82. ✧ Abu Dharr al-Ghifari ᴿᴬ

1. Musnad al-Bazzar 3895No grade recorded

   قَالَ لَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِإِسْلَامِ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، ؟ قُلْنَا: بَلَى قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ: كُنْتُ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي غِفَارَ فَبَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَجُلًا بِمَكَّةَ قَدْ خَرَجَ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ، فَقُلْتُ لِأَخِي: انْطَلِقْ إِلَى هَذَا الرَّجُلِ لِتُكَلِّمَهُ وَتَأْتِيَنِي بِخَبَرِهِ، فَانْطَلَقَ فَلَقِيَهُ، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ، فَقُلْتُ: مَا عِنْدَكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا يَأْمُرُ بِالْخَيْرِ وَيَنْهَى عَنِ الشَّرِّ، فَقُلْتُ: لَمْ تَشْفِنِي مِنَ الْخَبَرِ، فَأَخَذْتُ جِرَابًا وَعَصًا، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلْتُ إِلَى مَكَّةَ فَجَعَلْتُ لَا أَعْرِفُهُ وَأَكْرَهُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَ عَنْهُ وَأَشْرَبُ مِنْ مَاءِ زَمْزَمَ وَأَكُونُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَمَرَّ عَلَيَّ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: كَأَنَّ الرَّجُلَ غَرِيبٌ، قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: فَانْطَلِقْ إِلَى الْمَنْزِلِ فَانْطَلَقْتُ مَعَهُ لَا يَسْأَلُنِي عَنْ شَيْءٍ وَلَا أَسْأَلُهُ، فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحْتُ غَدَوْتُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ لِأَسْأَلَ عَنْهُ وَلَيْسَ أَحَدٌ يُخْبِرُنِي عَنْهُ بِشَيْءٍ فَمَرَّ بِي رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: أَتَعْرِفُ مَنْزِلَهُ وَلَمْ أَعْرِفْ مَنْزِلَهُ بَعْدُ، قُلْتُ: لَا، فَانْطَلَقَ مَعِي فَأَدْخَلَنِي مَنْزِلَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي: مَا أَقْدَمَكَ هَذِهِ الْبَلْدَةَ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: إِنَّهُ بَلَغَنَا أَنَّهُ قَدْ خَرَجَ هَاهُنَا رَجُلٌ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ، فَأَرْسَلْتُ أَخِي فَلَمْ يَشْفِنِي مِنَ الْخَبَرِ فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَلْقَاهُ، فَقَالَ لِي: أَمَا إِنَّكَ قَدْ رَشَدْتَ، هَذَا وَجْهِي إِلَيْهِ فَاتْبَعْنِي فَادْخُلْ حَيْثُ أَدْخُلُ، فَإِنْ رَأَيْتُ أَحَدًا أَخَافُهُ عَلَيْكَ قُمْتُ وَرَاءَ الْحَائِطِ كَأَنِّي أُصْلِحُ نَعْلِي، وَامْضِ أَنْتَ فَمَضَى وَمَضَيْتُ مَعَهُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ وَدَخَلْتُ مَعَهُ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، اعْرِضْ عَلَيَّ الْإِسْلَامَ، فَعَرَضَهُ عَلَيَّ فَأَسْلَمْتُ مَكَانِي، فَقَالَ لِي: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، ارْجِعْ إِلَى بَلَدِكَ، فَإِذَا بَلَغَكَ ظُهُورُنَا فَأَقْبِلْ فَقُلْتُ: وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ، لَأَصْرُخَنَّ بِهَا بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ فَجَاءَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ وَقُرَيْشٌ فِيهِ فَقَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ، إِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، فَقَالُوا: قُومُوا إِلَى هَذَا الصَّابِئِ، فَقَامُوا فَضُرِبْتُ إِلَى أَنْ أَمُوتَ وَأَدْرَكَنِي الْعَبَّاسُ فَأَكَبَّ عَلَيَّ وَقَالَ: " وَيْلَكُمْ تَقْتُلُونَ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي غِفَارَ وَمَتْجَرُكُمْ عَلَى غِفَارَ فَأَقْلَعُوا عَنِّي، فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحْتُ غَدَوْتُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ، فَقُلْتُ مِثْلَ مَا قُلْتُ بِالْأَمْسِ فَصُنِعَ بِي مِثْلَ مَا صُنِعَ بِالْأَمْسِ، فَأَدْرَكَنِي الْعَبَّاسُ فَأَكَبَّ عَلَيَّ، وَقَالَ: تَقْتُلُونَ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي غِفَارَ، وَقَالَ مِثْلَ مَقَالَتِهِ بِالْأَمْسِ، فَكَانَ هَذَا إِسْلَامَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

   ✧ Ibn 'Abbas said to us: 'Shall I not tell you about the conversion of Abu Dharr?' We said: 'Yes.' He said: Abu Dharr said: 'I was a man from Banu Ghifar. It reached us that a man had appeared in Makkah claiming to be a prophet. I said to my brother: "Go to this man, speak with him, and bring me news of him." He went and met him, then returned. I said: "What do you have?" He said: "By Allah, I saw a man commanding good and forbidding evil." I said: "You have not satisfied me with the news." So I took a provision bag and a staff, then set out for Makkah. I did not know him and disliked asking about him. I drank from the water of Zamzam and stayed in the mosque. A man passed by me and said: "The man seems to be a stranger." I said: "Yes." He said: "Come to the house." I went with him, neither he asking me about anything nor I asking him. When morning came, I went to the mosque to ask about him, but no one told me anything about him. A man passed by me and said: "Do you know his house?" I still did not know his house. I said: "No." He went with me and brought me into his house, then said to me: "What brought you to this town?" I said: "It reached us that a man has appeared here claiming to be a prophet. I sent my brother, but he did not satisfy me with the news, so I wanted to meet him." He said to me: "Indeed, you have been guided. This is my way to him. Follow me and enter where I enter. If I see someone I fear for you, I will stand by the wall as if fixing my sandal, and you go on." He went and I went with him until he entered and I entered with him. I said: "O Messenger of Allah, present Islam to me." He presented it to me, and I embraced Islam on the spot. He said to me: "O Abu Dharr, return to your land, and when our appearance reaches you, come." I said: "By the One who sent you with the truth, I will proclaim it among them." He came to the mosque while Quraysh were there and said: "O assembly of Quraysh, I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger." They said: "Rise against this apostate." They rose and beat me until I almost died. Al-'Abbas caught up with me, leaned over me, and said: "Woe to you! You are killing a man from Banu Ghifar, and your trade route passes through Ghifar." So they left me. When morning came, I went to the mosque and said the same as I had said the day before, and they did to me the same as they had done the day before. Al-'Abbas caught up with me, leaned over me, and said: "You are killing a man from Banu Ghifar," and he said the same as his statement the day before. This was the conversion of Abu Dharr.'

2. Musnad al-Bazzar 3896No grade recorded

   " إِنَّ أَحَبَّكُمْ إِلَيَّ وَأَقْرَبَكُمْ مِنِّي الَّذِي يَلْحَقُنِي عَلَى مَا عَاهَدْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ

   ✧ The most beloved of you to me and the closest of you to me is the one who follows me upon what I have covenanted with him.

3. Musnad al-Bazzar 3897No grade recorded

   قُلْتُ لِأَبِي ذَرٍّ: يَا عَمَّاهُ أَوْصِنِي قَالَ: سَأَلْتَنِي كَمَا سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: إِنْ صَلَّيْتَ الضُّحَى رَكْعَتَيْنِ لَمْ تُكْتَبْ مِنَ الْغَافِلِينَ، وَإِنْ صَلَّيْتَ أَرْبَعًا كُنْتَ مِنَ الْعَابِدِينَ، وَإِنْ صَلَّيْتَ سِتًّا لَمْ يَلْحَقْكَ ذَنْبٌ، وَإِنْ صَلَّيْتَ ثَمَانِيًا كُتِبْتَ مِنَ الْقَانِتِينَ، وَإِنْ صَلَّيْتَ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ بُنِيَ لَكَ بَيْتٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ، وَمَا مِنْ يَوْمٍ وَلَا لَيْلَةٍ وَلَا سَاعَةٍ إِلَّا وَلِلَّهِ فِيهَا صَدَقَةٌ يَمُنُّ بِهَا عَلَى مَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ، وَمَا مَنَّ عَلَى عَبْدٍ بِمِثْلِ أَنْ يُلْهِمَهُ ذِكْرَهُ

   ✧ I said to Abu Dharr: 'O uncle, advise me.' He said: 'You have asked me as I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: "If you pray the forenoon prayer two rak'ahs, you will not be recorded among the heedless; if you pray four, you will be among the devoted worshippers; if you pray six, no sin will catch up with you; if you pray eight, you will be recorded among the obedient; and if you pray twelve, a house will be built for you in Paradise. And there is no day, no night, no hour, but Allah has in it a charity which He bestows upon whom He wills of His servants, and He has not bestowed upon a servant anything like inspiring him with His remembrance."'

4. Musnad al-Bazzar 3898No grade recorded

   أَنَّ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَقَفَ عَلَى مَجْلِسِ بَنِي غِفَارَ، فَقَالَ: يَا بَنِي غِفَارَ، قُولُوا وَلَا تَحْلِفُوا ثَلَاثًا أَنَّ الصَّادِقَ الْمُصَدَّقَ حَدَّثَنِي أَنَّ النَّاسَ يُحْشَرُونَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَفْوَاجٍ: فَوْجٌ طَاعِمِينَ كَاسِينَ، وَفَوْجٌ يَمْشُونَ وَيَسْعَوْنَ، وَفَوْجٌ يَحْشُرُهُمُ النَّارَ وَتَسْحَبُهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ، فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: هَؤُلَاءِ قَدْ عَرَفْنَاهُمْ وَهَؤُلَاءِ قَدْ عَرَفْنَاهُمْ. فَمَا بَالُ الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ وَيَسْعَوْنَ ؟ قَالَ: يُلْقِي اللهُ الْآفَةَ عَلَى الظَّهْرِ حَتَّى أَنَّ الرَّجُلَ ذَا الْحَدِيقَةِ لَيُعْطِ بِهَا بِالشَّارِفِ، أَحْسَبُ قَالَ: فَلَا يُعْطِي أَوْ فَلَا يَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ

   ✧ Abu Dharr stood at the gathering of Banu Ghifar and said: 'O Banu Ghifar, say and do not swear three times that the truthful, the believed one told me that people will be gathered in three groups: a group well-fed and well-clothed, a group walking and running, and a group whom the Fire will gather and the angels will drag on their faces.' A speaker said: 'These we know and these we know. What about those who walk and run?' He said: 'Allah will cast affliction upon the riding animals, so that a man with a garden will offer it for an old camel—I think he said—and he will not give it, or he will not be able to.'

5. Musnad al-Bazzar 3899No grade recorded

   انَفَرَجَ سَقْفُ بَيْتِي وَأَنَا بِمَكَّةَ فَنَزَلَ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَفَرَجَ صَدْرِي، ثُمَّ غَسَلَهُ بِمَاءِ زَمْزَمَ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ بِطَسْتٍ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ مُمْتَلِئَةٍ حِكْمَةً وَإِيمَانًا فَأَفْرَغَهَا فِي صَدْرِي، ثُمَّ أَطْبَقَهُ، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِيَدِي، أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: فَعَرَجَ بِي إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَلَمَّا جِئْنَا سَمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا، قَالَ جِبْرِيلُ لِخَازِنِ السَّمَاءِ: افْتَحْ، فَقَالَ: مَنْ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ جِبْرِيلُ: قَالَ: هَلْ مَعَكَ أَحَدٌ ؟ قَالَ: مَعِي مُحَمَّدٌ ﷺ قَالَ: وَأُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: فَفَتَحَ فَلَمَّا عَلَوْنَا سَمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَجُلٍ قَاعِدٍ فَقَالَ: مَرْحَبًا بِالنَّبِيِّ الصَّالِحِ وَالِابْنِ الصَّالِحِ قُلْتُ لِجِبْرِيلَ: مَنْ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: هَذَا آدَمُ، ثُمَّ عَرَجَ بِي حَتَّى أَتَى سَمَاءَ الثَّانِيَةِ فَقَالَ جِبْرِيلُ لِخَازِنِهَا مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ لِخَازِنِ سَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، قَالَ أَنَسٌ: فَذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ وَجَدَ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ إِدْرِيسَ وَمُوسَى وَعِيسَى وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ وَذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ وَجَدَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي السَّمَاءِ السَّادِسَةِ، فَقَالَ: مَرْحَبًا بِالنَّبِيِّ الصَّالِحِ. قُلْتُ: مَنْ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: إِبْرَاهِيمُ

   ✧ The roof of my house split open while I was in Makkah, and Gabriel ﷺ descended and opened my chest, then washed it with Zamzam water. Then he brought a golden basin filled with wisdom and faith and poured it into my chest, then closed it. Then he took my hand—I think he said—and ascended with me to the heaven. When we came to the lowest heaven, Gabriel said to the keeper of the heaven: 'Open.' He said: 'Who is this?' Gabriel said: 'Gabriel.' He said: 'Is there anyone with you?' He said: 'With me is Muhammad ﷺ.' He said: 'Has he been sent for?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Then he opened.' When we ascended to the lowest heaven, I saw a man sitting, and he said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet and the righteous son.' I said to Gabriel: 'Who is this?' He said: 'This is Adam.' Then he ascended with me until he came to the second heaven, and Gabriel said to its keeper the same as he had said to the keeper of the lowest heaven. Anas said: He mentioned that he found in the heavens Idris, Musa, 'Isa, and Ibrahim, and he mentioned that he found Ibrahim in the sixth heaven, and he said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet.' I said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'Ibrahim.'

6. Musnad al-Bazzar 3900No grade recorded

   لَيْسَ مِنْ فَرَسٍ عَرَبِيٍّ إِلَّا يُؤْذَنُ لَهُ عِنْدَ كُلِّ فَجْرٍ بِدَعْوَتَيْنِ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ خَوَّلْتَنِي لِمَنْ خَوَّلْتَنِي مِنْ عِبَادِكَ فَاجْعَلْنِي مِنْ أَحَبِّ أَهْلِهِ وَمَالِهِ إِلَيْهِ أَوْ أَحَبَّ أَهْلِهِ وَمَالِهِ إِلَيْهِ

   ✧ There is no Arabian horse but that it is given permission at every dawn to make two supplications, saying: 'O Allah, You have placed me in the charge of one of Your servants; make me the most beloved of his family and wealth to him, or the most beloved of his family and wealth to him.'

7. Musnad al-Bazzar 3901No grade recorded

   قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: سَيُصِيبُكَ بَعْدِي بَلَاءٌ قُلْتُ: فِي اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: " فِي اللهِ " قُلْتُ: مَرْحَبًا بِأَمْرِ اللهِ، فَقَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ اسْمَعْ وَأَطِعْ " وَأَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: وَلَوْ لِعَبْدٍ أَسْوَدَ

   ✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: 'After me, affliction will befall you.' I said: 'For the sake of Allah?' He said: 'For the sake of Allah.' I said: 'Welcome to the command of Allah.' He said: 'O Abu Dharr, hear and obey,' and I think he said: 'even if to a black slave.'

8. Musnad al-Bazzar 3902No grade recorded

   كُنْتُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَدَخَلَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْمَسْجِدَ فَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ عِنْدَ سَارِيَةٍ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عُثْمَانُ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ ؟ قَالَ: بِخَيْرٍ، كَيْفَ أَنْتَ ؟ ثُمَّ وَلَّى وَاسْتَفْتَحَ أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ وَكَانَ رَجُلًا صُلْبَ الصَّوْتِ فَرَفَعَ صَوْتَهُ فَارْتَجَّ الْمَسْجِدُ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، أَوْ قَالَ لَهُ النَّاسُ

   ✧ I was in the mosque, and Abu Dharr entered the mosque and prayed two rak'ahs by a pillar. 'Uthman said to him: 'How are you?' He said: 'Fine. How are you?' Then he turned away and began reciting 'The mutual rivalry for piling up diverts you,' and he was a man with a strong voice, so he raised his voice and the mosque reverberated. Then he turned to the people. I said: 'O Abu Dharr,' or the people said to him...

9. Musnad al-Bazzar 3903No grade recorded

   " فِي الْبُرِّ صَدَقَتُهُ

   ✧ For wheat, its charity is due.

10. Musnad al-Bazzar 3904No grade recorded

    " لَقَدْ تَرَكَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَمَا طَائِرٌ فِي السَّمَاءِ يُقَلِّبُ جَنَاحَيْهِ إِلَّا وَقَدْ أَوْجَدَنَا فِيهِ عِلْمًا

    ✧ "The Messenger of God ﷺ left us, and there is no bird in the sky flapping its wings but that he has given us knowledge about it."

11. Musnad al-Bazzar 3905No grade recorded

    أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ: أَنْتَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ آمَنَ بِي، وَأَنْتَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يُصَافِحُنِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَأَنْتَ الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ، وَأَنْتَ الْفَارُوقُ تَفْرُقُ بَيْنَ الْحَقِّ وَالْبَاطِلِ، وَأَنْتَ يَعْسُوبُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَالْمَالُ يَعْسُوبُ الْكُفَّارِ

    ✧ He said to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib: "You are the first to believe in me, and you are the first to shake my hand on the Day of Resurrection, and you are the greatest verifier (al-Ṣiddīq al-Akbar), and you are the distinguisher (al-Fārūq) who distinguishes between truth and falsehood, and you are the leader of the believers, while wealth is the leader of the disbelievers."

12. Musnad al-Bazzar 3906No grade recorded

    قَالَ لِي أَبُو ذَرٍّ: يَا ابْنَ أَخِي، كُنْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ آخِذٌ بِيَدِهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، مَا أُحِبُّ أَنَّ لِيَ أُحُدًا ذَهَبًا وَفِضَّةً أُنْفِقُهُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَمُوتُ يَوْمَ أَمُوتُ فَأَدَعُ مِنْهُ قِيرَاطًا " قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قِنْطَارًا قَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، أَذْهَبُ إِلَى الْأَقَلِّ وَتَذْهَبُ إِلَى الْأَكْثَرِ، أُرِيدُ الْآخِرَةَ وَتُرِيدُ الدُّنْيَا قِيرَاطًا " فَأَعَادَهَا عَلَيَّ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ

    ✧ Abū Dharr said to me: "O son of my brother, I was with the Messenger of God ﷺ holding his hand, and he said: 'O Abā Dharr, I would not love to have a mountain of gold and silver that I spend in the path of God, and then die on the day I die leaving behind a qīrāṭ of it.' I said: 'O Messenger of God, a qinṭār?' He said: 'O Abā Dharr, you go to the lesser and I go to the greater; I desire the Hereafter and you desire this world: a qīrāṭ.'" He repeated it to me three times.

13. Musnad al-Bazzar 3907No grade recorded

    مَثَلُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي كَمَثَلِ سَفِينَةِ نُوحٍ مَنْ رَكِبَ فِيهَا نَجَا، وَمَنْ تَخَلَّفَ عَنْهَا غَرِقَ، وَمَنْ قَاتَلَنَا فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ كَانَ كَمَنْ قَاتَلَ مَعَ الدَّجَّالِ

    ✧ The likeness of my household is like the ark of Noah: whoever boards it is saved, and whoever stays behind from it drowns, and whoever fights us in the latter days is like one who fights alongside the Dajjāl.

14. Musnad al-Bazzar 3908No grade recorded

    كُنْتُ جَالِسًا فِي النَّاسِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَجَاءَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ حَتَّى كَانَ قَرِيبًا مِنْهُمْ، فَقَالَ: بَشِّرِ الْكَنَّازِينَ بِكَيٍّ قِبَلَ ظُهُورِهِمْ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ قِبَلِ بُطُونِهِمْ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: مَنْ هَذَا ؟ قَالُوا: أَبُو ذَرٍّ، قَالَ فَقُمْتُ إِلَيْهِ، فَقُلْتُ: مَا هَذَا الَّذِي سَمِعْتُكَ تُنَادِي بِهِ قَبْلُ ؟ قَالَ: مَا قُلْتُ لَهُمْ إِلَّا شَيْئًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ نَبِيِّهِمْ ﷺ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: مَا تَقُولُ فِي هَذَا الْعَطَاءِ ؟ قَالَ: خُذْهُ الْيَوْمَ فَإِنَّ فِيهِ مَعُونَةً، فَإِذَا كَانَ ثَمَنًا لِدِينِكَ فَدَعْهُ

    ✧ I was sitting among people of Quraysh when Abū Dharr came until he was near them and said: "Give glad tidings to the hoarders of wealth of a branding on their backs that will come out from their bellies." I said: "Who is this?" They said: "Abū Dharr." So I went to him and said: "What is this that I heard you call out before?" He said: "I did not say anything to them except something I heard from their Prophet ﷺ." I said: "What do you say about this grant?" He said: "Take it today, for in it there is assistance; but if it becomes a price for your religion, then leave it."

15. Musnad al-Bazzar 3909No grade recorded

    أَتَيْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ

    ✧ I came to Madinah.

16. Musnad al-Bazzar 3910No grade recorded

    مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَسْجُدُ لِلهِ سَجْدَةً إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ عَنْهُ بِهَا خَطِيئَةً

    ✧ There is no servant who prostrates to God a single prostration but that God raises him a degree by it and removes from him a sin by it.

17. Musnad al-Bazzar 3911No grade recorded

    صِيَامُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ صِيَامُ السَّنَةِ كُلِّهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ: صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، يَقُولُ اللهُ: مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا

    ✧ Fasting three days of every month is fasting the entire year. Then he said: "God and His Messenger have spoken the truth. God says: 'Whoever brings a good deed shall have ten times the like of it.'"

18. Musnad al-Bazzar 3912No grade recorded

    لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: لَسَأَلْتُهُ، فَقَالَ عَمَّ كُنْتَ تَسْأَلُهُ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: سَأَلْتُهُ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ ؟ قَالَ: قَدْ سَأَلْتُهُ، فَقَالَ: نُورًا أَنَّى أَرَاهُ ؟

    ✧ "If I had seen the Messenger of God ﷺ, I would have asked him." He said: "About what would you have asked him?" I said: "I would have asked him: 'Did you see your Lord?'" He said: "I did ask him, and he said: 'Light—how could I see Him?'"

19. Musnad al-Bazzar 3913No grade recorded

    قُلْتُ لِأَبِي ذَرٍّ: لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: لَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ: عَنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ كُنْتَ تَسْأَلُهُ قَالَ: لَسَأَلْتُهُ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ ؟ قَالَ: قَدْ سَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ: أَنَّى أَرَاهُ ؟

    ✧ I said to Abū Dharr: "If I had seen the Messenger of God ﷺ, I would have asked him." He said: "About what thing would you have asked him?" I said: "I would have asked him: 'Did you see your Lord?'" He said: "I did ask him, and he said: 'How could I see Him?'"

20. Musnad al-Bazzar 3914No grade recorded

    أَتَيْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ قَائِمٌ عَلَى غَرَايِرَ سُودٍ يَقُولُ: أَلَا أُبَشِّرُ أَصْحَابَ الْكُنُوزِ بِكَيٍّ فِي الْجِبَاهِ وَالْجُنُوبِ، فَقَالُوا: هَذَا أَبُو ذَرٍّ صَاحِبُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ

    ✧ I came to Madinah, and there was a man standing over black sacks saying: "Shall I not give glad tidings to the owners of treasures of a branding on the foreheads and the sides?" They said: "This is Abū Dharr, the companion of the Messenger of God ﷺ."

21. Musnad al-Bazzar 3915No grade recorded

    كَانَ يَبْلُغُنِي عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، حَدِيثًا كُنْتُ أَشْتَهِي لِقَاءَهُ - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ - فَلَقِيتُهُ، فَقُلْتُ: كُنْتُ أَشْتَهِي لِقَاءَكَ قَالَ: لِلهِ أَبُوكَ، فَلَقَدْ لَقِيتَ فَهَاتِ، فَقُلْتُ: كَانَ يَبْلُغُنِي عَنْكَ أَنَّكَ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: كَانَ يُحَدِّثُكُمْ أَنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى يُحِبُّ ثَلَاثَةً وَيُبْغِضُ ثَلَاثَةً قَالَ: أَجَلْ، فَلَا أَخَالُنِي أَكْذِبُ عَلَى خَلِيلِي، أَجَلْ فَلَا أَخَالُنِي أَكْذِبُ عَلَى خَلِيلِي، أَجَلْ فَلَا أَخَالُنِي أَكْذِبُ عَلَى خَلِيلِي قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَمَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الثَّلَاثَةُ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّهُمُ اللهُ ؟ قَالَ: " رَجُلٌ غَزَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ مُحْتَسِبًا مُجَاهِدًا فَلَقِيَ الْعَدُوَّ فَقَاتَلَ قَالَ: وَأَنْتُمْ تَجِدُونَهُ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ الْمُنَزَّلِ ثُمَّ تَأَوَّلَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ إِنَّ اللهَ يُحِبُّ الَّذِينَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِهِ صَفًّا كَأَنَّهُمْ بُنْيَانٌ مَرْصُوصٌ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: وَمَنْ ؟ قَالَ: وَرَجُلٌ لَهُ جَارُ سُوءٍ يُؤْذِيهِ فَيَصْبِرُ عَلَى أَذَاهُ وَيَحْتَسِبُ حَتَّى يَكْفِيَهُ اللهُ أَوْ يَمُوتَ قَالَ: وَقُلْتُ: وَمَنْ ؟ قَالَ: وَرَجُلٌ كَافِرٌ فِي قَوْمٍ فَأَدْلَجُوا حَتَّى إِذَا كَانُوا فِي آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ شَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الْكَلَالُ وَالنُّعَاسُ فَنَزَلُوا فَضَرَبُوا بِرُءُوسِهِمْ فَتَوَضَّأَ وَقَامَ فَتَطَهَّرَ فَصَلَّى رَهْبَةً لِلهِ وَرَغْبَةً فِيمَا عِنْدَهُ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَمَنِ الثَّلَاثَةُ الَّذِينَ يُبْغِضُهُمُ اللهُ ؟ قَالَ: الْمُخْتَالُ الْفَخُورُ وَأَنْتُمْ تَجِدُونَهُ عِنْدَكُمْ يَعْنِي فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ إِنَّ اللهَ لا يُحِبُّ مَنْ كَانَ مُخْتَالا فَخُورًا قُلْتُ: وَمَنْ ؟: قَالَ: الْبَخِيلُ الْمَنَّانُ، قُلْتُ: وَمَنْ ؟ قَالَ: التَّاجِرُ الْحَلَّافُ أَوِ الْبَيَّاعُ الْحَلَّافُ "، قَالَ يَزِيدُ: فَمَا أَدْرِي أَيَّهُمَا قَالَ ؟ قُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ مَا الْمَالُ ؟ قَالَ: مَا أَصْبَحَ لَا أَمْسَى، وَمَا أَمْسَى لَا أَصْبَحَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ مَا لَكَ وَلِإِخْوَانِكَ قُرَيْشٍ ؟ قَالَ: وَاللهِ لَا اسْتَعَنْتُ بِهِمْ عَلَى دِينٍ، وَلَا أَسْأَلُهُمْ دُنْيَا حَتَّى أَلْحَقَ بِاللهِ وَرَسُولِهِ، وَاللهِ لَا اسْتَعَنْتُ بِهِمْ عَلَى دِينٍ وَلَا أَسْأَلُهُمْ دُنْيَا حَتَّى أَلْحَقَ بِاللهِ وَرَسُولِهِ

    ✧ News of Abū Dharr used to reach me—a hadith that I desired to meet him for—I think he said—so I met him, and I said: "I was eager to meet you." He said: "May your father be for God, for you have indeed met me, so bring it on." I said: "It used to reach me from you that you claim that the Messenger of God ﷺ told you that God, Blessed and Exalted, loves three and hates three." He said: "Yes, and I do not think that I would lie about my close friend; yes, and I do not think that I would lie about my close friend; yes, and I do not think that I would lie about my close friend." I said: "So who are these three whom God loves?" He said: "A man who goes out in the path of God seeking reward and striving, then meets the enemy and fights." He said: "And you will find it in the revealed Book of God," then he recited this verse: 'Indeed, God loves those who fight in His path in rows as if they were a compact structure.' I said: "And who else?" He said: "And a man who has a bad neighbor who harms him, and he bears his harm patiently and seeks reward until God suffices him or he dies." I said: "And who else?" He said: "And a man who is an unbeliever among a people, and they travel at night until when they are in the last part of the night, exhaustion and sleepiness overcome them, so they dismount and lay down their heads; but he performs ablution and stands to purify himself and prays out of fear of God and desire for what is with Him." I said: "So who are the three whom God hates?" He said: "The arrogant boastful one—and you will find it with you, meaning in the Book of God: 'Indeed, God does not love anyone who is arrogant and boastful.'" I said: "And who else?" He said: "The miser who reminds of his favors." I said: "And who else?" He said: "The merchant who swears much," or "the seller who swears much." Yazīd said: "I do not know which of the two he said." I said: "O Abā Dharr, what is wealth?" He said: "What has come in the morning and does not last till evening, and what has come in the evening and does not last till morning." I said: "O Abā Dharr, what is the matter with you and your brothers of Quraysh?" He said: "By God, I will not seek their help in religion, nor will I ask them for worldly things until I meet God and His Messenger. By God, I will not seek their help in religion, nor will I ask them for worldly things until I meet God and His Messenger."

22. Musnad al-Bazzar 3916No grade recorded

    مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمَيْنِ يَمُوتُ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا الْحِنْثَ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُمَا اللهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ

    ✧ There are no two Muslims who have three children die before reaching the age of accountability, but Allah will admit them to Paradise by virtue of His mercy toward them. He (the narrator) said: I said...

23. Musnad al-Bazzar 3917No grade recorded

    نَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، وَحَبِيبُ بْنُ الشَّهِيدِ، وَحُمَيْدٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ صَعْصَعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ. <متن_مخفي ربط="19039321" نص="مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمَيْنِ يَمُوتُ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا الْحِنْثَ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُمَا اللهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ

    ✧ Hammad b. Salamah narrated to us, from Yunus, and Habib b. al-Shahid, and Humayd, from al-Hasan, from Sa'sa'ah, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ. [Hidden text: There are no two Muslims who have three children die before reaching the age of accountability, but Allah will admit them to Paradise by virtue of His mercy toward them. He said: I said...]

24. Musnad al-Bazzar 3918No grade recorded

    نَا أَبُو حُرَّةَ وَاسْمُهُ وَاصِلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ صَعْصَعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ. <متن_مخفي ربط="19039331" نص="مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمَيْنِ يَمُوتُ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا الْحِنْثَ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُمَا اللهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ

    ✧ Abu Hurrah narrated to us, whose name is Wasil b. 'Abd al-Rahman, from al-Hasan, from Sa'sa'ah, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ. [Hidden text: There are no two Muslims who have three children die before reaching the age of accountability, but Allah will admit them to Paradise by virtue of His mercy toward them. He said: I said...]

25. Musnad al-Bazzar 3919No grade recorded

    نَا الْمُفَضَّلُ بْنُ لَاحِقٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ صَعْصَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ. <متن_مخفي ربط="19039341" نص="مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمَيْنِ يَمُوتُ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا الْحِنْثَ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُمَا اللهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ

    ✧ Al-Mufaddal b. Lahiq narrated to us, from al-Hasan, from Sa'sah, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ. [Hidden text: There are no two Muslims who have three children die before reaching the age of accountability, but Allah will admit them to Paradise by virtue of His mercy toward them. He said: I said...]

26. Musnad al-Bazzar 3920No grade recorded

    نَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ صَعْصَعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ. ذَكَرَ هَؤُلَاءِ كُلَّهُمْ نَحْوَ حَدِيثِ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ صَعْصَعَةَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ. <متن_مخفي ربط="19039351" نص="مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمَيْنِ يَمُوتُ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا الْحِنْثَ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُمَا اللهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ

    ✧ Jarir b. Hazim narrated to us, from al-Hasan, from Sa'sa'ah, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ. He mentioned all of these similar to the hadith of Yunus, from al-Hasan, from Sa'sa'ah b. Muawiyah, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ. [Hidden text: There are no two Muslims who have three children die before reaching the age of accountability, but Allah will admit them to Paradise by virtue of His mercy toward them. He said: I said...]

27. Musnad al-Bazzar 3921No grade recorded

    نَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ، عَنْ عَنْبَسَةَ وَهُوَ عَنْبَسَةُ بْنُ أَبِي رَائِطَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ صَعْصَعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ حَدِيثِ بِشْرِ بْنِ يُونُسَ، فَأَمَّا حَدِيثُ حُمَيْدٍ وَحَبِيبٍ فَلَا نَعْلَمُ رَوَاهُمَا إِلَّا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، وَأَمَّا حَدِيثُ الْمُفَضَّلِ بْنِ لَاحِقٍ فَلَا نَعْلَمُ رَوَاهُ عَنْهُ إِلَّا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ، وَلَا نَحْفَظُ أَنَّ الْمُفَضَّلَ أَسْنَدَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ غَيْرَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ، وَأَمَّا حَدِيثُ أَشْعَثَ فَرَوَاهُ قُرَيْشُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، وَأَمَّا حَدِيثُ عَنْبَسَةَ فَلَا نَعْلَمُ رَوَاهُ إِلَّا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ. <متن_مخفي ربط="19039361" نص="مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمَيْنِ يَمُوتُ بَيْنَهُمَا ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ يَبْلُغُوا الْحِنْثَ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُمَا اللهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ

    ✧ 'Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us, from 'Anbasah, who is 'Anbasah b. Abi Ra'itah, from al-Hasan, from Sa'sa'ah, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ similar to the hadith of Bishr b. Yunus. As for the hadith of Humayd and Habib, we do not know that anyone narrated them except Hammad b. Salamah. As for the hadith of al-Mufaddal b. Lahiq, we do not know that anyone narrated it from him except 'Abd al-Samad, and we do not recall that al-Mufaddal attributed any hadith to al-Hasan other than this one. As for the hadith of Ash'ath, it was narrated by Quraysh b. Anas. As for the hadith of 'Anbasah, we do not know that anyone narrated it except 'Abd al-Wahhab. [Hidden text: There are no two Muslims who have three children die before reaching the age of accountability, but Allah will admit them to Paradise by virtue of His mercy toward them. He said: I said...]

28. Musnad al-Bazzar 3922No grade recorded

    مَنْ أَعْتَقَ رَقَبَةً مُؤْمِنَةً فَإِنَّهُ يُجْزَى مِنْ كُلِّ عُضْوٍ أَوْ يُحْرِزُ مِنْ كُلِّ عُضْوٍ مِنْهُ عُضْوًا مِنَ النَّارِ

    ✧ Whoever frees a believing slave, he will be rewarded for every limb, or he will protect every limb of his from the Fire.

29. Musnad al-Bazzar 3923No grade recorded

    عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ أَعْمَالُ أُمَّتِي حَسَنُهَا وَسَيِّئُهَا فَرَأَيْتُ فِيَ مَحَاسِنِ أَعْمَالِهَا الْأَذَى يُمَاطُ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ، وَوَجَدْتُ فِي مَسَاوِي أَعْمَالِهَا النُّخَامَةَ تَكُونُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ - فَلَا يَدْفِنُهَا

    ✧ The deeds of my Ummah were presented to me, their good deeds and their bad deeds. I saw among the good deeds of my Ummah the removal of harmful things from the road, and I found among the bad deeds of my Ummah the phlegm that is in the mosque - I think he said - and is not buried.

30. Musnad al-Bazzar 3924No grade recorded

    قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، ذَهَبَ أَصْحَابُ الدُّثُورِ بِالْأُجُورِ يُصَلُّونَ كَمَا نُصَلِّي وَيَصُومُونَ كَمَا نَصُومُ وَيَتَصَدَّقُونَ بِفُضُولِ أَمْوَالِهِمْ قَالَ: أَوَلَيْسَ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللهُ لَكُمْ مَا تَتَصَدَّقُونَ مِنْهُ ؟ إِنَّ كُلَّ تَسْبِيحَةٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَكُلَّ تَحْمِيدَةٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَكُلَّ تَكْبِيرَةٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَكُلَّ تَهْلِيلَةٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَأَمْرٌ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ صَدَقَةٌ، وَنَهْيٌ عَنْ مُنْكَرٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَفِي بُضْعِ أَحَدِكُمْ - أَوْ قَالَ: فِي مُبَاضَعَةِ أَحَدِكُمْ أَهْلَهُ صَدَقَةٌ - " قَالُوا: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ يَأْتِي أَحَدُنَا شَهْوَتَهُ وَيَكُونُ لَهُ فِيهِ أَجْرٌ قَالَ: أَرَأَيْتُمْ لَوْ وَضَعَهَا فِي الْحَرَامِ، أَكَانَ عَلَيْهِ فِيهَا وِزْرٌ ؟ " فَكَذَلِكَ إِذَا وَضَعَهَا فِي الْحَلَالِ كَانَ لَهُ فِيهَا أَجْرٌ

    ✧ They said: O Messenger of Allah, the wealthy have taken the rewards; they pray as we pray, fast as we fast, and give charity from the surplus of their wealth. He said: Has Allah not given you that from which you can give charity? Indeed, every glorification is charity, every praise is charity, every magnification is charity, every declaration of tawhid is charity, commanding good is charity, forbidding evil is charity, and in the intimate relations of one of you - or he said: in the intimate relations of one of you with his wife - there is charity. They said: O Prophet of Allah, one of us satisfies his desire and he gets a reward for it? He said: Do you not see that if he placed it in what is forbidden, he would bear a burden? So likewise, if he places it in what is lawful, he gets a reward.

31. Musnad al-Bazzar 3925No grade recorded

    نَا وَاصِلٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَعْمَرَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

    ✧ Wasil narrated to us, from Yahya b. 'Uqayl, from Yahya b. Ya'mar, from Abu al-Aswad, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ similar to it.

32. Musnad al-Bazzar 3926No grade recorded

    لَا يَرْمِي رَجُلٌ رَجُلًا بِالْفِسْقِ، وَلَا يَرْمِيهِ بِالْكُفْرِ إِلَّا رُدَّتْ عَلَيْهِ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ صَاحِبُهُ كَذَلِكَ

    ✧ No man accuses another man of wickedness, nor accuses him of disbelief, but it is returned to him if his companion is not as he said.

33. Musnad al-Bazzar 3927No grade recorded

    أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَعَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ أَبْيَضُ فَإِذَا هُوَ نَائِمٌ، ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهُ وَهُوَ نَائِمٌ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهُ وَقَدِ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَجَلَسْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ: مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ قَالَ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ ثُمَّ مَاتَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ إِلَّا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ قُلْتُ: وَإِنْ زَنَى، وَإِنْ سَرَقَ: قَالَ: " وَإِنْ زَنَى، وَإِنْ سَرَقَ " قُلْتُ: وَإِنْ زَنَى، وَإِنْ سَرَقَ قَالَ: فَقَالَ فِي الرَّابِعَةِ: " عَلَى رَغْمِ أَنْفِ أَبِي ذَرٍّ " فَخَرَجَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: وَإِنْ رَغِمَ أَنْفُ أَبِي ذَرٍّ فَكَانَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ يُحَدِّثُ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ، وَيُحَدِّثُ مَعَهُ وَإِنْ رَغِمَ أَنْفُ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

    ✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was wearing a white garment and he was asleep. Then I came to him again and he was asleep. Then I came to him and he had woken up, so I sat next to him. He said: There is no servant who says: There is no god but Allah, and then dies upon that, but he will enter Paradise. I said: Even if he commits adultery, even if he steals? He said: Even if he commits adultery, even if he steals. I said: Even if he commits adultery, even if he steals? He said: Even if he commits adultery, even if he steals. He said: Then on the fourth time he said: In spite of Abu Dharr's nose. Abu Dharr went out saying: Even if Abu Dharr's nose is rubbed in the dust. Abu Dharr used to narrate this hadith, and he would narrate with it: Even if Abu Dharr's nose is rubbed in the dust.

34. Musnad al-Bazzar 3928No grade recorded

    نَا أَجْلَحُ، عَنِ ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَعْمَرَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ الدِّيلِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Aglah narrated to us, from Ibn Buraydah, from Yahya b. Yaʿmar, from Abu al-Aswad al-Dili, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ

35. Musnad al-Bazzar 3929No grade recorded

    إِنَّ أَحْسَنَ مَا يُغَيَّرُ بِهِ الشَّيْبُ الْحِنَّاءُ وَالْكَتَمُ وَقَالَ يَحْيَى: الْكَتَمُ وَالْحِنَّاءُ

    ✧ Indeed, the best with which gray hair is changed is henna and katam. And Yahya said: katam and henna.

36. Musnad al-Bazzar 3930No grade recorded

    " مَنْ لَاءَمَكُمِ مِنْ مَمْلُوكِيكُمْ فَأَطْعِمُوهُمْ مِمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ، وَاكْسُوهُمْ مِمَّا تَلْبَسُونَ، وَمَنْ لَمْ يُلَائِمْكُمْ فَبِيعُوهُ وَلَا تُعَذِّبُوا خَلْقَ اللهِ

    ✧ "Those of your slaves who suit you, feed them from what you eat and clothe them from what you wear. And those who do not suit you, sell them, and do not torture the creation of God."

37. Musnad al-Bazzar 3931No grade recorded

    " إِنِّي لَأَرَى مَا لَا تَرَوْنَ وَأَسْمَعُ مَا لَا تَسْمَعُونَ أَطَّتْ - يَعْنِي السَّمَاءَ - مَا فِيهَا مَوْضِعُ أَرْبَعِ أَصَابِعَ إِلَّا وَمَلَكٌ وَاضِعٌ جَبْهَتَهُ سَاجِدًا لِلهِ وَلَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَعْلَمُ لَضَحِكْتُمْ قَلِيلًا وَلَبَكَيْتُمْ كَثِيرًا " قَالَ: " وَلَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي شَجَرَةٌ تُعْضَدُ

    ✧ "Indeed, I see what you do not see and hear what you do not hear. The sky groaned—meaning the heaven—and there is not in it a space of four fingers except that an angel is placing his forehead prostrating to God. If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much." He said: "I would love to be a tree that is cut down."

38. Musnad al-Bazzar 3932No grade recorded

    أَنَّهُ كَانَ مَعَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ فَخَرَجَ عَطَاؤُهُ وَمَعَهُ جَارِيَةٌ لَهُ تَقْضِي حَوَائِجَهُ فَفَضَلَ مِنْهَا قِطَعٌ فَأَمَرَهَا أَنْ تَشْتَرِيَ فُلُوسًا فَقُلْتُ: لَوِ ادَّخَرْتَهُ لِلْحَاجَةِ تَنُوبُكَ أَوْ لِلضَّيْفِ يَنْزِلُ بِكَ قَالَ: إِنَّ خَلِيلِي عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ أَنَّ أَيُّمَا ذَهَبٍ أَوْ فِضَّةٍ أُوكِيَ عَلَيْهِمَا أَوْ عَلَى أَحَدِهِمَا فَهُوَ جَمْرٌ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِمَا حَتَّى يُنْفِقَهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ

    ✧ He was with Abu Dharr when his stipend came out, and with him was a slave-girl of his who took care of his needs. Some pieces of it were left over, so he ordered her to buy small coins with them. I said: If only you had saved it for a need that might befall you, or for a guest who might come to you. He said: My close friend ﷺ enjoined upon me that any gold or silver that is tied up in a bag—or one of them—is a burning coal upon its owner until he spends it in the way of God.

39. Musnad al-Bazzar 3933No grade recorded

    " يَقْطَعُ الصَّلَاةَ الْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ وَالْحِمَارُ وَالْمَرْأَةُ

    ✧ "The prayer is cut off by the black dog, the donkey, and the woman."

40. Musnad al-Bazzar 3934No grade recorded

    " كَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ إِذَا بَلَغَ بِكَ الْجَهْدُ أَنْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعَ الرَّجُلُ أَنْ يَقُومَ إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ مِنَ الْجَهْدِ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " تَسْتَعِفُّ " قَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، تَصْنَعُ إِذَا كَثُرَ الْمَوْتُ حَتَّى يُبَاعَ الْبَيْتُ بِالْعَبْدِ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عِمْرَانَ مَا الْبَيْتُ ؟ قَالَ: الْقَبْرُ، قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " فَاصْبِرْ " قَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ أَحْسَبُهُ كَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ إِذَا كَثُرَ الْقَتْلُ حَتَّى تَغْرَقَ حِجَارَةُ الزَّيْتِ فِي الدَّمِ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " تَجْلِسُ فِي بَيْتِكَ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أُتْرَكْ قَالَ: " تَلْحَقُ بِمَنْ أَنْتَ مِنْهُ " قُلْتُ: فَأَحْمِلُ مَعِي السِّلَاحَ ؟ قَالَ: " قَدْ شَرِكْتَ مَعَهُمْ إِذًا " قَالَ: " فَإِنْ خَشِيتَ أَنْ يَبْهَرَكَ شُعَاعُ السَّيْفِ فَخُذْ بِنَاحِيَةِ ثَوْبِكَ فَأَلْقِهِ عَلَى وَجْهِكَ يَبُوءُ بِإِثْمِكَ وَإِثْمِهِ

    ✧ "What will you do when hardship reaches you such that a man is unable to get up to his bed from exhaustion?" He said: I said: God and His Messenger know best. He said: "Abstain." He said: "O Abu Dharr, what will you do when death becomes so widespread that a house is sold for a slave?" He said: I said to Abu ʿImran: What is the house? He said: The grave. I said: God and His Messenger know best. He said: "Then be patient." He said: "O Abu Dharr, I think he said: What will you do when killing becomes so widespread that the stones of the olive grove are submerged in blood?" He said: I said: God and His Messenger know best. He said: "Stay in your house." He said: I said: What if I am not left alone? He said: "Join those whom you are from." I said: Should I carry a weapon with me? He said: "Then you have shared with them." He said: "If you fear that the flash of the sword will dazzle you, then take the edge of your garment and throw it over your face; he will bear his sin and your sin."

41. Musnad al-Bazzar 3935No grade recorded

    " زَمْزَمُ طَعَامُ طُعْمٍ وَشِفَاءُ سُقْمٍ

    ✧ "Zamzam is food that nourishes and a healing for sickness."

42. Musnad al-Bazzar 3936No grade recorded

    " يَقْطَعُ صَلَاةَ الرَّجُلِ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِثْلُ آخِرَةِ الرَّحْلِ الْحِمَارُ وَالْمَرْأَةُ وَالْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَمَا بَالُ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْأَبْيَضِ مِنَ الْأَحْمَرِ ؟ قَالَ ابْنُ أَخِي: سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: كَمَا سَأَلْتَنِي فَقَالَ: " الْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ شَيْطَانٌ

    ✧ "The prayer of a man is cut off, if there is not in front of him something like the back of a saddle, by the donkey, the woman, and the black dog." He said: I said: What about the black one as opposed to the white or the red one? He said: Nephew, I asked the Messenger of God ﷺ just as you asked me, and he said: "The black dog is a devil."

43. Musnad al-Bazzar 3937No grade recorded

    سَأَلْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ قَالَ: نُورٌ أَنَّى أَرَاهُ

    ✧ I asked the Prophet ﷺ: Did you see your Lord? He said: "Light—how could I see Him?"

44. Musnad al-Bazzar 3938No grade recorded

    نَا سَعِيدٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، أَوْ مَطَرٍ الْوَرَّاقِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

    ✧ Saʿid narrated to us, from Qatadah, or Matar al-Warraq, from Humayd b. Hilal, from ʿAbd Allah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr.

45. Musnad al-Bazzar 3939No grade recorded

    نَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ شَوْذَبٍ، عَنْ مَطَرٍ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ ʿAbd Allah b. Shawdhab narrated to us, from Matar, from Humayd b. Hilal, from ʿAbd Allah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

46. Musnad al-Bazzar 3940No grade recorded

    نَا هِشَامٌ، صَاحِبُ الدَّسْتُوَائِيِّ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Hisham, the companion of al-Dastuwa'i, narrated to us, from Qatadah, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

47. Musnad al-Bazzar 3941No grade recorded

    نَا أَيُّوبُ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Ayyub narrated to us, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

48. Musnad al-Bazzar 3942No grade recorded

    نَا حَمَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، وَيُونُسُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، وَحَبِيبُ بْنُ الشَّهِيدِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Hammad—meaning Ibn Salamah—narrated to us, from Ayyub, and Yunus b. 'Ubayd, and Habib b. al-Shahid, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

49. Musnad al-Bazzar 3943No grade recorded

    نَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ يُونُسَ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عُبَيْدٍ وَمَنْصُورٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَاذَانَ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Hushaym narrated to us, from Yunus—meaning Ibn 'Ubayd—and Mansur—meaning Ibn Zadhan—from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

50. Musnad al-Bazzar 3944No grade recorded

    نَا هِشَامٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ حَسَّانَ وَأَشْعَثُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Hisham—meaning Ibn Hassan—and Ash'ath b. 'Abd al-Malik narrated to us, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

51. Musnad al-Bazzar 3945No grade recorded

    نَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Humayd b. Hilal narrated to us, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

52. Musnad al-Bazzar 3946No grade recorded

    نَا عَاصِمٌ الْأَحْوَلُ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ 'Asim al-Ahwal narrated to us, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

53. Musnad al-Bazzar 3947No grade recorded

    وَحَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، وَأَزْهَرُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ، وَزِيَادُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالُوا: نَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ سَلْمِ بْنِ أَبِي الذَّيَّالِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ And 'Amr b. 'Ali, Azhar b. Jamil, Ziyad b. Yahya, and Ishaq b. Ibrahim narrated to us. They said: Al-Mu'tamir b. Sulayman narrated to us, from Salm b. Abi al-Dhayyal, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

54. Musnad al-Bazzar 3948No grade recorded

    " يَقْطَعُ صَلَاةَ الرَّجُلِ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِثْلُ آخِرَةِ الرَّحْلِ الْحِمَارُ وَالْمَرْأَةُ وَالْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، مَا بَالُ الْكَلْبِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْأَبْيَضِ مِنَ الْأَحْمَرِ ؟ قَالَ: يَا ابْنَ أَخِي سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: كَمَا سَأَلْتَنِي فَقَالَ: " الْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ شَيْطَانٌ

    ✧ "The prayer of a man is cut off if there is not in front of him something like the back of a saddle: the donkey, the woman, and the black dog." He said: I said: "O Abu Dharr, what is the matter with the black dog as opposed to the white or the red?" He said: "O son of my brother, I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ just as you asked me, and he said: 'The black dog is a devil.'"

55. Musnad al-Bazzar 3949No grade recorded

    أَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، وَوَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ، قَالَا: نَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Abu Dawud and Wahb b. Jarir narrated to us. They said: Shu'bah narrated to us, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

56. Musnad al-Bazzar 3950No grade recorded

    نَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْمُزَنِيُّ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ 'Abdullah b. 'Umar al-Muzani narrated to us, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

57. Musnad al-Bazzar 3951No grade recorded

    " يَقْطَعُ الصَّلَاةَ الْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ وَالْحِمَارُ وَالْمَرْأَةُ قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ: لِأَبِي ذَرٍّ: مَا بَالُ الْكَلْبِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْأَصْفَرِ مِنَ الْأَبْيَضِ ؟ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: كَمَا سَأَلْتَنِي فَقَالَ: " الْكَلْبُ الْأَسْوَدُ شَيْطَانٌ

    ✧ "The black dog, the donkey, and the woman cut off the prayer." He said: I said to Abu Dharr: "What is the matter with the black dog as opposed to the yellow or the white?" He said: "I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ just as you asked me, and he said: 'The black dog is a devil.'"

58. Musnad al-Bazzar 3952No grade recorded

    قَالَ لِي: يَا ابْنَ أَخِي صَلَّيْتُ قَبْلَ أَنْ أَلْقَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَأَيْنَ كُنْتَ تَوَجَّهُ ؟ قَالَ: كُنْتُ أَتَوَجَّهُ حَيْثُ وَجَّهَنِي اللهُ كُنْتُ أَقُومُ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا شَاءَ اللهُ، فَإِذَا كَانَ مِنْ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ أَلْقَيْتُ نَفْسِي كَأَنِّي خِفَاءٌ، وَكُنَّا مَعَ خَالِنَا فَقَالَ لَهُ إِنْسَانٌ: إِنَّ أُنَيْسًا يَخْلُفُكَ فِي أَهْلِكَ قَالَ: فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَخِي أُنَيْسٌ يَا خَالَاهُ، أَمَا مَا صَنَعْتَ مِنْ مَعْرُوفِكَ فَقَدْ وَاللهِ كَدَّرْتَهُ، وَأَمَّا نَحْنُ فَلَا نُسَاكِنُكَ بِبَلَدٍ أَنْتَ بِهِ قَالَ: وَكُنَّا مَعَ أُمِّنَا فِي صِرْمَتِنَا فَنَافَرَ أَخِي أُنَيْسٌ رَجُلًا بِصِرْمَتِنَا فَتَنَافَرَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْكُهَّانِ وَلَمْ يَزَلْ أُنَيْسًا يَمْدَحُهُ حَتَّى غَلَبَهُ فَأَخَذَ صِرْمَتَهُ فَضَمَّهَا إِلَى صِرْمَتِنَا وَانْطَلَقَ أَخِي أُنَيْسٌ إِلَى مَكَّةَ فَقَالَ: لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ بِهَا رَجُلًا إِنَّهُ لَأَشْبَهُ النَّاسِ بِكَ يُقَالُ لَهُ الصَّابِئُ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: حَتَّى أَذْهَبَ فَأَنْظُرَ قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُ مَكَّةَ فَدَنَوْتُ مِنْ إِنْسَانٍ فَقُلْتُ: أَيْنَ هَذَا الَّذِي يُقَالُ لَهُ الصَّابِئُ ؟ قَالَ: فَرَفَعَ صَوْتَهُ، وَقَالَ: صَابِي صَابِي قَالَ: فَرُمِيتُ حَتَّى تُرِكْتُ كَأَنِّي كَذَا - كَلِمَةٌ ذَكَرَهَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ - فَانْطَلَقْتُ فَكُنْتُ بَيْنَ مَكَّةَ وَأَسْتَارِهَا فَخَرَجْتُ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِامْرَأَتَيْنِ تَطُوفَانِ تَدْعُوَانِ يَسَافًا وَنَائِلَةَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: زَوِّجُوا إِحْدَاهُمَا الْأُخْرَى، فَقَالَتَا: صَابِئٌ صَابِئٌ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: أَنَا هَنٌّ مِثْلُ خَشَبَةٍ فِي هَنٍّ غَيْرَ أَنِّي مَا أُكَنِّي قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقَتَا فَإِذَا هُمَا بِالنَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ مُقْبِلَيْنِ مِنْ أَسْفَلِ مَكَّةَ فَقَالَتَا: هَذَا صَابِئٌ بَيْنَ الْكَعْبَةِ وَأَسْتَارِهَا فَجَاءَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَطَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ وَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ خَلْفَ الْمَقَامِ قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهُ قَالَ: فَإِنِّي أَوَّلُ النَّاسِ حَيَّاهُ بِتَحِيَّةِ الْإِسْلَامِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: قَالَ: " وَعَلَيْكَ مَنْ أَنْتَ ؟ " قُلْتُ: أَنَا مِنْ بَنِي غِفَارَ قَالَ: فَقَالَ بِيَدِهِ كَذَا عَلَى وَجْهِهِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: كَرِهَ الْقَوْمَ الَّذِينَ انْتَمَيْتُ إِلَيْهِمْ فَذَهَبْتُ أَقُولُ بِيَدِهِ قَالَ: فَقَالَ صَاحِبُهُ: بِيَدِهِ دُونَ يَدِي وَكَانَ أَعْلَمَ مِنِّي قَالَ: فَرَفَعَ يَدَهُ، فَقَالَ: " مُنْذُ كَمْ أَنْتَ هَاهُنَا ؟ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: مُنْذُ خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ قَالَ: " فَمَا كَانَ طَعَامُكَ ؟ " قُلْتُ: شَرَابُ زَمْزَمَ، وَمَا وَجَدْتُ عَلَى كَبِدِي سُخْفَةَ جُوعٍ، وَلَقَدْ تَكَسَّرَتْ عُكَنُ بَطْنِي قَالَ: أَمَا إِنَّهُ طَعَامُ طُعْمٍ وَشِفَاءُ سُقْمٍ قَالَ: فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: مَتِّعْنِي بِضِيَافَةِ اللَّيْلَةِ قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقَ بِي إِلَى دَارٍ فِي أَسْفَلِ مَكَّةَ فَقَبَضَ لِي قَبَضَاتٍ مِنْ زَبِيبٍ قَالَ: وَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّهُ قَدْ ذُكِرَ لِي أَرْضٌ بِهَا نَخْلٌ فَإِذَا بَلَغَكَ أَنَّا قَدْ أَتَيْنَاهَا فَأْتِنَا قَالَ: فَرَجَعْتُ إِلَى أَهْلِي فَقَالَ: أُنَيْسٌ مَا صَنَعْتَ ؟ قُلْتُ: بَايَعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَسْلَمْتُ فَقَالَ: مَا بِي رَغْبَةٌ، عَنْ دِينِكَ أَوْ مَا بِي عَنْ دِينِكَ مِنْ رَغْبَةٍ فَأَسْلَمَ أَخِي، وَقَالَتْ أُمِّي: مَا بِي عَنْ دِينِكُمَا مِنْ رَغْبَةٍ فَأَسْلَمَتْ، وَأَسْلَمَ نَاسٌ مِنْ قَوْمِنَا وَقَالَ: الشَّطْرُ الْآخَرُ حَتَّى أَتَلَقَّى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: فَنَشْتَرِطَ لِأَنْفُسِنَا

    ✧ He said to me: "O son of my brother, I prayed for three years before I met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." He said: I said: "So where did you turn (in prayer)?" He said: "I used to turn wherever Allah directed me. I would stand in prayer at night as long as Allah willed, and when it was the last part of the night I would throw myself down as if I were a garment, and we were with our maternal uncle. A man said to him: 'Unays is taking your place with your family.' He said: So he said to him: 'My brother Unays, O uncle, as for the good you have done, by Allah you have spoiled it, and as for us, we will not live with you in a land where you are.' He said: And we were with our mother at our herd, and my brother Unays challenged a man to a contest over our herd, and they referred the matter to a man among the soothsayers. Unays kept praising him until he defeated him, so he took his herd and added it to our herd. Then my brother Unays went to Makkah and said: 'I saw there a man who is the most similar of people to you, called the Sabian.' He said: I said: 'I will go and look.' He said: So I came to Makkah and approached a man and said: 'Where is this one called the Sabian?' He said: So he raised his voice and said: 'Sabian! Sabian!' He said: So I was stoned until I was left as if I were such-and-such - a word mentioned by Ibn Abi 'Adi - then I went off and stayed between Makkah and its veils. One night I went out, and there were two women circumambulating, calling upon Yasaf and Na'ilah. He said: I said: 'Marry one of them to the other.' They said: 'Sabian! Sabian!' He said: I said: 'I am a thing like a piece of wood in a thing, except that I do not use a kunyah.' He said: So they went off, and then they came upon the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr coming from the lower part of Makkah. They said: 'This Sabian is between the Ka'bah and its veils.' The Prophet ﷺ came and circumambulated the House and prayed two rak'ahs behind the Maqam. He said: So I came to him. He said: I was the first of people to greet him with the greeting of Islam. He said: I said: 'Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'And upon you, who are you?' I said: 'I am from Banu Ghifar.' He said: So he placed his hand on his face like this. He said: I said: He disliked the people to whom I attributed myself, so I went to remove his hand. He said: So his companion placed his hand below mine, and he was more knowledgeable than me. He said: So he raised his hand and said: 'How long have you been here?' He said: I said: 'For fifteen (days).' He said: 'What has been your food?' I said: 'The water of Zamzam, and I have not felt any weakness of hunger on my liver, and the folds of my belly have become creased.' He said: 'Indeed it is a food that nourishes and a cure for sickness.' He said: So Abu Bakr said: 'Let me host him tonight.' He said: So he took me to a house in the lower part of Makkah and gave me handfuls of raisins. He said: And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: 'A land with palm trees has been mentioned to me, so when you hear that we have come to it, come to us.' He said: So I returned to my family. Unays said: 'What did you do?' I said: 'I pledged allegiance to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and embraced Islam.' He said: 'I have no desire to turn away from your religion' or 'I have no desire away from your religion,' so my brother embraced Islam, and my mother said: 'I have no desire away from the religion of you two,' so she embraced Islam, and some people of our tribe embraced Islam. He said: 'The other half (will embrace Islam) when I meet the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so we may stipulate conditions for ourselves.'

59. Musnad al-Bazzar 3953No grade recorded

    نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، نَحْوَهُ

    ✧ Muhammad b. 'Abdullah al-Ansari narrated to us, from Ibn 'Awn, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, something similar.

60. Musnad al-Bazzar 3954No grade recorded

    خَرَجْنَا مَعَ قَوْمِنَا غِفَارَ، وَكَانُوا يُحِلُّونَ الشَّهْرَ الْحَرَامَ فَخَرَجْتُ أَنَا وَأَخِي أُنَيْسٌ وَأُمُّنَا حَتَّى أَتَيْنَا خَالًا لَنَا ذَا مَالٍ وَهَيْئَةٍ فَأَحْسَنَ إِلَيْنَا خَالُنَا فَحَسَدَنَا قَوْمُهُ، وَقَالُوا: إِنَّ أُنَيْسًا إِذَا خَرَجْتَ خَالَفَكَ إِلَى أَهْلِكَ فَجَاءَ خَالُنَا فَنَثَا عَلَيْنَا الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُ فَقُلْنَا لَهُ: أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَقَدْ كَدَّرْتَ مَعْرُوفَكَ فِيمَا مَضَى، وَلَا اجْتِمَاعَ لَنَا فِيمَا بَعْدُ فَقَدَّمَتْنَا صِرْمَتُنَا وَتَغَطَّى خَالُنَا بِرِدَائِهِ يَبْكِي فَانْطَلَقْنَا حَتَّى إِذَا كُنَّا بِوَادٍ بِحَضْرَةِ مَكَّةَ نَافَرَ أُنَيْسٌ عَنْ صِرْمَتِنَا فَأَتَى كَاهِنًا فَأَتَانَا بِصِرْمَتِنَا وَمِثْلِهَا مَعَهَا، وَقَدْ صَلَّيْتُ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي قَبْلَ أَنْ أَلْقَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لِمَنْ ؟ قَالَ: لِلهِ، قُلْتُ: أَيْنَ كُنْتَ تَوَجَّهُ ؟ قَالَ: حَيْثُ وَجَّهَنِي اللهُ أُصَلِّي عِشَاءً حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ مِنَ السَّحَرِ أَلْقَيْتُ نَفْسِي كَأَنِّي خِفَاءٌ حَتَّى تَعْلُوَنِي الشَّمْسُ فَقَالَ لِي أُنَيْسٌ: إِنِّي مُنْطَلِقٌ مَكَّةَ فَاكْفِنِي حَتَّى آتِيَكَ فَانْطَلَقَ فَرَاثَ عَلَيَّ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ فَقُلْتُ: مَا حَبَسَكَ قَالَ: لَقِيتُ بِمَكَّةَ رَجُلًا عَلَى دِينِكَ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّ اللهَ أَرْسَلَهُ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَمَا يَقُولُ فِيهِ النَّاسُ. قَالَ: يَقُولُونَ: شَاعِرٌ كَاهِنٌ. وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ قَوْلَ الْكَهَنَةَ فَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِهِمْ، وَلَقَدْ وَضَعْتُ قَوْلَهُ عَلَى أَقْرَاءِ الشِّعْرِ فَمَا يَلْتَئِمُ عَلَى لِسَانِ أَحَدٍ قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ: يَا ابْنَ أَخِي، وَكَانَ أُنَيْسٌ أَحَدَ الشُّعَرَاءِ قَالَ: فَوَاللهِ إِنَّهُ لَصَادِقٌ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَاكْفِنِي حَتَّى أُطَالِعَ مَكَّةَ قَالَ: نَعَمْ وَلَكِنْ كُنْ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ عَلَى حَذَرٍ فَإِنَّهُمْ شَنِفُوا لَهُ قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقْتُ فَتَصَفَّحْتُ رَجُلًا مِنْهُمْ فَقُلْتُ: أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ يَدَعُونَهُ الصَّابِئَ قَالَ: فَأَشَارَ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَ: الصَّابِئُ الصَّابِئُ قَالَ: فَأَمَالَ عَلَيَّ أَهْلُ الْوَادِي بِكُلِّ حَجَرٍ وَعَظْمٍ فَخَرَرْتُ مَغْشِيًّا عَلَيَّ فَارْتَفَعْتُ حِينَ ارْتَفَعْتُ، وَكَأَنِّي نُصُبٌ فَأَتَيْتُ زَمْزَمَ فَغَسَلْتُ عَنِّي الدِّمَاءَ وَشَرِبْتُ مِنْ مَائِهَا وَمَكَثْتُ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي ثَلَاثِينَ يَوْمًا وَلَيْلَةً مَالِي طَعَامٌ وَلَا شَرَابٌ إِلَّا زَمْزَمَ، وَلَقَدْ سَمِنْتُ حَتَّى تَكَسَّرَتْ عُكَنُ بَطْنِي وَمَا أَجِدُ عَلَى كَبِدِي سُخْفَةَ جُوعٍ قَالَ: فَبَيْنَا أَنَا ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ فِي لَيْلَةٍ قَمْرَاءَ إِضْحِيَانَ إِذْ ضَرَبَ اللهُ عَلَى أَصْمِخَةِ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ فَمَا يَطُوفُ بِالْبَيْتِ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا امْرَأَتَانِ تَدْعُوَانِ يَسَافًا وَنَائِلَةَ فَأَخْرَجْتُ رَأْسِي فَقُلْتُ: زَوِّجُوا إِحْدَاهُمَا بِالْأُخْرَى، فَوَاللهِ مَا ثَنَاهَتَا ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَتَتَا عَلَيَّ وَهُمَا تَدْعُوَانِ يَسَافًا وَنَائِلَةَ فَقُلْتُ: هَنٌ مِثْلُ الْخَشَبَةِ غَيْرَ أَنِّي لَا أُكَنَّى فَانْطَلَقَتَا تُوَلْوِلَانِ وَتَقُولَانِ: لَوْ كَانَ هَاهُنَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ أَنْصَارِنَا فَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ لَقِيَهُمَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَهُمَا هَابِطَانِ مِنَ الْجَبَلِ فَقَالَتَا: الصَّابِئُ بَيْنَ الْكَعْبَةِ وَأَسْتَارِهَا قَالَ: " مَا قَالَ لَكُمَا ؟ " قَالَتَا: قَالَ لَنَا كَلِمَةً تَمْلَأُ الْفَمَ قَالَ: فَجَاءَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: فَبَدَأَ بِالْحَجَرِ فَاسْتَلَمَهُ ثُمَّ طَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ سَبْعًا فَانْتَهَيْتُ إِلَيْهِ وَقَدْ وَصَاحِبِهِ فَكُنْتُ أَوَّلَ مَنْ حَيَّاهُ بِتَحِيَّةِ الْإِسْلَامِ، فَقَالَ: " وَعَلَيْكَ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ مَنْ أَنْتَ ؟ " قُلْتُ: رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي غِفَارَ قَالَ: فَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى جَبْهَتِهِ، فَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: كَرِهَ أَنِ انْتَمَيْتُ إِلَى غِفَارَ فَذَهَبْتُ لِأَرْفَعَ يَدَهُ عَنْ جَبْهَتِهِ فَمَنَعَنِي صَاحِبُهُ، وَكَانَ أَعْلَمَ بِهِ مِنِّي، فَقَالَ: " مُنْذُ كَمْ أَنْتَ هَاهُنَا ؟ " قُلْتُ: مُنْذُ ثَلَاثِينَ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَوْمٍ وَلَيْلَةٍ قَالَ: " مَا كَانَ طَعَامُكَ ؟ " قُلْتُ: مَا كَانَ لِي طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مَاءَ زَمْزَمَ وَلَقَدْ سَمِنْتُ حَتَّى تَكَسَّرَتْ عُكَنُ بَطْنِي وَمَا أَجِدُ عَلَى كَبِدِي سُخْفَةَ جُوعٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّهَا مُبَارَكَةٌ وَهِيَ طَعَامُ طُعْمٍ فَقَالَ: أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: أَتْحِفْنِي بِطَعَامِهِ اللَّيْلَةَ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ " قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَانْطَلَقَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَانْطَلَقْتُ مَعَهُمَا فَفَتَحَ لَنَا بَابًا فَقَبَضَ لَنَا مِنْ زَبِيبِ الطَّائِفِ أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: قَبْضَةً فَذَاكَ أَوَّلُ طَعَامٍ أَكَلْتُهُ بِهَا قَالَ: فَغَبَرْتُ مَا غَبَرْتُ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " قَدْ وُجِّهْتُ إِلَى أَرْضٍ ذَاتِ نَخْلٍ لَا أَحْسَبُهَا إِلَّا يَثْرِبَ فَهَلْ أَنْتَ مُبَلِّغٌ عَنِّي قَوْمَكَ يَنْفَعُهُمُ اللهُ بِكَ " قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقْتُ حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ أَخِي أُنَيْسًا فَقَالَ لِي: مَا صَنَعْتَ قَالَ: قَدِ أَسْلَمْتُ وَصَدَّقْتُ فَقَالَ لِي: مَا بِي رَغْبَةٌ عَنْ دِينِكَ فَقَدْ أَسْلَمْتُ وَصَدَّقْتُ، ثُمَّ أَتَيْنَا أُمَّنَا فَعَرَضْنَا عَلَيْهَا الْإِسْلَامَ فَقَالَتْ: مَا بِي رَغْبَةٌ عَنْ دِينِكُمَا فَقَدْ أَسْلَمْتُ وَصَدَّقْتُ، ثُمَّ احْتَمَلْنَا حَتَّى أَتَيْنَا قَوْمَنَا غِفَارَ فَعَرَضْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الْإِسْلَامَ فَأَسْلَمَ نِصْفُهُمْ وَقَالَ النِّصْفُ الْبَاقُونَ إِذَا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ أَسْلَمْنَا فَكَانَ يَؤُمُّهُمْ إِيمَاءُ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ رَحَضَةَ الْغِفَارِيَّ - وَكَانَ سَيِّدَهُمْ فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ أَسْلَمَ بَقِيَّتُهُمْ فَجَاءَ إِخْوَانُنَا مِنْ أَسْلَمَ، فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: نُسْلِمُ عَلَى الَّذِي أَسْلَمُوا عَلَيْهِ غِفَارُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " غِفَارُ غَفَرَ اللهُ لَهَا، وَأَسْلَمُ سَالَمَهَا اللهُ.

    ✧ We went out with our tribe Ghifar, and they used to violate the sacred month. I, my brother Unays, and our mother went out until we came to a maternal uncle of ours who had wealth and good appearance. Our uncle treated us kindly, but his people envied us and said: 'Unays, when you go out, he takes your place with your family.' Our uncle came and told us what was said to him. We said to him: 'As for you, you have spoiled your past kindness, and there will be no gathering for us after this.' So we brought forward our herd, and our uncle covered himself with his cloak weeping. We went on until we were in a valley near Makkah. Unays competed over our herd and went to a soothsayer, and he came back to us with our herd and the like of it along with it. I had prayed, O son of my brother, for three years before I met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: I said: 'To whom?' He said: 'To Allah.' I said: 'Where did you turn?' He said: 'Wherever Allah directed me. I prayed at night until, when it was the time before dawn, I threw myself down as if I were a garment until the sun rose over me.' Unays said to me: 'I am going to Makkah, so suffice me until I come to you.' He went and was slow in returning to me. Then he came, and I said: 'What delayed you?' He said: 'I met in Makkah a man upon your religion who claims that Allah sent him.' He said: I said: 'What do people say about him?' He said: 'They say: a poet, a soothsayer. I have heard the speech of soothsayers, and it is not their speech. I have placed his speech upon the modes of poetry, and it does not fit upon the tongue of anyone.' Abu Dharr said: 'O son of my brother, Unays was one of the poets.' He said: 'By Allah, he is truthful.' He said: I said: 'Then suffice me until I go to Makkah.' He said: 'Yes, but be wary of the people of Makkah, for they are hostile to him.' He said: So I went and asked a man among them: 'Where is the one they call the Sabian?' He said: So he pointed at me and said: 'Sabian! Sabian!' He said: So the people of the valley pelted me with every stone and bone until I fell unconscious. When I regained consciousness, I was like a standing idol. I went to Zamzam and washed the blood off myself and drank from its water. I stayed, O son of my brother, thirty days and nights, having no food or drink except Zamzam, and I became fat until the folds of my belly became creased, and I did not feel any weakness of hunger on my liver. He said: While I was one night on a moonlit, bright night, Allah struck the ears of the people of Makkah, so none of them was circumambulating the House except two women calling upon Yasaf and Na'ilah. I put out my head and said: 'Marry one of them to the other.' By Allah, they did not stop. Then they came upon me while they were calling upon Yasaf and Na'ilah, and I said: 'A thing like a piece of wood, except that I am not called by a kunyah.' They went off wailing and saying: 'If only one of our people were here.' The first to meet them was the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Abu Bakr, coming down from the mountain. They said: 'The Sabian is between the Ka'bah and its veils.' He said: 'What did he say to you?' They said: 'He said to us a word that fills the mouth.' He said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came and began with the Black Stone and touched it, then circumambulated the House seven times. I reached him while he and his companion were there, and I was the first to greet him with the greeting of Islam. He said: 'And upon you and the mercy of Allah. Who are you?' I said: 'A man from Banu Ghifar.' He said: So he placed his hand on his forehead. I said to myself: He disliked that I attributed myself to Ghifar, so I went to remove his hand from his forehead, but his companion prevented me, and he was more knowledgeable about him than I. He said: 'How long have you been here?' I said: 'For thirty days and nights.' He said: 'What has been your food?' I said: 'I had no food except the water of Zamzam, and I became fat until the folds of my belly became creased, and I did not feel any weakness of hunger on my liver.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Indeed it is blessed, and it is a food that nourishes.' Abu Bakr said: 'O Messenger of Allah, let me have the honor of feeding him tonight.' He said: 'Yes.' He said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went, Abu Bakr went, and I went with them. He opened a door for us and gave us a handful of Ta'if raisins - I think he said: a handful. That was the first food I ate there. He said: I stayed for some time, then I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: 'I have been directed to a land of palm trees, which I think is only Yathrib. Will you convey from me to your people, that Allah may benefit them through you?' He said: So I went until I came to my brother Unays. He said to me: 'What did you do?' I said: 'I have embraced Islam and believed.' He said to me: 'I have no desire to turn away from your religion, so I have embraced Islam and believed.' Then we came to our mother and presented Islam to her, and she said: 'I have no desire to turn away from the religion of you two, so I have embraced Islam and believed.' Then we set out until we came to our tribe Ghifar and presented Islam to them. Half of them embraced Islam, and the remaining half said: 'When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrives in Madinah, we will embrace Islam.' Ima' - meaning Ibn Rahadah al-Ghifari - used to lead them in prayer, and he was their chief. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Madinah, the rest of them embraced Islam. Then our brothers from Aslam came and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, we embrace Islam upon the same terms as Ghifar embraced Islam.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Ghifar - may Allah forgive her, and Aslam - may Allah grant her peace.'

61. Musnad al-Bazzar 3955No grade recorded

    نَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ يَعْنِي حُمَيْدَ بْنَ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ فِي ذِكْرِ إِسْلَامِهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَذَكَرَ الْقِصَّةَ بِطُولِهَا. وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْأَعْمَشِ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ لَمْ نَسْمَعْهُ إِلَّا مِنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ مُعَلَّى، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَثَّامٍ

    ✧ Al-A'mash narrated to us, from 'Amr b. Murrah, from Abu al-Nadr, that is Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, something similar to the hadith of Sulayman b. al-Mughirah concerning the mention of his embracing Islam, from the Prophet ﷺ, and he mentioned the story in full. This hadith from al-A'mash with this chain we have heard only from Yahya b. Mu'alla, from his father, from 'Aththam.

62. Musnad al-Bazzar 3956No grade recorded

    نَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Sulayman b. al-Mughirah narrated to us, from Humayd b. Hilal, from 'Abdullah b. al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

63. Musnad al-Bazzar 3957No grade recorded

    يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: الرَّجُلُ يُحِبُّ الْقَوْمَ وَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ بِعَمَلِهِمْ قَالَ: أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ

    ✧ O Messenger of Allah, a man loves a people but cannot do the deeds they do. He said: 'You, O Abu Dharr, will be with the one you love.'

64. Musnad al-Bazzar 3958No grade recorded

    سَأَلْتُ خَلِيلِي يَعْنِي النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَضَرَبَ فَخِذِي وَقَالَ: صَلِّ الصَّلَاةَ لِمِيقَاتِهَا فَإِنْ أَدْرَكْتَ أَوْ أَدْرَكْتَهُمْ فَصَلِّ مَعَهُمْ وَلَا تَقُلْ إِنِّي قَدْ صَلَّيْتُ فَلَنْ أُصَلِّيَ مَعَهُمْ

    ✧ I asked my close friend, meaning the Prophet ﷺ, and he struck my thigh and said: 'Pray the prayer at its appointed time. If you catch the prayer with them, then pray with them, and do not say: I have already prayed, so I will not pray with them.'

65. Musnad al-Bazzar 3959No grade recorded

    " كَيْفَ أَنْتَ إِذَا بَقِيتَ فِي قَوْمٍ يُؤَخِّرُونَ الصَّلَاةَ - أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ: فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي ؟ - قَالَ: " تُصَلِّي الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا ثُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ حَتَّى تُقَامَ الصَّلَاةُ فَصَلِّ مَعَهُمْ

    ✧ "How will you be when you remain among a people who delay the prayer?" - I think he said: 'What do you command me?' - He said: "Pray the prayer at its proper time, then if you are in the mosque until the prayer is established, pray with them."

66. Musnad al-Bazzar 3960No grade recorded

    أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ ضَرَبَ فَخِذَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ: كَيْفَ أَنْتَ إِذَا بَقِيتَ فِي قَوْمٍ يُؤَخِّرُونَ الصَّلَاةَ ؟ قَالَ: " فَصَلِّ الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا إِنْ كُنْتَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ حَتَّى تُقَامَ الصَّلَاةُ فَصَلِّ مَعَهُمْ

    ✧ The Prophet ﷺ struck his thigh and then said: "How will you be when you remain among a people who delay the prayer?" He said: "Pray the prayer at its proper time, and if you are in the mosque until the prayer is established, then pray with them."

67. Musnad al-Bazzar 3961No grade recorded

    يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: الرَّجُلُ يَعْمَلُ لِنَفْسِهِ فَيُحِبُّهُ النَّاسُ قَالَ: تِلْكَ عَاجِلُ بُشْرَى الْمُؤْمِنِ

    ✧ O Messenger of Allah, a man does a good deed for himself and then people love him (for it). He said: 'That is the immediate glad tidings for the believer.'

68. Musnad al-Bazzar 3962No grade recorded

    قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: الرَّجُلُ يَعْمَلُ لِنَفْسِهِ فَيُحِبُّهُ النَّاسُ قَالَ: تِلْكَ عَاجِلُ بُشْرَى الْمُؤْمِنِ

    ✧ I said: O Messenger of Allah, a man does a good deed for himself and then people love him (for it). He said: 'That is the immediate glad tidings for the believer.'

69. Musnad al-Bazzar 3963No grade recorded

    أَوْصَانِي خَلِيلِي ﷺ بِثَلَاثٍ: أَنْ أَسْمَعَ وَأُطِيعَ وَلَوْ لِعَبْدٍ مُجَدَّعِ الْأَطْرَافِ، وَإِذَا صَنَعْتُ مَرَقَةً أَنْظُرُ أَنْ أُكْثِرَ مَاءَهَا ثُمَّ أَنْظُرُ نَاسًا مِنْ جِيرَانِي فَأُعْطِيهِمْ مِنْهَا أَوْ كَلِمَةً نَحْوَهَا، وَأَنْ أُصَلِّيَ الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا فَإِنْ أَدْرَكْتَ الْإِمَامَ وَقَدْ صَلَّى فَقَدْ أَجْزَتْكَ صَلَاتُكَ وَإِلَّا فَلَكَ نَافِلَةٌ

    ✧ My close friend ﷺ enjoined upon me three things: to listen and obey even if the leader is a slave with maimed limbs; when I make a broth, to look to increase its water, then look to people among my neighbors and give them some of it, or words to that effect; and to pray the prayer at its proper time, and if you catch the imam and he has already prayed, then your prayer suffices you, otherwise it is a supererogatory prayer for you.

70. Musnad al-Bazzar 3964No grade recorded

    نَا صَالِحُ بْنُ رُسْتُمَ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Sālih b. Rustum narrated to us, from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

71. Musnad al-Bazzar 3965No grade recorded

    " كَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ إِذَا بَلَغَ بِكَ الْجَهْدُ أَنْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعَ الرَّجُلُ أَنْ يَقُومَ إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ مِنَ الْجَهْدِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " تَسْتَعِفُّ " قَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ كَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ إِذَا كَثُرَ الْمَوْتُ حَتَّى يُبَاعَ الْبَيْتُ بِالْعَبْدِ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لِأَبِي عِمْرَانَ مَا الْبَيْتُ ؟ قَالَ: الْقَبْرُ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " فَاصْبِرْ أَوْ تَصْبِرُ " قَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ كَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ إِذَا كَثُرَ الْقَتْلُ حَتَّى يَغْرَقَ حِجَارَةُ الزَّيْتِ بِالدَّمِ، قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: تَجْلِسُ فِي بَيْتِكَ، قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أُتْرَكْ قَالَ: " تَلْحَقُ بِمَنْ أَنْتَ مِنْهُ "، قُلْتُ: فَأَحْمِلُ مَعِي السِّلَاحَ قَالَ: " قَدْ شَرِكْتَ الْقَوْمَ إِذًا " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَكَيْفَ أَصْنَعُ ؟ قَالَ: " إِنْ خَشِيتَ أَنْ يَبْهَرَكَ شُعَاعُ السَّيْفِ فَخُذْ بِنَاحِيَةِ ثَوْبِكَ فَأَلْقِهِ عَلَى وَجْهِكَ يَبُوءُ بِإِثْمِكَ وَإِثْمِهِ

    ✧ "How will you act when exhaustion reaches such a point that a man cannot even get up to his bed from exhaustion?" He said: "I said: Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "Keep yourself chaste." He said: "O Abū Dharr, how will you act when death becomes so widespread that a house is sold for a slave?" He said: "I said to Abū ʿImrān: What is the house?" He said: "The grave." He said: "I said: Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "Then be patient, or you will be patient." He said: "O Abū Dharr, how will you act when killing becomes so widespread that the stones of al-Zayt are drowned in blood?" I said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "Stay in your house." I said: "What if I am not left alone?" He said: "Then join those whom you are from." I said: "Should I carry a weapon with me?" He said: "Then you have shared with the people in it." He said: "I said: So what should I do?" He said: "If you fear that the flash of the sword will dazzle you, then take the edge of your garment and throw it over your face; he will bear your sin and his own sin."

72. Musnad al-Bazzar 3966No grade recorded

    قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: مَا آنِيَةُ الْحَوْضِ ؟ قَالَ: وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَآنِيَتُهُ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ عَدَدِ نُجُومِ السَّمَاءِ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الْمُصْحِيَةِ، مَنْ شَرِبَ مِنْهُ شَرْبَةً لَمْ يَظْمَأْ، آخِرُ مَا عَلَيْهِ يَشْخُبُ فِيهِ مِيزَابَانِ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ عَرْضُهُ مِثْلُ طُولِهِ مَا بَيْنَ عَمَّانَ إِلَى أَيْلَةَ، مَاؤُهُ أَشَدُّ بَيَاضًا مِنَ اللَّبَنِ وَأَحْلَى مِنَ الْعَسَلِ

    ✧ I said: "O Messenger of Allah, what are the vessels of the ḥawḍ like?" He said: "By the One in Whose hand is my soul, its vessels are more numerous than the number of stars in the sky on a clear night. Whoever drinks a single drink from it will never thirst again. The last of it: two spouts from Paradise pour into it, its width is like its length, from ʿAmmān to Aylah. Its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey."

73. Musnad al-Bazzar 3967No grade recorded

    " إِذَا طَبَخْتَ قِدْرًا فَأَكْثِرِ الْمَرَقَةَ، وَاغْرِفْ لِجِيرَانِكَ

    ✧ "When you cook a pot, make more broth, and ladle out for your neighbors."

74. Musnad al-Bazzar 3968No grade recorded

    " لَا تَحْقِرَنَّ مِنَ الْمَعْرُوفِ شَيْئًا، فَإِنْ لَمْ تَجِدْ خَالِقِ النَّاسِ وَأَنْتَ طَلِيقٌ، وَإِذَا طَبَخْتَ قِدْرًا فَأَكْثِرْ مَاءَهَا، وَاغْرِفْ لِجِيرَانِكَ

    ✧ "Do not belittle any act of kindness, even if you only meet people with a cheerful face. And when you cook a pot, make more of its water, and ladle out for your neighbors."

75. Musnad al-Bazzar 3969No grade recorded

    " زُرْ غِبًّا تَزْدَدْ حُبًّا

    ✧ "Visit occasionally and you will increase in love."

76. Musnad al-Bazzar 3970No grade recorded

    أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ سُئِلَ أَيُّ الْأَجَلَيْنِ قَضَى مُوسَى ؟ قَالَ: أَوْفَاهُمَا وَأَبَرَّهُمَا قَالَ: " وَإِنْ سُئِلْتَ أَيَّ الْمَرْأَتَيْنِ تَزَوَّجَ ؟ فَقُلِ:" الصُّغْرَى مِنْهُمَا

    ✧ The Prophet ﷺ was asked which of the two terms Mūsā fulfilled. He said: "The more complete and more righteous of them. And if you are asked which of the two women he married, say: the younger of them."

77. Musnad al-Bazzar 3971No grade recorded

    " الشَّامُ أَرْضُ الْمَحْشَرِ وَالْمَنْشَرِ

    ✧ "Al-Shām is the land of the gathering and the resurrection."

78. Musnad al-Bazzar 3972No grade recorded

    " أَوْصَانِي خَلِيلِي ﷺ أَنْ أَصِلَ رَحِمِي وَإِنْ أَدْبَرَتْ، وَأَنْ أَقُولَ الْحَقَّ، وَإِنْ كَانَ مُرًّا، وَأَنْ لَا تَأْخُذَنِي فِي اللهِ لَوْمَةُ لَائِمٍ، وَأَنْ أَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَنْ تَحْتِي، وَلَا أَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَنْ فَوْقِي، وَأَنْ أُجَالِسَ الْمَسَاكِينَ وَأَنْ أُكْثِرَ مِنْ قَوْلِ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ

    ✧ "My close friend ﷺ enjoined me to maintain ties with my relatives even if they turn away, to speak the truth even if it is bitter, to not let the blame of any blamer overtake me in the cause of Allah, to look at those who are below me and not at those who are above me, to sit with the poor, and to say frequently: lā ḥawla wa-lā quwwata illā billāh (There is no power and no strength except with Allah)."

79. Musnad al-Bazzar 3973No grade recorded

    " إِنَّ أَحَبَّ الْكَلَامِ إِلَى اللهِ سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ

    ✧ "The most beloved speech to Allah is subḥān Allāh wa-bi-ḥamdih (Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him)."

80. Musnad al-Bazzar 3974No grade recorded

    نَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنِ الْجُرَيْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ. وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لَا نَعْلَمُهُ يُرْوَى بِهَذَا اللَّفْظِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ إِلَّا مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ

    ✧ Shuʿbah narrated to us, from al-Jurayrī, from Abū ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ with something similar. And we do not know this hadith being narrated with this wording from Abū Dharr except through this route.

81. Musnad al-Bazzar 3975No grade recorded

    نَا الْجُرَيْرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Al-Jurayrī narrated to us, from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, from Nuʿaym b. Qaʿnab, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

82. Musnad al-Bazzar 3976No grade recorded

    " مَثَلُ الْمَرْأَةِ كَالضِّلَعِ إِنْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تُقِيمَهُ كَسَرْتَهُ، وَإِنِ اسْتَمْتَعْتَ بِهِ وَفِيهِ أَوَدٌ

    ✧ The likeness of a woman is like a rib: if you try to straighten it, you break it, and if you seek enjoyment from it, it has a crookedness.

83. Musnad al-Bazzar 3977No grade recorded

    زَعَمَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ فَأَتَوْا عَلَى وَادٍ فَقَالَ لَهُمُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: إِنَّكُمْ بِوَادٍ مَلْعُونٍ فَأَسْرِعُوا فَرَكِبَ فَرَسَهُ فَدَفَعَ وَدَفَعَ النَّاسُ " ثُمَّ قَالَ: " مَنِ اعْتَجَنَ عَجِينَهُ أَوْ مَنْ كَانَ طَبَخَ قِدْرًا فَلْيَكُبَّهَا ثُمَّ سِرْنَا " ثُمَّ قَالَ: " يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ الْيَوْمَ نَفْسًا مَنْفُوسَةً يَأْتِي عَلَيْهَا مِائَةُ سَنَةٍ فَيَعْبَأُ اللهُ بِهَا شَيْئًا

    ✧ Abu Dharr claimed that they were with the Messenger of God ﷺ in the expedition of Tabuk, and they came upon a valley. The Prophet ﷺ said to them: 'You are in a cursed valley, so hurry.' He mounted his horse and pushed on, and the people pushed on. Then he said: 'Whoever has kneaded his dough or cooked a pot, let him overturn it.' Then we traveled on. Then he said: 'O people, there is no soul born today upon which a hundred years pass and God cares about it anything.'

84. Musnad al-Bazzar 3978No grade recorded

    " إِنَّ الْعَيْنَ لَتُولَعُ الرَّجُلَ بِإِذْنِ اللهِ أَنْ يَصْعَدَ حَالِقًا ثُمَّ يَتَرَدَّى مِنْهُ

    ✧ The evil eye can indeed, by God's permission, make a man climb a high place and then fall from it.

85. Musnad al-Bazzar 3979No grade recorded

    الصَّعِيدُ الطَّيِّبُ وَضُوءُ الْمُسْلِمِ أَوِ الْمُؤْمِنِ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَجِدِ الْمَاءَ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ، فَإِذَا وَجَدَ فَلْيَتَّقِ اللهَ وَلْيَمَسَّ بَشَرَتَهُ - أَوْ قَالَ - جِلْدَهُ الْمَاءُ، فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ هُوَ خَيْرٌ

    ✧ Clean earth is the ablution of the Muslim—or the believer—even if he does not find water for ten years. When he finds it, let him fear God and let the water touch his skin—or he said—his body, for that is better.

86. Musnad al-Bazzar 3980No grade recorded

    نَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مِحْجَنٍ، أَوْ مِحْجَنٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، شَكَّ قَبِيصَةُ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ. وَهَذَا الْكَلَامُ لَا نَعْلَمُهُ يُرْوَى عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، إِلَّا بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ

    ✧ Sufyan narrated to us, from Khalid al-Hadhdha', from Abu Qilabah, from 'Amr b. Mihjan—or Mihjan—from Abu Dharr—Qabisah was uncertain—from the Prophet ﷺ with something similar. And we do not know of this wording being reported from Abu Dharr except through this chain.

87. Musnad al-Bazzar 3981No grade recorded

    كُنْتُ أَمْشِي مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي حَرَّةِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَنَحْنُ نَنْظُرُ إِلَى أُحُدٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ: ﷺ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ " قُلْتُ: لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: قَالَ: مَا أُحِبُّ أَنَّ أُحُدًا عِنْدِي ذَهَبٌ أُمْسِي ثَالِثَةً وَعِنْدِي مِنْهُ دِينَارٌ إِلَّا دِينَارًا أَرْصُدُهُ لِدَيْنٍ ثُمَّ مَشَى فَقَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ " قُلْتُ: لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: قَالَ: " أَلَا إِنَّ الْأَكْثَرِينَ هُمُ الْأَقَلُّونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَّا مَنْ قَالَ بِالْمَالِ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا " ثُمَّ مَشَى فَقَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ كَمَا أَنْتَ حَتَّى آتِيَكَ " فَانْطَلَقَ فَتَوَارَى عَنِّي فَسَمِعْتُ لَغَطًا وَسَمِعْتُ صَوْتًا فَقُلْتُ: لَعَلَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: قَدْ عَرَضَ لَهُ فَهَمَمْتُ أَنْ أَتَّبِعَهُ ثُمَّ ذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَهُ: " لَا تَبْرَحْ حَتَّى آتِيَكَ " فَانْتَظَرْتُهُ حَتَّى جَاءَ فَذَكَرْتُ لَهُ الَّذِي سَمِعْتُ، فَقَالَ: " ذَاكَ جِبْرِيلُ ﷺ أَتَانِي "، فَقَالَ: مَنْ مَاتَ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللهِ شَيْئًا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَإِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ

    ✧ I was walking with the Prophet ﷺ on the stony ground of Madinah while we were looking at Uhud. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'O Abu Dharr.' I said: 'At your service, O Messenger of God.' He said: 'I would not like to have gold equal to Uhud with me and let a third night pass while I have a dinar of it, except a dinar I set aside for a debt.' Then he walked and said: 'O Abu Dharr.' I said: 'At your service, O Messenger of God.' He said: 'Indeed, those who have the most are the ones with the least on the Day of Resurrection, except one who gives away wealth like this, and like this, and like this.' Then he walked and said: 'O Abu Dharr, stay where you are until I come to you.' He went off and hid from me, and I heard a murmur and voices. I said: 'Perhaps something has happened to the Messenger of God ﷺ.' I wanted to follow him, but I remembered his words: 'Do not leave until I come to you.' I waited until he came back. I told him what I had heard. He said: 'That was Jibril ﷺ. He came to me and said: Whoever of his ummah dies without associating anything with God will enter Paradise, even if he commits adultery and even if he steals.'

88. Musnad al-Bazzar 3982No grade recorded

    نَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

    ✧ Jarir narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Zayd b. Wahb, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ with something similar.

89. Musnad al-Bazzar 3983No grade recorded

    نَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، وَالْأَعْمَشُ، وَحَمَّادُ، وَعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ رُفَيْعٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي مُعَاوِيَةَ. وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ رَوَاهُ الْأَعْمَشُ وَحَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ وَحَمَّادُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ، وَعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ رُفَيْعٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَرَوَاهُ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

    ✧ Shu'bah narrated to us, from Habib b. Abi Thabit, al-A'mash, Hammad, and 'Abd al-'Aziz—meaning Ibn Rufay'—from Zayd b. Wahb, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ with something similar to the hadith of Abu Mu'awiyah. This hadith was reported by al-A'mash, Habib b. Abi Thabit, Hammad b. Abi Sulayman, and 'Abd al-'Aziz b. Rufay' from Zayd b. Wahb from Abu Dharr from the Prophet ﷺ. And al-Hasan b. 'Ubayd Allah reported it from Zayd b. Wahb from Abu al-Darda' from the Prophet ﷺ.

90. Musnad al-Bazzar 3984No grade recorded

    قَالَ لِي جِبْرِيلُ: " إِنَّهُ مَنْ مَاتَ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللهِ شَيْئًا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ أَوْ لَمْ يَدْخُلِ النَّارَ، قُلْتُ: وَإِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ قَالَ: " وَإِنْ زَنَا وَإِنْ سَرَقَ

    ✧ Jibril said to me: 'Whoever of your ummah dies without associating anything with God will enter Paradise'—or 'will not enter the Fire.' I said: 'Even if he commits adultery and even if he steals?' He said: 'Even if he commits adultery and even if he steals.'

91. Musnad al-Bazzar 3985No grade recorded

    " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، ارْفَعْ بَصَرَكَ فَانْظُرْ أَرْفَعَ رَجُلٍ تَرَاهُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ ؟ " فَنَظَرْتُ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا، فَقَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ انْظُرْ أَوْضَعَ رَجُلٍ تَرَاهُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ ؟ " فَنَظَرْتُ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ مُكْتَنِفٌ رَجُلًا، فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا، فَقَالَ: " وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لِهَذَا أَفْضَلُ عِنْدَ اللهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ قُرَابِ الْأَرْضِ وَمِثْلِ هَذَا

    ✧ 'O Abu Dharr, raise your eyes and look at the tallest man you see in the mosque.' I looked and saw a man wearing a fine garment. I said: 'This one.' He said: 'O Abu Dharr, look at the lowliest man you see in the mosque.' I looked and saw a man wrapped in patched clothes. I said: 'This one.' He said: 'By the One in whose hand is my soul, this one is better in God's sight on the Day of Resurrection than the fill of the earth of that one.'

92. Musnad al-Bazzar 3986No grade recorded

    انْتَهَيْتُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَهُوَ فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: هُمُ الْأَخْسَرُونَ وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ قَالَهَا مَرَّتَيْنِ، قُلْتُ: بِأَبِي وَأُمِّي مَنْ هُمْ ؟ قَالَ: " الْأَكْثَرُونَ أَمْوَالًا إِلَّا مَنْ قَالَ: هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا، وَقَلِيلٌ مَا هُمْ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَا يَمُوتُ أَحَدٌ يَدَعُ إِبِلًا وَبَقَرًا أَوْ غَنَمًا لَمْ يُؤَدِّ حَقَّهَا إِلَّا جَاءَتْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْظَمَ مَا كَانَتْ وَأَسْمَنَهُ تَنْطَحُهُ بِقُرُونِهَا وَتَطَؤُهُ بِأَخْفَافِهَا كُلَّمَا نَفِدَتْ أُخْرَاهَا أُعِيدَتْ عَلَيْهِ أُولَاهَا حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ

    ✧ I came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was in the shade of the Ka'bah, and he was saying: 'They are the losers, by the Lord of the Ka'bah'—he said it twice. I said: 'May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, who are they?' He said: 'Those with the most wealth, except one who gives like this and like this, and few are they. By the One in whose hand is my soul, no one dies leaving camels, cattle, or sheep without paying their due right except that they will come on the Day of Resurrection larger and fatter than they were, goring him with their horns and trampling him with their hooves. Every time the last of them passes, the first of them will return to him, until judgment is passed among the people.'

93. Musnad al-Bazzar 3987No grade recorded

    خَرَجْتُ لَيْلَةً مِنَ اللَّيَالِي، فَإِذَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَحْدَهُ لَيْسَ مَعَهُ إِنْسَانٌ فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ يَكْرَهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَعَهُ أَحَدٌ فَجَعَلْتُ أَمْشِي فِي ظِلِّ الْقَمَرِ فَالْتَفَتَ فَرَآنِي فَقَالَ: " مَنْ هَذَا ؟ " قُلْتُ: أَبُو ذَرٍّ جَعَلَنِي اللهُ فِدَاكَ قَالَ: فَمَشَيْتُ مَعَهُ سَاعَةً، فَقَالَ: " إِنَّ الْمُكْثِرِينَ هُمُ الْأَقَلُّونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَعْطَى يَعْنِي عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ يَسَارِهِ وَبَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَوَرَاءَهُ " فَمَشَيْتُ مَعَهُ سَاعَةً فَقَالَ: " اجْلِسْ هَاهُنَا " وَلَبِثَ عَنِّي فَأَطَالَ فَسَمِعْتُهُ وَهُوَ مُقْبِلٌ، وَإِنْ سَرَقَ، فَقُلْتُ: جَعَلَنِي اللهُ فِدَاكَ مَنْ كُنْتَ تُكَلِّمُ فِي جَانِبِ الْحَرَّةِ وَمَا سَمِعْتُ أَحَدًا رَجَّعَ إِلَيْكَ شَيْئًا ؟ قَالَ: " ذَاكَ جِبْرِيلُ عَرَضَ لِي فِي جَانِبِ الْحَرَّةِ " فَقَالَ: بَشِّرْ أُمَّتَكَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ مَاتَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللهِ شَيْئًا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقُلْتُ: وَإِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ " قُلْتُ: وَإِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ، وَإِنْ رَغِمَ

    ✧ I went out one night, and there was the Messenger of God ﷺ alone, with no one with him. I thought he disliked having anyone with him, so I walked in the moonlight. He turned and saw me and said: 'Who is this?' I said: 'Abu Dharr, may God make me your ransom.' He said: 'Walk with me for a while.' Then he said: 'Those who have the most are the ones with the least, except one who gives—meaning from his right, his left, in front of him, and behind him.' Then he walked with me for a while, then said: 'Sit here.' He stayed away from me for a long time. Then I heard him coming back, and he was saying: '...even if he steals.' I said: 'May God make me your ransom, who were you talking to on the side of the lava field? I did not hear anyone answer you.' He said: 'That was Jibril ﷺ. He appeared to me on the side of the lava field and said: Give glad tidings to your ummah that whoever dies without associating anything with God will enter Paradise.' I said: 'Even if he commits adultery and even if he steals?' He said: 'Yes.' I said: 'Even if he commits adultery and even if he steals?' He said: 'Yes, even if he is disgraced.'

94. Musnad al-Bazzar 3988No grade recorded

    " إِنَّ شِدَّةَ الْحَرِّ مِنْ فَيْحِ جَهَنَّمَ فَأَبْرِدُوا بِالصَّلَاةِ فِي شِدَّةِ الْحَرِّ

    ✧ "Indeed, the intensity of the heat is a blast from Jahannam, so cool down the prayer in intense heat."

95. Musnad al-Bazzar 3989No grade recorded

    لَأَنْ أَحْلِفَ مِرَارًا أَنَّ ابْنَ صَائِدٍ، هُوَ الدَّجَّالُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَحْلِفَ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِهِ، وُلِدَ مَوْلُودٌ فِي الْيَهُودِ فَبَعَثَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِلَى أُمِّهِ يَسْأَلُهَا كَمْ حَمَلَتْ بِهِ فَسَأَلْتُهَا، فَقَالَتِ: اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ شَهْرًا، فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ فَقَالَ: " سَلْهَا مِنْ صَيْحَتِهِ حَيْثُ وَقَعَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَقَالَتْ: كَلِمَةٌ ذَهَبَتْ عَنِّي، فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ " إِنِّي قَدْ خَبَأْتُ لَكَ خَبِيًّا فَمَا هُوَ ؟ قَالَ: عَظُمَ شَأْنُ عَفْرَاءَ وَالدُّخَانُ فَكَانَ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَقُولَ: الدُّخَانُ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ، فَقَالَ: الدُّخُّ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: " اخْسَأْ فَلَنْ تَسْبِقَ الْقَدَرَ

    ✧ To swear several times that Ibn Ṣāʾid is the Dajjāl is dearer to me than to swear once that he is not. A child was born among the Jews, and the Prophet ﷺ sent to his mother asking how long she had carried him. I asked her, and she said, 'Twelve months.' I came to him and informed him, and he said, 'Ask her about his cry when he fell to the ground.' She said, 'A word that has left me.' The Prophet ﷺ said to him, 'I have hidden something for you; what is it?' He said, 'The matter of ʿAfrāʾ and al-dukhān (smoke) is great.' Whenever he wanted to say 'al-dukhān,' he could not, so he said, 'al-dukhkh.' The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Be off! You will never outstrip the decree.'

96. Musnad al-Bazzar 3990No grade recorded

    قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَادِيَةِ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: أَكَلَتْنَا الضَّبُعُ، ثُمَّ عَادَ فَقَالَ: أَكَلَتْنَا الضَّبُعُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: لَأَنَا لِغَيْرِ الضَّبُعِ أَخْوَفُ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذَا صُبَّتِ الدُّنْيَا عَلَيْكُمْ صَبًّا فَلَيْتَ أُمَّتِي لَا تَلْبَسُ الذَّهَبَ

    ✧ A man from the desert said, 'O Messenger of Allah, the hyena has devoured us.' Then he repeated, 'The hyena has devoured us.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'I am more fearful for you of other than the hyena, when the world is poured upon you abundantly. Would that my Ummah does not wear gold.'

97. Musnad al-Bazzar 3991No grade recorded

    نَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

    ✧ Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Yazīd b. Abī Ziyād, from Zayd b. Wahb, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, similarly.

98. Musnad al-Bazzar 3992No grade recorded

    نَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِ حَدِيثِ جَرِيرٍ. وَهَذَا الْكَلَامُ لَا نَعْلَمُهُ يُرْوَى إِلَّا عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ وَلَا نَعْلَمُ لَهُ طَرِيقًا غَيْرَ هَذَا الطَّرِيقِ، وَالضَّبُعُ هُوَ السَّنَةُ فَشَكَوْا إِلَيْهِ شِدَّةَ جَهْدِ السَّنَةِ

    ✧ Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Yazīd b. Abī Ziyād, from Zayd b. Wahb, from a man, from the Prophet ﷺ, similar to the ḥadīth of Jarīr. We do not know this statement to be narrated except from Abū Dharr, nor do we know for it a path other than this path. The hyena is the year (i.e., famine), so they complained to him of the severity of the year's hardship.

99. Musnad al-Bazzar 3993No grade recorded

    " إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ آخِرَ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ دُخُولًا وَآخِرَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ خُرُوجًا مِنَ النَّارِ يُؤْتَى بِرَجُلٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ " فَيُقَالُ: اعْرِضُوا عَلَيْهِ صِغَارَ ذُنُوبِهِ وَتُخَبَّأُ عَنْهُ كِبَارُهَا فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: عَمِلْتَ يَوْمَ كَذَا وَكَذَا، كَذَا وَكَذَا وَهُوَ مُقِرٌّ لَا يُنْكِرُ وَهُوَ مُشْفِقٌ مِنَ الْكَبَائِرِ فَيُقَالُ: أَعْطُوهُ مَكَانَ كُلِّ سَيِّئَةٍ حَسَنَةً، فَيَقُولُ: إِنَّ لِي ذُنُوبًا مَا أَرَاهَا هَاهُنَا " قَالَ: فَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: ضَحِكَ حِينَ ذَكَرَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ حَتَّى بَدَتْ نَوَاجِذُهُ

    ✧ "I indeed know the last of the people of Paradise to enter it, and the last of the people of the Fire to exit from the Fire. A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection," and it will be said, 'Present to him his minor sins, while his major sins are concealed from him.' It will be said to him, 'You did on such-and-such a day such-and-such,' and he will admit, not denying, while he is fearful of the major sins. It will be said, 'Give him, in place of every bad deed, a good deed.' He will say, 'I have sins that I do not see here.'" He said: I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ laugh when he mentioned this ḥadīth until his molar teeth appeared.

100. Musnad al-Bazzar 3994No grade recorded

     مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا أَوْ أَزِيدُ، وَمَنْ جَاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَلَهُ مِثْلُهَا أَوْ أَعْفُو، وَمَنْ تَقَرَّبَ مِنِّي شِبْرًا تَقَرَّبْتُ مِنْهُ ذِرَاعًا، وَمَنْ تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيَّ ذِرَاعًا تَقَرَّبْتُ مِنْهُ بَاعًا، وَمَنْ أَتَانِي بِقُرَابِ الْأَرْضِ - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ - خَطِيئَةً بَعْدَ أَنْ لَا يُشْرِكَ بِي شَيْئًا أَتَيْتُهُ بِقُرَابِهَا مَغْفِرَةً

     ✧ Whoever brings a good deed, for him is ten times its like or more; and whoever brings a bad deed, for him is its like or I forgive. Whoever draws near to Me a handspan, I draw near to him a cubit; and whoever draws near to Me a cubit, I draw near to him a fathom. Whoever comes to Me with nearly the earth's fill — I think he said — of sins, provided he does not associate anything with Me, I will come to him with its fill of forgiveness.

101. Musnad al-Bazzar 3995No grade recorded

     نَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ لَاحِقِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

     ✧ Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān narrated to us, from Manṣūr, from Lāḥiq b. Ḥumayd, from al-Maʿrūr b. Suwayd, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, similarly.

102. Musnad al-Bazzar 3996No grade recorded

     قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ: وَحَدَّثَنِيهِ يَعْنِي مَنْصُورًا، عَنْ رِبْعِيٍّ، عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ.:::

     ✧ Ibrāhīm said: And Manṣūr narrated it to me, from Ribʿī, from al-Maʿrūr, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, similarly.

103. Musnad al-Bazzar 3997No grade recorded

     " يَا عِبَادِي مَنْ عَمِلَ مِنْكُمْ حَسَنَةً جَزَيْتُ بِهَا عَشْرًا أَوْ أَزِيدُ، وَمَنْ عَمِلَ مِنْكُمْ سَيِّئَةً جَزَيْتُهُ بِهَا سَيِّئَةً أَوْ أَغْفِرُ، وَمَنْ لَقِيَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُ بِي شَيْئًا لَقِيتُهُ بِقُرَابِ الْأَرْضِ مَغْفِرَةً

     ✧ "O My servants, whoever of you performs a good deed, I will recompense him with ten or more; and whoever of you performs a bad deed, I will recompense him with a bad deed or I will forgive. Whoever meets Me without associating anything with Me, I will meet him with the earth's fill of forgiveness."

104. Musnad al-Bazzar 3998No grade recorded

     كَانَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ رَجُلٍ كَلَامٌ وَكَانَتْ أُمُّهُ عَجَمِيَّةً فَعَيَّرْتُ بِهَا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ إِنَّكَ امْرُؤٌ فِيكَ جَاهِلِيَّةٌ تُعَيِّرُ إِخْوَانَكُمْ جَعَلَهُمُ اللهُ تَحْتَ أَيْدِيكُمْ فَأَطْعِمُوهُمْ مِمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ، وَأَلْبِسُوهُمْ مِمَّا تَلْبَسُونَ، وَلَا تُكَلِّفُوهُمْ - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ - مَا لَا يُطِيقُونَ، فَإِنْ كَلَّفْتُمُوهُمْ فَأَعِينُوهُمْ

     ✧ There was between me and a man some words, and his mother was non-Arab, so I reproached him for her. The Prophet ﷺ said, 'O Abū Dharr, you are a man in whom there is ignorance. You reproach your brothers whom Allah has placed under your authority. So feed them from what you eat, clothe them from what you wear, and do not burden them — I think he said — with what they cannot bear. If you burden them, then help them.'

105. Musnad al-Bazzar 3999No grade recorded

     انْتَهَيْتُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ فَلَمَّا رَآنِي قَالَ: هُمُ الْأَخْسَرُونَ وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ قُلْتُ: مَنْ هُمْ ؟ قَالَ: " الْأَكْثَرُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ قَالَ بِالْمَالِ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا، وَمَا مِنْ صَاحِبِ إِبِلٍ وَلَا بَقَرٍ وَلَا غَنَمٍ لَا يُؤَدِّي زَكَاتَهَا إِلَّا جَاءَتْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْظَمَ مَا كَانَتْ تَنْطَحُهُ بِقُرُونِهَا كُلَّمَا نَفِدَتْ أُخْرَاهَا عَادَتْ عَلَيْهِ أُولَاهَا حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ

     ✧ I came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was sitting in the shade of the Kaʿbah. When he saw me, he said, 'They are the greatest losers, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah.' I said, 'Who are they?' He said, 'Those who have the most wealth, except one who says with wealth thus, thus, and thus. And there is no owner of camels, cattle, or sheep who does not pay their zakāh but they will come on the Day of Resurrection, as large as they ever were, goring him with their horns. Every time the last of them passes, the first of them returns to him, until judgment is passed among the people.'

106. Musnad al-Bazzar 4000No grade recorded

     نَا مُوسَى بْنُ الْمُسَيِّبِ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

     ✧ Musa b. al-Musayyib narrated to us, from Salim b. Abi al-Ja'd, from al-Ma'rur b. Suwayd, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

107. Musnad al-Bazzar 4001No grade recorded

     " يَا عِبَادِي كُلُّكُمْ مُذْنِبٌ إِلَّا مَنْ عَافَيْتُ فَاسْتَغْفِرُونِي أَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ، وَكُلُّكُمْ ضَالٌّ إِلَّا مِنْ هَدَيْتُ فَاسْأَلُونِي أَهْدِكُمْ، وَكُلُّكُمْ فَقِيرٌ إِلَّا مَنْ أَغْنَيْتُ فَاسْأَلُونِي أَرْزُقْكُمْ، وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَحَيَّكُمْ وَمَيِّتَكُمْ وَرَطْبَكُمْ وَيَابِسَكُمُ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى أَتْقَى قَلْبِ عَبْدٍ مِنْ عِبَادِي لَمْ يَزِيدُوا فِي مُلْكِي جَنَاحَ بَعُوضَةٍ، وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَحَيَّكُمْ وَمَيِّتَكُمْ وَرَطْبَكُمْ وَيَابِسَكُمُ اجْتَمَعُوا فَسَأَلَ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مَا بَلَغَتْ أُمْنِيَّتُهُ أَعْطَيْتُ كُلَّ سَائِلٍ مَا سَأَلَ لَمْ يَنْقُصْ إِلَّا كَمَا لَوْ مَرَّ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى شَفَةِ الْبَحْرِ فَغَمَزَ فِيهِ إِبْرَةً ثُمَّ انْتَزَعَهَا ذَاكَ فَإِنِّي جَوَادٌ مَاجِدٌ وَاجِدٌ، عَطَائِي كَلَامٌ، وَعَذَابِي كَلَامٌ، إِذَا أَرَدْتُ شَيْئًا فَإِنَّمَا أَقُولُ لَهُ: كُنْ فَيَكُونُ

     ✧ "O My servants, all of you are sinners except those whom I have pardoned, so seek forgiveness from Me and I will forgive you. And all of you are astray except those whom I have guided, so ask Me for guidance and I will guide you. And all of you are poor except those whom I have enriched, so ask Me for provision and I will provide for you. And if the first of you and the last of you, your living and your dead, your fresh and your dry, were to unite upon the heart of the most devout servant among My servants, they would not increase My dominion by the wing of a mosquito. And if the first of you and the last of you, your living and your dead, your fresh and your dry, were to gather and each person were to ask for whatever his desire reached, and I gave every asker what he asked, that would not diminish Me except as when one of you passes by the shore of the sea and dips a needle into it and then pulls it out. That is because I am Most Generous, Most Glorious, All-Sufficient. My giving is a word, and My punishment is a word. When I intend something, I merely say to it, 'Be,' and it is."

108. Musnad al-Bazzar 4002No grade recorded

     رَأَيْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَعَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ وَعَلَى غُلَامِهِ مِثْلُهَا فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ سَابَّ رَجُلًا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ: فَعَيَّرَهُ بِأُمِّهِ فَأَتَى الرَّجُلُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ: فَذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: إِنَّكَ امْرُؤٌ فِيكَ جَاهِلِيَّةٌ إِخْوَانُكُمْ وَخَوَلُكُمْ جَعَلَهُمُ اللهُ تَحْتَ أَيْدِيكُمْ، فَمَنْ كَانَ أَخُوهُ تَحْتَ يَدِهِ فَلْيُطْعِمْهُ مِمَّا يَأْكُلُ وَلْيُلْبِسْهُ مِمَّا يَلْبَسُ وَلَا تُكَلِّفُوهُمْ مَا يَغْلِبُهُمْ، فَإِنْ كَلَّفْتُمُوهُمْ فَأَعِينُوهُمْ عَلَيْهِ

     ✧ I saw Abu Dharr wearing a fine garment while his slave wore the same, so I asked him about that. He mentioned that he had insulted a man during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, reviling him due to his mother. The man went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him about that. The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Indeed you are a man in whom there is some pre-Islamic ignorance. Your brothers and your servants are those whom Allah has placed under your authority. So whoever has his brother under his authority should feed him from what he eats, clothe him from what he wears, and not burden them with what overwhelms them. If you burden them, then help them.'

109. Musnad al-Bazzar 4003No grade recorded

     " أَتَانِي جِبْرِيلُ فَبَشَّرَنِي أَنَّهُ مَنْ مَاتَ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللهِ شَيْئًا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ قُلْتُ: وَإِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ قَالَ: إِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ

     ✧ "Gabriel came to me and gave me glad tidings that whoever from your nation dies not associating anything with Allah will enter Paradise. I said, 'Even if he commits adultery and steals?' He said, 'Even if he commits adultery and steals.'"

110. Musnad al-Bazzar 4004No grade recorded

     نَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ، عَنْ وَاصِلٍ، عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

     ✧ Mahdi b. Maymun narrated to us, from Wasil, from al-Ma'rur, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, similarly.

111. Musnad al-Bazzar 4005No grade recorded

     " لَوْ أَنَّ عَبْدًا مَلَأَ الْأَرْضَ خَطَايَا ثُمَّ لَمْ يُشْرِكْ بِي شَيْئًا غَفَرْتُ لَهُ مِلْءَ الْأَرْضِ خَطَايَا أَوْ قُرَابَ الْأَرْضِ، وَإِنْ هَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةً وَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ عَشْرَ حَسَنَاتٍ، وَإِنْ هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا لَمْ تُكْتَبْ شَيْئًا، فَإِنْ عَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ سَيِّئَةً وَإِنْ تَقَرَّبَ مِنِّي شِبْرًا تَقَرَّبْتُ مِنْهُ ذِرَاعًا، وَإِنْ تَقَرَّبَ مِنِّي ذِرَاعًا تَقَرَّبْتُ مِنْهُ بَاعًا، وَإِنْ أَتَانِي يَمْشِي أَتَيْتُهُ هَرْوَلَةً

     ✧ "If a servant were to fill the earth with sins and then not associate anything with Me, I would forgive him an earth full of sins, or nearly the earth's fill. And if he intends a good deed but does not perform it, one good deed is recorded for him, and if he performs it, ten good deeds are recorded. If he intends an evil deed and does not perform it, nothing is recorded. But if he performs it, one evil deed is recorded. And if he draws near to Me a handspan, I draw near to him a cubit. If he draws near to Me a cubit, I draw near to him a fathom. And if he comes to Me walking, I come to him at speed."

112. Musnad al-Bazzar 4006No grade recorded

     نَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

     ✧ Abu 'Awana narrated to us, from 'Asim, from al-Ma'rur b. Suwayd, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, similarly.

113. Musnad al-Bazzar 4007No grade recorded

     دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ فَقُلْنَا كَيْفَ تَمَتَّعَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنْتُمْ مَعَهُ ؟ قَالَ: وَمَا أَنْتُمْ وَذَاكَ، إِنَّمَا ذَلِكَ شَيْءٌ خُصَّ لَنَا

     ✧ We entered upon Abu Dharr and said, 'How did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ perform tamattu' while you were with him?' He said, 'What do you have to do with that? That was something granted exclusively to us.'

114. Musnad al-Bazzar 4008No grade recorded

     " كَانَتِ الْمُتْعَةُ رُخْصَةً أَعْطَانَاهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَوْ أُعْطِيَهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ

     ✧ "Mut'ah was a concession that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave us, or that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was given."

115. Musnad al-Bazzar 4009No grade recorded

     " كَانَتِ الْمُتْعَةُ لَنَا رُخْصَةً

     ✧ "Mut'ah was a concession for us."

116. Musnad al-Bazzar 4011No grade recorded

     " كَانَتِ الْمُتْعَةُ لَنَا رُخْصَةً

     ✧ "Mut'ah was a concession for us."

117. Musnad al-Bazzar 4012No grade recorded

     " كَانَتِ الْمُتْعَةُ لَنَا خَاصَّةً

     ✧ "Mut'ah was exclusively for us."

118. Musnad al-Bazzar 4013No grade recorded

     فِي مُتْعَةِ الْحَاجِّ: لَيْسَتْ لَكُمْ وَلَسْتُمْ مِنْهَا فِي شَيْءٍ إِنَّمَا كَانَتْ رُخْصَةً لَنَا أَصْحَابَ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ

     ✧ Regarding the mut'ah of the pilgrim: It is not for you, and you have nothing to do with it. It was only a concession for us, the companions of Muhammad ﷺ.

119. Musnad al-Bazzar 4014No grade recorded

     " كَانَتِ الْمُتْعَةُ لَنَا خَاصَّةً

     ✧ Mut'ah was exclusively for us.

120. Musnad al-Bazzar 4015No grade recorded

     كُنْتُ مَعَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ النَّخَعِيِّ وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، فَقُلْتُ: لَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ أَنْ أَجْمَعَ الْعَامَ بَيْنَ الْحَجِّ وَالْعُمْرَةِ، فَقَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ النَّخَعِيُّ: لَوْ كَانَ أَبُوكَ لَمْ يَهُمَّ بِذَلِكَ، وَقَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ: إِنَّمَا كَانَتِ الْمُتْعَةُ لَنَا رُخْصَةً

     ✧ I was with Ibrahim al-Nakha'i and Ibrahim al-Taymi, and I said: I have resolved to combine Hajj and 'Umrah this year. Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said: If your father were here, he would not have resolved to do that. And Ibrahim al-Taymi said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abu Dharr: Mut'ah was only a concession for us.

121. Musnad al-Bazzar 4016No grade recorded

     كُنْتُ رِدْفَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَهُوَ عَلَى حِمَارٍ، وَالشَّمْسُ عِنْدَ غُرُوبِهَا فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، هَلْ تَدْرِي أَيْنَ تَغِيبُ هَذِهِ الشَّمْسُ ؟ فَقُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " فَإِنَّهَا تَغْرُبُ فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ تَنْطَلِقُ حَتَّى تَخِرَّ لِرَبِّهَا سَاجِدَةً تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ، فَإِذَا كَانَ خُرُوجُهَا أَذِنَ اللهُ لَهَا، فَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ أَنْ يُطْلِعَهَا مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا حَبَسَهَا فَتَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ، إِنِّي سَفَرِي بَعِيدٌ فَيَقُولُ: اطْلُعِي مِنْ حَيْثُ غَرَبْتِ فَذَاكَ حِينَ لا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إِيمَانُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ آمَنَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ أَوْ كَسَبَتْ فِي إِيمَانِهَا خَيْرًا

     ✧ I was riding behind the Prophet ﷺ while he was on a donkey, and the sun was near its setting. He said: O Abu Dharr, do you know where this sun goes when it sets? I said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He said: It sets in a muddy spring, then it travels until it prostrates before its Lord beneath the Throne. When it is time for it to rise, Allah permits it. When Allah wills to make it rise from its west, He withholds it, and it says: O Lord, my journey is long. Then He says: Rise from where you set. That is the time when no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before or earned good through its faith.

122. Musnad al-Bazzar 4017No grade recorded

     " إِنَّ الشَّمْسَ إِذَا غَرَبَتْ أَتَتْ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ فَسَجَدَتْ، فَيُقَالُ لَهَا: اطْلُعِي مِنْ حَيْثُ كُنْتِ تَطْلُعِينَ، فَإِذَا كَانَتِ اللَّيْلَةُ اسْتَأْذَنَتْ فَيُقَالُ لَهَا: اطْلُعِي مِنْ حَيْثُ غَرَبْتِ فَتَطْلُعُ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ هَلْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلا أَنْ تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْمَلائِكَةُ أَوْ يَأْتِيَ رَبُّكَ أَوْ يَأْتِيَ بَعْضُ آيَاتِ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَ يَأْتِي بَعْضُ آيَاتِ رَبِّكَ لا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إِيمَانُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ آمَنَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ أَوْ كَسَبَتْ فِي إِيمَانِهَا خَيْرًا

     ✧ When the sun sets, it comes beneath the Throne and prostrates. It is said to it: Rise from where you used to rise. When it is night, it asks permission, and it is said to it: Rise from where you set, and it rises. Then he recited this verse: Do they await except that the angels should come to them or your Lord should come or that there come some of the signs of your Lord? The day that some of the signs of your Lord will come, no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before or earned good through its faith.

123. Musnad al-Bazzar 4018No grade recorded

     حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَلَمْ يَقُلْ: عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، وَلَكِنْ أَرْسَلَهُ

     ✧ Ibrahim b. Yazid al-Taymi narrated to me, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, and he did not say: from Ibrahim al-Taymi, from his father, but he sent it mursal.

124. Musnad al-Bazzar 4019No grade recorded

     نَا أَبُو مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

     ✧ Abu Maryam narrated to us, from Harun b. Sa'd, from Ibrahim al-Taymi, from his father, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, similar to the hadith of al-Hakam, from Ibrahim al-Taymi, from his father, from Abu Dharr.

125. Musnad al-Bazzar 4020No grade recorded

     كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ حَيْثُ وَجَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، أَتَدْرِي أَيْنَ تَذْهَبُ الشَّمْسُ ؟ قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ: " فَإِنَّهَا تَذْهَبُ حَتَّى تَسْجُدَ فَتَسْتَأْذِنَ رَبَّهَا فِي الرُّجُوعِ فَيُؤْذَنُ لَهَا، وَكَأَنَّهَا قَدْ قِيلَ لَهَا ارْجِعِي مِنْ حَيْثُ جِئْتِ فَتَرْجِعُ إِلَى مَغْرِبِهَا وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِي لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَهَا

     ✧ I was with the Prophet ﷺ in the mosque when the sun set. He said: O Abu Dharr, do you know where the sun goes? I said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He said: It goes until it prostrates and asks its Lord permission to return, and permission is granted to it. It is as if it is told: Return from where you came, so it returns to its west. That is His saying: And the sun runs to a fixed resting place.

126. Musnad al-Bazzar 4021No grade recorded

     قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: أَيُّ مَسْجِدٍ وُضِعَ أَوَّلًا ؟ قَالَ: " الْمَسْجِدُ الْحَرَامُ، ثُمَّ الْمَسْجِدُ الْأَقْصَى " قُلْتُ: كَمْ كَانَ بَيْنَهُمَا قَالَ: " أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً فَحَيْثُمَا أَدْرَكَتْكَ الصَّلَاةُ فَصَلِّ، فَثَمَّ مَسْجِدٌ

     ✧ I said: O Messenger of Allah, which mosque was placed first? He said: The Sacred Mosque, then the Aqsa Mosque. I said: How much was between them? He said: Forty years. So wherever the prayer overtakes you, pray, for that is a mosque.

127. Musnad al-Bazzar 4022No grade recorded

     نَا وَكِيعٌ، فِي الدَّارِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

     ✧ Waki' narrated to us, in the house, from Sufyan al-Thawri, from al-A'mash, from Ibrahim, from his father, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

128. Musnad al-Bazzar 4023No grade recorded

     " مَنْ بَنَى لِلهِ مَسْجِدًا، وَلَوْ قَدْرَ مَفْحَصِ قَطَاةٍ بَنَى اللهُ لَهُ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ

     ✧ Whoever builds a mosque for Allah, even like the size of a partridge's nesting place, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise.

129. Musnad al-Bazzar 4024No grade recorded

     " ارْفَعْ بَصَرَكَ فَانْظُرْ أَرْفَعَ رَجُلٍ تَرَاهُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ ؟ " فَنَظَرْتُ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا، فَقَالَ: " انْظُرْ أَوْضَعَ رَجُلٍ تَرَاهُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ ؟ " فَنَظَرْتُ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ مُكْتَنِفٌ فَقُلْتُ هَذَا، فَقَالَ: " وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَهَذَا أَفْضَلُ عِنْدَ اللهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ قُرَابِ الْأَرْضِ مِنْ مِثْلِ هَذَا

     ✧ Raise your eyes and look: who is the highest man you see in the mosque? I looked and saw a man wearing a fine garment. I said: This one. Then he said: Look: who is the lowest man you see in the mosque? I looked and saw a man in worn-out clothes. I said: This one. Then he said: By the One in whose hand is my soul, this one is better in the sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection than the fill of the earth of the like of that one.

130. Musnad al-Bazzar 4025No grade recorded

     نَا يُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

     ✧ Yunus b. Bukayr narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Ibrahim al-Taymi, from Abu Dharr

131. Musnad al-Bazzar 4026No grade recorded

     قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى كَنْزٍ مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ ؟ " قُلْتُ: بَلَى قَالَ: " لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ

     ✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: "Shall I not guide you to a treasure from the treasures of Paradise?" I said: "Yes." He said: "There is no might and no power except with Allah."

132. Musnad al-Bazzar 4027No grade recorded

     سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ مَسْحِ الْحَصَا - يَعْنِي فِي الصَّلَاةِ - قَالَ: " مَسْحَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ

     ✧ I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about wiping the pebbles (i.e., in prayer). He said: "A single wipe."

133. Musnad al-Bazzar 4028No grade recorded

     " اتَّقِ اللهَ حَيْثُ مَا كُنْتَ، وَأَتْبِعِ السَّيِّئَةَ الْحَسَنَةَ تَمْحُهَا، وَخَالِقِ النَّاسَ بِخُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ

     ✧ "Fear Allah wherever you are, and follow up a bad deed with a good deed and it will wipe it out, and behave well towards people."

134. Musnad al-Bazzar 4029No grade recorded

     " ثَلَاثَةٌ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمُ اللهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَلَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ: شَيْخٌ زَانٍ، وَمَلِكٌ كَذَّابٌ، وَعَائِلٌ مُسْتَكْبِرٌ

     ✧ "There are three with whom Allah will not speak on the Day of Resurrection, nor look at them: an old man who commits adultery, a king who is a liar, and a poor person who is arrogant."

135. Musnad al-Bazzar 4030No grade recorded

     " ثَلَاثَةٌ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمُ اللهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَلَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَا يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ قَالَ: فَقَرَأَهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ " فَقَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ: مَنْ هُمْ ؟ خَابُوا وَخَسِرُوا، خَابُوا وَخَسِرُوا، خَابُوا وَخَسِرُوا ثَلَاثًا قَالَ: " الْمُسْبِلُ وَالْمَنَّانُ وَالْمُنَفِّقُ سِلْعَتَهُ بِالْحَلِفِ الْكَاذِبِ

     ✧ "There are three with whom Allah will not speak on the Day of Resurrection, nor look at them, nor purify them, and they will have a painful punishment." He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited it three times. Abu Dharr said: "Who are they? May they be disappointed and lose, may they be disappointed and lose, may they be disappointed and lose," three times. He said: "The one who lets his garment hang below his ankles, the one who reminds others of his favours, and the one who sells his goods by a false oath."

136. Musnad al-Bazzar 4031No grade recorded

     كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَجْلِسُ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَيَجِيءُ الْغَرِيبُ فَلَا يَدْرِي أَيُّهُمْ هُوَ ؟ فَكَلَّمْنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فِي أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ لَهُ شَيْئًا يَعْرِفُهُ الْغَرِيبُ إِذَا أَتَاهُ فَبَنَيْنَا لَهُ دُكَّانًا مِنْ طِينٍ فَكَانَ يَجْلِسُ عَلَيْهِ أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: وَكُنَّا نَجْلِسُ حَوْلَهُ فَإِنَّا لَجُلُوسٌ وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي مَجْلِسِهِ، إِذْ أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَحْسَنِ النَّاسِ وَجْهًا وَأَطْيَبِ النَّاسِ رِيحًا وَأَنْقَى النَّاسِ ثَوْبًا كَأَنَّ ثِيَابَهُ لَمْ يَمَسَّهَا دَنَسٌ فَسَلَّمَ مِنْ طَرَفِ الْبِسَاطِ، فَقَالَ: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ قَالَ: " عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ " قَالَ: أَدْنُو يَا مُحَمَّدُ ؟ فَقَالَ: " ادْنُهْ، فَمَا زَالَ يَقُولُ: أَدْنُو يَا مُحَمَّدُ ؟ وَيَقُولُ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مِرَارًا حَتَّى وَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى رُكْبَةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ: فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا الْإِسْلَامُ ؟ قَالَ: " أَنْ تَعْبُدَ اللهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكَ بِهِ شَيْئًا، وَتُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةَ، وَتُؤْتِيَ الزَّكَاةَ، وَتَحُجَّ الْبَيْتَ، وَتَصُومَ رَمَضَانَ " قَالَ: " فَإِذَا فَعَلْتُ هَذَا فَقَدْ أَسْلَمْتُ " قَالَ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: صَدَقْتَ، فَلَمَّا سَمِعْنَا قَوْلَ الرَّجُلِ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ صَدَقْتَ أَنْكَرْنَاهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: فَأَخْبِرْنِي مَا الْإِيمَانُ ؟ قَالَ: الْإِيمَانُ بِاللهِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالْكِتَابِ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ، وَتُؤْمِنُ بِالْقَدَرِ كُلِّهِ قَالَ: " فَإِذَا فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ فَقَدْ آمَنْتُ " قَالَ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: صَدَقْتَ قَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ

     ✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to sit among his companions, and a stranger would come and not know which of them he was. So we talked to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about setting up something for him by which a stranger would recognize him when he came. So we built for him a bench of clay, and he used to sit on it. I think he said: And we used to sit around him. While we were sitting and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in his seat, a man approached, among the best of people in face, the most pleasant of people in scent, and the cleanest of people in clothing, as if his clothes had not been touched by dirt. He greeted from the edge of the mat and said: "Peace be upon you, O Muhammad." He said: "And upon you be peace." He said: "May I come closer, O Muhammad?" He said: "Come closer." He kept saying: "May I come closer, O Muhammad?" and the Prophet ﷺ kept saying to him, several times, until he placed his hand on the knee of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Then he said: "O Muhammad, what is Islam?" He said: "To worship Allah and not associate anything with Him, to establish prayer, to give zakah, to perform Hajj to the House, and to fast Ramadan." He said: "If I do this, then I have become a Muslim?" He said: "Yes." He said: "You have spoken the truth." When we heard the man's words to the Messenger of Allah, 'You have spoken the truth,' we found it strange. Then he said: "Tell me, what is faith?" He said: "Faith in Allah, the angels, the Book, and the prophets, and to believe in the divine decree, all of it." He said: "If I do that, then I have believed?" He said: "Yes." He said: "You have spoken the truth." He said: "O Muhammad."

137. Musnad al-Bazzar 4032No grade recorded

     قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: أَيُّ النَّاسِ أَحَقُّ بِحُسْنِ صُحْبَتِي قَالَ: أُمُّكَ، ثُمَّ أُمُّكَ، ثُمَّ أُمُّكَ، قُلْتُ: ثُمَّ مَنْ ؟ قَالَ: " ثُمَّ أَبُوكَ

     ✧ I said: O Messenger of Allah, which of the people is most deserving of my good companionship? He said: "Your mother, then your mother, then your mother." I said: "Then who?" He said: "Then your father."

138. Musnad al-Bazzar 4033No grade recorded

     " ثَلَاثَةٌ يُحِبُّهُمُ اللهُ، وَثَلَاثَةٌ يُبْغِضُهُمُ اللهُ، أَمَا الَّذِي يُحِبُّهُمُ اللهُ فَرَجُلٌ أَتَى قَوْمًا فَسَأَلَهُمْ بِاللهِ وَلَمْ يَسْأَلُهُمْ بِقَرَابَةٍ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَهُ فَمَنَعُوهُ فَخَلَّفَ رَجُلٌ بِأَعْقَابِهِمْ فَأَعْطَاهُ سِرًّا لَا يَعْلَمُ بِعَطِيَّتِهِ إِلَّا اللهُ وَالَّذِي أَعْطَاهُ، وَقَوْمٌ سَارُوا لَيْلَتَهُمْ حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ النَّوْمُ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِمْ مِمَّا يَعْدِلُوا بِهِ نَزَلُوا فَوَضَعُوا رُءُوسَهُمْ فَقَامَ يَتَمَلَّقُنِي وَيَتْلُو آيَاتِي، وَرَجُلٌ كَانَ فِي سَرِيَّةٍ فَلَقُوا الْعَدُوَّ فَهُزِمُوا فَأَقْبَلَ بِصَدْرِهِ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ أَوْ يُفْتَحَ لَهُ، وَالثَّلَاثَةُ الَّذِينَ يُبْغِضُهُمُ اللهُ الشَّيْخُ الزَّانِي، وَالْفَقِيرُ الْمُخْتَالُ، وَالْغَنِيُّ الظَّلُومُ

     ✧ "There are three whom Allah loves, and three whom Allah hates. As for those whom Allah loves: a man who came to a people and asked them by Allah, not asking them by any kinship between them and him, but they refused him. Then a man remained behind them and gave him secretly, no one knowing of his gift except Allah and the one to whom he gave it. And a people who traveled through their night until sleep became dearer to them than anything they might equate with it; they dismounted and laid down their heads, but one man got up, seeking My favour and reciting My verses. And a man who was in a military detachment and they met the enemy and were defeated, so he advanced with his chest until he was killed or victory was granted to him. And the three whom Allah hates: the old man who commits adultery, the poor person who is conceited, and the rich person who is unjust."

139. Musnad al-Bazzar 4034No grade recorded

     " ثَلَاثَةٌ يُحِبُّهُمُ اللهُ، وَثَلَاثَةٌ يُبْغِضُهُمُ اللهُ، يُحِبُّ اللهُ رَجُلًا كَانَ فِي قَوْمٍ فَأَتَاهُمْ سَائِلٌ يَسْأَلُهُمْ بِوَجْهِ اللهِ لَا يَسْأَلُهُمْ بِقَرَابَةٍ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهُمْ فَيُخَلُّوا عَنْهُ، وَخَلَّفَ بِأَعْقَابِهِمْ حَيْثُ لَا يَرَاهُ إِلَّا اللهُ وَمَنْ أَعْطَاهُ، وَيُحِبُّ رَجُلًا كَانَ فِي كَتِيبَةٍ فَانْكَشَفَتْ وَكَرَّ يُقَاتِلُ حَتَّى يَفْتَحَ اللهُ لَهُ أَوْ يُقْتَلَ، وَيُحِبُّ رَجُلًا كَانَ فِي قَوْمٍ فَأَدْلَجُوا فَطَالَتْ دُلْجَتُهُمْ ثُمَّ نَزَلُوا مِنْ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّوْمُ أَحَبُّ إِلَى أَحَدِهِمْ مِمَّا يُعْدَلُ بِهِ، فَنَامُوا وَقَامَ يَتْلُو آيَاتِي وَيَتَمَلَّقُنِي، وَيُبْغِضُ الشَّيْخَ الزَّانِيَ وَالْبَخِيلَ، وَالْمُتَكَبِّرَ، أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: " وَالْمُخْتَالَ

     ✧ "There are three whom Allah loves, and three whom Allah hates. Allah loves a man who was among a people when a beggar came to them asking by the countenance of Allah, not asking by any kinship between him and them, so they let him go. But he remained behind them where no one sees him except Allah and the one to whom he gave. And He loves a man who was in a battalion and it was routed, so he returned fighting until Allah granted him victory or he was killed. And He loves a man who was among a people and they traveled at night, and their night journey became long. Then they dismounted in the last part of the night, and sleep was dearer to one of them than anything he might equate with it, so they slept, but he got up reciting My verses and seeking My favour. And He hates the old man who commits adultery, the miser, and the arrogant. I think he said: 'And the conceited.'"

140. Musnad al-Bazzar 4035No grade recorded

     " وَالْفَقِيرَ الْمُخْتَالَ

     ✧ "And the poor person who is conceited."

141. Musnad al-Bazzar 4036No grade recorded

     أَقْبَلْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَنَزَلْنَا ذَا الْحُلَيْفَةَ فَتَعَجَّلَتْ رِجَالٌ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَبَاتَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَبِتْنَا مَعَهُ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ سَأَلَ، فَقَالَ: تَعَجَّلُوا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَالنِّسَاءِ، أَمَا إِنَّهُمْ سَيَدَعُونَهَا أَحْسَنَ مَا كَانَتْ، وَقَالَ: لِلَّذِينَ أَقَامُوا مَعَهُ مَعْرُوفًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: " لَيْتَ شِعْرِي مَتَى تَخْرُجُ نَارٌ مِنَ الْيَمَنِ مِنْ جَبَلِ الْوَرْقَانِ تُضِيءُ مِنْهَا أَعْنَاقُ الْإِبِلِ بِبُصْرَى

     ✧ We approached with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and we halted at Dhu al-Hulayfah. Some men hurried on to Madinah, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stayed the night, and we stayed with him. When morning came, he asked and said: "They hurried to Madinah and to their wives. Indeed, they will leave it in the best condition it has ever been." And he said, for those who stayed with him, something good. Then he said: "Would that I knew when a fire will emerge from Yemen, from the mountain of al-Warqan, by which the necks of camels will be illuminated in Busra."

142. Musnad al-Bazzar 4037No grade recorded

     " أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى كَنْزٍ مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ ؟ قُلْتُ: بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ بِأَبِي وَأُمِّي قَالَ: " لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ

     ✧ “Shall I not guide you to a treasure from the treasures of Paradise?” I said, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be your ransom.” He said, “There is no might and no power except with Allah.”

143. Musnad al-Bazzar 4038No grade recorded

     أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ جَالِسًا وَشَاتَانِ تَعْتَلِقَانَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَنَطَحَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا الْأُخْرَى وَأَجْهَضَتْهَا فَضَحِكَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَقِيلَ: مَا يُضْحِكُكَ ؟ قَالَ: عَجَبًا لَهَا، وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتُقَادَنَّ بِهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

     ✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sitting while two sheep were fighting in front of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so one of them butted the other and caused it to miscarry. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ laughed, and it was said, “What makes you laugh?” He said, “I marvel at her. By the One in whose hand is my soul, she will surely be brought to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.”

144. Musnad al-Bazzar 4039No grade recorded

     نَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ ثَرْوَانَ، عَنِ الْهُزَيْلِ بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ. وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لَا نَعْلَمُهُ يُرْوَى بِهَذَا اللَّفْظِ إِلَّا عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، وَلَا نَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا أَسْنَدَهُ عَنْ لَيْثٍ إِلَّا حَمَّادَ بْنَ سَلَمَةَ

     ✧ Hammad narrated to us, from Layth, from ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Tharwan, from al-Huzayl b. Sharahbil, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, with something similar. And we do not know of this hadith being narrated with this wording except from Abu Dharr, and we do not know of anyone who traced it back as a musnad from Layth except Hammad b. Salama.

145. Musnad al-Bazzar 4040No grade recorded

     أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَجَلَسْتُ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، اسْتَعِذْ بِاللهِ مِنْ شَيَاطِينِ الْإِنْسِ وَالْجِنِّ قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ وَلِلْإِنْسِ شَيَاطِينُ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ " قَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرِّ، أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى كَنْزٍ مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ ؟ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ قَالَ: " لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا الصِّيَامُ ؟ قَالَ: فَرْضٌ مُجْزِئٌ قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا الصَّلَاةُ ؟ قَالَ: خَيْرٌ مَوْضُوعٌ فَمَنْ شَاءَ أَقَلَّ، وَمَنْ شَاءَ أَكْثَرَ، قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا الصَّدَقَةُ، ؟ قَالَ: أَضْعَافٌ مُضَاعَفَةٌ وَعِنْدَ اللهِ مَزِيدٌ، قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَيُّهُمَا أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " جُهْدُ مُقِلٌّ أَوْ سِرٌّ إِلَى فَقِيرٍ " قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَيُّمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْكَ أَعْظَمُ ؟ قَالَ: اللهُ لا إِلَهَ إِلا هُوَ الْحَيُّ حَتَّى خَتَمَ الْآيَةَ، قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَيُّ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ كَانَ أَوَّلًا ؟ قَالَ: " آدَمُ " قُلْتُ: وَنَبِيٌّ هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ، نَبِيٌّ مُكَلَّمٌ " قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ كَمِ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ ؟ قَالَ: " ثَلَاثُ مِائَةٍ وَخَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ جَمٌّ غَفِيرٌ

     ✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and sat with him in the mosque. He said, “O Abu Dharr, seek refuge with Allah from the devils of mankind and jinn.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, do humans have devils?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “O Abu Dharr, shall I not guide you to a treasure from the treasures of Paradise?” I said, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah.” He said, “There is no might and no power except with Allah, for it is one of the treasures of Paradise.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, what is fasting?” He said, “An obligatory duty that suffices.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, what is prayer?” He said, “A good that is prescribed; whoever wishes may do less, and whoever wishes may do more.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, what is charity?” He said, “Multiplied many times over, and with Allah is more.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, which of them is best?” He said, “The effort of one with little, or a secret given to a poor person.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, which verse revealed to you is greatest?” He said, “Allah—there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living,” until he ended the verse. I said, “O Messenger of Allah, which of the prophets was first?” He said, “Adam.” I said, “Was he a prophet, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Yes, a prophet who was spoken to.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, how many prophets were there?” He said, “Three hundred and fifteen, a great multitude.”

146. Musnad al-Bazzar 4041No grade recorded

     نَا الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَرْطَاةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمِقْدَامِ، عَنِ ابْنِ شَدَّادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

     ✧ Al-Hajjaj b. Artat narrated to us, from ‘Abd al-Malik b. al-Mughira, from ‘Abd Allah b. al-Miqdam, from Ibn Shaddad, from Abu Dharr.

147. Musnad al-Bazzar 4042No grade recorded

     كُنْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ رَاكِبٌ فَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّ الْآخَرَ زَنَا فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ، ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ الثَّانِيَةَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْآخَرَ زَنَا فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ، ثُمَّ عَادَ الثَّالِثَةَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْآخَرَ زَنَا فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ، ثُمَّ أَعَادَ الرَّابِعَةَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْآخَرَ زَنَا فَنَزَلَ فَأَمَرَ بِرَجْمِهِ، ثُمَّ رَكِبَ، ثُمَّ نَزَلَ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، قَدْ غُفِرَ لِصَاحِبِكُمْ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ

     ✧ I was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was riding, and a man came and said, “O Messenger of Allah, the other one has committed adultery.” He turned away from him. Then he came to him a second time and said, “The other one has committed adultery.” He turned away from him. Then he returned a third time and said, “The other one has committed adultery.” He turned away from him. Then he repeated a fourth time and said, “The other one has committed adultery.” He dismounted and ordered that he be stoned. Then he mounted, then he dismounted and said, “O Abu Dharr, your companion has been forgiven and admitted to Paradise.”

148. Musnad al-Bazzar 4043No grade recorded

     أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ: أَيُّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: إِيمَانٌ بِاللهِ وَجِهَادٌ فِي سَبِيلِهِ، قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الرِّقَابِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: أَغْلَاهَا ثَمَنًا وَأَنْفَسُهَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِهَا قَالَ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَقْدِرْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ قَالَ: تُعِينُ ضَائِعًا أَوْ تَصْنَعُ لِأَخْرَقَ قُلْتُ: أَفَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ ضَعُفْتُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ: " تَدَعُ النَّاسَ مِنَ الشَّرِّ، فَإِنَّهَا صَدَقَةٌ تَصَدَّقُ بِهَا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ

     ✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked, “Which deeds are best?” He said, “Faith in Allah and striving in His cause.” It was said, “Which slaves are best to free?” He said, “The most expensive in price and the most precious to their owners.” He said, “If I cannot do that?” He said, “You help a lost person or make something for an unskilled person.” I said, “What if I am too weak for that?” He said, “You refrain from harming people, for it is a charity you give to yourself.”

149. Musnad al-Bazzar 4044No grade recorded

     نَا ابْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُرَاوِحِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِنَحْوِهِ

     ✧ Ibn Abi al-Zinad narrated to us, from his father, from ‘Urwa, from Abu al-Marawih, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, with something similar.

150. Musnad al-Bazzar 4045No grade recorded

     رَأَيْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ جَالِسًا وَحْدَهُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَاغْتَنَمْتُ ذَلِكَ فَجَلَسْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَذَكَرْتُ لَهُ عُثْمَانَ، فَقَالَ: لَا أَقُولُ لِعُثْمَانَ أَبَدًا إِلَّا خَيْرًا لِشَيْءٍ رَأَيْتُهُ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ كُنْتُ أَتْبَعُ خَلَوَاتِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَتَعَلَّمُ مِنْهُ فَذَهَبْتُ يَوْمًا، فَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ خَرَجَ فَاتَّبَعْتُهُ فَجَلَسَ فِي مَوْضِعٍ فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَهُ، فَقَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ مَا جَاءَ بِكَ ؟ " قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ: فَجَاءَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَسَلَّمَ وَجَلَسَ عَنْ يَمِينِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: " مَا جَاءَ بِكَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؟ " قَالَ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ: فَجَاءَ عُمَرُ فَجَلَسَ عَنْ يَمِينِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، فَقَالَ: " يَا عُمَرُ مَا جَاءَ بِكَ ؟ " قَالَ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ عُثْمَانُ فَجَلَسَ عَنْ يَمِينِ عُمَرَ، فَقَالَ: " يَا عُثْمَانُ مَا جَاءَ بِكَ " قَالَ: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ: فَتَنَاوَلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ سَبْعَ حَصَيَاتٍ أَوْ تِسْعَ حَصَيَاتٍ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُنَّ فَخَرِسْنَ، ثُمَّ وُضِعْنَ فِي يَدِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعَ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ فَوَضَعَهُنَّ فَخَرِسْنَ، ثُمَّ تَنَاوَلَهُنَّ فَوُضِعْنَ فِي يَدِ عُمَرَ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وُضِعْنَ فَخَرِسْنَ، ثُمَّ تَنَاوَلَهُنَّ فَوُضِعْنَ فِي يَدِ عُثْمَانَ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وُضِعْنَ فَخَرِسْنَ

     ✧ I saw Abu Dharr sitting alone in the mosque, so I seized the opportunity and sat with him. I mentioned ‘Uthman to him, and he said, “I will never say anything about ‘Uthman except good, because of something I witnessed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I used to seek out the private moments of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to learn from him. One day I went and found that he had gone out, so I followed him. He sat in a spot and I sat with him. He said, ‘O Abu Dharr, what brought you?’ I said, ‘Allah and His Messenger.’ Then Abu Bakr came, greeted, and sat to the right of the Prophet ﷺ. He said to him, ‘What brought you, O Abu Bakr?’ He said, ‘Allah and His Messenger.’ Then ‘Umar came and sat to the right of Abu Bakr. He said, ‘O ‘Umar, what brought you?’ He said, ‘Allah and His Messenger.’ Then ‘Uthman came and sat to the right of ‘Umar. He said, ‘O ‘Uthman, what brought you?’ He said, ‘Allah and His Messenger.’ Then the Prophet ﷺ picked up seven pebbles—or nine pebbles—and they glorified Allah in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down and they fell silent. Then they were placed in the hand of Abu Bakr and they glorified Allah in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down and they fell silent. Then he picked them up and placed them in the hand of ‘Umar, and they glorified Allah in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down and they fell silent. Then he picked them up and placed them in the hand of ‘Uthman, and they glorified Allah in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down and they fell silent.”

151. Musnad al-Bazzar 4046No grade recorded

     نَا سُفْيَانُ يَعْنِي الثَّوْرِيَّ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍ، عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْجُرَشِيِّ، عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ

     ✧ Sufyan—meaning al-Thawri—narrated to us, from Dawud b. Abi Hind, from al-Walid b. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jurashi, from Jubayr b. Nufayr, from Abu Dharr.

152. Musnad al-Bazzar 4047No grade recorded

     صُمْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ فَلَمْ يَقُمْ بِنَا حَتَّى بَقِيَ سَبْعُ لَيَالٍ، فَقَامَ بِنَا حَتَّى ذَهَبَ ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ أَوْ نَحْوُهُ، ثُمَّ لَمْ يَقُمْ بِنَا لَيْلَةَ الرَّابِعَةِ، وَقَامَ بِنَا لَيْلَةَ الْخَامِسَةِ حَتَّى ذَهَبَ نَحْوٌ مِنْ شَطْرِ اللَّيْلِ، فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، لَوْ نَفَّلْتَنَا بَقِيَّةَ لَيْلَتِنَا، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا كَانَ مَعَ الْإِمَامِ حَتَّى يَنْفَتِلَ حُسِبَ لَهُ بَقِيَّةُ لَيْلِهِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَقُمْ بِنَا لَيْلَةَ السَّادِسَةِ وَقَامَ بِنَا لَيْلَةَ السَّابِعَةِ وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ وَنِسَائِهِ فَاجْتَمَعْنَ وَقَامَ بِنَا حَتَّى خَشِينَا أَنْ يَفُوتَنَا الْفَلَاحُ، قُلْتُ: وَمَا الْفَلَاحُ قَالَ: السُّحُورُ

     ✧ We fasted with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the month of Ramadan, and he did not lead us in night prayer until seven nights remained. Then he led us in prayer until a third of the night had passed, or about that. Then he did not lead us on the fourth night. He led us on the fifth night until about half the night had passed. We said, “O Messenger of Allah, if only you would let us pray the rest of our night as voluntary.” He said, “When a man prays with the imam until he finishes, the rest of his night is recorded for him.” Then he did not lead us on the sixth night. He led us on the seventh night, and he sent for his family and wives, and they gathered. He led us in prayer until we feared we would miss the falah.” I said, “What is the falah?” He said, “The pre-dawn meal.”

153. Musnad al-Bazzar 4048No grade recorded

     صُمْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ

     ✧ We fasted with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

154. Musnad al-Bazzar 4049No grade recorded

     كُنْتُ أَتْبَعُ خَلَوَاتِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَذَهَبْتُ يَوْمًا، فَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ خَرَجَ فَاتَّبَعْتُهُ فَجَلَسَ فِي مَوْضِعٍ فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَهُ فَجَاءَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَسَلَّمَ وَجَلَسَ عَنْ يَمِينِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ عُمَرُ فَجَلَسَ، عَنْ يَمِينِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ عُثْمَانُ فَجَلَسَ يَمِينَ عُمَرَ قَالَ: فَتَنَاوَلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ حَصَيَاتٍ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُنَّ فَخَرِسْنَ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُنَّ فِي يَدِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُنَّ فَخَرِسْنَ، ثُمَّ تَنَاوَلَهُنَّ فَوَضَعَهُنَّ فِي يَدِ عُمَرَ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُنَّ فَخَرِسْنَ، ثُمَّ تَنَاوَلَهُنَّ فَوَضَعَهُنَّ فِي يَدِ عُثْمَانَ فَسَبَّحْنَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ لَهُنَّ حَنِينًا كَحَنِينِ النَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُنَّ فَخَرِسْنَ

     ✧ I used to seek out the private moments of the Messenger of God ﷺ. One day I went, and behold, he had gone out, so I followed him. He sat down in a place, and I sat near him. Then Abu Bakr came, greeted, and sat to the right of the Prophet ﷺ. Then Umar came and sat to the right of Abu Bakr. Then Uthman came and sat to the right of Umar. He said: The Prophet ﷺ took some pebbles, and they glorified God in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down, and they fell silent. Then he put them in the hand of Abu Bakr, and they glorified God in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down, and they fell silent. Then he took them and placed them in the hand of Umar, and they glorified God in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down, and they fell silent. Then he took them and placed them in the hand of Uthman, and they glorified God in his hand until I heard for them a humming like the humming of bees. Then he put them down, and they fell silent.

155. Musnad al-Bazzar 4050No grade recorded

     أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ، قَالَ لَهُ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، إِنِّي أَرَاكَ ضَعِيفًا، وَإِنِّي أُحِبُّ لَكَ مَا أُحِبُّ لِنَفْسِي لَا تَأَمَّرَنَّ عَلَى اثْنَيْنِ وَلَا تَتَوَلَّيَنَّ مَالَ يَتِيمِ

     ✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ said to him: 'O Abu Dharr, I see that you are weak, and I love for you what I love for myself. Do not take command over two people, and do not take charge of the property of an orphan.'

156. Musnad al-Bazzar 4051No grade recorded

     دَخَلَ عَلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ فِي رِجَالٍ مِنْ أَسْلَمَ فِيهِمْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ جُهَيْنَةَ فَسَأَلَهُمْ أَبُو ذَرٍّ مَا جَاءَ بِكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: جِئْنَاكَ لِنُسْلِمَ عَلَيْكَ وَنَسْمَعَ مِنْكَ قَالَ: أَفَلَا أُبَشِّرُكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: بَلَى قَالَ: مَنْ لَقِيَ اللهَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِهِ شَيْئًا غُفِرَ لَهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ مِلْءُ الْأَرْضِ ذُنُوبًا، فَقَالَ الْجُهَنِيُّ: أَنْتَ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَسَبَّحَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَوَ يَنْبَغِي لِامْرِئٍ مُسْلِمٍ أَنْ يَقُولَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مَا لَمْ يَقُلْ ثُمَّ قَالَ: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَنَهَضَ

     ✧ He entered upon Abu Dharr among men from Aslam, among whom was a man from Juhaynah. Abu Dharr asked them, 'What has brought you?' They said, 'We have come to you to greet you and to hear from you.' He said, 'Shall I not give you glad tidings?' They said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Whoever meets God without associating anything with Him will be forgiven, even if he has sins as much as the fill of the earth.' The Juhanī man said, 'Did you hear this from the Messenger of God ﷺ?' Abu Dharr glorified God and then said, 'Is it proper for a Muslim man to say about the Messenger of God ﷺ what he did not say?' Then he said, 'Peace be upon you,' and rose.

157. Musnad al-Bazzar 4052No grade recorded

     دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ، وَفِينَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَسْلَمَ أَوْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ جُهَيْنَةَ، فَقَالَ: مَا جَاءَ بِكُمْ ؟ قُلْنَا: جِئْنَا نُسْلِمُ، فَقَالَ: أَبْشِرُوا سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

     ✧ We entered upon Abu Dharr, and among us was a man from Aslam or a man from Juhaynah. He said, 'What has brought you?' We said, 'We have come to greet you.' He said, 'Rejoice! I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say...'

158. Musnad al-Bazzar 4053No grade recorded

     قُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، كَيْفَ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّكَ نَبِيٌّ ؟ قَالَ: مَا عَلِمْتُ حَتَّى أُعْلِمْتُ ذَلِكَ يَا أَبَا ذَرِّ، أَتَانِي مَلَكَانِ وَأَنَا بِبَعْضِ بَطْحَاءِ مَكَّةَ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا: أَهُوَ هُوَ ؟ قَالَ: فَزِنْهُ بِرَجُلٍ " فَوُزِنْتُ بِرَجُلٍ فَرَجَحْتُهُ " قَالَ: فَزِنْهُ بِعَشَرَةٍ " فَوَزَنَنِي بِعَشَرَةٍ فَوَزَنْتُهُمْ " ثُمَّ قَالَ: زِنْهُ بِمِائَةٍ " فَوَزَنَنِي بِمِائَةٍ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ " ثُمَّ قَالَ: زِنْهُ بِأَلْفٍ " فَوَزَنَنِي بِأَلْفٍ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ " ثُمَّ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِلْآخَرِ: لَوْ وَزَنْتَهُ بِأُمَّتِهِ رَجَحَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِلْآخَرِ: شُقَّ بَطْنَهُ فَشَقَّ بَطْنِي فَأَخْرَجَ مِنْهُ فَغْمَ الشَّيْطَانِ وَعَلَّقَ الدَّمَ فَطَرَحَهَا، فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِلْآخَرِ: اغْسِلْ بَطْنَهُ غَسْلَ الْإِنَاءِ، وَاغْسِلْ قَلْبَهُ غَسْلَ الْمُلَاءِ، ثُمَّ دَعَا بِالسَّكِينَةِ كَأَنَّهَا رَهْرَهَةٌ بَيْضَاءُ فَأُدْخِلَتْ قَلْبِي، ثُمَّ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ: خِطْ بَطْنَهُ فَخَاطَ بَطْنِي وَجَعَلَا الْخَاتَمَ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيَّ فَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا وَلَّيَا عَنِّي كَأَنَّمَا أُعَايِنُ أَوْ فَكَأَنَّمَا أُعَايِنُ الْأَمْرَ مُعَايَنَةً

     ✧ We said, 'O Messenger of God, how did you know that you are a prophet?' He said, 'I did not know until I was informed of that. O Abu Dharr, two angels came to me while I was in a part of the valley of Makkah. One of them said, "Is he the one?" The other said, "Weigh him against a man." So I was weighed against a man, and I outweighed him. Then he said, "Weigh him against ten." So he weighed me against ten, and I outweighed them. Then he said, "Weigh him against a hundred." So he weighed me against a hundred, and I outweighed them. Then he said, "Weigh him against a thousand." So he weighed me against a thousand, and I outweighed them. Then one of them said to the other, "If you weighed him against his entire community, he would outweigh them." Then one of them said to the other, "Split open his belly." So he split open my belly and removed from it the filth of Satan and the clot of blood, and he threw them away. Then one of them said to the other, "Wash his belly as a vessel is washed, and wash his heart as a garment is washed." Then he called for tranquility, as if it were a white shining substance, and it was inserted into my heart. Then one of them said to his companion, "Sew up his belly." So he sewed up my belly, and they placed the seal between my shoulders. It was not but that they turned away from me as if I were witnessing the matter with my own eyes.'

159. Musnad al-Bazzar 4054No grade recorded

     " أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى كَنْزٍ مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ

     ✧ "Shall I not guide you to a treasure from the treasures of Paradise? [It is] 'There is no might nor power except with God.'"

160. Musnad al-Bazzar 4055No grade recorded

     " مَنْ قَالَ فِي دُبُرِ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ وَهُوَ ثَانٍ رِجْلَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَكَلَّمَ: " لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، يُحْيِي وَيُمِيتُ، بِيَدِهِ الْخَيْرُ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ، كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ عَشْرُ حَسَنَاتٍ وَمُحِيَ عَنْهُ بِهَا عَشْرُ سَيِّئَاتٍ وَرُفِعَ لَهُ بِهَا عَشْرُ دَرَجَاتٍ، وَكَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ عِدْلُ رَقَبَةٍ وَكَانَ يَوْمَهُ ذَلِكَ فِي حِرْزٍ مِنْ كُلِّ مَكْرُوهٍ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ وَلَمْ يُتْبَعْ بِذَنْبٍ يُدْرِكُهُ إِلَّا الشِّرْكَ

     ✧ "Whoever says at the end of the dawn prayer, while his leg is still folded, before speaking: 'There is no god but God alone, with no partner; His is the dominion and His is the praise; He gives life and death; in His hand is all good, and He is capable over everything' ten times, then for each one of them he will have ten good deeds, and ten evil deeds will be erased from him, and ten degrees will be raised for him, and for each one of them he will have the equivalent of freeing a slave, and that day he will be in protection from every disliked thing from Satan, and no sin will overtake him except associating partners with God."

161. Musnad al-Bazzar 4056No grade recorded

     نَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ غَنْمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

     ✧ Jarir narrated to us, from Layth, from Shahr b. Hawshab, from Abd al-Rahman b. Ghanm, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ.

162. Musnad al-Bazzar 4057No grade recorded

     إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى يَقُولُ: يَا عِبَادِي، كُلُّكُمْ مُذْنِبٌ إِلَّا مَنْ عَافَيْتُ فَاسْتَغْفِرُونِي أَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ، وَكُلُّكُمْ ضَالٌّ إِلَّا مَنْ هَدَيْتُ فَسَلُونِي أَهْدِكُمْ، وَكُلُّكُمْ فَقِيرٌ إِلَّا مَنْ أَغْنَيْتُ فَسَلُونِي أَرْزُقْكُمْ مَنْ عَلِمَ مِنْكُمْ أَنِّي ذُو قُدْرَةٍ عَلَى الْمَغْفِرَةِ غَفَرْتُ لَهُ بِقُدْرَتِي، وَلَا أُبَالِي فَلَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنْسَكُمْ وَجِنَّكُمْ وَحَيَّكُمْ وَمَيِّتَكُمْ وَرَطْبَكُمْ وَيَابِسَكُمُ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى أَتْقَى قَلْبِ عَبْدٍ مِنِ عِبَادِي لَمْ يَزِدْ ذَلِكَ فِي مُلْكِي جَنَاحَ بَعُوضَةٍ، وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَحَيَّكُمْ وَمَيِّتَكُمُ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى أَشْقَى قَلْبِ عَبْدٍ مِنِ عِبَادِي لَمْ يُنْقِصْ مِنْ مُلْكِي جَنَاحَ بَعُوضَةٍ، وَلَوِ اجْتَمَعُوا فَيَسْأَلُ كُلُّ سَائِلٍ أُمْنِيَّتَهُ أَعْطَيْتُ كُلَّ سَائِلٍ مَا سَأَلَنِي مَا نَقَصَ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا كَمَا لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ مَرَّ عَلَى الْبَحْرِ فَغَمَسَ فِيهِ إِبْرَةً ثُمَّ انْتَزَعَهَا، ذَلِكَ فَإِنِّي جَوَادٌ مَا جَدَّ وَاجِدٌ أَفْعَلُ مَا أَشَاءُ، عَطَائِي كَلَامٌ، وَعَذَابِي كَلَامٌ إِنَّمَا أَمْرِي إِذَا أَرَدْتُ شَيْئًا أَنْ أَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ

     ✧ God, Blessed and Exalted, says: 'O My servants, all of you are sinful except those I have pardoned, so seek My forgiveness and I will forgive you. All of you are astray except those I have guided, so ask Me for guidance and I will guide you. All of you are poor except those I have enriched, so ask Me and I will provide for you. Whoever among you knows that I have power over forgiveness, I will forgive him by My power, and I do not care. If the first of you and the last of you, your humans and your jinn, your living and your dead, your fresh and your dry, were to unite upon the most pious heart of any servant among My servants, that would not increase My dominion by a mosquito's wing. And if the first of you and the last of you, your living and your dead, were to unite upon the most wicked heart of any servant among My servants, that would not decrease My dominion by a mosquito's wing. And if they were to unite and every asker asked for his wish, I would give every asker what he asked Me, and that would not diminish except as if one of you passed by the sea and dipped a needle into it and then withdrew it. For I am the Most Generous, the Majestic, the Finder. I do what I will. My giving is a word, and My punishment is a word. My command, when I desire a thing, is only that I say to it, "Be," and it is.'

163. Musnad al-Bazzar 4058No grade recorded

     " يَا عِبَادِي، إِنِّي حَرَّمْتُ الظُّلْمَ عَلَى نَفْسِي وَجَعَلْتُهُ بَيْنَكُمْ مُحَرَّمًا فَلَا تَظَالَمُوا، يَا عِبَادِي إِنَّكُمْ تُخْطِئُونَ بِاللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ، وَأَنَا أَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ فَاسْتَغْفِرُونِي أَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ، يَا عِبَادِي، كُلُّكُمْ جَائِعٌ إِلَّا مَنْ أَطْعَمْتُهُ فَاسْتَطْعِمُونِي أُطْعِمْكُمْ، يَا عِبَادِي، كُلُّكُمْ عَارٍ إِلَّا مَنْ كَسَوْتُ فَاسْتَكْسُونِي أَكْسُكُمْ، يَا عِبَادِي، لَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنْسَكُمْ وَجِنَّكُمْ كَانُوا عَلَى أَتْقَى قَلْبِ رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ لَمْ يَزِدْ ذَلِكَ فِي مُلْكِي شَيْئًا، يَا عِبَادِي، لَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنْسَكُمْ وَجِنَّكُمُ اجْتَمَعُوا فِي صَعِيدٍ وَاحِدٍ فَسَأَلَنِي كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مِنْهُمْ مَا سَأَلَ لَمْ يُنْتَقَصْ مِنْ مُلْكِي شَيْءٌ إِلَّا كَمَا يَنْقُصُ الْبَحْرُ أَنْ يُغْمَسَ فِيهِ الْمِخْيَطُ غَمْسَةً وَاحِدَةً، يَا عِبَادِي، إِنَّمَا هِيَ أَعْمَالُكُمْ أَحْفَظُهَا عَلَيْكُمْ فَمَنْ وَجَدَ خَيْرًا حَمِدَ اللهَ وَمَنْ وَجَدَ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ فَلَا يَلُومَنَّ إِلَّا نَفْسَهُ

     ✧ "O My servants, I have forbidden injustice for Myself and have made it forbidden among you, so do not wrong one another. O My servants, you err by night and day, and I forgive all sins, so seek My forgiveness and I will forgive you. O My servants, all of you are hungry except those I feed, so ask Me for food and I will feed you. O My servants, all of you are naked except those I clothe, so ask Me for clothing and I will clothe you. O My servants, if the first of you and the last of you, your humans and your jinn, were as pious as the most pious heart of any man among you, that would not increase My dominion in anything. O My servants, if the first of you and the last of you, your humans and your jinn, were to gather on a single plain and every person among them asked Me for what he asked, My dominion would not be diminished except as the sea is diminished when a needle is dipped into it once. O My servants, it is only your deeds that I keep count of for you. Whoever finds good, let him praise God; and whoever finds other than that, let him blame none but himself."

164. Musnad al-Bazzar 4059No grade recorded

     اسْتَأْذَنْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ أَبِيتَ عَلَى بَابِهِ يُوقِظَنِي لِحَاجَتِهِ، فَأَذِنَ لِي فَبِتُّ لَيْلَةً أَذْكُرُ شَيْئًا أَوْ أَتَذَكَّرُ شَيْئًا أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْهُ إِذَا أَصْبَحْتُ فَخَرَجَ عَلَيَّ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَرِقْتُ اللَّيْلَةَ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ شَيْءٍ أَخَذَ بِنَفْسِي، سَبَقَنَا أَصْحَابُ الدُّثُورِ سَبْقًا بَيِّنًا، يُصَلُّونَ كَمَا نُصَلِّي، وَيَصُومُونَ كَمَا نَصُومُ، وَيَفْعَلُونَ وَعِنْدَهُمْ أَمْوَالٌ يَتَصَدَّقُونَ بِهَا، وَلَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا مَا نَصْنَعُ ذَلِكَ قَالَ: أَفَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ بِعَمَلٍ تُدْرِكُ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكَ وَتَسْبِقُ بِهِ مَنْ يَكُونُ بَعْدُ إِلَّا مَنْ أَخَذَ بِمِثْلِ عَمَلِكَ ؟ تُسَبِّحُ خَلْفَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَتُكَبِّرُ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَتَحْمَدُ أَرْبَعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ

     ✧ I asked permission from the Messenger of God ﷺ to spend the night at his door so that he could wake me for his need. He gave me permission, so I spent a night remembering something or recollecting something I wanted to ask him about when morning came. He came out to me, and I said, 'O Messenger of God, I was sleepless last night wanting to ask you about something that preoccupied me. The wealthy companions have surpassed us with a clear lead: they pray as we pray, fast as we fast, and they do [good deeds] while they have wealth with which they give charity, and we do not have [wealth] to do that.' He said, 'Shall I not inform you, O Abu Dharr, of a deed by which you will catch up with those before you and surpass those after you, except one who does the like of your deed? You glorify God after every prayer thirty-three times, magnify Him thirty-three times, and praise Him thirty-four times.'

165. Musnad al-Bazzar 4060No grade recorded

     " إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى يَقْبَلُ أَوْ يَغْفِرُ لِعَبْدِهِ - أَوْ قَالَ: يَقْبَلُ تَوْبَةَ عَبْدِهِ - مَا لَمْ يَقَعِ الْحِجَابُ " قِيلَ: وَمَا وَقْعُ الْحِجَابُ ؟ قَالَ: " أَنْ تَخْرُجَ النَّفْسُ وَهِيَ مُشْرِكَةٌ

     ✧ "God, Blessed and Exalted, accepts from - or forgives - His servant - or he said: accepts the repentance of His servant - as long as the veil has not fallen." It was said, "What is the falling of the veil?" He said, "That the soul departs while it is associating partners with God."

166. Musnad al-Bazzar 4061No grade recorded

     " إِنَّ اللهَ لَيَغْفِرُ لِعَبْدِهِ مَا لَمْ يَقَعِ الْحِجَابُ قَالُوا: وَمَا الْحِجَابُ ؟ قَالَ: مَا لَمْ تَمُتِ النَّفْسُ وَهِيَ مُشْرِكَةٌ

     ✧ "Indeed Allah forgives His servant as long as the veil has not fallen." They said: "And what is the veil?" He said: "As long as the soul has not died while it is a polytheist."

167. Musnad al-Bazzar 4062No grade recorded

     كَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ عِنْدَ وُلَاةِ مَنْ بَعْدِي يَسْتَأْثِرُونَ بِهَذَا الْفَيْءِ ؟ قَالَ، قُلْتُ: إِذًا وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ أَضَعُ سَيْفِي حَتَّى أَلْقَاكَ فَقَالَ: " أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى مَا هُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكَ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: تَصْبِرُ حَتَّى تَلْقَانِي

     ✧ What will you do, O Abu Dharr, with the rulers after me who will seize this fay' for themselves? He said: I said: "Then, by the One who sent you with the truth, I will place my sword until I meet you." He said: "Shall I not guide you to what is better for you?" He said: I said: "Yes." He said: "You should be patient until you meet me."

168. Musnad al-Bazzar 4063No grade recorded

     " مَنْ فَارَقَ الْجَمَاعَةَ شِبْرًا فَقَدْ خَلَعَ رِبْقَةَ الْإِسْلَامِ مِنْ عُنُقِهِ

     ✧ "Whoever separates from the community by a handspan has indeed cast off the yoke of Islam from his neck."

169. Musnad al-Bazzar 4064No grade recorded

     " إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى وَضَعَ الْحَقَّ عَلَى لِسَانِ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ بِهِ

     ✧ "Indeed Allah, Blessed and Exalted, has placed the truth upon the tongue of 'Umar, and he speaks by it."

170. Musnad al-Bazzar 4065No grade recorded

     لَمَّا اشْتَدَّ وَجَعُ أَبِي ذَرٍّ أَوْ قَالَتْ: حُضِرَ، قُلْتُ: تَمُوتُ بِفَلَاةٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ وَلَيْسَ عِنْدِي مَا أُكَفِّنُهُ، فَقَالَ لِي: أَبْصِرِي الطَّرِيقَ، فَجَعَلْتُ أَخْرُجُ فَأَنْظُرُ ثُمَّ أَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِ، فَبَيْنَا أَنَا كَذَلِكُ إِذْ أَنَا بِرِجَالٍ كَأَنَّهُمُ الرَّخَمُ مُقْبِلِينَ فَلَوَّحْتُ لَهُمْ بِثَوْبِي فَحَرَّكُوا حَتَّى أَقْبَلُوا نَحْوِي، فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: هَلْ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَحْضُرُوا رَجُلًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، قَالُوا: مَنْ هُوَ ؟ قُلْتُ: أَبُو ذَرٍّ، فَفَدَّوْهُ بِآبَائِهِمْ وَأُمَّهَاتِهِمْ، ثُمَّ دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: أَبْشِرُوا فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لِنَفَرٍ أَنَا مِنْهُمْ: لَيَمُوتَنَّ رَجُلٌ مِنْكُمْ بِفَلَاةٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ تَحْضُرُهُ عِصَابَةٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَمَا مِنْ أُولَئِكَ النَّفَرِ إِلَّا وَقَدْ مَاتَ فِي قَرْيَةٍ وَجَمَاعَةٍ غَيْرِي، وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: مَنْ مَاتَ ثَلَاثَةٌ مِنْ وَلَدِهِ لَمْ يَدْخُلِ النَّارَ أَوْ لَمْ تَمَسَّهُ النَّارُ فَإِذَا مُتُّ فَكَفِّنُونِي فَنَشَدْتُ اللهَ رَجُلًا كَفَّنَنِي كَانَ عَرِيفًا أَوْ بَرِيدًا أَوْ نَقِيبًا قَالَ: فَمَا مِنْ أُولَئِكَ النَّفَرِ إِلَّا وَقَدْ قَارَفَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا إِلَّا فَتًى مِنْهُمْ قَالَ: أَنَا أُكَفِّنُكَ فِي ثَوْبَيْنِ فِي عَيْبَتِي مِنْ غَزْلِ أُمِّي، فَقَالَ: أَنْتَ فَكَفِّنِّي قَالَ: فَقُضِيَ فَغَسَّلُوهُ وَكَفَّنُوهُ وَصَلَّوْا عَلَيْهِ وَانْصَرَفُوا وَكَانَ النَّفَرُ كُلُّهُمْ يَمَانًا

     ✧ When the pain of Abu Dharr intensified, or she said: he was attended, I said: "You will die in a desert of the earth and I do not have anything to shroud him with." He said to me: "Look at the road." So I began to go out and look, then return to him. While I was doing that, suddenly I saw men like vultures approaching. So I waved to them with my garment, and they hurried until they came towards me. I said to them: "Would you like to attend a man from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ?" They said: "Who is he?" I said: "Abu Dharr." So they ransomed him with their fathers and mothers. Then they entered upon him. He said to them: "Rejoice, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say to a group of which I was one: 'A man from among you will certainly die in a desert of the earth, attended by a band of Muslims.' And there is none of that group except that he has died in a village and congregation other than I. And I heard him say: 'Whoever has three of his children die, he will not enter the Fire, or the Fire will not touch him.' So when I die, shroud me. I adjure Allah that a man who shrouds me should be an 'arif, a barid, or a naqib." He said: "And there was none of that group except that he had done some of that, except a young man among them who said: 'I will shroud you in two garments in my bag from my mother's yarn.'" He said: "You, then shroud me." He said: "So he died, and they washed him, shrouded him, prayed over him, and departed. And the group were all from Yemen."

171. Musnad al-Bazzar 4066No grade recorded

     اعْتَمَرْتُ فِي رَجَبٍ فَدَفَعْتُ إِلَى الرَّبَذَةِ صَلَاةَ الْعَصْرِ فَأَذَّنُوا وَأَقَامُوا، ثُمَّ قَالُوا: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، ادْنُ فَصَلِّ بِالْقَوْمِ فَأَبَى فَنَادَى أَبُو ذَرٍّ رَجُلًا فَأَبَى فَنَادَى الثَّانِيَ وَالثَّالِثَ فَأَبَى حَتَّى اصْفَرَّتِ الشَّمْسُ أَوْ كَادَتْ أَنْ تَصْفَرَّ، ثُمَّ تَقَدَّمَ فَصَلَّى بِهِمْ رَجُلٌ فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَبُو ذَرٍّ بِوَجْهِهِ فَحَدَّثَهُمْ عَنْ بَعْضِ صَلَاتِهِمْ قَالَ: صَلَّى بِنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ الْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ، فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ قَامَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْعَتَمَةِ فَقَامَ خَلْفَهُ نَاسٌ فَلَمَّا أَنْ رَآهُمُ خَلْفَهُ يُصَلُّونَ رَجَعَ إِلَى رَحْلِهِ، فَلَمَّا أَنْ رَآهُمْ قَدْ تَرَكُوا الْمَقَامَ رَجَعَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقَامَ يُصَلِّي فَجِئْتُ أَنَا حَتَّى قُمْتُ خَلْفَهُ فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَيَّ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ فَجَاءَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ فَقَامَ خَلْفِي وَخَلْفَهُ فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَيْهِ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ فَقَامَ، بَيْنَنَا كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ يَقْرَأُ وَيُصَلِّي عَلَى حِدَةٍ، وَالنَّبِيُّ يَقْرَأُ بِآيَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ إِلَى آخِرِ الْآيَةِ حَتَّى صَلَّى الْغَدَاةَ بِهَا يَرْكَعُ وَبِهَا يَسْجُدُ وَبِهَا يَقُومُ وَبِهَا يَدْعُو وَبِهَا يَجْلِسُ، فَأَوْمَأَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ إِلَى عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنْ سَلْهُ عَمَّا صَنَعَ الْبَارِحَةَ تَقْرَأُ بِآيَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَقَدْ عَلَّمَكَ اللهُ الْقُرْآنَ كُلَّهُ فَلَوْ فَعَلَهُ غَيْرُكَ وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: مَا أَنَا بِالَّذِي أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ حَتَّى يَبْتَدِئَنِي بِهِ فَيَسْأَلَهُ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَسَأَلَهُ أَبُو ذَرٍّ، فَقَالَ: دَعَوْتُ لِأُمَّتِي، فَقَالَ: مَاذَا أُجِبْتَ وَمَاذَا رُدَّ عَلَيْكَ، فَقَالَ: " مَا لَوِ اطَّلَعُوا عَلَيْهِ اطِّلَاعَةً لَتَرَكَ كَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمُ الصَّلَاةَ " قَالَ: أَفَلَا أَذْهَبُ فَأُبَشِّرُ النَّاسَ بِذَلِكَ فَذَهَبَ مُعَنِّفًا قَذْفَةَ حَجَرٍ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنْ تَبْعَثْ بِهَا إِلَى النَّاسِ يَتَّكِلُوا عَنِ الْعِبَادَةِ قَالَ: فَرَدَّنِي وَلَمْ أَقُلْ شَيْئًا

     ✧ I performed 'umrah in Rajab, and I reached al-Rabadhah at the time of the 'Asr prayer. They called the adhan and the iqamah, then they said: "O Abu Dharr, come forward and lead the people in prayer." He refused. Abu Dharr called a man, but he refused; he called the second and the third, but they refused, until the sun turned yellow or almost turned yellow. Then a man came forward and led them in prayer. When he finished, Abu Dharr turned his face towards them and spoke to them about some of their prayers. He said: "The Messenger of Allah led us in the last 'Isha' prayer. When he finished, he stood to pray after the 'atamah (darkness of night), and some people stood behind him. When he saw them praying behind him, he returned to his camel saddle. When he saw that they had left the standing place, he returned to them and stood to pray. I came and stood behind him, and he gestured to me to his right. Ibn Mas'ud came and stood behind me and behind him, and he gestured to him to his left, so he stood. Between us, each person recited and prayed on his own. The Prophet ﷺ recited one verse: 'If You punish them, they are Your servants' to the end of the verse, until he prayed the morning prayer with it: he bowed with it, prostrated with it, stood with it, supplicated with it, and sat with it. Abu Dharr gestured to 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud to ask him about what he did last night: he recited one verse, and Allah has taught you the entire Qur'an. If someone other than you did that, we would find fault with him. He said: 'I am not one to ask him about anything until he initiates it with me, so Abu Dharr asks him.' So Abu Dharr asked him, and he said: 'I supplicated for my Ummah.' He said: 'What was answered to you and what was rejected from you?' He said: 'What if they were to look upon it with a single look, many of them would abandon the prayer.' He said: 'Shall I go and give the people glad tidings of that?' So he went rebukingly, like a thrown stone. 'Umar said: 'O Messenger of Allah, if you send this to the people, they will rely upon that and neglect worship.' He said: 'So he returned me, and I did not say anything.'"

172. Musnad al-Bazzar 4067No grade recorded

     " إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى خَلَقَ رِيحًا وَأَسْكَنَهَا بَيْتًا، وَأَغْلَقَ عَلَيْهَا بَابًا فَلَوْ فُتِحَ الْبَابُ لَأَدَرَّتْ مَا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا يَأْتِيكُمْ فَإِنَّمَا يَأْتِيكُمْ مِنْ خَلَلِ ذَلِكَ الْبَابِ، وَأَنْتُمْ تُسَمُّونَهَا الْجَنُوبَ، وَهِيَ عِنْدَ اللهِ الْأَزْيَبُ

     ✧ "Indeed Allah, Blessed and Exalted, created a wind and put it in a house, and locked a door upon it. If the door were opened, it would flow abundantly between the heaven and the earth. And what comes to you comes only from the cracks of that door. You call it the south wind (al-janub), but with Allah it is al-azyab."

173. Musnad al-Bazzar 4068No grade recorded

     " أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِصِيَامِ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ الْبِيضِ: ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ، وَأَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ، وَخَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ

     ✧ "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to fast three days of every month, the white days: the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth."

174. Musnad al-Bazzar 4069No grade recorded

     " إِنَّ الْكَنْزَ الَّذِي ذَكَرَ اللهُ فِي كِتَابِهِ لَوْحٌ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ مُصْمَتٌ، عَجِبْتُ لِمَنْ أَيْقَنَ بِالْقَدَرِ لِمَ نَصِبَ ؟ وَعَجِبْتُ لِمَنْ ذَكَرَ النَّارَ لِمَ ضَحِكَ ؟ وَعَجِبْتُ لِمَنْ ذَكَرَ الْمَوْتَ لِمَ غَفَلَ ؟ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللهِ

     ✧ "Indeed the treasure which Allah mentioned in His Book is a solid tablet of gold. I wonder at one who is certain of the divine decree, why does he toil? And I wonder at one who remembers the Fire, why does he laugh? And I wonder at one who remembers death, why is he heedless? There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

175. Musnad al-Bazzar 4070No grade recorded

     قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِعَلِيٍّ: يَا عَلِيُّ، مَنْ فَارَقَنِي فَارَقَهُ اللهُ، وَمَنْ فَارَقَكَ يَا عَلِيُّ فَارَقَنِي

     ✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to 'Ali: "O 'Ali, whoever separates from me, Allah separates from him, and whoever separates from you, O 'Ali, separates from me."

176. Musnad al-Bazzar 4071No grade recorded

     لَقِيتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ عِنْدَ الْجَمْرَةِ الْوُسْطَى فَسَأَلْتُهُ، عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ، فَقَالَ: مَا كَانَ أَحَدٌ بِأَسْأَلَ لَهَا مِنِّي، قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ تُوحَى إِلَيْهِمْ فِيهَا ثُمَّ تُرْفَعُ ؟ قَالَ: " بَلْ هِيَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ " قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَيَّتُهُنَّ هِيَ ؟ قَالَ: لَوْ أُذِنَ لِي لَأَنْبَأْتُكَ بِهَا، وَلَكِنِ الْتَمِسْهَا فِي التِّسْعِينَ أَوِ السُّبُعَيْنِ وَلَا تَسْأَلْنِي بَعْدَهَا ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَجَعَلَ يُحَدِّثُ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: فِي أَيِّ السُّبُعَيْنِ هِيَ ؟ فَغَضِبَ عَلَيَّ غَضْبَةً لَمْ يَغْضَبْ عَلَيَّ قَبْلَهَا وَلَا بَعْدَهَا مِثْلَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: " أَلَمْ أَنْهَكَ عَنْهَا ؟ لَوْ أُذِنَ لِي لَأَنْبَأْتُكُمْ أَوْ لَأَنْبَأْتُكَ بِهَا وَلَكِنْ، وَذَكَرَ كَلِمَةً أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي السَّبْعَةِ الْأَوَاخِرِ

     ✧ I met Abu Dharr at the middle jamrah and asked him about the Night of Decree (Laylat al-Qadr). He said: "No one was more eager to ask about it than I. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, was it sent down upon the prophets to whom revelation came, then it was lifted?' He said: 'Rather, it is until the Day of Resurrection.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which night is it?' He said: 'If I were permitted, I would inform you of it, but seek it in the nineties or the seventies, and do not ask me after this.' Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ turned away and began to talk. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, in which of the seventies is it?' He became angry with me with an anger the like of which he had never been angry with me before or after. Then he said: 'Did I not forbid you from it? If I were permitted, I would inform you all, or inform you, of it, but'—and he mentioned a word—'that it is in the last seven.'"

177. Musnad al-Bazzar 4072No grade recorded

     قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ يُوحَى إِلَيْهِمْ فِيهَا ثُمَّ تُرْفَعُ ؟ قَالَ: " بَلْ هِيَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ". قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَخْبِرْنِي أَيَّ لَيْلَةٍ هِيَ ؟ قَالَ: لَوْ أُذِنَ لِي لَأَنْبَأْتُكُمْ أَوْ لَأَنْبَأْتُكَ بِهَا وَلَكِنَّهَا فِي التِّسْعَيْنِ أَوِ السَّبْعَيْنِ وَلَا تَسْأَلْنِي بَعْدَهَا، فَقُلْتُ: أَقْسَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ لَتُخْبِرَنِّي فِي أَيِّ التِّسْعِينَ هِيَ، فَغَضِبَ عَلَيَّ غَضْبَةً لَمْ يَغْضَبْ عَلَيَّ قَبْلَهَا وَلَا بَعْدَهَا مِثْلَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَلَمْ أَنْهَكَ أَنْ تَسْأَلَنِي عَنْ هَذَا أَوْ عَنْهَا، قُلْتُ: أَقْسَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ لَتُخْبِرَنِّي قَالَ: أَلَمْ أَنْهَكَ أَنْ تَسْأَلَنِي هِيَ فِي السَّبْعِ الْأَوَاخِرِ

     ✧ I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me about the Night of Decree: was it sent down upon the prophets to whom revelation came, then it was lifted?" He said: "Rather, it is until the Day of Resurrection." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me which night it is." He said: "If I were permitted, I would inform you all, or inform you, of it, but it is in the nineties or the seventies, and do not ask me after this." I said: "I adjure you, O Messenger of Allah, to inform me in which of the nineties it is." He became angry with me with an anger the like of which he had never been angry with me before or after. Then he said: "Did I not forbid you from asking me about this, or about it?" I said: "I adjure you, O Messenger of Allah, to inform me." He said: "Did I not forbid you from asking me? It is in the last seven."

178. Musnad al-Bazzar 4073No grade recorded

     " وُزِنْتُ بِأَلْفٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِي فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ فَجَعَلُوا يَنْتَثِرُونَ عَلَيَّ مِنْ كِفَّةِ الْمِيزَانِ

     ✧ I was weighed against a thousand of my community and outweighed them, so they began to scatter over me from the scale pan.

179. Musnad al-Bazzar 4074No grade recorded

     " تَبَسُّمُكَ فِي وَجْهِ أَخِيكَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَإِفْرَاغُكَ مِنْ دَلْوِكَ فِي دَلْوِ أَخِيكَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَأَمْرُكَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَنَهْيُكَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ تُكْتَبُ لَكَ صَدَقَةً، وَإِمَاطَتُكَ الشَّوْكَةَ وَالْحَجَرَ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ صَدَقَةٌ، وَإِرْشَادُكَ الضَّالَّ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ صَدَقَةٌ

     ✧ Your smiling in the face of your brother is charity, and your emptying your bucket into your brother's bucket is charity, and your commanding the good and forbidding the evil are written as charity for you, and your removing a thorn or a stone from the path is charity, and your guiding a lost person on the way is charity.

180. Musnad al-Bazzar 4075No grade recorded

     " الْأَكْثَرُونَ هُمُ الْأَقَلُّونَ إِلَّا مَنْ قَالَ بِالْمَالِ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا

     ✧ The wealthy are the poor on the Day of Resurrection, except for the one who says with his wealth, 'Thus and thus.'

181. Musnad al-Bazzar 4076No grade recorded

     " مَا تُقِلُّ الْغَبْرَاءُ وَلَا تُظِلُّ الْخَضْرَاءُ مِنْ ذِي لَهْجَةٍ أَصْدَقَ مِنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ شَبِيهِ عِيسَى بْنِ مَرْيَمَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ أَتَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ لَهُ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ " فَاعْرِفُوهُ لَهُ

     ✧ The earth has not carried, nor the sky shaded, anyone more truthful in speech than Abu Dharr, who resembles Jesus son of Mary. 'Umar b. al-Khattab said, 'Do you acknowledge that for him?' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Then acknowledge it for him.'

182. Musnad al-Bazzar 4077No grade recorded

     يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، رَأَيْتُ كَأَنِّيَ وُزِنْتُ بِأَرْبَعِينَ أَنْتَ فِيهِمْ فَوَزَنْتُهُمْ

     ✧ O Abu Dharr, I saw as if I were weighed against forty, you being among them, and I outweighed them.

183. Musnad al-Bazzar 4078No grade recorded

     " مَنْ شَرِبَ الْخَمْرَ لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةٌ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، فَإِنْ تَابَ تَابَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ، فَإِنْ عَادَ كَانَ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ، فَإِنْ عَادَ كَانَ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ قَالَ: مَا أَدْرِي أَفِي الثَّالِثَةِ أَمْ فِي الرَّابِعَةِ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " فَإِنْ عَادَ كَانَ حَقًّا عَلَى اللهِ أَنْ يَسْقِيَهُ مِنْ طِينَةِ الْخَبَالِ " قِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَمَا طِينَةُ الْخَبَالِ ؟ قَالَ: عُصَارَةُ أَهْلِ النَّارِ

     ✧ Whoever drinks wine, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights. If he repents, Allah will turn to him. If he returns, it will be the same. If he returns, it will be the same. He said: I do not know whether in the third or the fourth. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'If he returns, it is incumbent upon Allah to make him drink from the mud of khabal.' It was said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what is the mud of khabal?' He said: 'The pus of the people of Hell.'

184. Musnad al-Bazzar 4079No grade recorded

     " كِثَفُ الْأَرْضِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِ مِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَبَيْنَ الْأَرْضِ الْعُلْيَا وَبَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا خَمْسُ مِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَكِثَفُهَا خَمْسُ مِائَةِ عَامٍ وَكِثَفُ الثَّانِيَةِ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ، وَمَا بَيْنَ كُلِّ أَرَضِينَ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ، وَمَا بَيْنَ الْأَرْضِ الْعُلْيَا وَالسَّمَاءِ خَمْسُ مِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَكِثَفُ السَّمَاءِ خَمْسُ مِائَةِ عَامٍ، وَمَا بَيْنَ سَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَالثَّانِيَةِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ وَكِثَفُ السَّمَاءِ خَمْسُمِائَةِ عَامٍ، ثُمَّ كُلُّ سَمَاءٍ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى بَلَغَ السَّابِعَةَ، ثُمَّ مَا بَيْنَ السَّابِعَةِ إِلَى الْعَرْشِ مَسِيرَةُ مَا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ

     ✧ The thickness of the earth is a journey of five hundred years, and between the highest earth and the lowest heaven is five hundred years, and its thickness is five hundred years, and the thickness of the second is like that, and between each pair of earths is like that, and between the highest earth and the heaven is five hundred years, and the thickness of the heaven is five hundred years, and between the lowest heaven and the second is a journey of five hundred years and the thickness of the heaven is five hundred years. Then every heaven is like that until it reaches the seventh. Then between the seventh and the Throne is the distance of all that combined.

185. Musnad al-Bazzar 4080No grade recorded

     " أَفْضَلُ الْعَمَلِ الْحُبُّ فِي اللهِ وَالْبُغْضُ فِي اللهِ

     ✧ The best deed is love for the sake of Allah and hatred for the sake of Allah.

186. Musnad al-Bazzar 4081No grade recorded

     " أُعْطِيتُ خَمْسًا لَمْ يُعْطَهُنَّ أَحَدٌ قَبْلِي جُعِلَتْ لِي الْأَرْضُ طَهُورًا وَمَسْجِدًا، وَأُحِلَّتْ لِيَ الْغَنَائِمُ وَلَمْ تَحِلَّ لِنَبِيٍّ كَانَ قَبْلِي، وَنُصِرْتُ بِالرُّعْبِ مَسِيرَةَ شَهْرٍ عَلَى عَدُوِّي، وَبُعِثْتُ إِلَى كُلِّ أَحْمَرَ وَأَسْوَدَ، وَأُعْطِيتُ الشَّفَاعَةَ وَهِيَ نَائِلَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي مَنْ مَاتَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللهِ شَيْئًا

     ✧ I was given five things that no one before me was given: the earth was made a purification and a mosque for me, war booty was made lawful for me and it was not lawful for any prophet before me, I was aided with awe for a month's distance over my enemy, I was sent to all red and black, and I was given intercession, which is attainable for my community—whoever dies without associating anything with Allah.

187. Musnad al-Bazzar 4082No grade recorded

     قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: مَا تَقُولُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ ؟ قَالَ: تَمَامُ الْعَمَلِ قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَسْأَلُكَ عَنِ الصَّدَقَةِ قَالَ: " الصَّدَقَةُ شَيْءٌ عَجَبٌ " قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، تَرَكْتُ أَفْضَلَ عَمَلٍ فِي نَفْسِي أَوْ خَيْرَهُ قَالَ: مَا هُوَ ؟ قُلْتُ: الصَّوْمُ قَالَ: " خَيْرٌ وَلَيْسَ هُنَاكَ " قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَأَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ وَذَكَرَ كَلِمَةً، قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ أَوْ أَقْدِرْ قَالَ: " بِفَضْلِ طَعَامِكَ "، قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ: " بِشِقِّ تَمْرَةٍ " قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ: " فَبِكَلِمَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ " قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ، قَالَ: " دَعِ النَّاسَ مِنَ الشَّرِّ، فَإِنَّهَا صَدَقَةٌ تَتَصَدَّقُ بِهَا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ " قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ: " فَأَمِطِ الْأَذَى " قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ: " تُرِيدُ أَنْ لَا تَدَعَ فِيكَ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ شَيْئًا

     ✧ I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what do you say about prayer?' He said: 'It is the completion of deeds.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I ask you about charity.' He said: 'Charity is something amazing.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I have left the best deed in my soul or its good.' He said: 'What is it?' I said: 'Fasting.' He said: 'It is good, but there is nothing beyond it.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which charity is best?' And he mentioned a word. I said: 'What if I cannot do it or am unable?' He said: 'With surplus food.' I said: 'What if I cannot do it?' He said: 'With half a date.' I said: 'What if I cannot do it?' He said: 'Then with a good word.' I said: 'What if I cannot do it?' He said: 'Refrain from harming people, for it is a charity you give to yourself.' I said: 'What if I cannot do it?' He said: 'Then remove harm.' I said: 'What if I cannot do it?' He said: 'You want to leave no good in you at all.'