hadith 10136–10518

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard of a virtuous deed of Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him) such that, had it been mine, it would have been dearer to me than everything upon which the sun rises: on the day of Badr he stood before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: We will not say to you what the people of Musa (peace be upon him) said: "So go, you and your Lord, and fight" [Surah al-Ma'idah: 24]; rather, we will fight on your right and on your left. I saw the face of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and it lit up with joy.

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: "Incantations (ruqa), amulets (tama'im) and love charms (tiwalah) are shirk."

Umayr bin Sa'id said: We were sitting with Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) was also with him, when the governor seized a man, beat him and mounted him on a camel. The people began to say: The camel! The camel! (That is the sign.) A man said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman! This is the camel we used to hear about. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Then where is the flash (of lightning)?"

Yazid bin Mu'awiyah al-Bakka'i said: I was sitting with Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) and Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with them both) when a woman and a man passed by them on a camel, with their faces turned (towards the back). One of them said to the other: "This is the (sign) we used to talk about." The other said: "No, with that there will also be the flash (of lightning)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that some people brought a companion of theirs to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Prophet of Allah, modesty has spoiled this companion of ours." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Modesty is part of the laws of Islam, and foul speech is part of a man's baseness."

Ibrahim al-Taymi said: My father had stopped praying with us. I asked: "Why have you stopped praying with us?" He said: "You people shorten (the prayer)." I said: "Then what about the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): 'Among you are the elderly, the weak and the one with a need'?" He said: "I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) say that, and then he would pray three times as much as you pray."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "We were forbidden (to approach) women in the anus."

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: "A people from among the Muslims who have been punished in the Fire will surely enter Paradise by the mercy of Allah and the intercession of the intercessors."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Whoever saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was never in doubt about him (peace and blessings be upon him) (as to who he was).

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: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has not made anything sacred except that He knew that someone among you would look into it. Listen! I am holding you by your waists so that you do not fall into the Fire the way moths and flies fall."

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: "There is no man who lives among a people and commits acts of disobedience to Allah among them, while they are greater than him in number and strength, and they then compromise over his matter, except that Allah will surely punish them."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Intercession will continue for people and they will keep coming out of the Fire, until even Iblis, the chief of the devils, will crane his neck towards it in the hope that it may reach him too."

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: "Do not please anyone by incurring the displeasure of Allah, do not praise anyone for the bounty of Allah, and do not blame anyone for what Allah has not given you; for the provision of Allah is not driven to you by the greed of a greedy person, nor is it turned away from you by the dislike of one who dislikes it. Indeed, Allah Almighty, by His fairness and justice, has placed comfort and joy in contentment and certainty, and has placed worry and grief in discontent."

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 most severely punished of the people of Hell on the Day of Resurrection will be one who killed a prophet or whom a prophet killed, and an unjust ruler, and these image-makers (will also be among those severely punished)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, which injustice is the greatest?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A cubit of land that a believer takes away from the right of his brother; every single pebble of it will be made into a collar around his neck on the Day of Resurrection."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first people of this Ummah are its best, and its last people will be its worst, differing and divided. So whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let his death come to him while he is treating people the way he would love to be treated."

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 the riding animal of one of you runs away in a desolate land, let him call out: 'O servants of Allah, hold it back for me! O servants of Allah, hold it back for me!' For Allah has one (an angel) present on the earth who will hold it back for you."

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: "Staying up at night (in conversation) is only for one who prays or a traveller."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The chiefs of Quraysh passed by the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while some Muslims, including Sayyiduna Suhayb and Sayyiduna Khabbab (may Allah be pleased with them both), were sitting with him. They said: "O Muhammad, are these the ones on whom Allah has bestowed (special) favour from among all of us? If you were to drive them away, we would follow you." At that, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, revealed this verse: "And do not drive away those who call upon their Lord morning and evening, seeking His Face" [Surah al-An'am: 52] up to: "Is not Allah most knowing of those who are grateful?" [Surah al-An'am: 53].

Abu Sa'd said: I went to Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) on the day of Ashura while he was eating. Then a man came in, and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Eat." He said: "I am fasting." He said: "Eat; this is a day that used to be fasted before (the fasting of) Ramadan was revealed. Then Ramadan was revealed, and this day was left."

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 none of you except that his companion (qarin) from the jinn has been assigned to him." It was said: "And you too?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And me too, but Allah Almighty helped me against him, so he submitted (became Muslim), and now he commands me only to do good."

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined Zuhr and Asr, and Maghrib and Isha. He (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about it, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I did this so that my Ummah would not be put in hardship."

Zadhan said: I went to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and people wearing silk and brocade had already taken their seats in his gathering before me. I said: "You have brought other people close and kept me at a distance?" He said: "Come closer." So he brought me close until he seated me on his own mat. Then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Parents have a debt owed to them by their child. When the Day of Resurrection comes, they will both cling to him, and he will say: 'I am your child.' Then they will both wish, or (he said:) long, that it (the debt) had been even more than that."

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: "Being killed in the path of Allah expiates all sins - or he said: everything - except the trust (amanah). And there is trust in prayer, trust in fasting, and trust in speech, and the most serious of these are things left in one's keeping (deposits)."
Sharik said: Ayyash al-Amiri also narrated to me something similar, through Zadhan, from Abdullah bin Mas'ud, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon 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: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has angels who roam about the earth; they convey to me the greetings of peace (salam) from my Ummah."

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, the Mighty and Majestic, has angels who roam about the earth; they convey to me the greetings of peace (salam) from my Ummah."

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 has angels who roam about the earth; they convey to me the greetings of peace (salam) from my Ummah."

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me and said: "O Ibn Mas'ud!" I said: "Labbayk (at your service), O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said it three times, (then he said:) "Do you know which is the firmest handhold of faith?" I said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the firmest handhold of Islam is friendship for His (Allah's) sake, love for His sake and hatred for His sake."
Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Ibn Mas'ud!" I said: "Labbayk, O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said it three times, (then) he said: "Do you know who is the best of people?" I said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the best person is the one who is best in deeds, when they have understanding of their religion."
Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Ibn Mas'ud!" I said: "Labbayk, O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you know who is the most knowledgeable of people?" I said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the most knowledgeable of people is the one who sees the truth most clearly when people differ, even if he falls short in deeds, and even if he crawls along on his backside. Those before me split into seventy-two (72) sects; three of us were saved and all the rest perished. One sect confronted the kings and fought them for the sake of their own religion and the religion of Isa bin Maryam (peace be upon him), so they seized them, killed them and cut them apart with saws. And one sect did not have the strength to confront the kings, nor to remain among them calling them to the religion of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and the religion of Isa bin Maryam (peace be upon him), so they went out wandering in the land and adopted monasticism." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And they are the ones about whom Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: 'And monasticism, which they innovated; We did not prescribe it for them' [Surah al-Hadid: 27] to the end of the verse." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever believed in me, affirmed me and followed me has observed it (monasticism) as it ought to be observed, and whoever did not follow me, those are the ones who perish."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A dream is glad tidings from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and it is one of seventy parts of prophethood. And this fire of yours is one of seventy parts of the scorching heat of Hell. Whoever comes to the mosque waiting for the prayer is in prayer as long as he does not break his ablution, and whoever waits for one prayer after another prayer is in prayer as long as he does not break his ablution."

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 one will enter Hell who has in his heart faith equal to the weight of a mustard seed, and no one will enter Paradise who has in his heart pride equal to the weight of a mustard seed." A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, I like my garment to be washed, my head to be oiled and the strap of my sandal to be new" - and he mentioned several things until he mentioned even the strap of a whip - "so is that part of pride, O Messenger of Allah?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, that is beauty. Indeed, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, is beautiful and loves beauty. Rather, pride is to belittle the truth and look down on people."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Madinah, he (peace and blessings be upon him) allotted plots of land for houses to the Companions, and Ibn Mas'ud was among those to whom he allotted. His (peace and blessings be upon him) Companions said: "O Messenger of Allah, keep him away from us." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then why did Allah send me? Indeed, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, does not purify a nation that does not give the weak among them their due."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered Makkah on the day of the Conquest, and at that time there were three hundred and sixty idols around the Ka'bah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) began striking them, saying: "The truth has come and falsehood has vanished; indeed, falsehood is ever bound to vanish."

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

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 commits an error and falls into a sin, and then regrets it, this regret is its expiation."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) as a marfu' report that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Usury (riba), however much it increases, its end leads only to decrease."

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: "However much usury (riba) increases, its end is only towards decrease."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A true and righteous dream is one of seventy-six parts of prophethood."

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: "It is sufficient for a person, when he sees an evil that he does not have the power to change, that Allah knows that he detests it in his heart."