12. ✧ The letter Sin
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 467No grade recorded
لَا تَنَاجَشُوا، وَلَا يَبِيعُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى بَيْعِ أَخِيهِ، وَلَا يَبِيعُ حَاضِرٌ لِبَادٍ، وَلَا يَخْطُبُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى خِطْبَةِ أَخِيهِ، وَلَا تَسْأَلُ الْمَرْأَةُ طَلَاقَ أُخْتِهَا لِتَكْفَأَ مَا فِي إِنَائِهَا
✧ Do not use artificial bidding to raise prices (najash), and let no man sell over the sale of his brother, and let no settled person sell on behalf of a desert dweller, and let no man propose marriage over the proposal of his brother, and let no woman ask for the divorce of her sister so as to empty her vessel.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 468No grade recorded
ذَكَاةُ الْجَنِينِ ذَكَاةُ أُمِّهِ
✧ The slaughter of the fetus is the slaughter of its mother.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 469No grade recorded
بَيْنَمَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ إِذْ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ يَتَخَطَّى رِقَابَ النَّاسِ حَتَّى جَلَسَ قَرِيبًا مِنَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَلَمَّا قَضَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَاتَهُ قَالَ: مَا مَنَعَكَ يَا فُلَانُ أَنْ تُجَمِّعَ ؟ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَدْ حَرَصْتُ أَنْ أَضَعَ نَفْسِي بِالْمَكَانِ الَّذِي تَرَى قَالَ: " قَدْ رَأَيْتُكَ تَخَطَّى رِقَابَ النَّاسِ وَتُؤْذِيهِمْ، مَنْ آذَى مُسْلِمًا فَقَدْ آذَانِي، وَمَنْ آذَانِي فَقَدْ آذَى اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
✧ While the Messenger of God ﷺ was delivering a sermon, a man came stepping over people's necks until he sat close to the Prophet ﷺ. When the Messenger of God ﷺ finished his prayer, he said: "What prevented you, O so-and-so, from coming to Friday prayer?" He said: "O Messenger of God, I was keen to place myself in the place you see." He said: "I saw you stepping over people's necks and harming them. Whoever harms a Muslim has harmed me, and whoever harms me has harmed God, Mighty and Majestic."
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 470No grade recorded
مِنْ يُمْنِ الْمَرْأَةِ تَيْسِيرُ خِطْبَتِهَا، وَتَيْسِيرُ صَدَاقِهَا ". قَالَ عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ: وَأَقُولُ أَنَا: مِنْ أَوَّلِ شُؤْمِهَا أَنْ يَكْثُرَ صَدَاقُهَا
✧ "It is from a woman's blessedness that her engagement is easy and her dowry is easy." Urwah b. al-Zubayr said: "And I say: It is from the first of her ill-omen that her dowry be large."
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 471No grade recorded
مَنْ أَدْخَلَ فَرَسًا بَيْنَ فَرَسَيْنِ وَهُوَ يَأْمَنُ أَنْ يُسْبَقَ فَهُوَ قِمَارٌ
✧ Whoever enters a horse between two horses while he is safe from being beaten, it is gambling.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 472No grade recorded
تُفْتَحُ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ لِخَمْسٍ: لِقِرَاءَةِ الْقُرْآنِ، وَلِلِقَاءِ الزَّحْفَيْنِ، وَلِنُزُولِ الْقَطْرِ، وَلِدَعْوَةِ الْمَظْلُومِ، وَالْأَذَانِ
✧ The gates of heaven are opened for five: for the recitation of the Quran, for the meeting of two armies, for the descent of rain, for the supplication of the wronged, and for the call to prayer.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 473No grade recorded
مَنْ لَمْ يَدَعِ الْخَنَا وَالْكَذِبَ فَلَا حَاجَةَ لِلهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي أَنْ يَدَعَ طَعَامَهُ وَشَرَابَهُ
✧ Whoever does not abandon obscene speech and lying, God, Mighty and Majestic, has no need for him to abandon his food and drink.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 474No grade recorded
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ سَجَدَ فِي صَلَاةِ الصُّبْحِ بِتَنْزِيلِ السَّجْدَةِ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ prostrated in the dawn prayer with the Sūrah of the Prostration.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 475No grade recorded
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ فِي بَعْضِ مَخَارِجِهِ وَمَعَهُ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَحَضَرَتِ الصَّلَاةُ، فَلَمْ يَجِدِ الْقَوْمُ مَا يَتَوَضَّأُونَ بِهِ، فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا نَجِدُ مَا نَتَوَضَّأُ بِهِ، فَانْطَلَقَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ فَجَاءَ بِقَدَحِ مَاءٍ يَسِيرٍ، فَتَوَضَّأَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، ثُمَّ مَدَّ أَصَابِعَهُ عَلَى الْقَدَحِ فَتَوَضَّأُوا كُلُّهُمْ حَتَّى بَلَغُوا مَا يُرِيدُونَ، قَالَ أَنَسٌ: كَانُوا قَرِيبًا مِنْ سَبْعِينَ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ was on one of his journeys with a group of his companions, and the time for prayer came. The people did not find anything to perform ablution with. They said: "O Messenger of God, we do not find anything to perform ablution with." A man from the group went off and came with a small vessel of water. The Messenger of God ﷺ performed ablution, then extended his fingers over the vessel, and they all performed ablution until they achieved what they wanted. Anas said: "They were close to seventy."
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 476No grade recorded
أَدِّ الْأَمَانَةَ إِلَى مَنِ ائْتَمَنَكَ، وَلَا تَخُنْ مَنْ خَانَكَ
✧ Return the trust to the one who entrusted you, and do not betray the one who betrayed you.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 477No grade recorded
فَقَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ فِرَاشِهِ، فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّهُ قَامَ إِلَى جَارِيَتِهِ مَارِيَةَ، فَقُمْتُ أَلْتَمِسُ الْجِدَارَ، فَوَجَدْتُهُ قَائِمًا يُصَلِّي، فَأَدْخَلْتُ يَدِي فِي شَعَرِهِ لِأَنْظُرَ أَغْتَسَلَ أَمْ لَا، فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ قَالَ: أَخَذَكِ شَيْطَانُكِ يَا عَائِشَةُ، قُلْتُ: وَلِي شَيْطَانٌ ؟ فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، وَلِجَمِيعِ بَنِي آدَمَ قُلْتُ: وَلَكَ شَيْطَانٌ ؟ فَقَالَ [ قَالَ ]: نَعَمْ، وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ أَعَانَنِي عَلَيْهِ فَأَسْلَمَ
✧ I missed the Messenger of God ﷺ one night from his bed. I said: "He has gone to his slave-girl Māriyah." I got up and felt along the wall, and I found him standing praying. I put my hand into his hair to see whether he had performed a full ablution or not. When he finished, he said: "Your devil has taken hold of you, O ʿĀʾishah." I said: "Do I have a devil?" He said: "Yes, and all the children of Adam." I said: "And do you have a devil?" He said: "Yes, but God helped me against him, and he became Muslim."
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 478No grade recorded
صَلَاةٌ عَلَى إِثْرِ صَلَاةٍ لَا لَغْوَ بَيْنَهُمَا كِتَابٌ فِي عِلِّيِّينَ
✧ A prayer following a prayer with no idle talk between them is a record in ʿIlliyyīn.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 479No grade recorded
اثْنَانِ لَا تُجَاوِزُ صَلَاتُهُمَا رُؤُوسَهُمَا: عَبْدٌ آبِقٌ مِنْ مَوَالِيهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ إِلَيْهِمْ، وَامْرَأَةٌ عَصَتْ زَوْجَهَا حَتَّى تَرْجِعَ
✧ Two persons whose prayer does not go beyond their heads: a slave who has run away from his masters until he returns to them, and a woman who disobeys her husband until she returns.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 480No grade recorded
لَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ أَنْ آمُرَ رَجُلًا يُصَلِّي يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ بِالنَّاسِ، ثُمَّ أُحَرِّقَ عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَتَخَلَّفُونَ عَنْهَا بُيُوتَهُمْ
✧ I was about to order a man to lead the people in prayer on Friday, then burn the houses of a people who stay away from it.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 481No grade recorded
دَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَعِنْدَنَا صَبِيُّ يَشْتَكِي، فَقَالَ: مَا لَهُ ؟، فَقُلْنَا: اتَّهَمْنَا بِهِ الْعَيْنَ، فَقَالَ: أَلَا تَسْتَرْقُونَ لَهُ مِنَ الْعَيْنِ ؟
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered upon us while a young boy with us was complaining. He said: “What is wrong with him?” We said: “We suspected the evil eye in his case.” He said: “Will you not seek ruqya for him from the evil eye?”
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 482No grade recorded
أَنَّ بَرِيرَةَ أُعْتِقَتْ وَلَهَا زَوْجٌ، فَخَيَّرَهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَأَنَّ بَرِيرَةَ تُصُدِّقَ عَلَيْهَا بِلَحْمٍ، فَنَصَبُوهُ، فَقَدَّمُوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ طَعَامًا غَيْرَ اللَّحْمِ، فَقَالَ: أَلَمْ أَرَ عِنْدَكُمْ لَحْمًا ؟، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّمَا هُوَ شَيْءٌ تُصُدِّقَ بِهِ عَلَى بَرِيرَةَ، فَقَالَ: هُوَ لِبَرِيرَةَ صَدَقَةٌ، وَلَنَا هَدِيَّةٌ، وَإِنَّ بَرِيرَةَ جَاءَتْ إِلَى عَائِشَةَ تَسْتَعِينُهَا فِي كِتَابَتِهَا، فَقَالَتْ لَهَا عَائِشَةُ: إِنْ شَاءَ أَهْلُكِ اشْتَرَيْتُكِ، وَنَقَدْتُ ثَمَنَكِ عَنْكِ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً، فَذَهَبَتْ بَرِيرَةُ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا، فَقَالَتْ لَهُمْ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالُوا: وَلَنَا وَلَاؤُكِ، فَجَاءَتْ عَائِشَةَ، فَقَالَتْ: إِنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ وَلَاؤُكِ لَنَا، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " اشْتَرِيهَا فَإِنَّمَا الْوَلَاءُ لِمَنْ أَعْتَقَ
✧ Barira was manumitted while she had a husband, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave her the choice. Barira was given some meat as charity, so they hung it up, and they brought food other than the meat to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: “Did I not see meat with you?” They said: “It is only something that was given as charity to Barira.” He said: “For Barira it is charity, and for us it is a gift.” Barira came to Aisha seeking her help with her kitaba (contract of manumission). Aisha said to her: “If your owners wish, I will buy you and pay your price on your behalf in one payment.” Barira went to her owners and told them that. They said: “And your wala’ will be for us.” She came to Aisha and said: “They say your wala’ will be for us.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Buy her, for the wala’ belongs to the one who manumits.”
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 483No grade recorded
لَا تُشَدُّ الرِّحَالُ إِلَّا إِلَى ثَلَاثَةِ مَسَاجِدَ: مَسْجِدِي هَذَا، وَالْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ، وَالْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى، وَلَا تُسَافِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ فَوْقَ يَوْمَيْنِ إِلَّا وَمَعَهَا زَوْجُهَا أَوْ ذُو مَحْرَمٍ، وَلَا يُصَامُ يَوْمَانِ فِي السَّنَةِ: الْفِطْرُ وَالْأَضْحَى، وَلَا صَلَاةَ بَعْدَ صَلَاتَيْنِ: بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ، وَبَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ حَتَّى تَغْرُبَ الشَّمْسُ
✧ Journeys are not undertaken except to three mosques: this mosque of mine, the Sacred Mosque, and the Aqsa Mosque. A woman does not travel beyond two days except with her husband or a mahram. Two days in the year are not fasted: al-Fitr and al-Adha. There is no prayer after two prayers: after the Fajr prayer until the sun rises, and after Asr until the sun sets.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 484No grade recorded
لَمَّا قَدِمَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَكَّةَ أُتِيَ بِأَبِي قُحَافَةَ وَرَأْسُهُ وَلِحْيَتُهُ كَأَنَّهَا ثَغَامَةٌ، فَقَالَ: غَيِّرُوا الشَّيْبَ وَاجْتَنِبُوا السَّوَادَ
✧ When the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Makkah, Abu Quhafa was brought to him with his head and beard as white as the thaghamah plant. He said: “Change the grey hair, and avoid black dye.”
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 485No grade recorded
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا يَعُودُ مَرِيضًا إِلَّا بَعْدَ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not visit a sick person except after three days.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 486No grade recorded
لَا يَزْدَادُ الزَّمَانُ إِلَّا شِدَّةً، وَلَا يَزْدَادُ النَّاسُ إِلَّا شُحًّا، وَلَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ إِلَّا عَلَى شِرَارِ النَّاسِ
✧ Time does not increase except in severity, and people do not increase except in miserliness, and the Hour will not come except upon the worst of people.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 487No grade recorded
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَمَرَ سَهْلَةَ بِنْتَ سُهَيْلٍ وَهِيَ مُسْتَحَاضَةٌ أَنْ تَغْتَسِلَ لِكُلِّ صَلَاةٍ فَشَقَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهَا، وَأَمَرَهَا أَنْ تَجْمَعَ بَيْنَ الظُّهْرِ وَالْعَصْرِ فِي غُسْلٍ، وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَالْعِشَاءِ فِي غُسْلٍ، وَتَغْتَسِلَ لِلصُّبْحِ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded Sahla bt. Suhayl, who was suffering from istihada (non-menstrual bleeding), to perform ghusl for every prayer. That was difficult for her, so he commanded her to combine Zuhr and Asr with one ghusl, and Maghrib and Isha with one ghusl, and to perform ghusl for Subh.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 488No grade recorded
بَاشَرَنِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ صَائِمٌ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had direct skin contact with me while he was fasting.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 489No grade recorded
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ دَخَلَ عَلَى عَائِشَةَ وَحَفْصَةَ وَهُمَا صَائِمَتَانِ، ثُمَّ خَرَجَ وَرَجَعَ وَهُمَا يَأْكُلَانِ، فَقَالَ: أَلَمْ تَكُونَا صَائِمَتَيْنِ ؟ قَالَتَا: بَلَى، وَلَكِنْ أُهْدِيَ لَنَا هَذَا الطَّعَامُ، فَأَعْجَبَنَا، فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهُ، فَقَالَ: صُومَا يَوْمًا مَكَانَهُ
✧ The Prophet ﷺ entered upon Aisha and Hafsa while they were both fasting. Then he left and returned while they were eating. He said: “Were you not fasting?” They said: “Yes, but this food was given to us as a gift, and it pleased us, so we ate from it.” He said: “Fast another day in its place.”
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 490No grade recorded
أَنَّهُ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَرَآهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَشْعَثَ أَغْبَرَ فِي هَيْئَةِ أَعْرَابِيٍّ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: مَا لَكَ مِنَ الْمَالِ ؟، فَقَالَ: مِنْ كُلِّ الْمَالِ قَدْ آتَانِيَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، قَالَ: فَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِذَا أَنْعَمَ عَلَى الْعَبْدِ نِعْمَةً أَحَبَّ أَنْ تُرَى عَلَيْهِ
✧ He came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw him disheveled and dusty in the appearance of a Bedouin. He said to him: “What wealth do you have?” He said: “Of every kind of wealth, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has given me.” He said: “When Allah, Mighty and Majestic, bestows a blessing upon a servant, He loves to see its trace upon him.”
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 491No grade recorded
سُورَةٌ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هِيَ إِلَّا ثَلَاثُونَ آيَةً خَاصَمَتْ عَنْ صَاحِبِهَا حَتَّى أَدْخَلَتْهُ الْجَنَّةَ، وَهِيَ سُورَةُ تَبَارَكَ
✧ A surah of the Quran, which is only thirty verses, will argue on behalf of its companion until it enters him into Paradise, and it is Surah Tabarak.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 492No grade recorded
مَنْ جُعِلَ قَاضِيًا فَقَدْ ذُبِحَ بِغَيْرِ سِكِّينٍ
✧ Whoever is made a judge has been slaughtered without a knife.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 493No grade recorded
كُنْتُ أَغْتَسِلُ أَنَا وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مِنْ إِنَاءٍ وَاحِدٍ، فَأَقُولُ: أَبْقِ لِي أَبْقِ لِي
✧ I used to perform ghusl, I and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, from a single vessel, and I would say, "Leave some for me, leave some for me."
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 494No grade recorded
كُلُّ شَرْطٍ لَيْسَ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ فَهُوَ بَاطِلٌ وَإِنْ كَانَ مِائَةَ شَرْطٍ
✧ Every condition that is not in the Book of Allah is invalid, even if it is a hundred conditions.
al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 495No grade recorded
اسْتَحْيُوا مِنَ اللهِ حَقَّ الْحَيَاءِ قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّا لَنَسْتَحْيِي وَالْحَمْدُ لِلهِ، فَقَالَ: مَنِ اسْتَحْيَا مِنَ اللهِ حَقَّ الْحَيَاءِ فَلْيَحْفَظِ الرَّأْسَ وَمَا وَعَى، وَالْبَطْنَ وَمَا حَوَى، وَلْيَذْكُرِ الْمَوْتَ وَالْبَلَاءَ، وَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْآخِرَةَ تَرَكَ زِينَةَ الدُّنْيَا، فَمَنْ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ فَقَدِ اسْتَحْيَا مِنَ اللهِ حَقَّ الْحَيَاءِ
✧ "Be shy of Allah with true shyness." They said, "O Messenger of Allah, we are shy, and praise be to Allah." He said, "Whoever is shy of Allah with true shyness, let him guard the head and what it contains, and the belly and what it encloses, and let him remember death and affliction. And whoever desires the Hereafter, let him abandon the adornment of this world. Whoever does that has been shy of Allah with true shyness."