Ismah bin Malik al-Khatmi (may Allah be pleased with him)

Sayyiduna Ismah bin Malik al-Khatmi (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: Some part of my body itched, so I put my hand in to scratch it, and my hand touched my private part. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That happens to me as well."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In Islam there is no (unjustified) reserving of land, nor najsh (deceptively bidding up a price)."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to visit us at Quba. When he intended to return, we brought a sluggish, slow-paced donkey, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) mounted it. We said: O Messenger of Allah! This boy will go with you so that he can bring the animal back. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The owner of the animal has more right to its front seat." We said: O Messenger of Allah! Ride, and send it back to us (yourself). So he (peace and blessings be upon him) went and sent it back to us, and it had now become so smooth and swift of pace that no one could keep up with it.

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Most of the hypocrites of my Ummah will be its reciters (of the Qur'an)."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us in one of the streets of Madinah until he reached the rubbish heap of some people, and he said: "O Hudhayfah! Screen me." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) urinated standing, then called for water, performed ablution, wiped over his leather socks and prayed.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a slave came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! My master married me off, and now he wants to separate me from my wife. The narrator said: So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ascended the pulpit and said: "O people! The right of divorce lies only with the one who took hold of the shin (that is, the one who married)."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "None of you should ever sleep in a garment dyed with safflower, for (Satan) is present in it."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If there were to be a prophet after me, it would have been Umar bin al-Khattab."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The back of the believer is protected (from being flogged), except by its due right."

Sayyiduna Ismah bin Malik al-Khatmi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated through the same previous chain: A man from (the tribe of) Khuza'ah came, and Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) met him and asked: Why have you come? He said: I have come to ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): if Allah takes you, to whom should we give the sadaqah of our wealth? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "To Abu Bakr." If Allah takes Abu Bakr as well, to whom should we give it? He said: "To Umar." If Allah takes Umar as well, to whom should we give it? He said: "To Uthman." If Allah takes Uthman as well, to whom should we give it? He said: "See to your affairs for yourselves."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A man from the desert came with his camels, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) met him and bought the camels from him. Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) met him and asked: What has brought you here? He said: I came with camels, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) bought them. He asked: Did he (peace and blessings be upon him) pay you the price in cash? He said: No, rather I sold them to him (peace and blessings be upon him) on deferred payment. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Go back and say to him (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! If something happens to you, who will pay me my wealth? And see what answer he (peace and blessings be upon him) gives you, then come back and tell me. So he said: O Messenger of Allah! If something happens to you, who will pay my debt? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Abu Bakr." He told Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: Go back and ask: if something happens to Abu Bakr, who will pay my debt? He asked, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Umar." He came and told Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: Go back and ask: after Umar dies, who will pay my debt? He went and asked, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to you! When Umar dies, then if you are able to die, die."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had prayed the Zuhr prayer and was sitting in the mosque when a man came and began to pray, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is there no one who will give charity to this man by praying with him?"

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A man announced his lost animal in the mosque, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to the Companions): "Say: May Allah not return your lost property to you," and he (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked saying these words himself.

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When one of you has prayed the Jumu'ah, he should not pray anything after it until he has spoken or left the mosque."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) whose eye had been gouged out. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: "Who struck you?" He said: The one-eyed man of such-and-such tribe. He (peace and blessings be upon him) sent for him, and when he came he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Did you gouge out this man's eye?" He said: Yes. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that he must pay the blood money (diyah) and said: "His (the one-eyed man's) eye will not be gouged out, so that you would leave him completely blind."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: In the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), a slave committed theft. His case was brought before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) pardoned him. Then he was brought before him (peace and blessings be upon him) a second time, having stolen, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) pardoned him. Then he was brought a third time, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) pardoned him. Then he was brought a fourth time, having stolen, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) pardoned him. Then he was brought a fifth time, having stolen, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his hand to be cut off. Then his case was brought before him (peace and blessings be upon him) a sixth time, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his foot to be cut off. Then he was brought a seventh time, and he ordered (the other) hand to be cut off. Then he was brought an eighth time, and he ordered (the other) foot to be cut off. And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Four for four."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to begin the recitation with "All praise is for Allah, the Lord of the worlds", and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, Sayyiduna Umar and Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with them) also did the same.

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had a spear that would be carried in front of him (peace and blessings be upon him), and when he (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed, he would plant it in front of himself.

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A camel belonging to an orphan of the Ansar bolted from us and we could not catch it, so we came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned it to him (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) got up with us until we reached the garden in which the camel was. When the camel saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), it came forward until it prostrated before him (peace and blessings be upon him). We said: O Messenger of Allah! If you were to order us, we too would prostrate to you, just as people prostrate to kings. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is not in my Ummah. If I were to do that, I would order women to prostrate to their husbands."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Some of the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! We pass through these markets and see these fruits and desire them, while we do not have a single coin with which to buy them; so is there any reward for us in that? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The reward is precisely in that."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A gift takes away the hearing and the heart (of the one who accepts it) (meaning it inclines him towards the giver)."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said three times: "(Taking) the lost property of a believer (without right) is a deed that burns like fire."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) who was married to Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Marry Uthman off. If I had a third daughter, I would have married her to him as well, and I married him (to them) only by revelation from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) rode a horse, and it galloped with him. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came back to us and said: "I found it to be like a sea (swift in its pace)."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three people at whom Allah will not look (with mercy) tomorrow (on the Day of Resurrection): an old man who commits adultery, a man who has made oaths his (trading) merchandise and swears by them over every matter, true or false, and a poor man who is arrogant and boastful."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) appointed a man to collect the charity (sadaqah). He said: "O Messenger of Allah, choose (what is best) for me." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stay sitting in your house."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: One day Sayyiduna Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) entered the mosque and greeted the people with salam, and he saw dislike on their faces. So he went back to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in his house and said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is the matter with me, that whenever I enter the mosque I see dislike on the people's faces?" So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came, entered the mosque and said: "O people, you will never have faith and you will never be believers until you love Abbas."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a man walking in the graveyard wearing his sandals, and he said: "O wearer of the tanned-leather sandals, take off your sandals."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The most beloved deed to Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, is 'subhat al-hadith', and the most hated deed is 'tahdif'." We said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is subhat al-hadith?" He said: "People are talking among themselves while a man keeps glorifying Allah (with his tongue)." We said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is tahdif?" He said: "People are in a good state, then their neighbour and companion ask about their condition and they say, complaining: 'We are in a bad state' (when that is not so)."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever turns away from his religion, kill him."

Sayyiduna Ismah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If the Qur'an were gathered in a hide, the Fire would not burn it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ismah bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever does what people like in order to please them while disobeying Allah in it, he will meet Allah Almighty while He is angry with him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ismah bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has created the game of the sea for you."