Reports narrated by Abu Said al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him)

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "People will emerge from this Ummah who will pass out of the religion just as an arrow passes through the game."

Jamil bin Abi al-Mada' (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father that Marwan bin al-Hakam asked Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him): How do you eat? He replied: Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) informed me from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: "When one of you eats food, let him not wipe his hand until he has licked his fingers, for he does not know in which part of his food the blessing has been placed for him."

Ubaydullah bin Abdullah bin Utbah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), who narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he said: "Whoever goes to sleep with the smell of grease on his hand, and is then afflicted with leprosy (white patches), let him blame no one but himself."

Ubaydullah bin Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When one of you is praying, let him not raise his gaze towards the sky, lest his sight be snatched away."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am the Prophet, that is no lie; I am the son of Abd al-Muttalib. I am the most eloquent of the Arabs; Quraysh gave birth to me, and I grew up among Banu Sa'd bin Bakr. So how could an error of speech come to me?"

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Sa'id (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father, Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man should not look at the private parts of another man, and a woman should not look at the private parts of another woman; and a man should not lie skin to skin with another man, and a woman should not lie skin to skin with another woman."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) relates that the delegation of Abd al-Qays came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Prophet of Allah, may Allah make us your ransom, which drinks are suitable for us? He said: "Do not drink from the naqir." They said: O Prophet of Allah, may Allah make us your ransom, do you know what the naqir is? He said: "Yes, it is the trunk of a date palm whose middle is hollowed out. And do not drink from the dubba' (gourd), nor from the hantamah (green earthenware jar); and hold fast to the (tied) waterskin."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), who attributes it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he said: "When a man becomes confused in his prayer and does not know whether he has added or omitted something, let him perform two prostrations while sitting."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said: It was forbidden for a man to drink while standing, and to put the mouth of the waterskin in his mouth and drink from it.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: We were sitting at the door of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) talking among ourselves; people were arguing about verses of the Qur'an, this one pulling with one verse and that one with another verse. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us, and it was as if pomegranate seeds had burst on his face (that is, his blessed face had turned red). He said: "O people, is it for this that you were sent? Or is this what you were commanded? Do not turn back into disbelievers after me, striking one another's necks."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril (peace be upon him) led me in prayer. He prayed Zuhr when the sun had passed its zenith, Asr when the shadow was equal to one stature, Maghrib when the sun had set, Isha when the twilight had disappeared, and Fajr when the true dawn broke. Then on the second day he led me in prayer: he prayed Zuhr when the shadow of everything was equal to it, Asr when the shadow was two statures, Maghrib as soon as the sun set, Isha up to the first third of the night, and Fajr when the sun was about to rise." Then he said: "The time of prayer is between these two times."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "The five prayers are an expiation for (the sins committed) between them." And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What do you think: if a man had five rivers between his house and his place of work, and when he went to his work he did whatever Allah willed, and then dirt or sweat got on him, and every time he passed by a river he bathed, would his dirt not be cleansed away? Such are the prayers: whenever someone commits a sin, or whatever Allah wills, and then prays a prayer and seeks forgiveness, what came before it is forgiven for him."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The fasting of one Ramadan to the next Ramadan is an expiation for (the sins committed) between them."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that a crippled man, whose chronic disability was mentioned, used to live by the wall of Umm Sa'd. Then a woman's pregnancy became apparent. She was asked, and she said: It is from him. Then the paralysed man was asked, and he confessed. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that he be flogged with the bunched stalks of a date-palm cluster.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Gold for gold, silver for silver, wheat for wheat, barley for barley, dates for dates, salt for salt, like for like. Whoever gives more or takes more has engaged in usury (riba)." It was said: O Messenger of Allah, the man in charge of your dates buys one sa' for two sa'. So he sent for him, and he said: O Messenger of Allah, my dates are such and such, and they will not take them unless I give them more. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not do that."