Those Named Abdullah

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you about the people of Paradise?" We said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Every weak person who is regarded as weak, who owns two worn-out garments, to whom no one pays any attention, (yet whose rank is such that) if he swears an oath relying on Allah, Allah will surely fulfil it. Shall I not tell you about the people of Hell?" We said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Every harsh, fat, swaggering, arrogant person." (Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said:) I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is jazz? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Fat and bulky." I said: And what is ja'z? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "One who considers himself very great."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Abu Yahya al-Qattat (may Allah have mercy on him) except Isra'il (may Allah have mercy on him), and no one narrated it from Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) except Abu Yahya al-Qattat (may Allah have mercy on him)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty will raise up the servants on the Day of Resurrection, then He will single out the scholars and say: 'O company of scholars, I did not place My knowledge within you because I wished to punish you. Go, for I have forgiven you.'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Sa'id bin Abi Hind (may Allah have mercy on him) except Musa bin Ubaydah (may Allah have mercy on him), and no one narrated it from Musa (may Allah have mercy on him) except Talhah bin Zayd (may Allah have mercy on him), and Sadaqah bin Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it, and this hadith is narrated from Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not cause harm to the living on account of the dead."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Ibrahim bin Muhammad al-Ansari narrated this hadith from Salih, the freed slave of al-Taw'amah, and Sadaqah bin Abdullah is alone in narrating it."

The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said: "Whenever the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was given a choice between two matters, he (peace and blessings be upon him) chose the easier of them, provided it was not a sin; and if it was a sin, he (peace and blessings be upon him) was the furthest of all people from it. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) never took revenge for himself for any harm done to him, but when the sacred limits of Allah were violated, he would take revenge for the sake of Allah."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Sadaqah bin Abdullah narrated this hadith from Ibrahim bin Murrah, and Amr bin Abi Salamah is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Taking a ritual bath (ghusl) on Friday is obligatory upon every adult."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Zuhayr bin Muhammad narrated this hadith from Muhammad bin al-Munkadir, Amr bin Abi Salamah is alone in narrating it, and this hadith is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "An orphan girl is to be asked for her permission concerning her marriage, and her silence is her consent."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Ibn Uyaynah narrated this hadith from al-Zuhri, and al-Firyabi is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Snakes are the transformed form of jinn, just as apes and swine were transformed from among the Children of Israel."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), mentioning Zamzam, said: "It is indeed blessed; it is food for the one who eats."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated these two hadiths from Khalid al-Hadhdha' except Abd al-Aziz bin al-Mukhtar."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The signs of the Hour will appear one after another; they will follow in succession just as beads on the string of a necklace follow one after another."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Hisham bin Hassan except Dawud al-Ataki, and Abu al-Rabi' is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah and Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Be moderate and keep to what is right, for the deeds of none of you will save him." The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: "O Prophet of Allah, not even you?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Not even me, unless Allah Almighty covers me with His mercy and grace."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith through the chain of al-A'mash, from Abu Salih, from Jabir, except Sharik, and Hatim bin Isma'il is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) granted Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) an estate, in a land called Thurayr, as far as his horse could run. So he made the horse run until it stopped, then he threw his whip, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Give him as far as the whip has reached."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Nafi' except Abdullah bin Umar, and Hammad bin Khalid is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that in the year of the Conquest of Makkah the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) entered (Makkah) from the side of Thaniyyat al-Idhkhir (the mountain pass).
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from al-Qasim except Ubaydullah bin Abi Ziyad, and Muhammad bin Rabi'ah is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked a dihqan (a landowner or village chief) for water, and he brought him water in a silver vessel, so he threw the vessel at him. Then he said: "Had I not forbidden him once or twice before (I would not have done this). Indeed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us to drink from (vessels of) gold and silver, and to wear silk and brocade (fine and thick silk cloth), for these things are for them (the disbelievers) in this world, and they will be for us in the Hereafter."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Nafi' except Fudayl bin Ghazwan, nor from Fudayl except Muhammad bin Fudayl, and Zakariyya bin Yahya al-Kisa'i is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) that he was present on the occasion when Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) presented to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) the provisions with which the Army of Hardship (the army of the expedition of Tabuk) was equipped; he brought seven hundred uqiyahs of gold.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Imam al-Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) except Ibrahim bin Umar bin Aban bin Uthman, nor from Ibrahim except Abu Ma'shar, and al-Muqaddami is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said concerning a pilgrim in ihram who dies (in the state of ihram): "He is to be shrouded in his two garments, his head is not to be covered, no perfume is to be applied to him, and he is to be washed with water and lote-tree leaves, for on the Day of Resurrection he will be raised in the state of reciting the talbiyah."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from al-Hasan bin Salih except al-Aswad bin Amir, and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said that Jibril (peace be upon him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Muhammad, live as long as you wish, for you must eventually die; do whatever deeds you wish, for you will be recompensed for them; love whomever you wish, for you must part from him. And know that the honour of the believer is standing in prayer at night, and his dignity lies in being independent of people."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Muhammad bin Uyaynah except Zafir, and Muhammad bin Uyaynah is the brother of Sufyan (bin Uyaynah)."

The Successor Imam Nafi' (may Allah have mercy on him) said that whenever Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) returned to Madinah (from Hajj or Umrah), he would make his mount kneel in that valley (al-Batha') of Dhu al-Hulayfah where the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had made his mount kneel.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Imam al-Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) except Yunus, and no one narrated it from Yunus except Hassan bin Ibrahim, and al-Azraq bin Ali is alone in narrating it."

The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would pray while I was lying crosswise in front of him (peace and blessings be upon him)."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ya'qub bin Ata except Abu Isma'il al-Mu'addib, and Surayj bin Yunus is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that Sayyidah Fatimah bint Abi Hubaysh (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "O Messenger of Allah, I have continuous bleeding (istihadah) and I do not become pure; shall I then abandon the prayer?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is not menstruation; it is only (the blood of) a vein. So when the days of menstruation come, leave the prayer, and when they pass (or the narrator said: turn away), wash the blood off yourself and pray."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ayyub except Isma'il Ibn Ulayyah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The people should be led in prayer by the one who is earliest of them in emigration (hijrah); if they are equal in emigration, then the one who is oldest of them in age; and if they are also equal in age, then the one of them who recites the Qur'an the most (the best reciter)."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Muhammad bin Juhadah except Abd al-Warith."

The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said: "We used to put garlands on the necks of the sheep (as a mark of sacrifice), then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would send them off (as sacrificial animals) while he himself remained out of ihram; nothing became forbidden to him (peace and blessings be upon him)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), mentioning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Let none of you ever say: I have forgotten such-and-such a verse, for the truth is that he did not forget it himself; rather, he was made to forget it."

The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray three rak'ahs of witr; in the first rak'ah he would recite 'Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High', in the second 'Say: O disbelievers', and in the third 'Say: He is Allah, the One'."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated these hadiths from Muhammad bin Juhadah except Abd al-Warith, and in the hadith of the witr no one said the words 'from Ibn Abza, from Aishah' except Ja'far bin Mihran al-Sabbak."

Abdullah bin Tawus (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I bear witness concerning my father Tawus (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: I bear witness concerning Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I bear witness concerning the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: "I have been commanded to fight people until they say 'La ilaha illallah' (There is no god but Allah). Then, when they have done that, they have protected their blood and their wealth from me, except by its right, and their reckoning is with Allah."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Tawus (may Allah have mercy on him) except his son, and no one narrated it from Ibn Tawus except Sufyan bin Amir, and Salih bin Abdullah al-Tirmidhi is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "I am a coward, and I am also weak." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Come to a jihad in which there is no thorn (no hardship or danger): that is, Hajj."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is not narrated from Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) through any chain other than this one."

The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away on Monday, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was buried on the night of Wednesday."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Huraym bin Sufyan except Aswad bin Amir."
It is like this in the printed Dar al-Haramayn edition, and the correct wording is probably (Ibn Ishaq), as it is in the Musnad of Ahmad.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A time will surely come upon my Ummah in which people will wish for the coming of the Dajjal." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be ransomed for you, why will that be?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Because of the hardship and toil that they will face."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ubayd bin Tufayl except Qabisah, and Ahmad bin Umar al-Waki'i is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Abu al-Tufayl (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I lived through eight years of the blessed life of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and I was born in the year of the Battle of Uhud."
Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that his father, Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him), said: "Thabit bin al-Walid came to us from Kufah and stayed in the city of Abu Ja'far, so Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him) and I went to him, and we heard some hadiths from him."

Amr bin Shu'ayb narrates from his father, and he from his grandfather, on the authority of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Amsayna wa amsa al-mulku lillah, wal-hamdu lillah, a'udhu billahi alladhi yumsiku al-sama'a an taqa'a 'ala al-ardi illa bi-idhnihi min sharri ma khalaqa wa dhara'a wa bara'a' (We have reached the evening, and the dominion has reached the evening belonging to Allah alone, and all praise is for Allah. I seek refuge in Allah, who holds back the sky from falling upon the earth except by His leave, from the evil of everything He has created, spread out and brought into being). "Whoever says these words will be protected from (the evil of) every sorcerer, soothsayer, devil and envier."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from al-Hakam except Ibn Abi Layla, and no one narrated it from Ibn Abi Layla except Abu Shihab."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a donkey that had been branded on its face, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah curse the one who has done this."

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took off his sandals during the prayer only once, and the people also took off their sandals. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why did you take off your sandals?" They said: "We saw that you took them off, so we took them off too." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril (peace be upon him) informed me that there was filth on both of them."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated these two hadiths from Thumamah except Abdullah bin al-Muthanna al-Ansari."

Musa bin Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him), the student of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), said: We were with Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) in Makkah, and I said: "When we are with you people (praying behind a resident imam), we pray four rak'ahs, and when we return to our lodgings, we pray two rak'ahs (what is the reason for this)?" He said: "That is the Sunnah of Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him)."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ayyub except Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman al-Tufawi and al-Harith bin Umayr."

Umm al-Mu'minin Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came in (to the house) and heard the sound of a child crying, so he said: "What is the matter with this child of yours that he is crying? Why did you not have ruqyah done for him against the evil eye (and its effect)?"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Abdullah bin Abi Bakr except Abu Uways."

Umm Dharrah (may Allah have mercy on her) narrates: I saw Umm al-Mu'minin Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) praying the Duha (forenoon) prayer, and she was saying: "I never saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) pray (the Duha prayer) except four rak'ahs."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is not narrated from Umm Dharrah except with this chain; Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it, may the mercy of Allah and His pleasure be upon him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever disowns his child (denies his lineage) in order to disgrace him in this world, Allah Almighty will disgrace him on the Day of Resurrection before all the witnesses; this is a recompense for a like deed."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Mujahid except Muhammad bin Abi al-Mujalid; Waki' is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Rib'i bin Hirash (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up to deliver a sermon in al-Rahbah (in Kufah). He praised Allah and extolled Him as befits Him, then said what Allah willed him to say. Then he called for a jug of Zamzam water, rinsed his mouth from it, wiped (his face and limbs), and drank the leftover water of his ablution while standing. Then he said: "It has reached me that some of you dislike drinking while standing. (Yet) this is the ablution of one who has not broken his ablution, and I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) do likewise."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Rib'i except Ahnaf Abu Furat; Abu Ubaydah bin Fudayl bin Iyad is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "How will you be when you are left among the worthless dregs of people, whose covenants and trusts have become confused, and who have differed and become like this?" And he (peace and blessings be upon him) interlaced his two fingers to show it. The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: "O Messenger of Allah, what will be the way out of it?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Take what you know to be right, and leave what you consider wrong; hold fast to concern for your own self, and beware of (involving yourself in the affairs of) the common people."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ayyub except Ma'mar, and no one from Ma'mar except Ubaydullah bin Amr; Isa bin Salim is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Umm al-Mu'minin Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited (this verse) thus: "Indeed, his deed is not righteous."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is not narrated from Masruq except with this chain; Ibrahim bin Dinar is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered us to wipe over the leather socks, even if one of us has come from relieving himself.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ikrimah bin Ammar except Anbasah bin Abd al-Wahid; Abdullah bin Umar bin Aban is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said that she had committed adultery, and she was pregnant. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go, until you give birth." And had she not come back to him (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not have sent for her. So she gave birth, then came to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go, until you wean your child." Then she came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) (after the weaning), and had she not come, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not have sent for her. So when she came after weaning the child, he (peace and blessings be upon him) had her stoned.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is not narrated from Bakr bin Abdullah except with this chain; Sa'id bin Abi al-Rabi' al-Samman is alone in narrating it."