Musnad of Abdullah bin Mas'ud

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite (this verse of Surah al-Qamar) thus: "Fahal min muddakir" (So is there anyone who will take heed?) [Al-Qamar: 15].

It is narrated from Sayyidah Salma bint Jabir (may Allah be pleased with her) that her husband was martyred, so she came to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "O Abu Abd al-Rahman! My husband has been martyred, and now I am receiving proposals of marriage from (other) men. Do you hope that if Allah Almighty unites me and him in Paradise, I will be his wife there?" He said: "Yes." At this some of the people present said: "O Abu Abd al-Rahman! We have not seen you do this (that is, give such hope) for any woman other than this one." He said: "Indeed, I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'The first of my Ummah to join me in Paradise will be a woman from (the tribe of) Ahmas.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that we said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), which deeds are most beloved to Allah Almighty?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your offering the prayers at their appointed times." He said: Then which deed? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then kindness to parents." He said: Then which? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then striving (jihad) in the path of Allah." Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If I had asked him (peace and blessings be upon him) for more, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would have told me more deeds as well.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He will not enter the Fire in whose heart there is faith even to the weight of a mustard seed, and he will not enter Paradise in whose heart there is arrogance even to the weight of a mustard seed."

Abd al-Wahid bin Ghiyath (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated to us; he said: Abd al-Aziz bin Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) also narrated to us the like of this (previous report).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Fighting a believer is disbelief, and abusing him is sinfulness (fusuq)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught me to recite (this verse of Surah al-Dhariyat) thus: "Inni ana al-Razzaqu dhu al-quwwati al-matin", meaning: "Indeed, it is I who am the Provider, the Possessor of strength, the Firm."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying the takbir (during the prayer) every time he bowed down, rose up and stood up, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would give the salam to his right and to his left, saying: 'As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah' (Peace and the mercy of Allah be upon you, peace and the mercy of Allah be upon you), until I could see the whiteness of his (peace and blessings be upon him) cheeks. And I saw Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) also (praying) in the same way."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said concerning those people who stay away from the Friday prayer: "Indeed, I firmly intended to order a man to lead the people in prayer, and then to set fire to the houses of those men who do not attend the Friday prayer, with them inside."

Abu Ishaq (may Allah have mercy on him) relates that it was not Abu Ubaydah (may Allah have mercy on him) who mentioned it, but Abd al-Rahman bin al-Aswad (may Allah have mercy on him), and I think he narrated it from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went to relieve himself and ordered me to bring him three stones for cleaning himself (istinja). I found two stones but could not find the third, so I picked up a dry piece of dung and brought them all to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) took the two stones, threw away the dung and said: 'This is filth (riks).'"

Abu Ishaq al-Shaybani (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: I came to Zirr bin Hubaysh (may Allah have mercy on him), and love for him arose in my heart. Some young men were sitting with him, and they said to me: Ask him about this verse: "And he was at a distance of two bow-lengths or nearer". So I asked him, and he said that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Indeed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw Jibril (peace be upon him) (in his original form), and he had six hundred wings."

It is narrated from Amr bin Maymun (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated to them that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Some people will remain in Hell for as long as Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, wills; then Allah Almighty will have mercy on them, and they will be in the lowest level of Paradise. They will be washed in the 'River of Life', and the people of Paradise will call them by the title 'the Jahannamiyyun' (the people of Hell). If any one of them (a dweller of the lowest level of Paradise) were to host the entire world, he could feed them all, give them drink, spread beds for them and provide them with quilts (the narrator said: I think he (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: and he could marry them all off), and this hospitality would not diminish his own blessings in the slightest."

Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "One night we were engaged in conversation with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) until we had talked a great deal; then we returned to our homes. When we came again to the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in the morning, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Last night all the prophets were presented to me with their nations and followers. A prophet would pass by with only three people of his nation with him; a prophet would pass by with a small group; another with a few people; another with only one man; and a prophet would also pass by with not a single person of his people with him. And Allah Almighty has informed you about Sayyiduna Lut (peace be upon him), that he said: "Is there not a single right-minded man among you?"' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Until Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) passed by me with a large company of the Children of Israel. When I saw them, they pleased me greatly. I asked: Who are these? I was told: This is your brother Musa bin Imran (peace be upon him) and those of the Children of Israel who follow him. I said: O my Lord! Where is my Ummah? Allah Almighty said: Look to your right. I looked, and the hills of Makkah were covered with the faces of men. I said: O my Lord! Who are these? He said: This is your Ummah. Then I was asked: Are you pleased? I said: O my Lord! I am pleased. Then I was told: Look to your left, towards the horizon. And there too the horizon was filled with human heads. It was said: Among these are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning.' Hearing this, Sayyiduna Ukkashah bin Mihsan (may Allah be pleased with him), the brother of Banu Asad bin Khuzaymah, stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah! Pray to Allah to include me among them. He (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated: 'Allahumma ij'alhu minhum' (O Allah, make him one of them). Then another man stood up, and the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Ukkashah has preceded you.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) further said that day: 'I hope that those of my Ummah who follow me will be a quarter of the people of Paradise.' We raised the cry of takbir. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'I hope that you will be a third.' We again said the takbir. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'I hope that you will be half.' Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse: "A large company from the earlier ones and a large company from the later ones." The narrator relates that some of the believers discussed this among themselves and said: What do you think the deeds of these seventy thousand will be, who will enter Paradise without reckoning? Until they formed the opinion that they would be people who were born in Islam and died upon it. When this reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'It is not so; rather, they are those who do not have themselves cauterized (for illness), do not seek ruqyah (incantation), do not take evil omens, and put their trust in their Lord.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) also said that day: 'If you are able (may my father and mother be sacrificed for you), then strive to be among the seventy thousand; if you are unable and fall short of that, then be among the people of the hills; and if you are unable even of that, then be among the people of the horizon, for I saw people there in very great numbers.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "All the nations were presented to me in the season (of Hajj, or at a general gathering), and I saw my Ummah; then I looked at them (again, carefully), and their great number and their appearance pleased me greatly, for they had filled the plain and the mountain (everywhere). Then Allah Almighty asked: 'O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), are you pleased?' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I said: 'Yes.' Then Allah Almighty said: 'Among these people are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning; they are those who do not seek ruqyah, do not seek treatment by cauterization with fire, and put their trust in their Lord alone.'" Then Sayyiduna Ukkashah bin Mihsan (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Pray to Allah Almighty to include me among them. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed for him. Then another man stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Pray to Allah to include me among them too. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ukkashah has preceded you in this."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he related: "I heard a man reciting a verse of the Noble Qur'an differently from how I had heard it from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so I took him by the hand and came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Both of you are right.'" Imam Shu'bah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I think he (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "Do not dispute among yourselves, for those before you perished only because they disputed (about the Book of Allah)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection a banner will be raised for every treacherous person, and it will be said (to make it known): This is the treachery of so-and-so."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "In an orchard I did with a woman (in privacy) everything that a man does with a woman, except that I did not have intercourse with her. Now decree concerning me whatever you wish (so that it may be an expiation for me)." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said nothing to him, and the man went away. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) called him back and recited this noble verse to him: "And establish the prayer at the two ends of the day and in some hours of the night. Indeed, good deeds remove evil deeds. That is a reminder for those who remember." [Hud: 114]

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who consumes usury (riba), the one who pays it, its two witnesses and its scribe (the one who writes the document)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Indeed, this companion of yours (meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) himself) is the Khalil (intimate friend) of Allah Almighty."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A Muslim fighting his Muslim brother is disbelief (kufr), and abusing him is fisq (sin and disobedience)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught me the tashahhud with my hand between his (peace and blessings be upon him) two palms, just as he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to teach me a surah of the Qur'an: 'At-tahiyyatu lillahi was-salawatu wat-tayyibat, as-salamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, as-salamu 'alayna wa 'ala 'ibadillahis-salihin, ashhadu an la ilaha illallah, wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasuluh' (All verbal, bodily and financial acts of worship are for Allah alone. Peace be upon you, O Prophet, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Peace be upon us and upon all the righteous servants of Allah. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is His servant and His Messenger)." Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "These (words) were while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was present among us; then, when his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessed soul was taken, we began to say: 'As-salamu 'alan-nabiyy (peace and blessings be upon him)' (Peace be upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him))."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Usury (riba), however much it may (apparently) increase, its final outcome is nothing but scarcity and (loss of blessing)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), in a marfu' form (attributed to the Prophet), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Usury (riba), however much it may (apparently) increase, its final outcome surely ends in scarcity and decrease."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who consumes usury (riba), the one who pays it, the woman who attaches hair extensions (artificial hair), the woman who has them attached, and the one who performs halalah and the one for whom halalah is performed."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "On the day of the Battle of the Trench (Khandaq), the polytheists kept the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) occupied from four prayers until as much of the night had passed as Allah willed. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him), and he gave the adhan; then he gave the iqamah and he (peace and blessings be upon him) led the Zuhr prayer; then he gave the iqamah and he led the Asr prayer; then he gave the iqamah and he led the Maghrib prayer; and then he gave the iqamah and he performed the Isha prayer."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any Muslim couple whose three children die (before reaching maturity), they will become a strong fortress for them protecting them from the Fire of Hell." We said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and if they are two?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if they are only two." Then Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I have sent ahead (in my life) only two children?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if they are only two." Then the leader of the reciters, Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him), said: "I have sent ahead only one child?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if it is only one." Along with this, he (peace and blessings be upon him) also made clear: "Indeed, this matter (of reward) depends on (patience) at the very beginning of the shock."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led us in the fear prayer (salat al-khawf). The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) divided into two rows; one row stood behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the other row stood facing the enemy. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led the row next to him in one rak'ah; then they stood up and went and took the place of the group guarding in front of the enemy, while that other group came (for the prayer) in their place. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led them in one rak'ah and gave the salam. Then those people stood up and prayed their remaining one rak'ah individually and gave the salam; then they too went to face the enemy, and the first people returned to their place and completed their remaining one rak'ah themselves and then gave the salam."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) enforced the prescribed punishment of cutting off the hand for (theft of) something worth five dirhams."

It is narrated from Zirr (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A black slave joined the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and then he died. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked (the Companions): "Look, has he left anything (as inheritance)?" They said: "He has left two dinars." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(These are) two brands (of the Fire of Hell)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Your permission to come to me is that you lift the curtain (without hesitation) and listen to my private, confidential talk, until I forbid you (on some particular occasion)." Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The Arabic word "al-siwad" means "al-sirar", that is, whispering and confidential talk.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The sign of your permission to come to me is that you move the curtain aside."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked us: "How would it be for you if you were a quarter of the people of Paradise, that is, a quarter of Paradise were yours and three quarters were for all the rest of the people?" The narrator said: The Companions said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked again: "And how would it be for you if you became a third of the people of Paradise?" The Companions said: "That would be a matter of great good and blessing." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked again: "And how would it be if you were half of the people of Paradise?" They said: "That would be a matter of very great good." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection the people of Paradise will be one hundred and twenty rows in all, of which eighty rows will be yours alone."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "On the day of Badr, every three of us were assigned to one camel (to ride in turns). Sayyiduna Abu Lubabah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) were the travelling companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), sharing his mount. He said: When it was the turn of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to walk, the two of them would say: 'We will walk in your place.' And he (peace and blessings be upon him) would say: 'You two are not stronger than me, nor am I more independent of the reward than you two.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), concerning this verse of the Qur'an: "And he certainly saw him in another descent", that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw Jibril (peace be upon him) at the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary (Sidrat al-Muntaha). He had six hundred wings, and from his feathers were scattering most wondrous and many-coloured things, that is, pearls and rubies."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Our Lord, the Blessed and Exalted, is amazed (and pleased) with two men: one is a man who rose from his blanket and his bed, from among his family and his relatives, and stood for prayer. Allah Almighty says to His angels: 'O My angels, look at this servant of Mine; he has risen from his bed and his blanket, from among his family and his loved ones, and stood for prayer out of desire for what is with Me (of reward) and out of fear of what is with Me (of punishment).' And the other is a man who fought in the way of Allah, then his companions fled (from the battlefield), but he knew how grave the consequence of fleeing the field is and how great the reward of turning back to fight is; so he returned (towards the enemy) until his blood was shed (that is, he was martyred). Then Allah Almighty says to His angels: 'Look at this servant of Mine who turned back out of desire for what is with Me (of reward) and out of fear of what is with Me (of punishment).'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) a hadith "like it or similar in meaning to it".

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say: "Lying is not permissible in any form, neither in seriousness nor in jest, nor is it proper that a man should promise someone something and then not fulfil it." He also related that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said to us: "Shall I not tell you what 'adh' is? It is tale-bearing (namimah), that is, carrying talk back and forth among people to create discord." And (he related that) Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man keeps on telling the truth until he is recorded with Allah as a siddiq (truthful one), and a man keeps on lying until he is recorded with Allah as a kadhdhab (liar). Do you not see that about the truthful one it is said: 'He spoke the truth and did good', and about the liar it is said: 'He lied and sinned'? Indeed, truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise, and lying leads to sin and sin leads to Hell."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The two eyes commit zina, the two hands commit zina, the two feet commit zina, and the private part commits zina."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he was picking a tooth-stick (miswak) for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from an arak (peelu) tree. His body was so frail that the wind was swaying him to and fro, and his shins were very thin, at which the people laughed. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What are you laughing at?" The people said: "At the thinness of his shins." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, these two (shins) are heavier in the Scale than Mount Uhud."

Ibn Udhunan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I lent Alqamah (may Allah have mercy on him) two thousand dirhams. Then when his (state) stipend came out, I demanded of him: "Repay my loan." He said: "Give me respite until next year." But I was strict with him and took my money from him. After that, when I came to him again, he said (in a tone of complaint): "You were very hard on me and refused to give me respite." I said: "Yes, this is a practice you yourself taught." He asked: "What have I to do with it?" I said: "It was you who narrated this hadith to me through Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Indeed, giving a loan is (in reward) equal to giving half of it in charity.'" Alqamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Yes, it is exactly so." So I said: "(If that is the case,) now take this money again as a loan."