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1. It has been narrarted on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah said People are subservient to the Quraish the Muslims among them being subservient to the Muslims among them and the disbelievers among the people being subservient to the disbelievers among them
2. It has been narrated on the authority of Hammam Bin Munabbih who said This is one of the traditions narrated by Abu Huraira from the Messenger of Allah who said People are subservient to the Quraish the Muslims among them being subservient to the Muslims among them and the disbelievers among them being subservient to the disbelievers among them
3. He said Should I carry the burden of conducting your affairs in my life as well as in my death So far as Caliphate is concerned I wish I could acquit myself before the Almighty in a way that there is neither anything to my credit nor anything to my discredit
4. It has been reported on the authority of Abdulrahman Bin Samura who said The Messenger of Allah said to me Abdulrahman do not ask for a position of authority for if you are granted this position as a result of your asking for it you will be left alone without God help to discharge the responsibilities attendant thereon and it you are granted it without making any request for it you will be helped by God in the discharge of your duties
5. He said to me Abu Musa or Abdullah Bin Qais what do you say about the request they have made I said By God Who sent thee on thy mission with truth they did not disclose to me what they had in their minds and I did not know that they would ask for a position
6. He the Holy Prophet said We shall not or shall never appoint to the public offices in our State those who with to have them but you may go Abu Musa or Abdullah Bin Qais to take up your assignment
7. He said in this house of mine O God who happens to acquire some kind of control over the affairs of my people and is hard upon them be Thou hard upon him and who happens to acquire some kind of control over the affairs of my people and is kind to them be Thou kind to him
8. Then he said What about a State official whom I give an assignment and who comes and says This is for you and this has been presented to me as a gift Why didnt he remain in the house of his father or the house of his mother so that he could observe whether gifts were presented to him or not
9. Why did he not remain in the house of his father and his mother and his gift came to him if he was truthful By God any one of you will not take anything from the public funds without any justification but will meet his Lord carrying it on himself on the Day of judgment
10. Ubada grandfather said The Messenger of Allah took an oath of allegiance from us on our listening to and obeying the orders of our commander in adversity and prosperity in pleasure and displeasure and even when somebody is given preference over us on our avoiding to dispute the delegation of powers to a person deemed to be a fit recipient thereof in the eye of one who delegates it and on our telling the truth in whatever position we be without fearing in the matter ef Allah the reproach of the reproacher
11. Among the injunctions he made binding upon us was Listening and obedience to the Amir in our pleasure and displeasure in our adversity and prosperity even when somebody is given preference over us and without disputing the delegation of powers to a man duly invested with them Obedience shall be accorded to him in all circumstances except when you have clear signs of his disbelief in or disobedience to God signs that could be used as a conscientious justification for non compliance with his orders
12. They his Companions said Messenger of Allah what do you order that one should do if anyone from us has to live through such a time He said You should discharge your own responsibility by obeying your Amir and ask God for your right by guiding the Amir to the right path or by replacing him by one more just and God fearing
13. Some of us began to set right their tents others began to compete with one another in shooting and others began to graze their beasts when an announcer of the Messenger of Allah announced that the people should gather together for prayer so we gathered around the Messenger of Allah
14. He said It was the duty of every Prophet that has gone before me to guide his followers to what he knew was good for them and warn them against what he knew was bad for them but this Umma of yours has its days of peace and security in the beginning of its career and in the last phase of its existence it will be afflicted with trials and with things disagreeable to you
15. The narrator says I came close to him Abdullah Bin Amr Bin AlAs and said to him Can you say on oath that you heard it from the Messenger of Allah He pointed with his hands to his ears and his heart and said My ears heard it and my mind retained it
16. I said to him This cousin of yours Muawiya orders us to unjustly consume our wealth among ourselves and to kill one another while Allah says O ye who believe do not consume your wealth among yourselves unjustly unless it be trade based on mutual agreement and do not kill yourselves
17. It has been narrated on the authority of Usaid Bin Hudair that a man from the Ansar took the Messenger of Allah aside and said to him Will you not appoint me governor as you have appointed so and so He the Messenger of Allah said You will surely come across preferential treatment after me so you should be patient until you meet me at the Cistern Haud i Kauthar
18. The latter said Salama Bin Yazid Aljuafi asked the Messenger of Allah Prophet of Allah what do you think if we have rulers who rule over us and demand that we discharge our obligations towards them but they themselves do not discharge their own responsibilities towards us What do you order us to do The Messenger of Allah avoided giving any answer
19. Then he asked again it was the second time or the third time when Ashath Bin Qais finding that the Prophet was unnecessarily being pressed for answer pulled him aside and said Listen to them and obey them for on them shall he their burden and on you shall be your burden
20. I said If they have no such thing as the main body and have no leader He said Separate yourself from all these factions though you may have to eat the roots of trees in a jungle until death comes to you and you are in this state
21. I said How Whereupon he said There will be leaders who will not be led by my guidance and who will not adopt my ways There will be among them men who will have the hearts of devils in the bodies of human beings
22. Messenger of Allah if I happen to live in that time He replied You will listen to the Amir and carry out his orders even if your back is flogged and your wealth is snatched you should listen and obey
23. One who fights under the banner of a people who are blind to the cause for which they are fighting do not know whether their cause is just or otherwise who gets flared up with family pride calls people to fight for their family honour and supports his kith and kin i
24. And he who is killed under the banner of a man who is blind to the cause for which he is fighting who gets flared up with family pride and fights for his tribe is not from my Ummah and whosoever from my followers attacks my followers indiscriminately killing the righteous and the wicked of them sparing not even those staunch in faith and fulfilling not his obligation towards them who have been given a pledge of security is not from me i
25. One who sees through their bad deeds and tries to prevent their repetition by his band or through his speech is absolved from blame but one who hates their bad deeds in the heart of his heart being unable to prevent their recurrence by his hand or his tongue is also fafe so far as God wrath is concerned
26. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you and whom you curse and who curse you
27. Ibn Juraij said that he was informed by Abu Zabair who heard Jabir Bin Abdullah say The Prophet prayed over the well at Hudaibiya as a result of which its scanty water rose up and increased so as to be sufficient for the or men who had encamped at the place
28. It has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah said on the day of the Conquest of Mecca There is no Hijra now but only Jihad fighting for the cause of Islam and sincerity of purpose have great reward when you are asked to set out on an expedition undertaken for the cause of Islam you should readily do so
29. It has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah had a race of the horses which had been especially prepared for the purpose from Hafya to Thaniyat AlWada the latter being the winning post and of those which had not been trained from Thaniya to the mosque of Banu Zuraiq and Ibn Umar was among those who took part in this race
30. This tradition has been narrated on the authority of Sufyan with the addition from Abd ar Razzaq one of the narrators explaining the meaning of shikal as a bone whose right back foot and left front foot or left back foot and right front foot are white
31. If a person gets wounded in the way of Allah he will come on the Day of Judgment with his wound in the same condition as it was when it was first inflicted its colour being the colour of blood but its smell will be the smell of musk
32. all of them have abundant means to provide themselves with all the means of Jihad to follow me nor would it please their hearts to stay behind me
33. This is followed by the same words as have appeared in the previous tradition but this tradition has the same ending as the previous hadith with a slight difference in the wording By the Being in Whose Hand is my life I love that I should be killed in the way of Allah then I should be brought back to life and be killed again in His way
34. It has been narrated on the authority of Anas Bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah said Nobody who dies and has something good for him with Allah will ever like to return to this world even though he were offered the whole world and all that is in its as an inducement except the martyr who desires to return and be killed in the world for the great merit of martyrdom that he has seen
35. When the question was asked for the third time he said One who goes out for Jihad is like a person who keeps fasts stands in prayer constantly obeying Allah behests contained in the verses of the and does not exhibit any lassitude in fasting and prayer until the Mujahid returns from Jihad in the way of Allah the Exalted
36. A man stood up and said Messenger of Allah do you think that if I am killed in the way of Allah my sins will be blotted out from me The Messenger of Allah said Yes in case you are killed in the way of Allah and you were patient and sincere and you always fought facing the enemy never turming your back upon him
37. Then he added What have you said now Wishing to have further assurance from him for his satisfaction he asked again Do you think if I am killed in the way of Allah all my sins will be obliterated from me The Messenger of Allah said Yes it you were patient and sincere and always fought facing the enemy and never turning your back upon him all your lapses would be forgiven except debt
38. The Prophet sent the Reciters with these people but these treacherous people fell upon them and killed thern before they reached their destination While dying they said O Allah convey from us the news to our Prophet that we have met Thee in a way that we are pleased with Thee and Thou art pleased with us
39. It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Musa Ashari that a desert Arab came to the Prophet and said Messenger of Allah one man fights fgr the spoils of war another fights that he may be remembered and another fights that he may see his high position achieved as a result of his valour in fighting
40. The Messenger of Allah was asked which of the men fights in the way of Allah one who fights for displaying his valour a man who fights out of his family pride and a man who fights for the sake of show who amongst these fights in the way of Allah The Messenger of Allah said Who fights that the word of Allah be exalted fights in the way of Allah
41. It has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah Bin Amr through a different chain of transmitters that the Messenger of Allah said A troop of soldiers large or small who fight in the way of Allah get their share of the booty and return safe and sound receive in advance two thirds of their reward only one third remaining to their credit to be received in the Hereafter and a troop of soldiers large or small who return empty handed and are afflicted or wounded will receive their full reward in the Hereafter
42. The emigration of one who emigrates for the sake of Allah and His Messenger is for the sake of Allah and His Messenger and the emigration of one who emigrates for gaining a worldly advantage or for marrying a woman is for what he has emigrated
43. It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah said While a man walks along a path finds a thorny twig lying on the way and puts it aside Allah would appreciate it and forgive him The Prophet said The martyrs are of five kinds one who dies of plague one who dies of diarrhoea or cholera one who is drowned one who is buried under debris and one who dies fighting in the way of Allah
44. It has been related by Yazid Bin AlAsamm that he heard Muawiya Bin Abu Sfyan quote a tradition from the Prophet which he related from the Prophet mail peace he upon him and he did not hear him quote from the Prophet masy peace be upon him any tradition other than this in the course of his sermon from the pulpit that whom Allah wants to do a favour He grants him an understanding of religion
45. When we came back to Medina and were going to enter our houses he said Wait and enter your houses in the later part of the evening so that a woman with dishevelled hair may have used the comb and a woman whose husband has been away from home may have removed the hair from her private parts
46. he should not enter his house as a night visitor but should wait until a woman whose husband has been away from house has removed the hair from her private parts and a woman with dishevelled hair has combed her hair

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