Musnad of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said the takbir (al-tahrimah) for the prayer, he would remain silent for a short while before beginning the recitation. I said: "O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be ransomed for you, what is the secret of your silence between the takbir and the recitation, and what do you recite during it?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I say: 'Allahumma ba'id bayni wa bayna khatayaya kama ba'adta bayna al-mashriqi wa al-maghrib, Allahumma naqqini min khatayaya kama yunaqqa al-thawbu al-abyadu min al-danas, Allahumma ighsilni min khatayaya bi al-ma'i wa al-thalji wa al-barad' (O Allah, put a distance between me and my sins as You have put a distance between the East and the West; O Allah, cleanse me of my sins as a white garment is cleansed of dirt; O Allah, wash away my sins with water, snow and hail)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, who among people has the greatest right to my good treatment and good companionship?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your mother." He said: "Then who?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your mother." He asked again: "Then who?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your mother." He asked a fourth time: "Then who?" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then your father."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with a camel loaded on his neck, groaning, and that person crying out: O Messenger of Allah! (Help me), and I will reply: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I had conveyed (the message of Allah) to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with a goat loaded on his neck, bleating, and he calls out: O Messenger of Allah! And I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I had conveyed it to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with a horse loaded on his neck, neighing, and he says: O Messenger of Allah! And I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I had conveyed it to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with a human being on his neck, screaming, and he says: O Messenger of Allah! And I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I had conveyed it to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with gold and silver (silent wealth) loaded on his neck, and he says: O Messenger of Allah! And I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I had conveyed it to you. And let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection with pieces of cloth on his neck, fluttering, and he says: O Messenger of Allah! And I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I had conveyed it to you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first group to enter Paradise will be like the moon on the night of the full moon (in beauty), and those who come after them will shine like the brightest and most radiant star in the sky. They will neither urinate, nor defecate, nor blow their noses there. Their combs will be of gold, their sweat will be fragrant like musk, the fuel of their censers will be fine fragrant aloeswood, and their wives will be the wide-eyed houris. All of them will have the same character and habits, and they will be in the form of their father, Sayyiduna Adam (peace be upon him), whose height was sixty cubits towards the sky."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until the sun rises from its place of setting. So when the sun rises and people see it, all the people on the face of the earth will believe, but that will be the time when no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before, or had not done any good deed in the state of its faith."

Abu Zur'ah (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) and I entered a house in Madinah that was being built for Sa'id or Marwan. Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) performed ablution and washed his hands up to his armpits and his feet up to his knees. I said: "O Abu Hurayrah, what is this?" He said: "This is where the adornment (of ablution on the Day of Resurrection) reaches." Abu Zur'ah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Then he saw a painter making pictures in that house, and he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty says: Who is more unjust than one who sets out to create like My creation? Let them create a grain, let them create an atom."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever asks people for their wealth merely to increase his own riches is in fact asking for embers (of Hell); now it is up to him whether he gathers a little of it or a lot."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said three times: "Beware of wisal (that is, fasting continuously without breaking the fast)." The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: O Messenger of Allah, but you yourself (peace and blessings be upon him) practise wisal? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are not like me in this matter; I spend (the night in such a state) that my Lord feeds me and gives me drink. So take on only those deeds which you are able to bear."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), here is Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) coming to you with a vessel containing curry, food or something to drink. So when she reaches you, convey to her greetings of peace from her Lord, and give her the glad tidings of a palace of pearls in Paradise in which there will be neither noise nor toil and fatigue."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The cat is a beast of prey."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a woman came (to the Prophet) with a child of hers and said: "O Prophet of Allah, supplicate to Allah Almighty (for the safety of this child), for I have already buried three of my children." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked (in astonishment): "Have you buried three children?" She said: "Yes." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You have certainly taken shelter behind a strong wall of protection from the Fire of Hell."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (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 (peace and blessings be upon him), tell me who among people has the greatest right to my good treatment?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, by your father, you shall certainly be told: your mother." He said: "Then who?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then your mother." He said: "Then who?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then your mother." He asked again: "Then who?" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then your father." The man said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), tell me about the wealth which I should give in charity?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, by Allah, you shall certainly be informed: give charity while you are healthy, eager to hold on to wealth, hoping for a long life and fearing poverty; and do not delay in this matter until, when your soul reaches here and here (the throat), you start saying: So much of my wealth is for so-and-so, and so much is for so-and-so, when by then that wealth has already become theirs (the heirs'), even if you dislike it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The destruction of my Ummah will be at the hands of this clan of Quraysh." The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: Then what do you command us to do in such a situation? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If only the people would keep away from them."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Who among people has the most right to my good treatment and good companionship?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your mother, then your father, then the one who is closest to you, and then the one who is next closest (in kinship)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, a man has a particular high rank (decreed) for him with Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, which he does not attain through his deeds alone; so Allah Almighty continues to try him with disliked trials and hardships until He brings him to that lofty rank."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are two phrases that are very light on the tongue, greatly beloved to the Most Merciful, and very heavy in the Scale: 'Subhan Allahi wa bihamdihi, Subhan Allahil-'Azim' (Glory be to Allah and with His praise; glory be to Allah, the Most Great)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said the opening takbir for the prayer, he would remain silent for a short while before beginning the recitation. I said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! May my father and mother be ransomed for you, what do you recite in this silence of yours between the takbir and the recitation?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said that he recites this supplication: 'Allahumma ba'id bayni wa bayna khatayaya kama ba'adta baynal-mashriqi wal-maghrib; Allahumma naqqini min khatayaya kama yunaqqath-thawbul-abyadu minad-danas; Allahummaghsilni min khatayaya bith-thalji wal-ma'i wal-barad' (O Allah, put a distance between me and my sins as You have put a distance between the east and the west; O Allah, cleanse me of my sins as a white garment is cleansed of dirt; O Allah, wash away my sins with snow, water and hail).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that one day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up among us and mentioned stealing from the spoils of war (ghulul), and he described the gravity of the matter as very great. Then he said: "O people! Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection carrying on his neck a camel that is grumbling, and he pleads: 'O Messenger of Allah, help me!' and I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I conveyed (Allah's command) to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection carrying on his neck a sheep that is bleating, and he says: 'O Messenger of Allah, help me!' and I will say: I possess nothing for you against Allah; I conveyed the message to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection carrying on his neck a horse that is neighing, and he calls out: 'O Messenger of Allah, help me!' and I will say: I have no power for you with Allah; I warned you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection carrying on his neck a (human) soul that is screaming, and he says: 'O Messenger of Allah, help me!' and I will say: I have no power to avail you anything before Allah; I conveyed it to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection carrying on his neck (stolen) cloths that are fluttering, and he says: 'O Messenger of Allah, help me!' and I will say: I can do nothing for you before Allah; I conveyed it to you. Let me not find any of you coming on the Day of Resurrection carrying on his neck gold and silver (silent wealth), and he cries for help: 'O Messenger of Allah, help me!' and I will say: I possess nothing for you before Allah; indeed I conveyed the truth to you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with her sick son so that he (peace and blessings be upon him) would supplicate for his recovery. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) began to say (consoling her): "If he dies, Allah will reward you for him." At this the woman said: (O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)!) I have already sent forward three of my children (to the Hereafter) while in Islam.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the servant has a lofty rank (decreed) for him with Allah Almighty which he does not attain through his deeds alone; so Allah Almighty continually keeps him in disliked trials, things that he dislikes, until He brings him to that appointed lofty rank."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) (and Abu Zur'ah (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: I entered the house of Marwan with him and saw images/statues there) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: 'And who is a greater wrongdoer than one who tries to create a creation like My creation? Let them (if they are so capable) create an ant (or a speck), or let them make a single grain, or let them create a single grain of barley.'"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Name yourselves with my name, but do not take my kunyah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated: 'Allahumma-j'al rizqa ali Muhammadin fid-dunya qutan' (O Allah, decree for the family of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in this world provision that is just sufficient for their needs). Technically, in the chain of this report Imam al-A'mash (may Allah have mercy on him) transmitted it from Abu Zur'ah (may Allah have mercy on him) with the form "nubbi'tu" (I was informed) instead of explicitly stating that he heard it, which, according to the hadith scholars, indicates the possibility of a break in the chain or of an unknown intermediary.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Bilal! Which deed that you have done since accepting Islam do you consider the most hopeful in terms of benefit?" Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I have not done any deed since accepting Islam that I consider more hopeful of benefit than this: whenever I purified myself (with ablution or a ritual bath) at any time of the night or day, I prayed with that purification for my Lord as much prayer as was decreed for me. At this he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, last night I heard the sound of your sandals ahead of me in Paradise."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Jibril (peace be upon him) was sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he looked up at the sky, and suddenly an angel was seen descending. At this Jibril (peace be upon him) said to him (peace and blessings be upon him): "This is an angel who has never descended since he was created, before this hour." Then when that angel descended, he said: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Your Lord has sent me to you with this message: shall I make you a king, or a servant and messenger?" Then Jibril (peace be upon him), advising him (peace and blessings be upon him), said: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Be humble before your Lord." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, rather (I prefer to be) a servant and messenger."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever loves to recite the Noble Qur'an fresh, just as it was revealed, let him recite it according to the recitation of Ibn Umm Abd (Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him))."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Dates for dates, wheat for wheat and salt for salt must be traded like for like; so whoever gives more (from his side) or asks for more (from the other) has engaged in usury (riba), except for those items whose kinds (colours and types) differ from one another."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I will always love Banu Tamim because of three things. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say about them: "They will be the sternest of my Ummah against the Dajjal." Also, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) was obliged to free a soul from the descendants of Sayyiduna Isma'il (peace be upon him); so when the captives of the Khawlan tribe came, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "O Messenger of Allah! Shall I not buy one of them (and free him)?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No." Then when the captives of Banu al-Anbar were brought, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Buy from among them, for they are descendants of Isma'il." And when the zakah and charities of Banu Tamim came, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "These are the charities of our own people."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that "when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said the opening takbir in the prayer, he would remain silent in the interval between the takbir and the recitation."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Among the servants of Allah Almighty there are some servants whom even the prophets and the martyrs will envy." It was said: Who are they? So that we too may love them. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They are people who loved one another purely for the sake of the light of Allah, without any kinship or ties of lineage between them. Their faces will be pure light, and they will be seated upon pulpits of light. When people are afraid they will have no fear, and when people grieve they will have no grief." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this blessed verse: "Beware! Surely the friends of Allah will have no fear, nor will they grieve." [Yunus: 62]

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The carrying out of a single prescribed punishment (hadd) (from among the limits of Allah) on the earth is far better for the people of the earth than forty days of rain."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Disease is not contagious by itself, there is no evil omen, no ill omen of the hamah (owl), and no ill omen of Safar." A man said: "O Messenger of Allah! A spot of mange appears on the hindquarters or the tail of a camel, and then the mange spreads over its whole body?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Who infected the first one? Allah created every living creature and wrote down its provision, its death and its life-span."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Uyaynah bin Hisn al-Fazari (may Allah be pleased with him) came into the presence of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and saw him (peace and blessings be upon him) kissing Sayyiduna Hasan or Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both). At this he said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Ten children were born to me, but to this day I have not kissed a single one of them." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever does not show mercy is not shown mercy."

Abd al-Samad bin Ma'qil (may Allah have mercy on him) relates that he heard Wahb bin Munabbih (may Allah have mercy on him) addressing the people from the pulpit, and he (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Take three things from me (hold on to them) and remember them: beware of following desires, keep away from a bad companion, and guard against a man being pleased with himself (self-admiration)."

It is narrated from Wahb (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: "Indeed, everything has two ends and a middle. When one of the two ends is held, the other (loses its balance and) tilts; and when it is held from the middle, both ends remain balanced." He also said: "It is incumbent upon you to adopt moderation and the middle path in all matters."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) "on the day of Khaybar made unlawful every predatory beast with fangs, the mujaththamah (that is, an animal that is tied up and killed by being made a target for arrows and the like), and the domestic donkey."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Jews split into seventy-one or seventy-two sects, and the Christians also split into seventy-one or seventy-two sects, while my Ummah will soon split into seventy-three sects."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) noticed an unpleasant smell in the mosque and said: "Whoever has eaten anything from this offensive plant, let him not enter our mosque." By this he (peace and blessings be upon him) meant garlic.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out while the people of the tribe of Aslam were engaged in an archery contest. He (peace and blessings be upon him) (on seeing them) said: "O children of Isma'il! Shoot, for your father (Sayyiduna Isma'il (peace be upon him)) was also an archer. Shoot, and I am with Sayyiduna Ibn al-Adra' (may Allah be pleased with him)." On hearing this, the people of the other group held back their hands and stood holding their bows, and said: (O Messenger of Allah!) Whoever you are with will surely win. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shoot, I am with all of you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the (deceased) children of the polytheists, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah, Glorified and Exalted, knows best what they would have done (had they grown up)."