Abu al-Zinad from Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit

Kharijah (may Allah have mercy on him), the son of Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), narrates from his father that tranquility (sakinah, the state of revelation) came over the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was at his side (peace and blessings be upon him), and the thigh of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) fell upon my thigh, and I never felt anything heavier than the thigh of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Then that state was lifted from him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: "Write." So I wrote: "Not equal are those of the believers who sit back and those who strive in the way of Allah with their wealth and their lives" [Surah al-Nisa: 95], the whole of the verses. He said: I wrote it on a bone, and Ibn Umm Maktum (may Allah be pleased with him), who was blind, stood up when he heard the superiority of those who strive over those who sit back, and said: O Messenger of Allah, what of those believers who are not able to strive (in jihad)? Ibn Umm Maktum had not yet finished his words when tranquility came over the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and his thigh (peace and blessings be upon him) fell upon my thigh again, and I felt it as heavy the second time as I had the first time. Then that state was lifted from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: "Read." I read: "Not equal are those of the believers who sit back" [Surah al-Nisa: 95], and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Except those who have a disability" [Surah al-Nisa: 95]. Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I added these words, and it is as if I can still see the place near the crack in the bone where I added it.

It is narrated from Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) that (Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him)) said: I was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when tranquility came over him (peace and blessings be upon him), or descended, and the thigh of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) fell upon my thigh, and I never felt anything heavier than the thigh of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) felt. Then when that state was lifted from him (peace and blessings be upon him), he said: "Read." I read. He said: "Write: Not equal are those of the believers who sit back and those who strive in the way of Allah" [Surah al-Nisa: 95]. Thereupon the blind Companion Amr bin Umm Maktum (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah, I have an impairment in my eyes. At this, tranquility came over him (peace and blessings be upon him), and the thigh of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) fell upon my thigh, and I never felt anything heavier than the thigh of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Then when that state was lifted from him (peace and blessings be upon him), he said: "Read." I read. He said: "Write: Except those who have a disability" [Surah al-Nisa: 95]. I have never forgotten where I added it near the crack in the bone.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning the saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, "The mosque whose foundation was laid on piety"; he said: "It is the mosque of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the mosque whose foundation was laid on piety, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is this mosque of mine."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "Recitation (reading the Qur'an in its various modes) is a Sunnah." The narration of Ibn Abi Maryam adds: "Do not oppose the people with your own opinion."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered him to learn the writing of the Jews (the Hebrew script). He said: So I used to write for him (peace and blessings be upon him) and write letters to them, and when they wrote, I would read it out to him (peace and blessings be upon him).

Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered me to learn the writing of the Jews, and not even half a month had passed before I became proficient in it. the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I do not trust the Jews with my writing." When I had learned it, I began writing letters for him (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, I was eleven years old.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted the sale of 'araya by measure according to their estimate."

Ibn Abi al-Zinad narrates that his father (Abu al-Zinad, may Allah have mercy on him) told him that he obtained this letter from Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him): "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. To the servant of Allah, Mu'awiyah, the Commander of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with him), from Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him): Peace be upon you, O Commander of the Believers, and the mercy of Allah. I praise before you Allah, besides whom there is no god. To proceed: You have written asking me about the inheritance of the grandfather and the brothers. Indeed, the full extent of kalalah (one who dies leaving neither child nor father) and of many of the judgements made in these inheritances is known to none but Allah. After the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), we were present with the Caliphs in many of these matters, and we retained of them what we wished to retain, and now we give fatwa accordingly to those who ask us about inheritance."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah while the people used to buy and sell fruit before it ripened. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) heard a commotion and loud voices from the people and said: "What is this?" They said: O Messenger of Allah, these people had traded in the fruit of the date palms, and they now say that it was afterwards struck by blight. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then do not buy and sell it until it ripens."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the ritual bath (ghusl) for his ihram at the place where he entered ihram.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, Banu al-Najjar came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah, among us is a boy who has learned more than ten surahs of what has been revealed to you. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called me, and I recited before him (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the boundaries (of land) have been fixed, there is no longer any pre-emption (shuf'ah, a neighbour's right of first purchase)."

Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) used to spend the twenty-third and twenty-seventh nights of Ramadan in worship, but not with the same devotion with which he worshipped on the seventeenth night. He was asked: Why do you single out the seventeenth night? He said: "On this night the Qur'an was revealed, and on its morning a distinction was made between truth and falsehood, and on the morning of this night he would rise with a face shining with joy."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "War is deception."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) allotted from the spoils of war two shares for the horse and one share for the rider.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: This verse of Surah al-Nisa, "And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, abiding therein forever, and Allah is angry with him and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great punishment" [Surah al-Nisa: 93], was revealed six months after these verses of Surah al-Furqan: "And those who do not invoke another god along with Allah, and do not kill the soul that Allah has made sacred except by right, and do not commit adultery; and whoever does that will meet the penalty of sin" [Surah al-Furqan: 68].

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: When this verse of Surah al-Furqan was revealed, "And those who do not invoke another god along with Allah, and do not kill the soul that Allah has made sacred except by right" [Surah al-Furqan: 68], we were amazed at its leniency. We remained in that state for seven months, then this verse of Surah al-Nisa was revealed: "And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, abiding therein forever, and Allah is angry with him and has cursed him" [Surah al-Nisa: 93], until the verse was complete.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade blowing during prostration and blowing into a drink.

Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit narrates that Marwan said to Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him): O Abu Sa'id, if you would permit us, we would write down your hadith from you. Zayd said: No. So Marwan seated a scribe for him behind the tent; he himself kept asking Zayd questions, and the scribe kept writing everything Zayd narrated. Then Marwan said: O Abu Sa'id, it seems to us that we have succeeded in the very thing you refused. Zayd said: By Allah, I will not move until that writing is brought to me. So the writing was brought, and he tore it up and said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from writing his hadith."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This wealth is green and sweet."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This wealth is green and sweet."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This wealth is green and sweet."

Kharijah bin Zayd narrates: I saw a man who asked my father about a man who goes out on a military expedition and, on that same journey, also buys, sells and trades: what is the ruling on him? My father said to him: "We used to buy and sell with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) at Tabuk, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would see us, yet he did not forbid us."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The day of Ashura is not the day that people commonly speak of; rather, it was the day on which the Ka'bah was covered with its cloth and the Abyssinians would dance in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and this day used to rotate through the year." People used to ask a certain Jew about it; when that Jew died, the people came to Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) and began to ask him.

Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that an Arab man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him for the land between two mountains, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) wrote that land over to him. He accepted Islam, then went to his people and said to them: Accept Islam, for I have come to you from a man who gives gifts as though he has no fear of poverty.