Sayings of Mujahid

It is narrated from Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) in the explanation of the verse "They are preparing for themselves" [Ar-Rum: 44] that this concerns the grave.

It is narrated from Mujahid concerning the verse "And for the one who fears the standing before his Lord are two gardens" [Ar-Rahman: 46] that it means the person who, in this world, fears Allah and so refrains from persisting in sin.

Al-A'mash said: Whenever I saw Mujahid, I would think that he was a donkey-driver whose donkey had gone astray and who was worried about it.

Mujahid said: Whenever a day passes from this world, it says: "All praise is for Allah, who has taken me out of this world; now I will never return to it."

It is mentioned from Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) in the explanation of "We come to the land, reducing it from its borders" [Ar-Ra'd: 41] that it means death.

Mujahid said: In Madinah there lived a needy household. They had the head of a goat. They came into some means and thought: Why do we not give this head to someone more needy than ourselves? So they sent it, and that head kept going around the houses of Madinah until it returned to those very people from whom it had set out.

Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The scholars are gone, and only the students remain. The one who strives among you today is like the one who played among the people before you.

Mujahid said: When a man meets another and smiles at him, the sins of both fall away just as the wind shakes off dry leaves. The narrator said: Someone asked: This is a very small deed. He replied: Have you not heard the saying of Allah Almighty: "If you had spent all that is on the earth, you could not have brought their hearts together" [Al-Anfal: 63]?

Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Four men of the people of Kufah are the most pleasing to me: Talhah, Zubayd, Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman and Yahya bin Abbad.

Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Even if a Muslim receives no other good from his brother, this good is sufficient: that out of modesty before him he keeps away from sin.

Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The person of understanding (faqih) is the one who fears Allah.

It is reported from Mujahid in the explanation of the Qur'anic verse "Repent to Allah with sincere repentance" [At-Tahrim: 8] that it means a man repents and then does not commit the sin again.

It is reported from Mujahid concerning the saying of Allah Almighty "And to Him has submitted whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly" [Al Imran: 83] that this means the obedient person, the believer.

Mujahid is reported to have said, regarding the saying of Allah Almighty, "They used to sleep but little of the night" [Adh-Dhariyat: 17], that they did not sleep the entire night.

Mujahid is reported to have said, in the explanation of the saying of Allah Almighty, "Fair maidens, confined in pavilions" [Ar-Rahman: 72], that they will be maidens who are in pavilions of pearl, and their hearts, souls and eyes will be devoted solely to their husbands. They will not love anyone other than them.

Mujahid is reported to have said, regarding the saying of Allah Almighty, "And fair maidens with wide, lovely eyes" [Al-Waqi'ah: 22], that eyes will be dazzled on looking at these maidens.

Mujahid is reported to have said, regarding the saying of Allah Almighty, "And ask Allah of His bounty" [An-Nisa: 32], that worldly wealth is not what is meant by it.

Mujahid is reported to have said, in the explanation of the saying of Allah Almighty, "And devote yourself to Him with complete devotion" [Al-Muzzammil: 8], that it means: cultivate sincerity for Allah.

A saying of Mujahid is reported: Whenever someone dies, the earth weeps over him for forty days.

Mujahid is reported to have said, in the explanation of the saying of Allah, "And for him who fears standing before his Lord there are two gardens" [Ar-Rahman: 46], that it refers to the man who remembers Allah at the moment of sin and refrains from the sin.

Mujahid is reported to have said, in the explanation of the saying of Allah Almighty, "And there will be passed round among them vessels of silver and goblets of crystal, crystal of silver, which they have measured out precisely" [Al-Insan: 15-16], that "vessels" means drinking bowls, and "goblets" means cups, and "measured out precisely" means that they are neither so full that they overflow nor short of the measure.