Musnad of Anas bin Malik

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Paradise has been surrounded by things that are disliked (by the self by nature), while Hell has been surrounded by desires and pleasures."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was passing along a road, and a black woman also passed by there. A man said to her: "The road! (Make way.)" The woman replied: "What road? Enough (be quiet)!" Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Leave her alone, for she is of a very headstrong temperament."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! When will the Hour be established?" When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had completed his prayer, he asked: "Where is the one who asked about the Hour?" The man said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Here I am." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is certainly coming, but what have you prepared for it?" He said: "I have not prepared a great many (voluntary) deeds for it, except that I love Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will be (on the Day of Resurrection) with the one you loved." Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: With him (peace and blessings be upon him) was a boy of the Ansar named Muhammad, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If this boy lives long, he will not reach old age before (your) Hour is established." This narration is taken from the copy (nuskhah) of Abd al-A'la.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! A man loves a group of people but has not done (good) deeds like theirs?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A person will be (on the Day of Resurrection) with the one he loves." Hammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said that it is also mentioned in this hadith: "After accepting Islam, the Muslims were not made as happy by anything as they were on hearing this."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three qualities which, whoever has them, has found the sweetness and delight of faith: (one of them is) the one to whom Allah and His Messenger are dearer than his returning to being a Jew or a Christian."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "A man loves people for the good deeds that they do, while he himself has not managed to do deeds like theirs (so what is his ruling)?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A person will be with the one he loves" or "with the one he has love for." (Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him)) said: The Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (may Allah be pleased with them) were so happy at this that I never saw them as happy at anything else as they were at this.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! When will the Hour be established?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What have you prepared for it (the Hour)?" He said: "The love of Allah and His Messenger." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, you will be with the one you loved." Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said (on hearing this): "I too love Allah and His Messenger."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) observed the continuous fast (wisal: fasting continuously without the pre-dawn meal and breaking the fast) in the blessed month of Ramadan, and some of his (peace and blessings be upon him) Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) also began to observe wisal. Thereupon he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If this month were extended for me, I would observe such a wisal that those who go to extremes would abandon their excessive severity and extremism. As for me, I remain in the state that my Lord feeds me and He gives me to drink."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him): "I brought Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abi Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took him in his lap while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was wearing a cloak and applying tar (a remedy for mange) to one of his camels. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: 'Do you have any dates?' I said: 'Yes.' Then I offered him (peace and blessings be upon him) a few dates, which he (peace and blessings be upon him) put into his blessed mouth and chewed. Then he opened the child's mouth and put that (chewed date) into his mouth, and the child began to lick it with his tongue. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'The love of the Ansar for dates (see it)!' And he (peace and blessings be upon him) named the child Abdullah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My intercession is for those of my nation who will have committed major sins."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever sees me in a dream has truly seen me, for Satan cannot take my form; and the (true) dream of a believer is one of the forty-six parts of prophethood."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The example of the believer is like an ear of grain that sometimes bends (with the gusts of wind) and sometimes stands upright again."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the people of Yemen came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and requested: "Send with us a man who will teach us (the religion)." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) by the hand and sent him with them, and said: "This is the trustworthy one of this nation."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Tonight a son has been born to me, and I have named him Ibrahim, after the name of my forefather Ibrahim (peace be upon him)." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) entrusted him to Umm Sayf, the wife of a blacksmith in Madinah, Abu Sayf. In the narration of Shayban it says: He (peace and blessings be upon him) set out to visit him; and in the narration of Hudbah it says: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) set out to visit him. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I also followed him (peace and blessings be upon him). We reached Abu Sayf while he was blowing into his bellows, and the house had filled with smoke. I went ahead of him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Abu Sayf! The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has come; stop." He (peace and blessings be upon him) called for the child, held him to his chest and said what Allah willed. Then I saw him in the throes of death before him (peace and blessings be upon him). In the narration of Hudbah it says that the eye of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was shedding tears, and in the narration of Shayban that tears flowed from both his (peace and blessings be upon him) eyes. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The eye sheds tears and the heart grieves, but we say only what pleases our Lord. O Ibrahim! By Allah, we are grieved at parting from you." The narration of Shayban has the words "By Allah", while the narration of Hudbah does not have these words.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to like dreams. Sometimes a man would see a dream, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would ask about him if he did not know him; and if he was praised as a good man, he (peace and blessings be upon him) liked his dream all the more. A woman came to him and said: "O Messenger of Allah! I saw (in a dream) as if I was taken and brought out of Madinah, and admitted into Paradise. Then I heard a crash at which Paradise shook. I looked, and there were so-and-so son of so-and-so, and so-and-so son of so-and-so" — she named twelve men; the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had sent out an expedition with that number — "they were brought wearing dark grey garments, with blood gushing from their jugular veins. It was said: Take them to the river of al-Baydhaj" — or: al-Bayrah — "so they were dipped in it, and they came out with faces like the moon on the night of the full moon. Then a golden bowl containing unripe dates was brought to them, and they ate of its dates as much as they wished; whichever side they turned it to, they ate of the fruit whatever they wanted, and I ate with them." Then the bearer of news came from that expedition and said: "Such-and-such happened to us, and so-and-so and so-and-so were slain," until he had counted twelve men. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called the woman and said: "Relate your dream." She related it and began to say: "So-and-so was brought, and so-and-so was brought," just as he had said.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I was given al-Kawthar. I struck its soil with my hand, and it was musk of strong fragrance; its pebbles were pearls, and on both its banks were domes of pearls."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say two or three times: "Istawu" (Straighten up), and along with that he would say: "By the One in whose hand is my soul! I certainly see you from behind me just as I see you in front of me." Humayd (may Allah have mercy on him) added these words in the hadith, that he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: "Istawu wa tarassu" (Straighten up and stand close together, joined to one another).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Two men will come out of Hell and be presented before Allah Almighty, then the command will be given to take them towards Hell." After this the narrator mentioned the rest of the account similar to the hadith of Abd al-Rahman, at the end of which it says: "Then they will enter Paradise."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that a young man from Aslam said: "O Messenger of Allah! I want to go out for jihad, but I have nothing with which to equip myself." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go to so-and-so al-Ansari, for he had equipped himself. Say to him: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) conveys his greeting of peace to you and says to you: Hand over to me what you equipped yourself with." So he went to him, and the man said, I think to his wife: "Do not hold back anything of it from him; by Allah, do not hold back anything of it from him, so that we may be blessed in it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), "when he heard a child crying during the prayer, would recite a short and light surah (to lighten the prayer)." Qatan bin Nusayr al-Ghubari also narrated something similar through Ja'far.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that "the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would take Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) with him when he went out on military expeditions (to the battlefield), and some other women of the Ansar would be with her; they would give water (to the fighters) and treat and bandage the wounded."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "On the day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered Madinah, everything in it became bright and illuminated; then on the day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, everything in it became dark. And we had not yet dusted the earth off our hands after finishing the burial of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when we began to feel that the state of our hearts had changed."

Thabit al-Bunani (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, when a good trait is found in a man, Allah Almighty, through its blessing, sets right all his deeds. And a man's purification and ablution for his prayer is a deed by which Allah Almighty expiates his sins, and his prayer remains for him as a nafl (that is, extra reward)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) met Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "O Abu Dharr, shall I not tell you of two traits which are very light on the back (in terms of burden) but very heavy in the Scale compared to other deeds?" He said: Certainly, O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! (Please tell me.) He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Hold fast to good character and long silence. By the One in whose hand is my soul, the creatures have not adorned themselves with anything like these two."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him): "I left the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) heading to my family, and I passed by some boys. Their play pleased me, so I stood by them. Meanwhile the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came up to me while I was standing by those boys. He (peace and blessings be upon him) greeted the boys with salam, then sent me on an errand of his. I reached my mother later than the time at which I usually returned to her, and my mother asked me: 'My dear son, what delayed you today?' I said: 'The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me on an errand.' She asked: 'What errand was it?' I said: 'Mother, it is a secret.' She said: 'My son, then keep the secret of the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (to yourself).'" Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him): O Abu Hamzah, do you still remember that errand today, or do you keep it in mind? He said: "Indeed I remember it fully, and if I were to tell that secret to anyone, I would surely have told you, O Thabit."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would go out at night with water-skins and give water to the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said on the day of the Battle of Uhud, while wiping the blood from his blessed face: "How can a people prosper who have wounded their Prophet and broken his front teeth (ruba'iyah), while he was calling them to Allah?" Thereupon Allah Almighty revealed this noble verse: "(O Prophet,) you have no say in the decision of this matter; Allah may accept their repentance or punish them, for they are indeed wrongdoers." [Al Imran: 128]

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him (for something), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him a flock of goats filling the area between two mountains. Then the man returned to his people and said: "O my people, accept Islam, for by Allah, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) gives like one who has no fear of poverty and want." And the situation was that a man would come to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) seeking nothing but worldly gain, yet before evening came, the religion would become dearer to him than the world and everything in it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to a man to visit him in his illness and found him in the throes of death. He (peace and blessings be upon him) greeted him with salam and asked: "How do you find yourself?" He said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I feel well; I have hope in Allah, the Mighty and Majestic (for His mercy), and I fear my sins. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When these two things (fear and hope) come together in a person's heart at this juncture (death), Allah Almighty grants him what he hopes for and grants him safety from what he fears." In the chain of this narration, the eminent Successor Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) had a doubt in attributing this narration to Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) (which he expressed with the word 'ahsibuhu' (I think)).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that one day the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to him early in the morning and said: "O Messenger of Allah, by the Lord of the Ka'bah, we are ruined!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What is that?" They said: "Hypocrisy, hypocrisy." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you not testify that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah, alone, with no partner, and that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is His servant and His Messenger?" They said: "Yes (we do testify)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is not hypocrisy." Then they repeated the same thing a second time and said: "O Messenger of Allah, by the Lord of the Ka'bah, we are ruined!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "How so?" They said: "Hypocrisy, hypocrisy." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you not testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the servant and Messenger of Allah?" They said: "Yes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is not hypocrisy." Then they said the same a third time: "O Messenger of Allah, by the Lord of the Ka'bah, we are ruined!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What is the matter?" They said: "Hypocrisy." He (peace and blessings be upon him) again asked: "Do you not testify to the oneness of Allah and the messengership of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)?" They said: "Of course!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is not hypocrisy." Then they said: "The fact is that when we are with you (peace and blessings be upon him), the state of our hearts is something else, but when we leave you (peace and blessings be upon him), the worries of the world and our families occupy us." Thereupon he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If, after leaving me, you remained in the same state you are in when you are with me, the angels would shake hands with you in the streets of Madinah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) liked to break his fast with three dates, or with something that fire had not touched."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that one night the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) delayed the Isha prayer until half the night, then came out and led them in prayer. And the narrator did not mention ablution.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to attack (the enemy) at the time of the Fajr prayer, and (before attacking) he would listen for the adhan; if he heard an adhan (he would hold back), otherwise he would attack. One day he listened attentively and heard a man saying: "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar (Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest)." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(This man is) upon the fitrah (the natural religion)." Then, when the man said: "Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah (I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah)," he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(O caller,) you have come out of the Fire."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "We used to pray the Maghrib prayer with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), then (after finishing the prayer) we would hold archery contests among ourselves, and (enough light would remain that) each of us could clearly see where his arrow fell."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that once at night the iqamah had been called for the Isha prayer when a man said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I have a need." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) stood with that man, talking with him privately, until the people, or some of those present, began to doze. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) stood (to lead) and led the prayer, and the narrator did not mention (renewing) ablution (before the prayer).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him); Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) reported from him a hadith like this (similar in meaning to the previous narration).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that some people of the tribe of Uraynah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the climate of Madinah did not suit them (and they fell ill). "So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent them to the camels of charity (sadaqah) and ordered them to drink their urine and milk."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ate food, he would lick his three blessed fingers, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When a morsel of any of you falls, let him remove the harm (dirt or filth) on it and eat it, and not leave it for Satan." He (peace and blessings be upon him) also ordered us to wipe the bowl clean and said: "Indeed, none of you knows in which part of his food the blessing has been placed for him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that people asked him whether the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had a ring. He said: "Once the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) delayed the Isha prayer so much that half the night passed, or was about to pass. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came and said: 'Indeed the people have prayed, but as long as you have been waiting for the prayer, you have continued to be counted as being in prayer.'" Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "It is as if I am looking (right now) at the gleam of his (peace and blessings be upon him) silver ring." Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) said that while telling this, Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) raised his left hand to show us.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) "went round to all his pure wives (one after another in a single night) and he (peace and blessings be upon him) took only one ritual bath (ghusl) (for all of them)."