hadith 10136–10518

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Beware of bearing witness (that someone is in Paradise). But if you must do it, then bear witness for the detachment that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent out and that was martyred. Concerning them this message was revealed: Convey to our people from us that we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us and has made us pleased."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: Allah Almighty sent His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to admit a man into Paradise. He (peace and blessings be upon him) entered a synagogue, and there he found some Jews reading the Torah. When they reached the description of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), they stopped. In a corner of it was a sick man. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why have you stopped?" The sick man said: They reached the description of a prophet, so they stopped. Then the sick man came crawling until he took hold of the Torah and read it until he reached the description of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Ummah, and he said: This is your description and the description of your Ummah. I bear witness that there is no true god but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah. Then he died, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Take charge of (the funeral arrangements of) your brother."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Our Eid was only ever in the early part of the day, and I have seen us praying the Jumu'ah with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the shade of the Hatim."

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) forbade striking the cheeks and tearing open the collars of garments.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You have been commanded to establish four things: establishing the prayer, paying the zakah, and establishing Hajj and Umrah to the House (of Allah). Hajj is the greater pilgrimage and Umrah is the lesser pilgrimage."

Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "You have been commanded in the Book of Allah with four things: establishing the prayer, paying the zakah, Hajj, and Umrah to the House (of Allah)."
In this narration the narrators did not mention Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him), and he had a heap of dates with him. He said: "What is this, O Bilal?" He replied: O Messenger of Allah, it is for you and your guests. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you not fear that its smoke will be the smoke of the Fire? Spend, O Bilal, and do not fear poverty from the Lord of the Throne."

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 become disbelievers after me, striking one another's necks."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "When your Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was bowing or prostrating, he would say: 'Subhanaka wa bihamdika, astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk' (Glory be to You and with Your praise; I seek Your forgiveness and I turn to You in repentance)."

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: "The two eyes commit adultery, the two hands commit adultery, and the two feet commit adultery."

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: "I had forbidden you from making nabidh in certain vessels. Listen! A vessel does not make anything unlawful; every intoxicant is unlawful."

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: "Allah commanded me to marry Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The people who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection are the image-makers."

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: "Whoever takes the wealth of a Muslim by swearing a false oath will meet Allah while Allah is angry with him."

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: "Abusing a Muslim is sinfulness (fusuq), and fighting him is disbelief (kufr)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the woman who attaches hair extensions and the woman who has them attached, and the woman who tattoos and the woman who has herself tattooed."

Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) said: We were sitting with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) when a man asked him: O Abu Abd al-Rahman, did you ask your Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) how many caliphs will rule this Ummah? Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: No one has asked me this question before you since I came to Iraq. We asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: "Twelve, the same as the number of the chiefs (nuqaba) of the Children of Israel." (This is the wording of Hajjaj's narration.)

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: "The millstone of Islam will turn in the thirty-fifth year. If they perish, then it is the way of those who perished; and if they survive, they will remain for seventy years."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) looked at the slain on the day of Badr, he said to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him): "If Abu Talib were alive, he would know that our swords have reached the chiefs (of the enemy). And this is what Abu Talib said:
(Al-Bahr al-Tawil)
By the House of Allah, you have lied! If what I see proves true, our swords will surely become entangled with (your) chiefs,
And a people clad in armour will rise against you, as water-carrying camels rise on a broad road."
Ibn Manadhir said: Both words have the same meaning; people say both "halahil" and "jalajil".

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: "There is no judge who judges between people except that he will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection with an angel holding the back of his neck, until he makes him stand over Hell. Then he will raise his head towards the sky, and if Allah says: Throw him in, then his fall will last forty years."

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) supplicated: "O Allah, honour Islam through Umar bin al-Khattab or through Abu Jahl bin Hisham." Allah accepted His Messenger's supplication in favour of Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), so Islam was strengthened through him and the idols were brought down through him.

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: "Whoever lies about me, let him take his abode in the Fire."

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: "Abusing a Muslim is sinfulness (fusuq), fighting him is disbelief (kufr), and the sanctity of his wealth is like the sanctity of his blood."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) liked to supplicate three times and to seek forgiveness three times."

(The narrator thinks that) 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: "Surah al-Ikhlas is one third 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) addressed us and said: "Amma ba'd (As for what follows)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood by the people of the well (of Badr) and said: "O people of the well, have you found what your Lord promised you to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah, can they hear? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You do not hear what I am saying any better than they do, but today they cannot reply."

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 first group to enter Paradise will have faces like the light of the moon on the night it is full, and the second group will be of the colour of the most beautiful shining star in the sky. Each man among them will have two wives from the wide-eyed houris; on each wife there will be seventy garments, and the marrow of their shins will be seen from behind their flesh and garments, just as red drink is seen in a clear glass."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to seek refuge from five things: from cowardice, from miserliness, from a bad old age, from the trial of the heart, and from the punishment of the grave."

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, concerning the saying of Allah Almighty: "On the Day the earth will be changed into another earth" [Surah Ibrahim: 48]: "A white earth, as if it were silver, on which unlawful blood has never been shed and on which no sin has ever been committed."

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: "The houses of Allah on earth are the mosques, and it is a right upon Allah that He honours the one who visits Him in them."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), in a marfu' form (attributed to the Prophet), that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best of you is the one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to teach us: "When one of you sneezes, let him say: 'Alhamdu lillahi Rabbil-'alamin' (All praise is for Allah, the Lord of all the worlds). When he says that, let whoever is with him say: 'Yarhamuk Allah' (May Allah have mercy on you). When he says that, let the one who sneezed say: 'Yaghfirullahu li wa lakum' (May Allah forgive me and you)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: I went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he was in a room that was like a pigeon coop, and he was sleeping on a mat that had left marks on his side. So I wept. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abdullah, what makes you weep?" I said: O Messenger of Allah, Chosroes and Caesar walk upon fine silk-wool (khazz), silk and brocade, while you sleep on this mat that has left marks on your side. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not weep, O Abdullah; for them is this world and for us is the Hereafter. What have I to do with this world? The likeness of me and this world is only that of a rider who stopped beneath a tree, then moved on and left 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: "Whoever's heart is saturated with love of this world will be bound to three things from it: a hardship whose toil never ends, a greed whose sufficiency is never attained, and a hope whose end is never reached. This world both seeks and is sought. Whoever seeks this world, the Hereafter seeks him until death comes to him and seizes him; and whoever seeks the Hereafter, this world seeks him until he receives his full allotted provision."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "No people of prophethood were ever destroyed until adultery and usury (riba) became widespread among 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: "At Eid al-Adha, a sacrificial camel suffices for ten 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: "No disease has been placed on earth except that a cure has been made for it; whoever knows it knows it, and whoever does not know it remains unaware of 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: "Food on the first day is a right, food on the second day is a sunnah, and food on the third day is for show; and whoever shows off, Allah will expose him (for his showing off)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The expiation for a gathering is that the servant says: 'Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise; I bear witness that there is no true god except Allah; I seek Your forgiveness and I turn to You in repentance.'"