Ata bin Abi Rabah from Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever comes to the Friday prayer, let him take a ritual bath (ghusl)."

Ata bin Abi Rabah said: I asked Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): Were you present at the Pledge of Ridwan with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? He said: Yes. I asked: What was he (peace and blessings be upon him) wearing? He said: "A cotton shirt and a padded cloak, an upper wrap and a sword. And I saw al-Nu'man bin Muqarrin al-Muzani (may Allah be pleased with him) standing by his (peace and blessings be upon him) head, lifting the branches of the tree away from his (peace and blessings be upon him) head, while the people were pledging allegiance to him (peace and blessings be upon him)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called out the talbiyah when his (peace and blessings be upon him) mount stood up straight with him (peace and blessings be upon him) upon it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not disfigure the face, for the son of Adam was created upon the image of the Most Merciful, the Exalted."

A man came to Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman! We travel and meet people who say there is no such thing as divine decree (qadar). He said: When you meet those people, tell them that Ibn Umar is free of them. We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when suddenly a man came, with a handsome face, a fragrant scent and clean clothes, and said: Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah! May I come near you? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Come near." He came one step closer, and he kept doing so several times until his knees touched the knees of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Then he asked: O Messenger of Allah! What is Islam? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "To bear witness that there is no true god except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, to establish the prayer, to pay the zakah, to perform Hajj to the House, to fast Ramadan, and to take the ritual bath (ghusl) from major impurity (janabah)." He said: So if I do all this, am I a Muslim? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." He said: You have spoken the truth. Then he asked: What is iman (faith)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Iman is that you believe in Allah, His angels, His Books, His Messengers, Paradise, Hell, the Resurrection, and the divine decree, its good and its evil, its sweet and its bitter, all of it being from Allah." He said: So if I do all this, am I a believer? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Yes. He said: You have spoken the truth. Then he asked: What is ihsan (excellence)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That you worship Allah as though you see Him, and if you do not see Him, He certainly sees you." He said: So if I do this, am I a muhsin (one who excels)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." He said: You have spoken the truth. We said: We have never seen a man with a more handsome face, a more fragrant scent, or greater reverence for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and (strange was) his saying to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): You have spoken the truth. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Bring the man to me." We got up, and I stood on one of the roads of Madinah, but we saw nothing. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you know who that was?" The people said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That was Jibril (peace be upon him); he came to teach you the rites of your religion. He has never come to me in any form without my recognising him, except this form."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey when a Bedouin approached. When he came near, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Where are you headed?" He said: To my family. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Would you like something good?" He said: What is it? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That you bear witness that there is no true god except Allah, alone, without partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger." He said: Who is a witness to what you say? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This tree." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called it, and it was on the bank of the valley. It came, ploughing through the earth, until it stood before him (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked it to testify three times, and it testified that the matter was just as he (peace and blessings be upon him) had said. Then it returned to the place where it grew. And the Bedouin went back to his people and said: If they follow me, I will bring them to you; otherwise I will come back to you myself and stay with you.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A time passed over us when none of us thought that he had more right to the dinar and the dirham than his Muslim brother, and now we are in a time when the dinar and the dirham are dearer to us than our Muslim brother. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When people become miserly with the dinar and the dirham, abandon jihad in the path of Allah, cling to the tails of cattle, and trade by 'inah, Allah Almighty will impose upon them an affliction that He will not lift until they return (from their ways)."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Had I not heard this hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) not just once but again and again (up to seven times), I would not have narrated it. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Three people will be on mounds of musk on the Day of Resurrection; grief will not terrify them, and they will not be alarmed when the people are alarmed: a man who learned the Qur'an and upheld it, seeking thereby the Face of Allah and what is with Him; a man who called the adhan for the five prayers every day and night, seeking thereby the Face of Allah and what is with Him; and a slave whom the slavery of this world did not keep from obeying his Lord."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A time passed over us when none of us thought that he had more right to the dinar and the dirham than his Muslim brother, until, when we reached its end, we came to be in a state where the dinar and the dirham were dearer to one of us than his Muslim brother. And I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When people become miserly with the dinar and the dirham, trade by 'inah, and follow the tails of cattle, Allah Almighty will send upon them a humiliation that He will not lift from them until they return to their religion."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: "Selling the spoils of war before they are distributed has been forbidden."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I observed the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) twenty-five times; in the two rak'ahs before Fajr and the two rak'ahs before Maghrib he (peace and blessings be upon him) would recite "Qul ya ayyuha al-kafirun" and "Qul huwa Allahu ahad".

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah curse whoever reviles my Companions."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When you see the flatterers (those who praise excessively), throw dust in their faces."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) looked for Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) to call the adhan for the people, but he could not be found. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a man, and he called the adhan in Bilal's place. Then after that (Bilal) wanted to call the iqamah, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The iqamah is called only by the one who called the adhan."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Two Eids coincided in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): Eid al-Fitr and Friday. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led them in the Eid prayer, then turned his face towards them and said: "O people! You have attained good and reward, and we are going to hold the Friday prayer. So whoever wishes to join us in the Friday prayer, let him do so, and whoever wishes to return to his family, let him go."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Were it not that I would burden my Ummah, I would have ordered them to use the miswak at every prayer."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would not sit up at any hour of the night without passing the miswak over his mouth.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The fewest of my Ummah are those who reach the age of seventy."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A man from Abyssinia came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to ask him something, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ask, and seek to understand." He said: O Messenger of Allah! You have been favoured over us in appearance, colour and prophethood; if I believe just as you believed and act just as you acted, will I be with you in Paradise? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: You have been favoured over us in appearance, colour and prophethood; do you think that if I believe just as you believed and act just as you acted, I will be with you in Paradise? He said: "Yes." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul, the whiteness of the black man will be seen in Paradise from a distance of a thousand years' journey." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever says 'La ilaha illa Allah' (There is no god but Allah) will have a covenant with Allah because of it, and whoever says 'Subhan Allah wa bi-hamdihi' (Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him), one hundred and twenty-four thousand good deeds will be written for him." At this a man said: Then, O Messenger of Allah, how could anyone be destroyed after this? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man will come on the Day of Resurrection with deeds so heavy that if they were placed on a mountain they would weigh it down; then one blessing from among the blessings of Allah will stand up and almost consume all of those deeds, unless Allah bestows His grace through His mercy." And this surah was revealed: "Has there come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning?" [Surah al-Insan: 1] up to "and a great kingdom" [Surah al-Insan: 20]. The Abyssinian said: Will my eyes too see in Paradise what your eyes will see? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." At this he began to weep until his soul departed. Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) lowering him into his grave with his own hand.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed Umrah in Rajab.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever says 'Subhan Allah wa bi-hamdihi' (Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him), one hundred and twenty-four thousand good deeds are written for him, and whoever says 'La ilaha illa Allah' (There is no god but Allah) will have a covenant with Allah on the Day of Resurrection."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would not wake from sleep at any hour of the night without passing the miswak over his mouth.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Mention the good qualities of your dead, and refrain from their bad ones."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: One day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led us in prayer. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his head from ruku', he said: "Sami'a Allahu liman hamidah" (Allah hears the one who praises Him). A man behind him (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Rabbana wa laka al-hamd, kathiran tayyiban mubarakan fih' (Our Lord, and to You belongs praise, abundant, pure and blessed). When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) finished the prayer, he said three times: "Who spoke just now?" The man said: I did, O Messenger of Allah! He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul, I saw more than thirty angels racing one another over this phrase, each trying to be first to write it down."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw in a dream as if there were two gold bracelets on his (peace and blessings be upon him) forearms. He (peace and blessings be upon him) blew on them and they flew away. Then he said: "These are the two liars (false claimants to prophethood) of my Ummah: the one of Yemen and the one of Yamamah, and the two of them will not be able to harm my Ummah in any way."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at midday, and Abu al-Hasan (Ali, may Allah be pleased with him) came. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Come close to me, O Abu al-Hasan." He (peace and blessings be upon him) kept drawing him closer until he (peace and blessings be upon him) put his mouth to his ear (and began whispering), until the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his head as though alarmed, and said: "This wicked one has knocked on the door with his ear." Then he said: "Go, O Abu al-Hasan, and lead him here the way a goat is led to the one who milks it." Then I saw Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) bringing al-Hakam, holding him by his ear and his jaw together, until he made him stand before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed him three times. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "Sit to one side." Then people from the Muhajirun and the Ansar came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called for him again and said: "Take note! This man will oppose the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and from his loins will come trials whose smoke will reach the sky." At this a man from among the Muslims said: Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth; he is far too lowly and contemptible for such a thing to come from him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed it will, and on that day some of you and some of them will be his followers."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever is put in charge of any affair of the Muslims, Allah does not look into his need until he looks into their needs."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gesturing with his palm like this, as if he were measuring something by the span of his hand, and he was saying: "Whoever separates from the community of the Muslims by even a handspan has thrown the noose of Islam off his neck. And the opponents will hold their banners from behind their backs on the Day of Resurrection. And whoever dies without an imam of the community dies the death of Jahiliyyah."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Do not revile your dead, for reviling them is not permissible."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went to visit Abu Salamah (may Allah be pleased with him) while he was ill, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) heard the words of Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) as she was weeping. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) held back from going in when he (peace and blessings be upon him) heard her weeping over him (Abu Salamah) with (a verse of) the Book of Allah, saying: "And the stupor of death comes in truth; that is what you used to flee from" [Surah Qaf: 19]. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) went in, greeted with salam, and said: "O Umm Salamah! May Allah grant you (something) in its place." When he (peace and blessings be upon him) came out, and Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was with him (peace and blessings be upon him), he said to him (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! I saw that you disliked going in because they were wailing. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I do not enter a house in which there is wailing, nor a black dog."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to a cloth seller and bought a shirt from him for four dirhams. He (peace and blessings be upon him) came out wearing it and met a man from the Ansar, who said: O Messenger of Allah! Clothe me with a shirt; may Allah clothe you with the garments of Paradise. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) took off the shirt and put it on him. Then he went back to the shopkeeper and bought a shirt from him for four dirhams, and two dirhams remained with him (peace and blessings be upon him). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came across a slave girl crying on the road, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What makes you cry?" She said: O Messenger of Allah! My household gave me two dirhams to buy flour with, but they were lost. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave her the two remaining dirhams. Then she turned back, still crying, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) called her and said: "What makes you cry when you have taken the two dirhams?" She said: I fear they will beat me. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) walked with her to her household and greeted with salam, and they recognised his (peace and blessings be upon him) voice. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) greeted again, then greeted a third time, and they replied. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Did you hear the first greeting?" They said: Yes, but we wanted you to favour us with more greetings. May our fathers and mothers be sacrificed for you, what brought you here? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This girl feared that you would beat her." Her owner said: Then she is free for the sake of Allah, in return for your walking here with her. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave them glad tidings of good and of Paradise. Then he said: "Allah Almighty has put blessing in these ten (dirhams): Allah clothed His Prophet with a shirt, clothed a man of the Ansar with a shirt, and through it Allah freed a slave. And praise be to Allah, who granted us this by His power."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Who will take this letter of mine to the tyrant of Rome?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) put this to them three times, then said: "Who will go, and Paradise is his?" A man from the Ansar called Ubaydullah bin Abd al-Khaliq said: I will take it; and if I perish before that, will Paradise be mine? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes. If you reach him, Paradise is yours; and if you are killed, and if you perish, Allah has made Paradise obligatory for you." So he set off with the letter of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) until he reached the tyrant king, and he said: I am the envoy of the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds. He was given permission and went in to him. The tyrant of Rome recognised that he had come with the truth from a Prophet who had been sent. Then he laid the letter of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) before him, and he gathered the Romans around him and laid it before them, but they disliked what he had brought. One man among them believed in it, and he was killed for his faith. Then the man returned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him (peace and blessings be upon him) what had happened to him, and also about the killing of that man. At this the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah will raise him (on the Day of Resurrection) as a nation by himself", concerning that man who was killed.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "No believing servant repents to Allah a month before his death except that Allah accepts it from him, and even less than that; and even a day or an hour before his death, if Allah knows sincere repentance and devotion from him, He accepts it from him."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "On the day a man was placed in his grave, two angels came to him and said to him: We are going to strike you a blow. He said to them: For what will you strike me? They struck him such a blow that his grave was filled with fire from it. Then they left him until he regained consciousness and his terror left him, and he said to them: For what did you strike me? They said: You prayed a prayer without purification, and you passed by a man who was being wronged and did not help him."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard (this incident) from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on a Friday: He (peace and blessings be upon him) led the people in the Asr prayer, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting (after) the first two rak'ahs when a dog began to pass to cut off his (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer. There was fear that it would pass in front of him (peace and blessings be upon him), so Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) supplicated against the dog, and Allah destroyed it by His power. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) finished his prayer and saw that the dog had died, he said: "Which of you supplicated against this dog?" No one spoke. The Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked again, and at this Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, it was I who supplicated against it; I feared it would cut off your prayer, so I supplicated against it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "O Sa'd! How did you supplicate against it?" Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: (I said:) O Allah! Glory be to You, there is no god but You. O Possessor of Majesty and Honour! Destroy this dog so that it does not cut off the prayer of Your Prophet. The Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Sa'd! You supplicated on such a day and at such an hour with such words that had you supplicated against anyone between the heavens, it would have been answered. So rejoice, O Sa'd."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Every pregnant slave woman is unlawful to her owner until she gives birth to what is in her womb, and every donkey that is used for work, its meat is unlawful."
"And garlic is unlawful." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made garlic lawful, and ordered whoever ate it not to go to the mosque until its smell had gone, because it is offensive; so whoever eats it should not come near the mosque.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When one of you dies, do not hold him back, but hasten him to his grave. And in his grave, let Surah al-Fatihah be recited at his head and the closing verses of Surah al-Baqarah at his feet."

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever enters the mosque while the imam is standing leading the prayer has no separate prayer; he should not pray alone by himself, but should join the imam in the prayer."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Tale-bearing, abuse and (tribal) zealotry lead to the Fire, and they must never come together in the breast of a believer."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed ablution (washing the limbs) three times each.