Musnad of Abdullah bin Umar

Dawud bin Abi Asim al-Thaqafi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) about the prayer (the number of rak'ahs) at Mina, and he asked me (in reply): "Have you heard of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)?" I said: Yes, and I believe in him (peace and blessings be upon him). At that he said: "Then indeed he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray only two rak'ahs at Mina."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade eating two (dates or the like) together at once (while eating), until you seek permission from your companions (before doing so)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "he kissed the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Let the beards grow and trim the moustaches thoroughly."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man asked him about the blood of a mosquito. He (may Allah be pleased with them both) asked him: "Where are you from?" He said that he was from the people of Iraq. So he (may Allah be pleased with them both) said (to the people, in astonishment): "Just look at this man! He is asking me about the blood of a mosquito, while those people martyred the dear son of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! And I myself heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'They two (al-Hasan and al-Husayn) are my two fragrant flowers of this world.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Muslim, the freed slave of Abd al-Qays (may Allah have mercy on him), said: A man asked Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): "What is your view about the witr prayer; is it a Sunnah?" He said: "What do you mean by Sunnah? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Muslims have prayed witr." The man asked again: "Is it a Sunnah?" So Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said to him: "Do you not have any sense? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Muslims have prayed witr."

It is narrated from Wasi' bin Habban (may Allah have mercy on him) that he was standing praying in the mosque, and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was sitting facing him, with his back leaning against the qiblah wall of the mosque. When Wasi' (may Allah have mercy on him) finished his prayer, he turned away from his left side towards Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and sat down beside him. Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him: "What prevented you from turning away from your right side?" He said: "Nothing, except that I saw you, so I turned towards you (to join your company)." At that Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You did well. In fact, some people say: When you finish your prayer, turn away only from your right side." Then Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said (clarifying the matter): "When you finish your prayer and turn away, you have the choice: if you wish, turn from your right side, and if you wish, from your left." Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) also said: "Some other people say: When one sits to relieve himself, he should face neither the qiblah nor Bayt al-Maqdis. Yet one day I climbed onto the roof of our house and saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) relieving himself." Imam Abu Ya'la has a doubt as to whether (Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said the words): "he (peace and blessings be upon him) was facing Bayt al-Maqdis."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar and Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that they both testified about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him), seated on the pulpit, said: "People must certainly desist from abandoning the Friday prayers, or else Allah will surely set a seal upon their hearts, and they will certainly be among the heedless."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed a prostration in the first rak'ah of the Zuhr prayer, and his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) thought that he (peace and blessings be upon him) had recited Surah Tanzil al-Sajdah." The narrator (Sulayman al-Taymi (may Allah have mercy on him)) said that he did not hear this narration from Abu Mijlaz (may Allah have mercy on him) himself.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not beat your slaves, for you do not know what (outcome or divine reckoning) you are going to face (in their matter)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he saw a freed slave of his, named Yasar, offering voluntary prayer after Fajr (the break of true dawn), so he forbade him from it. Yasar said, "This is just a part of my daily portion of worship that was left over (which I am completing)." Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him, "Why did you not delay it until the sun had risen high and the day had begun?" Then Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said (explaining the real reason for this prohibition), "Once the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us while people were offering (voluntary) prayers after the break of dawn, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'There is no prayer after Fajr except the two rak'ahs (of the Fajr sunnah).'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever hoards food, withholding it for forty nights, has become free of Allah's protection and Allah is free of him; and in whichever settlement or neighbourhood a person wakes up hungry, the protection of Allah has been lifted from its inhabitants."

Mughith bin Sumayy (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) led us in prayer in the early darkness of dawn, while Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) was beside me. When the imam gave the salam, I asked him, "O Abu Abd al-Rahman, what kind of prayer is this?" He said, "We used to offer the prayer at this very time (in the darkness) with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Then, when Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred, Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) began to lead this prayer in full daylight."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to offer four rak'ahs before Asr."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to sleep with the miswak right beside him, and whenever he woke up he would begin first of all with the miswak (for cleanliness)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he came to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) to visit him in his illness, and he said (making a request), "Why do you not pray for me?" Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Indeed, Allah Almighty does not accept any prayer without purification."

It is narrated from Safwan bin Muhriz that a man asked Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): What did you hear from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about the private conversation of the servant with his Lord? He said that he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: "The servant will draw near to his Lord, then Allah Almighty will cover him with His veil and make him confess his deeds, and He will say: You did such and such, did you not? The servant will say: Yes, O my Lord! Then Allah Almighty will say: I concealed these deeds of yours in the world, and today I forgive them for you." Then he will be given the record of his good deeds, and he will say: "Here, read my record!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "As for the hypocrites, it will be proclaimed about them: 'These are the ones who lied against their Lord. Behold, the curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers.'" [Hud: 18]

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Prayer in congregation surpasses the prayer of a person alone by twenty-seven degrees."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us that "In the tribe of Thaqif there will be a kadhdhab (a great liar) and a mubir (a bloodthirsty destroyer)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that one day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged (the people) to jihad, and the people gathered around him so closely that, because of the crowd, he (peace and blessings be upon him) began to feel suffocated. In his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessed hand there was a palm stick from which the thorns had been removed, but one thorn remained which he (peace and blessings be upon him) had not noticed. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Move back from me like this, for you have stifled me." Meanwhile the stick struck a man on the belly and wounded him. The man went out saying, "This is what your Prophet does, so what will ordinary people do?" Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) heard this and said to him, "Come to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). If he really did wound you, he will certainly give you your right (retaliation) from himself; and if you have lied, I will bind you with your turban so tightly that you will lose your senses." The man said, "Go in peace; I do not want to go with you." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "I will never let you go." So Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) took him and came to the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, "This man claims that you struck him and wounded his belly; what is your view on this?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked, "Is it true that I struck him?" The man said, "Yes, O Prophet of Allah!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked, "Did anyone see this?" He said, "A group of Muslims was present here." He (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed: "O Allah, I adjure by You every man who saw this to inform me." Then some of the Muslims said, "O Messenger of Allah, you did wound him, but you did not intend it." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the man, "Take wealth in return for the wound I gave you, and go." He said, "No." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Then forgive it for me." He said, "I will not do that." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked, "Then what do you want?" He said, "O Prophet of Allah, I want to take retaliation (qisas) from you." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Very well." The man said to him that he should come out from among these people, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) came out from among them, handed the man the stick so that he could take retaliation, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) uncovered his blessed belly. At that moment Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came forward to hold the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from behind, and (out of intense love and anxiety) he began to say, "Spare us this hard moment; your sandal has slipped and your teeth have been broken (meaning: we cannot bear to see you in hardship)." When the man came close to strike the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with the stick, he threw the stick away and kissed his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessed navel, and said, "O Prophet of Allah, this is what I intended, so that after you we may subdue the tyrants." Seeing this, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "Indeed, you have proven firmer in deed than me."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you place your dead in the lahd (niche) of the grave, say: 'Bismillahi wa 'ala sunnati Rasulillah' (In the name of Allah and upon the sunnah (way) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him))."

Abu Mijlaz (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) about the witr, and he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "(Witr) is one rak'ah offered in the last part of the night."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) (that he said): I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "One rak'ah (offered) in the last part of the night (is the witr prayer)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to his bed to sleep, he used to supplicate: 'Alhamdu lillahil-ladhi kafani wa awani wa at'amani wa saqani, wal-ladhi manna 'alayya wa afdal, wal-ladhi a'tani wa ajzal, alhamdu lillahi 'ala kulli hal, alhamdu lillahi rabbi kulli shay'in, wa maliki kulli shay'in, wa ilahi kulli shay'in, wa laka kullu shay'in, a'udhu bika minan-nar' (All praise is for Allah, who sufficed me, gave me shelter, fed me and gave me drink; the One who bestowed favour upon me and was generous, and who gave to me and gave abundantly. All praise is for Allah in every state. All praise is for Allah, the Lord of everything, the true Sovereign of everything and the true God of everything; and, O Allah, everything belongs to You. I seek refuge with You from the punishment of the Fire).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about a woman who sees in her sleep what a man sees (that is, a wet dream). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: "When a woman sees such a thing in a dream and has a discharge, she should take a ritual bath (ghusl)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, "My servant treats me badly and wrongs me; shall I punish (beat) him?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Forgive him seventy times every day."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) performed tawaf on his mount on the day of the Conquest of Makkah, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) had with him a staff with a crooked head with which he (peace and blessings be upon him) was touching the corners of the Ka'bah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever swears an oath about something and then finds something else (that is, something better than it), the expiation of that oath is simply to abandon it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The most compassionate of my ummah towards my ummah is Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him); the sternest of them in the matter of Allah's religion is Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him); the one with the most complete modesty is Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him); the best of them in judging is Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him); the greatest expert in the science of inheritance shares is Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); the most knowledgeable of them about the lawful and the unlawful is Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him); the best reciter of the Qur'an is Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him); and indeed every ummah has a trustee, and the trustee of this ummah is Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him)."

It is narrated from Wasi' bin Habban (may Allah have mercy on him) that he asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He said that whenever he (peace and blessings be upon him) went down and whenever he rose (during the prayer), he would say 'Allahu akbar' (Allah is the Greatest). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would end the prayer by saying to his right 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' (Peace and the mercy of Allah be upon you), and to his left as well 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' (Peace and the mercy of Allah be upon you).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar and Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that they both heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say on the wooden steps of his pulpit: "People must certainly stop abandoning the Friday prayers, or else Allah Almighty will seal their hearts, and then they will surely be among the heedless."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar and Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said something similar in meaning to the narration of Isma'il bin Ibrahim; technically, this hadith is like the hadith narrated by Isma'il bin Ibrahim.

Ali bin Abd al-Rahman al-Mu'awi (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: I prayed beside Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), and I began turning the pebbles over (during the prayer). He said, "Do not turn the pebbles over, for playing with the pebbles is from Satan. Rather, do as I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) doing." I said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman, how did you see him (peace and blessings be upon him) doing it? He replied, "Like this," and he placed his left hand on his left thigh and his right hand on his right thigh, and pointed with the finger next to the thumb. Muslim (bin Abi Maryam) (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It has reached us that this is a means of driving Satan away, and that while a person is pointing with his hand like this, no (devil) can remain present with him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to offer the night prayer two rak'ahs at a time and make the witr with one rak'ah, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) also used to offer two rak'ahs before the morning prayer (Fajr)."

Anas bin Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): Should I lengthen the recitation in the two rak'ahs before Fajr? He said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to offer the night prayer two rak'ahs at a time and offer the witr as one rak'ah. I said: That is not what I am asking you. He said: You are very impatient! Will you not let me narrate the whole hadith to you? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to offer the night prayer two rak'ahs at a time, offer the witr as one rak'ah, and then offer two rak'ahs before Fajr as though the adhan were in his ears.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): How should the night prayer be offered? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Two rak'ahs at a time; and when you fear the arrival of dawn, pray one rak'ah, and make the last of your prayer witr." Then, when a year had passed, he asked him (peace and blessings be upon him) again. Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I was at that same place with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) then too, and I do not know whether it was the same man or someone else. He (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him the same answer.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he offered those two prayers with a single iqamah, and said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did it like this at this very place."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) "conducted li'an (mutual cursing) between a woman and her husband and separated the two of them." Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated this from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) with a meaning like the hadith of Ubaydullah from Nafi'.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) besieged the people of Ta'if but could not gain anything (in the way of victory) from them, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If Allah wills, we shall now return." At this the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: Shall we go back without achieving victory? So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to them: "Very well, then set out early in the morning to fight." So they set out early in the morning to fight, but they suffered many wounds. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "We shall set off back tomorrow." The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) were very pleased with this, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) smiled (on seeing their state).

Ziyad bin Subayh al-Hanafi (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: I was standing in prayer facing the House (the Ka'bah), and an elderly man was beside me. I lengthened the prayer and placed my hand on my waist. At this the elderly man struck me on the chest with his hand with full force. I said to myself: What did he dislike about me? So I quickly finished my prayer, and I saw a servant sitting behind the elderly man. I asked him: Who is this elderly man? He said: This is Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both). Then I remained seated there until he had finished his prayer, and I said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman, what did you dislike about me? He asked, "Are you the one (who did that)?" I said: Yes. He said, "That was standing in the prayer like one being crucified (with the hands on the waist), and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to forbid it."