Musnad of Jabir

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) met the representatives (nuqaba') of the Ansar, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to them: "You will give me refuge and protect me." They said: (In return for this devotion,) what will we get? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "For you is Paradise."

Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that "the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was delivering the sermon standing on a Friday, when a trade caravan arrived from Syria. The people turned (out of the mosque) towards it until only twelve men remained. Then this blessed verse of Surah al-Jumu'ah was revealed: 'And when they see some trade or amusement, they rush to it and leave you standing.' [Al-Jumu'ah: 11]"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever has eaten any of this garlic, onion or leek (a vegetable resembling spring onion), let him not come near us at all."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade "combining (in marriage) a woman with her paternal aunt, or a woman with her maternal aunt."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When any of you has been away (from home) for a long time, he should not come to his family suddenly at night."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that fever came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked his permission to come in. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who are you?" It said: "I am Umm Mildam (fever)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Can you find your way to the people of Quba?" It said: "Yes." So the fever went to them and seized them, and they suffered great hardship because of it. Then they complained to him (peace and blessings be upon him) about it and said: "O Messenger of Allah! We have suffered severely from this fever." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If you wish, I will supplicate to Allah Almighty and He will remove it from you; and if you wish, it will become a means of purification from sins for you." They said: "No, rather let it remain a means of purification and of reward for us."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Harshness and hardness of hearts are towards the east, in the tribes of Rabi'ah and Mudar, while faith is found among the people of the Hijaz."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "People follow Quraysh in good and in evil (in both matters)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Indeed, when Satan hears the call to prayer (the adhan), he runs so far away (out of fear) that he reaches the place al-Rawha'." Sulayman (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: I asked about al-Rawha', and he told me: "This place lies at a distance of thirty-seven miles from Madinah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that "the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) rode a horse in Madinah, and it threw him onto the stump of a date palm, so that the bone of his foot (peace and blessings be upon him) was dislocated. We came to visit him in his illness and found him in an upper room belonging to Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), offering a voluntary prayer sitting. We stood behind him (for prayer), and he said nothing to us. Then we came to him on another occasion and found him leading the obligatory prayer. We stood behind him, and he signalled to us (to sit), so we sat. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished the prayer, he said: 'When the imam prays sitting, then you too pray sitting, and when he prays standing, then you too pray standing, and do not do as the people of Persia do with their great ones (who sit while the people stand before them with folded hands).'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "We came (to Makkah) with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). We performed tawaf of the House and (having completed Umrah) came out of ihram. Then when we reached al-Batha', he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered us to enter ihram for Hajj. (Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him)) relates that at this some people said (in surprise): 'Shall we enter ihram for Hajj when only yesterday we were with our wives?' The narrator says that there was some murmuring among the people about this, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Had I known that the people would do this (hesitate), I would not have brought the sacrificial animal (hady) with me.' And he (peace and blessings be upon him) also said to us: 'Let a group of people share in (one) sacrificial animal.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that we were returning from Makkah to Madinah with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). My camel became exhausted, so I fell behind, driving it along. the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was at the rear of the caravan because of some need. He caught up with me and asked: "Why have you fallen behind?" I said: O Messenger of Allah! My camel has become exhausted and started limping, and I am trying to bring it up to the caravan. The narrator says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took hold of its tail, struck it, and then urged it on with a shout, and said: "Now mount." After that I found myself holding that camel back from getting ahead of the people. Then we stopped at a place near Madinah, and I wanted to hurry to my family, whereupon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Do not go to your family (suddenly) at night." I said: O Messenger of Allah! I have only recently married. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Whom have you married?" I said: A previously married woman. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why did you not marry a virgin girl, so that you could play with her and she could play with you?" I said: (My father) Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) died, or was martyred, and left my sisters behind, so I disliked bringing them a young girl just like them. At this he (peace and blessings be upon him) remained silent and said to me neither 'well done' nor 'you did wrong'. Then he said to me: "Sell me this camel of yours." I said: No, rather, O Messenger of Allah, it is yours. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, rather sell it to me." I said again: No, rather it is yours. But he (peace and blessings be upon him) said again: "No, sell it to me." I said: I owe a man one uqiyah of gold; so for that price the camel is yours. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have bought it; now ride it until you reach Madinah." When I reached Madinah, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him): "Give him one uqiyah of gold and give him something extra as well." He gave me one uqiyah of gold and added a qirat. I said to myself: This extra given by the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) will never part from me. So it remained safe with me in a purse until, on the day of al-Harrah, the people of Syria seized it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "If the son of Adam had an orchard of date palms, he would wish for another one like it alongside it; and nothing fills the belly of the son of Adam except dust."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that a slave of Sayyiduna Hatib (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Hatib will surely enter Hell." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You have spoken falsely. Did he not attend (the Battle of) Badr and (the Pledge of) al-Hudaybiyah?"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Every servant will be raised up (on the Day of Resurrection) in the very state in which he died."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The food of one man suffices for two, the food of two men suffices for four, and the food of four suffices for eight."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When one of you eats, let him lick his fingers, for you do not know in which part of the food the blessing descends."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Satan is present with you in all your affairs, so much so that he is present even when you eat and drink. So when a morsel of any of you falls, let him pick it up, clean off whatever dirt or soil has got on it, and then eat it, and not leave it for Satan."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever fears that he will not wake up in the last part of the night, let him pray witr in the first part of the night and then sleep. And whoever has strong hope that he will wake up in the last part of the night, let him pray witr in the last part of the night, for the recitation in the last part of the night is attended (by the angels), and that is more virtuous."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Indeed, the people of Paradise will eat and drink in it, but there they will not spit, nor urinate, nor blow their noses, nor relieve themselves." (The narrator said:) It was asked: "Then what will become of the food?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(It will leave the body) as a belch and as sweat like the fragrance of musk. And they (the people of Paradise) will be inspired with glorification (tasbih) and praise (tahmid) just as you are inspired to breathe (that is, this remembrance will be as natural and constant for them as food and breath)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), three days before his death, say: "Let none of you die except while thinking well of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "At the time of (the Truce of) al-Hudaybiyah we did not pledge allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) unto death; rather, we pledged allegiance to him (peace and blessings be upon him) that we would not flee from the battlefield. Jadd bin Qays, however, was an exception, for he had hidden himself in the shelter of his camel."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Indeed, the throne of Iblis is (set up) upon the sea, from where he sends out his troops to put people to trial and temptation. The one of these agents who is closest to Iblis and of the highest rank with him is the one who is greatest in stirring up trials (fitnah)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from the Ansar came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! I have a slave girl with whom I practise withdrawal ('azl)." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whatever has been decreed for her will surely reach her." Then, some time later, the man came again and said: "O Messenger of Allah! The slave girl has become pregnant." At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whatever soul Allah Almighty has decreed to come into being will certainly come into existence."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Indeed, in the night there is an hour such that no Muslim man finds it, asking Allah Almighty at that time for any good of this world and the Hereafter, except that Allah Almighty certainly grants it to him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that there was a woman with the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who had with her a child whose nostrils were dripping with blood. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came in and asked: "What is the matter with this child?" She said that he had 'udhrah (a throat ailment). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to you, O company of women! Do not kill your children. Any woman whose child has 'udhrah or pain in his head should take Indian costus (qust hindi), grind it, and then put it (as medicine) into his nose." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and she did that with the child, and he recovered.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: A maternal uncle of mine from the Ansar used to perform ruqyah (recite over people) for snakebite. Then, when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade ruqyah in general, my uncle came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! You have forbidden ruqyah, while I perform ruqyah for snake venom." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Present those words to me." The narrator said: He presented the words to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no harm in this (ruqyah); this is one of the formulas of covenant (mawathiq)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from the Ansar used to perform ruqyah (recite over people) for scorpion stings. Then, when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade ruqyah, that man came and said: "O Messenger of Allah! You have forbidden ruqyah, while I used to perform ruqyah for scorpion venom." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever among you is able to benefit his brother, let him certainly do so."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that a son was born to a man among us, and he named him 'Muhammad'. At this his people said to him: "We will not let you name him after the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." So the man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), carrying his son on his back, and said: "O Messenger of Allah! A son was born to me and I named him 'Muhammad', but my people have told me that they will not let me name him after you." At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Name (your children) with my name, but do not take my kunyah, for I am only a distributor (Qasim); I distribute among you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: "I used to pray the Zuhr prayer with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and (because of the heat of the ground) I would take a handful of pebbles and hold them in my palms, then keep moving them from one palm to the other until they cooled, and then, because of the intensity of the heat, I would place them under my forehead in order to prostrate."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "In the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) we did not kill the merchants of the polytheists."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade thunya in a sale (that is, excluding some portion of the thing sold for oneself), except when that (excluded portion) is (fully) known and specified.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade (taking) the price of a dog and a cat, except for a trained hunting dog.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent us (on an expedition) with an army of six hundred men under the command of Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him), and we had nothing with us except a bag of dates. He said: We divided the dates among ourselves, and each man got five or seven dates. We kept eating them until, when hunger struck us, we began sucking the date stones. Then, when the hunger grew severe, we reached the seashore, and there lay a creature (an ambergris whale) like a huge sand dune, from which the water had receded. Some of us said: "Shall we eat it, when it is carrion?" Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You are fighters in the path of Allah; eat it, there is no harm in it." So we ate from it, salted some of it to preserve it, and also took some along as provisions. When we came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned the incident to him (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no harm in it. Does any of you have some of it left, so that he may feed me too?" He said: We said to one another: "Yes (there is some)." So we sent some of it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when (my father) Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin Haram (may Allah be pleased with him) died, or was martyred (at the Battle of Uhud), he was burdened with debt. I appealed to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to intercede with his creditors so that they would waive part of the debt. I also asked them myself, but they would not agree. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Go and separate your dates according to their kinds: a pile of 'ajwah on its own and of 'adhq zayd on its own, and then let me know." Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I did so, and then sent for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) came and sat on top of the dates, or in the middle of them, and then said: "Now begin measuring out for these people." I measured out for them until I had paid them their full due, and even then my dates remained just as they were, as if nothing had been taken from them.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no living soul on the face of the earth at this time upon which a hundred years will pass."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Name (your children) with my name, but do not take my kunyah, for I have only been made a distributor (Qasim), distributing (gifts and blessings) among you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Name (your children) with my name, but do not take my kunyah, for I have only been made a distributor (Qasim), distributing (gifts and blessings) among you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "We used to pray the Friday prayer with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), then we would return and rest our water-carrying camels." Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked Ja'far (may Allah have mercy on him): "What time was that?" He replied: "The time of the sun's declining (zawal)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever believes in Allah Almighty and the Last Day, let him not enter the (public) bathhouse without a waist-wrapper; whoever believes in Allah Almighty and the Last Day, let him not take his wife into the bathhouse; and whoever believes in Allah Almighty and the Last Day, let him not sit and eat at a table at which wine is being drunk."