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

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) accepted the testimony of a Bedouin regarding the sighting of the crescent moon of Ramadan.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had cupping done while he was fasting and in the state of ihram. A man who was called Abu Taybah cupped him; he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him his wage and interceded for him with his masters.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Wala' (the right of inheritance from a freed slave) belongs only to the one who sets free."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Wala' (the right of inheritance from a freed slave) belongs only to the one who sets free."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best thing with which to change (the colour of) grey hair is henna and katam."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "Visiting the sick once is Sunnah; whatever is more than that is voluntary (nafl)."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: On the day of Khaybar, the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came upon domestic donkeys and cooked their meat. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that the cooking pots be overturned, and on that day he declared their meat unlawful.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was on (Mount) Hira when the mountain began to tremble, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Be still, O Hira! For upon you there is none but a Prophet, a Siddiq or a martyr." At that time upon it were the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali, Talhah, al-Zubayr, Abdul Rahman bin Awf, Sa'd and Sa'id bin Zayd bin Amr bin Nufayl (may Allah be pleased with them).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: After the Conquest of Makkah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed for seventeen days, praying two rak'ahs.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led them in the Asr prayer with three rak'ahs and forgot one rak'ah. Then he left and went to (the house of) one of his wives. One of his Companions, who was called Dhu al-Shimalayn, came to him and said: O Messenger of Allah, has the prayer been shortened? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is that?" He said: You prayed three rak'ahs. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) took him by the hand and went out to the people who had been with him, and said: "Has Dhu al-Yadayn spoken the truth?" They said: O Messenger of Allah, what is that? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He claims that I prayed three rak'ahs." They said: He has spoken the truth; we thought that you had been given some new command about it. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) led them in one rak'ah, then performed the two prostrations of forgetfulness (sajdat al-sahw).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The sacrifice (udhiyah) is obligatory upon me, and for you it is Sunnah."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "None of you should stand in a place where a man is being killed unjustly, for the curse descends upon whoever is present and does not defend him. And none of you should stand in a place where someone is being beaten unjustly, for the curse also descends upon whoever is present and does not defend him."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions were swimming in a pond, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Let each man among you swim to his companion." So each man swam to his companion, and only the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) remained. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) swam to Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) until he embraced him, and said: "I am to my companion, I am to my companion."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you pray, keep your lower garments raised, for whatever part of your lower garment touches the ground will be in the Fire."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed effeminate men, masculine women, the woman who tattoos and the woman who has herself tattooed, and the woman who joins hair (extensions) and the woman who has it joined.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The adulterer, when he commits adultery, is not a believer; the one who drinks wine, when he drinks it, is not a believer; and the thief, when he steals, is not a believer."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Beware of (disputing about) predestination (qadar), for it is a branch of Christianity."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) slept until the sound of his snoring was heard, then he got up and prayed, and he did not perform ablution (wudu).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are two groups of my Ummah who have no share in Islam: the Murji'ah and the Qadariyyah."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed masculine women and effeminate men.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ascended the pulpit, having tied a greasy band around his head. He (peace and blessings be upon him) praised and glorified Allah, then said: "People will keep increasing and the Ansar will keep decreasing, until they become among the people like salt in food. So whoever among you is put in charge of a matter by which some people are benefited and others harmed, let him accept good from those of them who do good, and overlook the faults of those of them who do wrong." The narrator said: This was the last sermon that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) delivered before he passed away.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her): "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will not punish you or your children."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that one day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to his Companions: "Whom do you consider to be martyrs among you?" The Companions said: Whoever is killed in the path of Allah, patient and seeking reward, advancing and not turning his back, is a martyr. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then the martyrs of my Ummah would be very few. The one killed in the path of Allah is a martyr; the one who dies on his bed in the path of Allah is a martyr; the one who dies of a disease of the stomach is a martyr; the one who is stung (or bitten) is a martyr; the one who drowns is a martyr; the one who dies of choking is a martyr; the one who is devoured by a wild beast is a martyr; the one who falls from his mount (and dies) is a martyr; the one who dies under a collapsing building is a martyr; the one who dies of pleurisy (dhat al-janb) is a martyr; and the woman in childbirth whose child kills her (is a martyr) - that child will pull her by its umbilical cord into Paradise."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "Allah never revealed 'O you who believe' except that Ali was its leader and its noblest member. Allah reproached the Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in several places, but He mentioned Ali only with good."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When the women pledged allegiance on the condition that they would not display their adornment like the display of the former times of ignorance, a woman said: O Messenger of Allah, I see that you are making it a condition upon us that we do not display our adornment, but such-and-such a woman helped me (in lamentation), and now her brother has died. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go and help her (in lamentation), then come and pledge allegiance to me."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: In the time of ignorance, zihar used to make women unlawful (to their husbands). The first to pronounce zihar in Islam was Aws bin al-Salt, and his wife was Khuwaylah bint Khuwaylid (may Allah be pleased with her). The man was weak and the woman was strong-willed (and courageous). When he uttered the words of zihar, (Aws) said: I think that you have now become unlawful to me. Go to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); perhaps you will find something by which you may return to me. So she set off, and he (Aws) sat by the edge of the well waiting for her. Khuwaylah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) while a woman who combed hair was combing his (peace and blessings be upon him) head. She said: O Messenger of Allah, Aws bin al-Samit, whose weak judgement and helplessness you know, has pronounced zihar on me, O Messenger of Allah. And the one most deserving of repaying whoever has done her a kindness is I, if it is I; or, if he has it, let him do me a kindness. O Messenger of Allah, he has pronounced zihar on me, so find some way by which he may return to me; may my father and mother be sacrificed for you. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Khuwaylah, we have not yet been given any command concerning your matter; if we are given a command, I will tell you." His (peace and blessings be upon him) hair-comber had just finished one side of his head and begun the other side when Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, sent down revelation. Whenever revelation came down upon him (peace and blessings be upon him), his blessed face would change and turn ashen until its coolness was felt; then, when the state lifted, his face would become white again like a (silver) bracelet, and then he would speak what he had been commanded. His (peace and blessings be upon him) hair-comber said to Khuwaylah: O Khuwaylah, I think that this revelation is now about your matter. Khuwaylah was seized with trembling, then she said: O Allah, I seek refuge in You from Your revealing anything about me except good, for I have sought nothing but good from Your Messenger. When the state of revelation lifted, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Khuwaylah, Allah has revealed this verse about you and your companion: 'Indeed, Allah has heard the words of the woman who disputes with you concerning her husband'" [Surah al-Mujadilah: 1] up to "'then they go back on what they said, then (the expiation is) the freeing of a slave before they touch one another'" [Surah al-Mujadilah: 3]. Khuwaylah said: O Messenger of Allah, by Allah, he has no servant other than me, and I have no servant other than him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then it is fasting for two consecutive months" [Surah al-Nisa': 92]. She said: By Allah, if he does not eat twice a day, his sight grows dim. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then it is feeding sixty poor people" [Surah al-Mujadilah: 4]. She said: By Allah, we have only one uqiyah for the whole day. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then tell him to go to so-and-so and take from him half a wasq of dates, then give it in charity to sixty poor people, and take you back." Khuwaylah said: I went to my husband, and when he saw me he asked: What news do you bring? I said: Good, and you are blameworthy. You have been ordered to go to so-and-so, take half a wasq of dates from him, give it in charity to sixty poor people, and take me back. So he went running until he brought the dates. Khuwaylah said: Before that, I knew that he was unable, because of weakness, to carry even five sa' on his back.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed us in the Masjid al-Khayf. He (peace and blessings be upon him) praised and glorified Allah as He deserves, then said: "Whoever makes the Hereafter his concern, Allah gathers all his affairs together for him, places his self-sufficiency before his eyes, and the world comes to him of its own accord even though it is unwilling. And whoever makes the world his concern, Allah scatters his affairs, places his poverty before his eyes, and he receives of the world only what has been written for him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs ablution (wudu) after the ritual bath (ghusl) is not of us."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the jallalah sheep (one that eats filth), the price of a dog, the fee for a stud's mating, and the earnings of the cupper.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Those who eat their fill in this world will be the hungry ones tomorrow in the Hereafter."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Hold fast to huzn (sorrow and grief), for it is the key to the heart." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah, how is huzn attained? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Keep yourselves hungry and thirsty."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sayyiduna Musa bin Imran (peace be upon him) passed by a man who was trembling, so he stood up to supplicate for him, that Allah might grant him well-being. It was said: O Musa, what is afflicting him is not from Iblis; rather, he has kept himself hungry for My sake. He is someone whom I look at several times every day and marvel at his obedience. So tell him to supplicate for you, for he has (the right to) one supplication with Me every day."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever angers Allah to please people, Allah becomes angry with him and also makes angry with him the one whom he had pleased by angering Him. And whoever pleases Allah while incurring the anger of people, Allah becomes pleased with him and also makes pleased with him the one who had become angry with him for pleasing Him, until He makes him, his words and his deeds appear beautiful in their eyes."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: One day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to his Companions with a piece of gold in his hand. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): "What would Muhammad say to his Lord if he died while this was with him?" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed it before getting up, then said: "It would not please me that the Companions of Muhammad had the like of this mountain" - and he (peace and blessings be upon him) pointed with his hand towards Uhud - "in gold and silver, spending it in the path of Allah, and yet leaving even one dinar of it behind."
Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "On the day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, he left neither a dinar, nor a dirham, nor a slave, nor a slave-woman. He left his coat of mail pawned with a Jewish man for thirty sa' of barley, from which he used to eat himself and feed his family."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: I had intercourse with my wife while she was menstruating. He (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered him to give half a dinar in charity.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: There is no harm in cupping for the fasting person; it was disliked only out of fear of weakness.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said concerning this verse: "And We have certainly given you seven of the oft-repeated (verses)" [Surah al-Hijr: 87]: "It is Umm al-Kitab (Surah al-Fatihah)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Be sincere to one another in knowledge, for the betrayal by one of you in his knowledge is graver than his betrayal in his wealth, and Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will surely question you about it on the Day of Resurrection."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: It was said: O Messenger of Allah, will a town be destroyed while there are righteous people in it? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." It was said: Why, O Messenger of Allah? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Because of their negligence and their silence about the acts of disobedience to Allah."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Once Sayyiduna Safwan bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) was sleeping in the mosque with his cloak under his head. A man came, pulled away the cloak and took it. Then he was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that his hand be cut off. He (Safwan) said: I did not think that a Muslim's hand would be cut off because of my cloak. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why did you not say this before you brought him to me?"