Ikrimah from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away from the effect of the meat which a Jewish woman had poisoned, and his aorta had been severed by that poison exactly one year later, he used to say: "I have continued to feel its effect."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) a young goat and commanded him to sacrifice it.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Some Muslims lived with the polytheists and they increased the numbers of the polytheists. Then an arrow would come from some shooting and strike one of them and kill him, or he would be struck and killed. So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, revealed concerning them this verse: "Indeed, those whose souls the angels take while they are wronging themselves, they say to them: 'In what condition were you?' They say: 'We were oppressed in the land.'" [Surah Al-Nisa: 97] to the end of the verse.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Some Muslims lived with the polytheists and increased the numbers of the polytheists against the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Then an arrow would come from some shooting and strike one of them. The rest is the same as what was mentioned in the narration of Ibn Lahi'ah.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If I were to stone anyone without evidence, I would have stoned such-and-such a woman, from whom suspicion has become apparent in her appearance, her manner of speech, and those who come in to visit her."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ate meat from the shoulder in the house of Sayyidah Maymunah bint al-Harith (may Allah be pleased with her), then went out to the prayer and did not perform ablution (wudu).

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever says: 'May Allah reward Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) on our behalf with what he deserves,' has kept seventy scribes busy for a thousand mornings."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) changed his two garments of ihram at al-Tan'im when he entered Makkah.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) made his wives share in one cow at Eid al-Adha.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married Sayyidah Maymunah (may Allah be pleased with her) while he was in the state of ihram.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the wife of Thabit bin Qays (may Allah be pleased with him) obtained a khul', so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her to observe a waiting period ('iddah) of one menstrual cycle.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The blood of a menstruating woman comes in several gushes (daf'at), and menstrual blood has a smell that no other has. So when the period of menstruation has ended, let each of you take a ritual bath (ghusl), then wash the blood off herself."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was placed in his grave, Sayyiduna Shuqran (may Allah be pleased with him), the freed slave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), took a velvet cloak that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to wear and buried it with him (peace and blessings be upon him) in the grave, and said: "No one will wear it after the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Those who went down into the grave of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) were Ali, the two sons of Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), al-Fadl and Qutham, and Shuqran, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (may Allah be pleased with them). And Aws bin Khawli (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): O Ali! I adjure you by Allah, we too have a share in the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Come down with these people. So he too came down, and thus they were five.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deliver two sermons (khutbahs) standing on Friday, sitting between them.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deliver the sermon on the pulpit on Friday, on the day of Eid al-Fitr and on Eid al-Adha; and on Friday, when the mu'adhdhin finished the call to prayer, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand up and deliver the sermon.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any slave woman who bears a child to her master is free after his death."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) praying wrapped in a single garment, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was protecting himself from the heat of the ground with its extra part.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray in a single garment, protecting himself from the heat and the cold of the ground with its extra part.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Shall I not tell you about the (travel) prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? We said: Of course. He said: When the sun passed its zenith while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was at his halting place, he would combine Zuhr and Asr before mounting; and if the sun did not pass its zenith while he was at his halting place, he would keep travelling until the time of Asr came, then dismount and combine Zuhr and Asr. And when the time of Maghrib came while he was at his halting place, he would combine Maghrib and Isha; and if the time of Maghrib did not come while he was at his halting place, he would remain mounted until the time of Isha came, then dismount and combine the two.
Abd al-Razzaq said: Ibn al-Miqdam said to me: We did not hear this hadith from Ibn Jurayj, and no one besides you has narrated it.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was on a journey and set off at the time the sun passed its zenith, he would combine Zuhr and Asr; and if he set off before that, he would combine them at the time of Asr.

Something similar is also narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) wished to mount before the sun passed its zenith, he would mount and delay Zuhr until he combined it with Asr; and when he wished to mount after the sun had passed its zenith, he would combine Zuhr and Asr before mounting; and when he wished to mount at the time of Maghrib, he would pray Maghrib and Isha before mounting; and when he wished to mount before the time of Maghrib, he would delay Maghrib and combine it with Isha.

Something similar is also narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whomever you find committing the act of the people of Lut, kill both the one who does it and the one to whom it is done."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to encourage the night prayer, to the extent that he would say: "Even if it is a single rak'ah." Then once he went out for the prayer and saw a man praying while the obligatory prayer was being established, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Two prayers together?"

Something similar is also narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded the night prayer and encouraged it, to the extent that he said: "Hold fast to the night prayer, even if it is a single rak'ah." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and saw a man bowing (in prayer) after the prayer had been established, and he also said: "Will you not desist? Two prayers together?"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Allah, grant Ibn Abbas wisdom and teach him interpretation (ta'wil)."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) delivered a sermon and said: "Indeed, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has given everyone who has a right his right. Listen! Allah has laid down obligations, established sunnahs, set limits, made the lawful lawful and the unlawful unlawful, and He laid down the religion and made it easy, gentle and spacious, and did not make it narrow. Listen! There is no faith in one who has no trustworthiness, and no religion in one who has no covenant; and whoever breaks my covenant will not attain my intercession, nor will he come to me at my Pond (al-Hawd)." Listen! Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has not permitted killing except in three cases: one who apostatises after believing, one who commits adultery while married, or one who kills a soul and is killed in retaliation for his killing. Listen! Have I conveyed?

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When a strong wind blew, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would face it, kneel on his knees, stretch out both his hands and say: "O Allah, I ask You for the good of this wind and the good of what it has been sent with, and I seek refuge in You from its evil and the evil of what it has been sent with. O Allah, make it a mercy and do not make it a punishment. O Allah, make it winds and do not make it a wind."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever walks toward Allah's authority on earth in order to humiliate it, Allah will humiliate his neck on the Day of Resurrection, in addition to what He has stored up for him in the Hereafter." Muslim added: Allah's authority means the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the people of measures and scales: "You have been entrusted with a matter in which earlier nations were destroyed."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Iblis sends the strongest and most powerful of his companions to the one who does good with his wealth."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him): "Which of the handholds of faith is the firmest - I think he (peace and blessings be upon him) said this?" He said: Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) know best. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allying for the sake of Allah, showing enmity for the sake of Allah, loving for the sake of Allah, and hating for the sake of Allah."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Whoever drinks something that takes away his intellect, which was given to him, has stepped through one of the doors of the major sins.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever helps falsehood in order to refute the truth with his falsehood, the protection of Allah and of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is free of him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever combines two prayers without any excuse has stepped through one of the doors of the major sins."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever gives testimony by which the wealth of a Muslim is made lawful or blood is shed, has made the Fire obligatory for himself."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned and said: "Any Muslim who takes in an orphan from among two Muslims (parents), raising him and giving him his food and drink, will certainly enter Paradise, unless he commits a sin that is not forgiven. And whoever I take his two precious things from, and he is patient and hopes for reward, he will have no reward with Me other than Paradise." It was asked: What are his two precious things? He said: "His two eyes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "And whoever looks after three daughters, spends on them and gives them good upbringing, Allah will admit him to Paradise." A Bedouin asked: Or two daughters? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Or two daughters." Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: This is among the precious and outstanding words of hadith.