Those Named Mas'adah

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that Abu Jahl bin Hisham said: "Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) claims that if you do not obey him, he will slaughter you." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, I say that too, and you are one of those who will be slaughtered." Then, when on the day of Badr he (peace and blessings be upon him) saw him slain, he said: 'Allahumma qad anjazta li ma wa'adtani' (O Allah, You have fulfilled for me what You promised me). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Sayyiduna Abu Salamah bin Abd al-Asad (may Allah be pleased with him) towards Abu Jahl. Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked: "Did you kill him?" He said: "Rather, Allah killed him." Sayyiduna Abu Salamah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Did you kill him?" He said: "Yes." Abu Salamah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Had he (Abu Jahl) wished, he would have held you in his fist." Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By Allah, I killed him and stripped him of his (weapons and) clothes." Abu Salamah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "What is his distinguishing mark?" He said: "A black mole on the inner side of his right thigh." Abu Salamah (may Allah be pleased with him) recognised the description. Then Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I stripped him, and we did not strip any Qurashi other than him."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Muhammad bin al-Munkadir except Sa'id bin Muhammad, and no one narrated it from Sa'id except Abd al-Aziz, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Arbad bin Qays bin Juzayy bin Khalid bin Ja'far bin Kilab and Amir bin al-Tufayl bin Malik bin Ja'far came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in Madinah. They reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was seated, and they sat down in front of him (peace and blessings be upon him). Amir bin al-Tufayl said: "O Muhammad, what will you give me if I accept Islam?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will have the rights that the Muslims have, and the obligations that are upon them will be upon you." Amir said: "If I accept Islam, will you hand over the matter of rule to me after you?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will have the rights that the Muslims have, and the obligations that are upon them will be upon you." Amir said again: "If I accept Islam, will you give me the rule after you?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is not for you nor for your people; but the reins of the cavalry (that is, command of the army) will be yours." He said: "That is already in my hands now, as the reins of the horses are pulled (by me)! Give me the people of the desert (the tent-dwellers), and you keep the people of the towns." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No."
When Arbad and Amir went out, Amir said: "O Arbad, I will keep Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) occupied with talk, and you strike him with the sword. When you have killed Muhammad, the people will at most be content with blood money and will dislike war, and we will give them the blood money." Arbad said: "I will do so." Then the two of them came back to him (peace and blessings be upon him). Amir said: "O Muhammad, get up and come with me; I want to speak with you." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got up with him and went towards the wall, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood with him, talking to him. Meanwhile Arbad tried to draw the sword, but as soon as he put his hand on the sword, his hand dried up on the sword's hilt and he could not draw it, and Arbad was slow in striking. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) turned and saw what Amir was doing, and left the two of them.
When Amir and Arbad left the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), they travelled on until, on reaching Harrat Bani Waqim, they dismounted. Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Mu'adh and Sayyiduna Usayd bin Hudayr (may Allah be pleased with them both) came out to them, and (Usayd (may Allah be pleased with him)) said: "Get away from here, O enemies of Allah!" Amir said: "O Sa'd, who is this?" He said: "This is Usayd bin Hudayr al-Kata'ib." Then the two of them went on until, when they reached a place called al-Raqm, Allah Almighty sent a thunderbolt upon Arbad which killed him. And Amir went on until, when he reached al-Khuraym, Allah sent upon him a boil that seized him. Night overtook him in the house of a woman of Banu Salul, and he kept touching the boil in his throat and saying: "A gland like a camel's gland, and in the house of a Saluli woman at that!" He did not like to die in her house. Then he mounted his horse and kept galloping it until he died upon it on his way back. Then these verses were revealed about the two of them: "Allah knows what every female carries, and what the wombs fall short of and what they increase," up to: "and they have no protector besides Him." (Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both)) said: "The mu'aqqibat (the angels posted in succession as guards) protect Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) by the command of Allah." Then he mentioned Arbad and how he was killed, and recited (this verse): "It is He who shows you the lightning, causing fear and hope," up to: "and He is severe in might."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Zayd bin Aslam except his two sons, and no one narrated it from them except Abd al-Aziz bin Imran, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sat on the minbar on Friday, and when he had sat down he said: "Sit down." Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Rawahah (may Allah be pleased with him) heard this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), "Sit down," and sat down (right there) among Banu Ghanm (in their quarter). It was said: "O Messenger of Allah, that is Ibn Rawahah sitting among Banu Ghanm; he heard you saying to the people, 'Sit down,' and sat down right where he was."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Hisham bin Urwah except Ibrahim bin Isma'il, and no one narrated it from Ibrahim except Fudalah bin Ya'qub, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Nafi' (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) passed by a man who was sitting in prayer and had placed his left hand on his eye in the prayer, and he said to him: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Do not sit like people who have been punished.'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ibn Ajlan except Ibrahim bin Isma'il, and Fudalah bin Ya'qub is alone in narrating it."

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: "When one of you wakes up from his sleep, let him not put his hand into the vessel until he has washed it, for he does not know where his hand spent the night; and let him also say Bismillah before putting his hand into the vessel."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Hisham bin Urwah except Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Yahya bin Urwah, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it. And of those who narrated this hadith from Abu al-Zinad, none reported the words 'and let him say Bismillah before putting it in' except Hisham bin Urwah."

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: "There are seven kinds of people whom Allah Almighty will shade in the shade of His Throne on the Day of Resurrection: a ruler who acts with justice; a man who gives charity with his right hand and conceals it even from his left hand; a man whom a woman of lineage and beauty invites to herself, and he says: 'I fear Allah, the Lord of the worlds'; a man before whom Allah is mentioned and his eyes overflow out of fear of Allah; and a man who meets another man and says: 'By Allah, I love you for the sake of Allah,' and he replies: 'And I too love you for the sake of Allah.'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Suhayl bin Abi Salih except Abdullah bin Amir al-Aslami; Abu Damrah is alone in narrating it, while the well-known narration is through the chain of Habib bin Abd al-Rahman, from Hafs bin Asim, from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)."

Kathir bin Abdullah narrates from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) heard a man saying: "Here, take it; it is green (and fresh)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Labbayk (here I am)! We have taken your good omen from your mouth."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Kathir except Ibn Abi Fudayk."

Kathir bin Abdullah narrates from his father, from his grandfather, that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led the funeral prayer for the Negus (al-Najashi) and said five takbirs over him.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Kathir except Ibrahim bin Ali al-Rafi'i, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no day on which Allah Almighty frees more of His servants from Hellfire than the day of Arafah. And indeed He draws near (in a manner befitting His majesty), then boasts of these pilgrims before the angels and says: 'What do these people want?'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) only with this chain; Makhramah bin Bukayr is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Hamzah bin Amr al-Aslami (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) at Arafah while my uncle had me riding behind him, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was placing one of his fingers on the other. I asked (my uncle): What is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying? He said: He (peace and blessings be upon him) is saying: 'Stone the Jamarat with pebbles as small as chickpeas (or broad beans), of the kind that are flicked with the fingers.'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Yahya bin Ayyub narrated this hadith from Ibn Harmalah, from Yahya bin Hind, from Hamzah bin Amr; Ibn Wahb is alone in narrating it.
And (other) people narrated it from Ibn Harmalah, from Yahya bin Hind, from Asma' bin Kharijah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Ibn Abi al-Zinad narrated this hadith from Musa bin Uqbah, and only Abd al-Rahman bin al-Mughirah from Ibn Abi al-Zinad; Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) (the narrator said: I know it only as being from her), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There has never been a prophet but that there were in his Ummah one or two inspired persons (muhaddath); and if there is any of them in my Ummah, it is Umar bin al-Khattab. Indeed, the truth is upon the tongue and heart of Umar."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that is, 'Indeed, the truth is upon the tongue and heart of Umar,' is narrated only with this chain; Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir 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: "When the Day of Resurrection comes, it will be called out: 'Where are those of sixty years?' And this is the age about which Allah Almighty said: 'Did We not give you a life long enough for whoever would take heed to take heed therein? And the warner came to you.'"
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Ibn Abi Husayn narrated this hadith from Ata', and only Ibrahim bin al-Fadl from Ibn Abi Husayn; Ibn Abi Fudayk is alone in narrating it, and it is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) only with this chain."
It is like this in the Dar al-Haramayn edition, and the correct word is probably "Abd al-Rahman"; and Allah knows best.

Muhammad bin Sa'd (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I took part in the battle of Badr when there was nothing on my face but a single hair (of beard); then after that Allah Almighty made beards grow abundantly."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Only Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir narrated this hadith from Ishaq bin Ja'far."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What lies between the east and the west (that whole direction) is qiblah."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ishaq bin Ja'far except Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Rafi' (may Allah be pleased with him) that he brought the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) the shoulder meat of a goat; he (peace and blessings be upon him) ate it and did not perform ablution.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Zayd bin Aslam except Hisham bin Sa'd, and Ma'n bin Isa is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Usamah al-Juhani (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I met the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the market together with his (peace and blessings be upon him) Companions, and I asked: Where does the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) intend to go? They said: He (peace and blessings be upon him) wants to mark out a mosque for your people." He said: "Then I arrived (at their place), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) had already marked out the mosque for them, and had planted a piece of wood on its qiblah side, setting it as the qiblah."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is narrated from Jabir bin Usamah only with this chain, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that his father died and left behind a debt of thirty wasq (of dates) owed to a Jew. Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him for more time, but he refused to give him more time. Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) spoke to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) so that he (peace and blessings be upon him) would intercede with him. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to him and spoke to the Jew, asking him to take all the dates (of the orchard), but he refused. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke to him about giving more time, and again he refused. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) entered (the orchard) and paid him the full thirty wasq, and ten wasq were even left over. Then Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to tell him about the dates that were left over, and he found the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) offering the Asr prayer. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) finished the prayer, he came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him that the Jew had been paid in full, and also told him about the dates that were left over. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Tell Umar bin al-Khattab about this as well." So Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) went to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and told him. He said: "When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) walked in it (the orchard), I knew at that very moment that Allah Almighty would surely bless it."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Wahb bin Kaysan except Hisham bin Urwah, and no one narrated it from Hisham except Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Yahya, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Ka'b bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) declared the trees of Madinah sacred (forbidding their cutting) within an area of one barid by one barid, and he sent me, so I placed markers on the boundaries of the sanctuary: on the height of Dhat al-Jaysh, on Sharith, on Makhid and on Nabt."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is narrated from Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir 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) said: "It is not lawful for a believer to cut himself off from his brother for more than three days."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Nafi' (may Allah have mercy on him) except Ibrahim bin Abi Usayd."

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: "Bid' (the word) is (used for a number) between seven and ten."
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 Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz, and no one narrated it from Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz except Ma'n and Muhammad bin Khalid bin Athmah."

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: "I am an Arab, the Qur'an is Arabic, and the language of the people of Paradise is Arabic."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Shibl except Abd al-Aziz bin Imran; Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it; and this hadith is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain."

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as a marfu' report that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The hyena is game, and the one in ihram has been forbidden to kill it."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Ayyub (may Allah have mercy on him) except Adi bin al-Fadl, and no one narrated it from Adi except Ma'n; Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Abi Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Abu Burdah bin Niyar (may Allah be pleased with him) slaughtered an animal early in the morning (before the Eid prayer). Then, when he returned (from the prayer), he mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever slaughtered before the prayer, that is not a sacrifice; the sacrifice is only what is slaughtered after the prayer. So go and sacrifice (again)." He said: "O Messenger of Allah, I have nothing (no animal) for the sacrifice; all I have is a jadha'ah (a six-month-old kid) of the goats." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go and sacrifice it, but there is no concession in this for anyone after you."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Abi Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir is alone in narrating it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Abi Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent his father, Sayyiduna Abu Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him), as an assessor (kharis, estimating the yield of the fruit). A man came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, Abu Hathmah has overcharged me (in the assessment)." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) called Abu Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "Your cousin claims that you have assessed him too much." He said: "O Messenger of Allah, I left out the 'ariyyah dates for (the food of) his household, and what he feeds to the poor, and what (fruit) the wind brings down, (I left that out as well)." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your cousin has given you more and has been fair."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Abi Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it."

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Abi Hathmah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) set out (on a journey), and Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Sahl (may Allah be pleased with him) set out with him. When they reached al-Harrah, a snake bit Abd al-Rahman bin Sahl (may Allah be pleased with him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Call Amr bin Hazm to me." So he was called, and he presented his ruqyah (incantation) to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no harm in it; recite it over him." The narrator said: Ibn Hazm (may Allah be pleased with him) placed his hand on him and said: "O Messenger of Allah, he is about to die," or he said: "He has died." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Recite over him, even if he is dying," or he said: "even if he has died." So he recited over him, and Abd al-Rahman (may Allah be pleased with him) recovered and went on his way.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This hadith is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl (may Allah be pleased with him) only with this chain, and Ibrahim bin al-Mundhir (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it."