Category:The Book of Greetings in Sahih Muslim

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1. when he seeks your council give him and when he sneezes and says All praise is due to Allah you say Yarhamuk Allah may Allah show mercy to you and when he fails ill visit him and when he dies follow his bier
2. Aisha reported In response to these words of theirs I said But let there be death upon you and disgrace also whereupon Allah Messenger said Aisha do not use harsh words
3. She said Did you hear what they said Thereupon he the Holy Prophet said Did I not respond to them when they said that I said to them Wa Alaikum let it be upon you
4. Then I stood up to go back and he Allah Apostle also stood up with me in order to bid me good bye
5. Should I not inform you about these three persons One of them sought refuge with Allah and Allah gave him refuge and the second one felt shy and Allah showed kindness to has shyness and so he was accommodated in that meeting and the last one reverted and Allah turned away His attention from him
6. Ibn Umar reported Allah Messenger as saying None should make one brother stand and then sit at his place and it was common with Ibn Umar that when any person stood in the company with a view to making room for him he did not sit there
7. Allah Apostle one day came as he was sitting with some of his wives and he was busy in describing the bodily characteristics of a lady and saying As the comes in front tour folds appear on her front side and as she turns her back eight folds appear on the back side
8. I said Is there not in Medina any place for starting the business except my house Zubair said Why is it that you prohibit the destitute man to start business here So he started business and he earned so much that we sold our slave girl to him There came Zubair to me while the money was in my lap
9. Abdullah reported Allah Messenger as saying If you are three two amongst you should not converse secretly between yourselves to the exclusion of the other third one unti some other people join him and dispel his loneliness for it may hurt his feelings
10. Aisha the wife of Allah Apostle said When Allah Messenger fell ill Gabriel used to recite this In the name of Allah may He cure you from all kinds of illnesses and safeguard you from the evil of a jealous one when he feels jealous and from the evil influence of eye
11. Ibn Abbas reported Allah Messenger as saying The influence of an evil eye is a fact if anything would precede the destiny it would be the influence of an evil eye and when you are asked to take bath as a cure from the influence of an evil eye you should take bath
12. He again made a supplication and he again did this and said to Aisha Do you know that Allah has told me what I had asked Him There came to me two men and one amongst them sat near my head and the other one near my feet and he who sat near my head said to one who sat near my feet or one who sat near my feet said to one who sat near my head What is the trouble with the man He said The spell has affected him
13. Aisha reported When any person amongst us fell ill Allah Messenger may peace he upon him used to rub him with his right band and then say O Lord of the people grant him health heal him for Thou art a Greet Healer
14. Jabir Bin Abdullah reported that Allah Apostle granted sanction to the family of Hazm for incantation in mitigating the effect of the poison of the snake and he said to Asma daughter of Umais What is this that I see the children of my brother lean Are they not fed properly She said No but they fall under the influence of an evil eve
15. So we came to Allah Apostle and made a mention of that to him whereupon he said How did you come to know that this Surat AlFatiha could be used as an incantation So distribute them amongst those who had been present there with him and allocate a share of mine also
16. Thereupon Allah Messenger said Place your hand at the place where you feel pain in your body and say Bismillah in the name of Allah three times and seven times Audhu billahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uhadhiru I seek refuge with Allah and with His Power from the evil that I find and that I fear
17. Aisha reported we intended to pour medicine in the mouth of Allah Messenger in his illness but he pointed out with the gesture of his hand that it should not be poured into the mouth against his will
18. She asked to prepare talbina in a small couldron and it was cooked and then tharid was prepared and it was poured over talbina then she said Eat it for I heard Allah Messenger may peade be upon him as saying Talbina gives comfort to the aggrieved heart and it lessens grief
19. The Messenger of Allah said It is a calamity or a disease which Allah sent to a group of Bani Israil or to the people who were before you so when you hear of it in land dont enter it and when it has broken out in your land dont run away from it
20. He said I bear testimony to the fact that Usama narrated it to Saad saying I heard Allah Messenger as saying that it is a God sent punishment from the calamity or from the remnant of the calamity with which people were afflicted before you
21. Some of them said You Umar have set forth for a task and therefore we would not advise you to go back whereas some of them said You have along with you the remnants of the sacred galaxy of men and the blessed Companions of Allah Messenger so we would not advise you to go forth towards this calamity with such eminent persons and thus expose them deliberately to a danger
22. So they set forth in the morning whereupon Abu Ubaida Bin Jarrah said Are you going to run away from the Divine Decree Thereupon Umar said Had it been someone else to say this besides you Umar in fact did not approve of his opposing this decision and he said Yes we are running from the Divine Decree to the Divine Decree
23. You should think if there had been camels for you and you happened to get down in a valley having two sides one of them covered with verdure and the other being barren would you not be doing according to the Divine Decree if you graze them in verdure And in case you graze them in the barren land even then you would be grazing them according to the Divine Decree
24. Abu Salama said that Abu Huraira used to narrate these two different ahadith from Allah Messenger but afterwards Abu Huraira became silent on these words There is no transitive disease but he stuck to this that the sick person should not be taken to one who is healthy
25. Allah Messenger said What did you say in the pre Islamic days when there was such a shot of meteor They said Allah and His Messenger know best the actual position but we however used to say that that very night a great man had been born and a great man had died whereupon Allah Messenger said These meteors are shot neither at the death of anyone nor on the birth of anyone
26. Then the Angels supporting the Throne sing His glory then sing the dwellers of heaven who are near to them until this glory of God reaches them who are in the heaven of this world
27. Thereupon Abu Lubaba said They had been forbidden to make an attempt to kill house snakes and they had been commanded to kill the snakes having small tails small snakes and those having streaks over them and it was said Both of them affect the eyes and cause miscarriage to women
28. Nafi reported that Abu Lubaba happened to pass by Ibn Umar who lived in the fortified place near the house of Umar Bin Khattab and was busy in keeping his eyes upon a snake and killing it the rest of the hadith is the same
29. And in this Allah Messenger is reported to have said Verily in these houses there live aged snakes so when you see one of them make life hard for it for three days and if it goes away well and good otherwise kill it for in that case it would be a nonbeliever
30. Abu Huraira reported Allah Messenger as saying He who killed a gecko with the first stroke for him is such and such a reward and he who killed it with a second stroke for him is such and such reward less than the first one and he who killed it with the third stroke for him is such and such a reward less than the second one
31. He commanded his luggage to be removed from under the tree and he commanded it to be burnt in the fire and Allah revealed to him Why one ant which had bitten you was not killed and why did you burn the others

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