Those who reported that Ibn Masud (may Allah be pleased with him) was not with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Night of the Jinn

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When the prohibition of wine was revealed, the Jews said: Did your brothers who died (before this) not drink it too? So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, revealed this verse: "There is no sin upon those who believe and do righteous deeds for what they ate (and drank)" [Surah al-Ma'idah: 93]. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It was said to me: You are one of them."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught us the istikharah, and said: "When one of you intends to do something, let him say: 'O Allah, I seek Your guidance through Your knowledge, I seek ability from You through Your power, and I ask You of Your bounty; for You know and I do not know, You have power and I have no power, and You are the Knower of the unseen. If this matter that I intend is good for my religion and for the outcome of my affairs, then make it easy for me; and if something other than it is better for me, then decree good for me wherever it may be.' Let him say this supplication, and then make up his mind."

Alqamah said: I went with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) on Friday, and he saw that three men had arrived before him. He said: I am the fourth of four, and the fourth of four is not far from Allah; I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "On the Day of Resurrection, people will sit (in ranks) near Allah according to how early they went to the Friday prayers: the first, then the third, then the fourth." Then he said: I am the fourth of four, and the fourth of four is not far from Allah.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The closest a servant is to Allah is when he is in prostration."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The soul of the believer comes out like sweat (easily), and the soul of the disbeliever flows out just as the soul of a donkey comes out. When the believer commits a sin, he is dealt with severely at the time of death so that it becomes an expiation for it; and when the disbeliever does a good deed, he is given ease at the time of death so that he is rewarded for it (in this world)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the Battle of Khaybar. He (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to relieve himself, and whenever he (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to do so, he would go so far away that no one could see him (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: "O Abdullah, look, can you see anything?" I looked and saw a single tree, and I told him (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: "Look, can you see anything else?" I looked and saw another tree that was far from the first, and I told him (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: "Say to them both: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commands you to come together." I said that to them, and they came together. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to them and took cover behind them (to relieve himself); then he stood up, and each tree went back to its place.
Then in that campaign the people were struck by severe thirst, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "O Abdullah, look for water for me." I brought a little leftover water that I had found in a vessel. He (peace and blessings be upon him) took it and poured it into a vessel, then put his hand in it and said Bismillah, and the water began to flow from between his (peace and blessings be upon him) fingers. The people drank and performed ablution as much as Allah willed. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said: This is blessed, so I began to drink from it more and more, seeking its blessing.
Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned towards Madinah, and a camel came before him (peace and blessings be upon him) with tears flowing from its eyes. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Whose camel is this?" The people said: It belongs to such-and-such tribe. He said: "It has sought refuge with me." The narrator said: They wanted to slaughter it; they had worked it until it became old and covered with sores. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not slaughter it, and treat it well."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The two sons of Mulaykah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah, our mother used to honour her husband, was kind to her children, and also took care of guests, but in the time of Ignorance (Jahiliyyah) she had buried (a daughter) alive. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your mother is in the Fire." Hearing this, the two of them turned their backs and left, with signs of grief clearly visible on their faces. He (peace and blessings be upon him) had them called back, and they returned (in the hope that something new might have happened) with signs of joy on their faces. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My mother is also with your mother (that is, she too is in Hell)."
At this a man from the hypocrites said: What has it profited him to speak about his mother, when we follow in his footsteps? Then a man from the Ansar - and I have never seen a man who asked more questions than him - said: O Messenger of Allah, has your Lord made any promise concerning her or concerning them both (the two mothers)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you think that something (of the kind) has happened?" (Then) he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have not asked my Lord (for anything in intercession for my mother), and indeed on the Day of Resurrection I will stand in the Praised Station (al-Maqam al-Mahmud)." The Ansari said: O Messenger of Allah, what is that Praised Station? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That will be when you are brought barefoot and naked, and the first to be clothed will be Ibrahim (peace be upon him). He will say: Clothe my Khalil (intimate friend). So two white garments will be brought and he will be clothed in them, then he will sit facing the Throne. Then my clothing will be brought and I will put it on, then I will stand at his right side in a station where no one other than me will stand; the first and the last will all envy me for it. And my river, al-Kawthar, will be opened to the Pond."
At this a man from the hypocrites said: Whatever (river) flows, flows only over mud or pebbles. (The Ansari) said: O Messenger of Allah, what will its mud and pebbles be? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Its mud will be musk and its pebbles will be pearls." The hypocrite said: I have never heard anything like today! Any water that flows over mud or pebbles always has some vegetation. The Ansari said: O Messenger of Allah, will it have any vegetation? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, branches of gold." The hypocrite said: I have never heard anything like today; no branch grows without leaves and fruit. The Ansari said: O Messenger of Allah, will it have any fruit? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, jewels of every colour, and its water will be whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. Whoever drinks a single draught from it will never be thirsty, and whoever is deprived of it will never have his thirst quenched."
(The narrator says:) This hadith was also narrated by al-Sa'iq bin Hazn from Ali bin al-Hakam, but he differed from Sa'id bin Zayd in its chain.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The two sons of Mulaykah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); then (the narrator) mentioned a similar hadith.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to a man: "You and your wealth belong to your father."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed tatbiq (in bowing) (that is, he joined his two palms together and placed them between his knees).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "We fasted twenty-nine days with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) more often than we fasted thirty."

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "There were some practices that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do which the people have abandoned. One of them is that the imam should give the salam in the funeral prayer just as he gives it in the prayer."

Alqamah bin Qays said: I was a man whom Allah had given a beautiful voice in (reciting) the Qur'an, so Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to send for me, and I would recite the Qur'an before him. When I finished my recitation, he would say: May my father and mother be ransomed for you, let us hear more of this; for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "A beautiful voice is the adornment of the Qur'an."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about waswasah (evil whispering), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is a sign of pure faith."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Some eloquence (bayan) has an effect like magic."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In sacrifice, a cow suffices for seven people, and a camel also suffices for seven people."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O young men, hold fast to marriage, for it lowers the gaze more and guards the private parts better. Whoever is not able to do so should fast, for it will be like castration for him (in curbing desire)."

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) enjoined upon me: On the day of your fast, begin your morning with your hair oiled and combed, and do not begin the morning of your fast with a frowning face. Accept the invitation of any Muslim who invites you, as long as they do not play musical instruments; and when they play musical instruments, do not accept their invitation. Offer the funeral prayer over whoever dies from among the people of our qiblah, even if he was killed by crucifixion or by stoning; for that you should meet Allah with sins filling the earth is better for you than that you should give a decisive testimony against anyone from the people of the qiblah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) as a marfu' report (attributed to the Prophet); he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you know which charity is the best?" The Companions said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He said: "The best charity is lending: lending a dirham, or lending the back of a riding animal (for use)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, loves that His concessions be accepted just as He loves that His obligations be fulfilled."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when some people from Banu Hashim came. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw them, his (peace and blessings be upon him) face turned red and his (peace and blessings be upon him) eyes filled with tears. We said: O Messenger of Allah, we keep seeing something in your (peace and blessings be upon him) face that troubles us? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "We are a household for whom Allah has chosen the Hereafter over this world, and the people of my household will face trial and banishment after me."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say the takbir at every rising and lowering, and would give the salam to his right and to his left until the whiteness of his (peace and blessings be upon him) face could be seen from both sides.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "All creatures are the dependents of Allah, so the most beloved of creatures to Allah is the one who is most beneficial to His dependents."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever has a child die, a son or a daughter, whether he is content (with Allah's decree) or not, whether he is patient or not, will be given no reward other than Paradise."

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

Alqamah said: Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) stood on (Mount) al-Safa by a crack in it and said: "Right here, by the One besides whom there is no god, stood the one (the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)) to whom Surah al-Baqarah was revealed."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah Almighty be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever buys a musarrah sheep (one whose milk has been held back in its udder), if he is pleased with it, (he keeps it); otherwise he should return it, and give a sa' of dates along with it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not go out to meet the caravans coming from outside (with their goods) on the way (so that cheap goods are not bought from them before they learn the market price)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(The damage done by) a dumb animal is not compensable, (the damage arising from working in) a mine is not compensable, (the damage done by) a grazing animal (is also) not compensable, and in buried treasure (rikaz) there is one fifth (khums)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when a naked woman came along. This was hard on the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) closed his eyes. Then a man from among the people went to her, threw a garment over her and wrapped her to himself. Some of his (peace and blessings be upon him) Companions said: O Messenger of Allah, I think she is his wife. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I think she is overcome by jealousy (over a co-wife)? Indeed, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has prescribed jealousy for women and jihad for men; so whichever of them is patient out of faith and in hope of reward will have a reward like that of the martyrs."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Let those of you who have understanding and intelligence stand closest to me, then those who come after them, then those who come after them. Do not differ (in the rows), or your hearts will differ, and beware of the clamour of the markets."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) relates: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would sometimes twist the mane of his horse with his own hand."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) relates that whenever the young men of his household passed by the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), his colour would change. One day some young men of his household passed by him (peace and blessings be upon him), and at this the colour of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) changed. We said: O Messenger of Allah, we keep seeing something in you that is hard on us: the young men of your household pass by you and your colour changes because of it. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, for these people of my household Allah has chosen the Hereafter, and He has not chosen this world for them."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Retaliation (qisas) is to be taken only with the sword (and in no other way)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Five signs have passed, and five of them remain: the splitting of the moon, and we have seen it; and al-Dukhan (the smoke) has passed; and al-Batshah al-Kubra (the great seizure) has passed; and al-Yawm al-'Aqim (the barren day) has passed; and al-Lizam (the inescapable punishment) has also passed."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My description is that I am Ahmad and al-Mutawakkil (the one who relies on Allah); I am neither harsh in temperament nor coarse in manner. I repay good with good and do not repay evil with evil. My birthplace is Makkah and my place of emigration is Taybah (Madinah). My Ummah are those who praise much: they tie their lower garments to the middle of their shins and illuminate their limbs (with ablution). Their Gospels are preserved in their breasts. They form rows for prayer just as they form rows for battle. Their sacrificial offering by which they seek nearness to Me is their blood (shed in jihad). They are monks by night and lions by day."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Every good deed is charity, whether the one who does good is rich or poor."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You cannot be an ascetic (zahid) until you are humble."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The soul of the believer departs with sweat, and I do not like a death like the death of a donkey." It was asked: What is the death of a donkey? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The soul of the disbeliever departs from the corners of his mouth."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that a ruqyah (incantation) for a sting (a poisonous bite) was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Present it to me." So they presented that ruqyah to him: "Bismillah, shajjah qarniyyah milhah bahr qafta." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "These are covenants that Sulayman bin Dawud (peace be upon him) took from the venomous creatures, and I see no harm in it."