hadith 10136–10518

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) entered the mosque, and some women of the Ansar were there. He (peace and blessings be upon him) admonished them, reminded them and said: "Any woman among you whose three children die will enter Paradise." One woman among them, who was of lower standing than the rest, said: "O Messenger of Allah! And those whose two children have died?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Those with two as well."

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: "How bad it is for one of you to say: 'I have forgotten such-and-such a verse.' Rather, (the truth is that) he has been made to forget it. Keep guarding the Qur'an, for it is wild (prone to bolt), and it escapes from the breasts of men faster than camels break loose from their tethers."

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 dies while setting up a rival to Allah will enter Hell. And the (five obligatory) prayers are an expiation for the (minor) sins between them, as long as major sins are avoided."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) in a marfu' form that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Prompt your dying ones with 'La ilaha illallah' (There is none worthy of worship except Allah), for the soul of the believer comes out like sweat (easily), while the soul of the disbeliever comes out from the side of his mouth (with hardship), just as the soul of a donkey comes out."

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: "Keep guarding the Qur'an, for it escapes from the breasts of men faster than livestock break loose from their tethers."

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: "No woman should come into bodily contact with another woman, for she will then describe her to her husband or to some (other) man as though he were looking at her."
"And when there are three people, two should not converse privately apart from the third, for that grieves him."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you are three," then the narrator mentioned a similar hadith, and he added in it: "And whoever swears a false oath in order to seize the wealth of a Muslim will meet Allah while He 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) used to teach us the Istikharah (supplication): "O Allah, I seek good from You through Your knowledge, and I seek ability from You through Your power, and I ask You of Your bounty, for You have power and I have none, You know and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if this matter is good for me in my religion, good for me in my livelihood, and good for me in that through which I seek good, then choose it for me with well-being, make it easy for me and bless me in it; and if something other than that is better for me, then decree for me the good wherever it may be."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the meat of domestic donkeys only because they were used for work (carrying loads)."

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: "I saw Jibril (peace be upon him), and he had six hundred wings."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) in a marfu' form that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The dearest of you to me on the Day of Resurrection will be those of you who are best in character, and the most hateful of you to me on the Day of Resurrection will be the prattlers and those who puff themselves up with arrogance (al-mutafayhiqun)." The narrator said: I asked (Asim) Ibn Bahdalah: "What does 'al-mutafayhiqun' mean?" He said: "The arrogant."

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 matter to be judged between people will be (cases of) bloodshed, and the first thing for which a servant will be held to account will be the prayer."

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) used to teach us these words: "O Allah, set right our mutual relations, join our hearts together, guide us to the paths of peace, bring us out of the darkness into the light, and keep us away from indecencies, the apparent and the hidden. O Allah, bless us in our hearing, our sight, our hearts, our wives and our offspring, and accept our repentance; indeed You are the Most Accepting of repentance, the Most Merciful. Make us grateful for Your blessing, praising it and speaking of it, and complete it for us."

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) entered Makkah while there were three hundred and sixty idols around the House, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) began striking them with a stick he had with him, saying: "Truth has come and falsehood has vanished; indeed falsehood is ever bound to vanish. Truth has come, and falsehood can neither begin (anything) nor repeat (it)."

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: "Hell will be brought, drawn by seventy thousand reins, and with each rein there will be seventy thousand angels dragging it."

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: "No soul is killed unjustly except that a share of its sin falls upon the (first-killer) son of Adam (peace be upon him) as well."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sulayman al-Taymi narrated it in this way from al-A'mash, from Abdullah bin Murrah, from Shaqiq, whereas the generality of hadith scholars narrate it from al-A'mash, from Abdullah bin Murrah, from Masruq (instead of Shaqiq).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I am informed of the place where you (gather), and nothing prevents me from coming out to you except the concern that I might weary you. Indeed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to admonish us at intervals of days, disliking that we should become weary."

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased 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: "What is the matter with people who honour those living in luxury and look down upon the worshippers, and who act upon the Qur'an only as far as it agrees with their desires, and abandon whatever goes against their desires? In this way they believe in some (of its commands) and reject others. They strive for what is attained even without striving, namely the decreed destiny, the appointed term and the allotted provision; and they do not strive for what is not attained except by striving, namely the abundant reward, the appreciated effort (accepted by Allah), and the trade that never perishes."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "O Messenger of Allah! How can I know when I have done well and when I have done badly?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you hear your neighbours saying that you have done well, then know that you have done well; and when you hear them saying that you have done badly, then know that you have done badly."

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) led us in a prayer in which he either added something or left something out. Some of the people said: "Has something new (revelation) come about regarding the prayer?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Nothing new has come about in it; had something new come about, I would have told you. But I am only a human being; I forget. So when I forget, remind me." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed the remainder of his prayer, then made the two prostrations of forgetfulness, then said: "When one of you prays and does not know whether he added or left something out, let him act upon (what seems most) correct, then make two prostrations while sitting."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding recitation behind the imam: "Remain silent for the recitation as you have been commanded, for in the prayer there is enough to occupy you (in listening silently), and the imam will suffice you (in the recitation)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "How bad it is for a man or a woman to say: 'I have forgotten such-and-such a surah or such-and-such a verse.' Rather, (the truth is that) he has been made to forget it."

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: "None of you should ever say: 'I have forgotten such-and-such a verse,' for he did not forget it himself; rather, he was made to forget it."

Abu Wa'il Shaqiq bin Salamah said: I went to Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) on the day of Ashura while he was eating fresh dates. He said: "This is the day of Ashura, a day whose fasting we were commanded before (the fasting of) Ramadan was revealed."

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: "Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim."

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 sperm-drop remains in the womb for forty days, then for a similar period it is an alaqah (a clinging clot), then for a similar period it is a mudghah (a lump of flesh). Then Allah Almighty sends the angel with four matters, and he writes down his provision, his term of life, and whether he is wretched or fortunate."
Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "One of you does the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is only a forearm's length between him and Paradise; then the writing (decree) that was written beforehand overtakes him, and he does the deeds of the people of Hell until he dies. And one of you does the deeds of the people of Hell until there is only a forearm's length between him and it; then the writing (decree) that was written beforehand overtakes him, and he does the deeds of the people of Paradise before he dies."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) in a marfu' form that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no one more possessed of ghayrah (protective jealousy) than Allah, and for that reason He has forbidden indecencies, whether apparent or hidden."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) and said: "O daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Has the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) left with you anything that you could give me (as a gift)?" She said: "O slave-girl, bring that (palm) stalk." She searched for it but could not find it, so Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "Woe to you! Search for it, for to me it is equal to Hasan and Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both)." So she searched for it and found that she had swept it away with her rubbish. Written on that (stalk) was: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He is not a believer whose neighbour is not safe from his mischief. Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should honour his guest; whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbour; and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should speak good or remain silent. Indeed, Allah loves the modest, the forbearing, the chaste, the one who refrains from asking; and He hates the shameless, the foul-mouthed, the one who begs persistently. Indeed, modesty is part of faith, and faith leads to Paradise; and shamelessness is part of foul speech, and foul speech leads to Hell."

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: "When one of you goes to his wife, let him cover himself, and let the two of them not become fully naked like two donkeys."

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: "Accept the invitation of the one who invites, do not return a gift, and do not strike people (or: Muslims)."

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: "Whomever Allah intends good for, He grants him understanding of the religion."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) climbed Safa, took hold of his tongue and said: "O tongue! Speak good and you will gain, and keep silent from evil and you will be safe, before you come to regret." Then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Most of the sins of the son of Adam are due to his tongue."

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: "Whoever has a daughter and gives her a good upbringing, gives her a good education, and is generous to her from the blessings that Allah has granted him, she will be a protection and a shield for him from Hell."

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: "When my Companions are mentioned, hold back (from criticism); when the stars are mentioned, hold back (from debate); and when divine decree (qadar) is mentioned, hold back (from debate)."

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: "Keep striving to remember the Qur'an, for it escapes from the hearts of men faster than livestock break loose from their tethers. And how evil it is for one of you to say, 'I forgot such-and-such a verse'; rather (the truth is that) he was made to forget 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: "The Qur'an is an intercessor whose intercession will be accepted, and an advocate whose word will be believed. Whoever puts it in front of him, it will lead him to Paradise, and whoever casts it behind him, it will drive him to Hell."

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: "Among the signs of the approach of the Hour is that the new moons will appear large."

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: "In the last days there will be people who sit in the mosques in circles; their aim will be the world. Do not sit with them, for Allah has no need of them."

Ghalib al-Qattan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I came to Kufah for trade and stayed near Imam al-A'mash (may Allah have mercy on him). On the night I intended to set off (back), he got up at night to pray tahajjud and passed by this verse: "Allah bears witness that there is no god but He, and (so do) the angels and the people of knowledge; He is maintaining justice. There is no god but He, the Almighty, the Wise. Indeed, the religion with Allah is Islam." Then al-A'mash said: And I too bear witness to what Allah has borne witness to, and I entrust this testimony to Allah, and it is a trust with Allah: "Indeed, the religion with Allah is Islam" [Surah Al Imran: 19]. He said this several times. I said (to myself): He has surely heard something about it. So in the morning I went to him and bade him farewell, then said: O Abu Muhammad! I heard you repeating this verse over and over. He said: Has what is in it (its virtue) not reached you? I said: I have been with you for a month and you have not narrated (it) to me. He said: By Allah! I will narrate it to you after a year. So I stayed (there) for a year and kept attending at his door. When the year had passed I said: O Abu Muhammad! The year has passed. He said: Abu Wa'il narrated to me from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection the one who held this (testimony) will be brought, and Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will say: My servant made a covenant with Me, and I am the most deserving of those who fulfil a covenant. Admit My servant into Paradise."