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1. He the Holy Prophet replied That you affirm your faith in Allah in His angels in His Books in His Apostles in the Day of Judgment and you affirm your faith in the Divine Decree about good and evil
2. Then he the Messenger of Allah recited the verse Verily Allah with Him alone is the knowledge of the hour and He it is Who sends down the rain and knows that which is in the wombs and no person knows whatsoever he shall earn tomorrow and a person knows not in whatsoever land he shall die
3. I however narrate some of its signs and these are when you see a slave woman giving birth to her master that is one of the signs of Doom when you see barefooted naked deaf and dumb ignorant and foolish persons as the rulers of the earth that is one of the signs of the Doom
4. A person said to Abdullah Bin Umar the narrator Which of the two precedes the other Pilgrimage or the fasts of Rarnadan Upon this he the narrator replied No it is not the Pilgrimage first but the fasts of Ramadan precede the Pilgrimage
5. Saeed said that Qatada had mentioned the name of Abu Nadra on the authority of Abu Saeed Khudri who narrated this tradition That people from the tribe of Abd AlQais came to the Messenger of Allah and said Messenger of Allah we belong to the tribe of Rabia and there live between you and us the unbelievers of the Mudar tribe and we find it impossible to come to you except in the sacred months direct us to a deed which we must communicate to those who have been left behind us and by doing which we may enter heaven
6. Upon this the Messenger of Allah said I enjoin upon you four things and forbid you to do four things worship Allah and associate none with Him establish prayer pay Zakat and observe the fast of Ramadan and pay the fifth part out of the booty
7. It is reported on the authority of Ibn Abbas that Muadh said The Messenger of Allah sent me as a governor of Yemen and at the time of departure instructed me thus You will soon find yourself in a community one among the people of the Book so first call them to testify that there is no god but Allah that I Muhammad am the messenger of Allah and if they accept this then tell them Allah has enjoined upon them five prayers during the day and the night and if they accept it then tell them that Allah has made Zakat obligatory for them that it should be collected from the rich and distributed among the poor and if they agree to it dont pick up as a share of Zakat the best of their wealths
8. It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Abbas that when the Messenger of Allah sent Muadh towards Yemen as governor he said to him Verily you would reach a community of the people of the Book the very first thing to which you should call them is the worship of Allah may His Glory be Magnificent and when they become fully aware of Allah instruct them that He has enjoined five prayers on them during the day and the night and when they begin observing it then instruct them that verily Allah has made Zakat obligatory for them which would be collected from the wealthy amongst them and distributed to their needy ones and when they submit to it then collect it from them and avoid the temptation of selecting the best items of their riches
9. It is narrated on the authority of Jabir that the Messenger of Allah said I have been commanded that I should fight against people till they declare that there is no god but Allah and when they profess it that there is no god but Allah their blood and riches are guaranteed protection on my behalf except where it is justified by law and their affairs rest with Allah and then he the Holy Prophet recited this verse of the Holy Thou art not over them a warden lxxxviii
10. The Messenger of Allah said My uncle you just make a profession that there is no god but Allah and I will bear testimony before Allah of your being a believer Abu Jahl and Abdullah Bin Abi Umaya addressing him said Abu Talib would you abandon the religion of Abd AlMuttalib The Messenger of Allah constantly requested him to accept his offer and on the other hand was repeated the same statement of Abu Jahl and Abdullah Bin Abi Umaya till Abu Talib gave his final decision and be stuck to the religion of Abd AlMuttalib and refused to profess that there is no god but Allah
11. Upon this the Messenger of Allah remarked By Allah I will persistently beg pardon for you till I am forbidden to do so by God It was then that Allah the Magnificent and the Glorious revealed this verse It is not meet for the Prophet and for those who believe that they should beg pardon for the polytheists even though they were their kith and kin after it had been made known to them that they were the denizens of Hell ix
12. It is narrated on the authority of Ubadah Bin Samit that the messenger of Allah observed He who said There is no god but Allah He is One and there is no associate with Him that Muhammad is his servant and His messenger that Christ is servant and the son of His slave girl and he Christ His word which He communicated to Mary and is His Spirit that Paradise is a fact and Hell is a fact Allah would make him he who affirms these truths enter Paradise through any one of its eight doors which he would like
13. It is narrated on the authority of Muadh Bin Jabal I was riding behind the Prophet and there was nothing between him and me but the rear part of the saddle when he said Muadh Bin Jabal To which I replied At your beck and call and at your pleasure Messenger of Allah He moved along for a few minutes when again he said Muadh Bin Jabal To which I replied At your beck and call and at your pleasure Messenger of Allah He then again moved along for a few minutes and said Muadh Bin Jabal To which I replied
14. He Muadh observed He the Holy Prophet said Muadh do you know what right has Allah over His bondsmen and what right have His bondsmen over Him Muadh added I replied Allah and his Messenger know best
15. streamlet flowing into the garden from a well outside drew myself together like a fox and slinked into the place where God Messenger was
16. He entered my place and offered prayer at my residence and his Companions began to talk amongst themselves and this conversation centered round hypocrites and then the conspicuous one Malik Bin Dukhshum was made the target and they wished that he the Holy Prophet should curse him and he should die or he should meet some calamity
17. It is reported on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah observed He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should either utter good words or better keep silence and he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should treat his neighbour with kindness and he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should show hospitality to his guest
18. It is narrated on the authority of Abu Shuraih AlKhuzai that the Prophet may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him observed He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should do good to his neighbour and he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should show hospitality to the guest and he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should either speak good or better remain silent
19. There happened to come Abdullah Bin Massuod who stayed at Qanat and Abdullah b Umar wanted me to accompany him for visiting him as Abdullah Bin Massuod was ailing so I went along with him and as we sat before him I asked Ibn Massuod about this hadith
20. It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah may peace and blessings be upon him remarked The summit of unbelief is towards the East and the pride and conceitedness is found among the owners of horses and camels who are rude and uncivil people of the tents and tranquillity is found among those who rear goats and sheep
21. Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah observed The fornicator who fornicates is not a believer so long as he commits it and no thief who steals is a believer as long as he commits theft and no drunkard who drinks wine is a believer as long as he drinks it
22. Abd AlMalik Bin Abi Bakr narrated this on the authority of Abu Bakr Bin Abdulrahman Bin Harith and then said Abu Huraira made this addition No plunderer who plunders a valuable thing that attracts the attention of people is a believer so long as he commits this act
23. Upon this the woman remarked What is wrong with our common sense and with religion He the Holy Prophet observed Your lack of common sense can be well judged from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to one man that is a proof of the lack of common sense and you spend some nights and days in which you do not offer prayer and in the month of Ramadan during the days you do not observe fast that is a failing in religion
24. It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that when the son of Adam recites the Ayat of Sajdah prostration and then falls down in prostration the Satan goes into seclusion and weeps and says Alas and in the narration of Abu Kuraib the words are Woe unto me the son of Adam was commanded to prostrate and he prostrated and Paradise was entitled to him and I was commanded to prostrate but I refused and am doomed to Hell
25. It was said by the hearers What are they Messenger of Allah He the Holy Prophet replied Associating anything with Allah magic killing of one whom God has declared inviolate without a just cause consuming the property of an orphan and consuming of usury turning back when the army advances and slandering chaste women who are believers but unwary
26. I Abu Dharr said Even if he committed adultery and theft He the Holy Prophet replied Yes even though he committed adultery and theft
27. I the narrator said Messenger of Allah he cut off my hand and uttered this after amputating it should I then kill him The Messenger of Allah said Dont kill him for I you kill him verily he would be in a position where you had been before killing him and verily you would be in a position where he had been before uttering kalima
28. He the Holy Prophet said What would you do with There is no god but Allah when he would come before you on the Day of Judgment He the Holy Prophet added nothing to it but kept saying What would you do with There is no god but Allah when he would come before you on the Day of Judgment
29. But when he was a bit recovered he said I have no concern with one with whom the Messenger of Allah has no concern Verily the Messenger of Allah has no concern with that woman who wails loudly shaves her hair and tears her garment in grief
30. Abu Huraira narrated on the authority of Abu Bakr that the Messenger of Allah said Three are the persons with whom Allah would neither speak on the Day of Resurrection nor would He look towards them nor would purify them from sins and there would be a tormenting chastisement for them a person who in the waterless desert has more water than his need and he refuses to give it to the traveller and a person who sold a commodity to another person in the afternoon and took an oath of Allah that he had bought it at such and such price and he the buyer accepted it to be true though it was not a fact and a person who pledged allegiance to the Imam but for the sake of the world material gains
31. It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah observed He who killed himself with steel weapon would be the eternal denizen of the Fire of Hell and he would have that weapon in his hand and would be thrusting that in his stomach for ever and ever he who drank poison and killed himself would sip that in the Fire of Hell where he is doomed for ever and ever and he who killed himself by falling from the top of a mountain would constantly fall in the Fire of Hell and would live there for ever and ever
32. It is narrated on the authority of Thabit Bin AlDahhak that the Messenger of Allah observes None is obliged to give votive offering of a thing which is not in his possession and the cursing of a believer is tantamount to killing him and he who killed himself with a thing in this world would be tormented with that very thing on the Day of Resurrection and he who made a false claim to increase his wealth Allah would make no addition but that of paucity and he who perjured would earn the wrath of God
33. He placed the blade of the sword upon the ground and its tip between his chest and then pressed himself against that and killed himself
34. We plundered neither gold nor silver but laid our hands on goods corn and clothes and then bent our stops to a valley along with the Messenger of Allah there was a slave who was presented to him by one Rifaa Bin Zaid of the family of Judham a tribe of Dubayb
35. It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah said Verily Allah would make a wind to blow from the side of the Yemen more delicate than silk and would spare none but cause him to die who in the words of Abu Alqama has faith equal to the weight of a grain while Abd AlAziz said having faith equal to the weight of a dust particle
36. It is narrated on the authority of Abdullah Bin Massuod that some people said to the Messenger of Allah Messenger of Allah would we be held responsible for our deeds committed in the state of ignorance before embracing Islam Upon his he the Holy Prophet remarked He who amongst you performed good deeds in Islam He would not be held responsible for them misdeeds which he committed in ignorance and he who committed evil even after embracing Islam would be held responsible or his misdeeds that he committed in the state of ignorance as well as in that of Islam
37. He the Holy Prophet observed Are you not aware of the fact that Islam wipes out all the previous misdeeds Verily migration wipes out all the previous misdeeds and verily the pilgrimage wipes out all the previous misdeeds
38. When you bury me fill my grave well with earth then stand around it for the time within which a camel is slaughtered and its meat is distributed so that I may enjoy your intimacy and in your company ascertain what answer I can give to the messengers angels of Allah
39. It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah transmitted it from the Blessed and Great Lord Verily Allah recorded the good and the evil and then made it clear that he who intended good but did not do it Allah recorded one complete good in his favour but if he intended it and also did it the Glorious and Great Allah recorded ten to seven hundred virtues and even more to his credit
40. This hadith has been transmitted by another chain of narrators Abu Bakr Bin Abi Shaiba Ishaq Bin Ibrahim Harun Bin Abdullah Abi Usama Walid Bin Kathir Muhammad Bin Kaab his brother Abdullah Bin Kaab and Abi Usama
41. He Ibn Ziyad said Why did you not narrate it to me before this day He replied I in fact did not narrate it to you as it was not fit for me to narrate that to you
42. I have passed through a time in which I did not care with whom amongst you I entered into a transaction for if he were a Muslim his faith would compel him to discharge his obligations to me and it he were a Christian or a Jew the ruler would compel him to discharge his obligations to me
43. Hudhaifa said I heard the Messenger of Allah may peace be upon him observing Temptations will be presented to men hearts as reed mat is woven stick by stick and any heart which is impregnated by them will have a black mark put into it but any heart which rejects them will have a white mark put in it
44. who narrated it on the authority of Hudhaifa that verily Umar said Who would narrate to us or who amongst you would narrate to us and Hudhaifa was one amongst them what the Messenger of Allah had said about the turmoil Hudhaifa said I will and recited the hadith like that transmitted by Abu Malik on the authority of Ribi and he observed in connection with this hadith that Hudhaifa remarked I am narrating to you a hadith and it has no mistake and said That it is transmitted from he Messenger of Allah
45. It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar Abdullah Bin Umar that the Messenger of Allah observed Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert to its old position of being strange just as it started and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole
46. The same hadith has been narrated on the authority of Muhammad b Saad and these words are also there The Messenger of Allah gave a stroke on my neck or between my two shoulders and said Saad do you fight with me simply because I gave a share to a man
47. And a man who had a bondswoman and fed her and fed her well then taught her good manners and did that well and later on granted her freedom and married her for him is the double reward
48. Then it falls prostrate and remains there until it is asked Rise up and go to the place whence you came and it goes back and continues emerging out from its rising place and then glides till it reaches its place of rest under the Throne and falls prostrate and remains in that state until it is asked Rise up and return to the place whence you came and it returns and emerges out from it rising place and the it glides in such a normal way that the people do not discern anything unusual in it till it reaches its resting place under the Throne
49. Jabir Bin Abdullah AlAnsari who was one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah reportedThe Messenger of Allah told about the intermission of revelation and narrated While I was walking I heard a voice from the sky and raising my head I saw the angel who had come to me in Hira sitting on a Throne between heaven and earth I was terror stricken on that account and came back to my family and said Wrap me up wrap me up So they wrapped me up and the Blessed and Most Exalted Allah sent down You who are shrouded arise and deliver warning your Lord magnify your clothes cleanse and defilement shun and defilement means idols and then the revelation was followed continuously
50. He who intends to do a good deed and does not do it will have a good deed recorded for him and if he does it it will be recorded for him as ten whereas he who intends to do an evil deed and does not do it will not be recorded for him and if he does it only one evil deed will be recorded
51. Anas Bin Malik while recounting the Night journey of the Prophet from the mosque of Kabah reported Three beings angels came to him in the mosque of the Kabah while he was sleeping in the sacred mosque before it the Command of Night Journey and Accension was revealed to him
52. However some portions have occurred before and some of them have occurred after some have been added and some deleted
53. Those of them on his right are the inmates of Paradise and the parties which are on his left side are the inmates of Hell so when he looked towards his right side he laughed and when he looked towards his left side he wept
54. Anas Bin Malik said He the Holy Prophet mentioned that he found in the heavens Adam Idris Jesus Moses and Abraham may peace be on all of them but he did not ascertain as to the nature of their abodes except that he had found Adam in the lowest heaven and Abraham in the sixth heaven
55. He replied It means that it was opened up to the lower part of his abdomen Then the hadith continues My heart was extracted and it was washed with the water of Zamzam and then it was restored in its original position after which it was filled with faith and wisdom
56. He the narrator narrat ed in this hadith that the Prophet of Allah told that he saw four rivers which flowed from the root of the lote tree of the farthest limits two manifest rivers and two hidden rivers
57. I said Gabriel what are these rivers He replied The two hidden rivers are the rivers of Paradise and as regards the two manifest ones they are the Nile and the Euphrates
58. It is reported on the authority of Malik Bin Sasa that the Messenger of Allah narrated the hadith mentioned above and added to it I was brought a gold basin full of wisdom and faith and then the part of the body right from the upper end of the chest to the lower part of the abdomen was opened and it was washed with the water of Zamzam and then flled with wisdom and faith
59. Abu AlAliya narrated it on the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah passed through the valley of Azraq and he asked Which valley is this They said This is the valley of Azraq and he observed I perceive as if I am seeing Moses peace be upon him coming down from the mountain track and he is calling upon Allah loudly saying Here I am at your service
60. It is narrated on the authority of Jabir that the Messenger of Allah said There appeared before me the apostles and Moses was among men as if he was one of the people of Shanua and I saw Jesus son of Mary peace be upon him and I saw nearest in resemblance with him was Urwa Bin Massuod and I saw Ibrahim blessings of Allah be upon him and I see your companions much in resemblance with him i
61. Behold but the Masih AlDajjal is blind of right eye as if his eye is like a swollen grape and the Messenger of Allah said I was shown in a dream in the night that near the Kabah there was a man fair complexioned fine amongst the white complexioned men that you ever saw his locks of hair were falling on his shoulders
62. He the narrator further said The Messenger of Allah was given three things he was given five prayers be was given the concluding verses of Surat AlBaqara and remission of serious Sins for those among his Ummah who associate not anything with Allah
63. It is narrated on the authority of Masruq that he said I was resting at the house of Aisha that she said O Abu Aisha kunya of Masruq there are three things and he who affirmed even one of them fabricated the greatest lie against Allah
64. Dawud reported on the same authorities the hadith as narrated above by Ibn Uliya and added She Aisha said If Muhammad were to conceal anything which was sent to him he would have certainly concealed this verse And when thou saidst to him on whom Allah had conferred favour and thou too had conferred favour Keep thy wife to thyself and fear Allah and thou wast concealing in thy heart that which Allah was going to disclose and thou wast fearing men while Allah has a better right that thou shouldst fear Him
65. The deeds in the night are taken up to Him before the deeds of the day and the deeds of the day before the deeds of the night
66. Suhaib reported the Apostle saying When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise the Blessed and the Exalted would ask Do you wish Me to give you anything more They would say Hast Thou not brightened our faces Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire He the narrator said He God would lift the veil and of things given to them nothing would he dearer to them than the sight of their Lord the Mighty and the Glorious
67. Those who worshipped the sun would follow the sun and those who worshipped the moon would follow the moon and those who worshipped the devils would follow the devils
68. Then Allah would finish judging amongst His bondsmen but a man who will be the last to enter Paradise will remain facing Hell and will say O my Lord I turn my face away from Hell for its air has poisoned me ard its blaze has burnt me
69. Abu Saeed AlKhudri reported Some people during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah said Messenger of Allah shall we see our Lord on the Day of Resurrection The Messenger of Allah said Yes and added Do you feel any trouble in seeing the sun at noon with no cloud over it and do you feel trouble in seeing the moon open in the full moonlit night with no cloud over it They said No Messenger of Allah He the Holy Prophet said You will not feel any trouble in seeing Allah on the Day of Resurrection any more than you do in seeing any one of them
70. Abu Saeed said I have come to know that the bridge would be thinner even than the hair and sharper than the sword and in the hadith narrated by Laith these words are not found They would say O our Lord Thou hast bestowed upon us favours which thou didst not bestow on anyone else in the world
71. Then they would be granted intercession and would be brought in groups and would be spread on the rivers of Paradise and then it would be said O inhabitants of Paradise pour water over them then they would sprout forth like the sprouting of seed in the silt carried by flood
72. Afterwards a tree more beautiful than the first would be raised up before him and he would say O my Lord bring me near this tree in order that I may drink of its water and take shelter in its shade and I shall not ask Thee for anything else
73. We then turned back and said Woe be upon you How can this old man tell a lie against the Messenger of Allah We turned back from the views of the Khawarij and by God every one of us abandoned this band of Khawarij except one man
74. He the narrator said The Messenger or Allah observed So they would come to me and I would ask the permission of my Lord and it would be granted to me and when I would see Him I would fall down in prostration and He Allah would leave me thus as long as He would wish and then it would be said O Muhammad raise your head say and you would be heard ask and it would be granted intercede and intercession would be accepted
75. Intercede for us with thy Lord dont you see in which trouble we are Dont you see what misfortune has overtaken us I shall then set off and come below the Throne and fall down prostrate before my Lord then Allah would reveal to me and inspire me with some of His Praises and Glorifications which He had not revealed to anyone before me
76. He the narrator said I said O thou who art far dearer to me than my father and my mother I which thing is like the passing of lightning He said Have you not seen lightning how it passes and then comes back within the twinkling of an eye Then they would pass like the passing of the wind then like the passing of a bird and the hastening of persons would be according to their deeds and your Apostle would be standing on the Path saying Save O my Lord save
77. Then he raised his hands and said O Lord my Ummah my Ummah and wept so Allah the High and the Exalted said O Gabriel go to Muhammad though your Lord knows it fully well and ask him What makes thee weep So Gabriel peace be upon him came to him and asked him and the Messenger of Allah informed him what he had said though Allah knew it fully well
78. Then he made a particular reference to certain tribes and said O sons of Kaab Bin Luway rescue yourselves from the Fire O sons of Murra Bin Kaab rescue yourselves from the Fire O sons of Abd Shams rescue yourselves from the Fire sons of Abd Manaf rescue yourselves from the Fire O sons of Hashim rescue yourselves from the Fire sons of Abd AlMuttalib rescue yourselves from the Fire O Fatimah rescue thyself from the Fire for I have no power to protect you from Allah in anything except this that I would sustain relationship with you
79. I cannot avail you at all against Allah Abbas Bin Abd AlMuttalib I cannot avail you at all against Allah O Safiya aunt of the Messenger of Allah I cannot avail you at all against Allah Fatima daughter of Muhammad ask me whatever you like but I cannot avail you at all against Allah
80. Qabisa Bin AlMukhariq and Zuhair Bin Amr reported When this verse was revealed And warn thy nearest kindred the Messenger of Allah set off towards a rock of the hill and ascended the highest of the rocks and then called sons of Abd Manaf I am a warner my similitude and your similitude is like a man who saw the enemy and went to guard his people but being afraid they might get there before him he shouted Be on your guard
81. Numan Bin Bashir reported The Messenger of Allah said Verily the least suffering for the inhabitants of Fire would be for him who would have two shoes and two laces of Fire on his feet and with these would boil his brain as boils the cooking vessel and he would think that he would not see anyone in a more grievous torment than him whereas he would be in the least torment
82. Abu Hazim narrated it on the authority of Ibn Saad that the Messenger of Allah said Seventy thousand persons or seven hundred thousand persons Abu Hazim does not remember the exact number would enter Paradise holding and supporting one another and the first among them would not enter till the last among them would enter therein they would enter simultaneously and their faces would be bright like the full moon
83. He said He who acted according to what he had heard from the Holy Prophet acted rightly but Ibn Abbas narrated to us from the Messenger of Allah that he said There were brought before me the peoples and I saw an apostle and a small group of his followers along with him another apostle and one or two persons along with him and still another apostle having no one with him
84. Upon this he again said By Him in Whose Hand is my life I hope that you would constitute one half of the inhabitants of Paradise and the reason is that no one would be admitted into Paradise but a believer and you are no more among the polytheists than as a white hair on the skin of a black ox or a black hair on the skin of a red ox
85. He the narrator said This had a very depressing effect upon them upon the companions of the Holy Prophet and they said Messenger of Allah who amongst us would be that unfortunate person who would be doomed to Hell He said Good tidings for you Yajuj Majuj would be those thousands who would be the denizens of Hell and a person selected for Paradise would be amongst you

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