Ibn ‘Abbās narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said to Mu‘ādh when he sent him to Yemen: 1. You shall come upon people who follow earlier revelations. 2.Call on them to declare that there is no deity other than God and that Muhammad is God’s Messenger. 3.If they obey in this, tell them that God has made it a duty binding on them to offer five prayers every day and night. 4. If they obey in this, then tell them that God has made it obligatory that a ṣadaqah is taken from the rich among them and paid to their poor. 5. If they obey in this, then do not touch the best of their property. 6. Guard yourself against a prayer by a victim of injustice, because nothing stops such a prayer from going straight to God.
Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal narrated: 1. I was behind the Prophet riding a donkey. 2. He said to me: “Mu‘ādh, do you know what people owe to God by right, and what right is due to them from God?” 3. I said: “God and His Messenger know best”. 4. He said: “The right people owe to God is that they must worship Him associating no partners with Him, 5. and the right due to people from God is that He shall not punish whoever does not associate partners with Him”. 6. I said: “Messenger of God, may I tell people so that they will rejoice”. He said: “Do not tell them, for then they will slacken”.
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: 1. All my community shall be admitted into Heaven except those who refuse. 2. People asked: ‘Messenger of God, who will refuse?’ 3.He said: Whoever obeys me enters Heaven and whoever disobeys me refuses.
‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb narrated: 1. One day while we were sitting with God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) there appeared before us a man whose clothes were exceedingly white and whose hair was exceedingly black. No sign of journeying was to be seen on him and none of us knew him. 2. He walked up and sat down by the Prophet, resting his knees against his [i.e. the Prophet’s] knees, and placing the palms of his hands on his thighs. 3. He said: ‘Muhammad, tell me about Islam’. 4.God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: ‘Islam is to testify that there is no deity other than God 5. and Muhammad is God’s Messenger, 6. to attend regularly to prayers, 7. to pay the zakat, 8. to fast in Ramadan 9. and to offer the pilgrimage to the House if you are able to do so’. He said: ‘You have spoken rightly’. We were amazed at him asking and confirming the answer. 10. He then said: ‘Tell me about īmān’. The Prophet said: ‘It is to believe in God, His angels, His books, His messengers, . and the Last Day, and to believe in Qadar or divine decree, both the good and the evil of it’. He said: ‘You have spoken rightly. Then tell me about iḥsān’. The Prophet said: ‘It is to worship God as though you see Him, and while you do not see Him, He certainly sees you’. He said: ‘Then tell me about the Hour’. The Prophet said: ‘The one questioned about it knows no better than the one putting the question’. He said: ‘Then tell me about its signs’. The Prophet said: ‘That a slave girl gives birth to her mistress, and that you will see the barefooted, naked, destitute herdsmen competing in constructing lofty buildings’. Then the man left and I stayed for a while. The Prophet then said to me: 'Umar, do you know who the one putting these questions was?’ I said: ‘God and His Messenger know best’. He said: ‘That was Gabriel. He came to you to teach you your religion’.
Tamīm al-Dārī narrated that the Prophet(peace be upon him) said:1. Religion is sincerity. 2. We asked: To Whom? 3.He said: To God, 4. His Book, 5. His Messenger, 5.to the leaders of the Muslims 7. and their common folk.
Al-‘Abbās ibn ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib narrated that he heard God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) say:2. Whoever accepts God as his Lord, 3. Islam as his faith 4. and Muhammad as [God’s] Messenger 1. experiences the meaning of faith.
Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb narrated: 1.A Jew came to ‘Umar and said: ‘Amīr al-Muʼminīn, you recite a verse in your Book. Had it been revealed to us, Jews, we would have made its day of revelation a time of celebration’. 2. He said: ‘Which verse?’ He said: ‘This day I have perfected your religion for you and have bestowed on you the full measure of My blessings and have chosen Islam as a religion for you’. (5: 3) 3.‘Umar said: ‘I know the day when and the place where it was revealed. It was revealed to God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) at Arafat, on a Friday’. Related by al-Bukhari, 45; Muslim, 3017.
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:1. Faith is seventy-something, or sixty-something, branches. 2. The best of these is to say ‘there is no deity other than God’, 3. and the lowest in rank is to remove a harmful object from people’s way. 4. Modesty is a branch of faith.
‘Imrān ibn Ḥuṣayn narrated: 1. I visited the Prophet (peace be upon him) and tied my she-camel at the door. 2. Some people from the Tamīm tribe came in and he said to them: ‘Accept the happy news, Banī Tamīm’. 3. They said: ‘You have given us happy news, so give us’. They repeated it twice. 4. Then people from Yemen came in, and he said: ‘Accept the happy news, people of Yemen, as the Tamīm people have not’. 5. They said: ‘We accept it, Messenger of God’. 6. They then said: ‘We have come to ask you about this matter’. 7. He said: ‘There was God, and there was nothing other than Him. 8. His throne was on water. 9. He wrote everything in the Record, 10. and He created the heavens and the earth’. 11. Someone called out: Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, your she-camel has gone. I went out, and it was not to be seen. 12. By God, I wish I had abandoned it.Related by al-Bukhari, 3191.
Abu Dharr narrated from the Prophet (peace be upon him), as part of what he narrated from God, Blessed and Sublime, that He said: My servants, I have forbidden injustice for Myself and have made it forbidden among you. So, do not be unjust to one another. My servants, all of you are led astray except for those I have guided; so seek guidance from Me and I shall guide you. My servants, all of you are hungry except for those I have fed, so seek food from Me and I shall feed you. My servants, all of you are naked except for those I have clothed, so seek clothing from Me and I shall clothe you. My servants, you sin by night and by day, and I forgive all sins, so seek forgiveness from Me and I shall forgive you.My servants, you shall not attain the ability to harm Me, and you shall not attain the ability to benefit Me. My servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you to be as pious as the most pious heart of any one person of you, that would not increase My kingdom in anything. My servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you to be as wicked as the most wicked heart of any one person of you, that would not decrease My kingdom in anything. My servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you to rise up in one place and make requests of Me, and were I to give everyone what they have requested, that would not decrease what I have any more than a needle decreases the sea if dipped into it.My servants, it is but your deeds that I reckon up for you and then recompense you for. So, let him who finds good praise God and let him who finds otherwise blame none but himself. Related by Muslim, 2577.
Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: 1. God has ninety-nine names: 2. one hundred minus one. 3. Whoever learns them all goes to Heaven. 4. Adding in a different narration: He is one and loves oneness.
Abu Mūsā al-Ash‘arī narrated, saying: ‘God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) addressed us stating five points. He said: “God, the Mighty and Exalted, does not sleep and it is not for Him to sleep. He puts the balance down and up. The works of the night are presented to Him before the works of the day, and the works of the day before the works of the night. His screen is light”. (In a different narration: the fire.) Were He to remove it, the light and splendour of His face would have burnt all creatures in His sight’. Related by Muslim, 179.
‘Āʼishah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: The angels were created from light, while the jinn were created from raging flames of fire. Adam was created from what you have been told.
‘Āʼishah, the Mother of the Believers narrated that : The first aspect of revelation to God’s Messenger was that his dreams came true. Whatever vision he might have had in his sleep would come true as clearly as the break of dawn. Then, he began to enjoy seclusion. He used to retreat alone into the Cave of Ḥirāʼ, where he would spend several days in devotion before going back to his family. He used to take some food with him, and when he came back he would take a fresh supply for another period. He continued to do so until he suddenly received the truth while in the Cave of Ḥirāʼ. The angel came to him and said: “Read”. He replied: “I am not a reader”. [The Prophet] says: “He held me and pressed hard until I was exhausted, then he released me and said: ‘Read’, and I replied: ‘I am not a reader’. So he held me and pressed me hard a second time until I was exhausted, then he released me and said: ‘Read’. I replied: ‘I am not a reader’. He then held me and pressed hard for a third time until I was exhausted, then he released me. Then he said: ‘Read, in the name of Your Lord Who created. It is He Who created man from a clinging cell mass. Read! Your Lord is the most bounteous’”. (96: 1-3) The Prophet returned home trembling right until he entered Khadījah bint Khuwaylid’s place, and said: “Wrap me! Wrap me!” They wrapped him and his fear subsided. He turned to Khadījah and related to her what happened and said: “I fear for myself”, Khadījah replied: “No, by God. God will never let you suffer humiliation, because you are kind to your relatives, you assist anyone in need, you are generous to the poor, you are hospitable to your guest and you help in every just cause”. Then she took him to Waraqah ibn Nawfal ibn Asad ibn ‘Abd al-‘Uzzā, her paternal cousin who was a Christian convert and a scholar with a good knowledge of Hebrew. He used to write from the Gospel in Hebrew whatever God willed him to write. He had lost his eyesight, as he had grown very old. Khadījah said to Waraqah: “Uncle, would you like to hear what your nephew has to say?” Waraqah said: “Well, nephew, what have you seen?” The Prophet related to him what he saw. [When he had finished], Waraqah said: “It is the same angel as was sent down to Moses. I wish I was a young man so that I might be alive when your people turn you away from this city”. The Prophet exclaimed: “Would they turn me away?” Waraqah answered: “Yes! No man has ever preached a message like yours and was not met with enmity. If I live till that day, I will certainly give you all my support”. Waraqah died soon afterwards, and revelations were discontinued for a while. Related by al-Bukhari, 3; Muslim, 160.
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: I am the closest of all people to Jesus son of Mary in both this life and the life to come. Prophets are siblings, having different mothers, but their faith is one. Another version adds: There was no other Prophet between us.
Ibn ‘Abbās narrated: The Prophet (peace be upon him) was given his message when he was forty years of age. He continued to live in Makkah receiving revelations for thirteen years. He was then commanded to migrate and he stayed in his place of migration for ten years. He passed away when he was sixty-three years old.
Al-Miqdām ibn Ma‘dī karib narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Perhaps someone is told a hadith I have said when he is reclining on his couch and he says: ‘Here is God’s Book between us: whatever we find in it to be permissible we will accept as permissible and whatever we find in it as forbidden we will accept as forbidden”. Know that what God’s Messenger has forbidden is just as God has forbidden. In Abu Dāwūd’s version: Know that I have been given the Book and its like with it. Related by Abu Dāwūd, 4604; al-Tirmidhī (his text), 2664; Ibn Mājah, 12.
Abu Hurayrah narrated that: God’s Messenger (peace be upon him said: By Him who holds Muhammad’s soul in His hand, anyone in this nation who hears of me, whether Jew or Christian,and then dies without believing in what I have been sent with, shall be among the dwellers in the Fire. Related by Muslim, 250.
Anas ibn Mālik narrated, saying: As I was with the Prophet, coming out of the Mosque, a man met us near the shaded area of the mosque. He said: ‘Messenger of God, when is the Last Hour?’ The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: ‘What have you prepared for it?’ The man appeared to hesitate. He then said: ‘Messenger of God, I have not prepared much in the way of fasting, prayer or charity, but I love God and His Messenger’. The Prophet said: ‘You are with those you love’. Related by al-Bukhari, 7153; Muslim, 2639.
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Do not revile my companions. Do not revile my companions. By Him who holds my soul in His hand, were any of you to spend the like of Mount Uḥud in gold, he would not equal the mudd of any of them, nor even half that. Related by al-Bukhari, 3673; Muslim, 2541.
