the
Prophet but he refused to eat from it. (Then it was presented to Zaid)
who said, "I do not eat anything which you slaughter in the name of
your stone idols. I eat none but those things on which Allah's Name
has been mentioned at the time of slaughtering." Zaid bin 'Amr used to
criticize the way Quraish used to slaughter their animals, and used to
say, "Allah has created the sheep and He has sent the water for it
from the sky, and He has grown the grass for it from the earth; yet
you slaughter it in other than the Name of Allah. He used to say so,
for he rejected that practice and considered it as something
abominable.
Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Zaid
bin 'Amr bin Nufail went to Sham, inquiring about a true religion to
follow. He met a Jewish religious scholar and asked him about their
religion. He said, "I intend to embrace your religion, so tell me some
thing about it." The Jew said, "You will not embrace our religion
unless you receive your share of Allah's Anger." Zaid said, "'I do not
run except from Allah's Anger, and I will never bear a bit of it if I
have the power to avoid it. Can you tell me of some other religion?"
He said, "I do not know any other religion except the Hanif." Zaid
enquired, "What is Hanif?" He said, "Hanif is the religion of (the
prophet) Abraham who was neither a Jew nor a Christian, and he used to
worship None but Allah (Alone)" Then Zaid went out and met a Christian
religious scholar and told him the same as before. The Christian said,
"You will not embrace our religion unless you get a share of Allah's
Curse." Zaid replied, "I do not run except from Allah's Curse, and I
will never bear any of Allah's Curse and His Anger if I have the power
to avoid them. Will you tell me of some other religion?" He replied,
"I do not know any other religion except Hanif." Zaid enquired, "What
is Hanif?" He replied, Hanif is the religion of (the prophet) Abraham
who was neither a Jew nor a Christian and he used to worship None but
Allah (Alone)" When Zaid heard their Statement about (the religion of)
Abraham, he left that place, and when he came out, he raised both his
hands and said, "O Allah! I make You my Witness that I am on the
religion of Abraham."
Narrated Asma bint Abi
Bakr: I saw Zaid bin Amr bin Nufail standing with his back against the
Ka'ba and saying, "O people of Quraish! By Allah, none amongst you is
on the religion of Abraham except me." He used to preserve the lives
of little girls: If somebody wanted to kill his daughter he would say
to him, "Do not kill her for I will feed her on your behalf." So he
would take her, and when she grew up nicely, he would say to her
father, "Now if you want her, I will give her to you, and if you wish,
I will feed her on your behalf."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 170:
Narrated Jabir bin
'Abdullah:
When the Ka'ba was
rebuilt, the Prophet and 'Abbas went to carry stones. 'Abbas said to
the Prophet "(Take off and) put your waist sheet over your neck so
that the stones may not hurt you." (But as soon as he took off his
waist sheet) he fell unconscious on the ground with both his eyes
towards the sky. When he came to his senses, he said, "My waist sheet!
My waist sheet!" Then he tied his waist sheet (round his waist).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 171:
Narrated 'Amr bin Dinar
and 'Ubaidullah bin Abi Yazid:
In the lifetime of the
Prophet there was no wall around the Ka'ba and the people used to pray
around the Ka'ba till 'Umar became the Caliph and he built the wall
around it. 'Ubaidullah further said, "Its wall was low, so Ibn
Az-Zubair built it."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 172:
Narrated 'Aisha:
'Ashura' (i.e. the tenth
of Muharram) was a day on which the tribe of Quraish used to fast in
the pre-lslamic period of ignorance. The Prophet also used to fast on
this day. So when he migrated to Medina, he fasted on it and ordered
(the Muslims) to fast on it. When the fasting of Ramadan was enjoined,
it became optional for the people to fast or not to fast on the day of
Ashura.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 173:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
The people used to
consider the performance of 'Umra in the months of Hajj an evil deed
on the earth, and they used to call the month of Muharram as Safar and
used to say, "When (the wounds over) the backs (of the camels) have
healed and the foot-marks (of the camels) have vanished (after coming
from Hajj), then 'Umra becomes legal for the one who wants to perform
'Umra." Allah's Apostle and his companions reached Mecca assuming
Ihram for Hajj on the fourth of Dhul-Hijja. The Prophet ordered his
companions to perform 'Umra (with that lhram instead of Hajj). They
asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What kind of finishing of Ihram?" The
Prophet said, "Finish the Ihram completely.'
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 174:
Narrated Sa'id bin
Al-Musaiyab's grand-father:
In the pre-lslamic period
of ignorance a flood of rain came and filled the valley in between the
two mountains (around the Ka'ba)......
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 175:
Narrated Qais bin Abi
Hazim:
Abu Bakr went to a lady
from the Ahmas tribe called Zainab bint Al-Muhajir and found that she
refused to speak. He asked, "Why does she not speak." The people said,
"She has intended to perform Hajj without speaking." He said to her,
"Speak, for it is illegal not to speak, as it is an action of the
pre-islamic period of ignorance. So she spoke and said, "Who are you?"
He said, "A man from the Emigrants." She asked, "Which Emigrants?" He
replied, "From Quraish." She asked, "From what branch of Quraish are
you?" He said, "You ask too many questions; I am Abu Bakr." She said,
"How long shall we enjoy this good order (i.e. Islamic religion) which
Allah has brought after the period of ignorance?" He said, "You will
enjoy it as long as your Imams keep on abiding by its rules and
regulations." She asked, "What are the Imams?" He said, "Were there
not heads and chiefs of your nation who used to order the people and
they used to obey them?" She said, "Yes." He said, "So they (i.e. the
Imams) are those whom I meant."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 176:
Narrated 'Aisha:
A black lady slave of
some of the 'Arabs embraced Islam and she had a hut in the mosque. She
used to visit us and talk to us, and when she finished her talk, she
used to say: "The day of the scarf was one of our Lord's wonders:
Verily! He has delivered me from the land of Kufr." When she said the
above verse many times, I (i.e. 'Aisha) asked her, "What was the day
of the scarf?" She replied, "Once the daughter of some of my masters
went out and she was wearing a leather scarf (round her neck) and the
leather scarf fell from her and a kite descended and picked it up,
mistaking it for a piece of meat. They (i.e. my masters) accused me of
stealing it and they tortured me to such an extent that they even
looked for it in my private parts. So, while they all were around me,
and I was in my great distress, suddenly the kite came over our heads
and threw the scarf, and they took it. I said to them 'This is what
you accused me of stealing, though I was innocent."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 177:
Narrated 'Umar:
The Prophet said, "If
anybody has to take an oath, he should swear only by Allah." The
people of Quraish used to swear by their fathers, but the Prophet
said, "Do not swear by your fathers. "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 178:
Narrated 'Abdur-Rahman
bin Al-Qasim:
Al-Qasim used to walk in
front of the funeral procession. He used not to get up for the funeral
procession (in case it passed by him). And he narrated from 'Aisha
that she said, "The people of the pre-lslamic period of ignorance used
to stand up for the funeral procession. When they saw it they used to
say twice: 'You were noble in your family. What are you now?"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 179:
Narrated 'Umar:
The pagans used not to
leave Jam' (i.e. Muzdalifa) till the sun had risen on Thabir mountain.
The Prophet contradicted them by leaving (Muzdalifa) before the sun
rose.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 180:
Narrated Husain:
That Ikrima said, "Kasan
Dihaqa means glass full (of something) followed successively with
other full glasses." Ibn 'Abbas said, "In the pre-lslamic period of
ignorance I heard my father saying, "Provide us with Kasan Dihaqa."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 181:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "The
most true words said by a poet was the words of Labid." He said,
Verily, Everything except Allah is perishable and Umaiya bin As-Salt
was about to be a Muslim (but he did not embrace Islam).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 182:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Abu Bakr had a slave who
used to give him some of his earnings. Abu Bakr used to eat from it.
One day he brought something and Abu Bakr ate from it. The slave said
to him, "Do you know what this is?" Abu Bakr then enquired, "What is
it?" The slave said, "Once, in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance I
foretold somebody's future though I did not know this knowledge of
foretelling but I, cheated him, and when he met me, he gave me
something for that service, and that is what you have eaten from."
Then Abu Bakr put his hand in his mouth and vomited whatever was
present in his stomach.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 183:
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
In the pre-lslamic period
of ignorance the people used to bargain with the meat of camels on the
principle of Habal-al-Habala which meant the sale of a she-camel that
would be born by a she-camel that had not yet been born. The Prophet
forbade them such a transaction.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 184:
Narrated Ghailan bin
Jarir:
We used to visit Anas bin
Malik and he used to talk to us about the Ansar, and used to say to
me: "Your people did so-and-so on such-and-such a day, and your people
did so-and-so on such-and-such a day."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 185:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
The first event of Qasama
in the pre-lslamic period of ignorance was practiced by us (i.e. Banu
Hashim). A man from Banu Hashim was employed by a Quraishi man from
another branch-family. The (Hashimi) laborer set out with the Quraishi
driving his camels. There passed by him another man from Banu Hashim.
The leather rope of the latter's bag had broken so he said to the
laborer, "Will you help me by giving me a rope in order to tie the
handle of my bag lest the camels should run away from me?" The laborer
gave him a rope and the latter tied his bag with it. When the caravan
halted, all the camels' legs were tied with their fetters except one
camel. The employer asked the laborer, "Why, from among all the camels
has this camel not been fettered?" He replied, "There is no fetter for
it." The Quraishi asked, "Where is its fetter?" and hit the laborer
with a stick that caused his death (later on Just before his death) a
man from Yemen passed by him. The laborer asked (him), "Will you go
for the pilgrimage?" He replied, "I do not think I will attend it, but
perhaps I will attend it." The (Hashimi) laborer said, "Will you
please convey a message for me once in your life?" The other man said,
"yes." The laborer wrote: 'When you attend the pilgrimage, call the
family of Quraish, and if they respond to you, call the family of Banu
Hashim, and if they respond to you, ask about Abu Talib and tell him
that so-and-so has killed me for a fetter." Then the laborer expired.
When the employer reached (Mecca), Abu Talib visited him and asked,
"What has happened to our companion?" He said, "He became ill and I
looked after him nicely (but he died) and I buried him." Then Abu
Talib said, "The deceased deserved this from you." After some time,
the messenger whom the laborer has asked to convey the message,
reached during the pilgrimage season. He called, "O the family of
Quraish!" The people replied, "This is Quraish." Then he called, "O
the family of Banu Hashim!" Again the people replied, "This is Banu
Hashim." He asked, "Who is Abu Talib?" The people replied, "This is
Abu Talib." He said, "'So-and-so has asked me to convey a message to
you that so-and-so has killed him for a fetter (of a camel)." Then Abu
Talib went to the (Quraishi) killer and said to him, "Choose one of
three alternatives: (i) If you wish, give us one-hundred camels
because you have murdered our companion, (ii) or if you wish, fifty of
your men should take an oath that you have not murdered our companion,
and if you do not accept this, (iii) we will kill you in Qisas." The
killer went to his people and they said, "We will take an oath." Then
a woman from Banu Hashim who was married to one of them (i.e.the
Quraishis) and had given birth to a child from him, came to Abu Talib
and said, "O Abu Talib! I wish that my son from among the fifty men,
should be excused from this oath, and that he should not take the oath
where the oath-taking is carried on." Abu Talib excused him. Then
another man from them came (to Abu Talib) and said, "O Abu Talib! You
want fifty persons to take an oath instead of giving a hundred camels,
and that means each man has to give two camels (in case he does not
take an oath). So there are two camels I would like you to accept from
me and excuse me from taking an oath where the oaths are taken. Abu
Talib accepted them from him. Then 48 men came and took the oath. Ibn
'Abbas further said:) By Him in Whose Hand my life is, before the end
of that year, none of those 48 persons remained alive.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 186:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah caused the day of
Buath to take place before Allah's Apostle was sent (as an Apostle) so
that when Allah's Apostle reached Medina, those people had already
divided (in different groups) and their chiefs had been killed or
wounded. So Allah made that day precede Allah's Apostle so that they
(i.e. the Ansar) might embrace Islam.
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: To
run along the valley between two green pillars of Safa and Marwa
(mountains) was not Sunna, but the people in the pre-islamic period of
ignorance used to run along it, and used to say: "We do not cross this
rain stream except running strongly. "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 187:
Narrated Abu As-Safar:
I heard Ibn 'Abbas
saying, "O people! Listen to what I say to you, and let me hear
whatever you say, and don't go (without understanding), and start
saying, 'Ibn 'Abbas said so-and-so, Ibn 'Abbas said so-and-so, Ibn
'Abbas said so-and-so.' He who wants to perform the Tawaf around the
Ka'ba should go behind Al-Hijr (i.e. a portion of the Ka'ba left out
unroofed) and do not call it Al-Hatim, for in the pre-Islamic period
of ignorance if any man took an oath, he used to throw his whip, shoes
or bow in it.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 188:
Narrated 'Amr bin Maimun:
During the pre-lslamic
period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of
monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal
sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 189:
Narrated Sufyan:
'Ubaidullah said: "I
heard Ibn 'Abbas saying, "Following are some traits of the people of
the pre-Islamic period of ignorance (i) to defame the ancestry of
other families, (ii) and to wail over the dead." 'Ubaidullah forgot
the third trait. Sufyan said, "They say it (i.e. the third trait) was
to believe that rain was caused by the influence of stars (i.e. if a
special star appears it will rain)."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 190:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
Allah's Apostle was
inspired Divinely at the age of forty. Then he stayed in Mecca for
thirteen years, and then was ordered to migrate, and he migrated to
Medina and stayed there for ten years and then died.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 191:
Narrated Khabbaba:
I came to the Prophet
while he was leaning against his sheet cloak in the shade of the
Ka'ba. We were suffering greatly from the pagans in those days. i said
(to him). "Will you invoke Allah (to help us)?" He sat down with a red
face and said, "(A believer among) those who were before you used to
be combed with iron combs so that nothing of his flesh or nerves would
remain on his bones; yet that would never make him desert his
religion. A saw might be put over the parting of his head which would
be split into two parts, yet all that would never make him abandon his
religion. Allah will surely complete this religion (i.e. Islam) so
that a traveler from Sana to Hadra-maut will not be afraid of anybody
except Allah." (The sub-narrator, Baiyan added, "Or the wolf, lest it
should harm his sheep.")
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 192:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
The Prophet recited Surat
An-Najam and prostrated, and there was nobody who did not prostrate
then except a man whom I saw taking a handful of pebbles, lifting it,
and prostrating on it. He then said, "This is sufficient for me." No
doubt I saw him killed as a disbeliever afterwards.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 193:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
While the Prophet was
prostrating, surrounded by some of Quraish, 'Uqba bin Abi Mu'ait
brought the intestines (i.e. abdominal contents) of a camel and put
them over the back of the Prophet. The Prophet did not raise his head,
(till) Fatima, came and took it off his back and cursed the one who
had done the harm. The Prophet said, "O Allah! Destroy the chiefs of
Quraish, Abu Jahl bin Hisham, 'Utba bin Rabi'al, Shaba bin Rabi'a,
Umaiya bin Khalaf or Ubai bin Khalaf." (The sub-narrator Shu'ba, is
not sure of the last name.) I saw these people killed on the day of
Badr battle and thrown in the well except Umaiya or Ubai whose body
parts were mutilated but he was not thrown in the well.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 194:
Narrated Said bin Jubair:
'AbdurRahman bin Abza
said, "Ask Ibn 'Abbas about these two Qur'anic Verses: 'Nor kill such
life as Allah has made sacred, Except for just cause.' (25.168) "And
whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell. (4.93)
So I asked Ibn 'Abbas who
said, "When the Verse that is in Sura-al-Furqan was revealed, the
pagans of Mecca said, 'But we have slain such life as Allah has made
sacred, and we have invoked other gods along with Allah, and we have
also committed fornication.' So Allah revealed:-- 'Except those who
repent, believe, and do good-- (25.70)
So this Verse was
concerned with those people. As for the Verse in Surat-an-Nisa (4-93),
it means that if a man, after understanding Islam and its laws and
obligations, murders somebody, then his punishment is to dwell in the
(Hell) Fire forever." Then I mentioned this to Mujahid who said,
"Except the one who regrets (one's crime) . "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 195:
Narrated 'Urwa bin
Az-Zubair:
I asked Ibn Amr bin
Al-As, "Tell me of the worst thing which the pagans did to the
Prophet." He said, "While the Prophet was praying in the Hijr of the
Ka'ba; 'Uqba bin Abi Mu'ait came and put his garment around the
Prophet's neck and throttled him violently. Abu Bakr came and caught
him by his shoulder and pushed him away from the Prophet and said, "Do
you want to kill a man just because he says, 'My Lord is Allah?' "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 196:
Narrated 'Urwa:
As above (Hadith 195).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 197:
Narrated 'Ammar bin
Yasir:
I saw Allah's Apostle ,
and the only converts (to Islam) with him, were five slaves, two women
and Abu Bakr.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 198:
Narrated Abu Ishaq Saud
bin Abi Waqqas:
None embraced Islam,
except on the day I embraced it. And for seven days I was one of the
three persons who were Muslims (one-third of Islam).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 199:
Narrated 'Abdur-Rahman:
"I asked Masruq, 'Who
informed the Prophet about the Jinns at the night when they heard the
Qur'an?' He said, 'Your father 'Abdullah informed me that a tree
informed the Prophet about them.' "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 200:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
That once he was in the,
company of the Prophet carrying a water pot for his ablution and for
cleaning his private parts. While he was following him carrying
it(i.e. the pot), the Prophet said, "Who is this?" He said, "I am Abu
Huraira." The Prophet said, "Bring me stones in order to clean my
private parts, and do not bring any bones or animal dung." Abu Huraira
went on narrating: So I brought some stones, carrying them in the
corner of my robe till I put them by his side and went away. When he
finished, I walked with him and asked, "What about the bone and the
animal dung?" He said, "They are of the food of Jinns. The delegate of
Jinns of (the city of) Nasibin came to me--and how nice those Jinns
were--and asked me for the remains of the human food. I invoked Allah
for them that they would never pass by a bone or animal dung but find
food on them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 201:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
When Abu Dhar received
the news of the Advent of the Prophet he said to his brother, "Ride to
this valley (of Mecca) and try to find out the truth of the person who
claims to be a prophet who is informed of the news of Heaven. Listen
to what he says and come back to me." So his brother set out and came
to the Prophet and listened to some of his talks, and returned to Abu
Dhar and said to him. "I have seen him enjoining virtuous behavior and
saying something that is not poetry." Abu Dhar said, "You have not
satisfied me as to what I wanted." He then took his journey-food and
carried a water-skin of his, containing some water till be reached
Mecca. He went to the Mosque and searched for the Prophet and though
he did not know him, he hated to ask anybody about him. When a part of
the night had passed away, 'Ali saw him and knew that he was a
stranger. So when Abu Dhar saw 'Ali, he followed him, and none of them
asked his companion about anything, and when it was dawn, Abu Dhar
took his journey food and his water-skin to the Mosque and stayed
there all the day long without being perceived by the Prophet, and
when it was evening, he came back to his retiring place. 'Ali passed
by him and said, "Has the man not known his dwelling place yet?" So
'Ali awakened him and took him with him and none of them spoke to the
other about anything. When it was the third day. 'Ali did the same and
Abu Dhar stayed with him. Then 'Ali said "Will you tell me what has
brought you here?" Abu Dhar said, "If you give me a firm promise that
you will guide me, then I will tell you." 'Ali promised him, and he
informed 'Ali about the matter. 'Ali said, "It is true, and he is the
Apostle of Allah. Next morning when you get up, accompany me, and if I
see any danger for you, I will stop as if to pass water, but if I go
on, follow me and enter the place which I will enter." Abu Dhar did
so, and followed 'Ali till he entered the place of the Prophet, and
Abu Dhar went in with him, Abu Dhar listened to some of the Prophet's
talks and embraced Islam on the spot. The Prophet said to him, "Go
back to your people and inform them (about it) till you receive my
order." Abu Dhar said, "By Him in Whose Hand my life is, I will
proclaim my conversion loudly amongst them (i.e. the pagans)." So he
went out, and when he reached the Mosque, he said as loudly as
possible, "I bear witness that None has the right to be worshipped
except Allah, and Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah." The People got up
and beat him painfully. Then Al-Abbas came and knelt over him ((to
protect him) and said (to the people), "Woe to you! Don't you know
that this man belongs to the tribe of Ghifar and your trade to Sha'm
is through their way?" So he rescued him from them. Abu Dhar again did
the same the next day. They beat him and took vengeance on him and
again Al-Abbas knelt over him (to protect him).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 202:
Narrated Qais:
I heard Said bin Zaid bin
'Amr bin Nufail saying in the mosque of Al-Kufa. "By Allah, I have
seen myself tied and forced by 'Umar to leave Islam before 'Umar
himself embraced Islam. And if the mountain of Uhud could move from
its place for the evil which you people have done to 'Uthman, then it
would have the right to move from its place."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 203:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
Mus'ud:
We have been powerful
since 'Umar embraced Islam.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 204:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
Umar:
While 'Umar was at home
in a state of fear, there came Al-'As bin Wail As-Sahmi Abu 'Amr,
wearing an embroidered cloak and a shirt having silk hems. He was from
the tribe of Bani Sahm who were our allies during the pre-Islamic
period of ignorance. Al-'As said to 'Umar "What is wrong with you?" He
said, "Your people claim that they would kill me if I become a
Muslim." Al-'As said, "Nobody will harm you after I have given
protection to you." So Al-'As went out and met the people streaming in
the whole valley. He said, "Where are you going?" They said, "We want
Ibn Al-Khattab who has embraced Islam." Al-'As said, "There is no way
for anybody to touch him." So the people retreated.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 205:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
'Umar:
When 'Umar embraced
Islam, all The (disbelieving) people gathered around his home and
said, "'Umar has embraced Islam." At that time I was still a boy and
was on the roof of my house. There came a man wearing a cloak of Dibaj
(i.e. a kind of silk), and said, "Umar has embraced Islam. Nobody can
harm him for I am his protector." I then saw the people going away
from 'Umar and asked who the man was, and they said, "Al-'As bin
Wail."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 206:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
'Umar:
I never heard 'Umar
saying about something that he thought it would be so-and-so, but he
was quite right. Once, while 'Umar was sitting, a handsome man passed
by him, 'Umar said, "If I am not wrong, this person is still on his
religion of the pre-lslamic period of ignorance or he was their
foreteller. Call the man to me." When the man was called to him, he
told him of his thought. The man said, "I have never seen such a day
on which a Muslim is faced with such an accusation." 'Umar said, "I am
determined that you should tell me the truth." He said, "I was a
foreteller in the pre-lslamic period of ignorance." Then 'Umar said,
"Tell me the most astonishing thing your female Jinn has told you of."
He said, "One-day while I was in the market, she came to me scared and
said, 'Haven't you seen the Jinns and their despair and they were
overthrown after their defeat (and prevented from listening to the
news of the heaven) so that they (stopped going to the sky and) kept
following camel-riders (i.e. 'Arabs)?" 'Umar said, "He is right." and
added, "One day while I was near their idols, there came a man with a
calf and slaughtered it as a sacrifice (for the idols). An (unseen)
creature shouted at him, and I have never heard harsher than his
voice. He was crying, 'O you bold evil-doer! A matter of success! An
eloquent man is saying: None has the right to be worshipped except you
(O Allah).' On that the people fled, but I said, 'I shall not go away
till I know what is behind this.' Then the cry came again: 'O you bold
evil-doer! A matter of success! An eloquent man is saying: None has
the right to be worshipped except Allah.' I then went away and a few
days later it was said, "A prophet has appeared."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 207:
Narrated Qais:
I heard Said bin Zaid
saying to the people, "If you but saw me and 'Umar's sister tied and
forced by 'Umar to leave Islam while he was not yet a Muslim. And if
the mountain of Uhud could move from its place for the evil which you
people have done to Uthman, it would have the right to do that."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 208:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The people of Mecca asked
Allah's Apostle to show them a miracle. So he showed them the moon
split in two halves between which they saw the Hiram' mountain.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 209:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
The moon was split ( into
two pieces ) while we were with the Prophet in Mina. He said, "Be
witnesses." Then a Piece of the moon went towards the mountain.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 210:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
'Abbas:
During the lifetime of
Allah's Apostle the moon was split (into two places).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 211:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
The moon was split (into
two pieces).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 212:
Narrated 'Ubaidullah bin
'Adi bin Al-Khiyar:
That Al-Miswar bin
Makhrama and 'Abdur-Rahman bin Al-Aswad bin 'Abu Yaghuth had said to
him, "What prevents you from speaking to your uncle 'Uthman regarding
his brother Al-Walid bin 'Uqba?" The people were speaking against the
latter for what he had done. 'Ubaidullah said, "So I kept waiting for
'Uthman, and when he went out for the prayer, I said to him, 'I have
got something to say to you as a piece of advice.' 'Uthman said, 'O
man! I seek Refuge with Allah from you. So I went away. When I
finished my prayer, I sat with Al-Miswar and Ibn 'Abu Yaghuth and
talked to both of them of what I had said to 'Uthman and what he had
said to me. They said, 'You have done your duty.' So while I was
sitting with them. 'Uthman's Messenger came to me. They said, 'Allah
has put you to trial." I set out and when I reached 'Uthman, he said,
'What is your advice which you mentioned a while ago?' I recited
Tashahhud and added, 'Allah has sent Muhammad and has revealed the
Holy Book (i.e. Quran) to him. You (O Uthman!) were amongst those who
responded to the call of Allah and His Apostle and had faith in him.
And you took part in the first two migrations (to Ethiopia and to
Medina), and you enjoyed the company of Allah's Apostle and learned
his traditions and advice. Now the people are talking much about
Al-Walid bin 'Uqba and so it is your duty to impose on him the legal
punishment.' 'Uthman then said to me, 'O my nephew! Did you ever meet
Allah's Apostle ?' I said, 'No, but his knowledge has reached me as it
has reached the virgin in her seclusion.' 'Uthman then recited
Tashahhud and said, 'No doubt, Allah has sent Muhammad with the Truth
and has revealed to him His Holy Book (i.e. Quran) and I was amongst
those who responded to the call of Allah and His Apostle and I had
faith in Muhammad's Mission, and I had performed the first two
migrations as you have said, and I enjoyed the company of Allah's
Apostle and gave the pledge of allegiance to him. By Allah, I never
disobeyed him and never cheated him till Allah caused him to die. Then
Allah made Abu Bakr Caliph, and by Allah, I was never disobedient to
him, nor did I cheat him. Then 'Umar became Caliph, and by Allah, I
was never disobedient to him, nor did I cheat him. Then I became
Caliph. Have I not then the same rights over you as they had over me?'
I replied in the affirmative. 'Uthman further said, 'The what are
these talks which are reaching me from you? As for what you ha
mentioned about Al-Walid bin 'Uqb; Allah willing, I shall give him the
leg; punishment justly. Then Uthman ordered that Al-Walid be flogged
fort lashes. He ordered 'Ali to flog him an he himself flogged him as
well."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 213:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Um Habiba and Um Salama
mentioned a church they had seen in Ethiopia and in the church there
were pictures. When they told the Prophet of this, he said, "Those
people are such that if a pious man amongst them died, they build a
place of worship over his grave and paint these pictures in it. Those
people will be Allah's worst creatures on the Day of Resurrection . "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 214:
Narrated Um Khalid bint
Khalid:
When I came from Ethiopia
(to Medina), I was a young girl. Allah's Apostle made me wear a sheet
having marks on it. Allah's Apostle was rubbing those marks with his
hands saying, "Sanah! Sanah!" (i.e. good, good).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 215:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
We used to greet the
Prophet while he used to be in prayers, and he used to reply to our
greetings. But when we came back from Najashi (the King of Ethiopia)
we greeted him (while he was praying) and he did not reply to us. We
said, "O Allah's Apostle! We used to greet you in the past and you
used to reply to us." He said, "Verily The Mind is occupied and busy
with more important matter during the prayer." (So one cannot return
One's greetings.)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 216:
Narrated Abu Musa:
We received the news of
the departure of the Prophet (to Medina) while we were in Yemen. So we
went on board a ship but our ship took us away to An-Najashi (the
Negus) in Ethiopia. There we met Ja'far bin Abi Talib and stayed with
him till we came (to Medina) by the time when the Prophet had
conquered Khaibar. The Prophet said, "O you people of the ship! You
will have (the reward of) two migrations."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 217:
Narrated Jabir:
When Negus died, the
Prophet said, "Today a pious man has died. So get up and offer the
funeral prayer for your brother Ashama
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 218:
Narrated Jabir bin
'Abdullah Al-Ansari:
Allah's Apostle led the
funeral prayer for the Negus and made us stand in rows behind him and
I was in the second or third row.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 219:
Narrated Jabir bin
'Abdullah:
The Prophet offered the
funeral prayer for Ashama, the Negus, with four Takbir.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 220:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
that Allah's Apostle
informed them (i.e. his companions) of the death of Negus, the king of
Ethiopia, on the very day on which the latter died, and said, "Ask
Allah's Forgiveness for your brother" Abu Huraira further said,
"Allah's Apostle made them (i.e. the Muslims) stand in rows at the
Musalla (i.e. praying place) and led the funeral prayer for the Negus
and said four Takbir."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 221:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle, while
going out for the battle of Hunain, said, "Tomorrow Allah willing, we
will encamp at Khaif Bani Kinana where the pagans(of Quraish) took the
oath of Kufr (against the Prophet i.e. to be loyal to heathenism, by
boycotting Banu Hashim, the Prophet's folk, See Hadith No. 659 Vol. 2)
.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 222:
Narrated Al-Abbas bin
'Abdul Muttalib:
That he said to the
Prophet "You have not been of any avail to your uncle (Abu Talib)
(though) by Allah, he used to protect you and used to become angry on
your behalf." The Prophet said, "He is in a shallow fire, and had It
not been for me, he would have been in the bottom of the (Hell) Fire."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 223:
Narrated Al-Musaiyab:
When Abu Talib was in his
death bed, the Prophet went to him while Abu Jahl was sitting beside
him. The Prophet said, "O my uncle! Say: None has the right to be
worshipped except Allah, an expression I will defend your case with,
before Allah." Abu Jahl and 'Abdullah bin Umaya said, "O Abu Talib!
Will you leave the religion of 'Abdul Muttalib?" So they kept on
saying this to him so that the last statement he said to them (before
he died) was: "I am on the religion of 'Abdul Muttalib." Then the
Prophet said, " I will keep on asking for Allah's Forgiveness for you
unless I am forbidden to do so." Then the following Verse was
revealed:--
"It is not fitting for
the Prophet and the believers to ask Allah's Forgiveness for the
pagans, even if they were their near relatives, after it has become
clear to them that they are the dwellers of the (Hell) Fire." (9.113)
The other Verse was also
revealed:-- "(O Prophet!) Verily, you guide not whom you like, but
Allah guides whom He will ......." (28.56)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 224:
Narrated Abu Said
Al-Khudri:
That he heard the Prophet
when somebody mentioned his uncle (i.e. Abu Talib), saying, "Perhaps
my intercession will be helpful to him on the Day of Resurrection so
that he may be put in a shallow fire reaching only up to his ankles.
His brain will boil from it."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 225:
Narrated Yazid:
(as above, Hadith 224)
using the words: "will make his brain boil."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 226:
Narrated Jabir bin
'Abdullah:
That he heard Allah's
Apostle saying, "When the people of Quraish did not believe me (i.e.
the story of my Night Journey), I stood up in Al-Hijr and Allah
displayed Jerusalem in front of me, and I began describing it to them
while I was looking at it."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 227:
Narrated Abbas bin Malik:
Malik bin Sasaa said that
Allah's Apostle described to them his Night Journey saying, "While I
was lying in Al-Hatim or Al-Hijr, suddenly someone came to me and cut
my body open from here to here." I asked Al-Jarud who was by my side,
"What does he mean?" He said, "It means from his throat to his pubic
area," or said, "From the top of the chest." The Prophet further said,
"He then took out my heart. Then a gold tray of Belief was brought to
me and my heart was washed and was filled (with Belief) and then
returned to its original place. Then a white animal which was smaller
than a mule and bigger than a donkey was brought to me." (On this
Al-Jarud asked, "Was it the Buraq, O Abu Hamza?" I (i.e. Anas) replied
in the affirmative). The Prophet said, "The animal's step (was so wide
that it) reached the farthest point within the reach of the animal's
sight. I was carried on it, and Gabriel set out with me till we
reached the nearest heaven.
When he asked for the
gate to be opened, it was asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel answered,
'Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is accompanying you?' Gabriel replied,
'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has Muhammad been called?' Gabriel replied
in the affirmative. Then it was said, 'He is welcomed. What an
excellent visit his is!' The gate was opened, and when I went over the
first heaven, I saw Adam there. Gabriel said (to me). 'This is your
father, Adam; pay him your greetings.' So I greeted him and he
returned the greeting to me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious son
and pious Prophet.' Then Gabriel ascended with me till we reached the
second heaven. Gabriel asked for the gate to be opened. It was asked,
'Who is it?' Gabriel answered, 'Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is
accompanying you?' Gabriel replied, 'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he
been called?' Gabriel answered in the affirmative. Then it was said,
'He is welcomed. What an excellent visit his is!' The gate was opened.
When I went over the
second heaven, there I saw Yahya (i.e. John) and 'Isa (i.e. Jesus) who
were cousins of each other. Gabriel said (to me), 'These are John and
Jesus; pay them your greetings.' So I greeted them and both of them
returned my greetings to me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious
brother and pious Prophet.' Then Gabriel ascended with me to the third
heaven and asked for its gate to be opened. It was asked, 'Who is it?'
Gabriel replied, 'Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is accompanying you?'
Gabriel replied, 'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he been called?'
Gabriel replied in the affirmative. Then it was said, 'He is welcomed,
what an excellent visit his is!' The gate was opened, and when I went
over the third heaven there I saw Joseph. Gabriel said (to me), 'This
is Joseph; pay him your greetings.' So I greeted him and he returned
the greeting to me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious brother and
pious Prophet.' Then Gabriel ascended with me to the fourth heaven and
asked for its gate to be opened. It was asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel
replied, 'Gabriel' It was asked, 'Who is accompanying you?' Gabriel
replied, 'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he been called?' Gabriel
replied in the affirmative. Then it was said, 'He is welcomed, what an
excel lent visit his is!'
The gate was opened, and
when I went over the fourth heaven, there I saw Idris. Gabriel said
(to me), 'This is Idris; pay him your greetings.' So I greeted him and
he returned the greeting to me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious
brother and pious Prophet.' Then Gabriel ascended with me to the fifth
heaven and asked for its gate to be opened. It was asked, 'Who is it?'
Gabriel replied, 'Gabriel.' It was asked. 'Who is accompanying you?'
Gabriel replied, 'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he been called?'
Gabriel replied in the affirmative. Then it was said He is welcomed,
what an excellent visit his is! So when I went over the fifth heaven,
there I saw Harun (i.e. Aaron), Gabriel said, (to me). This is Aaron;
pay him your greetings.' I greeted him and he returned the greeting to
me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious brother and pious Prophet.'
Then Gabriel ascended with me to the sixth heaven and asked for its
gate to be opened. It was asked. 'Who is it?' Gabriel replied,
'Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is accompanying you?' Gabriel replied,
'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he been called?' Gabriel replied in the
affirmative. It was said, 'He is welcomed. What an excellent visit his
is!'
When I went (over the
sixth heaven), there I saw Moses. Gabriel said (to me),' This is
Moses; pay him your greeting. So I greeted him and he returned the
greetings to me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious brother and pious
Prophet.' When I left him (i.e. Moses) he wept. Someone asked him,
'What makes you weep?' Moses said, 'I weep because after me there has
been sent (as Prophet) a young man whose followers will enter Paradise
in greater numbers than my followers.' Then Gabriel ascended with me
to the seventh heaven and asked for its gate to be opened. It was
asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel replied, 'Gabriel.' It was asked,' Who is
accompanying you?' Gabriel replied, 'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he
been called?' Gabriel replied in the affirmative. Then it was said,
'He is welcomed. What an excellent visit his is!'
So when I went (over the
seventh heaven), there I saw Abraham. Gabriel said (to me), 'This is
your father; pay your greetings to him.' So I greeted him and he
returned the greetings to me and said, 'You are welcomed, O pious son
and pious Prophet.' Then I was made to ascend to Sidrat-ul-Muntaha
(i.e. the Lote Tree of the utmost boundary) Behold! Its fruits were
like the jars of Hajr (i.e. a place near Medina) and its leaves were
as big as the ears of elephants. Gabriel said, 'This is the Lote Tree
of the utmost boundary) . Behold ! There ran four rivers, two were
hidden and two were visible, I asked, 'What are these two kinds of
rivers, O Gabriel?' He replied,' As for the hidden rivers, they are
two rivers in Paradise and the visible rivers are the Nile and the
Euphrates.'
Then Al-Bait-ul-Ma'mur
(i.e. the Sacred House) was shown to me and a container full of wine
and another full of milk and a third full of honey were brought to me.
I took the milk. Gabriel remarked, 'This is the Islamic religion which
you and your followers are following.' Then the prayers were enjoined
on me: They were fifty prayers a day. When I returned, I passed by
Moses who asked (me), 'What have you been ordered to do?' I replied,
'I have been ordered to offer fifty prayers a day.' Moses said, 'Your
followers cannot bear fifty prayers a day, and by Allah, I have tested
people before you, and I have tried my level best with Bani Israel (in
vain). Go back to your Lord and ask for reduction to lessen your
followers' burden.' So I went back, and Allah reduced ten prayers for
me. Then again I came to Moses, but he repeated the same as he had
said before. Then again I went back to Allah and He reduced ten more
prayers. When I came back to Moses he said the same, I went back to
Allah and He ordered me to observe ten prayers a day. When I came back
to Moses, he repeated the same advice, so I went back to Allah and was
ordered to observe five prayers a day.
When I came back to
Moses, he said, 'What have you been ordered?' I replied, 'I have been
ordered to observe five prayers a day.' He said, 'Your followers
cannot bear five prayers a day, and no doubt, I have got an experience
of the people before you, and I have tried my level best with Bani
Israel, so go back to your Lord and ask for reduction to lessen your
follower's burden.' I said, 'I have requested so much of my Lord that
I feel ashamed, but I am satisfied now and surrender to Allah's
Order.' When I left, I heard a voice saying, 'I have passed My Order
and have lessened the burden of My Worshipers."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 228:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
Regarding the Statement
of Allah"
"And We granted the
vision (Ascension to the heavens) which We made you see (as an actual
eye witness) was only made as a trial for the people." (17.60)
Ibn Abbas added: The
sights which Allah's Apostle was shown on the Night Journey when he
was taken to Bait-ulMaqdis (i.e. Jerusalem) were actual sights, (not
dreams). And the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Quran is the tree of
Zaqqum (itself) .
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 229:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
Ka'b:
Who was Kab's guide when
Ka'b turned blind: I heard Ka'b bin Malik narrating: When he remained
behind (i.e. did not Join) the Prophet in the Ghazwa of Tabuk. Ibn
Bukair, in his narration stated that Ka'b said, " I witnessed the
Al-'Aqaba pledge of allegiance at night with the Prophet when we
jointly agreed to support Islam with all our efforts I would not like
to have attended the Badr battle instead of that 'Aqaba pledge
although Badr is more well-known than it, amongst the people."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 230:
Narrated Jabir bin
'Abdullah:
I was present with my two
maternal uncles at Al-'Aqaba (where the pledge of allegiance was
given). (Ibn 'Uyaina said, "One of the two was Al-Bara' bin Marur.")
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 231:
Narrated Jabir:
My father, my two
maternal uncles and I were among those who took part in the 'Aqaba
Pledge.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 232:
Narrated 'Ubada bin
As-Samit:
Who had taken part in the
battle of Badr with Allah's Apostle and had been amongst his
companions on the night of Al-'Aqaba Pledge: Allah's Apostle,
surrounded by a group of his companions said, "Come along and give me
the pledge of allegiance that you will not worship anything besides
Allah, will not steal, will not commit illegal sexual intercourse will
not kill your children, will not utter; slander, invented by yourself,
and will not disobey me if I order you to do something good. Whoever
among you will respect and fulfill this pledge, will be rewarded by
Allah. And if one of you commits any of these sins and is punished in
this world then that will be his expiation for it, and if one of you
commits any of these sins and Allah screens his sin, then his matter,
will rest with Allah: If He will, He will punish him and if He will,.
He will excuse him." So I gave the pledge of allegiance to him for
these conditions.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 233:
Narrated 'Ubada bin As
Samit:
I was one of the Naqibs
who gave the ('Aqaba) Pledge of Allegiance to Allah's Apostle . We
gave the pledge of allegiance to him that we would not worship
anything other than Allah, would not steal, would not commit illegal
sexual intercourse, would not kill a person whose killing Allah has
made illegal except rightfully, would not rob each other, and we would
not be promised Paradise jf we did the above sins, then if we
committed one of the above sins, Allah will give His Judgment
concerning it.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234:
Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet engaged me
when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the
home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell
down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to
me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She
called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me.
She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house.
I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took
some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into
the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best
wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to
them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's
Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to
him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 235:
Narrated 'Aisha:
That the Prophet said to
her, "You have been shown to me twice in my dream. I saw you pictured
on a piece of silk and some-one said (to me). 'This is your wife.'
When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, 'If
this is from Allah, it will be done."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 236:
Narrated Hisham's father:
Khadija died three years
before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years
or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of
age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 237:
Narrated Abu Wail:
We visited Khabbaba who
said, "We migrated with the Prophet for Allah's Sake, so our reward
became due and sure with Allah. Some of us passed away without taking
anything of their rewards (in this world) and one of them was Mus'ab
bin 'Umar who was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Uhud leaving
a striped woolen cloak. When we covered his head with it, his feet
became naked, and when covered his feet, his head became naked.
So Allah's Apostle
ordered us to cover his head and put some Idhkhir (i.e. a special kind
of grass) on his feet. (On the other hand) some of us have had their
fruits ripened (in this world) and they are collecting them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 238:
Narrated 'Umar:
I heard the Prophet
saying, "The reward of deeds depends on the intentions, so whoever
emigrated for the worldly benefits or to marry a woman, his emigration
was for that for which he emigrated, but whoever emigrated for the
Sake of Allah and His Apostle, his emigration is for Allah and His
Apostle."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 239:
Narrated Mujahid bin
Jabir Al-Makki:
Abdullah bin 'Umar used
to say, "There is no more Hijrah (i.e. migration) after the Conquest
of Mecca."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 240:
Narrated 'Ata bin Abi
Rabah:
'Ubaid bin 'Umar
Al-Laithi and I visited Aisha and asked her about the Hijra (i.e.
migration), and she said, "Today there is no (Hijrah) emigration. A
believer used to run away with his religion to Allah and His Apostle
lest he should be put to trial because of his religion. Today Allah
has made Islam triumphant, and today a believer can worship his Lord
wherever he likes. But the deeds that are still rewardable (in place
of emigration) are Jihad and good intentions." (See Hadith No. 42 Vol.
4).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 241:
Narrated Aisha:
Sad said, "O Allah! You
know that there is none against whom I am eager to fight more
willingly for Your Cause than those people who disbelieved Your
Apostle and drove him out (of his city). O Allah! I think that You
have ended the fight between us and them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 242:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Allah's Apostle started
receiving the Divine Inspiration at the age of forty. Then he stayed
in Mecca for thirteen years, receiving the Divine Revelation. Then he
was ordered to migrate and he lived as an Emigrant for ten years and
then died at the age of sixty-three (years).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 243:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Allah's Apostle stayed in
Mecca for thirteen years (after receiving the first Divine
Inspiration) and died at the age of sixty-three.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 244:
Narrated Abu Said
Al-Khudri:
Allah's Apostle sat on
the pulpit and said, "Allah has given one of His Slaves the choice of
receiving the splendor and luxury of the worldly life whatever he
likes or to accept the good (of the Hereafter) which is with Allah. So
he has chosen that good which is with Allah." On that Abu Bakr wept
and said, "Our fathers and mothers be sacrificed for you." We became
astonished at this. The people said, "Look at this old man! Allah's
Apostle talks about a Slave of Allah to whom He has given the option
to choose either the splendor of this worldly life or the good which
is with Him, while he says. 'our fathers and mothers be sacrifice(i
for you." But it was Allah's Apostle who had been given option, and
Abu Bakr knew it better than we. Allah's Apostle added, "No doubt, I
am indebted to Abu Bakr more than to anybody else regarding both his
companionship and his wealth. And if I had to take a Khalil from my
followers, I would certainly have taken Abu Bakr, but the fraternity
of Islam is. sufficient. Let no door (i.e. Khoukha) of the Mosque
remain open, except the door of Abu Bakr."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 245:
Narrated 'Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet)
I never remembered my parents believing in any religion other than the
true religion (i.e. Islam), and (I don't remember) a single day
passing without our being visited by Allah's Apostle in the morning
and in the evening. When the Muslims were put to test (i.e. troubled
by the pagans), Abu Bakr set out migrating to the land of Ethiopia,
and when he reached Bark-al-Ghimad, Ibn Ad-Daghina, the chief of the
tribe of Qara, met him and said, "O Abu Bakr! Where are you going?"
Abu Bakr replied, "My people have turned me out (of my country), so I
want to wander on the earth and worship my Lord." Ibn Ad-Daghina said,
"O Abu Bakr! A man like you should not leave his home-land, nor should
he be driven out, because you help the destitute, earn their livings,
and you keep good relations with your Kith and kin, help the weak and
poor, entertain guests generously, and help the calamity-stricken
persons. Therefore I am your protector. Go back and worship your Lord
in your town."
So Abu Bakr returned and
Ibn Ad-Daghina accompanied him. In the evening Ibn Ad-Daghina visited
the nobles of Quraish and said to them. "A man like Abu Bakr should
not leave his homeland, nor should he be driven out. Do you (i.e.
Quraish) drive out a man who helps the destitute, earns their living,
keeps good relations with his Kith and kin, helps the weak and poor,
entertains guests generously and helps the calamity-stricken persons?"
So the people of Quraish could not refuse Ibn Ad-Daghina's protection,
and they said to Ibn Ad-Daghina, "Let Abu Bakr worship his Lord in his
house. He can pray and recite there whatever he likes, but he should
not hurt us with it, and should not do it publicly, because we are
afraid that he may affect our women and children." Ibn Ad-Daghina told
Abu Bakr of all that. Abu Bakr stayed in that state, worshipping his
Lord in his house. He did not pray publicly, nor did he recite Quran
outside his house.
Then a thought occurred
to Abu Bakr to build a mosque in front of his house, and there he used
to pray and recite the Quran. The women and children of the pagans
began to gather around him in great number. They used to wonder at him
and look at him. Abu Bakr was a man who used to weep too much, and he
could not help weeping on reciting the Quran. That situation scared
the nobles of the pagans of Quraish, so they sent for Ibn Ad-Daghina.
When he came to them, they said, "We accepted your protection of Abu
Bakr on condition that he should worship his Lord in his house, but he
has violated the conditions and he has built a mosque in front of his
house where he prays and recites the Quran publicly. We are now afraid
that he may affect our women and children unfavorably. So, prevent him
from that. If he likes to confine the worship of his Lord to his
house, he may do so, but if he insists on doing that openly, ask him
to release you from your obligation to protect him, for we dislike to
break our pact with you, but we deny Abu Bakr the right to announce
his act publicly." Ibn Ad-Daghina went to Abu- Bakr and said, ("O Abu
Bakr!) You know well what contract I have made on your behalf; now,
you are either to abide by it, or else release me from my obligation
of protecting you, because I do not want the 'Arabs hear that my
people have dishonored a contract I have made on behalf of another
man." Abu Bakr replied, "I release you from your pact to protect me,
and am pleased with the protection from Allah."
At that time the Prophet
was in Mecca, and he said to the Muslims, "In a dream I have been
shown your migration place, a land of date palm trees, between two
mountains, the two stony tracts." So, some people migrated to Medina,
and most of those people who had previously migrated to the land of
Ethiopia, returned to Medina. Abu Bakr also prepared to leave for
Medina, but Allah's Apostle said to him, "Wait for a while, because I
hope that I will be allowed to migrate also." Abu Bakr said, "Do you
indeed expect this? Let my father be sacrificed for you!" The Prophet
said, "Yes." So Abu Bakr did not migrate for the sake of Allah's
Apostle in order to accompany him. He fed two she-camels he possessed
with the leaves of As-Samur tree that fell on being struck by a stick
for four months.
One day, while we were
sitting in Abu Bakr's house at noon, someone said to Abu Bakr, "This
is Allah's Apostle with his head covered coming at a time at which he
never used to visit us before." Abu Bakr said, "May my parents be
sacrificed for him. By Allah, he has not come at this hour except for
a great necessity." So Allah's Apostle came and asked permission to
enter, and he was allowed to enter. When he entered, he said to Abu
Bakr. "Tell everyone who is present with you to go away." Abu Bakr
replied, "There are none but your family. May my father be sacrificed
for you, O Allah's Apostle!" The Prophet said, "i have been given
permission to migrate." Abu Bakr said, "Shall I accompany you? May my
father be sacrificed for you, O Allah's Apostle!" Allah's Apostle
said, "Yes." Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Apostle! May my father be
sacrificed for you, take one of these two she-camels of mine." Allah's
Apostle replied, "(I will accept it) with payment." So we prepared the
baggage quickly and put some journey food in a leather bag for them.
Asma, Abu Bakr's daughter, cut a piece from her waist belt and tied
the mouth of the leather bag with it, and for that reason she was
named Dhat-un-Nitaqain (i.e. the owner of two belts).
Then Allah's Apostle and
Abu Bakr reached a cave on the mountain of Thaur and stayed there for
three nights. 'Abdullah bin Abi Bakr who was intelligent and a
sagacious youth, used to stay (with them) aver night. He used to leave
them before day break so that in the morning he would be with Quraish
as if he had spent the night in Mecca. He would keep in mind any plot
made against them, and when it became dark he would (go and) inform
them of it. 'Amir bin Fuhaira, the freed slave of Abu Bakr, used to
bring the milch sheep (of his master, Abu Bakr) to them a little while
after nightfall in order to rest the sheep there. So they always had
fresh milk at night, the milk of their sheep, and the milk which they
warmed by throwing heated stones in it. 'Amir bin Fuhaira would then
call the herd away when it was still dark (before daybreak). He did
the same in each of those three nights. Allah's Apostle and Abu Bakr
had hired a man from the tribe of Bani Ad-Dail from the family of Bani
Abd bin Adi as an expert guide, and he was in alliance with the family
of Al-'As bin Wail As-Sahmi and he was on the religion of the infidels
of Quraish. The Prophet and Abu Bakr trusted him and gave him their
two she-camels and took his promise to bring their two she camels to
the cave of the mountain of Thaur in the morning after three nights
later. And (when they set out), 'Amir bin Fuhaira and the guide went
along with them and the guide led them along the sea-shore.
The nephew of Suraqa bin
Ju'sham said that his father informed him that he heard Suraqa bin
Ju'sham saying, "The messengers of the heathens of Quraish came to us
declaring that they had assigned for the persons why would kill or
arrest Allah's Apostle and Abu Bakr, a reward equal to their
bloodmoney. While I was sitting in one of the gatherings of my tribe.
Bani Mudlij, a man from them came to us and stood up while we were
sitting, and said, "O Suraqa! No doubt, I have just seen some people
far away on the seashore, and I think they are Muhammad and his
companions." Suraqa added, "I too realized that it must have been
they. But I said 'No, it is not they, but you have seen so-and-so, and
so-and-so whom we saw set out.' I stayed in the gathering for a while
and then got up and left for my home. and ordered my slave-girl to get
my horse which was behind a hillock, and keep it ready for me.
Then I took my spear and
left by the back door of my house dragging the lower end of the spear
on the ground and keeping it low. Then I reached my horse, mounted it
and made it gallop. When I approached them (i.e. Muhammad and Abu
Bakr), my horse stumbled and I fell down from it, Then I stood up, got
hold of my quiver and took out the divining arrows and drew lots as to
whether I should harm them (i.e. the Prophet and Abu Bakr) or not, and
the lot which I disliked came out. But I remounted my horse and let it
gallop, giving no importance to the divining arrows. When I heard the
recitation of the Quran by Allah's Apostle who did not look hither and
thither while Abu Bakr was doing it often, suddenly the forelegs of my
horse sank into the ground up to the knees, and I fell down from it.
Then I rebuked it and it got up but could hardly take out its forelegs
from the ground, and when it stood up straight again, its fore-legs
caused dust to rise up in the sky like smoke. Then again I drew lots
with the divining arrows, and the lot which I disliked, came out. So I
called upon them to feel secure. They stopped, and I remounted my
horse and went to them. When I saw how I had been hampered from
harming them, it came to my mind that the cause of Allah's Apostle
(i.e. Islam) will become victorious. So I said to him, "Your people
have assigned a reward equal to the bloodmoney for your head." Then I
told them all the plans the people of Mecca had made concerning them.
Then I offered them some journey food and goods but they refused to
take anything and did not ask for anything, but the Prophet said, "Do
not tell others about us." Then I requested him to write for me a
statement of security and peace. He ordered 'Amr bin Fuhaira who wrote
it for me on a parchment, and then Allah's Apostle proceeded on his
way.
Narrated 'Urwa bin
Az-Zubair: Allah's Apostle met Az-Zubair in a caravan of Muslim
merchants who were returning from Sham. Az-Zubair provided Allah's
Apostle and Abu Bakr with white clothes to wear. When the Muslims of
Medina heard the news of the departure of Allah's Apostle from Mecca
(towards Medina), they started going to the Harra every morning . They
would wait for him till the heat of the noon forced them to return.
One day, after waiting for a long while, they returned home, and when
they went into their houses, a Jew climbed up the roof of one of the
forts of his people to look for some thing, and he saw Allah's Apostle
and his companions dressed in white clothes, emerging out of the
desert mirage.
The Jew could not help
shouting at the top of his voice, "O you 'Arabs! Here is your great
man whom you have been waiting for!" So all the Muslims rushed to
their arms and received Allah's Apostle on the summit of Harra. The
Prophet turned with them to the right and alighted at the quarters of
Bani 'Amr bin 'Auf, and this was on Monday in the month of
Rabi-ul-Awal. Abu Bakr stood up, receiving the people while Allah's
Apostle sat down and kept silent. Some of the Ansar who came and had
not seen Allah's Apostle before, began greeting Abu Bakr, but when the
sunshine fell on Allah's Apostle and Abu Bakr came forward and shaded
him with his sheet only then the people came to know Allah's Apostle.
Allah's Apostle stayed with Bani 'Amr bin 'Auf for ten nights and
established the mosque (mosque of Quba) which was founded on piety.
Allah's Apostle prayed in it and then mounted his she-camel and
proceeded on, accompanied by the people till his she-camel knelt down
at (the place of) the Mosque of Allah's Apostle at Medina. Some
Muslims used to pray there in those days, and that place was a yard
for drying dates belonging to Suhail and Sahl, the orphan boys who
were under the guardianship of 'Asad bin Zurara. When his she-camel
knelt down, Allah's Apostle said, "This place, Allah willing, will be
our abiding place." Allah's Apostle then called the two boys and told
them to suggest a price for that yard so that he might take it as a
mosque. The two boys said, "No, but we will give it as a gift, O
Allah's Apostle!" Allah's Apostle then built a mosque there. The
Prophet himself started carrying unburnt bricks for its building and
while doing so, he was saying "This load is better than the load of
Khaibar, for it is more pious in the Sight of Allah and purer and
better rewardable." He was also saying, "O Allah! The actual reward is
the reward in the Hereafter, so bestow Your Mercy on the Ansar and the
Emigrants." Thus the Prophet recited (by way of proverb) the poem of
some Muslim poet whose name is unknown to me.
(Ibn Shibab said, "In the
Hadiths it does not occur that Allah's Apostle
recited a complete poetic
verse other than this one.")
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 246:
Narrated Asma:
I prepared the journey
food for the Prophet and Abu Bakr when they wanted (to migrate to)
Medina. I said to my father (Abu Bakr), "I do not have anything to tie
the container of the journey food with except my waist belt." He said,
"Divide it lengthwise into two." I did so, and for this reason I was
named 'Dhat-un-Nitaqain' (i.e. the owner of two belts). (Ibn 'Abbas
said, "Asma', Dhat-un-Nitaq.")
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 247:
Narrated Al-Bara:
When the Prophet migrated
to Medina, Suraqa bin Malik bin Ju'sham pursued him. The Prophet
invoked evil on him, therefore the forelegs of his horse sank into the
ground. Suraqa said (to the Prophet ), "Invoke Allah to rescue me, and
I will not harm you. "The Prophet invoked Allah for him. Then Allah's
Apostle felt thirsty and he passed by a shepherd. Abu Bakr said, "I
took a bowl and milked a little milk in it and brought it to the
Prophet and he drank till I was pleased."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 248:
Narrated Asma:
That she conceived
'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair. She added, "I migrated to Medina while I was
at full term of pregnancy and alighted at Quba where I gave birth to
him. Then I brought him to the Prophet and put him in his lap. The
Prophet asked for a date, chewed it, and put some of its juice in the
child's mouth. So, the first thing that entered the child's stomach
was the saliva of Allah's Apostle. Then the Prophet rubbed the child's
palate with a date and invoked for Allah's Blessings on him, and he
was the first child born amongst the Emigrants in the Islamic Land
(i.e. Medina).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 249:
Narrated Aisha:
The first child who was
born in the Islamic Land (i.e. Medina) amongst the Emigrants, was
'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair. They brought him to the Prophet. The Prophet
took a date, and after chewing it, put its juice in his mouth. So the
first thing that went into the child's stomach, was the saliva of the
Prophet
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 250:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle arrived
at Medina with Abu Bakr, riding behind him on the same camel. Abu Bakr
was an elderly man known to the people, while Allah's Apostle was a
youth that was unknown. Thus, if a man met Abu Bakr, he would day, "O
Abu Bakr! Who is this man in front of you?" Abu Bakr would say, "This
man shows me the Way," One would think that Abu Bakr meant the road,
while in fact, Abu Bakr meant the way of virtue and good. Then Abu
Bakr looked behind and saw a horse-rider persuing them. He said, "O
Allah's Apostle! This is a horse-rider persuing us." The Prophet
looked behind and said, "O Allah! Cause him to fall down." So the
horse threw him down and got up neighing. After that the rider, Suraqa
said, "O Allah's Prophet! Order me whatever you want." The Prophet
said, "Stay where you are and do not allow anybody to reach us." So,
in the first part of the day Suraqa was an enemy of Allah's Prophet
and in the last part of it, he was a protector. Then Allah's Apostle
alighted by the side of the Al-Harra and sent a message to the Ansar,
and they came to Allah's Prophet and Abu Bakr, and having greeted
them, they said, "Ride (your she-camels) safe and obeyed." Allah's
Apostle and Abu Bakr rode and the Ansar, carrying their arms,
surrounded them. The news that Allah's Prophet had come circulated in
Medina. The people came out and were eagerly looking and saying
"Allah's Prophet has come! Allah's Prophet has come! So the Prophet
went on till he alighted near the house of Abu Aiyub. While the
Prophet was speaking with the family members of Abu Aiyub, 'Abdullah
bin Salam heard the news of his arrival while he himself was picking
the dates for his family from his family garden. He hurried to the
Prophet carrying the dates which he had collected for his family from
the garden. He listened to Allah's Prophet and then went home.
Then Allah's Prophet
said, "Which is the nearest of the houses of our Kith and kin?" Abu
Aiyub replied, "Mine, O Allah's Prophet! This is my house and this is
my gate." The Prophet said, "Go and prepare a place for our midday
rest." Abu Aiyub said, "Get up (both of you) with Allah's Blessings."
So when Allah's Prophet went into the house, 'Abdullah bin Salaim came
and said "I testify that you (i.e. Muhammad) are Apostle of Allah and
that you have come with the Truth. The Jews know well that I am their
chief and the son of their chief and the most learned amongst them and
the son of the most learned amongst them. So send for them (i.e. Jews)
and ask them about me before they know that I have embraced Islam, for
if they know that they will say about me things which are not
correct." So Allah's Apostle sent for them, and they came and entered.
Allah's Apostle said to them, "O (the group of) Jews! Woe to you: be
afraid of Allah. By Allah except Whom none has the right to be
worshipped, you people know for certain, that I am Apostle of Allah
and that I have come to you with the Truth, so embrace Islam." The
Jews replied, "We do not know this." So they said this to the Prophet
and he repeated it thrice. Then he said, "What sort of a man is
'Abdullah bin Salam amongst you?" They said, "He is our chief and the
son of our chief and the most learned man, and the son of the most
learned amongst us." He said, "What would you think if he should
embrace Islam?" They said, "Allah forbid! He can not embrace Islam."
He said, " What would you think if he should embrace Islam?" They
said, "Allah forbid! He can not embrace Islam." He said, "What would
you think if he should embrace Islam?" They said, "Allah forbid! He
can not embrace Islam." He said, "O Ibn Salaim! Come out to them." He
came out and said, "O (the group of) Jews! 8e afraid of Allah except
Whom none has the right to be worshipped. You know for certain that he
is Apostle of Allah and that he has brought a True Religion!' They
said, "You tell a lie." On that Allah's Apostle turned them out.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 251:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
Umar bin Al-Khattab fixed
a grant of 4000 (Dirhams) for every Early Emigrant (i.e. Muhajir) and
fixed a grant of 3500 (Dirhams) only for Ibn 'Umar. Somebody said to
'Umar, "Ibn 'Umar is also one of the Early Emigrants; why do you give
him less than four-thousand?" 'Umar replied, "His parents took him
with them when they migrated, so he was not like the one who had
migrated by himself.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 252:
Narrated Khabbab:
We migrated with Allah's
Apostle (See Hadith No. 253 below).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 253:
Narrated Khabbab:
We migrated with Allah's
Apostle seeking Allah's Countenance, so our rewards became due and
sure with Allah. Some of us passed away without eating anything of
their rewards in this world. One of these was Mus'ab bin 'Umar who was
martyred on the day of the battle of Uhud. We did not find anything to
shroud his body with except a striped cloak. When we covered his head
with it, his feet remained uncovered, and when we covered his feet
with it, his head remained uncovered. So Allah's Apostle ordered us to
cover his head with it and put some Idhkhir (i.e. a kind of grass)
over his feet. And there are some amongst us whose fruits have ripened
and they are collecting them (i.e. they have received their rewards in
this world).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 254:
Narrated Abu Burda Bin
Abi Musa Al-Ashari:
'Abdullah bin 'Umar said
to me, "Do you know what my father said to your father once?" I said,
"No." He said, "My father said to your father, 'O Abu Musa, will it
please you that we will be rewarded for our conversion to Islam with
Allah's Apostle and our migration with him, and our Jihad with him and
all our good deeds which we did, with him, and that all the deeds we
did after his death will be disregarded whether good or bad?' Your
father (i.e. Abu Musa) said, 'No, by Allah, we took part in Jihad
after Allah's Apostle , prayed and did plenty of good deeds, and many
people have embraced Islam at our hands, and no doubt, we expect
rewards from Allah for these good deeds.' On that my father (i.e.
'Umar) said, 'As for myself, By Him in Whose Hand 'Umar's soul is, I
wish that the deeds done by us at the time of the Prophet remain
rewardable while whatsoever we did after the death of the Prophet be
enough to save us from Punishment in that the good deeds compensate
for the bad ones.' " On that I said (to Ibn 'Umar), "By Allah, your
father was better than my father!"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 255:
Narrated Abu 'Uthman:
I heard that Ibn 'Umar
used to become angry if someone mentioned that he had migrated before
his father ('Umar), and he used to say, " 'Umar and I came to Allah's
Apostle and found him having his midday rest, so we returned home.
Then 'Umar sent me again (to the Prophet ) and said, 'Go and see
whether he is awake.' I went to him and entered his place and gave him
the pledge of allegiance. Then I went back to 'Umar and informed him
that the Prophet was awake. So we both went, running slowly, and when
'Umar entered his place, he gave him the pledge of allegiance and
thereafter I too gave him the pledge of allegiance,"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 256:
Narrated Al-Bara:
Abu Bakr bought a
(camel's) saddle from 'Azib, and I carried it for him. 'Azib (i.e. my
father) asked Abu Bakr regarding the journey of the migration of
Allah's Apostle. Abu Bakr said, "Close observers were appointed by our
enemies to watch us. So we went out at night and travelled throughout
the night and the following day till it was noon, then we perceived a
rock and went towards it, and there was some shade under it. I spread
a cloak I had with me for Allah's Apostle and then the Prophet layed
on it. I went out to guard him and all of a sudden I saw a shepherd
coming with his sheep looking for the same, the shade of the rock as
we did, I asked him, 'O boy, to whom do you belong?' He replied, 'I
belong to so-and-so.' I asked him, 'Is there some milk in your sheep?'
He replied in the affirmative. I asked him, 'Will you milk?' He
replied in the affirmative. Then he got hold of one of his sheep. I
said to him, 'Remove the dust from its udder.' Then he milked a little
milk. I had a water-skin with me which was tied with a piece of cloth.
I had prepared the water-skin for Allah's Apostle . So I poured some
water over the milk (container) till its bottom became cold. Then I
brought the milk to the Prophet and said, 'Drink, O Allah's Apostle.'
Allah's Apostle drank till I became pleased. Then we departed and the
pursuers were following us." Al-Bara added: I then went with Abu Bakr
into his home (carrying that saddle) and there I saw his daughter
'Aisha Lying in a bed because of heavy fever and I saw her father Abu
Bakr kissing her cheek and saying, "How are you, little daughter?"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 257:
Narrated Anas:
(the servant of the
Prophet) When the Prophet arrived (at Medina), there was not a single
companion of the Prophet who had grey and black hair except Abu Bakr,
and he dyed his hair with Henna' and Katam (i.e. plants used for dying
hair). Through another group of narrators, Anas bin Malik said,. "When
the Prophet arrived at Medina, the eldest amongst his companions was
Abu Bakr. He dyed his hair with Hinna and Katam till it became of dark
red color.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 258:
Narrate Aisha:
Abu Bakr married a woman
from the tribe of Bani Kalb, called Um Bakr. When Abu Bakr migrated to
Medina, he divorced her and she was married by her cousin, the poet
who said the following poem lamenting the infidels of Quraish:
"What is there kept in
the well, The well of Badr, (The owners of) the trays of Roasted camel
humps? What is there kept in the well, The well of Badr, (The owners
of) lady singers And friends of the honorable companions; who used to
drink (wine) together, Um Bakr greets us With the greeting of peace,
But can I find peace After my people have gone? The Apostle tells us
that We shall live again, But what sort of life will owls and skulls
live?:
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 259:
Narrated Abu Bakr:
I was with the Prophet in
the Cave. When I raised my head, I saw the feet of the people. I said,
"O Allah's Apostle! If some of them should look down, they will see
us." The Prophet said, "O Abu Bakr, be quiet! (For we are) two and
Allah is the Third of us."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 260:
Narrated Abu Said:
Once a bedouin came to
the Prophet and asked him about the migration. The Prophet said,
"Mercy of Allah be on you! The migration is a quite difficult matter.
Have you got some camels?" He replied in the affirmative. Then the
Prophet said, "Do you give their Zakat?" He replied in the
affirmative. The Prophet said, "Do you let others benefit by their
milk gratis?" He replied in the affirmative. Then the Prophet asked,
"Do you milk them on their watering days and give their milk to the
poor and needy?" He replied in the affirmative. The Prophet, said, "Go
on doing like this from beyond the seas, and there is no doubt that
Allah will not overlook any of your good deeds."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 261:
Narrated Al-Bara:
The first people who came
to us (in Medina) were Mus'ab bin 'Umar and Ibn Um Maktum. Then came
to us 'Ammar bin Yasir and Bilal.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 262:
Narrated Al-Bara bin
Azib:
The first people who came
to us (in Medina) were Mus'ab bin 'Umar and Ibn Um Maktum who were
teaching Qur'an to the people. Then their came Bilal. Sad and 'Ammar
bin Yasir. After that 'Umar bin Al-Khattab came along with twenty
other companions of the Prophet. Later on the Prophet himself (to
Medina) and I had never seen the people of Medina so joyful as they
were on the arrival of Allah's Apostle, for even the slave girls were
saying, "Allah's Apostle has arrived!" And before his arrival I had
read the Sura starting with:-- "Glorify the Name of your Lord, the
Most High" (87.1) together with other Suras of Al-Mufassal.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 263:
Narrated 'Aisha:
When Allah's Apostle came
to Medina, Abu Bakr and Bilal got fever, and I went to both of them
and said, "O my father, how do you feel? O Bilal, how do you feel?"
Whenever Abu Bakr's fever got worse, he would say, "Every man will
meet his death once in one morning while he will be among his family,
for death is really nearer to him than his leather shoe laces (to his
feet)." And whenever fever deserted Bilal, he would say aloud, "Would
that I know whether I shall spend a night in the valley (of Mecca)
with Idhkhir and Jalil (i.e. kinds of grass) around me, and whether I
shall drink one day the water of Mijannah, and whether I shall see
once again the hills of Shamah and Tafil?" Then I went to Allah's
Apostle and told him of that. He said, "O Allah, make us love Medina
as much as or more than we used to love Mecca, O Allah, make it
healthy and bless its Sa' and Mud (i.e. measures), and take away its
fever to Al-Juhfa."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 264:
Narrated 'Ubaidullah bin
Ad bin Khiyair:
I went to Uthman. After
reciting Tashah-hud, he said,. "Then after no doubt, Allah sent
Muhammad with the Truth, and I was amongst those who responded to the
Call of Allah and His Prophet and believed in the message of Muhammad.
Then took part in the two migrations. I became the son-in-law of
Allah's Apostle and gave the pledge of allegiance to him By Allah, I
never disobeyed him, nor did I deceive him till Allah took him unto
Him."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 265:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
During the last Hajj led
by 'Umar, 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf returned to his family at Mina and
met me there. 'AbdurRahman said (to 'Umar), "O chief of the believers!
The season of Hajj is the season when there comes the scum of the
people (besides the good amongst them), so I recommend that you should
wait till you go back to Medina, for it is the place of Migration and
Sunna (i.e. the Prophet's tradition), and there you will be able to
refer the matter to the religious scholars and the nobles and the
people of wise opinions." 'Umar said, "I will speak of it in Medina on
my very first sermon I will deliver there."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 266:
Narrated 'Um al-'Ala:
An Ansari woman who gave
the pledge of allegiance to the Prophet that the Ansar drew lots
concerning the dwelling of the Emigrants. 'Uthman bin Maz'un was
decided to dwell with them (i.e. Um al-'Ala's family), 'Uthman fell
ill and I nursed him till he died, and we covered him with his
clothes. Then the Prophet came to us and I (addressing the dead body)
said, "O Abu As-Sa'ib, may Allah's Mercy be on you! I bear witness
that Allah has honored you." On that the Prophet said, "How do you
know that Allah has honored him?" I replied, "I do not know. May my
father and my mother be sacrificed for you, O Allah's Apostle! But who
else is worthy of it (if not 'Uthman)?" He said, "As to him, by Allah,
death has overtaken him, and I hope the best for him. By Allah, though
I am the Apostle of Allah, yet I do not know what Allah will do to
me," By Allah, I will never assert the piety of anyone after him. That
made me sad, and when I slept I saw in a dream a flowing stream for
'Uthman bin Maz'un. I went to Allah's Apostle and told him of it. He
remarked, "That symbolizes his (good) deeds."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 267:
Narrated 'Aisha:
The day of Bu'ath was a
day (i.e. battle) which Allah caused to take place just before the
mission of His Apostle so that when Allah's Apostle came to Medina,
they (the tribes) had divided (into hostile groups) and their nobles
had been killed; and all that facilitated their conversion to Islam.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 268:
Narrated Aisha:
That once Abu Bakr came
to her on the day of 'Id-ul-Fitr or 'Id ul Adha while the Prophet was
with her and there were two girl singers with her, singing songs of
the Ansar about the day of Buath. Abu Bakr said twice. "Musical
instrument of Satan!" But the Prophet said, "Leave them Abu Bakr, for
every nation has an 'Id (i.e. festival) and this day is our 'Id."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 269:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
When Allah's Apostle
arrived at Medina, he alighted at the upper part of Medina among the
people called Bani 'Amr bin 'Auf and he stayed with them for fourteen
nights. Then he sent for the chiefs of Bani An-Najjar, and they came,
carrying their swords. As if I am just now looking at Allah's Apostle
on his she-camel with Abu Bakr riding behind him (on the same camel)
and the chiefs of Bani An-Najjar around him till he dismounted in the
courtyard of Abu Aiyub's home. The Prophet used to offer the prayer
wherever the prayer was due, and he would pray even in sheepfolds.
Then he ordered that the mosque be built. He sent for the chiefs of
Banu An-Najjar, and when they came, he said, "O Banu An-Najjar!
Suggest to me the price of this garden of yours." They replied "No! By
Allah, we do not demand its price except from Allah." In that garden
there were the (following) things that I will tell you: Graves of
pagans, unleveled land with holes and pits etc., and date-palm trees.
Allah's Apostle ordered that the graves of the pagans be dug up and,
the unleveled land be leveled and the date-palm trees be cut down. The
trunks of the trees were arranged so as to form the wall facing the
Qibla. The Stone pillars were built at the sides of its gate. The
companions of the Prophet were carrying the stones and reciting some
lyrics, and Allah's Apostle . . was with them and they were saying, "O
Allah! There is no good Excel the good of the Hereafter, so bestow
victory on the Ansar and the Emigrants. "
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 270:
Narrated 'Abdur-Rahman
bin Humaid Az-Zuhri:
I heard 'Umar bin
'Abdul-Aziz asking As-Sa'ib, the nephew of An-Nimr. "What have you
heard about residing in Mecca?" The other said, "I heard Al-Ala bin
Al-Hadrami saying, Allah's Apostle said: An Emigrant is allowed to
stay in Mecca for three days after departing from Mina (i.e. after
performing all the ceremonies of Hajj)"
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 271:
Narrated Sahl bin Sad:
The Prophet's companions
did not take as a starting date for the Muslim calendar, the day, the
Prophet had been sent as an Apostle or the day of his death, but the
day of his arrival at Medina.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 272:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Originally, two Rakat
were prescribed in every prayer. When the Prophet migrated (to Medina)
four Rakat were enjoined, while the journey prayer remained
unchanged(i.e. two Rakat).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 273:
Narrated Sad bin Malik:
In the year of
Hajjat-ul-Wada' the Prophet visited me when I fell ill and was about
to die because of that illness. I said, "O Allah's Apostle! I am very
ill as you see, and I am a rich man and have no heir except my only
daughter. Shall I give 2/3 of my property in charity?" He said, "No."
I said, "Shall I then give one half of it in charity?" He said, "O
Sad! Give 1/3 (in charity) and even 1/3 is too much. No doubt, it is
better to leave your children rich than to leave them poor, reduced to
begging from others. And Allah will reward you for whatever you spend
with the intention of gaining Allah's Pleasure even if it were a
mouthful of food you put into your wives mouth." I said, "O Allah's
Apostle! Am I to be left behind (in Mecca) after my companions have
gone?" He said, "If you should be left behind, you will be upgraded
and elevated for every deed you will do with a desire to achieve
Allah's Pleasure. I hope that you will live long so that some people
will benefit by you while others will be harmed. O Allah! Please
fulfill the migration of my companions and do not make them turn back
on their heels. But (we feel sorry for) the unlucky Sad bin Khaulah."
Allah's Apostle lamented his death in Mecca.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 274:
Narrated Anas:
When 'Abdur-Rahman bin
Auf came to Medina and the Prophet established the bond of brotherhood
between him and Sad bin Ar-Rabi-al-Ansari, Saud suggested that
'Abdur-Rahman should accept half of his property and family. 'Abdur
Rahman said, "May Allah bless you in your family and property; guide
me to the market." So 'Abdur-Rahman (while doing business in the
market) made some profit of some condensed dry yoghurt and butter.
After a few days the Prophet saw him wearing clothes stained with
yellow perfume. The Prophet asked, "What is this, O 'Abdur-Rahman?" He
said, "O Allah's Apostle! I have married an Ansar' woman." The Prophet
asked, "What have you given her as Mahr?" He (i.e. 'Abdur-Rahman)
said, "A piece of gold, about the weight of a date stone." Then the
Prophet said, Give a banquet, even though of a sheep."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 275:
Narrated Anas:
When the news of the
arrival of the Prophet at Medina reached 'Abdullah bin Salam, he went
to him to ask him about certain things, He said, "I am going to ask
you about three things which only a Prophet can answer: What is the
first sign of The Hour? What is the first food which the people of
Paradise will eat? Why does a child attract the similarity to his
father or to his mother?" The Prophet replied, "Gabriel has just now
informed me of that." Ibn Salam said, "He (i.e. Gabriel) is the enemy
of the Jews amongst the angels. The Prophet said, "As for the first
sign of The Hour, it will be a fire that will collect the people from
the East to the West. As for the first meal which the people of
Paradise will eat, it will be the caudate (extra) lobe of the
fish-liver. As for the child, if the man's discharge proceeds the
woman's discharge, the child attracts the similarity to the man, and
if the woman's discharge proceeds the man's, then the child attracts
the similarity to the woman."
On this, 'Abdullah bin
Salam said, "I testify that None has the right to be worshipped except
Allah, and that you are the Apostle of Allah." and added, "O Allah's
Apostle! Jews invent such lies as make one astonished, so please ask
them about me before they know about my conversion to I slam . " The
Jews came, and the Prophet said, "What kind of man is 'Abdullah bin
Salam among you?" They replied, "The best of us and the son of the
best of us and the most superior among us, and the son of the most
superior among us. "The Prophet said, "What would you think if
'Abdullah bin Salam should embrace Islam?" They said, "May Allah
protect him from that." The Prophet repeated his question and they
gave the same answer. Then 'Abdullah came out to them and said, "I
testify that None has the right to be worshipped except Allah and that
Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah!" On this, the Jews said, "He is the
most wicked among us and the son of the most wicked among us." So they
degraded him. On this, he (i.e. 'Abdullah bin Salam) said, "It is this
that I was afraid of, O Allah's Apostle.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 276:
Narrated Abu Al-Minhal
'AbdurRahman bin Mut'im:
A partner of mine sold
some Dirhams on credit in the market. I said, "Glorified be Allah! Is
this legal?" He replied, "Glorified be Allah! By Allah, when I sold
them in the market, nobody objected to it." Then I asked Al-Bara' bin
'Azib (about it) he said, "We used to make such a transaction when the
Prophet came to Medina. So he said, 'There is no harm in it if it is
done from hand to hand, but it is not allowed on credit.' Go to Zaid
bin Al- Arqam and ask him about it for he was the greatest trader of
all of us." So I asked Zaid bin Al-Arqam., and he said the same (as
Al-Bara) did."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 277:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Had
only ten Jews (amongst their chiefs) believe me, all the Jews would
definitely have believed me."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 278:
Narrated Abu Musa:
When the Prophet arrived
at Medina, he noticed that some people among the Jews used to respect
Ashura' (i.e. 10th of Muharram) and fast on it. The Prophet then said,
"We have more right to observe fast on this day." and ordered that
fasting should be observed on it.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 279:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
When the Prophet arrived
at Medina he found that the Jews observed fast on the day of 'Ashura'.
They were asked the reason for the fast. They replied, "This is the
day when Allah caused Moses and the children of Israel to have victory
over Pharaoh, so we fast on this day as a sign of glorifying it."
Allah's Apostle said, "We are closer to Moses than you." Then he
ordered that fasting on this day should be observed.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 280:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin
Abbas:
The Prophet used to keep
his hair falling loose while the pagans used to part their hair, and
the People of the Scriptures used to keep their hair falling loose,
and the Prophet liked to follow the People of the Scriptures in
matters about which he had not been instructed differently, but later
on the Prophet started parting his hair.
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 281:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
They, the people of the
Scriptures, divided this Scripture into parts, believing in some
portions of it and disbelieving the others. (See 15:91)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 282:
Narrated Salman
Al-Farisi:
That he was sold (as a
slave) by one master to another for more than ten times (i.e between
13 and 19).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 283:
Narrated Salman:
I am from Ram-Hurmuz
(i.e. a Persian town).
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 284:
Narrated Salman:
The interval between
Jesus and Muhammad was six hundred years.
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