It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Khalid bin al-Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) separately (on an expedition), and, assigning the two of them together, he said: "When the two of you come together, Ali will be (the commander) over you." (Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him)) said: Then the two of them set out, one to the right and one to the left. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) advanced and prevailed over the enemy, and some captives fell into his hands, and he took a slave girl from among the captives. Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was among the people who hated Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) the most. A man came to Sayyiduna Khalid bin al-Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) and mentioned that he (Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)) had taken a slave girl from the fifth (khumus). He said: "What is this matter?" Then another man came, then another, and so reports came one after another. Then Sayyiduna Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him) called me and said: "O Buraydah! You have come to know what has happened; take this letter of mine to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." He wrote a letter to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and I set off with the letter until I came into the presence of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) took the letter with his left hand, and his (peace and blessings be upon him) condition was as Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has said: he (peace and blessings be upon him) neither read nor wrote. (Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him)) said: Whenever I spoke, I would lower my head until I had finished what I needed to say. So I lowered my head and began to speak, and I complained about Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) until I had finished. Then when I raised my head, I saw that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was so intensely angry that I had never seen him (peace and blessings be upon him) so angry before except on the day of Banu Qurayzah and Banu al-Nadir. He (peace and blessings be upon him) looked at me and said: "O Buraydah! Love Ali, for he only does what he is commanded to do." (Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him)) said: Then I got up from there, and (the state was such that) no one among the people was more beloved to me than him.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Abdullah bin Ata except Sa'ad bin Sulayman, and no one from Sa'ad except Hasan bin Atiyyah, while Abu Kurayb is alone in narrating it."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4842
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:فيه ضعفاء وثقهم ابن حبان
Hadith Takhrij«قال الهيثمي: فيه ضعفاء وثقهم ابن حبان «مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد، ج 9، ص 129»»
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Ma'iz bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Purify me." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to you! Go back, seek forgiveness from Allah and repent to Him." The narrator said: He had gone back only a short distance when he returned and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Purify me." He (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him the same reply again, until, when it happened the fourth time, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: "From what shall I purify you?" He said: "From fornication." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Is he insane?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) was told that he was not insane. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Smell his breath." So a man stood up and smelled his breath, and he did not detect any smell of wine from him. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Have you really committed fornication?" He said: "Yes." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the order concerning him, and he was stoned. The people were divided into two groups regarding this matter. One would say: "He perished upon his worst deed, and his sin has encompassed him," while the other group would say: "There can be no repentance greater than the repentance of a man who came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), placed his hand in his (peace and blessings be upon him) hand, and then said: 'Stone me with stones.'" The people remained in this state for two or three days. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came while the Companions were sitting; he (peace and blessings be upon him) greeted them with salam, then sat down and said: "Pray for forgiveness for Ma'iz bin Malik." The Companions said: "May Allah Almighty forgive Ma'iz." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He has indeed repented with such a repentance that if it were divided among an entire nation, it would suffice them all."
Then a woman from Ghamid, a branch of al-Azd (Sayyidah Ghamidiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her)), came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Purify me." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go back, seek forgiveness from Allah and repent to Him." She said: "I think you want to send me back just as you sent back Ma'iz bin Malik?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "From what shall I purify you?" She said that she was pregnant from fornication. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Have you committed fornication?" She said: "Yes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then I will show you mercy (by delaying) until you give birth to the child." So a man from the Ansar took charge of her until she gave birth. Then he came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "The Ghamidi woman has given birth." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Now I will not stone her and leave her little child in a state where there is no one to suckle him." At that, a man from the Ansar stood up and said: "O Messenger of Allah! The responsibility of his suckling is upon me." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her to be stoned.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ghaylan bin Jami' except Ya'la bin al-Harith, and his son Yahya is alone in narrating it from him."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4843
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:صحيح من حديث بريدة
Hadith Takhrij«قال ابن عبد البر: انتظار الفطام محفوظ صحيح في حديث بريدة الأسلمي «التمهيد لما في الموطأ من المعاني والأسانيد، ج 24، ص 135»» «قال ابن عبد البر: ثبت من حديث بريدة مراعاة الفطام وهي زيادة يجب قبولها «التمهيد لما في الموطأ من المعاني والأسانيد، ج 24، ص 135»» «قال ابن عبد البر: أحسن إسناد لهذا الحديث حديث بريدة «التمهيد لما في الموطأ من المعاني والأسانيد، ج 24، ص 134»» «أخرجه مسلم فى «صحيحه» برقم: 1695، والحاكم فى «المستدرك» برقم: 8171، 8176، والنسائي فى «السنن الكبرى» برقم: 7125، 7129، 7148، 7159، 7164، 7231، وأبو داود فى «سننه» برقم: 4433، 4434، 4442، والدارمي فى «مسنده» برقم: 2366، 2369، والبيهقي فى «السنن الكبرى» برقم: 6931، 11566، 17029، 17052، 17065، 17064، 17091، 17104، 17105، والدارقطني فى «سننه» برقم: 3129، وأحمد فى «مسنده» برقم: 23408، 23415، والطيالسي فى «مسنده» برقم: 845، والبزار فى «مسنده» برقم: 4457، 4458، 4461، وابن أبي شيبة فى «مصنفه» برقم: 29367، 29405، 29403، والطحاوي فى «شرح معاني الآثار» برقم: 4867، والطحاوي فى «شرح مشكل الآثار» برقم: 432، 437، 4779، 4778»
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (may Allah have mercy on him) states: I entered the mosque while the Commander of the Believers, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), was on the pulpit, saying that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty revealed to one of the prophets of the Children of Israel: Tell the obedient ones of your nation not to rely (in pride) upon their deeds, for any servant whom I hold to a strict reckoning on the Day of Resurrection and then wish to punish, I will certainly punish him. And tell the sinners of your nation not to throw themselves into destruction with their own hands (in despair), for I forgive the greatest of sins and I do not mind. And it is settled that the people of any town, city or land, or any particular man or woman, as long as they remain upon the way that I love, I too deal with them in the way that they love. And if any people of a city or land, or any particular man or woman, are in a state that I love and I am for them as they love, and then they abandon that way and take the path that I dislike, I too change for them that (ease) which they love into that (hardship) which they dislike. And when any group of a town, city or land, or any man or woman, are upon a way that I dislike and then they leave it and come to the state that I love, I too change for them that (hardship) which they dislike into that (well-being) which they love. He is not of Me (upon My way) who takes evil omens or has evil omens taken for him, or who practises soothsaying (claiming knowledge of the unseen) or has soothsaying done for him, or who practises magic or has magic done for him. Indeed, there is only I and My creation, and all of My creation belongs to Me."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (may Allah have mercy on him) except Abd al-A'la; Isa bin Muslim is alone in narrating it, and this report is not narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) except with this chain."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4844
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:فيه عيسى بن مسلم الطهوي لين، وبقية رجاله ثقات
Hadith Takhrij«قال الهيثمي: فيه عيسى بن مسلم الطهوي قال أبو زرعة لين وقال أبو حاتم ليس بالقوي يكتب حديثه وبقية رجاله ثقات «مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد، ج 10، ص 307»»
Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates from Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril (peace be upon him) said to me: 'O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Love whomever you wish, for you will surely part from him; do whatever you wish, for you will surely meet it; and live as long as you wish, for death will surely come to you.'" And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril (peace be upon him) was concise and comprehensive with me in his admonition."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4845
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:فيه جماعة لم يعرفهم الهيثمي
Hadith Takhrij«قال الهيثمي: وفيه جماعة لم أعرفهم «مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد، ج 10، ص 220»» «أخرجه الطبراني فى «الصغير» برقم: 704»
Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'By the One in whose Hand is my soul! No joining of one thing to another is more excellent than the joining of forbearance (hilm) to knowledge.'"
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4846
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:فيه من لم يعرفه الهيثمي
Hadith Takhrij«قال الهيثمي: حفص بن بشر عن حسن بن الحسين بن يزيد العلوي عن أبيه ولم أر من ذكر أحدا منهم «مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد، ج 1، ص 121»» «أخرجه الطبراني فى «الصغير» برقم: 707»
Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "After faith, the very essence of wisdom (and its greatest part) is to treat people with love and friendliness."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4847
Hadith Takhrij«أخرجه الطبراني فى «الصغير» برقم: 705»
Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three traits; whoever does not have them has no connection with me, nor with Allah." It was asked: What are they? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Forbearance that wards off the ignorance of the ignorant, or good character with which he lives among people, or piety that restrains him from disobeying Allah."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4848
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:فيه جماعة لم يعرفهم الهيثمي
Hadith Takhrij«قال الهيثمي: وفيه جماعة لم أعرفهم «مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد، ج 8، ص 24»» «أخرجه الطبراني فى «الصغير» برقم: 706»
Al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: I asked Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn and Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with them both) about this verse of the Book of Allah: "And goodly dwellings in Gardens of Eternity", and they both replied: "You have come to one who is well informed. We asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about it, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: '(It refers to) a palace of pearl in Paradise, in which there are seventy houses of red ruby; in every house there are seventy rooms of green emerald, and in every room there are seventy couches.'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) except Jasr bin Farqad (may Allah have mercy on him)."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 4849
Hadith Takhrij«أخرجه البزار فى «مسنده» برقم: 3563، والطبراني فى «الكبير» برقم: 353»