From the Musnad of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade fasting on the day of Eid al-Fitr and the day of Eid al-Adha, and praying after the Fajr prayer until the sun rises, and after the Asr prayer until the sun sets. In the narration of Abu Harun (may Allah have mercy on him), Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Apart from these forbidden days and times, fast as much as you wish and pray as much as you wish."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that coitus interruptus ('azl, withdrawing before ejaculation during intercourse) was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: "Do you do that?" (and he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say: Do not do it) "Indeed, there is no soul that Allah is to create except that Allah will certainly create it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No man should look at the private parts ('awrah) of another man, nor should a woman look at the private parts of another woman; and no man should lie (with bare bodies touching) with another man under a single cloth, nor should a woman lie (with bare bodies touching) with another woman under a single cloth."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that after the bowing (ruku') the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say these words: 'Allahumma rabbana lakal-hamdu mil'as-samawati wal-aradina, wa mil'a ma shi'ta min shay'in ba'du, la mani'a lima a'tayta, wa la yanfa'u dhal-jaddi minkal-jaddu, khayru ma qalal-'abdu haqqan kulluna laka 'abdun, la mani'a lima a'tayta, wa la yanfa'u dhal-jaddi minkal-jaddu' (O Allah, our Lord, to You belongs all praise, filling the full expanse of the heavens and the earths, and filling whatever else You will after that. None can withhold what You grant, and the rank and wealth of a person of standing cannot benefit him against You. This is the best thing a servant can truly say, and (the reality is that) we are all Your servants. None can withhold what You grant, and the fortune of a fortunate person cannot benefit him before You).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection a neck (-like part) will emerge from Hell and will say: I have been appointed over three kinds of people: every tyrannical rebel who is obstinately hostile to the truth, the one who set up another god alongside Allah, and the one who killed a soul unjustly."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not mix half-ripe dates and ripe dates together (to make nabidh)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him): I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "O people! Indeed, I am leaving among you things which, if you hold firmly to them, you will never go astray after me. They are two weighty things, one of them greater than the other: the Book of Allah, which is a rope stretched from the heaven to the earth, and my family ('itrah), that is, the people of my household. These two will never separate from each other until they come to me at the Pond (al-Kawthar)."

Iyad (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: I said to Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him): "One of us prays and does not know how many rak'ahs he has prayed?" He said: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to us: "When one of you prays and does not know how many rak'ahs he has prayed, let him perform the two prostrations of forgetfulness (sahw) while sitting. And when Satan comes to one of you and says: 'You have broken your ablution,' let him say: 'You have lied,' except for one who finds a smell or hears a sound with his own ear."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I forbid you from fasting on two days, namely Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said "something similar to it" (that is, just like the previous hadith).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Gog and Magog will come out, and they will come out (rapidly) exactly as Allah, the Glorified and Exalted, has said: 'They will descend swiftly from every elevation'." He (peace and blessings be upon him) further said: "Then they will cover the whole earth, and the Muslims, out of fear of them, will withdraw and take refuge in their cities and fortresses, keeping their livestock safe with them as well. When the first wave of Gog and Magog passes by a river, they will drink it dry until nothing remains in it. Then, when the last of their group passes by there, one of them will say (on seeing the dry ground): There used to be water here once. Then they will gain complete dominance over the earth, and one of them will say: These were the people of the earth, and we have finished with them; now we will fight the people of the heaven. Then one of them will brandish his spear and throw it towards the heaven, and it will come back smeared with blood, at which they will say (as a trial): We have killed the people of the heaven too. While they are in this state, Allah Almighty will send upon them creatures (a pestilence) like the worms in the noses of locusts, which will seize them by their necks, and they will die like locusts, piled one on top of another. When morning comes, the Muslims will hear no sound from them, and they will say: Who will sell his life (that is, put his life at stake) and go and see what they have done? So a man from among them will go out, convinced that he will be sacrificing his life, but he will find them dead, and he will call out: O people! Rejoice, for Allah Almighty has destroyed your enemy. Then the people will come out and set their livestock free, but there will be nothing for them to graze on except their flesh, and they (the livestock) will eat it and grow so fat and plump as they had never grown fat even from grazing on the best vegetation."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him): I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "On the Day of Resurrection, when Allah Almighty gathers all people on a single plain, the Fire of Hell will come forward with one part of it mounting another, while its guardian angels hold it back, and it will be calling out: 'By the might of my Lord! Either the way between me and my mates (my particular companions) is cleared, or I will engulf all the people in a single leap.' The people will ask: 'Who are your mates?' It will say: 'Everyone who was rebellious and arrogant.' So it will put out its tongue, pick them out from among the crowd and cast them into its belly, and then it will draw back. After that it will advance again in the same way, one part of it mounting another while the guardians restrain it, and it will again swear the same oath, saying: Either the barrier between me and my mates is removed, or I will devour everyone at once. It will be asked: 'Who are your mates?' It will reply: 'Every tyrant who disbelieved and was utterly ungrateful.' So it will snatch them with its tongue, throw them into its belly and then draw back. Then it will come forward a third time in the same state and repeat the same demand. It will be asked: 'Who are your mates?' It will say: 'Everyone who was conceited and boastful.' Then it will seize them too with its tongue, throw them inside itself and draw back, and then Allah Almighty will judge between the servants."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection a neck will emerge from Hell that will have a tongue which will speak. It will say: Today I have been appointed over three kinds of people: the one who set up another god alongside Allah, and every tyrant who is hostile to the truth and obstinate," (and the narrator did not name the third kind) "then that neck will wrap them all in its grip and cast them into the bottomless depths of Hell."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Paradise was presented to me, and I was about to take a cluster (of grapes) from it to show you, but a barrier was placed between me and it." A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, how big was (one) grape of it?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "As big as the largest bucket your mother ever made (by cutting leather)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "On the day of (the battle of) Awtas we obtained female captives of war who had (disbelieving) husbands, so we disliked having relations with them, and we asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about it. Then this blessed verse was revealed: 'And (forbidden to you are) the women who have husbands, except those whom your right hands possess.' So then we considered them lawful for ourselves (in the light of this text)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed in his blessed sandals (shoes).

Muhammad bin Ka'b al-Qurazi (may Allah have mercy on him) asked Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Sa'id (may Allah have mercy on him): "Which hadith have you heard your father narrate from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?" Abd al-Rahman said: I heard my father, Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The example of one who plays nard (backgammon)," and then he mentioned the whole hadith.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "I was among a group of the poor and destitute of the Muhajirun who, because of a lack of clothing, were screening themselves (to cover their bodies) behind one another. A reciter of ours was reciting the Qur'an to us, and we were all listening to the recitation of the Book of Allah. Just then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came and stood over us, and as soon as he (peace and blessings be upon him) stood there, the reciter fell silent. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: 'What were you doing?' We said: 'O Messenger of Allah, a reciter was reciting and we were listening to the Book of Allah.' At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'All praise is for Allah, who has placed in my Ummah people with whom I have been commanded to keep myself (steadfastly).' The narrator said: Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sat down among us in such a way as to be equally placed among all of us. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) gestured with his blessed hand: 'Form a circle.' So everyone sat in a circle, and all their faces came before him (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I saw that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not recognise any of them except me. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'O company of the poor Muhajirun, receive the glad tidings of perpetual light on the Day of Resurrection. You will enter Paradise half a day before the wealthy among the believers, and that half day is (equal to) five hundred years.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the descendants of al-Hakam (Banu al-Hakam) reach thirty in number, they will make the religion of Allah a means of corruption and mischief, they will make the servants of Allah their slaves, and they will make the wealth of Allah their private estate, circulating it among themselves."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the day of Hunayn we took (captive) women, and we began to practise withdrawal ('azl) with them. Then we said to one another: "You do this while the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) is among you?" So we asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Not from every fluid does a child come, and when Allah wills to create something, nothing can prevent Him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said (about withdrawal, 'azl): "There is no harm upon you if you do not do it, for it is only (a matter of) divine decree."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us during the illness in which he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, with a bandage tied around his blessed head. I followed behind him (peace and blessings be upon him) until he (peace and blessings be upon him) stood on the pulpit and said: "At this moment I am standing at the Pond (al-Kawthar)." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, a servant was offered the world and its adornment, and he chose the Hereafter." The narrator said: None of those present grasped the hidden meaning of this except Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: "May my father and mother be ransomed for you! Rather, we will sacrifice our wealth, our lives and our children for you." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came down from the pulpit, and after that (until his death) he (peace and blessings be upon him) was not seen on the pulpit again.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was far more modest than a secluded virgin in her private chamber, and when he (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked something, we would recognise it from the expression on his (peace and blessings be upon him) radiant face."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you see a funeral, stand up; and whoever follows it must not sit down until it has been placed (on the ground)."

Abu Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: We were discussing Laylat al-Qadr among a group of people from Quraysh, so I went to Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), who was a friend of mine, and said to him: "Will you not come out (for a while) with us to the palm grove?" So he came out wearing a black embroidered cloak. I asked him: "Did you hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) mention Laylat al-Qadr?" He said: "Yes. We observed i'tikaf with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the middle ten days of Ramadan, then we came out (of the mosque) on the morning of the twentieth, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed us and said: 'I was shown Laylat al-Qadr, but I was made to forget it (or: I forgot it), so seek it in the odd nights of the last ten (of Ramadan). And I saw (in a dream) that I was prostrating in water and mud, so whoever observed i'tikaf with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) should return (to the mosque).' So we returned, and at that time not even a patch of cloud could be seen in the sky. Then suddenly a cloud came and it rained so much that water flowed in the mosque, and the mosque (its roof) was made of palm branches. Then the prayer was begun, and I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prostrating in water and mud, until I saw the traces of mud on his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessed forehead."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you follow a funeral, do not sit down until it has been placed (on the ground)." Suhayl (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I saw my father Abu Salih (may Allah have mercy on him) not sitting down until the bier had been taken down from the men's shoulders and placed on the ground.

Qaza'ah (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: I heard something from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that pleased me greatly, so I asked him: "Did you hear this yourself from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He replied: "Would I attribute to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) something I did not hear? (Indeed,) I heard him (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Saddles are not to be fastened (for a journey with the intention of worship and visiting) except to three mosques: this mosque of mine (the Prophet's Mosque), al-Masjid al-Haram and al-Masjid al-Aqsa.'" He said: And I heard him say: "A woman must not travel for two days at any time unless her husband or a mahram of hers is with her." He said: And I heard him say: "Prayer is not proper after the Fajr prayer until the sun rises, nor after the Asr prayer until the sun sets." And I heard him say: "Fasting is not proper on two days: the day of Fitr after Ramadan and the day of Adha."

Qaza'ah (may Allah have mercy on him) relates that the statement of Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) was mentioned before Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed two rak'ahs after Asr. He said: "As for me, I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'There is no prayer after Asr until the sun sets, and no prayer after Fajr until the sun rises.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When one of you yawns, let him place his hand over his mouth, for Satan enters (a person)." In the chain of this narration the narrator was in doubt whether this hadith is narrated directly from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) or through his son from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) sent from Yemen to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) a nugget of gold in a bag of leather tanned with acacia bark, which had not yet been cleaned of its earth. He (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed it among four men: Zayd al-Khayl, al-Aqra' bin Habis, Uyaynah bin Hisn and Alqamah bin Ulathah. At this some people of the Muhajirun and the Ansar said (in complaint): "We were more entitled to this wealth than they." When this news reached him (peace and blessings be upon him), it weighed heavily on him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you not trust me, when I am the trustee of the One who is in the heaven, and news from the heaven comes to me morning and evening?" Then a man stood up whose eyes were sunken, whose cheekbones were prominent, whose forehead protruded, whose beard was thick, whose head was shaved and whose lower garment was tucked up. He said: "O Messenger of Allah, fear Allah." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to you! Am I not the most entitled of all the people of the earth to fear Allah?" Then, when the man turned away, Sayyiduna Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him), the Sword of Allah, said: "O Messenger of Allah, shall I not strike off his neck?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, perhaps he prays." Sayyiduna Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If he does pray, he says with his tongue what is not in his heart." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have not been commanded to split open people's hearts or to cut open their bellies." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) looked at the man as he walked away with his back turned and said: "From the offspring of this man will come a people who will recite the Book of Allah, but it will not go beyond their throats. They will pass out of the religion as an arrow passes through the game." Umarah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I think he (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "If I were to find them, I would kill them as the people of Thamud were killed."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, concerning a man who has intercourse (with his wife) and then wishes to do so again: "Let him perform ablution (wudu)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was bidding farewell to a man, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: "Where do you intend to go?" He said: "I intend to go to Bayt al-Maqdis." At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "One prayer in this mosque of mine is more virtuous than a hundred prayers in other mosques, except al-Masjid al-Haram."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(Fasting) on the day of Eid is not permissible, and no woman should make a journey of three days without a mahram of hers."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Saddles are not to be fastened (for a journey) for the purpose of worship except to three mosques: al-Masjid al-Haram, the mosque of Madinah (the Prophet's Mosque) and al-Masjid al-Aqsa."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The child of fornication, the habitual drinker of wine, the one disobedient to his parents and the one who reminds others of his favours (after doing good) will not enter Paradise."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sayyiduna Hasan and Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) are the leaders of the youth of the people of Paradise, and Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) is the leader of the women of the people of Paradise, except for Maryam bint Imran."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A person in ihram may kill the black snake, the scorpion, the kite, the biting dog and the fuwaysiqah." (The narrator said:) I asked: "What is the fuwaysiqah?" He said: "The mouse." I asked: "What is the matter with the mouse?" He said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) woke up (one night) and (saw that) it had taken the wick (of the lamp) and climbed up with it towards the roof."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that some bitterness arose between Sayyiduna Khalid bin al-Walid and Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with them both), and Sayyiduna Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him) reviled him. At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not revile any of my Companions, for if one of you were to spend gold equal to (Mount) Uhud, he would not reach (the reward of) a single mudd (of charity) of one of them, nor half of it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Paradise and Hell disputed with each other. Hell said: 'In me are the tyrants and the arrogant.' Paradise said: 'In me are the weak and the poor among the people.' So Allah Almighty judged between them, saying: 'You are Paradise, you are My mercy; through you I will have mercy on whomever I will. And you are Hell, you are My punishment; through you I will punish whomever I will. And the filling of both of you is upon Me.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, Nuh (peace be upon him) will be called, and he will say: 'Labbayka wa sa'dayka ya Rabb' (O my Lord, here I am, ever ready at Your service and obedience). Allah Almighty will ask: 'Did you convey (My message)?' He will say: 'O my Lord, yes.' Then his nation will be asked: 'Did he convey (My message) to you?' They will say: 'No warner came to us at all.' Then Allah Almighty will say: 'Who will testify on your behalf?' He will say: 'Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Ummah.' So they (the Ummah of Muhammad) will testify that he did indeed convey the message of truth, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) will be a witness over you. This is what is meant by the saying of Allah Almighty: 'We have made you a just and best nation, so that you may be witnesses over mankind' [Al-Baqarah: 143]." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And 'wasat' (middle) means just (upright and best)."