I offered the funeral prayer behind Ibn Abbas and he recited Al-Fatiha and said, "You should know that it (i.e. recitation of Al-Fatiha) is the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad."

I asked Abdullah bin Abu Aufa "Did the Prophet make a will?" He replied, "No," I asked him, "How is it then that the making of a will has been enjoined on people, (or that they are ordered to make a will)?" He replied, "The Prophet bequeathed Allah's Book (i.e. Quran)."

A man from Najd with unkempt hair came to Allah's Apostle and we heard his loud voice but could not understand what he was saying, till he came near and then we came to know that he was asking about Islam. Allah's Apostle said, "You have to offer prayers perfectly five times in a day and night (24 hours)." The man asked, "Is there any more (praying)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "No, but if you want to offer the Nawafil prayers (you can)." Allah's Apostle further said to him: "You have to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." The man asked, "Is there any more fasting?" Allah's Apostle replied, "No, but if you want to observe the Nawafil fasts (you can.)" Then Allah's Apostle further said to him, "You have to pay the Zakat (obligatory charity)." The man asked, "Is there any thing other than the Zakat for me to pay?" Allah's Apostle replied, "No, unless you want to give alms of your own." And then that man retreated saying, "By Allah! I will neither do less nor more than this." Allah's Apostle said, "If what he said is true, then he will be successful (i.e. he will be granted Paradise)."

A bedouin with unkempt hair came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Inform me what Allah has made compulsory for me as regards the prayers." He replied: "You have to offer perfectly the five compulsory prayers in a day and night (24 hours), unless you want to pray Nawafil." The bedouin further asked, "Inform me what Allah has made compulsory for me as regards fasting." He replied, "You have to fast during the whole month of Ramadan, unless you want to fast more as Nawafil." The bedouin further asked, "Tell me how much Zakat Allah has enjoined on me." Thus, Allah's Apostle informed him about all the rules (i.e. fundamentals) of Islam. The bedouin then said, "By Him Who has honored you, I will neither perform any Nawafil nor will I decrease what Allah has enjoined on me. Allah's Apostle said, "If he is saying the truth, he will succeed (or he will be granted Paradise)."

A man came to Allah's Apostle asking him about Islam, Allah's Apostle said, "You have to offer five compulsory prayers in a day and a night (24 hours)." The man asked, "Is there any more compulsory prayers for me?" Allah's Apostle said, "No, unless you like to offer Nawafil (i.e. optional prayers)." Allah's Apostle then added, "You have to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." The man said, "Am I to fast any other days?' Allah's Apostle said, "No, unless you wish to observe the optional fast voluntarily." Then Allah's Apostle told him about the compulsory Zakat. The man asked, "Do I have to give anything besides?" Allah's Apostle said, "No, unless you wish to give in charity voluntarily." So, the man departed saying, "By Allah, I will neither do more nor less than that." Allah's Apostle said, "If he has said the truth he will be successful."

A bedouin with unkempt hair came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regards prayers." The Prophet said, "You have to offer perfectly the five (compulsory) prayers in a day and a night (24 hrs.), except if you want to perform some extra optional prayers." The bedouin said, "Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regards fasting." The Prophet said, "You have to observe fast during the month of Ramadan except if you fast some extra optional fast." The bedouin said, "Tell me what Allah has enjoined on me as regards Zakat." The Prophet then told him the Islamic laws and regulations whereupon the bedouin said, "By Him Who has honored you, I will not perform any optional deeds of worship and I will not leave anything of what Allah has enjoined on me." Allah's Apostle said, "He will be successful if he has told the truth (or he will enter Paradise if he said the truth)." And some people said, "The Zakat for one-hundred and twenty camels is two Hiqqas, and if the Zakat payer slaughters the camels intentionally or gives them as a present or plays some other trick in order to avoid the Zakat, then there is no harm (in it) for him."

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "One of the signs of the approach of the last hour will be the destruction of the Arabs."

Tirmidhi transmitted it.

I saw the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) wiping his headonce up to his nape.

Rabi'ah ibn al-Hudayr said: I did not hear Talhah ibn Ubaydullahnarrating any tradition from the Apostle of Allah (peace be uponhim) except one tradition. I (Rabi'ah ibn AbuAbdurRahman) asked:What is that? He said: We went out along with the Apostle ofAllah (peace be upon him) who was going to visit the graves ofthe martyrs. When we ascended Harrah Waqim, and then descendedfrom it, we found there some graves at the turning of the valley.We asked: Apostle of Allah, are these the graves of our brethren?He replied: Graves of our companions. When we came to the gravesof martyrs, he said: These are the graves of our brethren.

Salim al-Makki said that a bedouin told him that he brought amilch she-camel in the time of the Apostle of Allah (peace beupon him). He alighted with Talhah ibn Ubaydullah (and wanted tosell his milch animal to him). He said: The Prophet (peace beupon him) forbade a townsman to sell for a man from the desert.But go to the market and see who buys from you. consult methereafter, and then I shall ask you (to sell) or forbid you.

On seeing a new moon, the Prophet (peace be upon him) would supplicate: Allah, do Thou cause the appearance of this moon to be a harbinger of peace, faith, security and Islam for us. Thy Lord, O moon, and mine is Allah. May this be a moon presaging guidance and good.

Transmitted by Tirmidhi.

When the Prophet (peace be upon him) saw the new moon he said, "O Allah, make the new moon rise on us with security, faith, safety and Islam. My Lord and Your Lord is Allah."

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

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: When one of youplaces in front of him something such as the back of a saddle, heshould pray without caring who passes on the other side of it.

We used to say prayer and the animals moved in front of us. Wementioned it to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and hesaid: If anything equal to the back of a saddle is in front ofyou, then what walks in front, no harm would come to him. IbnNumayr said: No harm would come whosoever walks in front.

AbdurRahman ibn Uthman at-Taymi reported on the authority of hisfather; While we were with Talhah ibn Ubaydullah and were in thestate of Ihram we were presented a (cooked) bird. Talhah wassleeping. Some of us ate it and some of us refrained from(eating) it. When Talhah awoke he agreed with him who ate it, andsaid: We ate it along with the Messenger of Allah (peace be uponhim).

I and Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) happened to pass bypeople near the date-palm trees. He (the Prophet) said: What arethese people doing? They said: They are grafting, i.e. theycombine the male with the female (tree) and thus they yield morefruit. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: I donot find it to be of any use. The people were informed about itand they abandoned this practice. Allah's Messenger (peace beupon him) (was later) on informed (that the yield had dwindled),whereupon he said: If there is any use of it, then they should doit, for it was just a personal opinion of mine, and do not goafter my personal opinion, but when I say to you anything onbehalf of Allah, then do accept it, for I do not attribute lie toAllah, the Exalted and Glorious.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "Every prophet has a companion, and my companion (i.e. in Paradise) will be Uthman,"

Tirmidhi transmitted it, and Ibn Majah transmitted it on AbuHurayrah's authority. Tirmidhi said this is a gharib tradition whose isnad is not strong, and is broken.

We came upon the Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him). A man cameto him: he seemed to be a bedouin. He said: Prophet of Allah,what do you think about a man who touches his penis afterperforming ablution? He (peace be upon him) replied: That isonly a part of his body.

Qays ibn Talq said: Talq ibn Ali visited us on a certain dayduring Ramadan. He remained with us till evening and broke fastwith us. He then stood up and led us in the witr prayer. He thenwent to his mosque and led them in prayer. When the witrremained, he put forward another man and said: Lead yourcompanions in the witr prayer, for I heard the Apostle of Allah(peace be upon him) as saying: There are no two witrs during onenight.

We went as a deputation to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) and took the oath of allegiance to him, observed prayer with him and informed him that there was a cloister (church) for us in our land. We requested him to confer upon us the water left after his ablution. He called for water, performed ablution, rinsed his mouth, poured the water for us into a second vessel, and then commanded us: Now depart and when you come to your land demolish the cloister, wash its place with this water and use it as a mosque. We said: The land is far off and the heat is scorching, so water will dry up. Whereupon he said: Increase it (by adding to it) more water and it will not add to it but blessings.

Transmitted by Nasa'i.

Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "When a man calls his wife to satisfy his desire she must go to him even if she is occupied at the oven."

Tirmidhi transmitted it.

We came to the Prophet (peace be upon him), and a man came andsaid: Prophet of Allah, what do you say if one prays in a singlegarment? The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) then took offhis wrapper and combined it with his sheet, and put it on them.He got up and the Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him) led us inprayer. When he finished the prayer, he said: Does every one ofyou have two garments?

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Eat and drink; letnot the white and ascending light prevent you from (eating anddrinking); so eat and drink until the red light spreadshorizontally.

Tamim asked: Apostle of Allah), what is the sunnah about a manwho accepts Islam by advice and persuasion of a Muslim? Hereplied: He is the nearest to him in life and in death.

Tamim reported this tradition from the Prophet (peace be uponhim) as (Hadith No 863). This version adds: Then zakat will beconsidered in a similar way. Then all the actions will beconsidered accordingly.

Tamim asked Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) what the sunnah was about a polytheist who accepts Islam by the advice and persuasion of a Muslim, and he replied that he was the nearest to him in life and in death.

Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it.

The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) observed: Ad-Din is aname of sincerity and well-wishing. Upon this we said: For whom?He replied: for Allah, His Book, His Messenger and for theleaders and the general Muslims.

A man said to his wife: O my younger sister! The Apostle of Allah(peace be upon him)said: Is she your sister? He (the Prophetdisliked it and prohibited saying so.

I saw Safwan and Jundab and Safwan's companions when Jundab was advising. They said, "Did you hear something from Allah's Apostle?" Jundab said, "I heard him saying, 'Whoever does a good deed in order to show off, Allah will expose his intentions on the Day of Resurrection (before the people), and whoever puts the people into difficulties, Allah will put him into difficulties on the Day of Resurrection.' " The people said (to Jundab), "Advise us." He said, "The first thing of the human body to purify is the abdomen, so he who can eat nothing but good food (Halal and earned lawfully) should do so, and he who does as much as he can that nothing intervene between him and Paradise by not shedding even a handful of blood, (i.e. murdering) should do so."

(The tree where the Ridwan Pledge of allegiance was taken by the Prophet) was mentioned before Said bin Al-Musaiyab. On that he smiled and said, "My father informed me (about it) and he had witnessed it (i.e. the Pledge)."

'Abdullah said, "The best talk is Allah's Book (Qur'an), and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad."

When I set out for Hajj, I passed by some people offering a prayer, I asked, "What is this mosque?" They said, "This is the Tree where Allah's Apostle took the Ar-Ridwan Pledge of allegiance." Then I went to Sa'id bin Musaiyab and informed him about it. Said said, "My father said that he was amongst those who had given the Pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle beneath the Tree. He (i.e. my father) said, 'When we set out the following year, we forgot the Tree and were unable to recognize it.' " Then Said said (perhaps ironically), "The companions of the Prophet could not recognize it; nevertheless, you do recognize it; therefore you have a better knowledge."

Some Jews said, "Had this Verse been revealed to us, we would have taken that day as 'Id (festival)." 'Umar said, "What Verse?" They said: "This day I have Perfected your religion for you, Completed My Favor upon you And have chosen for you Islam as your religion" (5.3) 'Umar said, "I know the place where it was revealed; It was revealed while Allah's Apostle was staying at 'Arafat."

The Jews said to 'Umar, "You (i.e. Muslims) recite a Verse, and had it been revealed to us, we would have taken the day of its revelation as a day of celebration." 'Umar said, "I know very well when and where it was revealed, and where Allah's Apostle was when it was revealed. (It was revealed on) the day of Arafat (Hajj Day), and by Allah, I was at Arafat." Sufyan, a sub-narrator said: I am in doubt whether the Verse: "This day I have perfected your religion for you," was revealed on a Friday or not.

Abu Bakr said to the delegate of Buzakha, "Follow the tails of the camels till Allah shows the Caliph (successor) of His Prophet and Al-Muhajirin (emigrants) something because of which you may excuse yourselves."

A Jew said to 'Umar, "O Chief of the Believers, if this verse: 'This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favors upon you, and have chosen for you, Islam as your religion.' (5.3) had been revealed upon us, we would have taken that day as an 'Id (festival) day." 'Umar said, "I know definitely on what day this Verse was revealed; it was revealed on the day of 'Arafat, on a Friday."

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The Friday prayer incongregation is a necessary duty for every Muslim, with fourexceptions; a slave, a woman, a boy, and a sick person.

Wa'il said: Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq asked theProphet (peace be upon him) about wine, but he forbade it. Heagain asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him: Prophet ofAllah, it is a medicine. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Noit is a disease.