20. Shāmīs
Musnad Ahmad 16812Sahih
أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى مَيْمُونَةَ بِنْتِ الْحَارِثِ، وَهِيَ خَالَتُهُ، فَقَدَّمَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ لَحْمَ ضَبٍّ جَاءَتْ بِهِ أُمُّ حُفَيْدٍ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ مِنْ نَجْدٍ، وَكَانَتْ تَحْتَ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي جَعْفَرٍ، وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَأْكُلُ شَيْئًا حَتَّى يَعْلَمَ مَا هُوَ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُ النِّسْوَةِ: أَلَا تُخْبِرْنَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَا يَأْكُلُ ؟ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ أَنَّهُ لَحْمُ ضَبٍّ فَتَرَكَهُ، فَقَالَ خَالِدٌ: سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَحَرَامٌ هُوَ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنَّهُ طَعَامٌ لَيْسَ فِي قَوْمِي، فَأَجِدُنِي أَعَافُهُ، قَالَ خَالِدٌ: فَاجْتَرَرْتُهُ إِلَيَّ، فَأَكَلْتُهُ وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْظُرُ.
✧ He entered with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ upon Maymunah bt. al-Harith, who was his maternal aunt. She offered the Messenger of Allah ﷺ the meat of a dabb lizard brought by Umm Hufayd bt. al-Harith from Najd; she was married to a man of the Banu Ja'far. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not eat anything until he knew what it was. One of the women said: 'Will you not tell the Messenger of Allah ﷺ what he is eating?' So they told him that it was dabb meat, and he left it. Khalid said: 'I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Is it forbidden?' He said: 'No, but it is a food not found among my people, and I find myself averse to it.' Khalid said: 'So I pulled it toward me and ate it while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was watching.'
Musnad Ahmad 16813Sahih
أَنَّهُمَا دَخَلَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بَيْتَ مَيْمُونَةَ، فَأُتِيَ بِضَبٍّ مَحْنُوذٍ فَأَهْوَى إِلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُ النِّسْوَةِ: أَخْبِرُوا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَا يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ. فَقَالُوا: هُوَ ضَبٌّ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَرَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَدَهُ، فَقُلْتُ: أَحَرَامٌ هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِأَرْضِ قَوْمِي، فَأَجِدُنِي أَعَافُهُ، قَالَ خَالِدٌ: فَاجْتَرَرْتُهُ فَأَكَلْتُهُ، وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْظُرُ
✧ They entered with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ the house of Maymunah. A roasted dabb was brought, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached for it. One of the women said: 'Tell the Messenger of Allah ﷺ what he is about to eat.' They said: 'It is a dabb, O Messenger of Allah.' So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ withdrew his hand. I said: 'Is it forbidden, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'No, but it was not in the land of my people, and I find myself averse to it.' Khalid said: 'So I pulled it and ate it while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was watching.'
Musnad Ahmad 16814No grade recorded
كَانَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ عَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ كَلَامٌ، فَأَغْلَظْتُ لَهُ فِي الْقَوْلِ، فَانْطَلَقَ عَمَّارٌ يَشْكُونِي إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَجَاءَ خَالِدٌ وَهُوَ يَشْكُوهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، قَالَ: فَجَعَلَ يُغْلِظُ لَهُ وَلَا يَزِيدُهُ إِلَّا غِلْظَةً، وَالنَّبِيُّ ﷺ سَاكِتٌ لَا يَتَكَلَّمُ، فَبَكَى عَمَّارٌ، وَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَلَا تَرَاهُ ؟ فَرَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ رَأْسَهُ وَقَالَ: مَنْ عَادَى عَمَّارًا عَادَاهُ اللهُ، وَمَنْ أَبْغَضَ عَمَّارًا أَبْغَضَهُ اللهُ. قَالَ خَالِدٌ: فَخَرَجْتُ فَمَا كَانَ شَيْءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ رِضَا عَمَّارٍ، فَلَقِيتُهُ فَرَضِيَ
✧ There was an exchange between me and Ammar b. Yasir, and I spoke harshly to him. Ammar went to complain about me to the Prophet ﷺ. Khalid came while he was complaining about him to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: 'He kept speaking harshly to him, and the Prophet ﷺ remained silent, not speaking. Ammar wept and said: O Messenger of Allah, do you not see him? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his head and said: Whoever opposes Ammar, Allah opposes him; whoever hates Ammar, Allah hates him.' Khalid said: 'So I left, and nothing was dearer to me than Ammar's approval. I met him, and he was pleased.'
Musnad Ahmad 16815Sahih
أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى مَيْمُونَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، وَهِيَ خَالَتُهُ وَخَالَةُ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فَوَجَدَ عِنْدَهَا ضَبًّا مَحْنُوذًا، قَدِمَتْ بِهِ أُخْتُهَا حُفَيْدَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ مِنْ نَجْدٍ، فَقَدَّمَتِ الضَّبَّ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، وَكَانَ قَلَّمَا يُقَدِّمُ يَدَهُ لِطَعَامٍ حَتَّى يُحَدَّثَ بِهِ وَيُسَمَّى لَهُ، فَأَهْوَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَدَهُ إِلَى الضَّبِّ، فَقَالَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنَ النِّسْوَةِ الْحُضُورِ: أَخْبِرْنَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَا قَدَّمْتُنَّ إِلَيْهِ. قُلْنَ: هُوَ الضَّبُّ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ. فَرَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَدَهُ عَنِ الضَّبِّ. فَقَالَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ: أَحَرَامٌ الضَّبُّ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِأَرْضِ قَوْمِي، فَأَجِدُنِي أَعَافُهُ. قَالَ خَالِدٌ: فَاجْتَرَرْتُهُ فَأَكَلْتُهُ، وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيَّ، فَلَمْ يَنْهَانِي
✧ He entered with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ upon Maymunah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, who was his maternal aunt and the maternal aunt of Ibn Abbas. He found a roasted dabb with her, brought by her sister Hufaydah bt. al-Harith from Najd. She offered the dabb to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he rarely extended his hand to food until he was told about it and it was named to him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached his hand toward the dabb, and one of the women present said: 'Tell the Messenger of Allah ﷺ what you have offered him.' They said: 'It is a dabb, O Messenger of Allah.' So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ withdrew his hand from the dabb. Khalid b. al-Walid asked: 'Is dabb forbidden, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'No, but it was not in the land of my people, and I find myself averse to it.' Khalid said: 'So I pulled it and ate it while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was looking at me, and he did not forbid me.'
غَزَوْنَا مَعَ خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ الصَّائِفَةَ فَقَرِمَ أَصْحَابُنَا إِلَى اللَّحْمِ، فَسَأَلُونِي رَمَكَةً لِي، فَدَفَعْتُهَا إِلَيْهِمْ فَتَحَبَّلُوهَا، ثُمَّ قُلْتُ: مَكَانَكُمْ حَتَّى آتِيَ خَالِدًا فَأَسْأَلَهُ. قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَسَأَلْتُهُ، فَقَالَ: غَزَوْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ غَزْوَةَ خَيْبَرَ، فَأَسْرَعَ النَّاسُ فِي حَظَائِرِ يَهُودَ، فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُنَادِيَ: الصَّلَاةَ جَامِعَةً، وَلَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ إِلَّا مُسْلِمٌ. ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ أَسْرَعْتُمْ فِي حَظَائِرِ يَهُودَ، أَلَا لَا تَحِلُّ أَمْوَالُ الْمُعَاهَدِينَ إِلَّا بِحَقِّهَا، وَحَرَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ لُحُومُ الْحُمُرِ الْأَهْلِيَّةِ، وَخَيْلِهَا، وَبِغَالِهَا، وَكُلِّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السَّبُعِ، وَكُلِّ ذِي مِخْلَبٍ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ
✧ We raided with Khalid b. al-Walid in the summer expedition. Our companions craved meat, so they asked me for a mare of mine, and I gave it to them, and they hobbled it. Then I said: Stay where you are until I go to Khalid and ask him. He said: I went to him and asked him, and he said: We raided with the Messenger of God ﷺ in the Battle of Khaybar. The people hurried into the enclosures of the Jews, so he ordered me to call out: 'Prayer is to be gathered,' and 'None shall enter Paradise except a Muslim.' Then he said: 'O people, you have hurried into the enclosures of the Jews. Lo, the property of those who are under treaty is not lawful except by its right, and forbidden to you are the flesh of domestic donkeys, their horses, their mules, and every beast of prey with fangs, and every bird with talons.'
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ أَكْلِ لُحُومِ الْخَيْلِ، وَالْبِغَالِ، وَالْحَمِيرِ
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the flesh of horses, mules and donkeys.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3198)
غَزَوْتُ مَعَ خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ الصَّائِفَةَ، فَقَرِمَ أَصْحَابِي إِلَى اللَّحْمِ، فَقَالُوا: أَتَأْذَنُ لَنَا أَنْ نَذْبَحَ رَمَكَةً لَهُ ؟ قَالَ: فَحَبَّلُوهَا، فَقُلْتُ: مَكَانَكُمْ حَتَّى آتِيَ خَالِدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ، فَأَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، فَأَتَيْتُهُ، فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ خَبَرَ أَصْحَابِي، فَقَالَ: غَزَوْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ غَزْوَةَ خَيْبَرَ، فَأَسْرَعَ النَّاسُ فِي حَظَائِرِ يَهُودَ، فَقَالَ: يَا خَالِدُ، نَادِ فِي النَّاسِ: أَنَّ الصَّلَاةَ جَامِعَةً، لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ إِلَّا مُسْلِمٌ. فَفَعَلْتُ، فَقَامَ فِي النَّاسِ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، مَا بَالُكُمْ أَسْرَعْتُمْ فِي حَظَائِرِ يَهُودَ ؟ أَلَا لَا تَحِلُّ أَمْوَالُ الْمُعَاهَدِينَ إِلَّا بِحَقِّهَا، وَحَرَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ حُمُرُ الْأَهْلِيَّةِ، وَالْإِنْسِيَّةِ، وَخَيْلُهَا، وَبِغَالُهَا، وَكُلُّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السَّبُعِ، وَكُلُّ ذِي مِخْلَبٍ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ
✧ I raided with Khalid b. al-Walid in the summer expedition. My companions craved meat, so they said: Will you permit us to slaughter a mare of yours? He said: So they hobbled it. I said: Stay where you are until I go to Khalid b. al-Walid and ask him about that. I went to him and told him about my companions. He said: I raided with the Messenger of God ﷺ in the Battle of Khaybar. The people hurried into the enclosures of the Jews. He said: 'O Khalid, call out among the people: Prayer is to be gathered; none shall enter Paradise except a Muslim.' So I did, and he stood among the people and said: 'O people, what is the matter with you that you hurried into the enclosures of the Jews? Lo, the property of those who are under treaty is not lawful except by its right, and forbidden to you are domestic donkeys, the tame ones, their horses, their mules, and every beast of prey with fangs, and every bird with talons.'
تَنَاوَلَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ رَجُلًا بِشَيْءٍ، فَنَهَاهُ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ فَقَالَ: أَغْضَبْتَ الْأَمِيرَ، فَأَتَاهُ فَقَالَ: إِنِّي لَمْ أُرِدْ أَنْ أُغْضِبَكَ، وَلَكِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا لِلنَّاسِ فِي الدُّنْيَا
✧ Abu Ubaydah censured a man for something, and Khalid b. al-Walid forbade him, saying: You have angered the commander. Then he went to him and said: I did not intend to anger you, but I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: The most severe punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be for the one who was most severe in punishing people in this world.
كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حِينَ أَلْقَى الشَّامَ بَوَانِيَهُ: بَثْنِيَّةً وَعَسَلًا - وَشَكَّ عَفَّانُ مَرَّةً، قَالَ: حِينَ أَلْقَى الشَّامَ كَذَا وَكَذَا - فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَسِيرَ إِلَى الْهِنْدِ، وَالْهِنْدُ فِي أَنْفُسِنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ الْبَصْرَةُ، قَالَ: وَأَنَا لِذَلِكَ كَارِهٌ، قَالَ: فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ لِي: يَا أَبَا سُلَيْمَانَ اتَّقِ اللهَ، فَإِنَّ الْفِتَنَ قَدْ ظَهَرَتْ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ: وَابْنُ الْخَطَّابِ حَيٌّ ! إِنَّمَا تَكُونُ بَعْدَهُ، وَالنَّاسُ بِذِي بِلِيَّانَ، أَوْ بِذِي بِلِّيَانَ بِمَكَانِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَيَنْظُرُ الرَّجُلُ، فَيَتَفَكَّرُ: هَلْ يَجِدُ مَكَانًا لَمْ يَنْزِلْ بِهِ مِثْلُ مَا نَزَلَ بِمَكَانِهِ الَّذِي هُوَ فِيهِ مِنَ الْفِتْنَةِ وَالشَّرِّ فَلَا يَجِدُهُ. قَالَ: وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ الَّتِي ذَكَرَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّامُ الْهَرْجِ، فَنَعُوذُ بِاللهِ أَنْ تُدْرِكَنَا وَإِيَّاكُمُ [تِلْكَ] الْأَيَّامُ
✧ The Commander of the Believers wrote to me when Syria had settled down: with wheat and honey—and Affan hesitated once, saying: when Syria had settled such and such—and he ordered me to march to India, and India in our minds that day was Basra. He said: And I was averse to that. He said: A man stood up and said to me: O Abu Sulayman, fear God, for the tribulations have appeared. He said: He said: And Ibn al-Khattab is alive! They will only occur after him, while the people are at Dhi Biliyyan, or Dhi Billiyan, in such and such a place. A man will look and reflect: will he find a place that has not been struck by the like of what struck his own place of tribulation and evil, and he will not find it. He said: And those are the days that the Messenger of God ﷺ mentioned before the Hour—the days of al-harj. We seek refuge with God that those days should overtake us and you.
Musnad Ahmad 16821No grade recorded
كَانَ بَيْنَ عَمَّارٍ وَبَيْنَ خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ كَلَامٌ، فَشَكَاهُ عَمَّارٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ [اللهِ] ﷺ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّهُ مَنْ يُعَادِ عَمَّارًا يُعَادِهِ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَمَنْ يُبْغِضْهُ يُبْغِضْهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَمَنْ يَسُبَّهُ يَسُبَّهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ There was some words between Ammar and Khalid b. al-Walid, so Ammar complained about him to the Messenger of God ﷺ. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: Whoever treats Ammar as an enemy, God, Mighty and Majestic, treats him as an enemy; whoever hates him, God, Mighty and Majestic, hates him; and whoever reviles him, God, Mighty and Majestic, reviles him.
Musnad Ahmad 16822Sahih
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ لَمْ يُخَمِّسِ السَّلَبَ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ did not take a fifth of the spoils.
Musnad Ahmad 16823Sahih
اسْتَعْمَلَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْجَرَّاحِ عَلَى الشَّامِ وَعَزَلَ خَالِدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ: فَقَالَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بُعِثَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَمِينُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: أَمِينُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ، قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: خَالِدٌ سَيْفٌ مِنْ سُيُوفِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَنِعْمَ فَتَى الْعَشِيرَةِ
✧ Umar b. al-Khattab appointed Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah over Syria and dismissed Khalid b. al-Walid. He said: Khalid b. al-Walid said: The trustworthy one of this ummah has been sent over you. I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: The trustworthy one of this ummah is Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah. Abu Ubaydah said: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: Khalid is a sword from among the swords of God, Mighty and Majestic, and an excellent young man of the clan.
Musnad Ahmad 16824Hasan
كُنَّا مَعَهُ فِي سَفَرٍ فَأَسْرَعَ السَّيْرَ حِينَ انْصَرَفَ، وَكَانَ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ لِقِلَّةِ الزَّادِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ قَائِلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَدِ انْقَطَعَ النَّاسُ وَرَاءَكَ فَحَبَسَ وَحَبَسَ النَّاسُ مَعَهُ حَتَّى تَكَامَلُوا إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: هَلْ لَكُمْ أَنْ نَهْجَعَ هَجْعَةً ؟ - أَوْ قَالَ لَهُ قَائِلٌ - فَنَزَلَ وَنَزَلُوا، فَقَالَ: مَنْ يَكْلَؤُنَا اللَّيْلَةَ ؟ فَقُلْتُ: أَنَا، جَعَلَنِي اللهُ فِدَاكَ. فَأَعْطَانِي خِطَامَ نَاقَتِهِ، فَقَالَ: هَاكَ لَا تَكُونَنَّ لُكَعَ، قَالَ: فَأَخَذْتُ بِخِطَامِ نَاقَةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَخِطَامِ نَاقَتِي، فَتَنَحَّيْتُ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ فَخَلَّيْتُ سَبِيلَهُمَا يَرْعَيَانِ، فَإِنِّي كَذَاكَ أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمَا حَتَّى أَخَذَنِيَ النَّوْمُ، فَلَمْ أَشْعُرْ بِشَيْءٍ حَتَّى وَجَدْتُ حَرَّ الشَّمْسِ عَلَى وَجْهِي، فَاسْتَيْقَظْتُ، فَنَظَرْتُ يَمِينًا وَشِمَالًا فَإِذَا أَنَا بِالرَّاحِلَتَيْنِ مِنِّي غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ، فَأَخَذْتُ بِخِطَامِ نَاقَةِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَبِخِطَامِ نَاقَتِي، فَأَتَيْتُ أَدْنَى الْقَوْمِ فَأَيْقَظْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: أَصَلَّيْتُمْ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، فَأَيْقَظَ النَّاسُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا، حَتَّى اسْتَيْقَظَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: يَا بِلَالُ، هَلْ فِي الْمِيضَأَةِ مَاءٌ - يَعْنِي الْإِدَاوَةَ - قَالَ: نَعَمْ، جَعَلَنِي اللهُ فِدَاكَ. فَأَتَاهُ بِوَضُوءٍ فَتَوَضَّأَ، لَمْ يَلُتَّ مِنْهُ التُّرَابَ، فَأَمَرَ بِلَالًا فَأَذَّنَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَصَلَّى الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الصُّبْحِ، وَهُوَ غَيْرُ عَجِلٍ، ثُمَّ أَمَرَهُ، فَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ فَصَلَّى وَهُوَ غَيْرُ عَجِلٍ. فَقَالَ لَهُ قَائِلٌ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ أَفَرَّطْنَا. قَالَ: لَا، قَبَضَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَرْوَاحَنَا، وَقَدْ رَدَّهَا إِلَيْنَا، وَقَدْ صَلَّيْنَا
✧ We were with him on a journey, and he hastened the pace when he turned back, and he used to do that because of the scarcity of provisions. A speaker said to him: O Messenger of God, the people have fallen behind you. So he halted, and the people halted with him until they had all gathered to him. Then he said to them: Would you like us to have a short sleep?—or a speaker said to him—so he dismounted and they dismounted. Then he said: Who will guard us tonight? I said: I, may God make me your ransom. He gave me the nose-rein of his she-camel and said: Here, take it; be not negligent. He said: So I took the nose-rein of the she-camel of the Messenger of God ﷺ and the nose-rein of my own she-camel, and I withdrew not far away and let them loose to graze. While I was watching them, sleep overtook me, and I was unaware of anything until I felt the heat of the sun on my face. I woke up and looked right and left, and there were the two riding camels not far from me. I took the nose-rein of the Prophet's she-camel ﷺ and the nose-rein of my own she-camel, and I went to the nearest of the people and woke him and said to him: Have you prayed? He said: No. Then the people woke one another until the Prophet ﷺ woke up. He said: O Bilal, is there water in the mi’dah—meaning the leather water bag? He said: Yes, may God make me your ransom. So he brought him water for ablution, and he performed ablution but did not rub off the dust from it with water. Then he ordered Bilal, and he gave the call to prayer. Then the Prophet ﷺ stood and prayed the two rak’ahs before dawn without hurrying. Then he ordered him, and he gave the iqamah, and he prayed without hurrying. Then a speaker said to him: O Prophet of God, have we been negligent? He said: No, God, Mighty and Majestic, took away our souls and has returned them to us, and we have prayed.
Musnad Ahmad 16825Sahih
سَتُصَالِحُكُمُ الرُّومُ صُلْحًا آمِنًا، ثُمَّ تَغْزُونَ وَهُمْ عَدُوًّا فَتُنْصَرُونَ وَتَسْلَمُونَ وَتَغْنَمُونَ، ثُمَّ تَنْصَرِفُونَ حَتَّى تَنْزِلُوا بِمَرْجٍ ذِي تُلُولٍ، فَيَرْفَعُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّصْرَانِيَّةِ صَلِيبًا، فَيَقُولُ: غَلَبَ الصَّلِيبُ، فَيَغْضَبُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَيَقُومُ إِلَيْهِ فَيَدُقُّهُ، فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَغْدِرُ الرُّومُ، وَيَجْمَعُونَ لِلْمَلْحَمَةِ
✧ The Byzantines will make peace with you with a secure treaty, then you will fight an enemy alongside them, and you will be victorious, safe, and gain spoils. Then you will return until you camp at a meadow with hills. A man from among the Christians will raise a cross and say: The cross has prevailed. Then a man from among the Muslims will become angry and go to him and break it. At that point the Byzantines will betray, and they will gather for the great battle.
Musnad Ahmad 16826No grade recorded
تُصَالِحُونَ الرُّومَ صُلْحًا آمِنًا، وَتَغْزُونَ أَنْتُمْ وَهُمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ، فَتَسْلَمُونَ وَتَغْنَمُونَ، ثُمَّ تَنْزِلُونَ بِمَرْجٍ ذِي تُلُولٍ، فَيَقُومُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الرُّومِ فَيَرْفَعُ الصَّلِيبَ وَيَقُولُ: أَلَا غَلَبَ الصَّلِيبُ، فَيَقُومُ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَيَقْتُلُهُ، فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ تَغْدِرُ الرُّومُ، وَتَكُونُ الْمَلَاحِمُ، فَيَجْمَعُونَ إِلَيْكُمْ فَيَأْتُونَكُمْ فِي ثَمَانِينَ غَايَةً، مَعَ كُلِّ غَايَةٍ عَشْرَةُ آلَافٍ
✧ You will make peace with the Byzantines with a secure treaty, and you and they will fight an enemy behind them. You will be safe and gain spoils. Then you will camp at a meadow with hills. A man from among the Byzantines will stand and raise the cross and say: Lo, the cross has prevailed. Then a man from among the Muslims will go to him and kill him. At that point the Byzantines will betray, and the great battles will occur. They will gather against you and come to you in eighty banners, with each banner ten thousand.
Musnad Ahmad 16827No grade recorded
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ كَانَ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ فِيحِمْيَرَ فَنَزَعَهُ اللهُ ﷻ مِنْهُمْ فَجَعَلَهُ فِي قُرَيْشٍ وَسَ يَ عُ ودُ إِ لَ يْ هِ مْ وَكَذَا كَانَ فِي كِتَابِ أَبِي مُقَطَّعًا وَحَيْثُ حَدَّثَنَا بِهِ تَكَلَّمَ عَلَى الِاسْتِوَاءِ حَدِيثُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ said: This matter was in Himyar, but God, Exalted is He, took it away from them and placed it in Quraysh, and it will return to them. And thus it was in the book of Abu Muqatta’an, and when he narrated it to us he spoke about it in full. The hadith of Muawiyah b. Abi Sufyan.
Musnad Ahmad 16828No grade recorded
دَخَلْنَا عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ فَنَادَى الْمُنَادِي بِالصَّلَاةِ، فَقَالَ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. فَقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ - قَالَ أَبُو عَامِرٍ: أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ - قَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللهِ. قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ - قَالَ أَبُو عَامِرٍ: أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللهِ - قَالَ يَحْيَى: فَحَدَّثَنَا رَجُلٌ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا قَالَ: حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ. قَالَ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ. قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: هَكَذَا سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكُمْ ﷺ يَقُولُ
✧ We entered upon Muawiyah, and the caller gave the call to prayer, saying: God is greatest, God is greatest. Muawiyah said: God is greatest, God is greatest. Then he said: I bear witness that there is no god but God. Muawiyah said: And I bear witness—Abu Amir said: that there is no god but God—then he said: I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God. Muawiyah said: And I bear witness—Abu Amir said: that Muhammad is the Messenger of God—Yahya said: Then a man told us that when he said: Come to prayer, he said: There is no might nor power except with God. Muawiyah said: Thus I heard your Prophet ﷺ say.
Musnad Ahmad 16829Sahih
قَدِمَ مُعَاوِيَةُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَخَطَبَنَا، وَأَخْرَجَ كُبَّةً مِنْ شَعَرٍ، فَقَالَ: مَا كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ أَحَدًا يَفْعَلُهُ إِلَّا الْيَهُودَ، إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَلَغَهُ، فَسَمَّاهُ الزُّورَ أَوِ الزِّيرَ
✧ Mu'awiyah came to Madinah and addressed us. He took out a lock of hair and said, "I never thought anyone would do this except the Jews. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard of it, and he called it 'al-zūr' or 'al-zīr' (falsehood or embellishment)."
Musnad Ahmad 16830Sahih
دَخَلَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ وَابْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: فَقَامَ ابْنُ عَامِرٍ وَلَمْ يَقُمِ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ الشَّيْخُ أَوْزَنَهُمَا، قَالَ: فَقَالَ: مَهْ. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَمْثُلَ لَهُ عِبَادُ اللهِ قِيَامًا، فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ
✧ Mu'awiyah entered upon 'Abdullah b. al-Zubayr and Ibn 'Amir. Ibn 'Amir stood up, but Ibn al-Zubayr did not. The elder of the two was more dignified. He [Mu'awiyah] said, "Stop. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Whoever likes men to stand up for him, let him take his seat in the Fire.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16831Sahih
إِنِّي لَعِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ إِذْ أَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنُهُ، فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ كَمَا قَالَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ حَتَّى إِذَا قَالَ: حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ. قَالَ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ. فَلَمَّا قَالَ: حَيَّ عَلَى الْفَلَاحِ. قَالَ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ. وَقَالَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مَا قَالَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ ذَلِكَ
✧ I was with Mu'awiyah when his muezzin gave the call to prayer. Mu'awiyah repeated what the muezzin said until he said, 'Hayya 'ala al-salah' (come to prayer). He then said, 'La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah' (there is no might and no power except with Allah). When [the muezzin] said, 'Hayya 'ala al-falah' (come to success), he said, 'La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.' After that, he repeated what the muezzin said. Then he said, 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say that.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16832Sahih
أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ دَخَلَ عَلَى عَائِشَةَ فَقَالَتْ لَهُ: أَمَا خِفْتَ أَنْ أُقْعِدَ لَكَ رَجُلًا فَيَقْتُلَكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: مَا كُنْتِ لِتَفْعَلِي، وَأَنَا فِي بَيْتِ أَمَانٍ، وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ يَعْنِي: الْإِيمَانُ قَيْدُ الْفَتْكَ كَيْفَ أَنَا فِي الَّذِي بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكِ وَفِي حَوَائِجِكِ. قَالَتْ: صَالِحٌ. قَالَ: فَدَعِينَا وَإِيَّاهُمْ حَتَّى نَلْقَى رَبَّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ Mu'awiyah entered upon 'A'ishah. She said to him, "Were you not afraid that I would seat a man for you to kill you?" He said, "You would not do that, for I am in a house of security, and I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: 'Faith is the restraint of assassination.' How am I regarding what is between me and you and your needs?" She said, "Good." He said, "Then leave us and them until we meet our Lord, Mighty and Majestic."
Musnad Ahmad 16833Sahih
كُنْتُ فِي مَلَإٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللهَ، أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ. قَالَ: أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللهَ، أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ إِلَّا مُقَطَّعًا ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ. قَالَ: أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللهَ، أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ رُكُوبِ النُّمُورِ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ. قَالَ: أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللهَ، أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنِ الشُّرْبِ فِي آنِيَةِ الْفِضَّةِ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ. قَالَ: أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللهَ، أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ جَمْعٍ بَيْنَ حَجٍّ وَعُمْرَةٍ ؟ قَالُوا: أَمَّا هَذَا فَلَا. قَالَ: أَمَا إِنَّهَا مَعَهُنَّ
✧ I was among a group of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with Mu'awiyah. Mu'awiyah said, "I adjure you by Allah: do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade wearing silk?" They said, "O Allah, yes." He said, "And I bear witness." He said, "I adjure you by Allah: do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade wearing gold except as small pieces?" They said, "O Allah, yes." He said, "And I bear witness." He said, "I adjure you by Allah: do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade riding on leopard skins?" They said, "O Allah, yes." He said, "And I bear witness." He said, "I adjure you by Allah: do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade drinking from silver vessels?" They said, "O Allah, yes." He said, "And I bear witness." He said, "I adjure you by Allah: do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade combining Hajj and 'Umrah?" They said, "As for this, no." He said, "Indeed, it is with them."
Musnad Ahmad 16834Sahih
إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا فَقَّهَهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ If Allah wills good for a servant, He grants him understanding in the religion.
Musnad Ahmad 16835Sahih
خَرَجَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى حَلْقَةٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَقَالَ: مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: جَلَسْنَا نَذْكُرُ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ. قَالَ: آللهِ مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ إِلَّا ذَاكَ ؟ قَالُوا: آللهِ مَا أَجْلَسَنَا إِلَّا ذَاكَ. قَالَ: أَمَا إِنِّي لَمْ أَسْتَحْلِفْكُمْ تُهْمَةً لَكُمْ، وَمَا كَانَ أَحَدٌ بِمَنْزِلَتِي مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَقَلَّ عَنْهُ حَدِيثًا مِنِّي، وَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ خَرَجَ عَلَى حَلْقَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ: مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: جَلَسْنَا نَذْكُرُ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَنَحْمَدُهُ عَلَى مَا هَدَانَا لِلْإِسْلَامِ، وَمَنَّ عَلَيْنَا بِكَ. قَالَ: آللهِ مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ إِلَّا ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالُوا: اللهِ مَا أَجْلَسَنَا إِلَّا ذَلِكَ. قَالَ: أَمَا إِنِّي لَمْ أَسْتَحْلِفْكُمْ تُهْمَةً لَكُمْ، وَإِنَّهُ أَتَانِي جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، فَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُبَاهِي بِكُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ
✧ Mu'awiyah came out to a circle in the mosque and said, "What has made you sit?" They said, "We sat to remember Allah, Mighty and Majestic." He said, "By Allah, nothing made you sit except that?" They said, "By Allah, nothing made us sit except that." He said, "Indeed, I did not make you swear out of suspicion of you. No one of my standing with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ narrated less from him than I. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to a circle of his Companions and said, 'What has made you sit?' They said, 'We sat to remember Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and to praise Him for guiding us to Islam and for bestowing His favor upon us through you.' He said, 'By Allah, nothing made you sit except that?' They said, 'By Allah, nothing made us sit except that.' He said, 'Indeed, I did not make you swear out of suspicion of you. Jibril ﷺ came to me and informed me that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, boasts of you to the angels.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16836Sahih
أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ بْنِ حَرْبٍ أَخَذَ مِنْ أَطْرَافِ - يَعْنِي - شَعَرَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي أَيَّامِ الْعَشْرِ، بِمِشْقَصٍ مَعِي، وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ، وَالنَّاسُ يُنْكِرُونَ ذَلِكَ
✧ Mu'awiyah b. Abi Sufyan b. Harb cut from the ends — meaning — of the Prophet's ﷺ hair during the ten days [of Hajj], with a blade I had, while he was in ihram; and the people disapproved of that.
Musnad Ahmad 16837No grade recorded
كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ قَلَّمَا يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ شَيْئًا وَيَقُولُ: هَؤُلَاءِ الْكَلِمَاتِ، قَلَّمَا يَدَعُهُنَّ أَوْ يُحَدِّثُ بِهِنَّ فِي الْجُمَعِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ: مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَإِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ حُلْوٌ خَضِرٌ فَمَنْ يَأْخُذْهُ بِحَقِّهِ يُبَارَكْ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالتَّمَادُحَ فَإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ
✧ Mu'awiyah rarely narrated anything from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, but he would say these words: he rarely omitted them or narrated them at Friday gatherings, from the Prophet ﷺ: "Whoever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding in the religion. This wealth is sweet and green: whoever takes it rightfully is blessed in it. Beware of excessive praise, for it is slaughter."
Musnad Ahmad 16838Sahih
لَا تُبَادِرُونِي بِرُكُوعٍ وَلَا بِسُجُودٍ، فَإِنَّهُ مَهْمَا أَسْبِقْكُمْ بِهِ إِذَا رَكَعْتُ تُدْرِكُونِي إِذَا رَفَعْتُ، وَمَهْمَا أَسْبِقْكُمْ بِهِ إِذَا سَجَدْتُ تُدْرِكُونِي إِذَا رَفَعْتُ، إِنِّي قَدْ بَدُنْتُ
✧ Do not rush ahead of me in bowing or prostrating. Whatever I precede you in, if I bow, you catch up with me when I rise; and whatever I precede you in, if I prostrate, you catch up with me when I rise. I have grown heavy.
Musnad Ahmad 16839Sahih
قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ، وَلَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ الْجَدُّ، مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ سَمِعْتُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْكَلِمَاتِ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى هَذَا الْمِنْبَرِ
✧ Mu'awiyah said on the pulpit: "O Allah, there is none to withhold what You give, and none to give what You withhold, and the fortune of the fortunate avails nothing against You. Whoever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding in the religion. I heard these words from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on this pulpit."
Musnad Ahmad 16840No grade recorded
لَا تَرْكَبُوا الْخَزَّ وَلَا النِّمَارَ
✧ Do not ride on silk saddles or leopard skins.
Musnad Ahmad 16841Sahih
كَانَ يَتَشَهَّدُ مَعَ الْمُؤَذِّنِينَ
✧ He used to pronounce the shahādah along with the mu’adhdhins.
Musnad Ahmad 16842Sahih
إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ When Allah, Mighty and Majestic, wills good for a servant, He grants him understanding in religion.
Musnad Ahmad 16843Sahih
قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ: إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ أَحْدَثْتُمْ زِيَّ سُوءٍ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الزُّورِ، وَقَالَ عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ: الزَّوْرِ. قَالَ: وَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ بِعَصًا عَلَى رَأْسِهَا خِرْقَةٌ فَقَالَ: أَلَا وَهَذَا الزُّورُ
Should I narrate to you the evil make-up. Allah's Apostle ﷺ forbade cheating. It was during that time that a person came with a staff and there was a cloth on its head, whereupon Mu, awiya said: Behold, that is cheating. Qatada said: This implies how women artificially increase their hair with the help of rags. (Using translation from Muslim 2127d)
Musnad Ahmad 16844Sahih
نَهَى عَنْ رُكُوبِ النِّمَارِ، وَعَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ إِلَّا مُقَطَّعًا
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade to ride on panther skins and to wear gold except a little. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Abu Qilabah did not meet Mu'awiyah. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 4239)
Musnad Ahmad 16845Sahih
أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ دَخَلَ بَيْتًا فِيهِ ابْنُ عَامِرٍ وَابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، فَقَامَ ابْنُ عَامِرٍ وَجَلَسَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، فَقَالَ [لَهُ] مُعَاوِيَةُ: اجْلِسْ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَمْثُلَ لَهُ الْعِبَادُ قِيَامًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ بَيْتًا فِي النَّارِ
✧ Muʿāwiyah entered a house in which Ibn ʿĀmir and Ibn al-Zubayr were present. Ibn ʿĀmir stood up while Ibn al-Zubayr remained seated. Muʿāwiyah said to him: Sit, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever likes men to stand up for him, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Musnad Ahmad 16846Sahih
كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ قَلَّمَا يُحَدِّثُ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ: فَكَانَ قَلَّمَا يَكَادُ أَنْ يَدَعَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ هَؤُلَاءِ الْكَلِمَاتِ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِهِنَّ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَإِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ حُلْوٌ خَضِرٌ، فَمَنْ يَأْخُذْهُ بِحَقِّهِ يُبَارَكْ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالتَّمَادُحَ؛ فَإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ
✧ Muʿāwiyah rarely narrated from the Prophet ﷺ. He said: He would hardly ever omit, on Fridays, relating these words from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, saying: Whomever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding in religion. This wealth is sweet and green; whoever takes it with its due right will be blessed in it. Beware of mutual praise, for it is slaughter.
Musnad Ahmad 16847Sahih
مَنْ شَرِبَ الْخَمْرَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ الرَّابِعَةَ فَاقْتُلُوهُ
✧ Whoever drinks wine, flog him; if he returns, flog him; if he returns, flog him; if he returns a fourth time, kill him.
Musnad Ahmad 16848Sahih
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَمَصُّ لِسَانَهُ، أَوْ قَالَ: شَفَتَهُ. - يَعْنِي الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ صَلَوَاتُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ - وَإِنَّهُ لَنْ يُعَذَّبَ لِسَانٌ أَوْ شَفَتَانِ مَصَّهُمَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
✧ I saw the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, licking his tongue or his lips, meaning Hasan ibn Ali, may Allah's ﷺ. And indeed, no tongue or lips that the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, licked will be punished.
Musnad Ahmad 16849Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ ذَكَرَ حَدِيثًا رَوَاهُ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لَمْ أَسْمَعْهُ رَوَى عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ حَدِيثًا غَيْرَهُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ: مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَلَا تَزَالُ عِصَابَةٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يُقَاتِلُونَ عَلَى الْحَقِّ ظَاهِرِينَ عَلَى مَنْ نَاوَأَهُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ I heard Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān mention a ḥadīth he narrated from the Prophet ﷺ, and I did not hear him narrate any other ḥadīth from the Prophet ﷺ: The Prophet ﷺ said: Whomever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding in religion. A group of Muslims will continue fighting for the truth, prevailing over those who oppose them until the Day of Resurrection.
Musnad Ahmad 16850Sahih
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأَعْوَادِ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ، وَلَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ الْجَدُّ، مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ الْخَيْرَ يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say on these wooden planks: O Allah, none can withhold what You give, and none can give what You withhold, and no possessor of riches can benefit from You his riches. Whomever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding in religion.
Musnad Ahmad 16851Sahih
خَطَبَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَوْ مِنْبَرِ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَأَخْرَجَ كُبَّةً مِنْ شَعَرٍ، قَالَ: مَا كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ أَحَدًا يَفْعَلُ هَذَا غَيْرَ الْيَهُودِ، إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سَمَّاهُ الزُّورَ
✧ Muʿāwiyah delivered a sermon on the pulpit of the Prophet ﷺ or the pulpit of Madinah. He took out a lock of hair and said: I did not think anyone would do this except the Jews. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called it falsehood.
Musnad Ahmad 16852Sahih
كَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَ مُعَاوِيَةَ - وَهُوَ عِنْدَهُ فِي وَفْدٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ - أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّهُ سَيَكُونُ مَلِكٌ مِنْ قَحْطَانَ، فَغَضِبَ مُعَاوِيَةُ، فَقَامَ، فَأَثْنَى عَلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِمَا هُوَ أَهْلُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ رِجَالًا مِنْكُمْ يُحَدِّثُونَ أَحَادِيثَ لَيْسَتْ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ، وَلَا تُؤْثَرُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، أُولَئِكَ جُهَّالُكُمْ، فَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْأَمَانِيَّ الَّتِي تُضِلُّ أَهْلَهَا، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ لَا يُنَازِعُهُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا أَكَبَّهُ اللهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ - مَا أَقَامُوا الدِّينَ
✧ Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim narrated that it reached Muʿāwiyah—while he was with him in a delegation from Quraysh—that ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ narrated that there would be a king from Qaḥṭān. Muʿāwiyah became angry, stood up, praised Allah, Mighty and Majestic, as He deserves, then said: To proceed: it has reached me that men among you narrate ḥadīths that are not in the Book of Allah and are not transmitted from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Those are your ignorant ones. Beware of false hopes that mislead their people. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: This affair is in Quraysh; no one disputes them in it except that Allah throws him on his face—as long as they uphold the religion.
Musnad Ahmad 16853Hasan
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَقُولُ عَلَى هَذَا الْمِنْبَرِ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بَلَاءٌ وَفِتْنَةٌ، وَإِنَّمَا مَثَلُ عَمَلِ أَحَدِكُمْ كَمَثَلِ الْوِعَاءِ إِذَا طَابَ أَعْلَاهُ طَابَ أَسْفَلُهُ، وَإِذَا خَبُثَ أَعْلَاهُ خَبُثَ أَسْفَلُهُ
✧ I heard Muʿāwiyah say on this pulpit: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: What remains of the world is trial and tribulation. The example of each one’s deeds is like a vessel: if its top is good, its bottom is good; and if its top is bad, its bottom is bad.
Musnad Ahmad 16854Sahih
أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ لَهُمْ وُضُوءَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنَّهُ مَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ بِغَرْفَةٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ، حَتَّى يَقْطُرَ الْمَاءُ مِنْ رَأْسِهِ، أَوْ كَادَ يَقْطُرُ، وَأَنَّهُ أَرَاهُمْ وُضُوءَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَسْحَ رَأْسِهِ وَضَعَ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى مُقَدَّمِ رَأْسِهِ ثُمَّ مَرَّ بِهِمَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ الْقَفَا، ثُمَّ رَدَّهُمَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ الْمَكَانَ الَّذِي بَدَأَ مِنْهُ
✧ He mentioned to them the ablution of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and that he wiped his head with a single handful of water until water dripped from his head, or nearly dripped. He showed them the ablution of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: when he reached the wiping of his head, he placed his palms on the front of his head, then passed them until he reached the back of the neck, then returned them until he reached the place where he had begun.
Musnad Ahmad 16855Sahih
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ يَزِيدَ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي مَالِكٍ وَأَبَا الْأَزْهَرِ يُحَدِّثَانِ عَنْ وُضُوءِ مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: يُرِيهِمْ وُضُوءَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَتَوَضَّأَ ثَلَاثًا، ثَلَاثًا، وَغَسَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ بِغَيْرِ عَدَدٍ
✧ He heard Yazīd—meaning Ibn Abī Mālik—and Abū al-Azhar narrating about Muʿāwiyah’s ablution: he showed them the ablution of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, performing each part three times, three times, and washed his feet without counting.
Musnad Ahmad 16856Hasan
أَنَّ الْعَبَّاسَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنْكَحَ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ الْحَكَمِ ابْنَتَهُ، وَأَنْكَحَهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ ابْنَتَهُ، وَقَدْ كَانَا جَعَلَا صَدَاقًا، فَكَتَبَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَهُوَ خَلِيفَةٌ إِلَى مَرْوَانَ يَأْمُرُهُ بِالتَّفْرِيقِ بَيْنَهُمَا، وَقَالَ فِي كِتَابِهِ: هَذَا الشِّغَارُ الَّذِي نَهَى عَنْهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
✧ Al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās gave his daughter in marriage to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Ḥakam, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān gave him his daughter in marriage, and they had both stipulated dowers. Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān, who was then caliph, wrote to Marwān ordering him to separate them, saying in his letter: 'This is the shighār which the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade.'
Musnad Ahmad 16857Hasan
لَمَّا قَدِمَ عَلَيْنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ حَاجًّا قَدِمْنَا مَعَهُ مَكَّةَ، قَالَ: فَصَلَّى بِنَا الظُّهْرَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ إِلَى دَارِ النَّدْوَةِ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ عُثْمَانُ حِينَ أَتَمَّ الصَّلَاةَ إِذَا قَدِمَ مَكَّةَ صَلَّى بِهَا الظُّهْرَ وَالْعَصْرَ وَالْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ أَرْبَعًا أَرْبَعًا، فَإِذَا خَرَجَ إِلَى مِنًى وَعَرَفَاتٍ قَصَرَ الصَّلَاةَ، فَإِذَا فَرَغَ مِنَ الْحَجِّ، وَأَقَامَ بِمِنًى أَتَمَّ الصَّلَاةَ حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ، فَلَمَّا صَلَّى بِنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ الظُّهْرَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، نَهَضَ إِلَيْهِ مَرْوَانُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ وَعَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ فَقَالَا لَهُ: مَا عَابَ أَحَدٌ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ بِأَقْبَحِ مَا عِبْتَهُ بِهِ. فَقَالَ لَهُمَا: وَمَا ذَاكَ ؟ قَالَ: فَقَالَا لَهُ: أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ أَتَمَّ الصَّلَاةَ بِمَكَّةَ ؟ قَالَ: فَقَالَ لَهُمَا: وَيْحَكُمَا، وَهَلْ كَانَ غَيْرُ مَا صَنَعْتُ ؟ قَدْ صَلَّيْتُهُمَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، وَمَعَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرَ ؓ، قَالَا: فَإِنَّ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ قَدْ كَانَ أَتَمَّهَا، وَإِنَّ خِلَافَكَ إِيَّاهُ لَهُ عَيْبٌ. قَالَ: فَخَرَجَ مُعَاوِيَةُ إِلَى الْعَصْرِ فَصَلَّاهَا بِنَا أَرْبَعًا
✧ When Muʿāwiyah came to us as a pilgrim, we entered Makkah with him. He said: He led us in the noon prayer with two rakʿahs, then departed to Dār al-Nadwah. He said: When ʿUthmān completed the prayer—when he came to Makkah, he prayed the noon, afternoon, and late evening prayers there as four rakʿahs each; then when he went out to Minā and ʿArafāt, he shortened the prayer; then when he finished the pilgrimage and stayed at Minā, he completed the prayer until he left Makkah. When Muʿāwiyah led us in the noon prayer with two rakʿahs, Marwān b. al-Ḥakam and ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān rose to him and said: 'No one has criticized your cousin with anything uglier than what you have criticized him with.' He said to them: 'And what is that?' He said: They said: 'Do you not know that he completed the prayer in Makkah?' He said: He said to them: 'Woe to you both! Was there anything other than what I did? I prayed them with the Messenger of God ﷺ, and with Abū Bakr and ʿUmar ؓ.' They said: 'Your cousin used to complete it, and your differing from him is a fault.' He said: Muʿāwiyah then went out for the afternoon prayer and led us in it with four rakʿahs.
Musnad Ahmad 16858Accepted
قَدِمَ مُعَاوِيَةُ وَابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ، فَطَافَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فَاسْتَلَمَ الْأَرْكَانَ كُلَّهَا، فَقَالَ لَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ: إِنَّمَا اسْتَلَمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الرُّكْنَيْنِ الْيَمَانِيَيْنِ، قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: لَيْسَ مِنْ أَرْكَانِهِ شَيْءٌ مَهْجُورٌ
✧ Muʿāwiyah and Ibn ʿAbbās arrived. Ibn ʿAbbās circumambulated and touched all the corners. Muʿāwiyah said to him: 'The Messenger of God ﷺ only touched the two Yemeni corners.' Ibn ʿAbbās said: 'None of its corners is to be neglected.'
Musnad Ahmad 16859Sahih
إِذَا شَرِبُوا الْخَمْرَ فَاجْلِدُوهُمْ، ثُمَّ إِذَا شَرِبُوا فَاجْلِدُوهُمْ، ثُمَّ إِذَا شَرِبُوا فَاجْلِدُوهُمْ، ثُمَّ إِذَا شَرِبُوهَا الرَّابِعَةَ فَاقْتُلُوهُمْ
✧ When they drink wine, flog them; then if they drink, flog them; then if they drink, flog them; then if they drink it a fourth time, kill them.
Musnad Ahmad 16860Sahih
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأَعْوَادِ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ، مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say on this pulpit: 'O God, there is no withholder of what You give, and no giver of what You withhold. Whoever God intends good for, He grants him understanding in religion.'
Musnad Ahmad 16861Sahih
إِنَّ الْمُؤَذِّنِينَ أَطْوَلُ النَّاسِ أَعْنَاقًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ The muezzins will have the longest necks of all people on the Day of Resurrection.
Musnad Ahmad 16862Sahih
كُنْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ بْنِ سَهْلٍ وَهُوَ مُسْتَقْبِلُ الْمُؤَذِّنِ، وَكَبَّرَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ اثْنَتَيْنِ، فَكَبَّرَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ، وَشَهِدَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ اثْنَتَيْنِ، فَشَهِدَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ، وَشَهِدَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللهِ اثْنَتَيْنِ، وَشَهِدَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَ: هَكَذَا
✧ I was beside Abū Umāmah b. Sahl while he was facing the muezzin. The muezzin said the takbīr twice, and Abū Umāmah said the takbīr twice. He testified that there is no god but God twice, and Abū Umāmah testified twice. The muezzin testified that Muḥammad is the Messenger of God twice, and Abū Umāmah testified twice. Then he turned to me and said: 'Like this.'
Musnad Ahmad 16863Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَصَّرَ مِنْ شَعَرِهِ بِمِشْقَصٍ، فَقُلْنَا لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: مَا بَلَغَنَا هَذَا إِلَّا عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ. فَقَالَ: مَا كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مُتَّهَمًا
✧ He informed him that he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had trimmed his hair with a pair of scissors. So we asked Ibn Abbas, "We only heard this from Muawiyah." He said, "Muawiyah was never accused of doing anything against the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."
Musnad Ahmad 16864No grade recorded
أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ لِنَفَرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ جُلُودِ النُّمُورِ أَنْ يُرْكَبَ عَلَيْهَا ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنْ لِبَاسِ الذَّهَبِ إِلَّا مُقَطَّعًا ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنِ الشُّرْبِ فِي آنِيَةِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ نَهَى عَنِ الْمُتْعَةِ ؟ يَعْنِي مُتْعَةَ الْحَجِّ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ لَا.
✧ Muʿāwiyah said to a group of the Prophet's Companions ﷺ: 'Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade riding on leopard skins?' They said: 'By God, yes.' He said: 'And do you know that he forbade wearing gold except in small pieces?' They said: 'By God, yes.' He said: 'And do you know that he forbade drinking from vessels of gold and silver?' They said: 'By God, yes.' He said: 'And do you know that he forbade mutʿah—meaning the mutʿah of Hajj?' They said: 'By God, no.'
Musnad Ahmad 16865Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى مُعَاوِيَةَ يَخْطُبُ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَفِي يَدِهِ قُصَّةٌ مِنْ شَعَرٍ، قَالَ: فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: أَيْنَ عُلَمَاؤُكُمْ يَا أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ ؟ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْهَى عَنْ مِثْلِ هَذِهِ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّمَا عُذِّبَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ حِينَ اتَّخَذَتْ هَذِهِ نِسَاؤُهُمْ
✧ He saw Muʿāwiyah delivering a sermon on the pulpit with a lock of hair in his hand. He said: I heard him say: 'Where are your scholars, O people of Madinah? I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ forbidding the like of this, and he said: The Children of Israel were punished only when their women adopted this.'
Musnad Ahmad 16866Sahih
أَنَّ نَافِعَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ أَرْسَلَهُ إِلَى السَّائِبِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ ابْنِ أُخْتِ نَمِرٍ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ رَآهُ مِنْهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ، فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، صَلَّيْتُ مَعَهُ الْجُمُعَةَ فِي الْمَقْصُورَةِ، فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَ قُمْتُ فِي مَقَامِي فَصَلَّيْتُ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ، فَقَالَ: لَا تَعُدْ لِمَا فَعَلْتَ، إِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الْجُمُعَةَ، فَلَا تَصِلْهَا بِصَلَاةٍ، حَتَّى تَتَكَلَّمَ أَوْ تَخْرُجَ، فَإِنَّ نَبِيَّ اللهِ ﷺ أَمَرَ بِذَلِكَ، لَا تُوصَلُ [صَلَاةٌ] بِصَلَاةٍ حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ أَوْ تَتَكَلَّمَ
I offered the Friday prayer along with him in enclosure. When I uttered the salutation I stood up in my place and prayed. When he went in, he sent me a message saying: Never again do what you have done. When you pray the Friday prayer, you must not join another prayer to it till you have engaged in conversation or gone out, for the Prophet of Allah ﷺ gave the precise command not to join on prayer till you have engaged in conversation or gone out. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1129)
Musnad Ahmad 16867Sahih
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَخْطُبُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ يَقُولُ: يَا أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ، أَيْنَ عُلَمَاؤُكُمْ ؟ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: هَذَا يَوْمُ عَاشُورَاءَ، وَلَمْ يُفْرَضْ عَلَيْنَا صِيَامُهُ: فَمَنْ شَاءَ مِنْكُمْ أَنْ يَصُومَ فَلْيَصُمْ فَإِنِّي صَائِمٌ، فَصَامَ النَّاسُ
✧ He heard Muʿāwiyah delivering a sermon in Madinah, saying: 'O people of Madinah, where are your scholars? I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: This is the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, and its fasting has not been made obligatory upon us. So whoever of you wishes to fast, let him fast, for I am fasting.' So the people fasted.
Musnad Ahmad 16868Sahih
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَوْمَ عَاشُورَاءَ عَامَ حَجَّ، وَهُوَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ
✧ He heard Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ in the year he performed Hajj, while he was on the pulpit.
Musnad Ahmad 16869Sahih
فِي شَارِبِ الْخَمْرِ: إِذَا شَرِبَ الْخَمْرَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، ثُمَّ إِذَا شَرِبَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، ثُمَّ إِذَا شَرِبَ الثَّالِثَةَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، ثُمَّ إِذَا شَرِبَ الرَّابِعَةَ فَاضْرِبُوا عُنُقَهُ
✧ Regarding the wine-drinker: When he drinks wine, flog him; then if he drinks, flog him; then if he drinks a third time, flog him; then if he drinks a fourth time, strike his neck.
Musnad Ahmad 16870Sahih
قَصَّرْتُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِمِشْقَصٍ عَلَى الْمَرْوَةِ، أَوْ رَأَيْتُهُ يُقَصَّرُ عَنْهُ بِمِشْقَصٍ عَلَى الْمَرْوَةِ
✧ I shortened the hair of the Messenger of God ﷺ with a blade on Marwah, or I saw his hair being shortened with a blade on Marwah.
Musnad Ahmad 16871Sahih
أَنَّهُ كَانَ جَالِسًا فِي نَفَرٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ مُعَاوِيَةُ، فَسَأَلَهُمْ عَنْ حَدِيثِهِمْ، فَقَالُوا: كُنَّا فِي حَدِيثٍ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: أَلَا أَزِيدُكُمْ حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ قَالُوا: بَلَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ. قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ أَحَبَّ الْأَنْصَارَ أَحَبَّهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَمَنْ أَبْغَضَ الْأَنْصَارَ أَبْغَضَهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ He was sitting among a group of the Ansar when Muawiyah came out to them and asked them about their discussion. They said, "We were having a discussion of the Ansar." Muawiyah said, "Shall I not add to you a hadith I heard from the Messenger of God ﷺ?" They said, "Yes, O Commander of the Faithful." He said, "I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: 'Whoever loves the Ansar, God, the Mighty and Majestic, loves him; and whoever hates the Ansar, God, the Mighty and Majestic, hates him.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16872Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ بِمَكَّةَ يَقُولُ: نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْحَرِيرِ
✧ I heard Muawiyah on the pulpit in Makkah saying: The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade wearing gold and silk.
Musnad Ahmad 16873Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَقُولُ وَهُوَ يَخْطُبُ: تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَتُوُفِّيَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَتُوُفِّيَ عُمَرُ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ. قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: وَأَنَا الْيَوْمَ فِي ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ
✧ I heard Muawiyah b. Abi Sufyan saying while he was delivering a sermon: The Messenger of God ﷺ died at the age of sixty-three, Abu Bakr died at the age of sixty-three, and Umar died at the age of sixty-three. Muawiyah said: And I am today at sixty-three.
Musnad Ahmad 16874Sahih
إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ said, "When Allah intends good for His servant, He grants him understanding of the religion."
Musnad Ahmad 16875Sahih
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ وَجَدْتُ هَذَا الْكَلَامَ فِي آخِرِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فِي كِتَابِ أَبِي بِخَطِّ يَدِهِ مُتَّصِلًا بِهِ وَقَدْ خَطَّ عَلَيْهِ فَلَا أَدْرِي أَقَرَأَهُ عَلَيَّ أَمْ لَا وَإِنَّ السَّامِعَ الْمُطِيعَ لَا حُجَّةَ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنَّ السَّامِعَ الْعَاصِي لَا حُجَّةَ لَهُ
✧ Abdullah narrated to us: I found this statement at the end of this hadith in my father's book in his own handwriting connected to it, and he had struck a line over it, so I do not know whether he read it to me or not: Indeed, the obedient listener has no argument against him, and the disobedient listener has no argument for him.
Musnad Ahmad 16876Sahih
مَنْ مَاتَ بِغَيْرِ إِمَامٍ مَاتَ مِيتَةً جَاهِلِيَّةً
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever dies without an Imam, dies the death of the time of ignorance."
Musnad Ahmad 16877Sahih
أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَامَ حَجَّ جَمَعَ نَفَرًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي الْكَعْبَةِ فَقَالَ: أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ فَأَخْبِرُونِي، أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللهَ، هَلْ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ. ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللهِ، أَنَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ. قَالَ: أَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللهِ، أَنَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُبْسِ صُفَفِ النُّمُورِ ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ
✧ In the year he performed Hajj, Muawiyah gathered a group of the Companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ in the Kaaba and said: I ask you about things, so inform me. I adjure you by God: Did the Messenger of God ﷺ forbid wearing silk? They said: Yes. He said: And I bear witness. Then he said: I adjure you by God: Did the Messenger of God ﷺ forbid wearing gold? They said: Yes. He said: And I bear witness. Then he said: I adjure you by God: Did the Messenger of God ﷺ forbid wearing tiger skins? They said: Yes. He said: And I bear witness.
Musnad Ahmad 16878Sahih
مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ Whomever God intends good for, He grants him understanding of the religion.
إِنَّ الْعَيْنَيْنِ وِكَاءُ السَّهِ، فَإِذَا نَامَتِ الْعَيْنَانِ اسْتَطْلَقَ الْوِكَاءُ
✧ Indeed, the eyes are the tie of the anus, so when the eyes sleep, the tie is loosened.
Musnad Ahmad 16880Sahih
إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا فَقَّهَهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ When God, the Mighty and Majestic, intends good for a servant, He grants him understanding of the religion.
Musnad Ahmad 16881Sahih
لَا تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي عَلَى الْحَقِّ لَا يُبَالُونَ مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ أَوْ خَذَلَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ "I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, 'There will always be a group from my Ummah (nation) that remains steadfast on the truth, unaffected by those who oppose or abandon them, until the command of Allah (God) comes.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16882Sahih
كُنْتُ عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَقَالَ: تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَتُوُفِّيَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَتُوُفِّيَ عُمَرُ ؓ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ
✧ I was with Muawiyah, and he said: The Messenger of God ﷺ died at the age of sixty-three, Abu Bakr ؓ died at the age of sixty-three, and Umar ؓ died at the age of sixty-three.
Musnad Ahmad 16883Hasan
الْعُمْرَى جَائِزَةٌ لِأَهْلِهَا
✧ A life grant is permissible for its recipients.
Musnad Ahmad 16884Sahih
قَالَ لِي مُعَاوِيَةُ: عَلِمْتَ أَنِّي قَصَّرْتُ مِنْ رَأْسِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِمِشْقَصٍ ؟ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: لَا أَعْلَمُ هَذَا إِلَّا حُجَّةً عَلَيْكَ
✧ Muawiyah said to me: Did you know that I shortened the hair of the Messenger of God ﷺ with a blade? I said to him: I do not consider this except as an argument against you.
Musnad Ahmad 16885Sahih
قَصَّرْتُ عَنْ رَأْسِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عِنْدَ الْمَرْوَةِ
✧ I shortened the hair of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at al-Marwah.
Musnad Ahmad 16886Sahih
رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يُقَصِّرُ بِمِشْقَصٍ
✧ I saw the Prophet ﷺ having his hair shortened with a blade-arrow.
Musnad Ahmad 16887Sahih
قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: أَمَا عَلِمْتَ أَنِّي قَصَّرْتُ مِنْ رَأْسِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِمِشْقَصٍ ؟ فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: لَا
✧ Mu'awiyah said to Ibn 'Abbas: Do you not know that I shortened the hair of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a blade-arrow? Ibn 'Abbas said: No.
Musnad Ahmad 16888Sahih
مَنْ شَرِبَ الْخَمْرَ فَاضْرِبُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاضْرِبُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاضْرِبُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاقْتُلُوهُ
✧ Whoever drinks wine, flog him; if he returns, flog him; if he returns, flog him; if he returns, kill him.
Musnad Ahmad 16889Sahih
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِذَا انْصَرَفَ مِنَ الصَّلَاةِ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ، وَلَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ الْجَدُّ
✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say when he finished the prayer: O Allah, there is no one to withhold what You give, and no one to give what You withhold, and no one's effort benefits him against You.
Musnad Ahmad 16890No grade recorded
مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَمَاتَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ [ ؓ ] وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَمَاتَ عُمَرُ [ ؓ ] وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، [قَالَ: ] وَأَنَا الْيَوْمَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ died when he was sixty-three years old. Abu Bakr ؓ died when he was sixty-three years old. 'Umar ؓ died when he was sixty-three years old. [He said:] And I am today sixty-three years old.
Musnad Ahmad 16891Sahih
سَمِعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَقُولُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ: أَيْنَ عُلَمَاؤُكُمْ يَا أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فِي هَذَا الْيَوْمِ يَوْمِ عَاشُورَاءَ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: مَنْ شَاءَ مِنْكُمْ أَنْ يَصُومَهُ فَلْيَصُمْهُ، وَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْهَى عَنْ مِثْلِ هَذَا. وَأَخْرَجَ قُصَّةً مِنْ شَعَرٍ مِنْ كُمِّهِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّمَا هَلَكَتْ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ حِينَ اتَّخَذَتْهَا نِسَاؤُهُمْ
✧ He heard Mu'awiyah saying in Madinah on the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Where are your scholars, O people of Madinah? I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on this day, the day of 'Ashura', saying: Whoever of you wishes to fast it, let him fast it. And I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbidding the like of this. He brought out a lock of hair from his sleeve and said: The Children of Israel were ruined only when their women adopted such things.
Musnad Ahmad 16892Sahih
لَا تُبَادِرُونِي فِي الرُّكُوعِ وَالسُّجُودِ، فَإِنِّي قَدْ بَدُنْتُ، وَمَهْمَا أَسْبِقْكُمْ بِهِ إِذَا رَكَعْتُ تُدْرِكُونِي إِذَا رَفَعْتُ، وَمَهْمَا أَسْبِقْكُمْ بِهِ إِذَا سَجَدْتُ تُدْرِكُونِي إِذَا رَفَعْتُ
✧ Do not precede me in bowing and prostrating, for I have become heavy. Whatever I may precede you with when I bow, you can catch up with me when I rise; and whatever I may precede you with when I prostrate, you can catch up with me when I rise.
Musnad Ahmad 16893Sahih
لَا تُلْحِفُوا فِي الْمَسْأَلَةِ، فَوَاللهِ لَا يَسْأَلُنِي أَحَدٌ شَيْئًا فَتُخْرِجَ لَهُ مَسْأَلَتُهُ، فَيُبَارَكَ لَهُ فِيهِ
✧ Do not be importunate in asking. By Allah, if anyone asks me for something and his request brings it out, it would not be blessed for him.
Musnad Ahmad 16894Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَخْطُبُ عَلَى هَذَا الْمِنْبَرِ يَقُولُ: تَعْلَمُنَّ أَنَّهُ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَى، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعَ اللهُ، وَلَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْهُ الْجَدُّ، مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ " سَمِعْتُ هَذِهِ الْأَحْرُفَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأَعْوَادِ
✧ I heard Mu'awiyah delivering a sermon on this pulpit, saying: You should know that there is no one to withhold what He gives, and no one to give what Allah withholds, and no one's effort benefits him against Him. Whoever Allah intends good for, He gives him understanding in religion. I heard these words from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on these planks.
Musnad Ahmad 16895Sahih
قَصَّرْتُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِمِشْقَصٍ. أَوْ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُهُ يُقَصَّرُ عَنْهُ بِمِشْقَصٍ عِنْدَ الْمَرْوَةِ
✧ I shortened the hair of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a blade-arrow. Or he said: I saw him having his hair shortened with a blade-arrow at al-Marwah.
Musnad Ahmad 16896Sahih
كُنَّا عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَقَالَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. فَقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. فَقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. فَقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللهِ. فَقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللهِ. فَقَالَ: حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ. فَقَالَ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ. فَقَالَ: حَيَّ عَلَى الْفَلَاحِ. فَقَالَ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ. فَقَالَ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. فَقَالَ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. فَقَالَ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. قَالَ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. قَالَ: هَكَذَا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ، - أَوْ نَبِيُّكُمْ - إِذَا أَذَّنَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ
✧ We were with Mu'awiyah when the muezzin said: Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. Mu'awiyah said: Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. He said: Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah. He said: Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah. He said: Ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasul Allah. He said: Ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasul Allah. He said: Hayya 'ala al-salah. He said: La hawla wa la quwwata illa bi Allah. He said: Hayya 'ala al-falah. He said: La hawla wa la quwwata illa bi Allah. He said: Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. He said: Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. He said: La ilaha illa Allah. He said: La ilaha illa Allah. He said: This is how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say—or your Prophet—when the muezzin called the adhan.
Musnad Ahmad 16897Accepted
حَجَّ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَمُعَاوِيَةُ، فَجَعَلَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يَسْتَلِمُ الْأَرْكَانَ كُلَّهَا، فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: إِنَّمَا اسْتَلَمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ هَذَيْنِ الرُّكْنَيْنِ الْيَمَانِيَيْنِ. فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: لَيْسَ مِنْ أَرْكَانِهِ مَهْجُورٌ
✧ Ibn ʿAbbās and Muʿāwiyah performed Hajj. Ibn ʿAbbās began to touch all the corners, so Muʿāwiyah said, "The Messenger of God ﷺ only touched these two Yemeni corners." Ibn ʿAbbās replied, "None of its corners is to be neglected."
Musnad Ahmad 16898Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَقُولُ إِذَا أَتَاهُ الْمُؤَذِّنُ يُؤْذِنُهُ بِالصَّلَاةِ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ الْمُؤَذِّنِينَ أَطْوَلُ النَّاسِ أَعْنَاقًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ I heard Muʿāwiyah say, when the muezzin came to call him to prayer: "I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: 'The muezzins will have the longest necks of all people on the Day of Resurrection.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16899Sahih
مَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ يُصِيبُ الْمُؤْمِنَ فِي جَسَدِهِ يُؤْذِيهِ إِلَّا كَفَّرَ اللهُ عَنْهُ بِهِ مِنْ سَيِّئَاتِهِ
✧ Whatever afflicts the believer in his body and harms him, God expiates some of his sins through it.
لَعَنَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الَّذِينَ يُشَقِّقُونَ الْكَلَامَ تَشْقِيقَ الشِّعْرِ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ cursed those who split words apart the way poetry is split apart.
Musnad Ahmad 16901Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ إِلَّا مُقَطَّعًا
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade wearing gold except in small pieces.
Musnad Ahmad 16902Sahih
كَانَ يَتَشَهَّدُ مَعَ الْمُؤَذِّنِينَ
✧ He used to recite the tashahhud along with the muezzins.
Musnad Ahmad 16903No grade recorded
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَكَانَ قَلِيلَ الْحَدِيثِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، وَكَانَ قَلَّمَا خَطَبَ إِلَّا ذَكَرَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ حُلْوٌ خَضِرٌ، فَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِحَقِّهِ بَارَكَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَمَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْمَدْحَ، فَإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ
✧ I heard Muʿāwiyah, who narrated little from the Prophet ﷺ—and he seldom gave a sermon without mentioning this hadith—say: "I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: 'This wealth is sweet and green. Whoever takes it with its right, God, Mighty and Majestic, blesses him in it. Whoever God intends good for, He gives him understanding in the religion. Beware of praise, for it is slaughter.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16904Sahih
وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالتَّمَادُحَ فَإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ
✧ Beware of lavishly praising one another, for it is slaughter.
Musnad Ahmad 16905Hasan
الْعُمْرَى جَائِزَةٌ لِأَهْلِهَا
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Marriage is a reward for its people."
Musnad Ahmad 16906Hasan
كُنَّا عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَهُوَ عَلَى سَرِيرِهِ وَقَدْ غَمَّضَ عَيْنَيْهِ، فَتَذَاكَرْنَا الْهِجْرَةَ، وَالْقَائِلُ مِنَّا يَقُولُ: قَدِ انْقَطَعَتْ. وَالْقَائِلُ مِنَّا يَقُولُ: لَمْ تَنْقَطِعْ. فَاسْتَنْبَهَ مُعَاوِيَةُ فَقَالَ: مَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ ؟ فَأَخْبَرْنَاهُ، وَكَانَ قَلِيلَ الرَّدِّ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: تَذَاكَرْنَا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: لَا تَنْقَطِعُ الْهِجْرَةُ حَتَّى تَنْقَطِعَ التَّوْبَةُ، وَلَا تَنْقَطِعُ التَّوْبَةُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا
✧ We were with Muʿāwiyah while he was on his couch and had closed his eyes. We discussed the hijrah; one of us said it had ceased, and another said it had not ceased. Muʿāwiyah woke up and said, "What were you discussing?" We told him, and he—who rarely contradicted the Prophet ﷺ—said, "We discussed this in the presence of the Messenger of God ﷺ, and he said: 'The hijrah will not cease until repentance ceases, and repentance will not cease until the sun rises from its west.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16907Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَكَانَ قَلِيلَ الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: كُلُّ ذَنْبٍ عَسَى اللهُ أَنْ يَغْفِرَهُ، إِلَّا الرَّجُلَ يَمُوتُ كَافِرًا، أَوِ الرَّجُلَ يَقْتُلُ مُؤْمِنًا مُتَعَمِّدًا
✧ I heard Muʿāwiyah—who narrated little from the Messenger of God ﷺ—say: "I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: 'Every sin God may forgive, except a man who dies as an unbeliever, or a man who intentionally kills a believer.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16908Sahih
إِنَّكُمْ لَتُصَلُّونَ صَلَاةً، لَقَدْ صَحِبْنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَمَا رَأَيْنَاهُ يُصَلِّيهِمَا، وَلَقَدْ نَهَى عَنْهُمَا
✧ You indeed pray a prayer that we accompanied the Messenger of God ﷺ and never saw him pray, and he forbade them.
Musnad Ahmad 16909Sahih
أَنَّهُ شَهِدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَعِنْدَهُ جَمْعٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ مُعَاوِيَةُ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ رُكُوبِ جُلُودِ النُّمُورِ ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى أَنْ يُشْرَبَ فِي آنِيَةِ الْفِضَّةِ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ إِلَّا مُقَطَّعًا ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ جَمْعٍ بَيْنَ حَجٍّ وَعُمْرَةٍ ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ لَا. قَالَ: فَوَاللهِ إِنَّهَا لَمَعَهُنَّ
✧ He witnessed Muʿāwiyah while a group of the Prophet's Companions ﷺ were with him. Muʿāwiyah said to them, "Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade riding on leopard skins?" They said, "Yes." He said, "Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade wearing silk?" They said, "O God, yes." He said, "Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade drinking from silver vessels?" They said, "O God, yes." He said, "Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade wearing gold except in small pieces?" They said, "O God, yes." He said, "Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade combining Hajj and ʿUmrah?" They said, "O God, no." He said, "By God, it is included with them."
Musnad Ahmad 16910Sahih
إِيَّاكُمْ وَأَحَادِيثَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَّا حَدِيثًا كَانَ عَلَى عَهْدِ عُمَرَ، وَإِنَّ عُمَرَ ؓ كَانَ أَخَافَ النَّاسَ فِي اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ
✧ "I heard Muawiyah saying, 'Beware of the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah, except for a Hadith from the time of Umar, and indeed Umar feared people for the sake of Allah.' I heard the Messenger of Allah saying, 'Whomsoever Allah wishes good for, He grants understanding of the religion to him.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16911Sahih
إِنَّمَا أَنَا خَازِنٌ، وَإِنَّمَا يُعْطِي اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَمَنْ أَعْطَيْتُهُ عَطَاءً عَنْ طِيبِ نَفْسٍ فَهُوَ أَنْ يُبَارَكَ لِأَحَدِكُمْ، وَمَنْ أَعْطَيْتُهُ عَطَاءً عَنْ شَرَهٍ وَشَرَهِ مَسْأَلَةٍ فَهُوَ كَالْآكِلِ وَلَا يَشْبَعُ
✧ I am only a treasurer, and it is Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who gives. Whoever I give a gift to with a good heart, it is hoped that it will be blessed for one of you. And whoever I give a gift to out of greed and the greed of asking, he is like one who eats but is never satisfied.
Musnad Ahmad 16912Sahih
لَا تَزَالُ أُمَّةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي ظَاهِرِينَ عَلَى الْحَقِّ لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللهِ، وَهُمْ ظَاهِرُونَ عَلَى النَّاسِ
✧ A group from my nation will continue to prevail upon the truth; those who oppose them will not harm them until the command of Allah comes, while they are prevailing over the people.
Musnad Ahmad 16913Sahih
أَنَّ نَافِعَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ أَرْسَلَهُ إِلَى السَّائِبِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ ابْنِ أُخْتِ نَمِرٍ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ رَآهُ مِنْهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ. قَالَ: نَعَمْ، صَلَّيْتُ مَعَهُ الْجُمُعَةَ فِي الْمَقْصُورَةِ، فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَ قُمْتُ فِي مَقَامِي، فَصَلَّيْتُ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ، فَقَالَ: لَا تَعُدْ لِمَا فَعَلْتَ، إِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الْجُمُعَةَ فَلَا تَصِلْهَا بِصَلَاةٍ حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ أَوْ تَكَلَّمَ؛ فَإِنَّ نَبِيَّ اللهِ ﷺ أَمَرَ بِذَلِكَ أَنْ لَا تُوصَلَ صَلَاةٌ بِصَلَاةٍ حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ أَوْ تَكَلَّمَ
I offered the Friday prayer along with him in enclosure. When I uttered the salutation I stood up in my place and prayed. When he went in, he sent me a message saying: Never again do what you have done. When you pray the Friday prayer, you must not join another prayer to it till you have engaged in conversation or gone out, for the Prophet of Allah ﷺ gave the precise command not to join on prayer till you have engaged in conversation or gone out. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1129)
Musnad Ahmad 16914Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى أُنَاسًا يُصَلُّونَ بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّكُمْ لَتُصَلُّونَ صَلَاةً قَدْ صَحِبْنَا النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَمَا رَأَيْنَاهُ يُصَلِّيهَا، وَلَقَدْ نَهَى عَنْهَا
✧ He saw some people praying after ʿAsr, so he said: 'You are praying a prayer that we accompanied the Prophet ﷺ and never saw him pray it, and he indeed forbade it.'
Musnad Ahmad 16915Sahih
مَنْ نَسِيَ شَيْئًا مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ فَلْيَسْجُدْ سَجْدَتَيْنِ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ
✧ Whoever forgets something of his prayer, let him prostrate two prostrations while seated.
Musnad Ahmad 16916Sahih
مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّدًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ
✧ Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Musnad Ahmad 16917Sahih
أَنَّهُ صَلَّى أَمَامَهُمْ، فَقَامَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ وَعَلَيْهِ جُلُوسٌ، فَسَبَّحَ النَّاسُ فَتَمَّ عَلَى قِيَامِهِ، ثُمَّ سَجَدَ بِنَا سَجْدَتَيْنِ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ، بَعْدَ أَنْ أَتَمَّ الصَّلَاةَ، ثُمَّ قَعَدَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ نَسِيَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ شَيْئًا فَلْيَسْجُدْ مِثْلَ هَاتَيْنِ السَّجْدَتَيْنِ
✧ He led them in prayer and stood up in the prayer when he should have sat. The people said 'Subhan Allah,' but he continued his standing. Then he prostrated with us two prostrations while seated, after completing the prayer. Then he sat on the pulpit and said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever forgets something of his prayer, let him prostrate like these two prostrations.'
Musnad Ahmad 16918Sahih
خَرَجَ مُعَاوِيَةُ، فَقَامُوا لَهُ فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَمْثُلَ لَهُ الرِّجَالُ قِيَامًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ
✧ Muʿāwiyah came out and they stood up for him, so he said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever is pleased that men stand up for him, let him take his seat in the Fire.'
Musnad Ahmad 16919Sahih
أَنَّهُ كَانَ جَالِسًا فِي نَفَرٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ مُعَاوِيَةُ فَسَأَلَهُمْ عَنْ حَدِيثِهِمْ، فَقَالُوا: كُنَّا فِي حَدِيثٍ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: أَلَا أَزِيدُكُمْ حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ فَقَالُوا: بَلَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ. فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ أَحَبَّ الْأَنْصَارَ أَحَبَّهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَمَنْ أَبْغَضَ الْأَنْصَارَ أَبْغَضَهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ He was sitting with a group of the Anṣār when Muʿāwiyah came out to them and asked about their conversation. They said: 'We were in a discussion from the discussions of the Anṣār.' Muʿāwiyah said: 'Shall I not add to you a hadith I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?' They said: 'Yes, O Commander of the Believers.' He said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever loves the Anṣār, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, loves him; and whoever hates the Anṣār, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, hates him.'
Musnad Ahmad 16920Sahih
إِنِّي لَفِي مَجْلِسٍ عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فِي نَفَرٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، وَنَحْنُ نَتَحَدَّثُ إِذْ خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ
✧ I was in a gathering with Muʿāwiyah among a group of the Anṣār, and we were conversing when Muʿāwiyah came out to us.
Musnad Ahmad 16921Sahih
إِنَّمَا أَنَا خَازِنٌ، وَإِنَّمَا يُعْطِي اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَمَنْ أَعْطَيْتُهُ عَطَاءً بِطِيبِ نَفْسٍ فَإِنَّهُ يُبَارَكُ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَمَنْ أَعْطَيْتُهُ عَطَاءً بِشَرَهِ نَفْسٍ وَشَرَهِ مَسْأَلَةٍ فَهُوَ كَالَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَلَا يَشْبَعُ
✧ I am only a treasurer, and it is Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who gives. Whoever I give a gift to with a good heart, it will be blessed for him in it. And whoever I give a gift to with greed of the self and greed of asking, he is like one who eats but is never satisfied.
Musnad Ahmad 16922Sahih
إِذَا أَذَّنَ الْمُؤَذِّنُ قَالَ مِثْلَ مَا يَقُولُ
✧ When the muezzin calls the adhan, he says the like of what he says.
Musnad Ahmad 16923Sahih
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَخْطُبُ فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ حُلِيِّ الذَّهَبِ وَلُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ
✧ He heard Muʿāwiyah delivering a sermon in the shade of the Kaʿbah, saying: 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade gold ornaments and wearing silk.'
Musnad Ahmad 16924Sahih
كَانَ إِذَا سَمِعَ الْمُؤَذِّنَ يَقُولُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ. قَالَ مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِ، وَإِذَا قَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ. قَالَ مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِ، وَإِذَا قَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللهِ. قَالَ مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِ
✧ When he heard the muezzin say: Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, he said the like of his words; and when he said: Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah, he said the like of his words; and when he said: Ashhadu anna Muhammadan Rasul Allah, he said the like of his words.
Musnad Ahmad 16925Sahih
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَخْطُبُ يَقُولُ: مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَعُمَرُ [ ؓ ] وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ، وَأَنَا ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ
✧ He heard Muawiyah delivering a sermon saying: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ died at the age of sixty-three, Abu Bakr ؓ at sixty-three, Umar ؓ at sixty-three, and I am sixty-three.
Musnad Ahmad 16926Sahih
إِذَا شَرِبَ الْخَمْرَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاجْلِدُوهُ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَاقْتُلُوهُ
✧ If he drinks wine, flog him; if he returns, flog him; if he returns, flog him; if he returns, kill him.
Musnad Ahmad 16927Sahih
أَيُّمَا امْرَأَةٍ أَدْخَلَتْ فِي شَعَرِهَا مِنْ شَعَرِ غَيْرِهَا، فَإِنَّمَا تُدْخِلُهُ زُورًا
✧ Any woman who inserts into her hair some of another's hair, she only inserts falsehood.
Musnad Ahmad 16928Sahih
النَّاسُ تَبَعٌ لِقُرَيْشٍ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ، خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ إِذَا فَقُهُوا، وَاللهِ لَوْلَا أَنْ تَبْطَرَ قُرَيْشٌ لَأَخْبَرْتُهَا مَا لِخِيَارِهَا عِنْدَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ People are followers of Quraysh in this matter: their best in the Jahiliyyah are their best in Islam if they understand. By Allah, were it not that Quraysh would become insolent, I would tell them what their best have with Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
Musnad Ahmad 16929Sahih
اللَّهُمَّ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ، وَلَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ الْجَدُّ، مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَخَيْرُ نِسْوَةٍ رَكِبْنَ الْإِبِلَ صَالِحُ نِسَاءِ قُرَيْشٍ، أَرْعَاهُ عَلَى زَوْجٍ فِي ذَاتِ يَدِهِ، وَأَحْنَاهُ عَلَى وَلَدٍ فِي صِغَرِهِ
✧ O Allah, there is no withholder of what You give, and no giver of what You withhold, and the effort of the diligent does not benefit him against You. Whomever Allah intends good for, He grants him understanding in the religion. The best women who rode camels are the righteous women of Quraysh: most tender to a husband in what his hand possesses, and most compassionate to a child in its infancy.
Musnad Ahmad 16930Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ بِمَكَّةَ يَقُولُ: نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُبْسِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْحَرِيرِ
✧ I heard Muawiyah on the pulpit in Makkah saying: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade wearing gold and silk.
Musnad Ahmad 16931Sahih
مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَلَنْ تَزَالَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ أُمَّةً قَائِمَةً عَلَى أَمْرِ اللهِ لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللهِ، وَهُمْ ظَاهِرُونَ عَلَى النَّاسِ
✧ Whomever Allah intends good for, He grants him understanding in the religion. This ummah will never cease to be an ummah standing upon Allah's command, unharmed by those who oppose them, until Allah's command comes, while they are dominant over the people.
Musnad Ahmad 16932Sahih
سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَلَى هَذَا الْمِنْبَرِ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَا تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي قَائِمَةً بِأَمْرِ اللهِ، لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَذَلَهُمْ أَوْ خَالَفَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَهُمْ ظَاهِرُونَ عَلَى النَّاسِ، فَقَامَ مَالِكُ بْنُ يَخَامِرَ السَّكْسَكِيُّ فَقَالَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، سَمِعْتُ مُعَاذَ بْنَ جَبَلٍ يَقُولُ: وَهُمْ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ. فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: وَرَفَعَ صَوْتَهُ: هَذَا مَالِكٌ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُعَاذًا يَقُولُ: وَهُمْ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ
✧ I heard Muawiyah b. Abi Sufyan on this pulpit saying: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: A group of my ummah will never cease standing upon Allah's command, unharmed by those who abandon or oppose them, until the command of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, comes, while they are dominant over the people. Then Malik b. Yakhamir al-Saksaki stood and said: O Commander of the Faithful, I heard Muadh b. Jabal say: They are the people of Sham. Muawiyah said, raising his voice: This is Malik claiming that he heard Muadh say: They are the people of Sham.
Musnad Ahmad 16933Sahih
أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ أَخَذَ الْإِدَاوَةَ بَعْدَ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَتْبَعُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بِهَا، وَاشْتَكَى أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ، فَبَيْنَا هُوَ يُوَضِّئُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيْهِ مَرَّةً أَوْ مَرَّتَيْنِ وَهُوَ يَتَوَضَّأُ، فَقَالَ: يَا مُعَاوِيَةُ، إِنْ وُلِّيتَ أَمْرًا فَاتَّقِ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَاعْدِلْ، قَالَ: فَمَا زِلْتُ أَظُنُّ أَنِّي مُبْتَلًى بِعَمَلٍ لِقَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ حَتَّى ابْتُلِيتُ
✧ Muawiyah took the water vessel after Abu Hurayrah, following the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with it. Abu Hurayrah complained, and while he was performing ablution for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he raised his head to him once or twice while performing ablution and said: O Muawiyah, if you are given authority, fear Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and act justly. He said: I did not cease thinking that I was tested with a task because of the Prophet's ﷺ words, until I was tested.
Musnad Ahmad 16934Sahih
قَدِمَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ الْمَدِينَةَ، وَكَانَتْ آخِرَ قَدْمَةٍ قَدِمَهَا، فَأَخْرَجَ كُبَّةً مِنْ شَعَرٍ، فَقَالَ: مَا كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ أَحَدًا يَصْنَعُ هَذَا غَيْرَ الْيَهُودِ، وَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سَمَّاهُ الزُّورَ
✧ Muawiyah b. Abi Sufyan came to Madinah, his last visit, and brought out a tuft of hair and said: I did not think anyone would do this except the Jews. Indeed, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ called it falsehood.
Musnad Ahmad 16935Sahih
خَطَبَ النَّاسَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بِحِمْصَ فَذَكَرَ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ حَرَّمَ سَبْعَةَ أَشْيَاءَ، وَإِنِّي أُبَلِّغُكُمْ ذَلِكَ وَأَنْهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ؛ مِنْهُنَّ النَّوْحُ، وَالشِّعْرُ، وَالتَّصَاوِيرُ، وَالتَّبَرُّجُ، وَجُلُودُ السِّبَاعِ، وَالذَّهَبُ، وَالْحَرِيرُ
✧ Muawiyah delivered a sermon to the people in Hims and mentioned in his sermon that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade seven things, and I convey that to you and forbid you from them: among them wailing, poetry, images, tabarruj, skins of beasts of prey, gold, and silk.
Musnad Ahmad 16936Sahih
إِنَّمَا أَنَا مُبَلِّغٌ، وَاللهُ يَهْدِي، وَقَاسِمٌ وَاللهُ يُعْطِي، فَمَنْ بَلَغَهُ مِنِّي شَيْءٌ بِحُسْنِ رَغْبَةٍ وَحُسْنِ هَدْيٍ، فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي يُبَارَكُ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَمَنْ بَلَغَهُ مِنِّي شَيْءٌ بِسُوءِ رَغْبَةٍ وَسُوءِ هَدْيٍ فَذَاكَ الَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَلَا يَشْبَعُ
✧ I am only a conveyer, and Allah guides; and a divider, and Allah gives. So whoever receives something from me with good desire and good guidance, that is the one for whom it will be blessed. And whoever receives something from me with bad desire and bad guidance, that is the one who eats but is not satisfied.
Musnad Ahmad 16937Hasan
حَجَجْنَا مَعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا مَكَّةَ قَامَ حِينَ صَلَّى صَلَاةَ الظُّهْرِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابَيْنِ افْتَرَقُوا فِي دِينِهِمْ عَلَى ثِنْتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً، وَإِنَّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَفْتَرِقُ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَسَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً، يَعْنِي الْأَهْوَاءَ، كُلُّهَا فِي النَّارِ إِلَّا وَاحِدَةً، وَهِيَ الْجَمَاعَةُ، وَإِنَّهُ سَيَخْرُجُ فِي أُمَّتِي أَقْوَامٌ تَجَارَى بِهِمْ تِلْكَ الْأَهْوَاءُ كَمَا يَتَجَارَى الْكَلْبُ بِصَاحِبِهِ، لَا يَبْقَى مِنْهُ عِرْقٌ وَلَا مَفْصِلٌ إِلَّا دَخَلَهُ، وَاللهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْعَرَبِ لَئِنْ لَمْ تَقُومُوا بِمَا جَاءَ بِهِ نَبِيُّكُمْ ﷺ لَغَيْرُكُمْ مِنَ النَّاسِ أَحْرَى أَنْ لَا يَقُومَ بِهِ
✧ We performed Hajj with Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan. When we arrived in Mecca, he stood up after he had prayed the Dhuhr prayer and said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'The people of the two Scriptures divided into seventy-two sects in their religion, and this Ummah will divide into seventy-three sects, meaning all the desires are in the fire except one, and that is the community. In this Ummah, there will arise people whom these desires will take them over like rabies takes over its victim; it will penetrate every vein and joint. By Allah, O Arabs, if you do not uphold what your Prophet ﷺ brought, then others are more likely not to uphold it either.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16938Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَصَّرَ مِنْ شَعَرِهِ بِمِشْقَصٍ، فَقُلْتُ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: مَا بَلَغَنَا هَذَا الْأَمْرُ إِلَّا عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ ؟ فَقَالَ: مَا كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مُتَّهَمًا
✧ He saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ shorten some of his hair with an arrowhead. I said to Ibn Abbas: This matter has only reached us from Muawiyah? He said: Muawiyah was not suspect in (matters related to) the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Musnad Ahmad 16939Sahih
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَصَّرَ بِمِشْقَصٍ
✧ It means "Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ shortened his hair with a pair of scissors."
Musnad Ahmad 16940Sahih
إِنَّ الدِّينَ النَّصِيحَةُ، إِنَّمَا الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ. قَالُوا: لِمَنْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: لِلهِ، وَلِكِتَابِهِ، وَلِرَسُولِهِ، وَلِأَئِمَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَعَامَّتِهِمْ
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Religion is sincerity (An-Nasihah).' They said: 'To whom, O Messenger of Allah? He said: 'To Allah, to His Book, to His Messenger, to the imams of the Muslims and to their common folk"' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4198)
Musnad Ahmad 16941Sahih
إِنَّمَا الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ، إِنَّمَا الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ، قِيلَ: لِمَنْ ؟ قَالَ: لِلهِ، وَلِرَسُولِهِ، وَلِكِتَابِهِ، وَلِأَئِمَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَعَامَّتِهِمْ
✧ The religion is sincere counsel, the religion is sincere counsel. It was said: To whom? He said: To Allah, to His Messenger, to His Book, to the leaders of the Muslims and to their common people.
Musnad Ahmad 16942Sahih
إِنَّمَا الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ ثَلَاثًا
✧ The religion is sincere counsel—three times.
خَرَجَ عُمَرُ عَلَى النَّاسِ يَضْرِبُهُمْ عَلَى السَّجْدَتَيْنِ بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ، حَتَّى مَرَّ بِتَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ فَقَالَ: لَا أَدَعُهُمَا، صَلَّيْتُهُمَا مَعَ مَنْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنْكَ؛ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: إِنَّ النَّاسَ لَوْ كَانُوا كَهَيْئَتِكَ لَمْ أُبَالِي
✧ Umar went out to the people striking them for (praying) the two prostrations after Asr, until he passed by Tamim al-Dari, who said: I will not abandon them; I prayed them with one better than you—the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Umar said: If people were like you, I would not care.
سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يُسْلِمُ عَلَى يَدَيِ الرَّجُلِ. فَقَالَ: هُوَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِمَحْيَاهُ وَمَمَاتِهِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about a man who becomes Muslim at the hands of another man. He said: He is the closest of people to him in his life and his death.
Musnad Ahmad 16945No grade recorded
إِنَّ الدِّينَ النَّصِيحَةُ، إِنَّ الدِّينَ النَّصِيحَةُ، إِنَّ الدِّينَ النَّصِيحَةُ. قَالُوا: لِمَنْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: لِلهِ، وَلِكِتَابِهِ، وَلِنَبِيِّهِ، وَلِأَئِمَّةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَعَامَّتِهِمْ
✧ Indeed the religion is sincere counsel, indeed the religion is sincere counsel, indeed the religion is sincere counsel. They said: To whom, O Messenger of Allah? He said: To Allah, to His Book, to His Prophet, to the leaders of the believers and to their common people.
Musnad Ahmad 16946No grade recorded
قُلْتُ لِسُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ فِي حَدِيثٍ حَدَّثَنَاهُ عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍ، عَنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ فَقَالَ سُهَيْلٌ: سَمِعْتُهُ مِنَ الَّذِي سَمِعَهُ مِنْهُ أَبِي، سَمِعْتُ عَطَاءَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيَّ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مِثْلَ حَدِيثِ أَبِي عَنِ ابْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ
✧ I said to Suhayl b. Abi Salih regarding a hadith narrated to us by Amr b. Dinar, from al-Qa'qa' b. Hakim, from his father. Suhayl said: I heard it from the one from whom my father heard it. I heard Ata' b. Yazid al-Laythi narrating from Tamim al-Dari, from the Prophet ﷺ, similar to the hadith of my father from Ibn Uyaynah.
Musnad Ahmad 16947Sahih
الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ، الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ [الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ] ثَلَاثًا، قَالُوا: لِمَنْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: لِلهِ، وَلِكِتَابِهِ، وَلِرَسُولِهِ، وَلِأَئِمَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَعَامَّتِهِمْ
✧ The religion is sincere counsel, the religion is sincere counsel, [the religion is sincere counsel]—three times. They said: To whom, O Messenger of Allah? He said: To Allah, to His Book, to His Messenger, to the leaders of the Muslims and to their common people.
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا السُّنَّةُ فِي الرَّجُلِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ يُسْلِمُ عَلَى يَدَيْ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ؟ قَالَ: هُوَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِمَحْيَاهُ وَمَمَاتِهِ
✧ I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the sunnah regarding a man from the People of the Book who becomes Muslim at the hands of a Muslim man? He said: He is the closest of people to him in his life and his death.
Musnad Ahmad 16949Sahih
أَوَّلُ مَا يُحَاسَبُ بِهِ الْعَبْدُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ صَلَاتُهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ أَتَمَّهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ تَامَّةً، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَتَمَّهَا قَالَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: انْظُرُوا هَلْ تَجِدُونَ لِعَبْدِي مِنْ تَطَوُّعٍ، فَتُكْمِلُونَ بِهَا فَرِيضَتَهُ، ثُمَّ الزَّكَاةُ كَذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ تُؤْخَذُ الْأَعْمَالُ عَلَى حِسَابِ ذَلِكَ
✧ The first thing for which the servant will be brought to account on the Day of Resurrection is his prayer. If he completed it, it is recorded for him as complete. And if he did not complete it, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says: Look and see if you find for My servant any voluntary prayers, and complete his obligatory prayer with them. Then zakah is likewise. Then the deeds are taken according to that reckoning.
Musnad Ahmad 16950Sahih
17155 17224 16950 - حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مِثْلَهُ
✧ 17155 17224 16950 - Hasan narrated to us, Hammad narrated to us, from Humayd, from al-Hasan, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, something similar.
Musnad Ahmad 16951Sahih
حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍ، عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَى، عَنْ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِمِثْلِهِ
✧ Hammad b. Salama narrated to us, from Dawud b. Abi Hind, from Zurara b. Awfa, from Tamim al-Dari, from the Prophet ﷺ, the like of it.
مَنْ قَالَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَاحِدًا أَحَدًا صَمَدًا، لَمْ يَتَّخِذْ صَاحِبَةً وَلَا وَلَدًا، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ، عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ، كُتِبَ لَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ أَلْفَ حَسَنَةٍ
✧ Whoever says: "There is no god but Allah, the One, the Unique, the Eternal Refuge, who did not take a companion or a son, and there is none equal to Him" ten times, forty thousand good deeds are recorded for him.
سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَا السُّنَّةُ فِي الرَّجُلِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُفْرِ يُسْلِمُ عَلَى يَدَيِ الرَّجُلِ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ؟ فَقَالَ: هُوَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِحَيَاتِهِ وَمَوْتِهِ
✧ I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: "What is the sunnah concerning a man from the people of disbelief who becomes Muslim at the hands of a man from the Muslims?" He said: "He is the most entitled of people to his life and his death."
Musnad Ahmad 16954No grade recorded
أَوَّلُ مَا يُحَاسَبُ بِهِ الْعَبْدُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الصَّلَاةُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ أَكْمَلَهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ كَامِلَةً، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَكْمَلَهَا، قَالَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ: انْظُرُوا هَلْ تَجِدُونَ لِعَبْدِي مِنْ تَطَوُّعٍ فَأَكْمِلُوا بِهَا مَا ضَيَّعَ مِنْ فَرِيضَتِهِ، ثُمَّ الزَّكَاةُ، ثُمَّ تُؤْخَذُ الْأَعْمَالُ عَلَى حَسَبِ ذَلِكَ
✧ The first thing for which the servant will be brought to account on the Day of Resurrection is the prayer. If he completed it, it will be recorded for him as complete. If he did not complete it, He will say to the angels: "Look and see if you find any voluntary prayers for My servant, and complete with them what he neglected of his obligatory prayer." Then the zakat. Then the deeds will be taken according to that.
Musnad Ahmad 16955Hasan
أَنَّ رَوْحَ بْنَ زِنْبَاعٍ زَارَ تَمِيمًا الدَّارِيَّ فَوَجَدَهُ يُنَقِّي شَعِيرًا لِفَرَسِهِ، قَالَ: وَحَوْلَهُ أَهْلُهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ رَوْحٌ: أَمَا كَانَ فِي هَؤُلَاءِ مَنْ يَكْفِيكَ ؟ قَالَ تَمِيمٌ: بَلَى، وَلَكِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَا مِنِ امْرِئٍ مُسْلِمٍ يُنَقِّي لِفَرَسِهِ شَعِيرًا، ثُمَّ يُعَلِّقُهُ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ حَبَّةٍ حَسَنَةٌ
✧ He (Tamim) asked, "Do you have any soul among these (people) who can suffice you?" He replied, "Yes, but I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, 'Whenever a Muslim cleans a hoof of his horse and then hangs it on it, he will be credited with a good deed for every grain on it.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16956Hasan
17161 17230 16956 - حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ خَارِجَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ شُرَحْبِيلَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ فَذَكَرَ مِثْلَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ
✧ 17161 17230 16956 - Al-Haytham b. Kharija narrated to us, Isma'il b. 'Ayyash narrated to us, from Shurahbil b. Muslim, and he mentioned the like of this hadith.
Musnad Ahmad 16957Sahih
لَيَبْلُغَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ مَا بَلَغَ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ، وَلَا يَتْرُكُ اللهُ بَيْتَ مَدَرٍ وَلَا وَبَرٍ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُ اللهُ هَذَا الدِّينَ بِعِزِّ عَزِيزٍ، أَوْ بِذُلِّ ذَلِيلٍ، عِزًّا يُعِزُّ اللهُ بِهِ الْإِسْلَامَ، وَذُلًّا يُذِلُّ اللهُ بِهِ الْكُفْرَ. وَكَانَ تَمِيمٌ الدَّارِيُّ يَقُولُ: قَدْ عَرَفْتُ ذَلِكَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِي، لَقَدْ أَصَابَ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ مِنْهُمُ الْخَيْرَ وَالشَّرَفَ وَالْعِزَّ، وَلَقَدْ أَصَابَ مَنْ كَانَ مِنْهُمْ كَافِرًا الذُّلَّ وَالصَّغَارَ وَالْجِزْيَةَ
I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "This matter (Islam) will reach as far as the night and day reach, and Allah will never leave a house made of mud or hair but He will let this religion enter it, either by the honor of the honorable or a or by the lowliness of the lowly. Through honor and respect Allah will honor Islam and through humiliation Allah will humiliate disbelief.” Tamīm al-Dārī said, “I have come to know that through my household that whoever amongst them becomes a Muslim, will have goodness, honor, and respect. And whoever amongst them remains a disbeliever, will have humiliation, servility, and the jizyah (tax).' "
Musnad Ahmad 16958Hasan
مَنْ قَرَأَ بِمِائَةِ آيَةٍ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كُتِبَ لَهُ قُنُوتُ لَيْلَةٍ
✧ Whoever recites one hundred verses in a night, the qunut of a night is recorded for him.
Musnad Ahmad 16959Sahih
مَنْ سَتَرَ مُسْلِمًا فِي الدُّنْيَا سَتَرَهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ، وَمَنْ نَجَّى مَكْرُوبًا فَكَّ اللهُ عَنْهُ كُرْبَةً مِنْ كُرَبِ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَمَنْ كَانَ فِي حَاجَةِ أَخِيهِ كَانَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي حَاجَتِهِ
✧ Whoever conceals a Muslim in this world, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will conceal him in this world and the Hereafter. Whoever relieves a distressed person, Allah will remove from him a distress of the distresses of the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is engaged in fulfilling his brother's need, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will be engaged in fulfilling his need.
Musnad Ahmad 16960Sahih
أَنَّ عُقْبَةَ قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ: أَتَى مَسْلَمَةَ بْنَ مُخَلَّدٍ بِمِصْرَ، وَكَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْبَوَّابِ شَيْءٌ فَسَمِعَ صَوْتَهُ فَأَذِنَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي لَمْ آتِكَ زَائِرًا، وَلَكِنِّي جِئْتُكَ لِحَاجَةٍ، أَتَذْكُرُ يَوْمَ قَالَ عَبَّادٌ فِي حَدِيثِهِ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: مَنْ عَلِمَ مِنْ أَخِيهِ سَيِّئَةً فَسَتَرَهَا سَتَرَهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ؟ فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ. فَقَالَ: لِهَذَا جِئْتُ. قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ فِي حَدِيثِهِ: رَكِبَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ إِلَى مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ مُخَلَّدٍ وَهُوَ أَمِيرٌ عَلَى مِصْرَ
✧ 'Uqba said - Ibn Abi 'Adi said: He came to Maslama b. Mukhallad in Egypt, and there had been something between him and the doorkeeper. He heard his voice and gave him permission. He said: "I have not come to you as a visitor, but I have come to you for a need. Do you remember the day when 'Abbad said in his hadith: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Whoever knows of a bad deed of his brother and conceals it, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will conceal him by it on the Day of Resurrection'?" He said: "Yes." He said: "For this I have come." Ibn Abi 'Adi said in his hadith: 'Uqba b. 'Amir rode to Maslama b. Mukhallad while he was governor over Egypt.
Musnad Ahmad 16961Sahih
مَنْ غَسَّلَ وَاغْتَسَلَ، وَغَدَا وَابْتَكَرَ، فَدَنَا وَأَنْصَتَ وَلَمْ يَلْغُ، كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ كَأَجْرِ سَنَةٍ صِيَامِهَا وَقِيَامِهَا
✧ Whoever performs ghusl and washes himself, goes early and arrives early, comes near and listens and does not engage in idle talk, will have for every step the reward of a year of fasting and praying at night.
Musnad Ahmad 16962No grade recorded
مَنْ غَسَّلَ وَاغْتَسَلَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، وَبَكَّرَ وَابْتَكَرَ، وَمَشَى وَلَمْ يَرْكَبْ، فَدَنَا مِنَ الْإِمَامِ وَاسْتَمَعَ وَلَمْ يَلْغُ كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ أَجْرُ سَنَةٍ صِيَامِهَا وَقِيَامِهَا
✧ Whoever performs ghusl and washes himself on Friday, goes early and arrives early, walks and does not ride, comes near the imam and listens and does not engage in idle talk, will have for every step the reward of a year of fasting and praying at night.
Musnad Ahmad 16963Sahih
ثُمَّ غَدَا وَابْتَكَرَ
✧ Then he went early and arrived early.
Musnad Ahmad 16964Sahih
كُنَّا جُلُوسًا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ إِذْ قَالَ قَائِلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، هَلْ أُتِيتَ بِطَعَامٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: وَبِمَاذَا ؟ قَالَ: بِسَخْنَةٍ، قَالُوا: فَهَلْ كَانَ فِيهَا فَضْلٌ عَنْكَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: فَمَا فُعِلَ بِهِ ؟ قَالَ: رُفِعَ وَهُوَ يُوحَى إِلَيَّ أَنِّي مَكْفُوتٌ غَيْرُ لَابِثٍ فِيكُمْ، وَلَسْتُمْ لَابِثُونَ بَعْدِي إِلَّا قَلِيلًا، بَلْ تَلْبَثُونَ حَتَّى تَقُولُوا: مَتَى. وَسَتَأْتُونَ أَفْنَادًا، يُفْنِي بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا، وَبَيْنَ يَدَيِ السَّاعَةِ مُوتَانٌ شَدِيدٌ، وَبَعْدَهُ سَنَوَاتُ الزَّلَازِلِ
✧ We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when someone said: "O Messenger of Allah, have you been given food from the heavens?" He said: "Yes." He said: "And with what?" He said: "With a hot meal." They said: "Was there any left over from it besides you?" He said: "Yes." He said: "What was done with it?" He said: "It was taken up, and it was revealed to me that I am being held back, not staying among you, and you will not stay after me except a little. Rather, you will stay until you say: 'When?' And you will come in separate groups, destroying one another. Before the Hour there will be a severe death, and after it years of earthquakes."
Musnad Ahmad 16965Hasan
أَنَّهُ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: إِنِّي سَيَّمْتُ الْخَيْلَ، وَأَلْقَيْتُ السِّلَاحَ، وَوَضَعَتِ الْحَرْبُ أَوْزَارَهَا، قُلْتُ: لَا قِتَالَ. فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: الْآنَ جَاءَ الْقِتَالُ، لَا تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي ظَاهِرِينَ عَلَى النَّاسِ، يَرْفَعُ اللهُ قُلُوبَ أَقْوَامٍ فَيُقَاتِلُونَهُمْ، وَيَرْزُقُهُمُ اللهُ مِنْهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَهُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، أَلَا إِنَّ عُقْرَ دَارِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الشَّامُ، وَالْخَيْلُ مَعْقُودٌ فِي نَوَاصِيهَا الْخَيْرُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ That he came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: "Indeed I have branded my horses, cast aside my weapons, and war has laid down its burdens. I said: 'No fighting.'" The Prophet ﷺ said to him: "Now fighting has come. A group of my community will never cease to prevail over people. God will raise the hearts of people who will fight them, and God will provide for them from them until the command of God, Mighty and Majestic, comes, and they are upon that. Verily, the heartland of the believers' abode is Syria, and goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses until the Day of Resurrection."
Musnad Ahmad 16966Sahih
لَا تَنَافُسَ بَيْنَكُمْ إِلَّا فِي اثْنَتَيْنِ: رَجُلٌ أَعْطَاهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الْقُرْآنَ فَهُوَ يَقُومُ بِهِ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ وَآنَاءَ النَّهَارِ وَيَتَّبِعُ مَا فِيهِ، فَيَقُولُ رَجُلٌ: لَوْ أَنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى أَعْطَانِي مِثْلَ مَا أَعْطَى فُلَانًا فَأَقُومَ بِهِ كَمَا يَقُومُ بِهِ، وَرَجُلٌ أَعْطَاهُ اللهُ مَالًا فَهُوَ يُنْفِقُ وَيَتَصَدَّقُ، فَيَقُولُ رَجُلٌ: لَوْ أَنَّ اللهَ أَعْطَانِي مِثْلَ مَا أَعْطَى فُلَانًا فَأَتَصَدَّقَ بِهِ، فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَرَأَيْتَكَ النَّجْدَةَ تَكُونُ فِي الرَّجُلِ
✧ There is no envying between you except in two cases: a man to whom God, Mighty and Majestic, has given the Quran, and he stands with it through the hours of the night and the hours of the day and follows what is in it. A man says: "If only God, Exalted be He, had given me the like of what He gave so-and-so, and I would stand with it as he stands with it." And a man to whom God has given wealth, and he spends and gives charity. A man says: "If only God had given me the like of what He gave so-and-so, and I would give charity with it." A man said: "O Messenger of God, what do you think of the courage that is in a man?"
Musnad Ahmad 16967No grade recorded
مَا نَسِيتُ مِنَ الْأَشْيَاءِ مَا نَسِيتُ أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَمِينَهُ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ
from Yunus.
Musnad Ahmad 16968Hasan
مَا نَسِيتُ مِنَ الْأَشْيَاءِ لَمْ أَنْسَ أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَمِينَهُ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ
✧ I have not forgotten among things that I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ placing his right hand upon his left hand in prayer.
Musnad Ahmad 16969Hasan
أَنَّهُمْ حَضَرُوا غُضَيْفَ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ الثُّمَالِيَّ حِينَ اشْتَدَّ سَوْقُهُ فَقَالَ: هَلْ مِنْكُمْ أَحَدٌ يَقْرَأُ يس ؟ قَالَ: فَقَرَأَهَا صَالِحُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ السَّكُونِيُّ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنْهَا قُبِضَ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ الْمَشْيَخَةُ يَقُولُونَ: إِذَا قُرِئَتْ عِنْدَ الْمَيْتِ خُفِّفَ عَنْهُ بِهَا، قَالَ صَفْوَانُ: وَقَرَأَهَا عِيسَى بْنُ الْمَعْمَرِ عِنْدَ ابْنِ مَعْبَدٍ
They were present with Ghudayf b. al-Harith al-Thumali when he was on his deathbed. He asked if there was anyone among them who could recite "Ya-Sin." So, Salih b. Shurayh al-Sakuni recited it, and when he reached the fortieth verse, Ghudayf passed away. The elders used to say that when "Ya-Sin" is recited in the presence of someone who is dying, their suffering is alleviated. Safwan mentioned that Isa b. al-Mu'tamir recited it for Ibn Ma'bad.
بَعَثَ إِلَيَّ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا أَسْمَاءَ، إِنَّا قَدْ جَمَعْنَا النَّاسَ عَلَى أَمْرَيْنِ. قَالَ: وَمَا هُمَا ؟ قَالَ: رَفْعُ الْأَيْدِي عَلَى الْمَنَابِرِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، وَالْقَصَصُ بَعْدَ الصُّبْحِ وَالْعَصْرِ. فَقَالَ: أَمَا إِنَّهُمَا أَمْثَلُ بِدْعَتِكُمْ عِنْدِي، وَلَسْتُ مُجِيبَكَ إِلَى شَيْءٍ مِنْهُمَا. قَالَ: لِمَ ؟ قَالَ: لِأَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ: مَا أَحْدَثَ قَوْمٌ بِدْعَةً إِلَّا رُفِعَ مِثْلُهَا مِنَ السُّنَّةِ، فَتَمَسُّكٌ بِسُنَّةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ إِحْدَاثِ بِدْعَةٍ
✧ Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan sent for me and said, "O Abu Asma, we have united the people on two matters." I asked, "What are they?" He replied, "Raising hands on the pulpits during the Friday sermon and telling stories after the Fajr and Asr prayers." I said, "Indeed, these are the most tolerable of your innovations in my view, but I will not comply with either of them." He asked, "Why not?" I said, "Because the Prophet ﷺ said, 'Whenever people introduce an innovation, its equivalent is removed from the Sunnah. Holding onto a Sunnah is better than introducing an innovation.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16971Accepted
إِنَّهُ يُقَالُ لِلْوِلْدَانِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: ادْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا رَبِّ حَتَّى يَدْخُلَ آبَاؤُنَا وَأُمَّهَاتُنَا، قَالَ: فَيَأْبَوْنَ، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: مَا لِي أَرَاهُمْ مُحْبَنْطِئِينَ، ادْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا رَبِّ آبَاؤُنَا، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: ادْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ أَنْتُمْ وَآبَاؤُكُمْ
✧ On the Day of Resurrection, it will be said to the children: "Enter Paradise." He said: "They will say: 'O Lord, until our fathers and mothers enter.'" He said: "They will refuse." He said: "God, Mighty and Majestic, will say: 'Why do I see them hesitant? Enter Paradise.'" He said: "They will say: 'O Lord, our fathers.'" He said: "He will say: 'Enter Paradise, you and your fathers.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16972Sahih
دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ حَابِسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ الطَّائِيُّ مِنَ السَّحَرِ، وَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَرَأَى النَّاسَ يُصَلُّونَ فِي مُقَدَّمِ الْمَسْجِدِ، فَقَالَ: مُرَاؤُونَ وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ أَرْعِبُوهُمْ، فَمَنْ أَرْعَبَهُمْ، فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللهَ وَرَسُولَهُ، فَأَتَاهُمُ النَّاسُ فَأَخْرَجُوهُمْ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ تُصَلِّيَ مِنَ السَّحَرِ فِي مُقَدَّمِ الْمَسْجِدِ
✧ Habis b. Sa'd al-Ta'i entered the mosque before dawn, having met the Prophet ﷺ, and saw people praying at the front of the mosque. He said: "Hypocrites, by the Lord of the Kaaba! Frighten them, for whoever frightens them has obeyed God and His Messenger." The people came to them and drove them out. He said: "He said: 'Indeed the angels pray before dawn at the front of the mosque.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16973Hasan
مَنْ نَجَا مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَقَدْ نَجَا - ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ -: مَوْتِي، وَالدَّجَّالِ، وَقَتْلِ خَلِيفَةٍ مُصْطَبِرٍ بِالْحَقِّ مُعْطِيهِ
✧ The Prophet of Allah ﷺ said: Whoever is saved from three things has been saved from three types of death: the Dajjal, the killing of a just ruler, and a death that comes with patience and adhering to the truth.
Musnad Ahmad 16974Sahih
سَتَكُونُ مِنْ بَعْدِي فِتْنَةٌ، النَّائِمُ فِيهَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَقْظَانِ، وَالْقَاعِدُ فِيهَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْقَائِمِ، وَالْقَائِمُ فِيهَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ السَّاعِي، فَمَنْ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ فَلْيَمْشِ بِسَيْفِهِ إِلَى صَفَاةٍ فَلْيَضْرِبْهُ [بِهَا] حَتَّى يَنْكَسِرَ، ثُمَّ لِيَضْطَجِعْ لَهَا حَتَّى تَنْجَلِيَ عَمَّا انْجَلَتْ
✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "There will be a trial after me in which the one who is sleeping will be better than the one who is awake, and the one who is sitting will be better than the one who is standing, and the one who is standing will be better than the one who is walking. Whoever is afflicted with it should take his sword and strike with it until it is broken, then lie down with it until it is gone."
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَامَ الْأَحْزَابِ صَلَّى الْمَغْرِبَ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ قَالَ: هَلْ عَلِمَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ أَنِّي صَلَّيْتُ الْعَصْرَ ؟ قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا صَلَّيْتَهَا. فَأَمَرَ الْمُؤَذِّنَ فَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ، فَصَلَّى الْعَصْرَ، ثُمَّ أَعَادَ الْمَغْرِبَ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ prayed Maghrib in the year of the Confederates. When he finished, he said: "Does anyone of you know that I prayed Asr?" They said: "O Messenger of God, you did not pray it." He ordered the muezzin, so he announced the prayer, and he prayed Asr, then he repeated Maghrib.
Musnad Ahmad 16976Sahih
تَغَدَّيْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَمَعَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ. قَالَ: فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، هَلْ أَحَدٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَّا ؟ أَسْلَمْنَا مَعَكَ وَجَاهَدْنَا مَعَكَ، قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَوْمٌ يَكُونُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِكُمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِي وَلَمْ يَرَوْنِي
✧ We had lunch with the Messenger of God ﷺ, and Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah was with us. He said: "He said: 'O Messenger of God, is anyone better than us? We embraced Islam with you and fought with you.' He said: 'Yes, a people who will come after you, who believe in me but have not seen me.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16977Sahih
تَغَدَّيْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَمَعَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَحَدٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَّا ؟ أَسْلَمْنَا مَعَكَ وَجَاهَدْنَا مَعَكَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَوْمٌ يَكُونُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِكُمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِي وَلَمْ يَرَوْنِي
✧ We had lunch with the Messenger of God ﷺ, and Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah was with us. He said: "O Messenger of God, is anyone better than us? We embraced Islam with you and fought with you?" He said: "Yes, a people who will come after you, who believe in me but have not seen me."
Musnad Ahmad 16978Sahih
خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: أَتَزْعُمُونَ أَنِّي مِنْ آخِرِكُمْ وَفَاةً، أَلَا إِنِّي مِنْ أَوَّلِكُمْ وَفَاةً، وَتَتْبَعُونِي أَفْنَادًا يُهْلِكُ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ came out to us and said: "Do you claim that I am the last of you to die? Verily, I am the first of you to die, and you will follow me in waves, destroying one another."
Musnad Ahmad 16979No grade recorded
دَعَانِي وَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ بَصَرُهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا حَيَّانُ قُدْنِي إِلَى يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ الْجُرَشِيِّ فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ، فَقَالَ: أَبْشِرْ، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ عَنِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: أَنَا عِنْدَ ظَنِّ عَبْدِي بِي، فَلْيَظُنَّ بِي مَا شَاءَ
✧ Wathilah b. al-Asqa' called me when his sight had gone and said: "O Hayyan, guide me to Yazid b. al-Aswad al-Jurashi." He mentioned the hadith and said: "Rejoice, for I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ saying from God, Mighty and Majestic: 'I am as My servant thinks of Me, so let him think of Me as he wills.'"
Musnad Ahmad 16980Sahih
إِنَّ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ الْفِرَى أَنْ يَدَّعِيَ الرَّجُلُ إِلَى غَيْرِ أَبِيهِ، أَوْ يُرِيَ عَيْنَيْهِ فِي الْمَنَامِ مَا لَمْ تَرَيَا، أَوْ يَقُولَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مَا لَمْ يَقُلْ
✧ "The greatest of lies is for a man to claim to be someone's father when he is not, or for him to see in a dream something that his eyes have not seen, or to attribute something to the Messenger of Allah that he did not say."
الْمَرْأَةُ تَحُوزُ ثَلَاثَةَ مَوَارِيثَ؛ عَتِيقَهَا، وَلَقِيطَهَا، وَالْوَلَدَ الَّذِي لَاعَنَتْ عَلَيْهِ
✧ The woman acquires three inheritances: her freed slave, her foundling, and the child over whom she invoked a curse.
Musnad Ahmad 16982Hasan
أُعْطِيتُ مَكَانَ التَّوْرَاةِ السَّبْعَ، وَأُعْطِيتُ مَكَانَ الزَّبُورِ الْمِئِينَ، وَأُعْطِيتُ مَكَانَ الْإِنْجِيلِ الْمَثَانِيَ، وَفُضِّلْتُ بِالْمُفَصَّلِ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ said: I have been given the place of the Torah's seven and the place of the Psalms' two hundred and the place of the Gospel's two. And I have been preferred with the detailed explanation.
Musnad Ahmad 16983Sahih
أَعْظَمُ الْفِرَى مَنْ يُقَوِّلُنِي مَا لَمْ أَقُلْ، وَمَنْ أَرَى عَيْنَيْهِ فِي الْمَنَامِ مَا لَمْ تَرَ، وَمَنِ ادَّعَى إِلَى غَيْرِ أَبِيهِ
✧ The greatest of slanders is one who attributes to me what I did not say, one who shows his eyes in a dream what they did not see, and one who claims descent from other than his father.
أُنْزِلَتْ صُحُفُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فِي أَوَّلِ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، وَأُنْزِلَتِ التَّوْرَاةُ لِسِتٍّ مَضَيْنَ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، وَالْإِنْجِيلُ لِثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ خَلَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، وَأُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ لِأَرْبَعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ خَلَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ
✧ The scriptures of Ibrāhīm ﷺ were sent down on the first night of Ramaḍān, the Torah was sent down on the sixth of Ramaḍān, the Gospel on the thirteenth of Ramaḍān, and the Qur’an was sent down on the twenty-fourth of Ramaḍān.
أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ نَفَرٌ مِنْ بَنِي سُلَيْمٍ، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّ صَاحِبًا لَنَا أَوْجَبَ. قَالَ: فَلْيُعْتِقْ رَقَبَةً يَفْدِي اللهُ بِكُلِّ عُضْوٍ مِنْهَا عُضْوًا مِنْهُ مِنَ النَّارِ
✧ A group from Banū Sulaym came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “A companion of ours has made [something] obligatory.” He said, “Let him free a slave; Allah will ransom by each limb of it a limb of his from the Fire.”
Musnad Ahmad 16986Sahih
إِنَّ اللهَ اصْطَفَى كِنَانَةَ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ، وَاصْطَفَى مِنْ بَنِي كِنَانَةَ قُرَيْشًا، وَاصْطَفَى مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ، وَاصْطَفَانِي مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ
✧ Allah chose Kinānah from the descendants of Ismāʿīl, chose Quraysh from the descendants of Kinānah, chose Banū Hāshim from Quraysh, and chose me from Banū Hāshim.
Musnad Ahmad 16987Sahih
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ اصْطَفَى مِنْ وَلَدِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، وَاصْطَفَى مِنْ بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ كِنَانَةَ، وَاصْطَفَى مِنْ بَنِي كِنَانَةَ قُرَيْشًا، وَاصْطَفَى مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ، وَاصْطَفَانِي مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ
✧ Allah, Mighty and Majestic, chose Ismāʿīl from the descendants of Ibrāhīm, chose Kinānah from the descendants of Ismāʿīl, chose Quraysh from the descendants of Kinānah, chose Banū Hāshim from Quraysh, and chose me from Banū Hāshim.
Musnad Ahmad 16988Sahih
دَخَلْتُ عَلَى وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ وَعِنْدَهُ قَوْمٌ، فَذَكَرُوا عَلِيًّا فَلَمَّا قَامُوا، قَالَ لِي: أَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِمَا رَأَيْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ قُلْتُ: بَلَى. قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ فَاطِمَةَ ؓ أَسْأَلُهَا عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَتْ: تَوَجَّهَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَجَلَسْتُ أَنْتَظِرُهُ حَتَّى جَاءَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَمَعَهُ عَلِيٌّ وَحَسَنٌ وَحُسَيْنٌ ؓ، آخِذٌ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا بِيَدِهِ، حَتَّى دَخَلَ فَأَدْنَى عَلِيًّا وَفَاطِمَةَ، فَأَجْلَسَهُمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، وَأَجْلَسَ حَسَنًا وَحُسَيْنًا كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا عَلَى فَخِذِهِ، ثُمَّ لَفَّ عَلَيْهِمْ ثَوْبَهُ، أَوْ قَالَ: كِسَاءً، ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ اللهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنْكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُمْ تَطْهِيرًا وَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ هَؤُلَاءِ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي، وَأَهْلُ بَيْتِي أَحَقُّ
✧ I entered upon Wathila bin Al-Asqa' while he was with some people, and they mentioned Ali. When they stood up, he said to me, "Shall I not inform you of what I saw from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?" I said, "Yes." He said, "I went to Fatimah to ask her about Ali." She said, "He has gone to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." So I sat waiting for him until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came with Ali, Hasan, and Husayn, each holding one of their hands, until they entered. He brought Ali and Fatimah closer and seated them in front of him, and seated Hasan and Husayn on his knees, then wrapped them with his cloak or said garment. Then he recited this verse: {Indeed, Allah intends to remove impurity from you, O people of the [Prophet’s] household, and to purify you with [extensive] purification} (Al-Ahzab 33). And he said, "O Allah, these are my household (Ahl al-Bayt), and my household are more deserving."
Musnad Ahmad 16989Hasan
سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَمِنَ الْعَصَبِيَّةِ أَنْ يُحِبَّ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنْ مِنَ الْعَصَبِيَّةِ أَنْ يَنْصُرَ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ عَلَى الظُّلْمِ.
“I asked the Prophet ﷺ: ‘O Messenger of Allah, is it tribalism if a man loves his people?’ He said: ‘No, rather tribalism is when a man helps his people to do wrong.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3949)
Musnad Ahmad 16990Sahih
كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ حِينَ افْتَتَحَ حُنَيْنًا، فَقَامَ فِينَا خَطِيبًا، فَقَالَ: لَا يَحِلُّ لِامْرِئٍ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ أَنْ يَسْقِيَ مَاءَهُ زَرْعَ غَيْرِهِ، وَلَا أَنْ يَبْتَاعَ مَغْنَمًا حَتَّى يُقْسَمَ، وَلَا أَنْ يَلْبَسَ ثَوْبًا مِنْ فَيْءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ حَتَّى إِذَا أَخْلَقَهُ رَدَّهُ فِيهِ، وَلَا يَرْكَبَ دَابَّةً مِنْ فَيْءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ حَتَّى إِذَا أَعْجَفَهَا رَدَّهَا فِيهِ
✧ I was with the Prophet ﷺ when he conquered Ḥunayn. He stood among us as a preacher and said, “It is not lawful for a man who believes in Allah and the Last Day to water his own seed in another’s crop, nor to buy spoils before they are divided, nor to wear a garment from the fayʾ of the Muslims until, when he has worn it out, he returns it to it, nor to ride an animal from the fayʾ of the Muslims until, when he has exhausted it, he returns it to it.”
مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ، وَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ أَنْزِلْهُ الْمَقْعَدَ الْمُقَرَّبَ عِنْدَكَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَجَبَتْ لَهُ شَفَاعَتِي
✧ Whoever invokes blessings upon Muḥammad and says, ‘O Allah, grant him the nearest station with You on the Day of Resurrection,’ my intercession becomes due for him.
Musnad Ahmad 16992Sahih
لَا يَحِلُّ لِأَحَدٍ - وَقَالَ قُتَيْبَةُ: لِرَجُلٍ - أَنْ يَسْقِيَ مَاءَهُ وَلَدَ غَيْرِهِ، وَلَا يَقَعَ عَلَى أَمَةٍ حَتَّى تَحِيضَ أَوْ يَبِينَ حَمْلُهَا
✧ It is not lawful for anyone — and Qutaybah said: for a man — to water his own seed in another’s child, nor to have intercourse with a slave woman until she menstruates or her pregnancy becomes evident.
Musnad Ahmad 16993No grade recorded
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُوطَأَ الْأَمَةُ حَتَّى تَحِيضَ، وَعَنِ الْحَبَالَى حَتَّى يَضَعْنَ مَا فِي بُطُونِهِنَّ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade that a slave woman be had intercourse with until she menstruates, and [forbade] pregnant women until they give birth to what is in their wombs.
أَنَّهُ غَزَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: وَكَانَ أَحَدُنَا يَأْخُذُ النَّاقَةَ عَلَى النِّصْفِ مِمَّا يَغْنَمُ، حَتَّى إِنَّ لِأَحَدِنَا الْقِدْحَ، وَلِلْآخَرِ النَّصْلَ وَالرِّيشَ
✧ He raided with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: One of us would take a she-camel on condition of half of what he gained, until one of us would have the arrow shaft and the other the arrowhead and feathers.
كَانَ مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ مُخَلَّدٍ عَلَى أَسْفَلِ الْأَرْضِ قَالَ: فَاسْتَعْمَلَ رُوَيْفِعَ بْنَ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ، فَسِرْنَا مَعَهُ مِنْ شَرِيكٍ إِلَى كُومِ عَلْقَامَ أَوْ مِنْ كُومِ عَلْقَامَ إِلَى شَرِيكٍ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ رُوَيْفِعُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ: كُنَّا نَغْزُو عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَيَأْخُذُ أَحَدُنَا جَمَلَ أَخِيهِ عَلَى أَنَّ لَهُ النِّصْفَ مِمَّا يَغْنَمُ، قَالَ: حَتَّى إِنَّ أَحَدَنَا لَيَطِيرُ لَهُ الْقِدْحُ، وَلِلْآخَرِ النَّصْلُ وَالرِّيشُ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ رُوَيْفِعُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَا رُوَيْفِعُ، لَعَلَّ الْحَيَاةَ سَتَطُولُ بِكَ، فَأَخْبِرِ النَّاسَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ عَقَدَ لِحْيَتَهُ، أَوْ تَقَلَّدَ وَتَرًا، أَوِ اسْتَنْجَى بِرَجِيعِ دَابَّةٍ أَوْ عَظْمٍ، فَقَدْ بَرِئَ مِمَّا أَنْزَلَ اللهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ
✧ Maslamah b. Mukhallad was over Lower Egypt. He said: He appointed Ruwayfiʿ b. Thābit al-Anṣārī, so we marched with him from Sharīk to Kawm ʿAlqam, or from Kawm ʿAlqam to Sharīk. He said: Ruwayfiʿ b. Thābit said: We used to raid in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and one of us would take his brother’s camel on condition that he would have half of what he gained. He said: Until one of us would have the arrow shaft fly to him, and the other would have the arrowhead and feathers. He said: Ruwayfiʿ b. Thābit said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, ‘O Ruwayfiʿ, perhaps life will be prolonged for you, so inform the people that whoever knots his beard, or hangs a bowstring, or cleans himself with the dung of an animal or a bone, has disowned what Allah sent down upon Muḥammad ﷺ.’
كَانَ أَحَدُنَا فِي زَمَانِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَأْخُذُ جَمَلَ أَخِيهِ عَلَى أَنْ يُعْطِيَهُ النِّصْفَ مِمَّا يَغْنَمُ وَلَهُ النِّصْفُ، حَتَّى إِنَّ أَحَدَنَا لَيَطِيرُ لَهُ النَّصْلُ وَالرِّيشُ، وَالْآخَرَ الْقِدْحُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَا رُوَيْفِعُ، لَعَلَّ الْحَيَاةَ سَتَطُولُ بِكَ، فَأَخْبِرِ النَّاسَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ عَقَدَ لِحْيَتَهُ، أَوْ تَقَلَّدَ وَتَرًا، أَوِ اسْتَنْجَى بِرَجِيعِ دَابَّةٍ أَوْ عَظْمٍ، فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا ﷺ مِنْهُ بَرِيءٌ
✧ In the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, one of us would take his brother’s camel on condition that he would give him half of what he gained, and he would have half, until one of us would have the arrowhead and feathers fly to him, and the other the arrow shaft. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, ‘O Ruwayfiʿ, perhaps life will be prolonged for you, so inform the people that whoever knots his beard, or hangs a bowstring, or cleans himself with the dung of an animal or a bone, Muḥammad ﷺ is free of him.’
Musnad Ahmad 16997Sahih
غَزَوْنَا مَعَ رُوَيْفِعِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَرْيَةً مِنْ قُرَى الْمَغْرِبِ يُقَالُ لَهَا: جَرْبَةُ، فَقَامَ فِينَا خَطِيبًا، فَقَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنِّي لَا أَقُولُ فِيكُمْ إِلَّا مَا سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ؛ قَامَ فِينَا يَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ فَقَالَ: لَا يَحِلُّ لِامْرِئٍ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ أَنْ يَسْقِيَ مَاءَهُ زَرْعَ غَيْرِهِ - يَعْنِي إِتْيَانَ الْحَبَالَى مِنَ السَّبَايَا - وَأَنْ يُصِيبَ امْرَأَةً ثَيِّبًا مِنَ السَّبْيِ حَتَّى يَسْتَبْرِئَهَا - يَعْنِي إِذَا اشْتَرَاهَا - وَأَنْ يَبِيعَ مَغْنَمًا حَتَّى يُقْسَمَ، وَأَنْ يَرْكَبَ دَابَّةً مِنْ فَيْءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ حَتَّى إِذَا أَعْجَفَهَا رَدَّهَا فِيهِ، وَأَنْ يَلْبَسَ ثَوْبًا مِنْ فَيْءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ حَتَّى إِذَا أَخْلَقَهُ رَدَّهُ فِيهِ
✧ We raided with Ruwayfiʿ b. Thābit al-Anṣārī a village among the villages of the Maghrib called Jarbah. He stood among us as a preacher and said: O people, I do not say among you except what I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say. He stood among us on the day of Ḥunayn and said, ‘It is not lawful for a man who believes in Allah and the Last Day to water his own seed in another’s crop — meaning having intercourse with pregnant women from the captives — nor to have intercourse with a previously married woman from the captives until he has sought to ascertain her being free from pregnancy — meaning when he buys her — nor to sell spoils before they are divided, nor to ride an animal from the fayʾ of the Muslims until, when he has exhausted it, he returns it to it, nor to wear a garment from the fayʾ of the Muslims until, when he has worn it out, he returns it to it.’
Musnad Ahmad 16998Sahih
مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ فَلَا يَبْتَاعَنَّ ذَهَبًا بِذَهَبٍ إِلَّا وَزْنًا بِوَزْنٍ، وَلَا يَنْكِحْ ثَيِّبًا مِنَ السَّبْيِ حَتَّى تَحِيضَ
✧ Whoever believes in God and the Last Day, let him not buy gold for gold except weight for weight, and let him not marry a previously married woman from the captives until she has menstruated.
Musnad Ahmad 16999Sahih
كُنَّا مَعَ رُوَيْفِعِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ غَزْوَةَ جَرْبَةَ فَقَسَمَهَا عَلَيْنَا، وَقَالَ لَنَا رُوَيْفِعٌ: مَنْ أَصَابَ مِنْ هَذَا السَّبْيِ، فَلَا يَطَأْهَا حَتَّى تَحِيضَ، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَا يَحِلُّ لِرَجُلٍ أَنْ يَسْقِيَ مَاءَهُ وَلَدَ غَيْرِهِ
✧ "And Ruwaif said to us that whoever is afflicted with this captivity, should not approach her until she menstruates. Indeed, I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, 'It is not permissible for a man to irrigate his water and the water of others.'"
اسْتَخْلَفَ مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ مُخَلَّدٍ رُوَيْفِعَ بْنَ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ عَلَى أَسْفَلِ الْأَرْضِ، قَالَ: فَسِرْنَا مَعَهُ. قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَا رُوَيْفِعُ، لَعَلَّ الْحَيَاةَ سَتَطُولُ بِكَ بَعْدِي، فَأَخْبِرِ النَّاسَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ عَقَدَ لِحْيَتَهُ، أَوْ تَقَلَّدَ وَتَرًا، أَوِ اسْتَنْجَى بِرَجِيعِ دَابَّةٍ أَوْ بِعَظْمٍ، فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا ﷺ بَرِيءٌ مِنْهُ
✧ Maslama b. Mukhallad appointed Ruwayfiʿ b. Thabit al-Ansari as his deputy over Lower Egypt. He said: We traveled with him. He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said to me: “O Ruwayfiʿ, perhaps life will be prolonged for you after me. So tell the people that whoever ties his beard, or hangs a bowstring around his neck, or wipes himself with the dung of an animal or with a bone, Muhammad ﷺ is innocent of him.”
Musnad Ahmad 17001Hasan
عَرَضَ مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ مُخَلَّدٍ - وَكَانَ أَمِيرًا عَلَى مِصْرَ - عَلَى رُوَيْفِعِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ أَنْ يُوَلِّيَهُ الْعُشُورَ فَقَالَ: إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ صَاحِبَ الْمَكْسِ فِي النَّارِ
✧ Maslama b. Mukhallad—who was governor of Egypt—offered Ruwayfiʿ b. Thabit to appoint him over the tithes. He said: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: “The collector of unjust taxes is in the Fire.”
Musnad Ahmad 17002No grade recorded
دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ حَابِسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ الطَّائِيُّ مِنَ السَّحَرِ، - وَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ - فَرَأَى النَّاسَ يُصَلُّونَ فِي مُقَدَّمِ الْمَسْجِدِ، فَقَالَ: مُرَاؤُونَ وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ، أَرْعِبُوهُمْ فَمَنْ أَرْعَبَهُمْ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللهَ وَرَسُولَهُ، قَالَ: فَأَتَاهُمُ النَّاسُ، فَأَخْرَجُوهُمْ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ تُصَلِّي مِنَ السَّحَرِ فِي مُقَدَّمِ الْمَسْجِدِ
✧ Habis b. Saʿd al-Taʾi entered the mosque before dawn—and he had met the Prophet ﷺ—and saw people praying in the front of the mosque. He said: “Show-offs, by the Lord of the Kaaba! Frighten them, for whoever frightens them has obeyed God and His Messenger.” He said: So the people came to them and expelled them. He said: Then he said: “The angels pray before dawn in the front of the mosque.”
Musnad Ahmad 17003Hasan
مَنْ نَجَا مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَقَدْ نَجَا - ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ - مَوْتِي، وَالدَّجَّالِ، وَقَتْلِ خَلِيفَةٍ مُصْطَبِرٍ بِالْحَقِّ مُعْطِيهِ
✧ Whoever is saved from three things is saved—he said it three times—my death, the Dajjal, and the killing of a caliph who is patient with the truth and grants it.
Musnad Ahmad 17004No grade recorded
أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي ظِلِّ دَوْمَةٍ، وَعِنْدَهُ كَاتِبٌ لَهُ يُمْلِي عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: أَلَا أَكْتُبُكَ يَا ابْنَ حَوَالَةَ ؟ قُلْتُ: لَا أَدْرِي مَا خَارَ اللهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ، فَأَعْرَضَ عَنِّي، وَقَالَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ مَرَّةً فِي الْأُولَى: نَكْتُبُكَ يَا ابْنَ حَوَالَةَ ؟ قُلْتُ: لَا أَدْرِي فِيمَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنِّي، فَأَكَبَّ عَلَى كَاتِبِهِ يُمْلِي عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَنَكْتُبُكَ يَا ابْنَ حَوَالَةَ ؟ قُلْتُ: لَا أَدْرِي مَا خَارَ اللهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ، فَأَعْرَضَ عَنِّي، فَأَكَبَّ عَلَى كَاتِبِهِ يُمْلِي عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ: فَنَظَرْتُ فَإِذَا فِي الْكِتَابِ عُمَرُ، فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّ عُمَرَ لَا يُكْتَبُ إِلَّا فِي خَيْرٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَنَكْتُبُكَ يَا ابْنَ حَوَالَةَ ؟ قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ. فَقَالَ: يَا ابْنَ حَوَالَةَ، كَيْفَ تَفْعَلُ فِي فِتْنَةٍ تَخْرُجُ فِي أَطْرَافِ الْأَرْضِ كَأَنَّهَا صَيَاصِي بَقَرٍ ؟ قُلْتُ: لَا أَدْرِي مَا خَارَ اللهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ. قَالَ: وَكَيْفَ تَفْعَلُ فِي أُخْرَى تَخْرُجُ بَعْدَهَا كَأَنَّ الْأُولَى فِيهَا انْتِفَاجَةُ أَرْنَبٍ ؟ قُلْتُ: لَا أَدْرِي مَا خَارَ اللهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ. قَالَ: اتَّبِعُوا هَذَا، قَالَ: وَرَجُلٌ مُقَفِّي حِينَئِذٍ، قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقْتُ فَسَعَيْتُ، وَأَخَذْتُ بِمَنْكِبَيْهِ، فَأَقْبَلْتُ بِوَجْهِهِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: وَإِذَا هُوَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ ؓ
✧ I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ while he was sitting in the shade of a doum palm, and with him was a scribe of his, dictating to him. He said: “Shall I not write you down, O Ibn Hawala?” I said: “I do not know what God and His Messenger have chosen for me.” So he turned away from me. Ismaʿil said once in the first instance: “We shall write you down, O Ibn Hawala?” I said: “I do not know in what, O Messenger of God?” So he turned away from me, and bent over his scribe, dictating to him. Then he said: “Shall we write you down, O Ibn Hawala?” I said: “I do not know what God and His Messenger have chosen for me.” So he turned away from me, and bent over his scribe, dictating to him. He said: Then I looked, and behold, in the writing was ʿUmar. So I said: “ʿUmar is only written down for good.” Then he said: “Shall we write you down, O Ibn Hawala?” I said: “Yes.” Then he said: “O Ibn Hawala, how will you act in a trial that will emerge in the ends of the earth, as if it were the horns of cattle?” I said: “I do not know what God and His Messenger have chosen for me.” He said: “And how will you act in another that will emerge after it, as if the first one in it were the leap of a rabbit?” I said: “I do not know what God and His Messenger have chosen for me.” He said: “Follow this one.” He said: And a man was turning his back at that moment. He said: So I went off, and I hastened, and took hold of his shoulders, and turned his face toward the Messenger of God ﷺ, and I said: “This one?” He said: “Yes.” He said: And behold, it was ʿUthman b. ʿAffan ؓ.
Musnad Ahmad 17005Sahih
سَيَصِيرُ الْأَمْرُ إِلَى أَنْ [تَكُونَ جُنُودٌ] مُجَنَّدَةً، جُنْدٌ بِالشَّامِ، وَجُنْدٌ بِالْيَمَنِ، وَجُنْدٌ بِالْعِرَاقِ، فَقَالَ ابْنُ حَوَالَةَ: خِرْ لِي يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنْ أَدْرَكْتُ ذَاكَ. قَالَ: عَلَيْكَ بِالشَّامِ، فَإِنَّهُ خِيرَةُ اللهِ مِنْ أَرْضِهِ، يَجْتَبِي إِلَيْهِ خِيرَتَهُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ، فَإِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِيَمَنِكُمْ، وَاسْقُوا مِنْ غُدُرِكُمْ، فَإِنَّ اللهَ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - قَدْ تَوَكَّلَ لِي بِالشَّامِ وَأَهْلِهِ
The Prophet ﷺ said: It will turn out that you will be armed troops, one is Syria, one in the Yemen and one in Iraq. Ibn Hawalah said: Choose for me, Messenger of Allah, if I reach that time. He replied: Go to Syria, for it is Allah's chosen land, to which his best servants will be gathered, but if you are unwilling, go to your Yemen, and draw water from your tanks, for Allah has on my account taken special charge of Syria and its people. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2483)
Musnad Ahmad 17006Hasan
مَنْ نَجَا مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ فَقَدْ نَجَا - ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ - مَوْتِي، وَالدَّجَّالِ، وَقَتْلِ خَلِيفَةٍ مُصْطَبِرٍ بِالْحَقِّ مُعْطِيهِ
✧ Whoever is saved from three things is saved—he said it three times—my death, the Dajjal, and the killing of a caliph who is patient with the truth and grants it.
Musnad Ahmad 17007Sahih
بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ سَرِيَّةً، فَسَلَحْتُ رَجُلًا سَيْفًا، قَالَ: فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ، قَالَ: مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ مَا لَامَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، قَالَ: أَعَجَزْتُمْ إِذْ بَعَثْتُ رَجُلًا، فَلَمْ يَمْضِ لِأَمْرِي أَنْ تَجْعَلُوا مَكَانَهُ مَنْ يَمْضِي لِأَمْرِي
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ sent a military expedition, and I armed a man with a sword. He said: When he returned, he said: “I have not seen anything like the blame the Messenger of God ﷺ placed on us.” He said: “Were you unable, when I sent a man and he did not carry out my command, to put in his place someone who would carry out my command?”
Musnad Ahmad 17008Sahih
بَيْنَمَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ إِذْ قَالَ الْقَائِلُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَاللهِ مَا قَالَ الَّذِي قَالَ إِلَّا تَعَوُّذًا مِنَ الْقَتْلِ، فَذَكَرَ قِصَّتَهُ، فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ تُعْرَفُ الْمَسَاءَةُ فِي وَجْهِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ- أَبَى عَلَيَّ مَنْ قَتَلَ مُؤْمِنًا، قَالَهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ
✧ While the Messenger of God ﷺ was delivering a sermon, a speaker said: “O Messenger of God, by God, the one who said what he said only said it seeking refuge from being killed.” So he mentioned his story. The Messenger of God ﷺ turned to him with displeasure visible on his face, then said: “God—Mighty and Majestic—has refused me concerning anyone who kills a believer.” He said it three times.
Musnad Ahmad 17009Sahih
أَنَّ سَرِيَّةً لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ غَشُوا أَهْلَ مَاءٍ صُبْحًا، فَبَرَزَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَاءِ، فَحَمَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي مُسْلِمٌ، فَقَتَلَهُ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمُوا أَخْبَرُوا النَّبِيَّ ﷺ بِذَلِكَ، فَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ خَطِيبًا، فَحَمِدَ اللهَ وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَمَا بَالُ الْمُسْلِمِ يَقْتُلُ الرَّجُلَ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: إِنِّي مُسْلِمٌ، فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ: إِنَّمَا قَالَهَا مُتَعَوِّذًا، فَصَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَجْهَهُ، وَمَدَّ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى، فَقَالَ: أَبَى اللهُ عَلَيَّ مَنْ قَتَلَ مُسْلِمًا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ
✧ A military expedition of the Messenger of God ﷺ raided the people of a watering place at dawn. A man from the people of the watering place came out, and a man from the Muslims attacked him. He said: “I am a Muslim,” but he killed him. When they arrived, they told the Prophet ﷺ about that. The Messenger of God ﷺ stood up as a preacher, praised God and extolled Him, then said: “Now then, what is the matter with a Muslim who kills a man while he says: ‘I am a Muslim’?” The man said: “He only said it seeking refuge.” The Messenger of God ﷺ turned his face away, stretched out his right hand, and said: “God has refused me concerning anyone who kills a Muslim,” three times.
Musnad Ahmad 17010Sahih
سَتَكُونُ مِنْ بَعْدِي فِتْنَةٌ، النَّائِمُ فِيهَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَقْظَانِ، وَالْقَاعِدُ فِيهَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْقَائِمِ، وَالْقَائِمُ فِيهَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ السَّاعِي، فَمَنْ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ فَلْيَمْشِ بِسَيْفِهِ إِلَى صَفَاةٍ فَلْيَضْرِبْهُ بِهَا حَتَّى يَنْكَسِرَ، ثُمَّ لِيَضْطَجِعْ لَهَا حَتَّى تَنْجَلِيَ عَمَّا انْجَلَتْ
✧ After me there will be a trial in which the one sleeping is better than the one awake, the one sitting is better than the one standing, and the one standing is better than the one walking. So whoever it comes upon, let him go with his sword to a rock and strike it with it until it breaks, then let him lie down for it until it clears away as it clears away.
Musnad Ahmad 17011Sahih
لَا يَغْتَسِلُ الرَّجُلُ مِنْ فَضْلِ امْرَأَتِهِ، وَلَا تَغْتَسِلُ بِفَضْلِهِ، وَلَا يَبُولُ فِي مُغْتَسَلِهِ، وَلَا يَمْتَشِطُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ
✧ A man should not bathe with the leftover water of his wife, nor should she bathe with his leftover water, nor should he urinate in his bathing place, nor should he comb his hair every day.
Musnad Ahmad 17012Sahih
نَهَانَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ يَمْتَشِطَ أَحَدُنَا كُلَّ يَوْمٍ، وَأَنْ يَبُولَ فِي مُغْتَسَلِهِ، وَأَنْ تَغْتَسِلَ الْمَرْأَةُ بِفَضْلِ الرَّجُلِ، وَأَنْ يَغْتَسِلَ الرَّجُلُ بِفَضْلِ الْمَرْأَةِ، وَلْيَغْتَرِفُوا جَمِيعًا
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade us from combing our hair every day, from urinating in one's bathing place, from a woman bathing with the leftover water of a man, and from a man bathing with the leftover water of a woman. Rather, they should scoop [water] together.
Musnad Ahmad 17013Hasan
أَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَلِي حَاجَةٌ، فَرَأَى عَلَيَّ خَلُوقًا فَقَالَ: اذْهَبْ فَاغْسِلْهُ. فَغَسَلْتُهُ ثُمَّ عُدْتُ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: اذْهَبْ فَاغْسِلْهُ. فَذَهَبْتُ فَوَقَعْتُ فِي بِئْرٍ، فَأَخَذْتُ مُسْتَقَةً، فَجَعَلْتُ أَتَتَبَّعُهُ، ثُمَّ عُدْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ: حَاجَتَكَ
✧ I came to the Prophet ﷺ with a need. He saw some perfume (khaluq) on me and said: 'Go and wash it off.' So I washed it off and returned to him. He said: 'Go and wash it off.' So I went and fell into a well, and I took hold of a fur garment (mustaqa) and started to clean it. Then I returned to him and he said: '[Tell me] your need.'
Musnad Ahmad 17014Sahih
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، عَلِّمْنِي مِمَّا عَلَّمَكَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ. قَالَ: إِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الصُّبْحَ فَأَقْصِرْ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ، فَإِذَا طَلَعَتْ فَلَا تُصَلِّ حَتَّى تَرْتَفِعَ، فَإِنَّهَا تَطْلُعُ حِينَ تَطْلُعُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ، وَحِينَئِذٍ يَسْجُدُ لَهَا الْكُفَّارُ، فَإِذَا ارْتَفَعَتْ قِيدَ رُمْحٍ أَوْ رُمْحَيْنِ فَصَلِّ؛ فَإِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ مَشْهُودَةٌ مَحْضُورَةٌ حَتَّى - يَعْنِي - يَسْتَقِلَّ الرُّمْحُ بِالظِّلِّ، ثُمَّ أَقْصِرْ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ، فَإِنَّهَا حِينَئِذٍ تُسْجَرُ جَهَنَّمُ، فَإِذَا فَاءَ الْفَيْءُ فَصَلِّ، فَإِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ مَشْهُودَةٌ مَحْضُورَةٌ حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ الْعَصْرَ، فَإِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الْعَصْرَ فَأَقْصِرْ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى تَغْرُبَ الشَّمْسُ، فَإِنَّهَا تَغْرُبُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ فَحِينَئِذٍ يَسْجُدُ لَهَا الْكُفَّارُ
✧ I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, teach me some of what Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has taught you.' He said: 'When you have prayed the morning prayer (subh), then refrain from praying until the sun rises. When it has risen, do not pray until it has ascended, for it rises between the two horns of a devil, and at that time the disbelievers prostrate to it. When it has risen to the height of a spear or two spears, then pray, for the prayer is witnessed and attended until—meaning—the spear casts a shadow (i.e., until noon). Then refrain from praying, for at that time Hell is kindled (tusjar). When the shadow declines (after noon), then pray, for the prayer is witnessed and attended until you pray the afternoon prayer (asr). When you have prayed the afternoon prayer, then refrain from praying until the sun sets, for it sets between the two horns of a devil, and at that time the disbelievers prostrate to it.'
Musnad Ahmad 17015Sahih
كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ يَسِيرُ بِأَرْضِ الرُّومِ، وَكَانَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَهُ أَمَدٌ، فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَدْنُوَ مِنْهُمْ، فَإِذَا انْقَضَى الْأَمَدُ غَزَاهُمْ، فَإِذَا شَيْخٌ عَلَى دَابَّةٍ، يَقُولُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللهُ أَكْبَرُ، وَفَاءٌ لَا غَدْرٌ، إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: مَنْ كَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ قَوْمٍ عَهْدٌ، فَلَا يَحُلَّنَّ عُقْدَةً وَلَا يَشُدَّهَا حَتَّى يَنْقَضِيَ أَمَدُهَا، أَوْ يَنْبِذَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلَى سَوَاءٍ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَرَجَعَ، وَإِذَا الشَّيْخُ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَ
✧ Mu'awiya was marching in the land of the Romans, and there was a truce period between them and him. He wanted to draw near to them so that when the truce period ended he would raid them. Then [they saw] an old man on a mount saying: 'Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar! Fulfillment, not treachery! The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Whoever has a treaty with a people, let him not loosen a knot nor tighten it until its term ends, or he should throw it back to them on equal terms.' This reached Mu'awiya, so he turned back, and the old man was 'Amr b. 'Abasa.
Musnad Ahmad 17016Sahih
رَغِبْتُ عَنْ آلِهَةِ قَوْمِي فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ، قَالَ: فَسَأَلْتُ عَنْهُ، فَوَجَدْتُهُ مُسْتَخْفِيًا بِشَأْنِهِ فَتَلَطَّفْتُ لَهُ، حَتَّى دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ، فَسَلَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: مَا أَنْتَ ؟ فَقَالَ: نَبِيٌّ، فَقُلْتُ: وَمَا النَّبِيُّ ؟ فَقَالَ: رَسُولُ اللهِ، فَقُلْتُ: وَمَنْ أَرْسَلَكَ ؟ قَالَ: اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، قُلْتُ: بِمَاذَا أَرْسَلَكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: بِأَنْ تُوصَلَ الْأَرْحَامُ، وَتُحْقَنَ الدِّمَاءُ، وَتُؤْمَنَ السُّبُلُ، وَتُكْسَرَ الْأَوْثَانُ، وَيُعْبَدَ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا يُشْرَكُ بِهِ شَيْئًا، قُلْتُ: نِعْمَ مَا أَرْسَلَكَ بِهِ، وَأُشْهِدُكَ أَنِّي قَدْ آمَنْتُ بِكَ وَصَدَّقْتُكَ، أَفَأَمْكُثُ مَعَكَ أَمْ مَا تَرَى ؟ فَقَالَ: قَدْ تَرَى كَرَاهَةَ النَّاسِ لِمَا جِئْتُ بِهِ، فَامْكُثْ فِي أَهْلِكَ، فَإِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ بِي قَدْ خَرَجْتُ مَخْرَجِي فَأْتِنِي،
✧ I turned away from the deities of my people in the pre-Islamic era (jahiliyya)...' And he mentioned the hadith. He said: 'So I asked about him, and I found him hiding because of his affair. I approached him gently until I entered upon him. I greeted him and said to him: What are you? He said: A prophet. I said: And what is a prophet? He said: A messenger of Allah. I said: And who sent you? He said: Allah, Mighty and Majestic. I said: With what did He send you? He said: With [the command] that kinship ties be maintained, blood be spared, roads be made safe, idols be broken, and Allah alone be worshipped with nothing associated with Him. I said: Excellent is what He sent you with! I bear witness that I have believed in you and affirmed you. Should I stay with you, or what do you think? He said: You see how people dislike what I have brought. So stay with your family, and when you hear that I have come out openly, then come to me.'
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَضْمَضَ وَاسْتَنْشَقَ فِي رَمَضَانَ
✧ I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ rinse his mouth and sniff water into his nose during Ramadan.
أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ أَسْلَمَ مَعَكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ، يَعْنِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَبِلَالًا، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، عَلِّمْنِي مِمَّا تَعْلَمُ وَأَجْهَلُ، هَلْ مِنَ السَّاعَاتِ سَاعَةٌ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الْأُخْرَى ؟ قَالَ: جَوْفُ اللَّيْلِ الْآخِرُ أَفْضَلُ؛ فَإِنَّهَا مَشْهُودَةٌ مُتَقَبَّلَةٌ حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ الْفَجْرَ، ثُمَّ انْهَهُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مَا دَامَتْ كَالْحَجَفَةِ حَتَّى تَنْتَشِرَ، فَإِنَّهَا تَطْلُعُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ، وَيَسْجُدُ لَهَا الْكُفَّارُ. ثُمَّ تُصَلِّ، فَإِنَّهَا مَشْهُودَةٌ مُتَقَبَّلَةٌ، حَتَّى يَسْتَوِيَ الْعَمُودُ عَلَى ظِلِّهِ، ثُمَّ انْهَهُ فَإِنَّهَا سَاعَةٌ تُسْجَرُ فِيهَا الْجَحِيمُ، فَإِذَا زَالَتْ فَصَلِّ فَإِنَّهَا مَشْهُودَةٌ مُتَقَبَّلَةٌ حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ الْعَصْرَ، ثُمَّ انْهَهُ حَتَّى تَغْرُبَ الشَّمْسُ فَإِنَّهَا تَغْرُبُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ وَيَسْجُدُ لَهَا الْكُفَّارُ وَكَانَ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَ يَقُولُ: أَنَا رُبُعُ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَكَانَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ
✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, who has embraced Islam with you?' He said: 'A free man and a slave'—meaning Abu Bakr and Bilal. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, teach me some of what you know and I do not know. Are there any hours [of the day] better than others?' He said: 'The last part of the night is best, for it is witnessed and accepted until you pray the dawn (fajr). Then refrain until the sun rises as long as it is like a shield until it spreads, for it rises between the two horns of a devil, and the disbelievers prostrate to it. Then pray, for it is witnessed and accepted, until the spear's shadow is equal to its length (i.e., noon). Then refrain, for it is an hour in which Hell is kindled. When the sun has passed its zenith, then pray, for it is witnessed and accepted until you pray the afternoon (asr). Then refrain until the sun sets, for it sets between the two horns of a devil, and the disbelievers prostrate to it.' And 'Amr b. 'Abasa used to say: 'I am a quarter of Islam.' And 'Abd al-Rahman used to pray two rak'as after the afternoon prayer.
Musnad Ahmad 17019No grade recorded
إِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الصُّبْحَ فَأَقْصِرْ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ، فَإِذَا طَلَعَتْ فَلَا تُصَلِّ حَتَّى تَرْتَفِعَ، فَإِنَّهَا تَطْلُعُ حِينَ تَطْلُعُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ، وَحِينَئِذٍ يَسْجُدُ لَهَا الْكُفَّارُ، فَإِذَا ارْتَفَعَتْ قِيدَ رُمْحٍ أَوْ رُمْحَيْنِ فَصَلِّ، فَإِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ مَشْهُودَةٌ مَحْضُورَةٌ حَتَّى يَسْتَقِلَّ الرُّمْحُ بِالظِّلِّ، ثُمَّ أَقْصِرْ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ فَإِنَّهَا حِينَئِذٍ تُسْجَرُ جَهَنَّمُ، فَإِذَا فَاءَ الْفَيْءُ فَصَلِّ، فَإِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ مَشْهُودَةٌ مَحْضُورَةٌ، حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ الْعَصْرَ، فَإِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الْعَصْرَ فَأَقْصِرْ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى تَغْرُبَ الشَّمْسُ، فَإِنَّهَا تَغْرُبُ حِينَ تَغْرُبُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ، وَحِينَئِذٍ يَسْجُدُ لَهَا الْكُفَّارُ. قُلْتُ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ
✧ When you have prayed the morning prayer (subh), then refrain from praying until the sun rises. When it has risen, do not pray until it has ascended, for it rises between the two horns of a devil, and at that time the disbelievers prostrate to it. When it has risen to the height of a spear or two spears, then pray, for the prayer is witnessed and attended until the spear casts a full shadow (i.e., until noon). Then refrain from praying, for at that time Hell is kindled. When the shadow declines (after noon), then pray, for the prayer is witnessed and attended until you pray the afternoon prayer (asr). When you have prayed the afternoon prayer, then refrain from praying until the sun sets, for it sets between the two horns of a devil, and at that time the disbelievers prostrate to it.' I said: 'O Prophet of Allah.'
Musnad Ahmad 17020Sahih
مَنْ أَعْتَقَ رَقَبَةً مُسْلِمَةً، كَانَتْ فِكَاكَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ، عُضْوًا بِعُضْوٍ، وَمَنْ شَابَ شَيْبَةً فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ كَانَتْ لَهُ نُورًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَمَنْ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فَبَلَغَ فَأَصَابَ أَوْ أَخْطَأَ، كَانَ كَمَنْ أَعْتَقَ رَقَبَةً مِنْ وَلَدِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ
✧ Narrated by Amr, I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "Whoever frees a Muslim slave, his emancipation will be his ransom from the Fire on the Day of Resurrection, limb by limb. And whoever bears white hair in the cause of Allah, it will be a light for him on the Day of Resurrection. And whoever shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, and it reaches its target or misses, it will be for him as if he freed a slave from the descendants of Isma'il."
Musnad Ahmad 17021No grade recorded
أَتَيْنَاهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ جَالِسٌ يَتَفَلَّى فِي جَوْفِ الْمَسْجِدِ قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ الْمُسْلِمُ ذَهَبَ الْإِثْمُ مِنْ سَمْعِهِ وَبَصَرِهِ وَيَدَيْهِ وَرِجْلَيْهِ، قَالَ: فَجَاءَ أَبُو ظَبْيَةَ وَهُوَ يُحَدِّثُنَا، فَقَالَ: مَا حَدَّثَكُمْ ؟ فَذَكَرْنَا لَهُ الَّذِي
✧ We came to him and found him sitting, delousing himself inside the mosque. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'When a Muslim performs ablution, sin departs from his hearing, his sight, his hands, and his feet.' [The narrator] said: Then Abu Zubya came while he was narrating to us and said: 'What did he narrate to you?' So we mentioned to him that [hadith].
Musnad Ahmad 17022Sahih
حَاصَرْنَا مَعَ نَبِيِّ اللهِ ﷺ حِصْنَ الطَّائِفِ، فَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ بَلَغَ بِسَهْمٍ فَلَهُ دَرَجَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ، قَالَ: فَبَلَغْتُ يَوْمَئِذٍ سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ سَهْمًا، فَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَهُوَ عِدْلُ مُحَرَّرٍ، وَمَنْ شَابَ شَيْبَةً فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ كَانَتْ لَهُ نُورًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَأَيُّمَا رَجُلٍ مُسْلِمٍ أَعْتَقَ رَجُلًا مُسْلِمًا فَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ جَاعِلٌ وَفَاءَ كُلِّ عَظْمٍ مِنْ عِظَامِهِ عَظْمًا مِنْ عِظَامِ مُحَرَّرِهِ مِنَ النَّارِ، وَأَيُّمَا امْرَأَةٍ مُسْلِمَةٍ أَعْتَقَتِ امْرَأَةً مُسْلِمَةً فَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ جَاعِلٌ وَفَاءَ كُلِّ عَظْمٍ مِنْ عِظَامِهَا عَظْمًا مِنْ عِظَامِ مُحَرَّرِهَا مِنَ النَّارِ
✧ We besieged the fortress of al-Ta'if with the Prophet of Allah ﷺ, and I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Whoever hits [the enemy] with an arrow, he will have a degree in Paradise.' He said: 'That day I hit sixteen arrows.' And I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Whoever shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, it is equal to [freeing] a slave. Whoever grows a white hair in the cause of Allah, it will be a light for him on the Day of Resurrection. Any Muslim man who frees a Muslim man, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will make every bone of his [the freed slave's] bones a ransom for a bone of his [the one who freed him] from the Fire. And any Muslim woman who frees a Muslim woman, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will make every bone of her [the freed slave woman's] bones a ransom for a bone of her [the one who freed her] from the Fire.'
Musnad Ahmad 17023Sahih
أَيُّمَا رَجُلٍ مُسْلِمٍ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَبَلَغَ مُخْطِئًا أَوْ مُصِيبًا فَلَهُ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ كَرَقَبَةٍ أَعْتَقَهَا مِنْ وَلَدِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ
✧ Any Muslim man who shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, whether it misses or hits [the target], he will have the reward of freeing a slave from the descendants of Ishmael.
Musnad Ahmad 17024Sahih
أَنَّهُ لَقِيَ عَمْرَو بْنَ عَبَسَةَ فَقَالَ: هَلْ مِنْ حَدِيثٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ لَا زِيَادَةَ فِيهِ وَلَا نُقْصَانَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ أَعْتَقَ رَقَبَةً أَعْتَقَ اللهُ بِكُلِّ عُضْوٍ مِنْهَا عُضْوًا مِنْهُ مِنَ النَّارِ، وَمَنْ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ بَلَغَ أَوْ قَصَّرَ كَانَ عِدْلَ رَقَبَةٍ، وَمَنْ شَابَ شَيْبَةً فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ كَانَ لَهُ نُورًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ He met 'Amr b. 'Abasa and said: 'Is there any hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with no addition to it and no omission?' He said: 'Yes. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever frees a slave, Allah will free, for every limb of it [the slave], a limb of him [the one who freed him] from the Fire. Whoever shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, whether it hits or falls short, it is equal to [freeing] a slave. Whoever grows a white hair in the cause of Allah, it will be a light for him on the Day of Resurrection.'
Musnad Ahmad 17025No grade recorded
كَانَ بَيْنَ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَبَيْنَ الرُّومِ عَهْدٌ، وَكَانَ يَسِيرُ نَحْوَ بِلَادِهِمْ حَتَّى يَنْقَضِيَ الْعَهْدُ فَيَغْزُوَهُمْ، فَجَعَلَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى دَابَّةٍ يَقُولُ: وَفَاءٌ لَا غَدْرٌ، وَفَاءٌ لَا غَدْرٌ، فَإِذَا هُوَ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَ، فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ كَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ قَوْمٍ عَهْدٌ فَلَا يَحُلَّ عُقْدَةً وَلَا يَشُدَّهَا حَتَّى يَمْضِيَ أَمَدُهَا، أَوْ يَنْبِذَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلَى سَوَاءٍ، فَرَجَعَ مُعَاوِيَةُ ؓ
✧ There was a treaty between Mu'awiya and the Romans, and he would advance towards their lands until the treaty expired, then he would raid them. A man on a mount began saying: 'Fulfillment, not treachery; fulfillment, not treachery.' He was 'Amr b. 'Abasa. I asked him about that, and he said: 'I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: "Whoever has a treaty between him and a people, let him neither loosen a knot nor tighten it until its term passes, or he announces to them on equal terms." So Mu'awiya ؓ returned.'
أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ أَسْلَمَ ؟ قَالَ: حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ، قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ: وَهَلْ مِنْ سَاعَةٍ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى اللهِ تَعَالَى مِنْ أُخْرَى ؟ قَالَ: جَوْفُ اللَّيْلِ الْآخِرُ، صَلِّ مَا بَدَا لَكَ حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ الصُّبْحَ ثُمَّ انْهَهُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ، وَمَا دَامَتْ كَأَنَّهَا حَجَفَةٌ حَتَّى تَنْتَشِرَ، ثُمَّ صَلِّ مَا بَدَا لَكَ حَتَّى يَقُومَ الْعَمُودُ عَلَى ظِلِّهِ، ثُمَّ انْهَهُ حَتَّى تَزُولَ الشَّمْسُ فَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ تُسْجَرُ لِنِصْفِ النَّهَارِ، ثُمَّ صَلِّ مَا بَدَا لَكَ حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ الْعَصْرَ، ثُمَّ انْهَهُ حَتَّى تَغْرُبَ الشَّمْسُ فَإِنَّهَا تَغْرُبُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ وَتَطْلُعُ بَيْنَ قَرْنَيْ شَيْطَانٍ، فَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ فَغَسَلَ يَدَيْهِ خَرَّتْ خَطَايَاهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ، فَإِذَا غَسَلَ وَجْهَهُ خَرَّتْ خَطَايَاهُ مِنْ وَجْهِهِ، فَإِذَا غَسَلَ ذِرَاعَيْهِ وَمَسَحَ بِرَأْسِهِ خَرَّتْ خَطَايَاهُ مِنْ ذِرَاعَيْهِ وَرَأْسِهِ، وَإِذَا غَسَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ خَرَّتْ خَطَايَاهُ مِنْ رِجْلَيْهِ، فَإِذَا قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ وَكَانَ هُوَ وَقَلْبُهُ وَوَجْهُهُ - أَوْ كَلِمَةٌ نَحْوَ الْوَجْهِ - إِلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ انْصَرَفَ كَمَا وَلَدَتْهُ أُمُّهُ، قَالَ: فَقِيلَ لَهُ: آنْتَ سَمِعْتَ هَذَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ قَالَ: لَوْ لَمْ أَسْمَعْهُ مَرَّةً أَوْ مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ عَشْرًا أَوْ عِشْرِينَ مَا حَدَّثْتُ بِهِ
✧ I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of God, who has embraced Islam?' He said: 'A free man and a slave.' I said: 'Is there any hour closer to God Almighty than another?' He said: 'The last part of the night. Pray as much as you wish until you pray the morning prayer, then stop until the sun rises, and as long as it is like a shield until it spreads. Then pray as much as you wish until the spear's shadow stands on its shadow, then stop until the sun declines, for Hell is kindled at midday. Then pray as much as you wish until you pray the afternoon prayer, then stop until the sun sets, for it sets between the two horns of a devil and rises between the two horns of a devil. When a servant performs ablution and washes his hands, his sins fall from between his hands. When he washes his face, his sins fall from his face. When he washes his forearms and wipes his head, his sins fall from his forearms and head. When he washes his feet, his sins fall from his feet. Then when he stands for prayer, and he, his heart, and his face—or a word like face—are directed to God Almighty, he departs as his mother bore him.' It was said to him: 'Did you hear this from the Messenger of God ﷺ?' He said: 'If I had not heard it once or twice or ten or twenty times, I would not have narrated it.'
Musnad Ahmad 17027Sahih
قَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا الْإِسْلَامُ ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ يُسْلِمَ قَلْبُكَ لِلهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَأَنْ يَسْلَمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِكَ وَيَدِكَ، قَالَ: فَأَيُّ الْإِسْلَامِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: الْإِيمَانُ، قَالَ: وَمَا الْإِيمَانُ ؟ قَالَ: تُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ، وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ، وَكُتُبِهِ، وَرُسُلِهِ، وَالْبَعْثِ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ، قَالَ: فَأَيُّ الْإِيمَانِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: الْهِجْرَةُ، قَالَ: فَمَا الْهِجْرَةُ ؟ قَالَ: تَهْجُرُ السُّوءَ، قَالَ: فَأَيُّ الْهِجْرَةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: الْجِهَادُ، قَالَ: وَمَا الْجِهَادُ ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ تُقَاتِلَ الْكُفَّارَ إِذَا لَقِيتَهُمْ، قَالَ: فَأَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: مَنْ عُقِرَ جَوَادُهُ وَأُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: ثُمَّ عَمَلَانِ هُمَا أَفْضَلُ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَّا مَنْ عَمِلَ بِمِثْلِهِمَا: حَجَّةٌ مَبْرُورَةٌ أَوْ عُمْرَةٌ
✧ "A man said, 'O Messenger of Allah, what is Islam?' He ﷺ said, 'To surrender your heart to Allah and for the Muslims to be safe from your tongue and hand.' He then asked, 'Which Islam is the best?' He ﷺ said, 'Iman (faith).' He asked, 'And what is Iman?' He ﷺ said, 'To believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Day of Resurrection.' He asked, 'Which Iman is the best?' He ﷺ said, 'Hijrah (migration).' He asked, 'And what is Hijrah?' He ﷺ said, 'To abandon what is evil.' He asked, 'Which Hijrah is the best?' He ﷺ said, 'Jihad (striving).' He asked, 'And what is Jihad?' He ﷺ said, 'To fight the disbelievers when you meet them.' He asked, 'Which Jihad is the best?' He ﷺ said, 'The one who fights with his wealth and life.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said, 'These two actions are the best of deeds, except for those who perform deeds similar to them, such as a Hajj that is accepted or an 'Umrah that is performed sincerely.'"
Musnad Ahmad 17028Sahih
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ مَعَكَ عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ ؟ قَالَ: حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ، وَمَعَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَبِلَالٌ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ: ارْجِعْ إِلَى قَوْمِكَ حَتَّى يُمَكِّنَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لِرَسُولِهِ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَ يَقُولُ: لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي وَإِنِّي لَرُبُعُ الْإِسْلَامِ
✧ I said: 'O Messenger of God, who is with you on this matter?' He said: 'A free man and a slave,' and with him were Abu Bakr and Bilal. Then he said to him: 'Return to your people until God Almighty grants victory to His Messenger.' 'Amr b. 'Abasa used to say: 'I saw myself as a quarter of Islam.'
Musnad Ahmad 17029Sahih
كُنَّا نُصَلِّي مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ الْمَغْرِبَ وَنَنْصَرِفُ إِلَى السُّوقِ، وَلَوْ رَمَى أَحَدُنَا بِالنَّبْلِ، قَالَ عُثْمَانُ: رَمَى بِنَبْلٍ، لَأَبْصَرَ مَوَاقِعَهَا
✧ We used to pray the sunset prayer with the Prophet ﷺ and then leave for the market, and if one of us shot arrows—'Uthman said: shot with arrows—he could see where they fell.
Musnad Ahmad 17030Sahih
لَا تَتَّخِذُوا بُيُوتَكُمْ قُبُورًا، صَلُّوا فِيهَا
✧ Do not turn your houses into graves; pray in them.
Musnad Ahmad 17031No grade recorded
أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ تُوُفِّيَ بِخَيْبَرَ، وَأَنَّهُ ذُكِرَ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: صَلُّوا عَلَى صَاحِبِكُمْ، قَالَ: فَتَغَيَّرَتْ وُجُوهُ الْقَوْمِ لِذَلِكَ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى الَّذِي بِهِمْ، قَالَ: إِنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ غَلَّ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ فَفَتَّشْنَا مَتَاعَهُ فَوَجَدْنَا فِيهِ خَرَزًا مِنْ خَرَزِ الْيَهُودِ، مَا يُسَاوِي دِرْهَمَيْنِ
✧ A man among the Muslims died at Khaybar, and it was mentioned to the Messenger of God ﷺ, so he said: 'Pray over your companion.' The faces of the people changed at that. When he saw what was with them, he said: 'Your companion stole from the spoils in the path of God.' We searched his belongings and found in them beads from the beads of the Jews, not worth two dirhams.
Musnad Ahmad 17032Sahih
لَوْلَا أَنْ أَشُقَّ، وَقَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ: لَوْلَا أَنْ يُشَقَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي لَأَخَّرْتُ صَلَاةَ الْعِشَاءِ إِلَى ثُلُثِ اللَّيْلِ، وَلَأَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ
✧ Were it not that I would make it difficult—and Muhammad said: Were it not that it would be difficult for my community—I would have delayed the evening prayer until a third of the night, and I would have commanded them to use the tooth-stick at every prayer.
Musnad Ahmad 17033Sahih
مَنْ فَطَّرَ صَائِمًا، كُتِبَ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِهِ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَا يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِ الصَّائِمِ شَيْءٌ، وَمَنْ جَهَّزَ غَازِيًا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ خَلَفَهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ كُتِبَ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِهِ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَا يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِ الْغَازِي شَيْءٌ
✧ Whoever feeds a fasting person, the like of his reward is written for him, except that it does not diminish anything from the fasting person's reward. Whoever equips a warrior in the path of God or takes care of his family, the like of his reward is written for him, except that it does not diminish anything from the warrior's reward.
Musnad Ahmad 17034Accepted
لَعَنَ رَجُلٌ دِيكًا صَاحَ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: لَا تَلْعَنْهُ؛ فَإِنَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ
✧ A man cursed a rooster that crowed in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ, and the Prophet ﷺ said: 'Do not curse it, for it calls to prayer.'
Musnad Ahmad 17035Sahih
صَلَّى بِنَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ الصُّبْحَ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةِ فِي أَثَرِ سَمَاءٍ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ led us in the morning prayer at al-Hudaybiya after rain.
عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ أَنَّهُ رَآهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ وَهُوَ خَلِيفَةٌ رَكَعَ بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، فَمَشَى إِلَيْهِ فَضَرَبَهُ بِالدِّرَّةِ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي كَمَا هُوَ، فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ قَالَ زَيْدٌ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، فَوَاللهِ لَا أَدَعُهُمَا أَبَدًا بَعْدَ أَنْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّيهِمَا، قَالَ: فَجَلَسَ إِلَيْهِ عُمَرُ، وَقَالَ: يَا زَيْدُ بْنَ خَالِدٍ، لَوْلَا أَنِّي أَخْشَى أَنْ يَتَّخِذَهَا النَّاسُ سُلَّمًا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى اللَّيْلِ لَمْ أَضْرِبْ فِيهِمَا
✧ From Zayd b. Khalid: 'Umar b. al-Khattab saw him while he was caliph and he had prayed two rak'as after the afternoon prayer. He walked to him and struck him with a whip while he was praying. When he finished, Zayd said: 'O Commander of the Faithful, by God, I will never abandon them after seeing the Messenger of God ﷺ pray them.' 'Umar sat with him and said: 'O Zayd b. Khalid, were it not that I fear people would take them as a ladder to prayer until night, I would not have struck you for them.'
Musnad Ahmad 17037Sahih
أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، أَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْ ضَالَّةِ رَاعِي الْغَنَمِ. قَالَ: هِيَ لَكَ أَوْ لِلذِّئْبِ ؟ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا تَقُولُ فِي ضَالَّةِ رَاعِي الْإِبِلِ ؟ قَالَ: وَمَا لَكَ وَلَهَا ؟ مَعَهَا سِقَاؤُهَا وَحِذَاؤُهَا، وَتَأْكُلُ مِنْ أَطْرَافِ الشَّجَرِ، قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا تَقُولُ فِي الْوَرِقِ إِذَا وَجَدْتُهَا ؟ قَالَ: اعْلَمْ وِعَاءَهَا، وَوِكَاءَهَا، وَعَدَدَهَا، ثُمَّ عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً، فَإِنْ جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا فَادْفَعْهَا إِلَيْهِ، وَإِلَّا فَهِيَ لَكَ، أَوِ اسْتَمْتِعْ بِهَا، أَوْ نَحْوَ هَذَا
✧ He asked the Prophet ﷺ, or a man asked the Prophet ﷺ, about a lost sheep. He said: 'It is yours or for the wolf?' He said: 'O Messenger of God, what do you say about a lost camel?' He said: 'What do you have to do with it? It has its water-skin and its shoes, and it eats from the edges of the trees.' He said: 'O Messenger of God, what do you say about silver when I find it?' He said: 'Note its container, its tie, and its number, then announce it for a year. If its owner comes, give it to him; otherwise it is yours, or enjoy it, or something like that.'
Musnad Ahmad 17038Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا جَاءَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ ابْنِي كَانَ عَسِيفًا عَلَى هَذَا، فَزَنَى بِامْرَأَتِهِ، فَأَخْبَرُونِي أَنَّ عَلَى ابْنِيَ الرَّجْمَ، فَافْتَدَيْتُ مِنْهُ بِوَلِيدَةٍ وَبِمِائَةِ شَاةٍ، ثُمَّ
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: My son was a hired worker for this man, and he committed adultery with his wife. They told me that my son must be stoned, so I ransomed him with a slave girl and one hundred sheep.
Musnad Ahmad 17039Sahih
مَنْ جَهَّزَ غَازِيًا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَقَدْ غَزَا، وَمَنْ خَلَفَهُ فَقَدْ غَزَا
✧ Whoever equips a warrior in the path of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has indeed gone to battle, and whoever takes his place has indeed gone to battle.
Musnad Ahmad 17040Sahih
أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الشُّهَدَاءِ ؟ الَّذِي يَأْتِي بِالشَّهَادَةِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا
✧ Shall I not tell you about the best of witnesses? The one who brings his testimony before he is asked for it.
Musnad Ahmad 17041Sahih
كُنْتُ أُصَلِّي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ الْمَغْرِبَ ثُمَّ أَخْرُجُ إِلَى السُّوقِ، فَلَوْ أَرْمِي لَأَبْصَرْتُ مَوَاقِعَ نَبْلِي
✧ I used to pray Maghrib with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then I would go out to the market. If I were to shoot, I could see where my arrows fell.
Musnad Ahmad 17042Sahih
كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: أَنْشُدُكَ اللهَ، إِلَّا قَضَيْتَ بَيْنَنَا بِكِتَابِ اللهِ، فَقَامَ خَصْمُهُ وَكَانَ أَفْقَهَ مِنْهُ، فَقَالَ: صَدَقَ، اقْضِ بَيْنَنَا بِكِتَابِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَأْذَنْ لِي فَأَتَكَلَّمَ. قَالَ: قُلْ، قَالَ: إِنَّ ابْنِي كَانَ عَسِيفًا عَلَى هَذَا، وَإِنَّهُ زَنَى بِامْرَأَتِهِ، فَافْتَدَيْتُ مِنْهُ بِمِائَةِ شَاةٍ وَخَادِمٍ، ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُ رِجَالًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ، فَأَخْبَرُونِي أَنَّ عَلَى ابْنِي جَلْدَ مِائَةٍ وَتَغْرِيبَ عَامٍ، وَعَلَى امْرَأَةِ هَذَا الرَّجْمَ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَقْضِيَنَّ بَيْنَكُمَا بِكِتَابِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، الْمِائَةُ شَاةٍ وَالْخَادِمُ رَدٌّ عَلَيْكَ، وَعَلَى ابْنِكَ جَلْدُ مِائَةٍ، وَتَغْرِيبُ عَامٍ، وَاغْدُ يَا أُنَيْسُ - رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَسْلَمَ - عَلَى امْرَأَةِ هَذَا، فَإِنِ اعْتَرَفَتْ فَارْجُمْهَا. فَغَدَا عَلَيْهَا، فَاعْتَرَفَتْ، فَرَجَمَهَا
✧ We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when a man stood up and said: I adjure you by Allah to judge between us according to the Book of Allah. His opponent stood up, and he was more knowledgeable than him, and said: He has spoken the truth. Judge between us according to the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and allow me to speak. He said: Speak. He said: My son was a hired worker for this man, and he committed adultery with his wife. I ransomed him with one hundred sheep and a servant. Then I asked some men of knowledge, and they told me that my son must be flogged one hundred lashes and exiled for a year, and that this man's wife must be stoned. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: By the One in whose hand is my soul, I will surely judge between you according to the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. The hundred sheep and the servant are to be returned to you. Your son must be flogged one hundred lashes and exiled for a year. O Unays—a man from Aslam—go to this man's wife, and if she confesses, stone her. So he went to her, and she confessed, and he stoned her.
Musnad Ahmad 17043Sahih
سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنِ الْأَمَةِ تَزْنِي قَبْلَ أَنْ تُحْصَنَ. قَالَ: اجْلِدُوهَا، فَإِنْ عَادَتْ فَاجْلِدُوهَا، فَإِنْ عَادَتْ فَاجْلِدُوهَا، فَإِنْ عَادَتْ فَبِيعُوهَا وَلَوْ بِضَفِيرٍ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ was asked about a slave woman who commits adultery before she is married. He said: Flog her. If she commits adultery again, flog her. If she commits adultery again, flog her. If she commits adultery again, sell her, even for a rope of hair.
Musnad Ahmad 17044Sahih
لَا تَتَّخِذُوا بُيُوتَكُمْ قُبُورًا، صَلُّوا فِيهَا، وَمَنْ فَطَّرَ صَائِمًا كُتِبَ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِ الصَّائِمِ، لَا يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِ الصَّائِمِ شَيْءٌ، وَمَنْ جَهَّزَ غَازِيًا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ خَلَفَهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ، كُتِبَ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِ الْغَازِي، فِي أَنَّهُ لَا يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِ الْغَازِي شَيْءٌ
✧ Do not make your houses into graves. Pray in them. Whoever gives a fasting person something to break his fast, the same reward as the fasting person is written for him, without diminishing any of the fasting person's reward. Whoever equips a warrior in the path of Allah or takes his place with his family, the same reward as the warrior is written for him, without diminishing any of the warrior's reward.
Musnad Ahmad 17045Sahih
مَنْ جَهَّزَ غَازِيًا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ فَقَدْ غَزَا، وَمَنْ خَلَفَ غَازِيًا فِي أَهْلِهِ بِخَيْرٍ فَقَدْ غَزَا
✧ Whoever equips a warrior in the path of Allah has indeed gone to battle, and whoever takes the place of a warrior with his family in a good way has indeed gone to battle.
Musnad Ahmad 17046Sahih
سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ اللُّقَطَةِ، فَقَالَ: عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً، فَإِنِ اعْتُرِفَتْ فَأَدِّهَا، وَإِلَّا فَاعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا، وَوِكَاءَهَا، وَعَدَدَهَا، وَإِلَّا فَكُلْهَا، فَإِنِ اعْتُرِفَتْ فَأَدِّهَا
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about found property. He said: Announce it for a year. If someone claims it, return it. Otherwise, note its container, its cord, and its count. If someone claims it, return it; otherwise, use it.
Musnad Ahmad 17047Sahih
أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الشَّهَادَةِ ؟ الَّذِينَ يَبْدَؤُونَ بِشَهَادَتِهِمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يُسْأَلُوا عَنْهَا
✧ Shall I not tell you about the best testimony? Those who offer their testimony without being asked for it.
Musnad Ahmad 17048No grade recorded
لَوْلَا أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي لَأَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ، قَالَ: فَكَانَ زَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ يَضَعُ السِّوَاكَ مِنْهُ مَوْضِعَ الْقَلَمِ مِنْ أُذُنِ الْكَاتِبِ، كُلَّمَا قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ اسْتَاكَ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If it were not that I would be overburdening my community, I would have commanded them to use the toothstick (siwak) before every prayer." It is said that Zayd ibn Khalid would place the toothstick in his ear like a pen is placed by a writer, and whenever he got up for prayer, he would use the toothstick.
Musnad Ahmad 17049Sahih
مُطِرَ النَّاسُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ، فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ قَالَ: أَلَمْ تَسْمَعُوا مَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ اللَّيْلَةَ ؟ قَالَ: مَا أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَى عِبَادِي نِعْمَةً إِلَّا أَصْبَحَ بِهَا قَوْمٌ كَافِرِينَ بِالَّذِي آمَنَ بِي
✧ People were given rain one night during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When morning came, he said: Did you not hear what your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, said last night? He said: I have not bestowed any blessing upon My servants except that some people become disbelievers in Me, attributing it to other than Me.
Musnad Ahmad 17050Sahih
سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ ضَالَّةِ الْإِبِلِ، فَغَضِبَ وَاحْمَرَّتْ وَجْنَتَاهُ، وَقَالَ: مَا لَكَ وَلَهَا، مَعَهَا الْحِذَاءُ، وَالسِّقَاءُ، تَرِدُ الْمَاءَ، وَتَأْكُلُ الشَّجَرَ، حَتَّى يَجِيءَ رَبَّهَا ؟ وَسُئِلَ عَنْ ضَالَّةِ الْغَنَمِ فَقَالَ: خُذْهَا، فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ لَكَ، أَوْ لِأَخِيكَ، أَوْ لِلذِّئْبِ، وَسُئِلَ عَنِ اللُّقَطَةِ فَقَالَ: اعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا، ثُمَّ عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً، فَإِنِ اعْتُرِفَتْ وَإِلَّا فَاخْلِطْهَا بِمَالِكَ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ was asked about a stray camel. He became angry, and his cheeks reddened, and he said: What do you have to do with it? It has its own water-container and its own water-skin; it can go to water and eat from trees until its owner finds it. He was asked about a stray sheep, and he said: Take it, for it is yours, or your brother's, or the wolf's. He was asked about found property, and he said: Note its container and its cord, then announce it for a year. If someone claims it, return it; otherwise, mix it with your own wealth.
Musnad Ahmad 17051Sahih
أَرْسَلَنِي أَبُو جُهَيْمٍ ابْنُ أُخْتِ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ إِلَى زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ أَسْأَلُهُ مَا سَمِعَ فِي الْمَارِّ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ الْمُصَلِّي، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَأَنْ يَقُومَ أَرْبَعِينَ - لَا أَدْرِي مِنْ يَوْمٍ أَوْ شَهْرٍ أَوْ سَنَةٍ - خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمُرَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ
✧ Abu Juhaym, the son of the sister of Ubayy b. Ka'b, sent me to Zayd b. Khalid to ask him what he had heard about one who passes in front of a person praying. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'For one of you to stand for forty—I do not know whether days, months, or years—is better for him than to pass in front of him.'
Musnad Ahmad 17052Hasan
نَهَى عَنِ النُّهْبَةِ وَالْخُلْسَةِ
✧ He forbade plunder and theft.
Musnad Ahmad 17053Sahih
كُنَّا نُصَلِّي مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ الْمَغْرِبَ ثُمَّ نَنْصَرِفُ إِلَى السُّوقِ، وَلَوْ رُمِيَ بِنَبْلٍ لَأَبْصَرْتُ مَوَاقِعَهَا
✧ We used to pray Maghrib with the Prophet ﷺ, then we would go to the market, and if an arrow had been shot, I could have seen where it landed.
Musnad Ahmad 17054Sahih
مَنْ تَوَضَّأَ فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ لَا يَسْهُو فِيهِمَا، غَفَرَ اللهُ لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ
✧ Whoever performs wudu and does it well, then prays two rak'ahs without being heedless in them, Allah will forgive him his previous sins.
Musnad Ahmad 17055Sahih
مَنْ آوَى ضَالَّةً فَهُوَ ضَالٌّ مَا لَمْ يُعَرِّفْهَا
✧ Whoever shelters a stray animal is himself astray as long as he does not announce it.
Musnad Ahmad 17056Sahih
مَنْ جَهَّزَ غَازِيًا فَقَدْ غَزَا، وَمَنْ خَلَفَهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ فَقَدْ غَزَا
Zaid bin Khalid al Juhani reported that Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “He who equips a fighter in Allaah’s path has taken part in the fighting. And he looks after a fighter’s family when he is away has taken part in the fighting.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2509)
Musnad Ahmad 17057Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْأَمَةِ تَزْنِي وَلَمْ تُحْصَنْ، قَالَ: اجْلِدْهَا فَإِنْ زَنَتْ فَاجْلِدْهَا، فَقَالَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ أَوْ فِي الرَّابِعَةِ: فَإِنْ زَنَتْ فَبِعْهَا، وَلَوْ بِضَفِيرٍ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about a slave woman who commits adultery and has not been married. He said: 'Flog her. If she commits adultery again, flog her.' Then on the third or fourth time he said: 'If she commits adultery again, sell her, even for a hair rope.'
Musnad Ahmad 17058Sahih
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ الْمَعْنَى.::
✧ Ibn Shihab narrated to us, from 'Ubayd Allah b. 'Abd Allah b. 'Utbah, the same meaning.
Musnad Ahmad 17059Sahih
سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْأَمَةِ، فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ، وَقَالَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ أَوِ الرَّابِعَةِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about a slave woman, and he mentioned the hadith, and said on the third or fourth time.
Musnad Ahmad 17060Sahih
جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِلُقَطَةٍ، فَقَالَ: عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً، ثُمَّ اعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا، فَإِنْ جَاءَ أَحَدٌ يُخْبِرُكَ بِهَا، وَإِلَّا فَاسْتَنْفِقْهَا، قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَضَالَّةُ الْغَنَمِ ؟ قَالَ: لَكَ، أَوْ لِأَخِيكَ، أَوْ لِلذِّئْبِ، قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، ضَالَّةُ الْإِبِلِ ؟ قَالَ: فَتَغَيَّرَ وَجْهُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا لَكَ وَلَهَا ؟ مَعَهَا حِذَاؤُهَا وَسِقَاؤُهَا، تَرِدُ الْمَاءَ، وَتَأْكُلُ الشَّجَرَ
✧ A Bedouin came to the Prophet ﷺ with a found item. He said: 'Announce it for a year, then know its container and its tying cord. If someone comes and informs you of it, then give it to him; otherwise, spend it.' He said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what about a stray sheep?' He said: 'It is for you, or for your brother, or for the wolf.' He said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what about a stray camel?' The face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ changed, then he said: 'What do you have to do with it? It has its own shoes and its own water skin. It can come to water and eat trees.'
Musnad Ahmad 17061Sahih
صَلَّى لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَاةَ الصُّبْحِ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةِ عَلَى أَثَرِ سَمَاءٍ كَانَتْ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ، فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ، قَالَ: هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ. قَالَ: أَصْبَحَ مِنْ عِبَادِي مُؤْمِنٌ بِي، قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: كَافِرٌ بِالْكَوْكَبِ وَمُؤْمِنٌ بِالْكَوْكَبِ، كَافِرٌ بِي، فَأَمَّا مَنْ قَالَ: مُطِرْنَا بِفَضْلِ اللهِ وَبِرَحْمَتِهِ فَذَلِكَ مُؤْمِنٌ بِي كَافِرٌ بِالْكَوْكَبِ، وَأَمَّا مَنْ قَالَ: مُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَذَلِكَ كَافِرٌ بِي مُؤْمِنٌ بِالْكَوْكَبِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in the Morning Prayer at al-Hudaybiyah after rain that had fallen during the night. When he finished, he turned to the people and said: 'Do you know what your Lord has said?' They said: 'Allah and His Messenger know best.' He said: 'Some of My servants have become believers in Me and disbelievers in the star, and some have become believers in the star and disbelievers in Me. As for those who say: We were given rain by Allah's bounty and His mercy, that one is a believer in Me and a disbeliever in the star. But as for those who say: We were given rain by such-and-such a rain-star, that one is a disbeliever in Me and a believer in the star.'
Musnad Ahmad 17062Sahih
خَيْرُ الشَّهَادَةِ مَنْ شَهِدَ بِهَا صَاحِبُهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The best testimony is that whose bearer gives it before he is asked for it."
Musnad Ahmad 17063Sahih
يَؤُمُّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللهِ [تَعَالَى] وَأَقْدَمُهُمْ قِرَاءَةً، فَإِنْ كَانَتْ قِرَاءَتُهُمْ سَوَاءً، فَلْيَؤُمَّهُمْ أَقْدَمُهُمْ هِجْرَةً، فَإِنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُمْ سَوَاءً، فَلْيَؤُمَّهُمْ أَكْبَرُهُمْ سِنًّا، وَلَا يُؤَمُّ الرَّجُلُ فِي أَهْلِهِ، وَلَا فِي سُلْطَانِهِ، وَلَا يُجْلَسُ عَلَى تَكْرِمَتِهِ فِي بَيْتِهِ، إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْذَنَ لَكَ أَوْ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ
✧ The people should be led in prayer by the one who has the most knowledge of the Book of Allah [Most High] and is the earliest of them in recitation. If their recitation is equal, then the one who made the earliest Hijrah should lead them. If their Hijrah is equal, then the oldest of them in age should lead them. A man should not lead another in his own house or in his sphere of authority, and one should not sit on his seat of honor in his house unless he gives you permission, or except with his permission.
Musnad Ahmad 17064Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى بِهِ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَقَالَ: مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ فِي الدُّنْيَا ؟ فَقَالَ لَهُ الرَّجُلُ: مَا عَمِلْتُ مِنْ مِثْقَالِ ذَرَّةٍ مِنْ خَيْرٍ أَرْجُوكَ بِهَا، فَقَالَهَا لَهُ ثَلَاثًا، وَقَالَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ: أَيْ رَبِّ، كُنْتَ أَعْطَيْتَنِي فَضْلًا مِنْ مَالٍ فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَكُنْتُ أُبَايِعُ النَّاسَ وَكَانَ مِنْ خُلُقِي أَتَجَاوُزُ عَنْهُ، وَكُنْتُ أُيَسِّرُ عَلَى الْمُوسِرِ، وَأُنْظِرُ الْمُعْسِرَ، فَقَالَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: نَحْنُ أَوْلَى بِذَلِكَ مِنْكَ، تَجَاوَزُوا عَنْ عَبْدِي، فَغُفِرَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ: هَكَذَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ فِي رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَرَجُلٌ آخَرُ أَمَرَ أَهْلَهُ إِذَا مَاتَ أَنْ يُحَرِّقُوهُ ثُمَّ يَطْحَنُونَهُ ثُمَّ يَذْرُونَهُ فِي يَوْمِ رِيحٍ عَاصِفٍ، فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ بِهِ، فَجُمِعَ إِلَى رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: يَا رَبِّ، لَمْ يَكُنْ عَبْدٌ أَعْصَى لَكَ مِنِّي، فَرَجَوْتُ أَنْ أَنْجُوَ، قَالَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: تَجَاوَزُوا عَنْ عَبْدِي، فَغُفِرَ لَهُ، قَالَ أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ: هَكَذَا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ فِي رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ
✧ A man was brought by Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and He said: 'What did you do in the world?' The man said to Him: 'I did not do even an atom's weight of good that I could hope in You for.' He said it to him three times, and on the third time he said: 'O Lord, You had given me surplus wealth in the world, and I used to deal with people, and it was my habit to overlook their debts, and I used to be easy on the rich and grant time to the poor.' So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: 'We are more entitled to that than you. Overlook My servant.' So he was forgiven. Abu Mas'ud said: 'Thus I heard it from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' And another man ordered his family, when he died, to burn him, then grind him, then scatter him on a day of violent wind. They did that to him, and he was gathered to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, who said to him: 'What made you do this?' He said: 'O Lord, there was no servant more disobedient to You than I, so I hoped to be saved.' Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: 'Overlook My servant.' So he was forgiven. Abu Mas'ud said: 'Thus I heard it from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.'
Musnad Ahmad 17065Sahih
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَاللهِ إِنِّي لَأَتَأَخَّرُ فِي صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ، مَخَافَةَ فُلَانٍ يَعْنِي إِمَامَهُمْ، قَالَ: فَمَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَشَدَّ غَضَبًا فِي مَوْعِظَةٍ مِنْهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ. فَقَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّ مِنْكُمْ مُنَفِّرِينَ، فَأَيُّكُمْ مَا صَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ فَلْيُخَفِّفْ، فَإِنَّ فِيهِمُ الضَّعِيفَ وَالْكَبِيرَ وَذَا الْحَاجَةِ
✧ A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: O Messenger of Allah, by Allah I delay the dawn prayer, fearing so-and-so—meaning their imam. He said: I never saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ angrier in an admonition than he was that day. He said: O people, some of you drive people away. Whoever leads people in prayer should make it brief, for among them are the weak, the elderly, and those with needs.
Musnad Ahmad 17066Sahih
أَشَارَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِيَدِهِ نَحْوَ الْيَمَنِ، فَقَالَ: الْإِيمَانُ هَاهُنَا، قَالَ: أَلَا وَإِنَّ الْقَسْوَةَ وَغِلَظَ الْقُلُوبِ فِي الْفَدَّادِينَ أَصْحَابِ الْإِبِلِ، حَيْثُ يَطْلُعُ قَرْنُ الشَّيْطَانِ فِي رَبِيعَةَ وَمُضَرَ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ pointed with his hand toward Yemen and said: Faith is here. He said: Lo, harshness and hardness of hearts are among the camel-herders, where the horn of Satan rises, in Rabi'ah and Mudar.
Musnad Ahmad 17067Sahih
قِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، كَيْفَ نُصَلِّي عَلَيْكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: قُولُوا: اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَبَارِكْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ، كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي الْعَالَمِينَ، إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ
✧ It was said, "O Messenger of Allah, how should we send blessings upon you?" He said, "Say, 'O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and bestow peace upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as You have bestowed peace upon Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. Surely, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious.' " I recited this narration to Abdul Rahman Malik, from Nuaim ibn Abdullah, that Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Zaid informed him from Abu Mas'ud.
Musnad Ahmad 17068Sahih
مَنْ قَرَأَ الْآيَتَيْنِ مِنْ آخِرِ الْبَقَرَةِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ
✧ Whoever recites the last two verses of Surat al-Baqarah at night, they will suffice him.
خَطَبَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فِيكُمْ، وَإِنَّكُمْ وُلَاتُهُ، وَلَنْ يَزَالَ فِيكُمْ حَتَّى تُحْدِثُوا أَعْمَالًا، فَإِذَا فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ بَعَثَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَيْكُمْ شَرَّ خَلْقِهِ، فَيَلْتَحِيكُمْ كَمَا يُلْتَحَى الْقَضِيبُ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ addressed us and said: This matter is among you, and you are its guardians. It will remain among you until you introduce deeds. When you do that, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will send upon you the worst of His creation, and they will strip you as the branch is stripped.
Musnad Ahmad 17070Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ ثَمَنِ الْكَلْبِ، وَمَهْرِ الْبَغِيِّ، وَحُلْوَانِ الْكَاهِنِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the price of a dog, the earnings of a prostitute, and the fee of a soothsayer.
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُوتِرُ أَوَّلَ اللَّيْلِ، وَأَوْسَطَهُ، وَآخِرَهُ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to perform the Tahajjud prayer at the beginning of the night, in the middle of it, and at the end of it.
Musnad Ahmad 17072Sahih
أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ حَتَّى جَلَسَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَنَحْنُ عِنْدَهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَمَّا السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ، فَقَدْ عَرَفْنَاهُ، فَكَيْفَ نُصَلِّي عَلَيْكَ إِذَا نَحْنُ صَلَّيْنَا فِي صَلَاتِنَا صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْكَ ؟ قَالَ: فَصَمَتَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ حَتَّى أَحْبَبْنَا أَنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَمْ يَسْأَلْهُ، [ثُمَّ قَالَ]: إِذَا أَنْتُمْ صَلَّيْتُمْ عَلَيَّ فَقُولُوا: اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ النَّبِيِّ الْأُمِّيِّ، وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَآلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَبَارِكْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ النَّبِيِّ الْأُمِّيِّ، كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ
✧ A man approached and sat in front of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while we were with him. He said, "O Messenger of Allah, we already know how to greet you with peace, so how should we send blessings upon you when we have already prayed and Allah has blessed you?" The Messenger of Allah remained silent until we thought that the man had not asked him properly. Then he said, "If you have prayed upon me, then say, 'O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet, and upon the family of Muhammad, as You have sent blessings upon Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. And bless Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet, as You have blessed Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. Verily, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious."
Musnad Ahmad 17073Sahih
لَا تُجْزِئُ صَلَاةُ لِرَجُلٍ أَوْ لِأَحَدٍ لَا يُقِيمُ ظَهْرَهُ فِي الرُّكُوعِ وَالسُّجُودِ
✧ The prayer of a man—or anyone—who does not straighten his back in bowing and prostration is not valid.
Musnad Ahmad 17074Sahih
نَهَاهُمْ عَنْ ثَمَنِ الْكَلْبِ، وَمَهْرِ الْبَغِيِّ، وَحُلْوَانِ الْكَاهِنِ
✧ He forbade them from the price of a dog, the earnings of a prostitute, and the fee of a soothsayer.
قِيلَ لَهُ: مَا سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ فِي زَعَمُوا ؟ قَالَ: بِئْسَ مَطِيَّةُ الرَّجُلِ
✧ It was said to him: What did you hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say about 'they claim'? He said: What a bad mount for a man it is.
Musnad Ahmad 17076Hasan
أَلَا أُصَلِّي لَكُمْ صَلَاةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ. قَالَ: فَكَبَّرَ فَرَكَعَ، فَوَضَعَ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ، وَفُصِلَتْ أَصَابِعُهُ عَلَى سَاقَيْهِ، وَجَافَى عَنْ إِبِطَيْهِ حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: سَمِعَ اللهُ لِمَنْ حَمِدَهُ، فَاسْتَوَى قَائِمًا حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ كَبَّرَ، وَسَجَدَ، وَجَافَى عَنْ إِبِطَيْهِ حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ، فَاسْتَوَى جَالِسًا حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ سَجَدَ الثَّانِيَةَ. فَصَلَّى بِنَا أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ هَكَذَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: هَكَذَا كَانَتْ صَلَاةُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ. أَوْ قَالَ: هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَّى
✧ Shall I not pray for you the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? He said: He said the takbir and bowed, placing his palms on his knees, spreading his fingers on his legs, and keeping his upper arms away from his sides until every part of him settled. Then he said: 'Allah hears the one who praises Him,' and stood straight until every part of him settled. Then he said the takbir and prostrated, keeping his upper arms away from his sides until every part of him settled. Then he raised his head and sat straight until every part of him settled. Then he prostrated a second time. He prayed four rak'ahs with us like this. Then he said: This is how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray. Or he said: This is how I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ pray.
Musnad Ahmad 17077Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّ فُلَانًا يُطِيلُ بِنَا الصَّلَاةَ حَتَّى إِنِّي لَأَتَأَخَّرُ، فَغَضِبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَضَبًا مَا رَأَيْتُهُ غَضِبَ فِي مَوْعِظَةٍ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ فِيكُمْ مُنَفِّرِينَ، فَمَنْ أَمَّ قَوْمًا فَلْيُخَفِّفْ بِهِمُ الصَّلَاةَ، فَإِنَّ وَرَاءَهُ الْكَبِيرَ وَالْمَرِيضَ وَذَا الْحَاجَةِ
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: O Messenger of Allah, so-and-so prolongs the prayer with us until I delay. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ became angry with an anger I never saw him display in an admonition. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Some of you drive people away. Whoever leads people in prayer should make it brief for them, for behind him are the elderly, the sick, and those with needs.
Musnad Ahmad 17078No grade recorded
انْطَلَقَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَمَعَهُ الْعَبَّاسُ عَمُّهُ إِلَى السَّبْعِينَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ عِنْدَ الْعَقَبَةِ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ، فَقَالَ: لِيَتَكَلَّمْ مُتَكَلِّمُكُمْ وَلَا يُطِيلُ الْخُطْبَةَ، فَإِنَّ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ عَيْنًا، وَإِنْ يَعْلَمُوا بِكُمْ يَفْضَحُوكُمْ. فَقَالَ قَائِلُهُمْ، وَهُوَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ: سَلْ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لِرَبِّكَ مَا شِئْتَ، ثُمَّ سَلْ لِنَفْسِكَ وَلِأَصْحَابِكَ مَا شِئْتَ، ثُمَّ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ set out with his uncle al-Abbas to the seventy of the Ansar at al-Aqabah under the tree. He said: Let your speaker speak and not prolong the sermon, for the polytheists have an eye on you, and if they learn of you they will expose you. Their speaker, who was Abu Umamah, said: Ask, O Muhammad, for your Lord whatever you wish, then ask for yourself and your companions whatever you wish, then...
وَكَانَ أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ أَصْغَرَهُمْ سِنًّا. <متن_مخفي ربط="8171621" نص="انْطَلَقَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَمَعَهُ الْعَبَّاسُ عَمُّهُ إِلَى السَّبْعِينَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ عِنْدَ الْعَقَبَةِ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ فَقَالَ لِيَتَكَلَّمْ مُتَكَلِّمُكُمْ وَلَا يُطِيلُ الْخُطْبَةَ فَإِنَّ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ عَيْنًا وَإِنْ يَعْلَمُوا بِكُمْ يَفْضَحُوكُمْ فَقَالَ قَائِلُهُمْ وَهُوَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ سَلْ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لِرَبِّكَ مَا شِئْتَ ثُمَّ سَلْ لِنَفْسِكَ وَلِأَصْحَابِكَ مَا شِئْتَ ثُمَّ
✧ Abu Mas'oud was the youngest of them. <hidden_text link="8171621" text="The Prophet ﷺ set out with his uncle al-Abbas to the seventy of the Ansar at al-Aqabah under the tree. He said: Let your speaker speak and not prolong the sermon, for the polytheists have an eye on you, and if they learn of you they will expose you. Their speaker, who was Abu Umamah, said: Ask, O Muhammad, for your Lord whatever you wish, then ask for yourself and your companions whatever you wish, then..."/>
Musnad Ahmad 17080Sahih
مَا سَمِعَ الشِّيبُ وَلَا الشُّبَّانُ خُطْبَةً مِثْلَهَا
✧ Neither the elders nor the youths heard a sermon like it.
Musnad Ahmad 17081Hasan
قَالَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو: أَلَا أُرِيكُمْ صَلَاةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: فَقَامَ فَكَبَّرَ، ثُمَّ رَكَعَ، فَجَافَى يَدَيْهِ، وَوَضَعَ يَدَيْهِ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ، وَفَرَّجَ بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ مِنْ وَرَاءِ رُكْبَتَيْهِ، حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَقَامَ، حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ سَجَدَ فَجَافَى حَتَّى اسْتَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ. قَالَ: فَصَلَّى أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي، أَوْ هَكَذَا كَانَ يُصَلِّي بِنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
✧ Uqbah b. Amr said: Shall I not show you the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? He said: So he stood and said the takbir, then bowed, and he kept his arms away from his sides, and placed his hands on his knees, and spread his fingers apart from behind his knees, until every part of him was settled. Then he raised his head and stood until every part of him was settled. Then he prostrated and kept his arms away from his sides until every part of him was settled. He said: Then he prayed four rak'ahs, then said: This is how I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ praying, or this is how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray with us.
Musnad Ahmad 17082Sahih
إِنَّ الْمُسْلِمَ إِذَا أَنْفَقَ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ نَفَقَةً وَهُوَ يَحْتَسِبُهَا كَانَتْ لَهُ صَدَقَةً
✧ When a Muslim spends on his family an expense, seeking reward for it, it counts as charity for him.
Musnad Ahmad 17083Sahih
حُوسِبَ رَجُلٌ مِمَّنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ فَلَمْ يُوجَدْ لَهُ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ شَيْءٌ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ كَانَ رَجُلًا مُوسِرًا، وَكَانَ يُخَالِطُ النَّاسَ، فَكَانَ يَقُولُ لِغِلْمَانِهِ: تَجَاوَزُوا عَنِ الْمُعْسِرِ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لِمَلَائِكَتِهِ: نَحْنُ أَحَقُّ بِذَلِكَ مِنْهُ، تَجَاوَزُوا عَنْهُ
✧ A man from those before you was brought to account, and no good was found for him, except that he was a wealthy man, and he used to deal with people, and he used to say to his servants: Overlook the one in difficulty. He said: So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said to His angels: We are more entitled to that than him; overlook him.
Musnad Ahmad 17084Sahih
أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي أُبْدِعَ بِي، فَاحْمِلْنِي، قَالَ: مَا عِنْدِي مَا أَحْمِلُكَ عَلَيْهِ، وَلَكِنِ ائْتِ فُلَانًا، فَأَتَاهُ، فَحَمَلَهُ، فَأَتَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَخْبَرَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: مَنْ دَلَّ عَلَى خَيْرٍ، فَلَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِ فَاعِلِهِ
A man came to the prophet (May peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah! I have been left without a mount. So give me a mount. He replied: I have no mount to give, but go to so and so; he may perhaps give you a mount. He then went to him and he gave him a mount. He came to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) and informed him about it. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said: if anyone guides someone to a good (deed), he will get the reward like the reward of the one who does it. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 5129)
Musnad Ahmad 17085Sahih
أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَعَرَفْتُ فِي وَجْهِهِ الْجُوعَ، فَأَتَيْتُ غُلَامًا لِي قَصَّابًا، فَأَمَرْتُهُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ لَنَا طَعَامًا لِخَمْسَةِ رِجَالٍ، قَالَ: ثُمَّ دَعَوْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ خَامِسَ خَمْسَةٍ، وَتَبِعَهُمْ رَجُلٌ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْبَابَ قَالَ: هَذَا قَدْ تَبِعَنَا، إِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْ تَأْذَنَ لَهُ وَإِلَّا رَجَعَ، فَأَذِنَ لَهُ
✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I recognized hunger in his face. So I came to a servant of mine who was a butcher, and I ordered him to make food for us for five men. He said: Then I invited the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as the fifth of five, and a man followed them. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached the door, he said: This one has followed us; if you wish to permit him, or else he will return. So he permitted him.
Musnad Ahmad 17086Sahih
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي أُبْدِعَ بِي - أَيِ: انْقَطَعَ بِي - فَاحْمِلْنِي
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: I have been left stranded—that is, cut off—so give me a mount.
Musnad Ahmad 17087Sahih
بَيْنَا أَنَا أَضْرِبُ غُلَامًا لِي، إِذْ سَمِعْتُ صَوْتًا مِنْ وَرَائِيَ: اعْلَمْ أَبَا مَسْعُودٍ ثَلَاثًا، فَالْتَفَتُّ، فَإِذَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ، لَلَّهُ أَقْدَرُ مِنْكَ عَلَى هَذَا، قَالَ: فَحَلَفْتُ أَنْ لَا أَضْرِبَ مَمْلُوكًا أَبَدًا
✧ While I was beating a servant of mine, I heard a voice from behind me: Know, Abu Masud, three times. I turned, and there was the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: By Allah, Allah is more capable over this than you. He said: So I swore that I would never strike a slave again.
Musnad Ahmad 17088Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ ثَمَنِ الْكَلْبِ، وَعَنْ مَهْرِ الْبَغِيِّ، وَعَنْ حُلْوَانِ الْكَاهِنِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the price of a dog, the dowry of a prostitute, and the earnings of a soothsayer.
Musnad Ahmad 17089Sahih
كُنَّا مَعَ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، فَأَخَّرَ صَلَاةَ الْعَصْرِ مَرَّةً، فَقَالَ لَهُ عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ: حَدَّثَنِي بَشِيرُ بْنُ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ أَنَّ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ أَخَّرَ الصَّلَاةَ مَرَّةً - يَعْنِي الْعَصْرَ -، فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ: أَمَا وَاللهِ يَا مُغِيرَةُ، لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ نَزَلَ فَصَلَّى، وَصَلَّى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَصَلَّى النَّاسُ مَعَهُ، ثُمَّ نَزَلَ، فَصَلَّى، فَصَلَّى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَصَلَّى النَّاسُ مَعَهُ، حَتَّى عَدَّ خَمْسَ صَلَوَاتٍ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ: انْظُرْ مَا تَقُولُ يَا عُرْوَةُ، أَوَإِنَّ جِبْرِيلَ هُوَ سَنَّ الصَّلَاةَ ؟ قَالَ عُرْوَةُ: كَذَلِكَ حَدَّثَنِي بَشِيرُ بْنُ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ، فَمَا زَالَ عُمَرُ يَتَعَلَّمُ وَقْتَ الصَّلَاةِ بِعَلَامَةٍ حَتَّى فَارَقَ الدُّنْيَا
✧ We were with Umar b. Abd al-Aziz, and he once delayed the Asr prayer. Urwah b. al-Zubayr said to him: Bashir b. Abi Masud al-Ansari narrated to me that al-Mughirah b. Shubah delayed the prayer once—meaning Asr—and Abu Masud said to him: By Allah, O Mughirah, I know that Jibril ﷺ descended and prayed, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed, and the people prayed with him. Then he descended and prayed, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed, and the people prayed with him, until he counted five prayers. Umar said to him: Consider what you say, O Urwah—was it Jibril who instituted the prayer? Urwah said: Thus Bashir b. Abi Masud narrated to me. And Umar kept learning the time of prayer by a sign until he departed this world.
Musnad Ahmad 17090Sahih
إِنَّ مِمَّا أَدْرَكَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كَلَامِ النُّبُوَّةِ الْأُولَى: إِذَا لَمْ تَسْتَحْيِ، فَاصْنَعْ مَا شِئْتَ
✧ Among what people have retained from the words of the earlier prophethood is: If you feel no shame, then do as you wish.
Musnad Ahmad 17091No grade recorded
كُنْتُ أُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ حَدِيثًا، فَلَقِيتُهُ وَهُوَ يَطُوفُ بِالْبَيْتِ، فَسَأَلْتُهُ، فَحَدَّثَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: مَنْ قَرَأَ الْآيَتَيْنِ الْآخِرَتَيْنِ مِنْ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ
✧ I used to narrate a hadith from Abu Masud, then I met him while he was circumambulating the House, so I asked him, and he narrated from the Prophet ﷺ that he said: Whoever recites the last two verses of Surat al-Baqarah in a night, they will suffice him.
Musnad Ahmad 17092No grade recorded
قَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَؤُمُّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللهِ - تَعَالَى - وَأَقْدَمُهُمْ قِرَاءَةً، فَإِنْ كَانَتْ قِرَاءَتُهُمْ سَوَاءً فَلْيَؤُمَّهُمْ أَقْدَمُهُمْ هِجْرَةً، فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْهِجْرَةِ سَوَاءً، فَلْيَؤُمَّهُمْ أَكْبَرُهُمْ سِنًّا، وَلَا يُؤَمَّنَّ الرَّجُلُ فِي أَهْلِهِ، وَلَا فِي سُلْطَانِهِ، وَلَا يُجْلَسُ عَلَى تَكْرِمَتِهِ فِي بَيْتِهِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْذَنَ لَهُ أَوْ بِإِذْنِهِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to us: The people should be led in prayer by the one who has memorized the most of the Book of Allah—Exalted is He—and is the earliest in recitation. If their recitation is equal, then the one who made the earliest hijrah should lead them. If they are equal in hijrah, then the oldest of them should lead them. And a man should not be led in prayer in his own household, nor in his dominion, nor should one sit on his honored place in his house except with his permission or by his leave.
Musnad Ahmad 17093Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ - يُقَالُ لَهُ: أَبُو شُعَيْبٍ - صَنَعَ طَعَامًا فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ: ائْتِنِي أَنْتَ وَخَمْسَةٌ مَعَكَ، قَالَ: فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ أَنِ ائْذَنْ لِي فِي السَّادِسِ
✧ A man from his people, called Abu Shu'ayb, prepared food and sent to the Prophet ﷺ: "Come to me, you and five with you." He said: "So he sent to him: 'Allow me the sixth.'"
Musnad Ahmad 17094No grade recorded
أَنَّ رَجُلًا تَصَدَّقَ بِنَاقَةٍ مَخْطُومَةٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: لَتَأْتِيَنَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِسَبْعِمِائَةِ نَاقَةٍ مَخْطُومَةٍ
✧ A man gave a bridled she-camel in charity for the sake of Allah, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "He will certainly come on the Day of Resurrection with seven hundred bridled she-camels."
Musnad Ahmad 17095Sahih
مَنْ قَرَأَ الْآيَتَيْنِ مِنَ الْبَقَرَةِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ.
✧ Whoever recites the two verses from [Surat] al-Baqarah in a night, they will suffice him.
Musnad Ahmad 17096Sahih
مَنْ قَرَأَ الْآيَتَيْنِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ
✧ Whoever recites the two verses from the end of Surat al-Baqarah in a night, they will suffice him.
Musnad Ahmad 17097Sahih
لِيَؤُمَّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللهِ تَعَالَى، فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَعْلَمُهُمْ بِالسُّنَّةِ، فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي السُّنَّةِ سَوَاءً فَأَقْدَمُهُمْ هِجْرَةً، فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْهِجْرَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَكْبَرُهُمْ سِنًّا، وَلَا يُؤَمَّنَّ رَجُلٌ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ، وَلَا يُجْلَسُ عَلَى تَكْرِمَتِهِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْذَنَ
✧ Let the people be led in prayer by the one among them most versed in the Book of Allah, the Exalted. If they are equal in recitation, then the most knowledgeable of them in the Sunnah. If they are equal in the Sunnah, then the earliest of them in migration. If they are equal in migration, then the eldest of them in age. And no man should lead another in prayer in the latter's sphere of authority, nor sit on his seat of honor except with his permission.
Musnad Ahmad 17098Sahih
إِنَّ مِمَّا أَدْرَكَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كَلَامِ النُّبُوَّةِ الْأُولَى إِذَا لَمْ تَسْتَحِ فَاصْنَعْ مَا شِئْتَ
✧ Among what people have retained from the words of the earliest prophethood is: If you feel no shame, then do as you wish.
Musnad Ahmad 17099Sahih
يَؤُمُّ الْقَوْمَ أَقْرَؤُهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللهِ وَأَقْدَمُهُمْ قِرَاءَةً، فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَقْدَمُهُمْ هِجْرَةً، فَإِنْ كَانُوا فِي الْهِجْرَةِ سَوَاءً فَأَكْبَرُهُمْ سِنًّا، وَلَا يُؤَمَّنَّ رَجُلٌ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ.
✧ Let the people be led in prayer by the one among them most versed in the Book of Allah and the earliest in recitation. If they are equal in recitation, then the earliest of them in migration. If they are equal in migration, then the eldest of them in age. And no man should lead another in prayer in the latter's sphere of authority.
Musnad Ahmad 17100Sahih
مَنْ قَرَأَ الْآيَتَيْنِ مِنْ آخِرِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ كَفَتَاهُ
✧ Whoever recites the two verses from the end of Surat al-Baqarah in a night, they will suffice him.
Musnad Ahmad 17101Sahih
إِنَّ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ لَا يَنْكَسِفَانِ لِمَوْتِ أَحَدٍ - قَالَ يَزِيدُ: وَلَا لِحَيَاتِهِ - وَلَكِنَّهُمَا آيَتَانِ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللهِ تَعَالَى، فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُمَا فَصَلُّوا
✧ The sun and the moon do not eclipse for the death of anyone — Yazid said: nor for his life — but they are two signs among the signs of Allah, the Exalted. So when you see them, pray.
Musnad Ahmad 17102Sahih
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَمْسَحُ مَنَاكِبَنَا فِي الصَّلَاةِ. قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: وَيَقُولُ: اسْتَوُوا، وَلَا تَخْتَلِفُوا فَتَخْتَلِفَ قُلُوبُكُمْ، لِيَلِيَنِّي مِنْكُمْ أُولُو الْأَحْلَامِ وَالنُّهَى، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ. قَالَ أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ: فَأَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ أَشَدُّ اخْتِلَافًا
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to wipe our shoulders in prayer. Waki' said: And he would say: "Stand straight, and do not differ, lest your hearts differ. Let those of maturity and understanding stand closest to me, then those who follow them, then those who follow them." Abu Mas'ud said: "Today you are more divergent than ever."
Musnad Ahmad 17103Sahih
لَا تُجْزِئُ صَلَاةٌ لِأَحَدٍ لَا يُقِيمُ فِيهَا ظَهْرَهُ فِي الرُّكُوعِ وَالسُّجُودِ
✧ The prayer of anyone is not sufficient if he does not straighten his back in bowing and prostration.
Musnad Ahmad 17104Sahih
سَمِعْتُ عُمَارَةَ بْنَ عُمَيْرٍ مِثْلَهُ.::
✧ I heard 'Umarah b. 'Umayr [narrate] the like of it.::
Musnad Ahmad 17105Sahih
عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ نَحْوَهُ
✧ From Salamah b. Kuhayl, something similar.
Musnad Ahmad 17106Sahih
قُلْ هُوَ اللهُ أَحَدٌ تَعْدِلُ ثُلُثَ الْقُرْآنِ
✧ “Say: He is Allah, the One” equals one third of the Qur’an.
Musnad Ahmad 17107Sahih
إِنَّ مِمَّا أَدْرَكَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كَلَامِ النُّبُوَّةِ الْأُولَى إِذَا لَمْ تَسْتَحْيِ فَافْعَلْ مَا شِئْتَ
✧ Among what people have retained from the words of the earlier prophethood is: “If you feel no shame, do as you wish.”
Musnad Ahmad 17108Sahih
سَمِعْتُ رِبْعِيَّ بْنَ حِرَاشٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَذَكَرَ مِثْلَهُ
✧ I heard Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh narrating from Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:... and he mentioned something similar.
Musnad Ahmad 17109Sahih
أَيَعْجِزُ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يَقْرَأَ ثُلُثَ الْقُرْآنِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ: اللهُ الْوَاحِدُ الصَّمَدُ
✧ Is any one of you unable to recite one third of the Qur’an in a night: “Allah, the One, the Eternal Refuge”?
Musnad Ahmad 17110Sahih
إِنَّ الْمُسْلِمَ إِذَا أَنْفَقَ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ نَفَقَةً وَهُوَ يَحْتَسِبُهَا كَانَتْ لَهُ صَدَقَةً
✧ When a Muslim spends on his family, intending it as a charitable act, it is counted as charity for him.
Musnad Ahmad 17111Sahih
سَيِّدُ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ أَنْ يَقُولَ الْعَبْدُ: اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ رَبِّي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، خَلَقْتَنِي وَأَنَا عَبْدُكَ، وَأَنَا عَلَى عَهْدِكَ وَوَعْدِكَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُ، أَبُوءُ لَكَ بِالنِّعْمَةِ، وَأَبُوءُ لَكَ بِذَنْبِي، فَاغْفِرْ لِي إِنَّهُ لَا يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، قَالَ: إِنْ قَالَهَا بَعْدَمَا يُصْبِحُ مُوقِنًا بِهَا ثُمَّ مَاتَ، كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَإِنْ قَالَهَا بَعْدَمَا يُمْسِي مُوقِنًا بِهَا ثُمَّ مَاتَ، كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ
✧ The master of seeking forgiveness is that the servant says: “O Allah, You are my Lord; there is no god but You. You created me and I am Your servant, and I am faithful to my covenant and promise to You as much as I can. I acknowledge Your blessings upon me, and I acknowledge my sin, so forgive me, for none forgives sins but You.” He said: If he says it after morning comes, being certain of it, and then dies, he will be among the people of Paradise; and if he says it after evening comes, being certain of it, and then dies, he will be among the people of Paradise.
Musnad Ahmad 17112Sahih
أَنَّهُ مَرَّ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ زَمَنَ الْفَتْحِ عَلَى رَجُلٍ يَحْتَجِمُ بِالْبَقِيعِ لِثَمَانَ عَشْرَةَ خَلَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، وَهُوَ آخِذٌ بِيَدِي فَقَالَ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ That he passed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at the time of the conquest by a man being cupped in al-Baqīʿ on the eighteenth of Ramadan, holding my hand, and he said: “The cupper and the cupped have broken their fast.”
Musnad Ahmad 17113Sahih
ثِنْتَانِ حَفِظْتُهُمَا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، فَإِذَا قَتَلْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الْقِتْلَةَ، وَإِذَا ذَبَحْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الذَّبْحَ، وَلْيُحِدَّ أَحَدُكُمْ شَفْرَتَهُ، وَلْيُرِحْ ذَبِيحَتَهُ
✧ Two things I memorized from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has prescribed excellence in everything. So when you kill, kill well; and when you slaughter, slaughter well. Let one of you sharpen his blade and give his animal rest.”
Musnad Ahmad 17114Hasan
كَانَ شَدَّادُ بْنُ أَوْسٍ فِي سَفَرٍ، فَنَزَلَ مَنْزِلًا، فَقَالَ لِغُلَامِهِ: ائْتِنَا بِالسُّفْرَةِ نَعْبَثْ بِهَا، فَأَنْكَرْتُ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: مَا تَكَلَّمْتُ بِكَلِمَةٍ مُنْذُ أَسْلَمْتُ إِلَّا وَأَنَا أَخْطِمُهَا وَأَزُمُّهَا، غَيْرَ كَلِمَتِي هَذِهِ، فَلَا تَحْفَظُوهَا عَلَيَّ، وَاحْفَظُوا مِنِّي مَا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِذَا كَنَزَ النَّاسُ الذَّهَبَ وَالْفِضَّةَ فَاكْنِزُوا هَؤُلَاءِ الْكَلِمَاتِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ الثَّبَاتَ فِي الْأَمْرِ، وَالْعَزِيمَةَ عَلَى الرُّشْدِ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ شُكْرَ نِعْمَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ حُسْنَ عِبَادَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ قَلْبًا سَلِيمًا، وَأَسْأَلُكَ لِسَانًا صَادِقًا، وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ خَيْرِ مَا تَعْلَمُ، وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا تَعْلَمُ، وَأَسْتَغْفِرُكَ لِمَا تَعْلَمُ، إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ
✧ Shaddād b. Aws was on a journey and stopped at a place. He said to his servant: “Bring us the travel food so we may toy with it.” I disapproved of that from him, so he said: “I have not spoken a word since I became Muslim without bridling and reining it, except this word of mine. Do not hold it against me, but preserve from me what I tell you: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘When people hoard gold and silver, hoard these words: O Allah, I ask You for steadfastness in the matter and resolve upon right guidance, and I ask You for gratitude for Your blessings, and I ask You for excellence in worshipping You, and I ask You for a sound heart, and I ask You for a truthful tongue, and I ask You for the good of what You know, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of what You know, and I ask Your forgiveness for what You know; indeed You are the Knower of the unseen.’”
Musnad Ahmad 17115Sahih
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ زَوَى لِيَ الْأَرْضَ حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ مَشَارِقَهَا وَمَغَارِبَهَا، وَإِنَّ مُلْكَ أُمَّتِي سَيَبْلُغُ مَا زُوِيَ لِي مِنْهَا، وَإِنِّي أُعْطِيتُ الْكَنْزَيْنِ الْأَبْيَضَ وَالْأَحْمَرَ، وَإِنِّي سَأَلْتُ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَا يُهْلِكُ أُمَّتِي بِسَنَةٍ بِعَامَّةٍ، وَأَنْ لَا يُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا فَيُهْلِكَهُمْ بِعَامَّةٍ، وَأَنْ لَا يَلْبِسَهُمْ شِيَعًا، وَلَا يُذِيقَ بَعْضَهُمْ بَأْسَ بَعْضٍ، وَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، إِنِّي إِذَا قَضَيْتُ قَضَاءً فَإِنَّهُ لَا يُرَدُّ، وَإِنِّي قَدْ أَعْطَيْتُكَ لِأُمَّتِكَ أَنْ لَا أُهْلِكَهُمْ بِسَنَةٍ بِعَامَّةٍ، وَلَا أُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا مِمَّنْ سِوَاهُمْ فَيُهْلِكُوهُمْ بِعَامَّةٍ حَتَّى يَكُونَ بَعْضُهُمْ يُهْلِكُ بَعْضًا، وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَقْتُلُ بَعْضًا، وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَسْبِي بَعْضًا، قَالَ: وَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: وَإِنِّي لَا أَخَافُ عَلَى أُمَّتِي إِلَّا الْأَئِمَّةَ الْمُضِلِّينَ، فَإِذَا وُضِعَ السَّيْفُ فِي أُمَّتِي لَمْ يُرْفَعْ عَنْهُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ said: "Verily, Allah has shown me the entire earth, so I saw its east and west. And indeed, the dominion of my nation will reach that which was shown to me of it. And indeed, I have been given the two treasures, the white and the red. And I asked my Lord that my nation not be destroyed by a consecutive year of famine, and that they not be made to face an enemy who is not from them, who will destroy them en masse. And that they not be made to wear clothing of degradation, and that they not taste the punishment from one another." He ﷺ said: "O Muhammad, when I decree a matter, it cannot be reversed. And indeed, I have given you a guarantee for your nation that I will not destroy them with a consecutive year of famine, and I will not subject them to an enemy who is not from them, who will destroy them en masse. So that some of them are destroyed by others, and some of them are killed by others, and some of them are taken captive by others." He ﷺ said: "And indeed, I do not fear for my nation except for the misguided imams. When the sword is wielded among my nation, it is not lifted from them until the Day of Resurrection."
Musnad Ahmad 17116Sahih
حَفِظْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ اثْنَتَيْنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، فَإِذَا قَتَلْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الْقِتْلَةَ، وَإِذَا ذَبَحْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الذَّبْحَ، وَلْيُحِدَّ أَحَدُكُمْ شَفْرَتَهُ، ثُمَّ لِيُرِحْ ذَبِيحَتَهُ
✧ I memorized from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ two things: he said: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has prescribed excellence in everything. So when you kill, kill well; and when you slaughter, slaughter well. Let one of you sharpen his blade, then give his animal rest.”
Musnad Ahmad 17117Sahih
أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ The cupper and the cupped have broken their fast.
Musnad Ahmad 17118Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَاحَ إِلَى مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ وَهَجَّرَ بِالرَّوَاحِ، فَلَقِيَ شَدَّادَ بْنَ أَوْسٍ، وَالصُّنَابِحِيُّ مَعَهُ، فَقُلْتُ: أَيْنَ تُرِيدَانِ يَرْحَمُكُمَا اللهُ ؟ قَالَا: نُرِيدُ هَاهُنَا إِلَى أَخٍ لَنَا مَرِيضٍ نَعُودُهُ، فَانْطَلَقْتُ مَعَهُمَا حَتَّى دَخَلَا عَلَى ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلِ، فَقَالَا لَهُ: كَيْفَ أَصْبَحْتَ ؟ قَالَ: أَصْبَحْتُ بِنِعْمَةٍ. فَقَالَ لَهُ شَدَّادٌ: أَبْشِرْ بِكَفَّارَاتِ السَّيِّئَاتِ، وَحَطِّ الْخَطَايَا، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَقُولُ: إِنِّي إِذَا ابْتَلَيْتُ عَبْدًا مِنْ عِبَادِي مُؤْمِنًا، فَحَمِدَنِي عَلَى مَا ابْتَلَيْتُهُ، فَإِنَّهُ يَقُومُ مِنْ مَضْجَعِهِ ذَلِكَ كَيَوْمِ وَلَدَتْهُ أُمُّهُ مِنَ الْخَطَايَا، وَيَقُولُ الرَّبُّ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: أَنَا قَيَّدْتُ عَبْدِي وَابْتَلَيْتُهُ، وَأَجْرُوا لَهُ كَمَا كُنْتُمْ تُجْرُونَ لَهُ وَهُوَ صَحِيحٌ
✧ He went to the mosque of Damascus and set out early. He met Shaddad bin Aus with al-Sunabihi. I said: Where are you two going, may God have mercy on you? They said: We are going here to visit a sick brother of ours. I went with them until they entered upon the man, and they said to him: How are you this morning? He said: I am in a state of blessing. Shaddad said to him: Rejoice in the expiations of sins and the erasure of faults, for I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: God, Mighty and Majestic, says: When I afflict a believing servant of Mine and he praises Me for what I have afflicted him with, he rises from his sickbed as pure of sins as the day his mother gave birth to him. And the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, says: I have confined My servant and tested him, so record for him what you used to record for him when he was healthy.
Musnad Ahmad 17119Sahih
مَرَرْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي ثَمَانَ عَشْرَةَ لَيْلَةً خَلَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، فَأَبْصَرَ رَجُلًا يَحْتَجِمُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ I passed with the Messenger of God ﷺ on the eighteenth night of Ramadan when he saw a man being cupped. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: The cupper and the one cupped have broken the fast.
أَنَّهُ بَكَى، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: مَا يُبْكِيكَ ؟ قَالَ: شَيْئًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ، فَذَكَرْتُهُ فَأَبْكَانِي، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: أَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَى أُمَّتِي الشِّرْكَ، وَالشَّهْوَةَ الْخَفِيَّةَ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَتُشْرِكُ أُمَّتُكَ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، [قَالَ] أَمَا إِنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْبُدُونَ شَمْسًا وَلَا قَمَرًا وَلَا حَجَرًا وَلَا وَثَنًا، وَلَكِنْ يُرَاؤُونَ بِأَعْمَالِهِمْ، وَالشَّهْوَةُ الْخَفِيَّةُ أَنْ يُصْبِحَ أَحَدُهُمْ صَائِمًا فَتَعْرِضَ لَهُ شَهْوَةٌ مِنْ شَهَوَاتِهِ فَيَتْرُكَ صَوْمَهُ
✧ He wept. It was said to him: What makes you weep? He said: Something I heard from the Messenger of God ﷺ that I remembered and it made me weep. I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: I fear for my nation polytheism and hidden desire. I said: O Messenger of God, will your nation commit polytheism after you? He said: Yes, but they will not worship sun or moon or stone or idol; rather they will show off in their deeds. And hidden desire is when one of them starts the day fasting and a desire of his desires comes to him, so he abandons his fast.
كُنَّا عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: هَلْ فِيكُمْ غَرِيبٌ يَعْنِي أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ، فَقُلْنَا: لَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَأَمَرَ بِغَلْقِ الْبَابِ، وَقَالَ: ارْفَعُوا أَيْدِيَكُمْ، وَقُولُوا: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، فَرَفَعْنَا أَيْدِيَنَا سَاعَةً، ثُمَّ وَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَدَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ، اللَّهُمَّ بَعَثْتَنِي بِهَذِهِ الْكَلِمَةِ، وَأَمَرْتَنِي بِهَا، وَوَعَدْتَنِي عَلَيْهَا الْجَنَّةَ، وَإِنَّكَ لَا تُخْلِفُ الْمِيعَادَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَبْشِرُوا فَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَدْ غَفَرَ لَكُمْ
✧ We were with the Prophet ﷺ and he said: Is there any stranger among you, meaning from the People of the Book? We said: No, O Messenger of God. He ordered the door to be closed and said: Raise your hands and say: There is no god but God. We raised our hands for a while, then the Messenger of God ﷺ lowered his hand and said: Praise be to God. O God, You sent me with this word and commanded me with it and promised me Paradise for it, and You do not break Your promise. Then he said: Rejoice, for God, Mighty and Majestic, has forgiven you.
Musnad Ahmad 17122Sahih
سَيَكُونُ مِنْ بَعْدِي أَئِمَّةٌ يُمِيتُونَ الصَّلَاةَ عَنْ مَوَاقِيتِهَا، فَصَلُّوا الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا، وَاجْعَلُوا صَلَاتَكُمْ مَعَهُمْ سُبْحَةً
✧ There will be after me leaders who delay the prayer beyond its fixed times. So pray the prayer at its time, and make your prayer with them a supererogatory prayer.
الْكَيِّسُ مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ، وَعَمِلَ لِمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ، وَالْعَاجِزُ مَنْ أَتْبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَاهَا، وَتَمَنَّى عَلَى اللهِ
“The wise man is the one who takes account of himself and strives for that which is after death. And the helpless man is the one who follows his own whims then indulges in wishful thinking about Allah.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 4260)
Musnad Ahmad 17124Sahih
بَيْنَمَا أَنَا أَمْشِي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي بَعْضِ طُرُقِ الْمَدِينَةِ لِثَمَانَ عَشْرَةَ مَضَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ وَهُوَ آخِذٌ بِيَدِي، فَمَرَّ عَلَى رَجُلٍ يَحْتَجِمُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ While I was walking with the Messenger of God ﷺ in one of the streets of Madinah on the eighteenth of Ramadan, holding my hand, he passed by a man being cupped. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: The cupper and the one cupped have broken the fast.
Musnad Ahmad 17125Sahih
كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ قَالَ: وَذَاكَ لِثَمَانَ عَشْرَةَ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، فَأَبْصَرَ رَجُلًا يَحْتَجِمُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ I was with the Prophet ﷺ in Madinah — and that was on the eighteenth of Ramadan — when he saw a man being cupped. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: The cupper and the one cupped have broken the fast.
Musnad Ahmad 17126Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَرَّ بِرَجُلٍ يَحْتَجِمُ فِي رَمَضَانَ، فَقَالَ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ passed by a man being cupped in Ramadan and said: The cupper and the one cupped have broken the fast.
Musnad Ahmad 17127Sahih
أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ The cupper and the one cupped have broken the fast.
Musnad Ahmad 17128Sahih
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، فَإِذَا قَتَلْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الْقِتْلَةَ، وَإِذَا ذَبَحْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الذِّبْحَةَ، وَلْيُحِدَّ أَحَدُكُمْ شَفْرَتَهُ، وَلْيُرِحْ ذَبِيحَتَهُ
✧ God, Mighty and Majestic, has prescribed excellence in everything. When you kill, kill well; when you slaughter, slaughter well. Let one of you sharpen his blade and give rest to his animal.
Musnad Ahmad 17129Sahih
مَرَّ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَيَّ، وَأَنَا أَحْتَجِمُ فِي ثَمَانَ عَشْرَةَ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ فَقَالَ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ passed by me while I was being cupped on the eighteenth of Ramadan and said: The cupper and the one cupped have broken the fast.
Musnad Ahmad 17130No grade recorded
سَيِّدُ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ، اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ رَبِّي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، خَلَقْتَنِي وَأَنَا عَبْدُكَ، وَأَنَا عَلَى عَهْدِكَ وَوَعْدِكَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُ، أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا صَنَعْتُ، أَبُوءُ لَكَ بِنِعْمَتِكَ عَلَيَّ، وَأَبُوءُ لَكَ بِذَنْبِي فَاغْفِرْ لِي، إِنَّهُ لَا يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، قَالَ: مَنْ قَالَهَا بَعْدَمَا يُصْبِحُ مُوقِنًا بِهَا فَمَاتَ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَمَنْ قَالَهَا بَعْدَمَا يُمْسِي مُوقِنًا بِهَا، فَمَاتَ مِنْ لَيْلَتِهِ، كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ
✧ The master of seeking forgiveness: O God, You are my Lord; there is no god but You. You created me and I am Your servant, and I abide by Your covenant and promise as much as I can. I seek refuge in You from the evil of what I have done. I acknowledge Your favor upon me and I acknowledge my sin, so forgive me, for none forgives sins but You. He said: Whoever says it in the morning with certainty and dies that day will be among the people of Paradise, and whoever says it in the evening with certainty and dies that night will be among the people of Paradise.
Musnad Ahmad 17131same_as_before
حَدَّثَنِي بُشَيْرُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ الْعَدَوِيُّ أَنَّ شَدَّادَ بْنَ أَوْسٍ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: سَيِّدُ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ، فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ
✧ Bushayr b. Kaʿb al-ʿAdawī narrated to me that Shaddād b. Aws narrated to him that the Messenger of God ﷺ said: “The chief of seeking forgiveness…” and he mentioned the hadith.
مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يَأْوِي إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ فَيَقْرَأُ سُورَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، إِلَّا بَعَثَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكًا يَحْفَظُهُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ يُؤْذِيهِ، حَتَّى يَهُبَّ مَتَى هَبَّ
✧ There is no man who retires to his bed and recites a surah from the Book of God, Mighty and Majestic, but God, Mighty and Majestic, sends to him an angel to protect him from everything that harms him, until he rises whenever he rises.
Musnad Ahmad 17133Hasan
وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُعَلِّمُنَا كَلِمَاتٍ نَدْعُو بِهِنَّ فِي صَلَاتِنَا - أَوْ قَالَ: فِي دُبُرِ صَلَاتِنَا - اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ الثَّبَاتَ فِي الْأَمْرِ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ عَزِيمَةَ الرُّشْدِ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ شُكْرَ نِعْمَتِكَ وَحُسْنَ عِبَادَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ قَلْبًا سَلِيمًا وَلِسَانًا صَادِقًا، وَأَسْتَغْفِرُكَ لِمَا تَعْلَمُ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ خَيْرِ مَا تَعْلَمُ، وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا تَعْلَمُ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ used to teach us words by which we supplicate in our prayer – or he said: at the end of our prayer: “O God, I ask You for steadfastness in the affair, and I ask You for the resolve of right guidance, and I ask You for gratitude for Your favor and excellence in worshipping You, and I ask You for a sound heart and a truthful tongue, and I seek Your forgiveness for what You know, and I ask You for the good of what You know, and I seek refuge with You from the evil of what You know.”
مَنْ قَرَضَ بَيْتَ شِعْرٍ بَعْدَ الْعِشَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةٌ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ
✧ Whoever recites a line of poetry after the last ʿishāʾ prayer, his prayer of that night will not be accepted.
لَيَحْمِلَنَّ شِرَارُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ عَلَى سَنَنِ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ، حَذْوَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ
✧ The worst of this community will surely follow the ways of those who passed before them, the People of the Book, matching one arrow-notch to another.
Musnad Ahmad 17136Sahih
إِذَا حَضَرْتُمْ مَوْتَاكُمْ فَأَغْمِضُوا الْبَصَرَ، فَإِنَّ الْبَصَرَ يَتْبَعُ الرُّوحَ، وَقُولُوا خَيْرًا، فَإِنَّهُ يُؤَمَّنُ عَلَى مَا قَالَ أَهْلُ الْمَيِّتِ
✧ When you attend your dying ones, close the eyes, for the sight follows the spirit, and speak good, for the family of the deceased say “amen” to what is said.
Musnad Ahmad 17137Hasan
كَانَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ يَسْمَعُ الْحَدِيثَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِيهِ الشِّدَّةُ، ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِمْ، ثُمَّ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يُرَخِّصُ فِيهِ بَعْدُ، فَلَمْ يَسْمَعْهُ أَبُو ذَرٍّ، فَيَتَعَلَّقَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ بِالْأَمْرِ الشَّدِيدِ
✧ Abū Dharr used to hear a hadith from the Messenger of God ﷺ containing severity, then he would go out to his people and greet them. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ would later grant a concession in it, but Abū Dharr would not hear it, so Abū Dharr would cling to the severe matter.
Musnad Ahmad 17138Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَتَى عَلَى رَجُلٍ يَحْتَجِمُ فِي الْبَقِيعِ لِثَمَانَ عَشْرَةَ خَلَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ، وَهُوَ آخِذٌ بِيَدِي، فَقَالَ: أَفْطَرَ الْحَاجِمُ وَالْمَحْجُومُ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ came upon a man being cupped in al-Baqīʿ on the eighteenth of Ramadan, holding my hand, and said: “The cupper and the cupped have broken the fast.”
Musnad Ahmad 17139Sahih
ثِنْتَانِ حَفِظْتُهُمَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، فَإِذَا قَتَلْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الْقِتْلَةَ، وَإِذَا ذَبَحْتُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا الذَّبِيحَةَ، وَلْيُحِدَّ أَحَدُكُمْ شَفْرَتَهُ، وَلْيُرِحْ ذَبِيحَتَهُ
✧ Two things I memorized from the Messenger of God ﷺ, that he said: “God has prescribed excellence in everything, so when you kill, kill well, and when you slaughter, slaughter well, and let one of you sharpen his blade and give rest to his animal.”
لَمَّا دَخَلْنَا مَسْجِدَ الْجَابِيَةِ أَنَا وَأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ لَقِينَا عُبَادَةَ بْنَ الصَّامِتِ، فَأَخَذَ يَمِينِي بِشِمَالِهِ، وَشِمَالَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ بِيَمِينِهِ، فَخَرَجَ يَمْشِي بَيْنَنَا وَنَحْنُ نَنْتَجِي، وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا نَتَنَاجَى، ذَاكَ قَوْلُهُ، فَقَالَ عُبَادَةُ بْنُ الصَّامِتِ: لَئِنْ طَالَ بِكُمَا عُمُرُ أَحَدِكُمَا أَوْ كِلَاكُمَا لَتُوشِكَانِ أَنْ تَرَيَا الرَّجُلَ مِنْ ثَبَجِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ - يَعْنِي مِنْ وَسَطٍ - قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى لِسَانِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ فَأَعَادَهُ وَأَبْدَاهُ، وَأَحَلَّ حَلَالَهُ، وَحَرَّمَ حَرَامَهُ، وَنَزَلَ عِنْدَ مَنَازِلِهِ، أَوْ قَرَأَهُ عَلَى لِسَانِ أَخِيهِ قِرَاءَةً عَلَى لِسَانِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ فَأَعَادَهُ وَأَبْدَاهُ، وَأَحَلَّ حَلَالَهُ، وَحَرَّمَ حَرَامَهُ، وَنَزَلَ عِنْدَ مَنَازِلِهِ، لَا يَحُورُ فِيكُمْ إِلَّا كَمَا يَحُورُ رَأْسُ الْحِمَارِ الْمَيِّتِ، قَالَ: فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ كَذَلِكَ إِذْ طَلَعَ شَدَّادُ بْنُ أَوْسٍ وَعَوْفُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ فَجَلَسَا إِلَيْنَا، فَقَالَ شَدَّادٌ: إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، لَمَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مِنَ الشَّهْوَةِ الْخَفِيَّةِ، وَالشِّرْكِ، فَقَالَ عُبَادَةُ بْنُ الصَّامِتِ وَأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: اللَّهُمَّ غَفْرًا، أَوَلَمْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ قَدْ
✧ When we entered the mosque of al-Jābiyah, I and Abū al-Dardāʾ, we met ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit. He took my right hand with his left, and Abū al-Dardāʾ’s left hand with his right, and he went out walking between us while we were conversing privately – and God knows best what we were conversing about; that is his saying. ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit said: “If the life of one of you or both of you is prolonged, you will soon see a man from the middle of the Muslims – meaning from their midst – who has recited the Qurʾan upon the tongue of Muhammad ﷺ, and he will repeat it and display it, and he will deem lawful its lawful and deem unlawful its unlawful, and he will alight at its stations, or he recited it upon the tongue of his brother as a recitation upon the tongue of Muhammad ﷺ, and he will repeat it and display it, and he will deem lawful its lawful and deem unlawful its unlawful, and he will alight at its stations – he will not turn among you except as the head of a dead donkey turns.” He said: While we were thus, Shaddād b. Aws and ʿAwf b. Mālik appeared and sat with us. Shaddād said: “The most fearful thing I fear for you, O people, is what I heard from the Messenger of God ﷺ saying: of hidden desire and shirk.” ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit and Abū al-Dardāʾ said: “O God, forgiveness! Had not the Messenger of God ﷺ already…”
Musnad Ahmad 17141Sahih
كَانَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ لِلصَّفِّ الْمُقَدَّمِ ثَلَاثًا، وَلِلثَّانِي مَرَّةً
✧ He used to ask forgiveness for the front row three times, and for the second once.
Musnad Ahmad 17142Sahih
وَعَظَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَوْعِظَةً ذَرَفَتْ مِنْهَا الْعُيُونُ، وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا الْقُلُوبُ، قُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّ هَذِهِ لَمَوْعِظَةُ مُوَدِّعٍ، فَمَاذَا تَعْهَدُ إِلَيْنَا ؟ قَالَ: قَدْ تَرَكْتُكُمْ عَلَى الْبَيْضَاءِ، لَيْلُهَا كَنَهَارِهَا، لَا يَزِيغُ عَنْهَا بَعْدِي إِلَّا هَالِكٌ، وَمَنْ يَعِشْ مِنْكُمْ فَسَيَرَى اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا، فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِمَا عَرَفْتُمْ مِنْ سُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ، وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالطَّاعَةِ وَإِنْ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا، عَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ، فَإِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُ كَالْجَمَلِ الْأَنِفِ حَيْثُمَا انْقِيدَ انْقَادَ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ gave us an exhortation that made the eyes weep and the hearts tremble. We said: “O Messenger of God, this is the exhortation of one bidding farewell, so what charge do you give us?” He said: “I have left you upon the clear path; its night is like its day. No one deviates from it after me except one who is destroyed. Whoever of you lives will see much disagreement, so upon you is what you have known of my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided, rightly directed caliphs. And upon you is obedience, even to an Ethiopian slave. Bite onto it with the molar teeth, for the believer is like a camel with a nose-ring: wherever it is led, it follows.”
Musnad Ahmad 17143Hasan
دَعَانِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى السَّحُورِ فِي رَمَضَانَ، فَقَالَ: هَلُمَّ إِلَى هَذَا الْغَدَاءِ الْمُبَارَكِ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ called me to the pre-dawn meal (sahur) in Ramadan and said: Come to this blessed meal.
Musnad Ahmad 17144Sahih
صَلَّى لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْفَجْرَ، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا فَوَعَظَنَا مَوْعِظَةً بَلِيغَةً، ذَرَفَتْ لَهَا الْأَعْيُنُ، وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا الْقُلُوبُ، قُلْنَا - أَوْ قَالُوا -: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، كَأَنَّ هَذِهِ مَوْعِظَةُ مُوَدِّعٍ، فَأَوْصِنَا، قَالَ: أُوصِيكُمْ بِتَقْوَى اللهِ، وَالسَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يَعِشْ مِنْكُمْ يَرَى بَعْدِي اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا، فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِسُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ، وَعَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَمُحْدَثَاتِ الْأُمُورِ، فَإِنَّ كُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٌ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ led us in the dawn prayer, then turned to face us and delivered a powerful admonition that made eyes weep and hearts tremble. We said—or they said—: O Messenger of God, this is like the admonition of one bidding farewell, so give us your counsel. He said: I enjoin you to fear God, and to hear and obey, even if a black slave is placed over you. For whoever of you lives after me will see much disagreement. You must hold to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided, rightly directed successors; cling to it with your back teeth. And beware of newly invented matters, for every innovation is misguidance.
Musnad Ahmad 17145Sahih
أَتَيْنَا الْعِرْبَاضَ بْنَ سَارِيَةَ وَهُوَ مِمَّنْ نَزَلَ فِيهِ: وَلا عَلَى الَّذِينَ إِذَا مَا أَتَوْكَ لِتَحْمِلَهُمْ قُلْتَ لا أَجِدُ مَا أَحْمِلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَسَلَّمْنَا، وَقُلْنَا: أَتَيْنَاكَ زَائِرِينَ وَعَائِدِينَ وَمُقْتَبِسِينَ، فَقَالَ عِرْبَاضٌ: صَلَّى بِنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الصُّبْحَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا فَوَعَظَنَا مَوْعِظَةً بَلِيغَةً، ذَرَفَتْ مِنْهَا الْعُيُونُ، وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا الْقُلُوبُ، فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، كَأَنَّ هَذِهِ مَوْعِظَةُ مُوَدِّعٍ، فَمَاذَا تَعْهَدُ إِلَيْنَا ؟ فَقَالَ: أُوصِيكُمْ بِتَقْوَى اللهِ، وَالسَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يَعِشْ مِنْكُمْ بَعْدِي فَسَيَرَى اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا، فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِسُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ، تَمَسَّكُوا بِهَا وَعَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَمُحْدَثَاتِ الْأُمُورِ، فَإِنَّ كُلَّ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ، وَكُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٌ
✧ We came to al-`Irbadh b. Sariyah, one of those concerning whom the verse was revealed, “Nor upon those who, when they came to you for you to carry them, you said, ‘I find no mount for you’” (Quran 9:92). We greeted him and said: We have come as visitors, well-wishers, and learners. Al-`Irbadh said: The Messenger of God ﷺ one day led us in the morning prayer, then turned to face us and delivered a powerful admonition that made eyes weep and hearts tremble. Someone said: O Messenger of God, this is like the admonition of one bidding farewell, so what do you enjoin upon us? He said: I enjoin you to fear God, and to hear and obey, even if a black slave is placed over you. For whoever of you lives after me will see much disagreement. You must hold to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided, rightly directed successors; hold fast to it and cling to it with your back teeth. And beware of newly invented matters, for every newly invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is misguidance.
Musnad Ahmad 17146No grade recorded
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَعَظَهُمْ يَوْمًا بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ
✧ That the Messenger of God ﷺ admonished them one day after the morning prayer.
Musnad Ahmad 17147Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَعَظَهُمْ يَوْمًا بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ
✧ That the Messenger of God ﷺ admonished them one day after the morning prayer.
Musnad Ahmad 17148Sahih
كَانَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ لِلصَّفِّ الْمُقَدَّمِ ثَلَاثَ مِرَارٍ، وَلِلثَّانِي مَرَّةً
✧ He used to ask forgiveness for the front row three times and for the second row once.
Musnad Ahmad 17149Sahih
بِعْتُ مِنَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بَكْرًا، فَأَتَيْتُهُ أَتَقَاضَاهُ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، اقْضِنِي ثَمَنَ بَكْرِي. فَقَالَ: أَجَلْ، لَا أَقْضِيكَهَا إِلَّا لُجَيْنِيَّةً قَالَ: فَقَضَانِي، فَأَحْسَنَ قَضَائِي، قَالَ: وَجَاءَهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، اقْضِنِي بَكْرِي، فَأَعْطَاهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمَئِذٍ جَمَلًا قَدْ أَسَنَّ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، هَذَا خَيْرٌ مِنْ بَكْرِي، قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ خَيْرَ الْقَوْمِ خَيْرُهُمْ قَضَاءً
✧ I sold a young camel to the Prophet ﷺ. I came to him to collect its price and said: O Messenger of God, pay me the price of my young camel. He said: Yes, I will not pay you except in silver of the best quality. He said: Then he paid me and gave me generously. He said: A Bedouin came to him and said: O Messenger of God, pay me for my young camel. So the Messenger of God ﷺ gave him that day an old camel. He said: O Messenger of God, this is better than my young camel. He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ then said: The best of people are those who are best in repaying their debts.
Musnad Ahmad 17150Sahih
إِنِّي عِنْدَ اللهِ لَخَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّينَ، وَإِنَّ آدَمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ لَمُنْجَدِلٌ فِي طِينَتِهِ، وَسَأُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِأَوَّلِ ذَلِكَ دَعْوَةُ أَبِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَبِشَارَةُ عِيسَى بِي، وَرُؤْيَا أُمِّي الَّتِي رَأَتْ، وَكَذَلِكَ أُمَّهَاتُ النَّبِيِّينَ تَرَيْنَ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I am the servant of Allah and the last of the prophets. Even Adam, ﷺ, was created from clay. I will inform you of the first call of my father Ibrahim, the glad tidings of my brother Isa, and the vision my mother saw, as well as the mothers of the prophets who also had visions."
Musnad Ahmad 17151Sahih
إِنِّي عَبْدُ اللهِ وَخَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّينَ
✧ Indeed I am the servant of God and the seal of the prophets.
Musnad Ahmad 17152Hasan
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَدْعُو إِلَى السَّحُورِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ: هَلُمُّ إِلَى الْغَدَاءِ الْمُبَارَكِ، ثُمَّ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ عَلِّمْ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْكِتَابَ، وَالْحِسَابَ، وَقِهِ الْعَذَابَ
✧ I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ calling to the pre-dawn meal in the month of Ramadan: Come to the blessed meal. Then I heard him say: O God, teach Mu`awiyah the Book and arithmetic, and protect him from the punishment.
Musnad Ahmad 17153Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ حَرَّمَ يَوْمَ خَيْبَرَ كُلَّ ذِي مِخْلَبٍ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ، وَلُحُومَ الْحُمُرِ الْأَهْلِيَّةِ، وَالْخَلِيسَةَ، وَالْمُجَثَّمَةَ، وَأَنْ تُوطَأَ السَّبَايَا حَتَّى يَضَعْنَ مَا فِي بُطُونِهِنَّ
✧ That the Messenger of God ﷺ on the day of Khaybar forbade every bird with talons, the flesh of domestic donkeys, the raided animal, the animal tied to be killed, and having intercourse with female captives until they gave birth.
Musnad Ahmad 17154Hasan
كَانَ يَأْخُذُ الْوَبَرَةَ مِنْ فَيْءِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَيَقُولُ: مَا لِي مِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا مِثْلُ مَا لِأَحَدِكُمْ إِلَّا الْخُمُسَ، وَهُوَ مَرْدُودٌ فِيكُمْ، فَأَدُّوا الْخَيْطَ وَالْمِخْيَطَ فَمَا فَوْقَهُمَا، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُولَ، فَإِنَّهُ عَارٌ وَشَنَارٌ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ.
✧ He used to take a hair from the spoils of God, mighty and majestic, and say: I have no right to this except like any of you, except the fifth, and it is returned to you. So give the thread and the needle and what is above them. And beware of embezzlement, for it is disgrace and shame for its doer on the Day of Resurrection.
Musnad Ahmad 17155Sahih
: إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا سَقَى امْرَأَتَهُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ أُجِرَ قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهَا فَسَقَيْتُهَا، وَحَدَّثْتُهَا مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ
✧ Indeed when a man gives his wife water to drink, he is rewarded. He said: So I went to her and gave her water, and told her what I had heard from the Messenger of God ﷺ.
Musnad Ahmad 17156Sahih
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي عَلَى الصَّفِّ الْمُقَدَّمِ ثَلَاثًا، وَعَلَى الثَّانِي وَاحِدَةً
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray for the front row three times, and for the second one once.
Musnad Ahmad 17157Sahih
كَانَ يُصَلِّي عَلَى الصَّفِّ الْأَوَّلِ ثَلَاثًا، وَعَلَى الَّذِي يَلِيهِ وَاحِدَةً
It was narrated from Al'Irbad bin Sariyah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to send Salah on the first row three times and on the second row once. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 817)
Musnad Ahmad 17158No grade recorded
الْمُتَحَابُّونَ بِجَلَالِي فِي ظِلِّ عَرْشِي يَوْمَ لَا ظِلَّ إِلَّا ظِلِّي.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Allah Almighty said: Those who loved each other for the sake of My Glory will be in the shade of My Throne on a Day there is no shade but Mine.”
Musnad Ahmad 17159Hasan
يَخْتَصِمُ الشُّهَدَاءُ وَالْمُتَوَفَّوْنَ عَلَى فُرُشِهِمْ إِلَى رَبِّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي الَّذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنَ الطَّاعُونِ، فَيَقُولُ الشُّهَدَاءُ: إِخْوَانُنَا قُتِلُوا كَمَا قُتِلْنَا، وَيَقُولُ الْمُتَوَفَّوْنَ عَلَى فُرُشِهِمْ: إِخْوَانُنَا مَاتُوا عَلَى فُرُشِهِمْ كَمَا مِتْنَا، فَيَقُولُ رَبُّنَا عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: انْظُرُوا إِلَى جِرَاحِهِمْ، فَإِنْ أَشْبَهَتْ جِرَاحُهُمْ جِرَاحَ الْمَقْتُولِينَ، فَإِنَّهُمْ مِنْهُمْ وَمَعَهُمْ، فَإِذَا جِرَاحُهُمْ قَدْ أَشْبَهَتْ جِرَاحَهُمْ
✧ The martyrs and those who die in their beds will dispute before our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, concerning those who die from the plague. The martyrs will say: 'They are our brothers; they were killed as we were killed.' And those who died in their beds will say: 'They are our brothers; they died in their beds as we died.' Then our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, will say: 'Look at their wounds. If their wounds resemble the wounds of those who were killed, then they are of them and with them.' And their wounds will have resembled their wounds.
كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْمُسَبِّحَاتِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْقُدَ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّ فِيهِنَّ آيَةً أَفْضَلُ مِنْ أَلْفِ آيَةٍ
✧ He used to recite the musabbiḥāt before going to sleep, and he said: 'In them there is a verse better than a thousand verses.'
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَخْرُجُ إِلَيْنَا فِي الصُّفَّةِ وَعَلَيْنَا الْحَوْتَكِيَّةُ، فَيَقُولُ: لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا ذُخِرَ لَكُمْ مَا حَزِنْتُمْ عَلَى مَا زُوِيَ عَنْكُمْ، وَلَيُفْتَحَنَّ لَكُمْ فَارِسُ وَالرُّومُ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ used to come out to us in the ṣuffah while we were wearing the ḥawtakiyyah, and he would say: 'If you knew what has been stored up for you, you would not grieve over what has been withheld from you. And Persia and Rome will surely be conquered for you.'
Musnad Ahmad 17162Sahih
صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى الصَّفِّ الْمُقَدَّمِ ثَلَاثًا، وَعَلَى الَّذِي يَلِيهِ وَاحِدَةً
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed for the front row three times, and for the one next to it once.
Musnad Ahmad 17163Sahih
إِنِّي عِنْدَ اللهِ فِي أُمِّ الْكِتَابِ لَخَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّينَ، وَإِنَّ آدَمَ لَمُنْجَدِلٌ فِي طِينَتِهِ، وَسَأُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِتَأْوِيلِ ذَلِكَ دَعْوَةُ أَبِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَبِشَارَةُ عِيسَى قَوْمَهُ، وَرُؤْيَا أُمِّي الَّتِي رَأَتْ أَنَّهُ خَرَجَ مِنْهَا نُورٌ أَضَاءَتْ لَهُ قُصُورُ الشَّامِ، وَكَذَلِكَ تَرَى أُمَّهَاتُ النَّبِيِّينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِمْ
✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying: "Indeed, I am in the sight of Allah in the Mother of the Book. I am the seal of the Prophets, and indeed Adam was fashioned from clay. I will inform you of the interpretation of this; it is the supplication of my father Ibrahim, and the good tidings of Isa (Jesus) to his people, and the vision of my mother that she saw, that a light came out of her that illuminated the palaces of Syria. And likewise, the mothers of the Prophets, may the blessings of Allah be upon them, see."
Musnad Ahmad 17164Hasan
يَخْتَصِمُ الشُّهَدَاءُ وَالْمُتَوَفَّوْنَ عَلَى فُرُشِهِمْ إِلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي الَّذِينَ مَاتُوا مِنَ الطَّاعُونِ، فَيَقُولُ الشُّهَدَاءُ: إِخْوَانُنَا قُتِلُوا، وَيَقُولُ الْمُتَوَفَّوْنَ عَلَى فُرُشِهِمْ: إِخْوَانُنَا مَاتُوا عَلَى فُرُشِهِمْ كَمَا مِتْنَا، فَيَقْضِي اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بَيْنَهُمْ أَنِ انْظُرُوا إِلَى جِرَاحَاتِ الْمُطَّعَنِينَ فَإِنْ أَشْبَهَتْ جِرَاحَاتِ الشُّهَدَاءِ فَهُمْ مِنْهُمْ، فَيَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى جِرَاحِ الْمُطَّعَنِينَ، فَإِذَا هُمْ قَدْ أَشْبَهَتْ [جِرَاحَاتِ الشُّهَدَاءِ]، فَيُلْحَقُونَ مَعَهُمْ
✧ The martyrs and those who die in their beds will dispute before Allah, Mighty and Majestic, concerning those who died from the plague. The martyrs will say: 'They are our brothers; they were killed.' And those who died in their beds will say: 'They are our brothers; they died in their beds as we died.' Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will judge between them, saying: 'Look at the wounds of those afflicted with the plague. If they resemble the wounds of the martyrs, then they are of them.' So they will look at the wounds of those afflicted with the plague, and they will have resembled [the wounds of the martyrs], and they will be joined with them.
كَانَ رَجُلٌ قُتِلَ مِنْهُمْ بِأَوْطَاسٍ، فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: يَا أَبَا عَامِرٍ، أَلَا غَيَّرْتَ ؟ فَتَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ لا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ فَغَضِبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَقَالَ: أَيْنَ ذَهَبْتُمْ ؟ إِنَّمَا هِيَ ( يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّ مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ
✧ A man from among them was killed at Awṭās, and the Prophet ﷺ said to him: 'O Abū ʿĀmir, would you not have changed?' He then recited this verse: 'O you who believe, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ became angry and said: 'Where have you gone? It is only: "O you who believe, those who have gone astray among the disbelievers will not harm you when you have been guided."'
Musnad Ahmad 17166No grade recorded
نِعْمَ الْحَيُّ الْأُسْدُ، وَالْأَشْعَرِيُّونَ لَا يَفِرُّونَ فِي الْقِتَالِ وَلَا يَغُلُّونَ، هُمْ مِنِّي وَأَنَا مِنْهُمْ. قَالَ عَامِرٌ: فَحَدَّثْتُ بِهِ مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَقَالَ: لَيْسَ هَكَذَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَلَكِنَّهُ قَالَ: هُمْ مِنِّي وَإِلَيَّ، فَقَالَ: لَيْسَ هَكَذَا
✧ 'Excellent is the tribe of al-Asd, and the Ashʿarīs: they do not flee in battle and they do not steal from the spoils. They are from me and I am from them.' ʿĀmir said: I narrated this to Muʿāwiyah, and he said: 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not say it like that; rather he said: "They are from me and to me."' He said: 'It is not like that.'
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ بَيْنَمَا هُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي مَجْلِسٍ فِيهِ أَصْحَابُهُ جَاءَهُ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فِي غَيْرِ صُورَتِهِ، يَحْسِبُهُ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ، فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَ جِبْرِيلُ يَدَهُ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، وَقَالَ لَهُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا الْإِسْلَامُ ؟ فَقَالَ: أَنْ تُسْلِمَ وَجْهَكَ لِلهِ، وَتَشْهَدَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، وَتُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةَ، وَتُؤْتِيَ الزَّكَاةَ قَالَ: فَإِذَا فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ فَقَدْ أَسْلَمْتُ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا الْإِيمَانُ ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ تُؤْمِنَ بِاللهِ، وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ، وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ، وَالْكِتَابِ، وَالنَّبِيِّينَ، وَالْمَوْتِ، وَالْحَيَاةِ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ، وَالْجَنَّةِ وَالنَّارِ، وَالْحِسَابِ، وَالْمِيزَانِ، وَالْقَدَرِ كُلِّهِ خَيْرِهِ وَشَرِّهِ قَالَ: فَإِذَا فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ فَقَدْ آمَنْتُ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا الْإِحْسَانُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ تَعْبُدَ اللهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَاهُ، فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ كُنْتَ لَا تَرَاهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَرَاكَ، قَالَ: فَإِذَا فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ فَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتُ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، وَنَسْمَعُ رَجْعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَيْهِ، وَلَا يُرَى الَّذِي يُكَلِّمُهُ وَلَا يُسْمَعُ كَلَامُهُ، قَالَ: فَمَتَى السَّاعَةُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: سُبْحَانَ اللهِ، خَمْسٌ مِنَ الْغَيْبِ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: إِنَّ اللهَ عِنْدَهُ عِلْمُ السَّاعَةِ وَيُنَـزِّلُ الْغَيْثَ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْأَرْحَامِ وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٌ مَاذَا تَكْسِبُ غَدًا وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٌ بِأَيِّ أَرْضٍ تَمُوتُ إِنَّ اللهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ فَقَالَ السَّائِلُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنْ شِئْتَ حَدَّثْتُكَ بِعَلَامَتَيْنِ تَكُونَانِ قَبْلَهَا ؟ فَقَالَ
✧ On the authority of 'Amir, Abu 'Amir, or Abu Malik, that the Prophet ﷺ was sitting in a gathering with his companions when Gabriel came to him in a different form, appearing as a man from the Muslims. Gabriel greeted him and the Prophet ﷺ returned the greeting. Then Gabriel placed his hand on the Prophet's knee and asked, "O Messenger of Allah, what is Islam?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "It is to submit your face to Allah, to bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, to establish the prayer, give the obligatory charity (zakat)." Gabriel asked again, "So if I do this, have I become a Muslim?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "Yes." Then Gabriel asked, "What is faith?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "It is to believe in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Divine Books, the prophets, life after death, heaven, hell, and fate, both its good and bad." Gabriel asked again, "So if I do this, have I believed?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "Yes." Then Gabriel asked, "What is excellence (ihsan), O Messenger of Allah?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "It is to worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you do not see Him, then truly He sees you." Gabriel asked again, "So if I do this, have I excelled?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "Yes." And we heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ return to him, but we could not see the one speaking to him, nor could we hear his words. The questioner asked, "O Messenger of Allah, when is the Hour?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "Glory be to Allah, it has five signs which only Allah knows: Allah possesses knowledge of the Hour, He sends down rain, He knows what is in the wombs, no soul knows what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul knows in which land it will die. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted." (Surah Luqman, 34) The questioner then said, "O Messenger of Allah, if you wish, I can inform you of two signs that will precede it." The Prophet ﷺ said, "Inform me." The questioner said, "When you see a slave woman giving birth to her mistress, and when you see the barefooted, naked, impoverished shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings." The questioner asked, "And who are they, O Messenger of Allah?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "The Bedouins." Then he turned away, and when we did not see him on his way back, we said, "Glory be to Allah! This is Gabriel who came to teach the people their religion. The hand of Muhammad is in the hand of Gabriel, every time he came to him, I had not received any message except that I already knew it, except for this time."
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ أَصْنَافِ النِّسَاءِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade certain categories of women.
Musnad Ahmad 17169Hasan
جَلَسَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَجْلِسًا فَأَتَاهُ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَجَلَسَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَقَالَ فِيهِ إِنْ شِئْتَ حَدَّثْتُكَ بِمَعَالِمَ لَهَا دُونَ ذَلِكَ؟ قَالَ أَجَلْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ فَحَدِّثْنِي قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا رَأَيْتَ الْأَمَةَ وَلَدَتْ رَبَّتَهَا فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sat in a gathering, and Gabriel ﷺ came to him and sat before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He mentioned the hadith and said in it: 'If you wish, I shall tell you of landmarks that come before that?' He said: 'Yes, O Messenger of Allah, tell me.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'When you see the slave-girl give birth to her mistress...' And he mentioned the rest of the hadith.
Musnad Ahmad 17170Sahih
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَمَرَ يَحْيَى بْنَ زَكَرِيَّا عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ بِخَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ بِهِنَّ، وَأَنْ يَأْمُرَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا بِهِنَّ وَكَادَ أَنْ يُبْطِئَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عِيسَى: إِنَّكَ قَدْ أُمِرْتَ بِخَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ أَنْ تَعْمَلَ بِهِنَّ وَتَأْمُرَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا بِهِنَّ، فَإِمَّا أَنْ تُبَلِّغَهُنَّ، وَإِمَّا أَنْ أُبَلِّغَهُنَّ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَخِي، إِنِّي أَخْشَى إِنْ سَبَقْتَنِي أَنْ أُعَذَّبَ أَوْ يُخْسَفَ بِي، قَالَ: فَجَمَعَ يَحْيَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ حَتَّى امْتَلَأَ الْمَسْجِدُ فَقُعِدَ عَلَى الشُّرَفِ، فَحَمِدَ اللهَ، وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ. ثُمَّ قَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَمَرَنِي بِخَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ أَنْ أَعْمَلَ بِهِنَّ، وَآمُرَكُمْ أَنْ تَعْمَلُوا بِهِنَّ، أَوَّلُهُنَّ: أَنْ تَعْبُدُوا اللهَ لَا تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا، فَإِنَّ مَثَلَ ذَلِكَ مَثَلُ رَجُلٍ اشْتَرَى عَبْدًا مِنْ خَالِصِ مَالِهِ بِوَرِقٍ أَوْ ذَهَبٍ فَجَعَلَ يَعْمَلُ وَيُؤَدِّي غَلَّتَهُ إِلَى غَيْرِ سَيِّدِهِ، فَأَيُّكُمْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ عَبْدُهُ كَذَلِكَ، وَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ خَلَقَكُمْ وَرَزَقَكُمْ فَاعْبُدُوهُ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا، وَآمُرُكُمْ بِالصَّلَاةِ فَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَنْصِبُ وَجْهَهُ لِوَجْهِ عَبْدِهِ مَا لَمْ يَلْتَفِتْ، فَإِذَا صَلَّيْتُمْ فَلَا تَلْتَفِتُوا، وَآمُرُكُمْ بِالصِّيَامِ فَإِنَّ مَثَلَ ذَلِكَ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ مَعَهُ صُرَّةٌ مِنْ مِسْكٍ فِي عِصَابَةٍ كُلُّهُمْ يَجِدُ رِيحَ الْمِسْكِ، وَإِنَّ خُلُوفَ فَمِ الصَّائِمِ عِنْدَ اللهِ أَطْيَبُ مِنْ رِيحِ الْمِسْكِ، وَآمُرُكُمْ بِالصَّدَقَةِ، فَإِنَّ مَثَلَ ذَلِكَ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ أَسَرَهُ الْعَدُوُّ فَشَدُّوا يَدَيْهِ إِلَى عُنُقِهِ، وَقَدَّمُوهُ لِيَضْرِبُوا عُنُقَهُ، فَقَالَ: هَلْ لَكُمْ أَنْ أَفْتَدِيَ نَفْسِي مِنْكُمْ ؟ فَجَعَلَ يَفْتَدِي نَفْسَهُ مِنْهُمْ بِالْقَلِيلِ وَالْكَثِيرِ حَتَّى فَكَّ نَفْسَهُ، وَآمُرُكُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَثِيرًا، وَإِنَّ مَثَلَ ذَلِكَ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ طَلَبَهُ الْعَدُوُّ سِرَاعًا فِي أَثَرِهِ، فَأَتَى حِصْنًا حَصِينًا فَتَحَصَّنَ فِيهِ، وَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ أَحْصَنُ مَا يَكُونُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ إِذَا كَانَ فِي ذِكْرِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ. قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: وَأَنَا آمُرُكُمْ بِخَمْسٍ، اللهُ أَمَرَنِي بِهِنَّ: بِالْجَمَاعَةِ، وَالسَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ، وَالْهِجْرَةِ، وَالْجِهَادِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ خَرَجَ مِنَ الْجَمَاعَةِ قِيدَ شِبْرٍ فَقَدْ خَلَعَ رِبْقَةَ الْإِسْلَامِ مِنْ عُنُقِهِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَرْجِعَ، وَمَنْ دَعَا بِدَعْوَى الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَهُوَ مِنْ جُثَا جَهَنَّمَ قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَإِنْ صَامَ وَإِنْ صَلَّى ؟ قَالَ: وَإِنْ صَامَ وَإِنْ صَلَّى، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ مُسْلِمٌ، فَادْعُوا الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ بِمَا سَمَّاهُمُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عِبَادَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.
✧ Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā (peace be upon them both) with five words: to act upon them and to command the Children of Israel to act upon them. He was about to be slow in doing so, so ʿĪsā said to him: 'You have been commanded with five words to act upon them and to command the Children of Israel to act upon them. Either you convey them, or I will convey them.' He said: 'O my brother, I fear that if you precede me, I will be punished or the earth will swallow me.' He said: So Yaḥyā gathered the Children of Israel in the Holy House until the mosque was full, and he sat on the elevated place. He praised Allah and extolled Him. Then he said: 'Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has commanded me with five words to act upon them and to command you to act upon them. The first of them: that you worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him. For the parable of that is the parable of a man who bought a slave with his pure wealth, with silver or gold, and the slave began to work and give his produce to someone other than his master. Which of you would be pleased that his slave be like that? And indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, created you and provided for you, so worship Him and do not associate anything with Him. And I command you with prayer, for Allah, Mighty and Majestic, turns His face to the face of His servant as long as he does not turn away. So when you pray, do not turn away. And I command you with fasting, for the parable of that is the parable of a man with him a sachet of musk in a group, all of whom find the scent of the musk. And indeed, the odor of the fasting person's mouth is more pleasant to Allah than the scent of musk. And I command you with charity, for the parable of that is the parable of a man whom the enemy captured, and they bound his hands to his neck and brought him forward to strike his neck. He said: "Would you let me ransom myself from you?" And he began to ransom himself from them with little and much until he freed himself. And I command you to remember Allah, Mighty and Majestic, much, and the parable of that is the parable of a man whom the enemy pursued swiftly in his tracks, and he came to a fortified fortress and took refuge in it. And indeed, the servant is most fortified against Satan when he is in the remembrance of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.' He said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'And I command you with five things that Allah has commanded me with: the community, hearing and obedience, emigration, and striving in the way of Allah. For whoever departs from the community by a handspan has cast off the yoke of Islam from his neck, unless he returns. And whoever calls with the call of ignorance is among the pebbles of Hell.' They said: 'O Messenger of Allah, even if he fasts and prays?' He said: 'Even if he fasts and prays, and claims that he is a Muslim. So call the Muslims by their names, with what Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has named them: the Muslims, the believers, the servants of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.'
Musnad Ahmad 17171Sahih
إِذَا أَحَبَّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ فَلْيُعْلِمْهُ أَنَّهُ يُحِبُّهُ
✧ If one of you loves his brother, let him inform him that he loves him.
Musnad Ahmad 17172Sahih
لَيْلَةُ الضَّيْفِ وَاجِبَةٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ، فَإِنْ أَصْبَحَ بِفِنَائِهِ مَحْرُومًا كَانَ دَيْنًا لَهُ عَلَيْهِ، إِنْ شَاءَ اقْتَضَاهُ وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَهُ.
✧ The night of the guest is an obligation upon every Muslim. If he wakes up in the morning at his doorstep deprived [of hospitality], it is a debt owed to him. If he wishes, he may collect it, and if he wishes, he may leave it.
Musnad Ahmad 17173Sahih
لَيْلَةُ الضَّيْفِ وَاجِبَةٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ، فَإِنْ أَصْبَحَ بِفِنَائِهِ مَحْرُومًا كَانَ دَيْنًا عَلَيْهِ، إِنْ شَاءَ اقْتَضَاهُ، وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَهُ.
✧ The night of the guest is an obligation upon every Muslim. If he wakes up in the morning at his doorstep deprived [of hospitality], it is a debt owed to him. If he wishes, he may collect it, and if he wishes, he may leave it.
Musnad Ahmad 17174Sahih
أَلَا إِنِّي أُوتِيتُ الْكِتَابَ وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ، أَلَا إِنِّي أُوتِيتُ الْقُرْآنَ وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ، أَلَا يُوشِكُ رَجُلٌ يَنْثَنِي شَبْعَانًا عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ يَقُولُ: عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَلَالٍ فَأَحِلُّوهُ، وَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ فَحَرِّمُوهُ، أَلَا لَا يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ لَحْمُ الْحِمَارِ الْأَهْلِيِّ، وَلَا كُلُّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ، أَلَا وَلَا لُقَطَةٌ مِنْ مَالِ مُعَاهَدٍ، إِلَّا أَنْ يَسْتَغْنِيَ عَنْهَا صَاحِبُهَا، وَمَنْ نَزَلَ بِقَوْمٍ، فَعَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَقْرُوهُمْ، فَإِنْ لَمْ يَقْرُوهُمْ، فَلَهُمْ أَنْ يُعْقِبُوهُمْ بِمِثْلِ قِرَاهُمْ.
The Prophet ﷺ said: Beware! I have been given the Qur'an and something like it, yet the time is coming when a man replete on his couch will say: Keep to the Qur'an; what you find in it to be permissible treat as permissible, and what you find in it to be prohibited treat as prohibited. Beware! The domestic ass, beasts of prey with fangs, a find belonging to confederate, unless its owner does not want it, are not permissible to you If anyone comes to some people, they must entertain him, but if they do not, he has a right to mulct them to an amount equivalent to his entertainment. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 4604)
Musnad Ahmad 17175No grade recorded
مَنْ تَرَكَ كَلًّا، فَإِلَى اللهِ وَرَسُولِهِ - وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ: فَإِلَيْنَا - وَمَنْ تَرَكَ مَالًا فَلِوَارِثِهِ، وَالْخَالُ وَارِثُ مَنْ لَا وَارِثَ لَهُ، وَأَنَا وَارِثُ مَنْ لَا وَارِثَ لَهُ، أَرِثُهُ وَأَعْقِلُ عَنْهُ.
The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone leaves a debt or a helpless family I shall be responsible-and sometimes the narrator said: Allah and His Apostle will be responsible-but if anyone leaves property, it goes to his heirs. I am the heirs of him who has none, paying blood-wit for him and inheriting from him; and a maternal uncle is the heir of him who has none, paying blood-wit for him and inheriting from him. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2899)
Musnad Ahmad 17176Accepted
حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ فَذَكَرَهُ، وَقَالَ عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ: مِنْ كِنْدَةَ، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ نَحْوَهُ.:
✧ Shuʿbah narrated to us, and he mentioned it, and he said: On the authority of al-Miqdām, from Kindah, and he was one of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, from the Prophet ﷺ something similar.
Musnad Ahmad 17177Sahih
كِيلُوا طَعَامَكُمْ يُبَارَكْ لَكُمْ فِيهِ
"I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Measure your food, may you be blessed therein."' (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2231)
أَيُّمَا مُسْلِمٍ أَضَافَ قَوْمًا، فَأَصْبَحَ الضَّيْفُ مَحْرُومًا، [فَإِنَّ حَقًّا] عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ نَصْرَهُ، حَتَّى يَأْخُذَ بِقِرَى لَيْلَتِهِ مِنْ زَرْعِهِ وَمَالِهِ.
✧ Any Muslim who hosts a people, and the guest wakes up in the morning deprived [of hospitality], then it is a right upon every Muslim to help him until he takes the hospitality of his night from his crops and his wealth.
Musnad Ahmad 17179Hasan
مَا أَطْعَمْتَ نَفْسَكَ، فَهُوَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَمَا أَطْعَمْتَ وَلَدَكَ، فَهُوَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَمَا أَطْعَمْتَ زَوْجَتَكَ، فَهُوَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَمَا أَطْعَمْتَ خَادِمَكَ فَهُوَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ
✧ Whatever you feed yourself is charity for you, whatever you feed your child is charity for you, whatever you feed your wife is charity for you, and whatever you feed your servant is charity for you.
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْهَى عَنْ لَطْمِ خُدُودِ الدَّوَابِّ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَدْ جَعَلَ لَكُمْ عِصِيًّا وَسِيَاطًا
✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbidding striking the cheeks of riding beasts, and he said: 'Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has made for you sticks and whips.'
Musnad Ahmad 17181Sahih
مَا أَكَلَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ طَعَامًا أَحَبَّ إِلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ عَمَلِ يَدَيْهِ
✧ None of you eats food more beloved to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, than from the work of his own hands.
Musnad Ahmad 17182Accepted
إِنَّ لِلشَّهِيدِ عِنْدَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - قَالَ الْحَكَمُ: سِتَّ خِصَالٍ - أَنْ يُغْفَرَ لَهُ فِي أَوَّلِ دُفْعَةٍ مِنْ دَمِهِ، وَيَرَى - قَالَ الْحَكَمُ: وَيَرَى - مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ، وَيُحَلَّى حُلَّةَ الْإِيمَانِ، وَيُزَوَّجَ مِنَ الْحُورِ الْعِينِ، وَيُجَارَ مِنْ عَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ، وَيَأْمَنَ مِنَ الْفَزَعِ الْأَكْبَرِ - قَالَ الْحَكَمُ: يَوْمَ الْفَزَعِ الْأَكْبَرِ - وَيُوضَعَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ تَاجُ الْوَقَارِ، الْيَاقُوتَةُ مِنْهُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا، وَيُزَوَّجَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِينَ زَوْجَةً مِنَ الْحُورِ الْعِينِ، وَيُشَفَّعَ فِي سَبْعِينَ إِنْسَانًا مِنْ أَقَارِبِهِ.
✧ Indeed, for the martyr, with Allah, Mighty and Majestic – al-Ḥakam said: there are six qualities – that he is forgiven at the first gush of his blood, and he sees – al-Ḥakam said: and he sees – his seat in Paradise, and he is adorned with the garment of faith, and he is married to the ḥūr al-ʿīn, and he is granted protection from the torment of the grave, and he is safe from the greatest terror – al-Ḥakam said: on the day of the greatest terror – and a crown of dignity is placed on his head, a single ruby of which is better than the world and all that is in it, and he is married to seventy-two wives from the ḥūr al-ʿīn, and he is allowed to intercede for seventy of his relatives.
Musnad Ahmad 17183Accepted
17388 17456 17183 - حَدَّثَنَا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ
✧ Al-Ḥakam b. Nāfiʿ narrated to us, Ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Baḥīr b. Saʿd, from Khālid b. Maʿdān, from Kathīr b. Murrah, from ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit, from the Prophet ﷺ, the like of that.
Musnad Ahmad 17184Hasan
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُوصِيكُمْ بِالْأَقْرَبِ فَالْأَقْرَبِ
✧ Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, enjoins you to [care for] the nearest of kin, then the next nearest.
Musnad Ahmad 17185Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْحَرِيرِ وَالذَّهَبِ، وَعَنْ مَيَاثِرِ النُّمُورِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade silk and gold, and the leopard-skin saddlecloths.
Musnad Ahmad 17186Accepted
مَا مَلَأَ ابْنُ آدَمَ وِعَاءً شَرٌّ مِنْ بَطْنٍ، حَسْبُ ابْنِ آدَمَ أُكُلَاتٌ يُقِمْنَ صُلْبَهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ لَا مَحَالَةَ، فَثُلُثٌ طَعَامٌ، وَثُلُثٌ شَرَابٌ، وَثُلُثٌ لِنَفَسِهِ
✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "The son of Adam fills no vessel worse than his stomach. A few morsels that keep his back upright are sufficient for the son of Adam; but if he must, then one-third for food, one-third for drink, and one-third for his breath."
Musnad Ahmad 17187Hasan
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُوصِيكُمْ بِأُمَّهَاتِكُمْ، إِنَّ اللهَ يُوصِيكُمْ بِأُمَّهَاتِكُمْ، إِنَّ اللهَ يُوصِيكُمْ بِآبَائِكُمْ، إِنَّ اللهَ يُوصِيكُمْ بِالْأَقْرَبِ فَالْأَقْرَبِ.
✧ Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, enjoins you to [care for] your mothers. Indeed, Allah enjoins you to [care for] your mothers. Indeed, Allah enjoins you to [care for] your fathers. Indeed, Allah enjoins you to [care for] the nearest of kin, then the next nearest.
أُتِيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِوَضُوءٍ فَتَوَضَّأَ، فَغَسَلَ كَفَّيْهِ ثَلَاثًا، [ثُمَّ غَسَلَ] وَجْهَهُ ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ غَسَلَ ذِرَاعَيْهِ ثَلَاثًا ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ مَضْمَضَ وَاسْتَنْشَقَ ثَلَاثًا، [ثُمَّ مَسَحَ] بِرَأْسِهِ وَأُذُنَيْهِ ظَاهِرِهِمَا وَبَاطِنِهِمَا، وَغَسَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ ثَلَاثًا
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ was brought water for ablution, so he performed ablution: he washed his hands three times, then washed his face three times, then washed his forearms three times each, then rinsed his mouth and sniffed water into his nose three times, then wiped his head and his ears, their outsides and insides, and washed his feet three times.
وَفَدَ الْمِقْدَامُ بْنُ مَعْدِي كَرِبَ وَعَمْرُو بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ لِلْمِقْدَامِ: أَعَلِمْتَ أَنَّ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ تُوُفِّيَ ؟ فَرَجَّعَ الْمِقْدَامُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ: أَتَرَاهَا مُصِيبَةً ؟ فَقَالَ: وَلِمَ لَا أَرَاهَا مُصِيبَةً، وَقَدْ وَضَعَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي حِجْرِهِ وَقَالَ: هَذَا مِنِّي وَحُسَيْنٌ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ
✧ Al-Miqdam b. Ma'di Karib and 'Amr b. al-Aswad came as a delegation to Mu'awiya. Mu'awiya said to al-Miqdam, "Did you know that al-Hasan b. 'Ali has died?" Al-Miqdam said, "Truly, to God we belong and truly, to Him we shall return." Mu'awiya said to him, "Do you consider it a calamity?" He said, "Why would I not consider it a calamity, when the Messenger of God ﷺ placed him in his lap and said, 'This one is from me, and Husayn is from 'Ali'?"
Musnad Ahmad 17190Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ بَاسِطًا يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ: مَا أَكَلَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ طَعَامًا فِي الدُّنْيَا خَيْرًا لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِنْ عَمَلِ يَدَيْهِ
✧ He saw the Prophet ﷺ with his hands spread out, saying: "None of you eats any food in this world better for him than eating from the work of his own hands."
Musnad Ahmad 17191Hasan
مَا أَطْعَمْتَ نَفْسَكَ فَهُوَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَوَلَدَكَ وَزَوْجَتَكَ وَخَادِمَكَ
✧ Whatever you feed yourself is charity for you, and your child, your wife, and your servant.
Musnad Ahmad 17192Hasan
عَلَيْكُمْ بِغَدَاءِ السَّحَرِ، فَإِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَدَاءُ الْمُبَارَكُ
✧ Hold to the pre-dawn meal, for it is the blessed meal.
Musnad Ahmad 17193Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لُحُومِ الْحُمُرِ الْإِنْسِيَّةِ، وَعَنْ كُلِّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade the meat of domestic donkeys and of every beast of prey with fangs.
Musnad Ahmad 17194Sahih
حَرَّمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمَ خَيْبَرَ أَشْيَاءَ ثُمَّ قَالَ: يُوشِكُ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يُكَذِّبَنِي، وَهُوَ مُتَّكِئٌ عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ، يُحَدَّثُ بِحَدِيثِي، فَيَقُولُ: بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ كِتَابُ اللهِ، فَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهِ مِنْ حَلَالٍ اسْتَحْلَلْنَاهُ، وَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ حَرَّمْنَاهُ، أَلَا وَإِنَّ مَا حَرَّمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ مِثْلُ مَا حَرَّمَ اللهُ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ prohibited certain things on the day of Khaybar. Then he said: "Soon one of you will deny me while reclining on his couch, being told a hadith of mine, and he will say: 'Between us and you is God's Book. Whatever we find in it of lawful, we deem lawful, and whatever we find in it of unlawful, we deem unlawful.' Verily, what the Messenger of God has prohibited is like what God has prohibited."
Musnad Ahmad 17195Sahih
لَلَيْلَةُ الضَّيْفِ - قَالَ أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ: حَقٌّ - وَاجِبَةٌ، فَإِنْ أَصْبَحَ بِفِنَائِهِ فَهُوَ دَيْنٌ عَلَيْهِ، فَإِنْ شَاءَ اقْتَضَى، وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ
✧ Indeed, the guest's night - Abu Nu'aym said: a right due - is obligatory. If he [the guest] wakes up [still] at his [host's] courtyard, it is a debt owed to him. If he wills, he may claim it, and if he wills, he may leave it.
Musnad Ahmad 17196Sahih
عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ لَلَيْلَةُ الضَّيْفِ حَقٌّ وَاجِبَةٌ، فَإِنْ أَصْبَحَ بِفِنَائِهِ فَهُوَ لَهُ عَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ، إِنْ شَاءَ اقْتَضَى، وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ
✧ Every Muslim has an obligatory right to the guest's night. If he [the guest] wakes up [still] at his [host's] courtyard, then it is a debt owed to him by him [the host]. If he wills, he may claim it, and if he wills, he may leave it.
أَيُّمَا مُسْلِمٍ أَضَافَ قَوْمًا فَأَصْبَحَ الضَّيْفُ مَحْرُومًا، فَإِنَّ حَقًّا عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ نَصْرُهُ حَتَّى يَأْخُذَ بِقِرَى لَيْلَتِهِ مِنْ زَرْعِهِ وَمَالِهِ.
✧ Any Muslim who hosts a people, but the guest wakes up deprived [of hospitality], then it is a right upon every Muslim to aid him until he receives the hospitality of his night from his [the host's] crops and wealth.
حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ - قَالَ أَبُو الْجُودِيِّ: أَخْبَرَنِي - أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُهَاجِرِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ الْمِقْدَامَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ، فَذَكَرَ مِثْلَهُ
✧ Shu'ba narrated to us - Abu al-Judi said: he informed me - that he heard Sa'id b. al-Muhajir say that he heard al-Miqdam say that he heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: then he mentioned something similar.
Musnad Ahmad 17199No grade recorded
مَنْ تَرَكَ مَالًا فَلِوَرَثَتِهِ، وَمَنْ تَرَكَ دَيْنًا أَوْ ضَيْعَةً فَإِلَيَّ، وَأَنَا وَلِيُّ مَنْ لَا وَلِيَّ لَهُ، أَفُكُّ عَنْهُ، وَأَرِثُ مَالَهُ، وَالْخَالُ وَلِيُّ مَنْ لَا وَلِيَّ لَهُ، يَفُكُّ عَنْهُ وَيَرِثُ مَالَهُ.
✧ Whoever leaves wealth, it goes to his heirs, and whoever leaves a debt or dependents, they come to me, and I am the guardian of the one who has no guardian: I pay on his behalf and inherit his wealth. And the maternal uncle is the guardian of the one who has no guardian: he pays on his behalf and inherits his wealth.
Musnad Ahmad 17200same_as_before
أَفُكُّ عُنُوَّهُ
✧ I free his captives.
كَانَتْ لِمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِي كَرِبَ جَارِيَةٌ تَبِيعُ اللَّبَنَ، وَيَقْبِضُ الْمِقْدَامُ الثَّمَنَ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: سُبْحَانَ اللهِ، أَتَبِيعُ اللَّبَنَ وَتَقْبِضُ الثَّمَنَ ! فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، وَمَا بَأْسٌ بِذَلِكَ، سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَيَأْتِيَنَّ عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ لَا يَنْفَعُ فِيهِ إِلَّا الدِّينَارُ وَالدِّرْهَمُ
✧ Al-Miqdam b. Ma'di Karib had a slave girl who used to sell milk, and al-Miqdam received the price. It was said to him, 'Glory be to God! You sell the milk and take the price?' He said, 'Yes, and there is no harm in that. I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: There will come upon people a time when nothing will be of benefit except the dinar and the dirham.'
Musnad Ahmad 17202Sahih
لَلَيْلَةُ الضَّيْفِ وَاجِبَةٌ، فَإِنْ أَصْبَحَ بِفِنَائِهِ فَهُوَ دَيْنٌ لَهُ، فَإِنْ شَاءَ اقْتَضَى وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ.
✧ The night of the guest is obligatory. If he wakes up in his courtyard, it is a debt owed to him; if he wishes, he may demand it, and if he wishes, he may leave it.
Musnad Ahmad 17203Accepted
مَنْ تَرَكَ دَيْنًا أَوْ ضَيْعَةً فَإِلَيَّ، وَمَنْ تَرَكَ مَالًا فَلِوَارِثِهِ، وَأَنَا مَوْلَى مَنْ لَا مَوْلَى لَهُ، أَرِثُ مَالَهُ وَأَفُكُّ عَانَهُ، وَالْخَالُ مَوْلَى مَنْ لَا مَوْلَى لَهُ، يَرِثُ مَالَهُ وَيَفُكُّ عَانَهُ.
✧ Whoever leaves a debt or dependents, they are my responsibility. Whoever leaves wealth, it belongs to his heirs. I am the guardian of the one who has no guardian; I inherit his wealth and free his captives. The maternal uncle is the guardian of the one who has no guardian; he inherits his wealth and frees his captives.
Musnad Ahmad 17204Accepted
مَنْ تَرَكَ كَلًّا فَإِلَيَّ، قَالَ: وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ: إِلَى اللهِ وَإِلَى رَسُولِهِ، وَمَنْ تَرَكَ مَالًا فَلِوَرَثَتِهِ، وَأَنَا وَارِثُ مَنْ لَا وَارِثَ لَهُ، أَعْقِلُ عَنْهُ وَأَرِثُهُ، وَالْخَالُ وَارِثُ مَنْ لَا وَارِثَ لَهُ، يَعْقِلُ عَنْهُ وَيَرِثُهُ
✧ Whoever leaves dependents, they are my responsibility—he said, and perhaps he said, to God and His Messenger—and whoever leaves wealth, it belongs to his heirs. I am the heir of the one who has no heir; I pay blood money on his behalf and inherit from him. The maternal uncle is the heir of the one who has no heir; he pays blood money on his behalf and inherits from him.
أَفْلَحْتَ يَا قُدَيْمُ، إِنْ مُتَّ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَمِيرًا وَلَا جَابِيًا وَلَا عَرِيفًا.
✧ You have succeeded, O Qudaym, if you die while you are not a commander, a tax collector, or an 'arif.
Musnad Ahmad 17206Sahih
سَمِعْتُ كُرَيْبَ بْنَ أَبْرَهَةَ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ مَعَ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بِدَيْرِ الْمُرَّانِ، وَذَكَرُوا الْكِبْرَ، فَقَالَ كُرَيْبٌ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا رَيْحَانَةَ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّهُ لَا يَدْخُلُ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْكِبْرِ الْجَنَّةَ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَتَجَمَّلَ بِسَيْرِ سَوْطِي وَشِسْعِ نَعْلِي ؟ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَيْسَ بِالْكِبْرِ، إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ جَمِيلٌ يُحِبُّ الْجَمَالَ، إِنَّمَا الْكِبْرُ مَنْ سَفِهَ الْحَقَّ، وَغَمَصَ النَّاسَ بِعَيْنَيْهِ
✧ I heard Kurayb b. Abraha while he was sitting with 'Abd al-Malik at Dayr al-Murran, and they mentioned arrogance. Kurayb said: I heard Abu Rayhana say: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: No particle of arrogance will enter Paradise. He said: A man said, 'O Messenger of God, I like to adorn myself with the strap of my whip and the lace of my sandal?' The Prophet ﷺ said: That is not arrogance. God, Mighty and Majestic, is beautiful and loves beauty. Arrogance is only when someone treats the truth as foolish and belittles people with his eyes.
Musnad Ahmad 17207No grade recorded
سَمِعْتُ كُرَيْبَ بْنَ أَبْرَهَةَ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ مَعَ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَلَى سَرِيرِهِ بِدَيْرِ الْمُرَّانِ وَذَكَرَ الْكِبْرَ، فَقَالَ كُرَيْبٌ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا رَيْحَانَةَ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَا يَدْخُلُ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْكِبْرِ الْجَنَّةَ، فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ، إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَتَجَمَّلَ بِجُلَّانِ سَوْطِي وَشِسْعِ نَعْلِي ؟ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَيْسَ بِالْكِبْرِ، إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ جَمِيلٌ يُحِبُّ الْجَمَالَ، إِنَّمَا الْكِبْرُ مَنْ سَفِهَ الْحَقَّ، وَغَمَصَ النَّاسَ بِعَيْنَيْهِ، يَعْنِي بِالْجِلَانِ: سَيْرَ السَّوْطِ وَشِسْعَ النَّعْلِ
✧ I heard Kurayb b. Abraha while he was sitting with 'Abd al-Malik on his couch at Dayr al-Murran, and he mentioned arrogance. Kurayb said: I heard Abu Rayhana say: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: No particle of arrogance will enter Paradise. Then a man said, 'O Prophet of God, I like to adorn myself with the fine leather of my whip and the lace of my sandal?' The Prophet ﷺ said: That is not arrogance. God, Mighty and Majestic, is beautiful and loves beauty. Arrogance is only when someone treats the truth as foolish and belittles people with his eyes—meaning by "julan" the strap of the whip and the lace of the sandal.
Musnad Ahmad 17208Sahih
نَهَى عَنِ الْوَشْرِ، وَالْوَشْمِ وَالنَّتْفِ وَالْمُشَاغَرَةِ وَالْمُكَامَعَةِ وَالْوِصَالِ وَالْمُلَامَسَةِ
✧ He forbade filing the teeth, tattooing, plucking facial hair, and the practices of shighar, mukama'a, wisal, and mulamasa.
Musnad Ahmad 17209Sahih
خَرَجْتُ أَنَا وَصَاحِبٌ لِي يُسَمَّى أَبَا عَامِرٍ - رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمَعَافِرِ - لِيُصَلِّيَ بِإِيلِيَاءَ وَكَانَ قَاصُّهُمْ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَزْدِ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: أَبُو رَيْحَانَةَ مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ، قَالَ أَبُو الْحُصَيْنِ: فَسَبَقَنِي صَاحِبِي إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ، ثُمَّ أَدْرَكْتُهُ، فَجَلَسْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ، فَسَأَلَنِي: هَلْ أَدْرَكْتَ قَصَصَ أَبِي رَيْحَانَةَ ؟ فَقُلْتُ: لَا. فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: عَنْ عَشَرَةٍ: عَنِ الْوَشْرِ، وَالْوَشْمِ، وَالنَّتْفِ، وَعَنْ مُكَامَعَةِ الرَّجُلِ الرَّجُلَ بِغَيْرِ شِعَارٍ، وَمُكَامَعَةِ الْمَرْأَةِ الْمَرْأَةَ بِغَيْرِ شِعَارٍ، وَأَنْ يَجْعَلَ الرَّجُلُ فِي أَسْفَلِ ثِيَابِهِ حَرِيرًا مِثْلَ الْأَعْلَامِ، وَأَنْ يَجْعَلَ عَلَى مَنْكِبَيْهِ مِثْلَ الْأَعَاجِمِ، وَعَنِ النُّهْبَى، وَرُكُوبِ النُّمُورِ، وَلُبُوسِ الْخَاتَمِ إِلَّا لِذِي سُلْطَانٍ
✧ I went out with a companion of mine named Abu 'Amir—a man from Ma'afir—to pray in Ilya'. Their storyteller was a man from Azd called Abu Rayhana, one of the Companions. Abu al-Husayn said: My companion preceded me to the mosque, then I caught up with him and sat beside him. He asked me, 'Did you catch the storytelling of Abu Rayhana?' I said, 'No.' He said: I heard him say: The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade ten things: filing the teeth, tattooing, plucking facial hair, a man lying in intimate contact with a man without a lower garment, a woman lying in intimate contact with a woman without a lower garment, a man putting silk like borders at the bottom of his garments, putting on his shoulders like the non-Arabs, the practice of plunder, riding on leopard skins, and wearing a ring except for one in authority.
Musnad Ahmad 17210same_as_before
أَنَّهُ كَرِهَ عَشْرَ خِصَالٍ؛ الْوَشْرَ، وَالنَّتْفَ، وَالْوَشْمَ، وَمُكَامَعَةَ الرَّجُلِ الرَّجُلَ، وَالْمَرْأَةِ الْمَرْأَةَ، لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَوْبٌ، وَالنُّهْبَةَ، وَرُكُوبَ النُّمُورِ، وَاتِّخَاذَ الدِّيبَاجِ هَاهُنَا وَهَاهُنَا أَسْفَلَ فِي الثِّيَابِ، وَفِي الْمَنَاكِبِ، وَالْخَاتَمَ إِلَّا لِذِي سُلْطَانٍ
✧ He disliked ten traits: filing the teeth, plucking facial hair, tattooing, a man lying in intimate contact with a man, and a woman with a woman, with no cloth between them, plunder, riding on leopard skins, taking silk brocade here and here at the bottom of garments and on the shoulders, and the ring except for one in authority.
نَهَى عَنِ الْخَاتَمِ إِلَّا لِذِي سُلْطَانٍ
✧ He forbade the ring except for one in authority.
مَنِ انْتَسَبَ إِلَى تِسْعَةِ آبَاءٍ كُفَّارٍ، يُرِيدُ بِهِمْ عِزًّا وَكَرَمًا، فَهُوَ عَاشِرُهُمْ فِي النَّارِ
✧ Whoever traces his lineage back to nine disbelieving forefathers, seeking by them honor and nobility, is the tenth of them in the Fire.
Musnad Ahmad 17213Hasan
كُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي غَزْوَةٍ فَأَتَيْنَا ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ إِلَى شَرَفٍ، فَبِتْنَا عَلَيْهِ فَأَصَابَنَا بَرْدٌ شَدِيدٌ، حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ مَنْ يَحْفِرُ فِي الْأَرْضِ حُفْرَةً يَدْخُلُ فِيهَا وَيُلْقِي عَلَيْهِ الْحَجَفَةَ يَعْنِي التُّرْسَ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مِنَ النَّاسِ نَادَى: مَنْ يَحْرُسُنَا فِي هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةِ ؟ وَأَدْعُو لَهُ بِدُعَاءٍ يَكُونُ فِيهِ فَضْلًا. فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ: أَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ. فَقَالَ: ادْنُهْ فَدَنَا، فَقَالَ: مَنْ أَنْتَ ؟ فَتَسَمَّى لَهُ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، فَفَتَحَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِالدُّعَاءِ فَأَكْثَرَ مِنْهُ، قَالَ أَبُو رَيْحَانَةَ: فَلَمَّا سَمِعْتُ مَا دَعَا بِهِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقُلْتُ: أَنَا رَجُلٌ آخَرُ. فَقَالَ: ادْنُهْ فَدَنَوْتُ، فَقَالَ: مَنْ أَنْتَ ؟ قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ: أَنَا أَبُو رَيْحَانَةَ، فَدَعَا بِدُعَاءٍ هُوَ دُونَ مَا دَعَا لِلْأَنْصَارِيِّ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: حُرِّمَتِ النَّارُ عَلَى عَيْنٍ دَمَعَتْ - أَوْ بَكَتْ - مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللهِ، وَحُرِّمَتِ النَّارُ عَلَى عَيْنٍ سَهِرَتْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ. وَقَالَ: حُرِّمَتِ النَّارُ عَلَى عَيْنٍ أُخْرَى ثَالِثَةٍ، لَمْ يَسْمَعْهَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُمَيْرٍ.
✧ We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a military expedition, and one night we came to a high place and spent the night there. Severe cold afflicted us, until I saw someone digging a hole in the ground, entering it, and throwing the shield over himself. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw that from the people, he called out: “Who will guard us tonight, and I will supplicate for him with a supplication that will contain excellence?” A man from the Ansar said: “I will, O Messenger of Allah.” He said: “Come closer.” He came closer, and he said: “Who are you?” The Ansari gave his name. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ began the supplication and made it lengthy. Abu Rayhanah said: When I heard what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ supplicated with, I said: “I am another man.” He said: “Come closer.” I came closer, and he said: “Who are you?” I said: “I am Abu Rayhanah.” He supplicated with a supplication that was less than what he supplicated for the Ansari. Then he said: “The Fire is forbidden for an eye that weeps — or cries — from fear of Allah, and the Fire is forbidden for an eye that stays awake in the path of Allah.” And he said: “The Fire is forbidden for another, third eye,” which Muhammad b. Sumayr did not hear.
Musnad Ahmad 17214same_as_before
أَنَّهُ وَصَاحِبٌ لَهُ يَلْزَمَانِ أَبَا رَيْحَانَةَ، يَتَعَلَّمَانِ مِنْهُ خَيْرًا، قَالَ: فَحَضَرَ صَاحِبِي يَوْمًا وَلَمْ أَحْضُرْ، فَأَخْبَرَنِي صَاحِبِي أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا رَيْحَانَةَ، يَقُولُ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ حَرَّمَ عَشَرَةً: الْوَشْرَ، وَالْوَشْمَ، وَالنَّتْفَ، وَمُكَامَعَةَ الرَّجُلِ بِالرَّجُلِ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَوْبٌ، وَمُكَامَعَةَ الْمَرْأَةِ بِالْمَرْأَةِ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَوْبٌ، وَخَطَّيْ حَرِيرٍ عَلَى أَسْفَلِ الثَّوْبِ، وَخَطَّيْ حَرِيرٍ عَلَى الْعَاتِقَيْنِ، وَالنَّمِرَ يَعْنِي جِلْدَةَ النَّمِرِ وَالنُّهْبَةَ، وَالْخَاتَمَ إِلَّا لِذِي سُلْطَانٍ
✧ That he and a companion of his used to keep close to Abu Rayhanah, learning good from him. He said: My companion attended one day and I did not attend. My companion informed me that he heard Abu Rayhanah say: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade ten things: filing the teeth, tattooing, plucking, a man lying skin-to-skin with a man with no cloth between them, a woman lying skin-to-skin with a woman with no cloth between them, two silk borders on the lower part of the garment, two silk borders on the shoulders, the leopard — meaning the skin of the leopard, plunder, and the ring except for one with authority.”
Musnad Ahmad 17215Sahih
لَا تُصَلُّوا إِلَى الْقُبُورِ، وَلَا تَجْلِسُوا عَلَيْهَا
✧ Do not pray toward graves, and do not sit on them.
Musnad Ahmad 17216Sahih
لَا تَجْلِسُوا عَلَى الْقُبُورِ وَلَا تُصَلُّوا عَلَيْهَا.
✧ Do not sit on graves, and do not pray on them.
Musnad Ahmad 17217Sahih
إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا اسْتَعْمَلَهُ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ. فَسَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ: مَا اسْتَعْمَلَهُ ؟ قَالَ: يَهْدِيهِ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى الْعَمَلِ الصَّالِحِ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ، ثُمَّ يَقْبِضُهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ
✧ When Allah intends good for a servant, He puts him to work before his death. A man from the people asked him: “What does He put him to work with?” He said: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, guides him to righteous action before his death, then takes his soul upon that.”
Musnad Ahmad 17218Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لِرَجُلٍ مِمَّنْ مَعَهُ: إِنَّ هَذَا لَمِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ، فَلَمَّا حَضَرَ الْقِتَالُ قَاتَلَ الرَّجُلُ أَشَدَّ الْقِتَالِ حَتَّى كَثُرَتْ بِهِ الْجِرَاحُ، فَأَتَاهُ رِجَالٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَرَأَيْتَ الرَّجُلَ الَّذِي ذَكَرْتَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ، فَقَدْ وَاللهِ قَاتَلَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَشَدَّ الْقِتَالِ وَكَثُرَتْ بِهِ الْجِرَاحُ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَمَا إِنَّهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ وَكَادَ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ أَنْ يَرْتَابَ، فَبَيْنَمَا هُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، وَجَدَ الرَّجُلُ أَلَمَ الْجِرَاحِ فَأَهْوَى بِيَدِهِ إِلَى كِنَانَتِهِ، فَانْتَزَعَ مِنْهَا سَهْمًا فَانْتَحَرَ بِهِ، فَاشْتَدَّ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ، قَدْ صَدَّقَ اللهُ حَدِيثَكَ، قَدِ انْتَحَرَ فُلَانٌ فَقَتَلَ نَفْسَهُ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to a man who was with him: “This one is among the people of the Fire.” When fighting approached, the man fought the fiercest battle until he was covered with many wounds. Some men among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ came to him and said: “O Messenger of Allah, do you see the man you mentioned as being among the people of the Fire? By Allah, he has fought fiercely in the path of Allah and has many wounds.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Indeed, he is among the people of the Fire.” Some people were about to doubt. While they were in that state, the man felt the pain of his wounds, reached his hand to his quiver, pulled out an arrow, and killed himself with it. A Muslim man hurried to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: “O Prophet of Allah, Allah has confirmed your statement. So-and-so has killed himself.”
Musnad Ahmad 17219Sahih
رَأَى بِشْرَ بْنَ مَرْوَانَ رَافِعًا يَدَيْهِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ فَقَالَ: رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، وَمَا يَقُولُ إِلَّا هَكَذَا، وَأَشَارَ بِإِصْبَعِهِ السَّبَّابَةِ
✧ I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the pulpit on Friday, and he did not say anything except like this and he pointed with his index finger.
Musnad Ahmad 17220Sahih
لَنْ يَلِجَ النَّارَ أَحَدٌ صَلَّى قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ، وَقَبْلَ غُرُوبِهَا.
✧ No one will enter the Fire who prays before sunrise and before sunset.
Musnad Ahmad 17221Sahih
أَنَّ بِشْرَ بْنَ مَرْوَانَ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ فَقَالَ عُمَارَةُ بْنُ رُوَيْبَةَ: مَا زَادَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى هَذَا، وَأَشَارَ بِإِصْبَعِهِ السَّبَّابَةِ
✧ Bishr b. Marwan raised his hands on Friday on the pulpit, so 'Umarah b. Ruwaybah said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not do more than this,” and he pointed with his index finger.
Musnad Ahmad 17222Sahih
لَا يَلِجُ النَّارَ مَنْ صَلَّى قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ وَقَبْلَ غُرُوبِهَا وَعِنْدَهُ رَجُلٌ، قَالَ عَفَّانُ: مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ، فَقَالَ: أَنْتَ سَمِعْتَ هَذَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، أَشْهَدُ بِهِ عَلَيْهِ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُهُ فِي الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْهُ. قَالَ عَفَّانُ: فِيهِ
✧ The Fire will not be entered by one who prays before sunrise and before sunset. A man was with him — 'Affan said: from the people of Basra — and he said: “Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?” He said: “Yes, I testify to it from him.” He said: “And I testify that I heard the Prophet ﷺ say it in the same place where you heard it from him.” 'Affan said: In it.
Musnad Ahmad 17223Sahih
لَا يَلِجُ النَّارَ
✧ The Fire will not be entered by
Musnad Ahmad 17224Sahih
كُنْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ رُوَيْبَةَ، وَبِشْرٌ يَخْطُبُنَا، فَلَمَّا دَعَا رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ، فَقَالَ عُمَارَةُ: يَعْنِي قَبَّحَ اللهُ هَاتَيْنِ الْيَدَيْنِ، أَوْ هَاتَيْنِ الْيُدَيَّتَيْنِ، رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَخْطُبُ إِذَا دَعَا يَقُولُ هَكَذَا: وَرَفَعَ السَّبَّابَةَ وَحْدَهَا
✧ I was beside 'Umarah b. Ruwaybah while Bishr was delivering a sermon to us. When he supplicated, he raised his hands, so 'Umarah said — meaning: May Allah disfigure these two hands, or these two little hands. I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was delivering a sermon, when he supplicated he did like this: and he raised his index finger alone.
Musnad Ahmad 17225Hasan
أَنَّهُ بَيْنَا هُوَ جَالِسٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ جَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ، فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، هَلْ تَتَكَلَّمُ هَذِهِ الْجِنَازَةُ ؟ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: اللهُ أَعْلَمُ، قَالَ الْيَهُودِيُّ: أَنَا أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهَا تَتَكَلَّمُ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِذَا حَدَّثَكُمْ أَهْلُ الْكِتَابِ فَلَا تُصَدِّقُوهُمْ وَلَا تُكَذِّبُوهُمْ، وَقُولُوا: آمَنَّا بِاللهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ، فَإِنْ كَانَ حَقًّا لَمْ تُكَذِّبُوهُمْ، وَإِنْ كَانَ بَاطِلًا لَمْ تُصَدِّقُوهُمْ
✧ While he was sitting with the Messenger of God ﷺ, a Jewish man came to him and said, 'O Muhammad, do these corpses speak?' The Messenger of God ﷺ said, 'God knows best.' The Jew said, 'I bear witness that they do speak.' The Messenger of God ﷺ said, 'When the People of the Book speak to you, neither believe them nor disbelieve them, but say: We believe in God and His Books and His Messengers. If it is true, you would not be disbelieving them, and if it is false, you would not be believing them.'
Musnad Ahmad 17226Hasan
بَيْنَمَا أَنَا جَالِسٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ جَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ فَذَكَرَ مِثْلَهُ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ: وَكِتَابِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ
✧ While I was sitting with the Messenger of God ﷺ, a Jewish man came to him, and he mentioned the same, except that he said, 'and His Book and His Messengers.'
Musnad Ahmad 17227Sahih
مَاتَ أَخِي، وَتَرَكَ ثَلَاثَمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ، وَتَرَكَ وَلَدًا صِغَارًا، فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُنْفِقَ عَلَيْهِمْ. فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ أَخَاكَ مَحْبُوسٌ بِدَيْنِهِ، فَاذْهَبْ فَاقْضِ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: فَذَهَبْتُ فَقَضَيْتُ عَنْهُ، ثُمَّ جِئْتُ فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَدْ قَضَيْتُ عَنْهُ، وَلَمْ يَبْقَ إِلَّا امْرَأَةٌ تَدَّعِي دِينَارَيْنِ، وَلَيْسَتْ لَهَا بَيِّنَةٌ. قَالَ: أَعْطِهَا فَإِنَّهَا صَادِقَةٌ
✧ My brother died and left three hundred dinars and young children, and I wanted to spend on them. The Messenger of God ﷺ said to me, 'Your brother is held back by his debt, so go and pay it on his behalf.' He said: So I went and paid it on his behalf, then I came and said, 'O Messenger of God, I have paid on his behalf, and nothing remains except a woman who claims two dinars but has no proof.' He said, 'Give it to her, for she is truthful.'
Musnad Ahmad 17228Sahih
أَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَصَعَّدَ فِيَّ النَّظَرَ وَصَوَّبَ، وَقَالَ: أَرَبُّ إِبِلٍ أَنْتَ أَوْ رَبُّ غَنَمٍ ؟ قَالَ: مِنْ كُلٍّ قَدْ آتَانِيَ اللهُ، فَأَكْثَرَ وَأَطْيَبَ. قَالَ: فَتُنْتِجُهَا وَافِيَةً أَعْيُنُهَا وَآذَانُهَا، فَتَجْدَعُ هَذِهِ فَتَقُولُ صُرُمًا، ثُمَّ تَكَلَّمَ سُفْيَانُ بِكَلِمَةٍ لَمْ أَفْهَمْهَا، وَتَقُولُ بَحِيرَةَ اللهِ فَسَاعِدُ اللهِ أَشَدُّ، وَمُوسَاهُ أَحَدُّ، وَلَوْ شَاءَ أَنْ يَأْتِيَكَ بِهَا صُرُمًا أَتَاكَ، قُلْتُ: إِلَى مَا تَدْعُو ؟ قَالَ: إِلَى اللهِ، وَإِلَى الرَّحِمِ، قُلْتُ: يَأْتِينِي الرَّجُلُ مِنْ بَنِي عَمِّي فَأَحْلِفُ أَنْ لَا أُعْطِيَهُ ثُمَّ أُعْطِيهِ. قَالَ: فَكَفِّرْ عَنْ يَمِينِكَ، وَأْتِ الَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌ، أَرَأَيْتَ لَوْ كَانَ لَكَ عَبْدَانِ أَحَدُهُمَا يُطِيعُكَ وَلَا يَخُونُكَ وَلَا يَكْذِبُكَ، وَالْآخَرُ يَخُونُكَ وَيَكْذِبُكَ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا، بَلِ الَّذِي لَا يَخُونُنِي وَلَا يَكْذِبُنِي وَيَصْدُقُنِي الْحَدِيثَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ. قَالَ: كَذَاكُمْ أَنْتُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّكُمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ I came to the Prophet ﷺ, and he looked at me up and down, then said, 'Are you an owner of camels or an owner of sheep?' He said, 'God has given me of each, abundantly and generously.' He said, 'You raise them with sound eyes and ears, then you slit the ears of these and call them Ṣuram, then Sufyan said something I did not understand, and you say, "God's Baḥīrah." But God's aid is stronger, and His razor is sharper. If He willed to bring them to you with slit ears, He would have.' I said, 'To what do you call?' He said, 'To God and to kinship ties.' I said, 'A man from my cousins comes to me, and I swear I will not give him, then I give him.' He said, 'Then expiate your oath, and do what is better. Do you see, if you had two slaves, one who obeys you, does not betray you, and does not lie to you, and the other who betrays you and lies to you?' He said, 'I said: No, rather the one who does not betray me or lie to me, but tells me the truth, is more beloved to me.' He said, 'Such are you in the sight of your Lord, Mighty and Majestic.'
Musnad Ahmad 17229Sahih
أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَعَلَيَّ شَمْلَةٌ أَوْ شَمْلَتَانِ، فَقَالَ لِي: هَلْ لَكَ مِنْ مَالٍ ؟ قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ، قَدْ آتَانِيَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ كُلِّ مَالِهِ، مِنْ خَيْلِهِ، وَإِبِلِهِ، وَغَنَمِهِ، وَرَقِيقِهِ. فَقَالَ: فَإِذَا آتَاكَ اللهُ مَالًا، فَلْيُرَ عَلَيْكَ نِعْمَتُهُ فَرُحْتُ إِلَيْهِ فِي حُلَّةٍ
✧ I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ wearing a cloak or two cloaks. He said to me, 'Do you have any wealth?' I said, 'Yes, God, Mighty and Majestic, has given me of all kinds of wealth: horses, camels, sheep, and slaves.' He said, 'Then if God gives you wealth, let His blessing be seen on you.' So I went back to him wearing a fine garment.
Musnad Ahmad 17230Sahih
فَغَدَوْتُ إِلَيْهِ فِي حُلَّةٍ حَمْرَاءَ
✧ I went to him in a red attire.
Musnad Ahmad 17231Sahih
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، الرَّجُلُ أَمُرُّ بِهِ فَلَا يُضَيِّفُنِي، وَلَا يَقْرِينِي، فَيَمُرُّ بِي فَأَجْزِيهِ، قَالَ: لَا، بَلِ اقْرِهِ، قَالَ: فَرَآنِي رَثَّ الثِّيَابِ، فَقَالَ: هَلْ لَكَ مِنْ مَالٍ فَقُلْتُ: قَدْ أَعْطَانِيَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ كُلِّ الْمَالِ، مِنَ الْإِبِلِ وَالْغَنَمِ. قَالَ: فَلْيُرَ أَثَرُ نِعْمَةِ اللهِ عَلَيْكَ
✧ I said, 'O Messenger of God, a man I pass by does not offer me hospitality or entertain me; then he passes by me, should I repay him in kind?' He said, 'No, rather entertain him.' He said: Then he saw me in shabby clothes and said, 'Do you have any wealth?' I said, 'God, Mighty and Majestic, has given me of all kinds of wealth, from camels and sheep.' He said, 'Then let the trace of God's blessing be seen on you.'
Musnad Ahmad 17232Sahih
الْأَيْدِي ثَلَاثَةٌ، فَيَدُ اللهِ الْعُلْيَا، وَيَدُ الْمُعْطِي الَّتِي تَلِيهَا، وَيَدُ السَّائِلِ السُّفْلَى، فَأَعْطِيًا الْفَضْلَ، وَلَا تَعْجِزْ عَنْ نَفْسِكَ
✧ The hands are three: the hand of God is the highest, the hand of the giver which follows it, and the hand of the beggar is the lowest. So give from your surplus, and do not hold back from yourself.
Musnad Ahmad 17233Sahih
أَتَانَا ابْنُ مِرْبَعٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ وَنَحْنُ فِي مَكَانٍ مِنَ الْمَوْقِفِ بَعِيدٍ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي رَسُولُ رَسُولِ اللهِ إِلَيْكُمْ يَقُولُ: كُونُوا عَلَى مَشَاعِرِكُمْ هَذِهِ، فَإِنَّكُمْ عَلَى إِرْثٍ مِنْ إِرْثِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ. لِمَكَانٍ تَبَاعَدَهُ عَمْرٌو
✧ Ibn Mirbaʿ al-Anṣārī came to us while we were in a distant place at the standing site and said, 'I am the messenger of the Messenger of God to you, saying: Remain at your ritual sites, for you are on an inheritance from the inheritance of Abraham.' Because of a place that ʿAmr had distanced himself from.
Musnad Ahmad 17234No grade recorded
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَعَثَ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْجَرَّاحِ إِلَى الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَأْتِي بِجِزْيَتِهَا، وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ هُوَ صَالَحَ أَهْلَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ، وَأَمَّرَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْعَلَاءَ بْنَ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ، فَقَدِمَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بِمَالٍ مِنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ، فَسَمِعَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ بِقُدُومِهِ فَوَافَتْ صَلَاةَ الْفَجْرِ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَلَمَّا صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَاةَ الْفَجْرِ، انْصَرَفَ فَتَعَرَّضُوا لَهُ، فَتَبَسَّمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ حِينَ رَآهُمْ فَقَالَ: أَظُنُّكُمْ قَدْ سَمِعْتُمْ أَنَّ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ قَدْ جَاءَ، وَجَاءَ بِشَيْءٍ قَالُوا: أَجَلْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَالَ: فَأَبْشِرُوا، وَأَمِّلُوا مَا يَسُرُّكُمْ، فَوَاللهِ مَا الْفَقْرَ أَخْشَى عَلَيْكُمْ، وَلَكِنْ أَخْشَى أَنْ تُبْسَطَ الدُّنْيَا عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَا بُسِطَتْ عَلَى مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ، فَتَنَافَسُوهَا كَمَا تَنَافَسُوهَا، وَتُلْهِيَكُمْ كَمَا أَلْهَتْهُمْ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ sent Abū ʿUbaydah b. al-Jarrāḥ to al-Baḥrayn to bring its jizyah, and the Messenger of God ﷺ had made a treaty with the people of al-Baḥrayn and appointed al-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Ḥaḍramī over them. Abū ʿUbaydah arrived with wealth from al-Baḥrayn, and the Anṣār heard of his arrival and came to the dawn prayer with the Messenger of God ﷺ. When the Messenger of God ﷺ finished the dawn prayer, he turned away, and they presented themselves to him. The Messenger of God ﷺ smiled when he saw them and said, 'I think you have heard that Abū ʿUbaydah has come, and come with something.' They said, 'Yes, O Messenger of God.' He said, 'Then rejoice and hope for what pleases you. By God, it is not poverty that I fear for you, but I fear that the world will be spread out before you as it was spread out before those before you, and you will compete over it as they competed, and it will distract you as it distracted them.'
Musnad Ahmad 17235same_as_before
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَعَثَ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ
✧ That the Messenger of God ﷺ sent Abū ʿUbaydah.
Musnad Ahmad 17236No grade recorded
لَا تَبِيعُوا الْمَاءَ، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْهَى عَنْ بَيْعِ الْمَاءِ
✧ Do not sell water, for I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ prohibiting the sale of water.
Musnad Ahmad 17237Sahih
قَالَتْ لَهُ أُمُّهُ: أَلَا تَنْطَلِقُ فَتَسْأَلَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَمَا يَسْأَلُهُ النَّاسُ، فَانْطَلَقْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ فَوَجَدْتُهُ قَائِمًا يَخْطُبُ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: مَنِ اسْتَعَفَّ أَعَفَّهُ اللهُ، وَمَنِ اسْتَغْنَى أَغْنَاهُ اللهُ، وَمَنْ سَأَلَ النَّاسَ وَلَهُ عِدْلُ خَمْسِ أَوَاقٍ فَقَدْ سَأَلَ إِلْحَافًا، فَقُلْتُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ نَفْسِي: لَنَاقَةٌ لَهُ هِيَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ خَمْسِ أَوَاقٍ، وَلِغُلَامِهِ نَاقَةٌ أُخْرَى هِيَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ خَمْسِ أَوَاقٍ، فَرَجَعْتُ وَلَمْ أَسْأَلْهُ
✧ His mother said to him, 'Will you not go and ask the Messenger of God ﷺ as the people ask him?' So I went to ask him and found him standing, delivering a sermon, saying: 'Whoever seeks chastity, God makes him chaste; whoever seeks self-sufficiency, God makes him self-sufficient; and whoever begs from people while having the equivalent of five ounces has begged importunately.' I said to myself: He has a she-camel that is better than five ounces, and his slave has another she-camel that is better than five ounces. So I returned and did not ask him.
أَنَّهُ أَخَذَتْهُ الشَّوْكَةُ، فَجَاءَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَعُودُهُ، فَقَالَ: بِئْسَ الْمَيِّتُ لِيَهُودَ - مَرَّتَيْنِ - سَيَقُولُونَ لَوْلَا دَفَعَ عَنْ صَاحِبِهِ، وَلَا أَمْلِكُ لَهُ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا، وَلَأَتَمَحَّلَنَّ لَهُ، فَأَمَرَ بِهِ وَكُوِيَ بِخَطَّيْنِ فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِ فَمَاتَ
✧ He was afflicted by a thorn (or sting), and the Messenger of God ﷺ came to visit him and said: "Evil is the dead man for the Jews"—twice—"they will say, 'If only he had warded off (harm) from his companion,' but I possess no power to harm or benefit him, and I will indeed strive for him." So he gave orders concerning him, and he was cauterized with two lines above his head, and then he died.
أَتَيْنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَنَحْنُ أَرْبَعَةُ نَفَرٍ وَمَعَنَا فَرَسٌ، فَأَعْطَى كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ مِنَّا سَهْمًا، وَأَعْطَى الْفَرَسَ سَهْمَيْنِ
✧ We came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, four of us, and with us was a horse. He gave each man among us a share, and he gave the horse two shares.
Musnad Ahmad 17240Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا ضَرِيرَ الْبَصَرِ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: ادْعُ اللهَ أَنْ يُعَافِيَنِي. قَالَ: إِنْ شِئْتَ دَعَوْتُ لَكَ، وَإِنْ شِئْتَ أَخَّرْتُ ذَاكَ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ، فَقَالَ: ادْعُهُ. فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَتَوَضَّأَ، فَيُحْسِنَ وُضُوءَهُ وَيُصَلِّيَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، وَيَدْعُوَ بِهَذَا الدُّعَاءِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ، وَأَتَوَجَّهُ إِلَيْكَ بِنَبِيِّكَ مُحَمَّدٍ نَبِيِّ الرَّحْمَةِ، يَا مُحَمَّدُ، إِنِّي تَوَجَّهْتُ بِكَ إِلَى رَبِّي فِي حَاجَتِي هَذِهِ فَتُقْضَى لِي، اللَّهُمَّ شَفِّعْهُ فِيَّ
“Pray to Allah to heal me.” He said: “If you wish to store your reward for the Hereafter, that is better, or if you wish, I will supplicate for you.” He said: “Supplicate.” So he told him to perform ablution and do it well, and to pray two Rak’ah, and to say this supplication: “Allahumma inni as’aluka wa atawajjahu ilaika bimuhammadin nabiyyir-rahmah. Ya Muhammadu inni qad tawajjahtu bika ila rabbi fi hajati hadhihi lituqda. Allahumma fashaffi’hu fiya (O Allah, I ask of You and I turn my face towards You by virtue of the intercession of Muhammad the Prophet of mercy. O Muhammad, I have turned to my Lord by virtue of your intercession concerning this need of mine so that it may be met. O Allah, accept his intercession concerning me)”. (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1385)
Musnad Ahmad 17241same_as_before
أَنَّ رَجُلًا ضَرِيرًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ، ادْعُ اللهَ أَنْ يُعَافِيَنِي. فَقَالَ: إِنْ شِئْتَ أَخَّرْتُ ذَلِكَ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ لِآخِرَتِكَ، وَإِنْ شِئْتَ دَعَوْتُ لَكَ، قَالَ: لَا، بَلِ ادْعُ اللهَ لِي. فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَتَوَضَّأَ، وَأَنْ يُصَلِّيَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، وَأَنْ يَدْعُوَ بِهَذَا الدُّعَاءِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ، وَأَتَوَجَّهُ إِلَيْكَ بِنَبِيِّكَ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ، نَبِيِّ الرَّحْمَةِ، يَا مُحَمَّدُ، إِنِّي أَتَوَجَّهُ بِكَ إِلَى رَبِّي فِي حَاجَتِي هَذِهِ، فَتُقْضَى، وَتُشَفِّعُنِي فِيهِ، وَتُشَفِّعُهُ فِيَّ. قَالَ: فَكَانَ يَقُولُ هَذَا مِرَارًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ بَعْدُ: أَحْسِبُ أَنَّ فِيهَا أَنْ تُشَفِّعَنِي فِيهِ، قَالَ: فَفَعَلَ الرَّجُلُ فَبَرَأَ
✧ A blind man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: "O Prophet of God, pray to God to heal me." He said: "If you wish, I will delay that, for it is better for your hereafter; and if you wish, I will pray for you." He said: "No, rather pray to God for me." So he commanded him to perform ablution, to pray two rak'ahs, and to supplicate with this supplication: "O God, I ask You and turn to You through Your Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, the Prophet of mercy. O Muhammad, I turn through you to my Lord in this need of mine, that it may be fulfilled. Intercede for me in it, and intercede for him in me." He said: He used to say this repeatedly, then he said afterwards: "I think that in it is 'that you intercede for me in it.'" He said: The man did that, and he was cured.
Musnad Ahmad 17242Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَدْ ذَهَبَ بَصَرُهُ
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ whose sight had gone.
Musnad Ahmad 17243Hasan
حَجَجْتُ زَمَانَ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ فَجَلَسْتُ فِي مَسْجِدِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ يُحَدِّثُهُمْ، قَالَ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمًا، فَأَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ فَصَلَّى فِي هَذَا الْعَمُودِ، فَعَجَّلَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُتِمَّ صَلَاتَهُ، ثُمَّ خَرَجَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ هَذَا لَوْ مَاتَ لَمَاتَ وَلَيْسَ مِنَ الدِّينِ عَلَى شَيْءٍ، إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُخَفِّفُ صَلَاتَهُ وَيُتِمُّهَا، قَالَ: فَسَأَلْتُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ مَنْ هُوَ ؟ فَقِيلَ: عُثْمَانُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ
✧ I performed Hajj during the time of Uthman b. Affan and sat in the mosque of the Prophet ﷺ, and there was a man narrating to them. He said: "We were with the Messenger of God ﷺ one day when a man came and prayed by this column, but he hurried before completing his prayer, then left. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'If this man died, he would die having nothing to do with the religion. A man lightens his prayer and completes it.'" He said: I asked who the man was, and it was said: Uthman b. Hunayf al-Ansari.
Musnad Ahmad 17244Sahih
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَمْسَحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ
✧ I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ wiping over the leather socks.
Musnad Ahmad 17245Sahih
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَمْسَحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ وَالْخِمَارِ
I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wiping over his leather slippers (when doing wudoo’). (Using translation from Aḥmad 216)
Musnad Ahmad 17246Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَمْسَحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ
✧ He saw the Prophet ﷺ wiping over the leather socks.
Musnad Ahmad 17247Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَمْسَحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ
✧ He saw the Prophet ﷺ wiping over the leather socks.
Musnad Ahmad 17248Sahih
أَنَّهُ رَأَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَكَلَ عُضْوًا، ثُمَّ صَلَّى وَلَمْ يَتَوَضَّأْ
✧ He saw the Prophet ﷺ eat a limb (of meat), then pray without performing ablution.
Musnad Ahmad 17249Sahih
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَحْتَزُّ مِنْ كَتِفِ شَاةٍ، فَدُعِيَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَطَرَحَ السِّكِّينَ، وَلَمْ يَتَوَضَّأْ
✧ I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ cutting meat from a sheep's shoulder. He was called to prayer, so he threw down the knife and did not perform ablution.
Musnad Ahmad 17250same_as_before
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَأْكُلُ يَحْتَزُّ مِنْ كَتِفِ شَاةٍ، ثُمَّ دُعِيَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَصَلَّى وَلَمْ يَتَوَضَّأْ
✧ I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ eating, cutting meat from a sheep's shoulder. Then he was called to prayer, so he prayed without performing ablution.
Musnad Ahmad 17251Sahih
كُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي بَعْضِ أَسْفَارِهِ، فَنَامَ عَنْ صَلَاةِ الصُّبْحِ حَتَّى طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ لَمْ يَسْتَيْقِظُوا، وَأَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ بَدَأَ بِالرَّكْعَتَيْنِ فَرَكَعَهُمَا، ثُمَّ أَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ فَصَلَّى
✧ We were with the Messenger of God ﷺ on one of his journeys, and he slept through the Fajr prayer until the sun rose and they did not wake up. The Prophet ﷺ began with the two rak'ahs and prayed them, then established the prayer and prayed.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَعَثَهُ وَحْدَهُ عَيْنًا إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ: فَجِئْتُ إِلَى خَشَبَةِ خُبَيْبٍ، وَأَنَا أَتَخَوَّفُ الْعُيُونَ، فَرَقِيتُ فِيهَا، فَحَلَلْتُ خُبَيْبًا، فَوَقَعَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَانْتَبَذْتُ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ، ثُمَّ الْتَفَتُّ فَلَمْ أَرَ خُبَيْبًا، وَلَكَأَنَّمَا ابْتَلَعَتْهُ الْأَرْضُ فَلَمْ يُرَ لِخُبَيْبٍ أَثَرٌ حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ.
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent him alone as a spy against Quraysh. He said: I came to the wooden stake of Khubayb, fearing the watchmen, and climbed it and untied Khubayb, and he fell to the ground. I withdrew not far away, then I turned around and did not see Khubayb; it was as if the earth had swallowed him, and no trace of Khubayb has been seen until this hour.
Musnad Ahmad 17253Sahih
أَنَّ رَجُلًا جَاءَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَاذَا لِي إِنْ قُتِلْتُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: الْجَنَّةُ، فَلَمَّا وَلَّى قَالَ: إِلَّا الدَّيْنَ. سَارَّنِي بِهِ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ آنِفًا
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: O Messenger of Allah, what will I have if I am killed in the path of Allah? He said: Paradise. When he turned away, he said: Except for the debt; Gabriel ﷺ just whispered that to me.
Musnad Ahmad 17254same_as_before
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَاذَا لِي إِنْ قَاتَلْتُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ حَتَّى أُقْتَلَ ؟ قَالَ: الْجَنَّةُ، قَالَ: فَلَمَّا وَلَّى قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِلَّا الدَّيْنَ، سَارَّنِي بِهِ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ آنِفًا
✧ A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: O Messenger of Allah, what will I have if I fight in the path of Allah until I am killed? He said: Paradise. He said: When he turned away, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Except for the debt; Gabriel ﷺ just whispered that to me.
أَعْظَمُ الْغُلُولِ عِنْدَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ذِرَاعٌ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ، تَجِدُونَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ جَارَيْنِ فِي الْأَرْضِ أَوْ فِي الدَّارِ فَيَقْتَطِعُ أَحَدُهُمَا مِنْ حَظِّ صَاحِبِهِ ذِرَاعًا، فَإِذَا اقْتَطَعَهُ طُوِّقَهُ مِنْ سَبْعِ أَرَضِينَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
✧ The greatest act of misappropriation before Allah, Mighty and Exalted, is a cubit of land: you find two men neighbors in land or in a house, and one of them cuts off a cubit from his companion's share. When he cuts it off, he will be made to wear it as a collar from the seven earths until the Day of Resurrection.
Musnad Ahmad 17256Sahih
أَنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ رَافِعًا يُحَدِّثُ فِي ذَاكَ يَنْهَى عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَأَتَاهُ وَأَنَا مَعَهُ، فَسَأَلَهُ فَقَالَ: نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ كِرَاءِ الْمَزَارِعِ، فَتَرَكَهَا ابْنُ عُمَرَ، فَكَانَ لَا يُكْرِيهَا، فَكَانَ إِذَا سُئِلَ يَقُولُ: زَعَمَ ابْنُ خَدِيجٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ كِرَاءِ الْمَزَارِعِ
✧ It reached Ibn ʿUmar that Rāfiʿ was narrating about that, prohibiting it on the authority of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He came to him while I was with him, and asked him. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited leasing farmland. So Ibn ʿUmar abandoned it and would not lease it. When asked, he would say: Ibn Khadīj claimed that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited leasing farmland.
Musnad Ahmad 17257Sahih
أَصْبِحُوا بِالصُّبْحِ فَإِنَّهُ أَعْظَمُ لِأُجُورِكُمْ أَوْ أَعْظَمُ لِلْأَجْرِ
✧ Perform the dawn prayer at first light, for it is greater for your rewards, or greater for the reward.
Musnad Ahmad 17258Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ كِرَاءِ الْمَزَارِعِ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: بِالذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، إِنَّمَا نَهَى عَنْهُ بِبَعْضِ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا، فَأَمَّا بِالذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ فَلَا بَأْسَ بِهِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited leasing farmland. He said: I said: For gold and silver? He said: No, he only prohibited leasing it for a portion of what it produces. As for gold and silver, there is no harm in that.
Musnad Ahmad 17259Sahih
شَرُّ الْكَسْبِ ثَمَنُ الْكَلْبِ، وَكَسْبُ الْحَجَّامِ، وَمَهْرُ الْبَغِيِّ.
✧ The worst earnings are the price of a dog, the earnings of a cupper, and the bridal gift of a prostitute.
Musnad Ahmad 17260Sahih
لَا قَطْعَ فِي ثَمَرٍ وَلَا كَثَرٍ
✧ No amputation for fruit or for the heart of a palm tree.
Musnad Ahmad 17261Sahih
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّا لَاقُو الْعَدُوِّ غَدًا، وَلَيْسَتْ مَعَنَا مُدًى، قَالَ: اعْجَلْ أَوْ أَرِنْ، مَا أَنْهَرَ الدَّمَ وَذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ فَكُلْ، لَيْسَ السِّنَّ وَالظُّفُرَ، وَسَأُحَدِّثُكَ؛ أَمَّا السِّنُّ فَعَظْمٌ، وَأَمَّا الظُّفُرُ فَمُدَى الْحَبَشِ. قَالَ: وَأَصَابَنَا نَهْبُ إِبِلٍ وَغَنَمٍ، فَنَدَّ مِنْهَا بَعِيرٌ فَرَمَاهُ رَجُلٌ بِسَهْمٍ فَحَبَسَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ لِهَذِهِ الْإِبِلِ أَوَابِدَ كَأَوَابِدِ الْوَحْشِ، فَإِذَا غَلَبَكُمْ مِنْهَا شَيْءٌ فَافْعَلُوا بِهِ هَكَذَا
✧ I said: O Messenger of Allah, we will meet the enemy tomorrow, and we have no knives. He said: Hasten or wait; whatever makes the blood flow and the name of Allah is mentioned over it, then eat, except the tooth and the nail. I will tell you: as for the tooth, it is bone; and as for the nail, it is the knife of the Abyssinians. He said: We captured some camels and sheep as spoil, and one of the camels bolted. A man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: These camels have wild-like tendencies like wild animals. If any of them overcomes you, do this with it.
Musnad Ahmad 17262Sahih
نَهَى عَنِ الْمُزَابَنَةِ؛ الثَّمَرِ بِالتَّمْرِ، إِلَّا أَصْحَابَ الْعَرَايَا، فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ أَذِنَ لَهُمْ
✧ He prohibited muzābanah: selling fresh dates for dry dates, except for the owners of ʿarāyā, for he permitted them.
Musnad Ahmad 17263Sahih
كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِذِي الْحُلَيْفَةِ مِنْ تِهَامَةَ، فَأَصَبْنَا غَنَمًا وَإِبِلًا، قَالَ: فَعَجِلَ الْقَوْمُ فَأَغْلَوْا بِهَا الْقُدُورَ، فَجَاءَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَأَمَرَ بِهَا فَأُكْفِئَتْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: عَدَلَ عَشَرَةً مِنَ الْغَنَمِ بِجَزُورٍ. قَالَ: ثُمَّ إِنَّ بَعِيرًا نَدَّ، وَلَيْسَ فِي الْقَوْمِ إِلَّا خَيْلٌ يَسِيرَةٌ، فَرَمَاهُ رَجُلٌ بِسَهْمٍ فَحَبَسَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ لِهَذِهِ الْبَهَائِمِ أَوَابِدَ كَأَوَابِدِ الْوَحْشِ، فَمَا غَلَبَكُمْ مِنْهَا فَاصْنَعُوا بِهِ هَكَذَا. قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَافِعُ بْنُ خَدِيجٍ: إِنَّا لَنَرْجُو - أَوْ إِنَّا لَنَخَافُ - أَنْ نَلْقَى الْعَدُوَّ غَدًا، وَلَيْسَ مَعَنَا مُدًى، أَفَنَذْبَحُ بِالْقَصَبِ، قَالَ: اعْجَلْ - أَوْ أَرِنْ - مَا أَنْهَرَ الدَّمَ، وَذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ، فَكُلْ، لَيْسَ السِّنَّ وَالظُّفُرَ، وَسَأُحَدِّثُكُمْ عَنْ ذَلِكَ؛ أَمَّا السِّنُّ فَعَظْمٌ، وَأَمَّا الظُّفُرُ فَمُدَى الْحَبَشَةِ
✧ We were with the Prophet ﷺ at Dhū al-Ḥulayfah in Tihāmah, and we captured sheep and camels. He said: The people hurried and boiled them in pots. The Prophet ﷺ came and ordered that they be overturned. Then he said: Ten sheep are equal to one camel. Then a camel bolted, and the people had only a few horses. A man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: These animals have wild-like tendencies like wild animals. If any of them overcomes you, do this with it. He said: Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj said: We hope—or we fear—that we will meet the enemy tomorrow, and we have no knives. Can we slaughter with reeds? He said: Hasten or wait; whatever makes the blood flow and the name of Allah is mentioned over it, then eat, except the tooth and the nail. I will tell you about that: as for the tooth, it is bone; and as for the nail, it is the knife of the Abyssinians.
Musnad Ahmad 17264Sahih
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُسْتَأْجَرَ الْأَرْضُ بِالدَّرَاهِمِ الْمَنْقُودَةِ أَوْ بِالثُّلُثِ أَوِ بِالرُّبُعِ
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade leasing land for minted dirhams, or for a third, or for a quarter.
Musnad Ahmad 17265Hasan
قِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَيُّ الْكَسْبِ أَطْيَبُ ؟ قَالَ: عَمَلُ الرَّجُلِ بِيَدِهِ وَكُلُّ بَيْعٍ مَبْرُورٍ
✧ It was said: O Messenger of God, which earning is purest? He said: A man's work with his own hands, and every righteous sale.
Musnad Ahmad 17266Sahih
الْحُمَّى مِنْ فَوْرِ جَهَنَّمَ، فَابْرُدُوهَا بِالْمَاءِ
✧ Fever is from the heat of Hell, so cool it with water.
Musnad Ahmad 17267Sahih
سَأَلْتُ رَافِعًا عَنْ كِرَاءِ الْأَرْضِ. قُلْتُ: إِنَّ لِي أَرْضًا أُكْرِيهَا ؟ فَقَالَ رَافِعٌ: لَا تُكْرِهَا بِشَيْءٍ، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ أَرْضٌ فَلْيَزْرَعْهَا، فَإِنْ لَمْ يَزْرَعْهَا فَلْيُزْرِعْهَا أَخَاهُ، فَإِنْ لَمْ يَفْعَلْ فَلْيَدَعْهَا، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ تَرَكْتُهُ وَأَرْضِي، فَإِنْ زَرَعَهَا ثُمَّ بَعَثَ إِلَيَّ مِنَ التِّبْنِ ؟ قَالَ: لَا تَأْخُذْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا وَلَا تِبْنًا، قُلْتُ: إِنِّي لَمْ أُشَارِطْهُ إِنَّمَا أَهْدَى إِلَيَّ شَيْئًا ؟ قَالَ: لَا تَأْخُذْ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا
✧ I asked Rafi about leasing land. I said: I have land that I lease out. Rafi said: Do not lease it for anything, for I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: Whoever has land, let him cultivate it; if he does not cultivate it, let him have his brother cultivate it; if he does not do that, let him leave it. I said to him: What do you think if I leave it and my land, and then he cultivates it and sends me some straw? He said: Do not take anything from it, not even straw. I said: I did not stipulate with him; he only gave me something as a gift. He said: Do not take anything from him.
Musnad Ahmad 17268Sahih
أَنَّ جَدَّهُ حِينَ مَاتَ تَرَكَ جَارِيَةً وَنَاضِحًا وَغُلَامًا حَجَّامًا وَأَرْضًا، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ، فَنَهَى عَنْ كَسْبِهَا. قَالَ شُعْبَةُ: مَخَافَةَ أَنْ تَبْغِيَ، وَقَالَ: مَا أَصَابَ الْحَجَّامُ فَاعْلِفْهُ النَّاضِحَ، وَقَالَ فِي الْأَرْضِ: ازْرَعْهَا أَوْ ذَرْهَا
✧ When his grandfather died, he left a slave girl, a water-carrying camel, a cupper slave boy, and land. The Messenger of God ﷺ spoke about the slave girl and forbade her earnings. Shu'bah said: for fear that she might commit fornication. He said: Whatever the cupper earns, feed it to the water-carrying camel. And about the land he said: Cultivate it or leave it.
Musnad Ahmad 17269same_as_before
مَنْ زَرَعَ فِي أَرْضِ قَوْمٍ بِغَيْرِ إِذْنِهِمْ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ مِنَ الزَّرْعِ شَيْءٌ، وَتُرَدُّ عَلَيْهِ نَفَقَتُهُ - قَالَ الْخُزَاعِيُّ: [فَلَهُ نَفَقَتُهُ] - وَلَيْسَ لَهُ مِنَ الزَّرْعِ شَيْءٌ
✧ Whoever sows in a people's land without their permission has nothing of the crop, and his expenses are returned to him—al-Khuzāʿī said: [so he has his expenses]—and he has nothing of the crop.
Musnad Ahmad 17270Sahih
ثَمَنُ الْكَلْبِ خَبِيثٌ، وَمَهْرُ الْبَغِيِّ خَبِيثٌ، وَكَسْبُ الْحَجَّامِ خَبِيثٌ.
✧ The price of a dog is vile, the dowry of a prostitute is vile, and the earnings of a cupper are vile.
Musnad Ahmad 17271Sahih
أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ مَكَّةَ قَالَ: إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَرَّمَ مَكَّةَ، وَإِنِّي أُحَرِّمُ مَا بَيْنَ لَابَتَيْهَا
✧ He mentioned Makkah and said: Abraham declared Makkah sacred, and I declare sacred what lies between its two lava tracts.
Musnad Ahmad 17272Sahih
خَطَبَ مَرْوَانُ النَّاسَ، فَذَكَرَ مَكَّةَ وَحُرْمَتَهَا، فَنَادَاهُ رَافِعُ بْنُ خَدِيجٍ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ مَكَّةَ إِنْ تَكُنْ حَرَمًا، فَإِنَّ الْمَدِينَةَ حَرَمٌ، حَرَّمَهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَهُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ عِنْدَنَا فِي أَدِيمٍ خَوْلَانِيٍّ، إِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْ نُقْرِئَكَهُ فَعَلْنَا، فَنَادَاهُ مَرْوَانُ: أَجَلْ، قَدْ بَلَغَنَا ذَلِكَ
✧ Marwān addressed the people and mentioned Makkah and its sanctity. Rafi b. Khadij called out to him and said: If Makkah is a sanctuary, then Madinah is a sanctuary; the Messenger of God ﷺ declared it sacred, and it is written with us on Khawlānī leather. If you wish, we can read it to you. Marwān called back to him: Yes, that has reached us.
Musnad Ahmad 17273Sahih
إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ حَرَّمَ مَكَّةَ، وَإِنِّي أُحَرِّمُ مَا بَيْنَ لَابَتَيْهَا. يُرِيدُ الْمَدِينَةَ.
✧ Abraham ﷺ declared Makkah sacred, and I declare sacred what lies between its two lava tracts—meaning Madinah.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ رَأَى الْحُمْرَةَ قَدْ ظَهَرَتْ فَكَرِهَهَا، فَلَمَّا مَاتَ رَافِعُ بْنُ خَدِيجٍ، جَعَلُوا عَلَى سَرِيرِهِ قَطِيفَةً حَمْرَاءَ، فَعَجِبَ النَّاسُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ.
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ saw red color appearing and disliked it. When Rafi b. Khadij died, they put a red velvet cloth on his bier, and people were amazed at that.
Musnad Ahmad 17275Sahih
كُنَّا نُصَلِّي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَاةَ الْعَصْرِ ثُمَّ نَنْحَرُ الْجَزُورَ، فَتُقْسَمُ عَشْرَ قِسَمٍ ثُمَّ تُطْبَخُ، فَنَأْكُلُ لَحْمًا نَضِيجًا قَبْلَ أَنْ تَغِيبَ الشَّمْسُ، قَالَ: وَكُنَّا نُصَلِّي الْمَغْرِبَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَيَنْصَرِفُ أَحَدُنَا، وَإِنَّهُ لَيَنْظُرُ إِلَى مَوَاقِعِ نَبْلِهِ
✧ We used to pray the afternoon prayer with the Messenger of God ﷺ, then slaughter a camel, and it would be divided into ten portions, then cooked, and we would eat cooked meat before the sun set. He said: And we used to pray the sunset prayer in the time of the Messenger of God ﷺ, and one of us would leave while he could still see the places where his arrows fell.
Musnad Ahmad 17276Sahih
أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ سَهْلٍ وَمُحَيِّصَةَ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ أَتَيَا خَيْبَرَ فِي حَاجَةٍ لَهُمَا فَتَفَرَّقَا، فَقُتِلَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَهْلٍ وَوَجَدُوهُ قَتِيلًا، قَالَ: فَجَاءَ مُحَيِّصَةُ وَحُوَيِّصَةُ ابْنَا مَسْعُودٍ، وَجَاءَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَهْلٍ أَخُو الْقَتِيلِ، وَكَانَ أَحْدَثَهُمَا، فَأَتَوْا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَتَكَلَّمَ، فَبَدَأَ الَّذِي أَوْلَى بِالدَّمِ، وَكَانَا هَذَيْنِ أَسَنَّ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: كَبِّرِ الْكُبْرَ قَالَ: فَتَكَلَّمَا فِي أَمْرِ صَاحِبِهِمَا، قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: اسْتَحِقُّوا صَاحِبَكُمْ أَوْ قَتِيلَكُمْ بِأَيْمَانِ خَمْسِينَ مِنْكُمْ، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَمْرٌ لَمْ نَشْهَدْ، فَكَيْفَ نَحْلِفُ ؟ قَالَ: فَتُبَرِّئُكُمْ يَهُودُ بِخَمْسِينَ أَيْمَانًا مِنْهُمْ، فَقَالُوا: قَوْمٌ كُفَّارٌ. قَالَ: فَوَدَاهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ قَالَ: فَدَخَلْتُ مِرْبَدًا لَهُمْ فَرَكَضَتْنِي نَاقَةٌ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْإِبِلِ الَّتِي وَدَاهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِرِجْلِهَا رَكْضَةً.
✧ That 'Abd Allah b. Sahl and Muhayyisa b. Mas'ud went to Khaybar on some errand of theirs, and they separated. 'Abd Allah b. Sahl was killed, and they found him slain. He said: Then Muhayyisa and Huwayyisa, the two sons of Mas'ud, came, and 'Abd al-Rahman b. Sahl, the brother of the slain man, came—and he was the youngest of them—so they went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He spoke, and the one who was most entitled to the blood [claim] began. These two were older, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Let the eldest speak first." He said: So the two of them spoke about the matter of their companion. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Establish your claim for your companion—or your slain—with fifty oaths from among you." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, it is a matter we did not witness, so how can we swear?" He said: "Then the Jews will absolve themselves with fifty oaths from among them." They said: "They are a disbelieving people." He said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ paid his blood money from his own side. He said: Then I entered a pen of theirs, and a she-camel from those camels with which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ paid the blood money kicked me with her foot, one kick.
Musnad Ahmad 17277Sahih
حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ بُشَيْرِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ أَبِي حَثْمَةَ وَرَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ نَحْوَهُ. كذا في طبعة جمعية المكنز الإسلامي، وفي طبعة مؤسسة الرسالة
✧ Hammad b. Zayd narrated to us, from Yahya b. Sa'id, from Bushayr b. Yasar, from Sahl b. Abi Hathma and Rafi' b. Khadij, from the Prophet ﷺ, something similar. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Society, and in the edition of Mu'assasat al-Risala
Musnad Ahmad 17278Sahih
أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يُكْرُونَ الْأَرْضَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِمَا يَنْبُتُ عَلَى الْأَرْبِعَاءِ، وَشَيْءٌ مِنَ الزَّرْعِ يَسْتَثْنِيهِ صَاحِبُ الزَّرْعِ، فَنَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، فَقُلْتُ لِرَافِعٍ: كَيْفَ كِرَاؤُهَا بِالدِّينَارِ وَالدِّرْهَمِ، فَقَالَ رَافِعٌ: لَيْسَ بِهَا بَأْسٌ بِالدِّينَارِ وَالدِّرْهَمِ
✧ They used to lease land in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for what grows on the watercourses, and something of the crop that the owner of the crop would exclude. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade that. I said to Rafi': "How is leasing it for dinars and dirhams?" Rafi' said: "There is no harm in it for dinars and dirhams."
Musnad Ahmad 17279Sahih
أَسْفِرُوا بِالْفَجْرِ؛ فَإِنَّهُ أَعْظَمُ لِلْأَجْرِ أَوْ لِأَجْرِهَا
✧ Perform the Fajr prayer when it is bright; for that is greater for the reward—or for its reward.
Musnad Ahmad 17280Sahih
كُنَّا نُخَابِرُ وَلَا نَرَى بِذَلِكَ بَأْسًا، حَتَّى زَعَمَ رَافِعٌ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْهُ فَتَرَكْنَاهُ
✧ We used to do mukhabara and saw no harm in it, until Rafi' claimed that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade it, so we abandoned it.
Musnad Ahmad 17281Sahih
لَا قَطْعَ فِي ثَمَرٍ وَلَا كَثَرٍ
✧ No amputation for fruit or for palm pith.
أَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَأْمُرُ بِتَأْخِيرِ هَذِهِ الصَّلَاةِ؟ قَالَ قُلْتُ مَنْ هَذَا الشَّيْخُ؟ قَالُوا هَذَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ
✧ He informed me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to command delaying this prayer. He said: I said: "Who is this shaykh?" They said: "This is 'Abd Allah b. Rafi' b. Khadij."
Musnad Ahmad 17283same_as_before
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّا لَاقُو الْعَدُوِّ غَدًا وَلَيْسَ مَعَنَا مُدًى، قَالَ: مَا أَنْهَرَ الدَّمَ، وَذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ، فَكُلْ، لَيْسَ السِّنَّ وَالظُّفُرَ، وَسَأُحَدِّثُكَ، أَمَّا السِّنُّ فَعَظْمٌ، وَأَمَّا الظُّفُرُ فَمُدَى الْحَبَشَةِ، قَالَ: وَأَصَابَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ نَهْبًا، فَنَدَّ مِنْهَا بَعِيرٌ فَسَعَوْا لَهُ، فَلَمْ يَسْتَطِيعُوهُ فَرَمَاهُ رَجُلٌ بِسَهْمٍ فَحَبَسَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ لِهَذِهِ الْإِبِلِ أَوْ قَالَ: النَّعَمِ أَوَابِدَ كَأَوَابِدِ الْوَحْشِ، فَمَا غَلَبَكُمْ فَاصْنَعُوا بِهِ هَكَذَا
Messenger of Allah, we are going to encounter the enemy tomorrow, but we have no knives with us. Thereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Make haste or be careful (in making arrangements for procuring knives) which would let the blood flow (and along with it) the name of Allah is also to be recited. Then eat, but not the tooth or nail. And I am going to tell you why it is not permissible to slaughter the animal with the help of tooth and bone; and as for the nail. it is a bone, and the bone is the knife of Abyssinians. He (the narrator) said: There fell to our lot as spoils of war camels and goats, and one of the camels among them became wild. A person (amongst usl struck It with an arrow which brought it under control. whereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: This camel became wild like wild animals, so if you find any animal getting wild, you do the same with that (Using translation from Muslim 1968a)
Musnad Ahmad 17284same_as_before
أَنَّ النَّاسَ كَانُوا يُكْرُونَ الْمَزَارِعَ فِي زَمَانِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِالْمَاذِيَانَاتِ، وَمَا سَقَى الرَّبِيعُ وَشَيْءٍ مِنَ التِّبْنِ، فَكَرِهَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ كِرَاءَ الْمَزَارِعِ بِهَذَا، وَنَهَى عَنْهَا قَالَ رَافِعٌ: لَا بَأْسَ بِكِرَائِهَا بِالدَّرَاهِمِ وَالدَّنَانِيرِ
✧ The people used to lease farms in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for the mādhiyānāt [waterwheels?], and what the spring watered, and some of the straw. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ disliked leasing farms for this and forbade it. Rafi' said: "There is no harm in leasing them for dirhams and dinars."
Musnad Ahmad 17285Hasan
الْعَامِلُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى الصَّدَقَةِ كَالْغَازِي فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ
✧ The worker who acts truthfully over the sadaqah is like the one who fights in the way of Allah until he returns to his home.
Musnad Ahmad 17286Sahih
أَسْفِرُوا بِالْفَجْرِ فَإِنَّهُ أَعْظَمُ لِلْأَجْرِ
✧ Perform the Fajr prayer when it is bright, for that is greater for the reward.
Musnad Ahmad 17287Sahih
نَهَى عَنْ كِرَاءِ الْمَزَارِعِ
✧ He forbade leasing farms.
Musnad Ahmad 17288Sahih
نَادَانِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنَا عَلَى بَطْنِ امْرَأَتِي، فَقُمْتُ وَلَمْ أُنْزِلْ، فَاغْتَسَلْتُ وَخَرَجْتُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ أَنَّكَ دَعَوْتَنِي وَأَنَا عَلَى بَطْنِ امْرَأَتِي، فَقُمْتُ وَلَمْ أُنْزِلْ، فَاغْتَسَلْتُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: لَا عَلَيْكَ، الْمَاءُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ، قَالَ رَافِعٌ: ثُمَّ أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ بِالْغُسْلِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called me while I was on top of my wife. I got up without ejaculating, performed ghusl, and went out to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I told him that you called me while I was on top of my wife; I got up without ejaculating and performed ghusl. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "No harm upon you; water is from water." Rafi' said: Then afterwards the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to perform ghusl.
Musnad Ahmad 17289Sahih
كُنَّا نُصَلِّي الْعَصْرَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ثُمَّ نَنْحَرُ الْجَزُورَ، فَنَقْسِمُهُ عَشَرَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ، ثُمَّ نَطْبُخُ، فَنَأْكُلُ لَحْمًا نَضِيجًا قَبْلَ أَنْ نُصَلِّيَ الْمَغْرِبَ
✧ We used to pray ʿAsr with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then slaughter a camel and divide it into ten portions, then cook it, and we would eat cooked meat before praying Maghrib.
Musnad Ahmad 17290No grade recorded
لَقِيَنِي عَمِّي ظُهَيْرُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ، فَقَالَ: يَا ابْنَ أَخِي، قَدْ نَهَانَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ أَمْرٍ كَانَ بِنَا رَافِقًا، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: مَا هُوَ يَا عَمُّ ؟ قَالَ: نَهَانَا أَنْ نُكْرِيَ مَحَاقِلَنَا، يَعْنِي أَرْضَنَا الَّتِي بِصِرَارٍ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: أَيْ عَمُّ، طَاعَةُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَحَقُّ. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: بِمَ تُكْرُوهَا ؟ قَالَ: بِالْجَدْوَلِ الرَّبِّ، وَبِالْأَصَوَاعِ مِنَ الشَّعِيرِ ؟ قَالَ: فَلَا تَفْعَلُوا، ازْرَعُوهَا، أَوْ أَزْرِعُوهَا. قَالَ: فَبِعْنَا أَمْوَالَنَا بِصِرَارٍ
✧ My uncle Zuhayr b. Rāfiʿ met me and said: 'O nephew, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has forbidden us something that was beneficial to us.' I said: 'What is it, uncle?' He said: 'He forbade us to lease our fields, meaning our land at Ṣirār.' I said: 'Uncle, obedience to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is more entitled.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'For what do you lease it?' He said: 'For the small water channel and a few saʿs of barley.' He said: 'Do not do that. Cultivate it yourselves or let it be cultivated.' So we sold our lands at Ṣirār.
Musnad Ahmad 17291Sahih
أَنَّ أُخْتَ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ نَذَرَتْ أَنْ تَحُجَّ مَاشِيَةً، فَسَأَلَ عُقْبَةُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: مُرْهَا فَلْتَرْكَبْ، فَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَفْهَمْ عَنْهُ، فَلَمَّا خَلَا مَنْ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ عَادَ فَسَأَلَهُ، فَقَالَ: مُرْهَا فَلْتَرْكَبْ، فَإِنَّ اللهَ [عَزَّ وَجَلَّ] عَنْ تَعْذِيبِ أُخْتِكَ نَفْسَهَا لَغَنِيٌّ
✧ The sister of ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir vowed to walk to Hajj. ʿUqbah asked the Prophet ﷺ about that, and he said: 'Order her to ride.' He thought that he had not understood him, so when those with him had left, he returned and asked him again, and he said: 'Order her to ride, for Allah [Mighty and Majestic] has no need of your sister torturing herself.'
لَا عُهْدَةَ بَعْدَ أَرْبَعٍ
✧ There is no liability after four [days].
Musnad Ahmad 17293Sahih
صَلَّى بِنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْمَغْرِبَ، وَعَلَيْهِ فَرُّوجٌ مِنْ حَرِيرٍ - وَهُوَ الْقَبَاءُ - فَلَمَّا قَضَى صَلَاتَهُ نَزَعَهُ نَزْعًا عَنِيفًا، وَقَالَ: إِنَّ هَذَا لَا يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in Maghrib prayer wearing a silk farruj (a kind of outer garment). When he finished his prayer, he took it off roughly and said: 'This is not appropriate for the God-fearing.'
Musnad Ahmad 17294Hasan
لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ صَاحِبُ مَكْسٍ
✧ A tax collector will not enter Paradise.
Musnad Ahmad 17295Sahih
إِنِّي رَاكِبٌ غَدًا إِلَى يَهُودَ، فَلَا تَبْدَؤُوهُمْ بِالسَّلَامِ، وَإِذَا سَلَّمُوا عَلَيْكُمْ فَقُولُوا: وَعَلَيْكُمْ.
✧ I am riding tomorrow to the Jews, so do not greet them first, and if they greet you, say: 'And upon you.'
Musnad Ahmad 17296Sahih
بَيْنَا أَنَا أَقُودُ بِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي نَقْبٍ مِنْ تِلْكَ النِّقَابِ، إِذْ قَالَ لِي: يَا عُقْبَةُ، أَلَا تَرْكَبُ ؟ قَالَ: فَأَجْلَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ أَرْكَبَ مَرْكَبَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا عُقْبُ، أَلَا تَرْكَبُ ؟ قَالَ: فَأَشْفَقْتُ أَنْ تَكُونَ مَعْصِيَةً، قَالَ: فَنَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَرَكِبْتُ هُنَيَّةً، ثُمَّ رَكِبَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا عُقْبُ، أَلَا أُعَلِّمُكَ سُورَتَيْنِ مِنْ خَيْرِ سُورَتَيْنِ قَرَأَ بِهِمَا النَّاسُ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ. قَالَ: فَأَقْرَأَنِي قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ وَ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ ثُمَّ أُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ، فَتَقَدَّمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَرَأَ بِهِمَا، ثُمَّ مَرَّ بِي قَالَ: كَيْفَ رَأَيْتَ يَا عُقَيْبُ ؟ اقْرَأْ بِهِمَا كُلَّمَا نِمْتَ، وَكُلَّمَا قُمْتَ.
✧ While I was leading the Messenger of Allah ﷺ by the reins through one of those mountain passes, he said to me: 'ʿUqbah, will you not ride?' I deemed it disrespectful to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to ride his mount. Then he said: 'ʿUqab, will you not ride?' I feared it would be disobedience. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dismounted, and I rode for a little while, then he mounted. Then he said: 'ʿUqab, shall I teach you two surahs from the best two surahs that people recite?' I said: 'Yes, O Messenger of Allah.' He recited to me: 'Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak' and 'Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.' Then the prayer was called, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went forward and recited them. Then he passed by me and said: 'How do you find it, O ʿUqayb? Recite them whenever you sleep and whenever you rise.'
Musnad Ahmad 17297Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَهُ: يَا ابْنَ عَابِسٍ، أَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِأَفْضَلِ مَا تَعَوَّذَ بِهِ الْمُتَعَوِّذُونَ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: بَلَى. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ وَ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ هَاتَيْنِ السُّورَتَيْنِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: 'O Ibn ʿĀbis, shall I inform you of the best with which those who seek refuge seek refuge?' I said: 'Yes.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak' and 'Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind'—these two surahs.
Musnad Ahmad 17298Sahih
مَنْ أُثْكِلَ ثَلَاثَةً مِنْ صُلْبِهِ فَاحْتَسَبَهُمْ عَلَى اللهِ [عَزَّ وَجَلَّ] فَقَالَ أَبُو عُشَّانَةَ مَرَّةً: فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، وَلَمْ يَقُلْهَا مَرَّةً أُخْرَى، وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ
✧ Whoever loses three children from his own loins and seeks reward from Allah [Mighty and Majestic]—Abū ʿUshshānah said once: 'in the path of Allah,' and did not say it another time—Paradise becomes obligatory for him.
Musnad Ahmad 17299Sahih
أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَيَّ فَتَعَوَّذُوا بِهِنَّ، فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يُتَعَوَّذْ بِمِثْلِهِنَّ. يَعْنِي الْمُعَوِّذَتَيْنِ
✧ They were sent down to me, so seek refuge by them, for no one has ever sought refuge with the like of them—meaning the two muʿawwidhatayn.
Musnad Ahmad 17300Hasan
إِنَّ اللهَ [عَزَّ وَجَلَّ] يُدْخِلُ الثَّلَاثَةَ بِالسَّهْمِ الْوَاحِدِ الْجَنَّةَ، صَانِعَهُ يَحْتَسِبُ فِي صَنْعَتِهِ الْخَيْرَ، وَالْمُمِدَّ بِهِ، وَالرَّامِيَ بِهِ. وَقَالَ: ارْمُوا وَارْكَبُوا، وَأَنْ تَرْمُوا أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ تَرْكَبُوا، وَكُلُّ شَيْءٍ يَلْهُو بِهِ الرَّجُلُ بَاطِلٌ إِلَّا رَمْيَهُ بِقَوْسِهِ، وَتَأْدِيبَهُ فَرَسَهُ، وَمُلَاعَبَتَهُ امْرَأَتَهُ، فَإِنَّهُنَّ مِنَ الْحَقِّ، وَمَنْ نَسِيَ الرَّمْيَ بَعْدَمَا عَلِمَهُ فَقَدْ كَفَرَ الَّذِي عَلِمَهُ
✧ Allah [Mighty and Majestic] will admit three people into Paradise by a single arrow: its maker who seeks good in making it, the one who hands it, and the one who shoots it. And he said: 'Shoot and ride, but shooting is more beloved to me than riding. Everything a man amuses himself with is false except his shooting with his bow, training his horse, and playing with his wife, for these are from truth. Whoever forgets shooting after learning it has disbelieved in what he learned.'
Musnad Ahmad 17301Sahih
كَفَّارَةُ النَّذْرِ كَفَّارَةُ الْيَمِينِ
✧ The expiation for a vow is the expiation for an oath.
Musnad Ahmad 17302Sahih
إِنَّ أَحَقَّ الشُّرُوطِ أَنْ يُوفَى بِهِ مَا اسْتَحْلَلْتُمْ بِهِ الْفُرُوجَ.
✧ Indeed, the most worthy of conditions to be fulfilled are those by which you have made private parts lawful.
Musnad Ahmad 17303Sahih
أُنْزِلَ عَلَيَّ آيَاتٌ لَمْ يُرَ مِثْلُهُنَّ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ إِلَى آخِرِ السُّورَةِ، وَ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ إِلَى آخِرِ السُّورَةِ.
✧ Verses were sent down to me the like of which has never been seen: Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind, to the end of the surah, and Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak, to the end of the surah.
Musnad Ahmad 17304Sahih
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَسَمَ ضَحَايَا بَيْنَ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَأَصَابَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ جَذَعَةً، فَسَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْهَا فَقَالَ: ضَحِّ بِهَا
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ distributed sacrificial animals among his companions, and ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir received a jadhaʿah. He asked the Prophet ﷺ about it, and he said: 'Sacrifice it.'
Musnad Ahmad 17305Hasan
خَرَجْتُ فِي سَفَرٍ وَمَعَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: فَقُلْنَا لَهُ: إِنَّكَ يَرْحَمُكَ اللهُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَأُمَّنَا، فَقَالَ: لَا، إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ أَمَّ النَّاسَ فَأَصَابَ الْوَقْتَ وَأَتَمَّ الصَّلَاةَ فَلَهُ وَلَهُمْ، وَمَنِ انْتَقَصَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا فَعَلَيْهِ وَلَا عَلَيْهِمْ
✧ We set out on a journey, and with us was ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir. We said to him: 'You, may Allah have mercy on you, are one of the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so lead us in prayer.' He said: 'No, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever leads the people in prayer and gets the timing right and completes the prayer, it is for him and for them; and whoever falls short in any of that, it is against him and not against them.'
Musnad Ahmad 17306Sahih
أَنَّ أُخْتَهُ نَذَرَتْ أَنْ تَمْشِيَ حَافِيَةً غَيْرَ مُخْتَمِرَةٍ، فَسَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ لَا يَصْنَعُ بِشَقَاءِ أُخْتِكَ شَيْئًا، مُرْهَا فَلْتَخْتَمِرْ، وَلْتَرْكَبْ، وَلْتَصُمْ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ
✧ His sister vowed to walk barefoot and unveiled. He asked the Prophet ﷺ, and he said: 'Allah does not benefit from the hardship of your sister. Tell her to cover her head, to ride, and to fast for three days.'
Musnad Ahmad 17307Hasan
إِنَّ مَثَلَ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ السَّيِّئَاتِ ثُمَّ يَعْمَلُ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ دِرْعٌ ضَيِّقَةٌ قَدْ خَنَقَتْهُ ثُمَّ عَمِلَ حَسَنَةً فَانْفَكَّتْ حَلْقَةٌ، ثُمَّ عَمِلَ حَسَنَةً أُخْرَى فَانْفَكَّتْ حَلْقَةٌ أُخْرَى حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ
✧ The likeness of the one who does evil deeds and then does good deeds is like a man who had a tight coat of mail that was choking him. Then he did a good deed, and one ring loosened. Then he did another good deed, and another ring loosened, until he came out onto the ground.
Musnad Ahmad 17308Sahih
كُنْتُ مَعَ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ جَالِسًا قَرِيبًا مِنَ الْمِنْبَرِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، فَخَرَجَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ، فَاسْتَوَى عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ فَخَطَبَ النَّاسَ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُورَةً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ مِنْ أَقْرَإِ النَّاسِ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ: صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَيَقْرَأَنَّ الْقُرْآنَ رِجَالٌ لَا يُجَاوِزُ تَرَاقِيَهُمْ، يَمْرُقُونَ مِنَ الدِّينِ كَمَا يَمْرُقُ السَّهْمُ مِنَ الرَّمِيَّةِ
✧ I was sitting with ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir near the pulpit on Friday, when Muhammad b. Abī Ḥudhayfah came out and ascended the pulpit. He gave a sermon to the people, then recited a surah from the Qur'an to them. He was one of the best reciters of the people. ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir said: 'Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Men will recite the Qur'an, but it will not go past their collarbones. They will pass out of the religion as the arrow passes through the game.'
بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ سَاعِيًا، فَاسْتَأْذَنْتُهُ أَنْ نَأْكُلَ مِنَ الصَّدَقَةِ فَأَذِنَ لَنَا
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me as a collector of zakah. I asked his permission to eat from the sadaqah, and he permitted us.
Musnad Ahmad 17310Sahih
كَانَ يَمْنَعُ أَهْلَهُ الْحِلْيَةَ وَالْحَرِيرَ، وَيَقُولُ: إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ حِلْيَةَ الْجَنَّةِ وَحَرِيرَهَا فَلَا تَلْبَسُوهَا فِي الدُّنْيَا
The Messenger of Allah [SAW] used to tell his wives not to wear jewelry and silk. He said: "If you want the jewelry and silk of Paradise, then do not wear them in this world." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5136)
Musnad Ahmad 17311Hasan
إِذَا رَأَيْتَ اللهَ يُعْطِي الْعَبْدَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا عَلَى مَعَاصِيهِ مَا يُحِبُّ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ اسْتِدْرَاجٌ، ثُمَّ تَلَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَتَّى إِذَا فَرِحُوا بِمَا أُوتُوا أَخَذْنَاهُمْ بَغْتَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ مُبْلِسُونَ
✧ When you see Allah giving a servant of the world what he loves despite his disobedience, that is only a gradual lure. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited: 'So when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened for them the gates of everything, until when they rejoiced in what they had been given, We seized them suddenly, and they were in despair.'
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