I used to go to the place of prayer on the day of the breaking ofthe fast, and on the day of sacrifice along with the Companionsof the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him). We would walkthrough a valley known as Batn Bathan till we came to the placeof prayer. Then we would pray along with the Apostle of Allah(peace be upon him) and return through Batn Bathan to our house.

Allah's Apostle prayed facing Baitul-Maqdis for sixteen or seventeen months but he loved to face the Ka'ba (at Mecca) so Allah revealed: "Verily, We have seen the turning of your face to the heaven!" (2.144) So the Prophet faced the Ka'ba and the fools amongst the people namely "the Jews" said, "What has turned them from their Qibla (Baitul-Maqdis) which they formerly observed" (Allah revealed): "Say: 'To Allah belongs the East and the West. He guides whom he will to a straight path'." (2.142) A man prayed with the Prophet (facing the Ka'ba) and went out. He saw some of the Ansar praying the 'Asr prayer with their faces towards Baitul-Maqdis, he said, "I bear witness that I prayed with Allah's Apostle facing the Ka'ba." So all the people turned their faces towards the Ka'ba.

When Allah bestowed Khaybar on the Apostle of Allah (peace beupon him) as fay' (spoils of war without fighting), he dividedthe whole into thirty six lots. He put aside a half, i.e.eighteen lots, for the Muslims. Each lot comprised one hundredshares, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) was with them. Hereceived a share like the share of one of them. The Apostle ofAllah (peace be upon him) separated eighteen lots, that is, half,for his future needs and whatever befell the Muslims. These wereal-Watih, al-Kutaybah, as-Salalim and their colleagues. When allthis property came in the possession of the Prophet (peace beupon him) and of the Muslims, they did not have sufficientlabourers to work on it. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)called Jews and employed them on contract.

(Ibn Ubayd said in the version of his tradition that his name wasnot Bashir, but (it was) the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)(who had) named him Bashir) We said: (to the Apostle of Allah):The collectors of sadaqah collect more than is due; can we hideour property to that proportion? He replied: "No."

Bashir's name in pre-Islamic days was Zahm ibn Ma'bad. When hemigrated to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him). He asked:What is your name? He replied: Zahm. He said: No, you areBashir. He (Bashir) said: When I was walking with the Apostle ofAllah (peace be upon him) he passed by the graves of thepolytheists. He said: They lived before (a period of) abundantgood. He said this three times. He then passed by the graves ofMuslims. He said: They received abundant good. The Apostle ofAllah (peace be upon him) suddenly saw a man walking in shoesbetween the graves. He said: O man, wearing the shoes! Woe tothee! Take off thy shoes. So the man looked (round), When herecognized the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him), he took themoff and threw them away.

A man from the Ansar called Basrah said: I married a virgin womanin her veil. When I entered upon her, I found her pregnant. (Imentioned this to the Prophet). The Prophet (peace be upon him)said: She will get the dower, for you made her vagina lawful foryou. The child will be your slave. When she has begotten (achild), flog her (according to the version of al-Hasan). Theversion of Ibn AbusSari has: You people, flog her, or said:inflict hard punishment on him.

Ziyadah al-Kindi reported on the authority of Bilal that he(Bilal) came to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) toinform him about the dawn prayer. Aisha kept Bilal engaged in amatter which she asked him till the day was bright and it becamefairly light. Bilal then stood up and called him to prayer andcalled him repeatedly. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)did not yet come out. When he came out, he led the people inprayer and he (Bilal) informed him that Aisha had kept himengaged in a matter which she asked him till it became fairlylight; hence he became late in reaching him (in time). He (Bilal)said: Apostle of Allah, the dawn became fairly bright. He said:If the dawn became brighter than it is now, I would pray them(the two rak'ahs of the sunnah prayer), offer them well and in amore beautiful manner.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said to Bilal: Do notcall adhan until the dawn appears clearly to you in this way,stretching his hand in latitude.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said to me: Don't pronounce these words, `Prayer is better than sleep ' in the call for prayer, but for the dawn prayer only.

Transmitted by Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: He who revived a Sunnah out of my Sunan, which has died after me, for him is the reward like the reward of those who acted upon it, without any decrease in that reward. He who introduced some evil innovation which Allah and His Messenger did not approve has (a burden of sin upon him) like the sins of one who acted according to it, without their sins being mitigated thereby in the least.

Transmitted by Tirmidhi.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man says something, not realising its import, which is pleasing to Allah, in consequence of which Allah decrees His pleasure for him till the day when he will meet Him. A man says something, not realising its import, which displeases Allah, in consequence of which Allah decrees His displeasure for him till the day when he will meet Him.

Transmitted by Malik and Tirmidhi.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) wiped over the socksand turban. In the hadith transmitted by Isa ibn Yunus the wordsare: 'Bilal narrated it to me."

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "A man speaks a good word, not realising its worth, for which Allah records for him His good pleasure till the day he meets Him. A man also speaks an evil word not realising its importance for which Allah records for him His displeasure till the day he meets Him."

It is transmitted in Sharh as-Sunnah; and Malik, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted something to the same effect.

I asked: Apostle of Allah, is the (command of) cancelling hajjmeant exclusively for us, or for others too? He replied: No, thisis meant exclusively for you.

Salim ibn Abdullah reported his father (Allah be pleased withhim) saying: I saw Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) enteringthe Ka'bah, and Usamah ibn Zayd, Bilal and Uthman ibn Talhah werealong with him, but none (else) entered therein along with them.Then the door was closed for them from within. Abdullah ibn Umar(Allah be pleased with them) said: Bilal or Uthman ibn Talhahinformed me that Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) observedprayer in the interior of the Ka'bah between the two Yemenitepillars.

as above (No. 290) adding: The Prophet was reclining (leaning) and then he sat up saying, "And I warn you against giving a false statement." And he kept on saying that warning so much so that we said, "Would that he had stopped."

My father sought permission from the Prophet (peace be upon him).(When permission was granted and he came near him) he lifted hisshirt, and began to kiss him and embrace him (out of love forhim). He asked: Apostle of Allah, what is the thing which it isunlawful to refuse? He replied: Water. He again asked: Prophet ofAllah, what is the thing which it is unlawful to refuse? Hereplied: Salt. He again asked: Prophet of Allah, what is thething which it is unlawful to refuse? He said: To do good isbetter for you.

That Kuraib, the freed slave of Ibn Abbas told him that Ibn Abbas, 'Abdur-Rahman bin Azhar and Al-Miswar bin Makhrama sent him to 'Aisha saying, "Pay her our greetings and ask her about our offering of the two-Rak'at after 'Asr Prayer, and tell her that we have been informed that you offer these two Rakat while we have heard that the Prophet had forbidden their offering." Ibn 'Abbas said, "I and 'Umar used to beat the people for their offering them." Kuraib added, "I entered upon her and delivered their message to her. She said, 'Ask Um Salama.' So, I informed them (of 'Aisha's answer) and they sent me to Um Salama for the same purpose as they sent me to 'Aisha. Um Salama replied, 'I heard the Prophet forbidding the offering of these two Rakat. Once the Prophet offered the 'Asr prayer, and then came to me. And at that time some Ansari women from the Tribe of Banu Haram were with me. Then (the Prophet ) offered those two Rakat, and I sent my (lady) servant to him, saying, 'Stand beside him and say (to him): Um Salama says, "O Allah's Apostle! Didn't I hear you forbidding the offering of these two Rakat (after the Asr prayer yet I see you offering them?" And if he beckons to you with his hand, then wait behind.' So the lady slave did that and the Prophet beckoned her with his hand, and she stayed behind, and when the Prophet finished his prayer, he said, 'O the daughter of Abu Umaiya (i.e. Um Salama), you were asking me about these two Rakat after the 'Asr prayer. In fact, some people from the tribe of 'Abdul Qais came to me to embrace Islam and busied me so much that I did not offer the two Rakat which were offered after Zuhr compulsory prayer, and these two Rakat (you have seen me offering) make up for those.' "

The Prophet sent 'Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and 'Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, "Don't you see this (i.e. Ali)?" When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, "O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumus."

That he fought sixteen Ghazawat with Allah's Apostle.

When the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) appointed anyoneas leader of an army or detachment he would especially exhort himto fear Allah and to be good to the Muslims who were with him. He would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the cause ofAllah. Fight against those who do not believe in Allah. Wage aholy war: do not embezzle the spoils, do not break your pledge,do not mutilate (the dead) bodies and do not kill the children. When you meet enemies who are polytheists, invite them to threecourses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you alsoaccept it and restrain yourself from doing them any harm. Invitethem to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it fromthem and desist from fighting against them. Then invite them tomigrate from their lands to the land of Muhajirs and inform themthat, if they do so, they shall have all the privileges andobligations of the Muhajirs. If they refuse to migrate, tell themthat they will have the status of Bedouin Muslims and will besubjected to the Commands of Allah like other Muslims, but theywill not receive any share from the spoils of war or Fay' exceptwhen they actually fight with the Muslims (against thenonbelievers). If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from themthe Jizyah. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and holdyour hand. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help andfight them. When you lay siege to a fort and the besieged appealto you for protection in the name of Allah and His Prophet, donot accord to them the guarantee of Allah and His Prophet, butaccord to them your own guarantee and the guarantee of yourcompanions. It is a lesser sin that the security given by you oryour companions be disregarded than that the security granted inthe name of Allah and His Prophet be violated. When you besiege afort and the besieged want you to let them out in accordance withAllah's Command, do not let them come out in accordance with HisCommand, but do so at your (own) command, for you do not knowwhether or not you will be able to carry out Allah's behest withregard to them.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) appointed a sixth to agrandmother if no mother is left to inherit before her.

Someone asked the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) about thetime of prayer. Upon this he said: Pray with us these two,meaning for two days. When the sun passed the meridian, he gavethe command to Bilal who uttered the call to prayer, then hecommanded him to pronounce the Iqamah for noon prayer. (Then atthe time of the afternoon prayer) he again gave the command andthe Iqamah for the afternoon prayer was pronounced when the sunwas high, white and clear. He then commanded and Iqamah for theevening prayer was pronounced, when the sun had set. He then gavehim the command and the Iqamah for the night prayer waspronounced when the twilight had disappeared. Later he gave himthe command and the Iqamah for the morning prayer was pronouncedwhen the dawn had appeared. When it was the next day, hecommanded him to delay the noon prayer until the extreme heat hadpassed and he did so, and he allowed it to be delayed till theextreme heat had passed. He observed the afternoon prayer whenthe sun was high, delaying it beyond the time he had previouslyobserved it. He observed the evening prayer before the twilighthad vanished; he observed the night prayer when a third of thenight had passed; and he observed the dawn prayer when there wasclear daylight. He (the Holy Prophet) then said: Where is theman who inquired about the time of prayer? He (the inquirer)said: Messenger of Allah! Here I am. He (the Holy Prophet) said:The time for your prayer is within the limits of what you haveseen.

Ma'iz ibn Malik came to Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) andsaid to him: Messenger of Allah, purify me. Thereupon he said:Woe to you, go back, ask forgiveness of Allah and turn to Him inrepentance. He (the narrator) said that he went off a little way,then came and said: Messenger of Allah purify me. The Messengerof Allah said: Woe be upon you, go back and ask forgiveness ofAllah and turn to Him in repentance. He (the narrator) said thathe went off a little way, then he came and said: Allah'sMessenger, purify me. Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) said ashe had said before. When it was the fourth time, Allah'sMessenger (peace be upon him) said: From what am I to purify you? He said: From adultery. Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him)asked if he had been mad. He was informed that he was not mad. He said: Has he drunk wine? someone stood up and smelt his breathbut noticed no smell of wine. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (maypeace) be upon him) said: Have you committed adultery?He said:Yes. He made a pronouncement about him and he was stoned todeath.The people had been (divided) into two groups about him(Ma'iz). One of them said: He has been undone for his sins haveencompassed him, whereas another said: There is no repentancemore excellent than the repentance of Ma'iz, for he came toAllah's Apostle (peace be upon him) and placing his hand in his(in the Holy Prophet's) hand said: Kill me with stones. (Thiscontroversy about Ma'is) remained for two or three days. Thencame Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) to them (hiscompanions) as they were sitting. He greeted them with asalutation and then sat down and said: Ask forgiveness for Ma'izibn Malik. They said: May Allah forgive Ma'iz ibn Malik. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: He (Ma'iz)has made such a repentance that if that were to be divided amonga people, it would have been enough for all of them. He (thenarrator) said: Then a woman of Ghamid, a branch of Azd, came tohim and said: Messenger of Allah, purify me. Thereupon he said:Woe to you; go back and beg forgiveness from Allah and turn toHim in repentance. She said: I find that you intend to send meback as you sent back Ma'iz ibn Malik.He (the Holy Prophet)said: What has happened to you? She said that she had becomepregnant as a result of fornication. He (the Holy Prophet) said:Is it you (who has done that)?She said: Yes.He (the HolyProphet) said to her: (You will not be punished) until you givebirth to that which is there in your womb. One of the Ansarbecame responsible for her until she was delivered (of thechild). He (that Ansar) came to Allah's Apostle (peace be uponhim) and said: The woman of Ghamid has given birth to a child. He (the Holy Prophet) said: In that case we shall not stone herand so leave her infant with none to breast-feed him. One of theAnsar got up and said: Allah's Apostle, let the responsibility ofhis nursing be upon me. She was then stoned to death.

A man of Khuza'ah died and his estate was brought to the Prophet(peace be upon him). He said: Look for his heir or some relative.But they found neither heir nor relative. The Apostle of Allah(peace be upon him) said: Give it to the leading man of Khuza'ah.The narrator Yahya said: Sometimes I heard him (al-Husayn ibnAswad) say in this tradition: Look for the greatest man ofKhuza'ah.

A man came to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) and said:I have property left by a man of Azd. I do not find any man ofAzd to give it to him. He said: Go and look for man of Azd for ayear. He then came to him after one year and said: Apostle ofAllah, I did not find any man of Azd to give it to him. He said:Look for a man of Khuza'ah whom you meet first and give it tohim. When he turned away, he said; Call the man to me. When hecame to him, he said: Look for the leading man of Khuza'ah andgive it to him.

When a boy was born to one of us in the pre-Islamic period, wesacrificed a sheep and smeared his head with its blood; but whenAllah brought Islam, we sacrificed a sheep, shaved his head andsmeared his head with saffron.

While the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) was walking a manwho had an ass came to him and said: Apostle of Allah, ride; andthe man moved to the back of the animal. The Apostle of Allah(peace be upon him) said: No, you have more right to ride infront on your animal than me unless you grant that right to me.He said: I grant it to you. So he mounted.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: to Ali: Do not give asecond look, Ali, (because) while you are not to blame for thefirst, you have no right to the second.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) heard a man saying: OAllah, I ask Thee, I bear witness that there is no god but Thou,the One, He to Whom men repair, Who has not begotten, and has notbeen begotten, and to Whom no one is equal, and he said: You havesupplicated Allah using His Greatest Name, when asked with thisname He gives, and when supplicated by this name he answers.

I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) say: The witr isa duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong to us; thewitr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong tous; the witr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does notbelong to us.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) delivered a speech tous; meanwhile al-Hasan and al-Husayn came upon there stumbling,wearing red shirts. He came down from the pulpit, took them andascended it with them. He then said: Allah truly said: "Yourproperty and your children are only trial" (Ixiv.15). I saw bothof them, and I could not wait. Afterwards he resumed the speech.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) prohibited us to pray ina sheet of cloth without crossing both its ends, and he alsoprohibited us to pray in a wrapper without putting on a sheet.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Give good tidings to thosewho walk to the mosques in darkness for having a perfect light onthe Day of Judgment.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: He who swears by Amanah(faithfulness) is not one of our number.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If anyone takes an oath andsays: I am free from Islam; now if he is a liar (in his oath), hewill not return to Islam with soundness.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Judges are of three types,one of whom will go to Paradise and two to Hell. The one who willgo to Paradise is a man who knows what is right and givesjudgment accordingly; but a man who knows what is right and actstyrannically in his judgment will go to Hell; and a man who givesjudgment for people when he is ignorant will go to Hell.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: I forbade you three things,and now I command (permit) you for them. I forbade you to visitgraves, now you may visit them, for in visiting them there isadmonition. I forbade you drinks except from skin vessels, butnow you may drink from any kind of vessels, but do not drink anintoxicant. I forbade you to eat the meat of sacrificial animalsafter three days, but now you may eat and enjoy it during yourjourneys.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) did not take omens from anything,but when he sent out an agent he asked about his name. If itpleased him, he was glad about it, and his cheerfulness on thataccount was visible in his face. If he disliked his name, hisdispleasure on that account was visible in his face. When heentered a village, he asked about its name, and if it pleasedhim, he was glad about it, and his cheerfulness on that accountwas visible in his face. But if he disliked its name, hisdispleasure on that account was visible in his face.

A man came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and he was wearinga signet-ring of yellow copper. He said to him: How is it that Inotice the odour of idols in you? So he threw it away, and camewearing an iron signet ring. He (the Prophet) said: What is itthat I see you wearing the adornment of the inhabitants of Hell?So he threw it away. He asked: Apostle of Allah, what material Imust use? He said: Make it of silver, but do not weigh it as muchas a mithqal,

We, the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him),used to talk mutually: Would that al-Ghamidiyyah and Ma'iz ibnMalik had withdrawn after their confession; or he said: Had theynot withdrawn after their confession, he would not have pursuedthem (for punishment). He had them stoned after the fourth(confession).

A woman threw a stone at another woman and she aborted. Thedispute was brought to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him).He gave judgment that five hundred sheep should be paid for her(unborn) child, and forbade throwing stones.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Do not call a hypocritesayyid (master), for if he is a sayyid, you will displease yourLord, Most High.

I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) say: Ineloquence there is magic, in knowledge ignorance, in poetrywisdom, and in speech heaviness. Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhan said: TheProphet of Allah (peace be upon him) spoke the truth. Hisstatement "In eloquence there is magic" means: (For example),there is a right due from a man who is more eloquent in reasoningthan the man who is demanding his right. He (the defendant)charms the people by his speech and takes away his right. Hisstatement "In knowledge there is ignorance" means: A scholarbrings to his knowledge what he does not know, and thus hebecomes ignorant of that. His statement "In poetry there iswisdom" means: These are the sermons and examples by which peoplereceive admonition. His statement "In speech there is heaviness"means: That you present your speech and your talk to a man who isnot capable of understanding it, and who does not want it.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If anyone says in themorning or in the evening: "O Allah! Thou art my Lord; there isno god but Thee, Thou hast created me, and I am Thy servant andhold to Thy covenant and promise as much as I can; I seek refugein Thee from the evil of what I have done: I acknowledge Thyfavour to me, and I acknowledge my sin; pardon me, for none butThee pardons sins, and dies during the daytime or during thenight." he will go to Paradise.

I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) say: A humanbeing has three hundred and sixty joints for each of which hemust give alms. The people asked him: Who is capable of doingthis ? He replied: It may be mucus in the mosque which you bury,and something which you remove from the road; but if you do notfind such, two rak'ahs in the forenoon will be sufficient foryou.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: The covenant that is between us and them is (on the basis of) prayer, so he who (abandons it, in fact shows) infidelity (to Allah).

Transmitted by Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Nasa'i and Ibn Majah.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: That which distinguishes us from the disbelievers and hypocrites is our commitment to Prayer. He who gives it up falls into disbelief.

Transmitted by Tirmidhi.

Buraydah told how one morning Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him), called Bilal and said, "What did you do to get to paradise before me? I have never entered paradise without hearing the rustling of your garments in front of me." He replied, "Messenger of Allah, I have never called the Adhan without praying two rak'ahs, and no impurity has ever happened to me without my performing ablution on the spot and thinking that I owed Allah two rak'ahs." Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "It is because of them."

Tirmidhi transmitted it.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) did not go out on the day of the breaking of the fast till he had some food, but he did not take any food on the day of sacrifice till he had prayed.

Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "The believer dies with the sweat on his brow."

Tirmidhi, Nasa'i and Ibn Majah transmitted it.

Once when Bilal went in to visit Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) while he was having his morning meal he invited him to join him, and when Bilal replied that he was fasting, he said, "We are eating our provision and Bilal's superior provision is in Paradise. Did you know, Bilal, that the bones of one who fasts extol Allah and that the angels ask forgiveness for him as long as people eat beside him?"

Bayhaqi transmitted it in Shu'ab al-Iman.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "If anyone recites the Qur'an, seeking thereby to receive a living from people, he will come on the Day of Resurrection with his face as a fleshless bone."

Bayhaqi transmitted it in Shu'ab al-Iman.

Khalid ibn al-Walid complained to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) that he was afflicted by sleeplessness at night, and Allah's Prophet (peace be upon him) told him to say when he went to his bed, "O Allah, Lord of the seven heavens and what they overshadow, Lord of the earths and what they carry, Lord of the devils and what they lead astray, be a Protector to me from the evil of Thy entire creation lest any of them do evil or act wrongfully to me. Strong is Thy protection and glorious is Thy praise. There is no god other than Thee. There is no god but Thee."

Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a tradition whose isnad is not strong, and the traditions of al-Hakam ibn Zuhayr, the transmitter, are abandoned by some traditionists.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) appointed a sixth to a grandmother if no mother were left to inherit before her.

AbuDawud transmitted it.

The Negus presented the Prophet with two plain black shoes and he wore them.

Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Tirmidhi added that he then performed ablution and wiped over them.

When a man asked Allah's Messenger whether there were any horses in Paradise, he replied, "If Allah brings you into Paradise you will not wish to be conveyed in it on a horse of red ruby which will fly with you in paradise wherever you wish without doing so." A man asked Allah's messenger whether there were any camels in paradise and he did not give him the same reply as he gave the other, but said, "If Allah brings you into Paradise you will have what your soul desires and your eye takes pleasure in."

Tirmidhi transmitted it.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "The inhabitants of Paradise will be in a hundred and twenty rows, eighty of them from this people and forty from the rest of the peoples."

Tirmidhi, Darimi and Bayhaqi, in Kitab al-Ba'th wan-Nushur, transmitted it.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Not one of my companions will die in a land without being raised as a leader and a light for its people on the Day of Resurrection."

Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib tradition.

AbuBakr and Umar asked for Fatimah's hand in marriage, but Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "She is young." Then Ali asked for her hand in marriage and he married her to him.

Nasa'i transmitted it.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "Allah, Who is Blessed and Exalted has commanded me to love four people, and He has informed me that He loves them." He was asked to name them and said, "Ali is one of them (saying that three times), also AbuDharr, al-Miqdad and Salman. He has commanded me to love them, and He has informed me that He loves them."

Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a hasan gharib tradition.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) offered prayers with oneablution on the day of Conquest (of Mecca) and wiped over thesocks. Umar said to him: You have today done something that youhave not been accustomed to before. He (the Prophet) said: OUmar, I have done that on purpose.

A man cried out in the mosque saying: Who had called out for thered camel? Upon this the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)said: May it not be restored to you! The mosques are built forwhat they are meant.

When the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) had said prayer aman stood up and said: Who called for a red camel? (Upon this)the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: May it not berestored to you! The mosques are built for what they are meant.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Abdullah ibnQays or al-Ash'ari has been gifted with a sweet melodious voiceout of the voices of the family of David.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) used to teach themwhen they went out to the graveyard. One of the narrators used tosay this in the narration transmitted on the authority ofAbuBakr: "Peace be upon the inhabitants of the city (i.e.graveyard)". In the hadith transmitted by Zuhayr (the wordsare):"Peace be upon you, the inhabitants of the city, among thebelievers, and Muslims, and God willing we shall join you. I begof Allah peace for us and for you.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: I forbade you tovisit graves, but you may now visit them; I forbade you to eatthe flesh of sacrificial animals after three days, but you maynow keep it as along as you feel inclined; and I forbade younabidh except in a water-skin, you may drink it from all kinds ofwater-skins, but you must not drink anything intoxicating.

When we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace be uponhim), a woman came to him and said: I had gifted to my mother amaid-servant, and now she (the mother) has died. Thereupon he(the Prophet) said: There is a definite reward for you and she(the maid servant) has been returned to you as an inheritance.She (that woman) again said: Fasts of a month( of Ramadan) aredue upon her; should I observe them on her behalf? He (theProphet) said: Observe fasts on her behalf. She (again) said: Shedid not perform Hajj; should I perform it on her behalf? He (theProphet) said: Perform Hajj on her behalf.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) conducted nineteenmilitary campaigns and he (actually) fought in eight of them.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: The sanctity ofthe wives of Mujahids is like the sanctity of their mothers forthose who sit at home (i.e. do not go out for Jihad). Anyone whostays behind looking after the family of a Mujahid and betrayshis trust will be made to stand on the Day of Judgment before theMujahid who will take away from his meritorious deeds whatever helikes. So what do you think (will he leave anything)?

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: I used to forbid you......... The rest of the hadith is the same (as No 4866).

Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) said: He who played chess islike one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.

that Zaid bin Khalid sent him to Abi Juhaim to ask him what he had heard from Allah's Apostle about a person passing in front of another person who was praying. Abu Juhaim replied, "Allah's Apostle said, 'If the person who passes in front of another person in prayer knew the magnitude of his sin he would prefer to wait for 40 (days, months or years) rather than to pass in front of him." Abu An-Nadr said, "I do not remember exactly whether he said 40 days, months or years."

That Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani narrated to him something in the presence of Said bin 'Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani who was brought up in the house of Maimuna the wife of the Prophet. Zaid narrated to them that Abu Talha said that the Prophet said, "The Angels (of Mercy) do not enter a house wherein there is a picture." Busr said, "Later on Zaid bin Khalid fell ill and we called on him. To our surprise we saw a curtain decorated with pictures in his house. I said to Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani, "Didn't he (i.e. Zaid) tell us about the (prohibition of) pictures?" He said, "But he excepted the embroidery on garments. Didn't you hear him?" I said, "No." He said, "Yes, he did."