'Uqba bin 'Amr said to Hudhaifa, "Won't you relate to us of what you have heard from Allah's Apostle?" He said, "I heard him saying, 'When Al-Dajjal appears, he will have fire and water along with him. What the people will consider as cold water, will be fire that will burn (things). So, if anyone of you comes across this, he should fall in the thing which will appear to him as fire, for in reality, it will be fresh cold water.' " Hudhaifa added, "I also heard him saying, 'From among the people preceding your generation, there was a man whom the angel of death visited to capture his soul. (So his soul was captured) and he was asked if he had done any good deed. He replied, 'I don't remember any good deed.' He was asked to think it over. He said, 'I do not remember, except that I used to trade with the people in the world and I used to give a respite to the rich and forgive the poor (among my debtors).' So Allah made him enter Paradise.' " Hudhaifa further said, "I also heard him saying, 'Once there was a man on his death-bed, who, losing every hope of surviving said to his family: "When I die, gather for me a large heap of wood and make a fire (to burn me). When the fire eats my meat and reaches my bones, and when the bones burn, take and crush them into powder and wait for a windy day to throw it (i.e. the powder) over the sea." They did so, but Allah collected his particles and asked him:

"Why did you do so?" He replied: "For fear of You." So Allah forgave him.' " 'Uqba bin 'Amr said, "I heard him saying that the Israeli used to dig the grave of the dead (to steal their shrouds)."

The Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him) was shown a heavenly visitant (in a dream) and it was said to him: Let your eyes sleep and your ears hear and your heart perceive. He (the Prophet) said: My eyes slept, my ears heard and my heart perceived. He (the Prophet) said: It was said to me: The master built a house, arranged feast and sent someone to issue invitations. He who responded to the host entered the house, ate the feast and the master was well-pleased with him. He who did not respond to the host neither entered the house nor ate the feast and the master was annoyed with him. He explained: Allah is the Master; Muhammad is one who extends invitation; the house is al-Islam and the feast is Paradise.

Transmitted by Darimi.

Rabi'ah reported on the authority of more than one person saying:The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) assigned as a fief toBilal ibn al-Harith al-Muzani the mines of al-Qabaliyyah which isin the neighbourhood of al-Fur', and only zakat is levied onthose mines up to the present day.

I was with Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) one night, and Ibrought him water and what he required. He said to me: Ask(anything you like). I said: I ask your company in Paradise. He(the Prophet) said: or anything else besides it. I said: That isall (what I require). He said: Then help me to achieve this foryou by devoting yourself often to prostration.

I used to spend the night near the apartment of Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) and hear him say, as he got up for the Tahajjud prayer: 'Hallowed be the Lord of worlds', for a long time. He would then recite: 'Hallowed be Allah and praise is due to Him', for a long time.

Transmitted by Nasa'i and Tirmidhi transmitted like it and he said: It is a sahih hasan hadith.

'Umar bin Al-Khattab recited Surat-an-Nahl on a Friday on the pulpit and when he reached the verse of Sajda he got down from the pulpit and prostrated and the people also prostrated. The next Friday 'Umar bin Al-Khattab recited the same Sura and when he reached the verse of Sajda he said, "O people! When we recite the verses of Sajda (during the sermon) whoever prostrates does the right thing, yet it is no sin for the one who does not prostrate." And 'Umar did not prostrate (that day). Added Ibn 'Umar "Allah has not made the prostration of recitation compulsory but if we wish we can do it."

I heard Anas bin Malik describing the Prophet saying, "He was of medium height amongst the people, neither tall nor short; he had a rosy color, neither absolutely white nor deep brown; his hair was neither completely curly nor quite lank. Divine Inspiration was revealed to him when he was forty years old. He stayed ten years in Mecca receiving the Divine Inspiration, and stayed in Medina for ten more years. When he expired, he had scarcely twenty white hairs in his head and beard." Rabi'a said, "I saw some of his hairs and it was red. When I asked about that, I was told that it turned red because of scent."

We worked on farms more than anybody else in Medina. We used to rent the land and say to the owner, "The yield of this portion is for us and the yield of that portion is for you (as the rent)." One of those portions might yield something and the other might not. So, the Prophet forbade us to do so.

We used to offer the Maghrib prayer with the Prophet and after finishing the prayer one of us may go away and could still see as far as the spots where one's arrow might reach when shot by a bow.

We worked on farms more than anybody else in Medina. We used to rent the land at the yield of specific delimited portion of it to be given to the landlord. Sometimes the vegetation of that portion was affected by blights etc., while the rest remained safe and vice versa, so the Prophet forbade this practice. At that time gold or silver were not used (for renting the land). If they provided the seeds, they would get so-and-so much. Al-Hasan said, "There is no harm if the land belongs to one but both spend on it and the yield is divided between them." Az-Zuhri had the same opinion. Al-Hasan said, "There is no harm if cotton is picked on the condition of having half the yield." Ibrahim, Ibn Siain, 'Ata', Al-Hakam, Az-Zuhri and Qatada said, "There is no harm in giving the yarn to the weaver to weave into cloth on the basis that one-third or one-fourth (or any other portion) of the cloth is given to the weaver for his labor." Ma'am said, "There is no harm in hiring animals for a definite (fixed) period on the basis that one-third or one-fourth of the products carried by the animals is given to the owner of the animals."

My uncle Zuhair said, "Allah's Apostle forbade us to do a thing which was a source of help to us." I said, "Whatever Allah's Apostle said was right." He said, "Allah's Apostle sent for me and asked, 'What are you doing with your farms?' I replied, 'We give our farms on rent on the basis that we get the yield produced at the banks of the water streams (rivers) for the rent, or rent it for some Wasqs of barley and dates.' Allah's Apostle said, 'Do not do so, but cultivate (the land) yourselves or let it be cultivated by others gratis, or keep it uncultivated.' I said, 'We hear and obey.'

We used to offer the 'Asr prayer with the Prophet and slaughter a camel, the meat of which would be divided in ten parts. We would eat the cooked meat before sunset.

We used to work on the fields more than the other Ansar, and we used to rent the land (for the yield of a specific portion of it). But sometimes that portion or the rest of the land did not give any yield, so we were forbidden (by the Prophet ) to follow such a system, but we were allowed to rent the land for money.

I heard the Prophet saying, "Fever is from the heat of the (Hell) Fire; so cool it with water."

We were with the Prophet in Dhul-Hulaifa and there the people were struck with severe hunger. Then we got camels and sheep as war booty (and slaughtered them). The Prophet was behind all the people. The people hurried and fixed the cooking pots (for cooking) but the Prophet came there and ordered that the cooking pots be turned upside down. Then he distributed the animals, regarding ten sheep as equal to one camel. One of the camels ran away and there were a few horses with the people. They chased the camel but they got tired, whereupon a man shot it with an arrow whereby Allah stopped it. The Prophet said, "Among these animals some are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them runs away from you, treat it in this way." I said. "We hope, or we are afraid that tomorrow we will meet the enemy and we have no knives, shall we slaughter (our animals) with canes?" The Prophet said, "If the killing tool causes blood to gush out and if Allah's Name is mentioned, eat (of the slaughtered animal). But do not slaughter with a tooth or a nail. I am telling you why: A tooth is a bone, and the nail is the knife of Ethiopians."

that he said, "O Allah's Apostle! We have no knife." The Prophet said, "if the killing tool causes blood to gush out, and if Allah's Name is mentioned, eat (of the slaughtered animal). But do not slaughter with a nail or a tooth, for the nail is the knife of Ethiopians and a tooth is a bone." Suddenly a camel ran away and it was stopped (with an arrow). The Prophet then said, "Of these camels there are some which are as wild as wild beasts; so if one of them runs away from you and you cannot catch it, treat it in this manner (i.e. shoot it with an arrow)."

The Prophet said, "Eat what is slaughtered (with any instrument) that makes blood flow out, except what is slaughtered with a tooth or a nail."

I said, "O Allah's Apostle! We are going to face the enemy tomorrow and we do not have knives." He said, "Hurry up (in killing the animal). If the killing tool causes blood to flow out, and if Allah's Name is mentioned, eat (of the slaughtered animal). But do not slaughter with a tooth or a nail. I will tell you why: As for the tooth, it is a bone; and as for the nail, it is the knife of Ethiopians." Then we got some camels and sheep as war booty, and one of those camels ran away, whereupon a man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. Allah's Apostle said, "Of these camels there are some which are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them (runs away and) makes you tired, treat it in this manner."

While we were with the Prophet. on a journey, one of the camels ran away. A man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. The Prophet said, "Of these camels some are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them runs away and you cannot catch it, then do like this (shoot it with an arrow)." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Sometimes when we are in battles or on a journey we want to slaughter (animals) but we have no knives." He said, "Listen! If you slaughter the animal with anything that causes its blood to flow out, and if Allah's Name is mentioned on slaughtering it, eat of it, provided that the slaughtering instrument is not a tooth or a nail, as the tooth is a bone and the nail is the knife of Ethiopians."

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "Fever is from the heat of Hell, so abate fever with water."

'Abdullah bin Sahl and Muhaiyisa bin Mas'ud went to Khaibar and they dispersed in the gardens of the date-palm trees. 'Abdullah bin Sahl was murdered. Then 'Abdur-Rahman bin Sahl, Huwaiyisa and Muhaiyisa, the two sons of Mas'ud, came to the Prophet and spoke about the case of their (murdered) friend. 'Abdur-Rahman who was the youngest of them all, started talking. The Prophet said, "Let the older (among you) speak first." So they spoke about the case of their (murdered) friend. The Prophet said, "Will fifty of you take an oath whereby you will have the right to receive the blood money of your murdered man," (or said, "...your companion)". They said, "O Allah's Apostle! The murder was a thing we did not witness." The Prophet said, "Then the Jews will release you from the oath, if fifty of them (the Jews) should take an oath to contradict your claim." They said, "O Allah's Apostle! They are disbelievers (and they will take a false oath)." Then Allah's Apostle himself paid the blood money to them.

Allah's Apostle forbade the sale of Muzabana, i.e. selling of fruits for fruits, except in the case of 'Araya; he allowed the owners of 'Araya such kind of sale.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: The price of a dog isevil, the earning of a prostitute is evil and the earning of acupper is evil.

I saw the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)addressing thepeople at Mina (on the day of sacrifice) when the sun rose high(i.e. in the forenoon) on a white mule, and Ali (Allah be pleasedwith him) was interpreting on his behalf; some people werestanding and some sitting.

I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) say: Theofficial who collects sadaqah (zakat) in a just manner is likehim who fights in Allah's path till he returns home.

Hanzalah ibn Qays said that he asked Rafi' ibn Khadij about thelease of land. He replied: The Apostle of Allah (peace be uponhim) forbade the leasing of land. I asked: (Did he forbid) forgold and silver (i.e. dinars and dirhams)? He replied: If it isagainst gold and silver, then there is no harm in it.

AbuRafi' came to us from the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)said: The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) forbade us from awork which benefited us; but obedience to Allah and His Apostle(peace be upon him) is more beneficial to us. He forbade that oneof us cultivates land except the one which he owns or the landwhich a man lends him (to cultivate).

Usayd ibn Zubayr said: Rafi' ibn Khadij came to us and said: TheApostle of Allah (peace be upon him) forbids you from a workwhich is beneficial to you; and obedience to Allah and HisProphet (peace be upon him) is more beneficial to you. TheApostle of Allah (peace be upon him) forbids you from rentingland for a share of its produce and he said: If anyone is not inneed of his land he should lend it to his brother or leave it.

AbuJa'far al-Khatmi said: My uncle sent me and his slave to Sa'idibn al-Musayyab. We said to him, there is something which hasreached us about sharecropping. He replied: Ibn Umar did not seeany harm in it until a tradition reached him from Rafi' ibnKhadij. He then came to him and Rafi' told him that the Apostleof Allah (peace be upon him) came to Banu Harithah and saw cropin the land of Zuhayr. He said: What an excellent crop of Zuhayris! They said: It does not belong to Zuhayr. He asked: Is thisnot the land of Zuhayr? They said: Yes, but the crop belongs toso-and-so. He said: Take your crop and give him the wages. Rafi'said: We took our crop and gave him the wages. Sa'id (ibnal-Musayyab) said: Lend your brother or employ him for dirhams.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) forbade muhaqalah andmuzabanah. Those who cultivate land are three: a man who has (hisown) land and he tills it: a man who has been lent land and hetills the one lent to him; a man who employs another man to tillland against gold (dinars) or silver (dirhams).

Rafi' had cultivated a land. The Prophet (peace be upon him)passed him when he was watering it. So he asked him: To whom doesthe crop belong, and to whom does the land belong? He replied:The crop is mine for my seed and labour. The half (of the crop)is mine and the half for so-and-so. He said: You conductedusurious transaction. Return the land to its owner and take yourwages and cost.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If anyone sows in otherpeople's land without their permission, he has no right to any ofthe crop, but he may have what it cost him.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The earnings of a cupperare impure, the price paid for a dog is impure, and the hire paidto a prostitute is impure.

We went out with the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) on ajourney, and we had on our saddles and camels garments consistingof red warp of wool. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him)said: Do I not see that red colour has dominated you. We then gotup quickly on account of this saying of the Apostle of Allah(peace be upon him) and some of our camels ran away. We then tookthe garments and withdrew them.

Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Hibban said: A slave stole a plant of apalm-tree from the orchard of a man and planted it in the orchardof his master. The owner of the plant went out in search of theplant and he found it. He solicited help against the slave fromMarwan ibn al-Hakam who was the Governor of Medina at that time.Marwan confined the slave and intended to cut off his hand. Theslave's master went to Rafi' ibn Khadij and asked him about it. He told him that he had heard the Apostle of Allah (peace be uponhim) say: The hand is not to be cut off for taking fruit or thepith of the palm-tree.The man then said: Marwan has seized myslave and wants to cut off his hand. I wish you to go with me tohim and tell him that which you have heard from the Apostle ofAllah (peace be upon him). So Rafi' ibn Khadij went with him andcame to Marwan ibn al-Hakam. Rafi' said to him: I heard theApostle of Allah (peace be upon him) say: The hand is not to becut off for taking fruit or the pith of the palm-tree. So Marwangave orders to release the slave and then he was released.

A man of the Ansar was killed at Khaybar and his relatives wentto the Prophet (peace be upon him) and mentioned that to him. Heasked: Have you two witnesses who can testify to the murderer ofyour friend? They replied: Apostle of Allah! there was not asingle Muslim present, but only Jews who sometimes have theaudacity to do even greater crimes than this. He said: Thenchoose fifty of them and demand that they take an oath; but theyrefused and the Prophet (peace be upon him) paid the blood-withimself.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best and replied, "A man's work with his hand and every business transaction which is approved."

Ahmad transmitted it.

In the division of the booty Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) used to treat ten sheep as equivalent to a camel.

Nasa'i transmitted it.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) gave to AbuSufyan ibnHarb and Safwan ibn Umayyah and Uyaynah ibn Hisn and Aqra' ibnHabis, i.e. to every one of these persons, one hundred of camels,and gave to Abbas ibn Mirdas less than this number. Upon thisAbbas ibn Mirdas said: You allot the share of my booty and thatof my horse between Uyaynah and Aqra'. Both Uyaynah and Aqra' arein no way more eminent than Mirdas (my father) in the assembly. Iam in no way inferior to any one of these persons. And he who islet down today would not be elevated. He (the narrator) said: TheMessenger of Allah(peace be upon him) then completed one hundredcamels for him.

Allah's Messenger peace be upon him) said: Ibrahim declared Meccaas sacred and I declare sacred the area between its two stonygrounds (lava lands by which he meant Medina).

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) came to Medina and thepeople had been grafting the trees. He said: What are you doing?They said: We are grafting them, whereupon he said: It mayperhaps be good for you if you do not do that, so they abandonedthis practice (and the date-palms) began to yield less fruit.They made a mention of it (to the Prophet), whereupon he said: Iam a human being, so when I command you about a thing pertainingto religion, do accept it, and when I command you about a thingout of my personal opinion, keep it in mind that I am a humanbeing. Ikrimah reported that he said something like this.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Treating those under one'sauthority will produce prosperity, but an evil nature producesevil fortune.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Treating thoseunder one's authority well produces prosperity, but an evilnature produces evil fortune.

Tariq ibn AbdurRahman al-Qarashi said: Rafi' ibn Rifa'ah came toa meeting of the Ansar and said: The Prophet of Allah (peace beupon him) forbade us (from some things) today, and he mentionedsome things. He forbade the earning of a slave-girl except whatshe earned with her hand. He indicated (some things) with hisfingers such as baking, spinning, and ginning.

AbdulHamid ibn Ja'far reported from his father on the authorityof his grandfather Rafi' ibn Sinan that he (Rafi' ibn Sinan)embraced Islam and his wife refused to embrace Islam. She came tothe Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: My daughter; she isweaned or about to wean. Rafi' said: My daughter. The Prophet(peace be upon him) said to him: Be seated on a side. And he saidto her: Be seated on a side. He then seated the girl betweenthem, and said to them: Call her. The girl inclined to hermother. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: O Allah! guide her.The daughter then inclined to her father, and he took her.

I said to the Prophet, "We will be facing the enemy tomorrow and we have no knives (for slaughtering)." He said, "If you slaughter the animal with anything that causes its blood to flow out, and if Allah's Name is mentioned on slaughtering it, eat of it, unless the killing instrument is a tooth or nail. I will tell you why: As for the tooth, it is a bone; and as for the nail, it is the knife of Ethiopians." The quick ones among the people got the war booty while the Prophet was behind the people. So they placed the cooking pots on the fire, but the Prophet ordered the cooking pots to be turned upside down. Then he distributed (the war booty) among them, considering one camel as equal to ten sheep. Then a camel belonging to the first party of people ran away and they had no horses with them, so a man shot it with an arrow whereby Allah stopped it. The Prophet said, "Of these animals there are some which are as wild as wild beasts. So, if anyone of them runs away like this, do like this (shoot it with an arrow)."

A man of Banu Amir told that he asked the Prophet (peace be uponhim) for permission (to enter the house) when he was in thehouse, saying: May I enter ? The Prophet (peace be upon him) saidto his servant: Go out to this (man) and teach him how to askpermission to enter the house, and say to him: "Say : Peace beupon you. May I enter?" The man heard it and said: Peace be uponyou! May I enter ? The Prophet (peace be upon him) permitted himand he entered.

'Uqba said to Hudhaifa, "Won't you narrate to us what you heard from Allah's Apostle?" Hudhaifa said, "I heard him saying, 'Death approached a man and when he had no hope of surviving, he said to his family, 'When I die, gather for me much wood and build a fire (to burn me). When the fire has eaten my flesh and reached my bones, take the bones and grind them and scatter the resulting powder in the sea on a hot (or windy) day.' (That was done.) But Allah collected his particles and asked (him), 'Why did you do so?' He replied, 'For fear of You.' So Allah forgave him."