Musnad Ahmad

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that safeguard this Qur'an. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, it slips away from the chest of any one of you faster than a camel that unties its rope and runs away.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Charity is obligatory upon every Muslim. Someone asked, "Tell us, what if a person has nothing?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He should work with his own hands, benefit himself, and also give charity. The questioner asked, "Tell us, what if he is not able to do that?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He should help someone in need or in distress. The questioner asked, "What if he cannot do even that?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He should enjoin good or justice. The questioner asked, "What if he cannot do even that?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then he should restrain himself from harming anyone; that is charity for him.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that two men from my tribe came with me. During the conversation, both of them requested an office. Upon this, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The greatest traitor in my sight among you is the one who seeks an office."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The permission of a mature girl should be sought for her marriage; if she remains silent, it is as if she has given permission, and if she refuses, she should not be forced into that relationship.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that once I presented myself before the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and some people from my tribe were with me. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Accept the glad tidings and convey them to those who are left behind you, that whoever bears witness with a sincere heart that there is no god but Allah will enter Paradise. We left the presence of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and upon meeting Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), we began to convey this glad tidings to him. He took us to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! In this way, people will rely on this and just sit back.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He is not from among us who wails loudly, pulls out hair, and tears his collar.

Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) reminded us of the prayer of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) which we used to perform with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but which we had forgotten or deliberately abandoned. He used to say "Allahu Akbar" every time he bowed (for ruku‘), when rising from bowing, and when going into prostration (sajdah).

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that once the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a person praising someone (in his presence) and exaggerating in it, so he said: "You have broken his back."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Allah! Grant Ubaid Abu Amir superiority over many people on the Day of Resurrection. Ubaid (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred on the occasion of the Battle of Autas, and Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) killed his killer. Abu Wa'il says: I hope that Allah Almighty will not gather Ubaid's killer and Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) together in Hell on the Day of Resurrection.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that when Hazrat Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) returned from Abyssinia, she encountered Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) on one of the roads of Madinah Munawwarah. Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked, "Are you one of those who went to Abyssinia?" She replied, "Yes!" Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "You people were the best nation, if only you had not missed the migration to Madinah." She replied, "You people were with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); he would provide mounts for your walkers, teach knowledge to your ignorant, and we had left at that time to save our religion. I will not return home without mentioning this matter to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." Thus, she presented herself before the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and related the entire matter. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "You have two migrations: one towards Madinah Munawwarah and the other towards Abyssinia."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that once some people passed quickly with a funeral in front of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: One should walk with calmness.

Abu Burdah says that once Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) was present in the house of the daughter of Umm al-Fadl. I also went there. I sneezed, but he did not respond to me, and when the woman sneezed, he responded to her. I came to my mother and told her about this. When my father came, he said, "My son sneezed in your presence, but you did not respond to him, and when this woman sneezed, you responded to her?" He replied, "When your son sneezed, he did not say 'Alhamdulillah,' so I did not respond to him, and when she sneezed, she said 'Alhamdulillah,' so I responded to her, because I heard the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'When someone sneezes and says Alhamdulillah after sneezing, respond to him, and if he does not say Alhamdulillah, then do not respond to him.'" Upon this, the mother said, "You did well."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever prefers the world, his Hereafter suffers loss, and whoever prefers the Hereafter, his worldly life suffers loss. So you should give preference to that which is everlasting over that which is perishable.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever prefers the world, his Hereafter suffers loss, and whoever prefers the Hereafter, his worldly life suffers loss. So you should give preference to that which is everlasting over that which is perishable.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him and Hazrat Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) when sending them to Yemen: Give glad tidings, do not spread aversion, make things easy, do not create difficulties, obey one another, and do not differ among yourselves. Thus, each of them had a tent in which they would come to meet each other.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) fell ill and his illness kept increasing, he said, "Order Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayer." Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) submitted, "O Messenger of Allah! Abu Bakr is a very soft-hearted man; when he stands in your place, he will not be able to lead the people in prayer." The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) again said, "Tell Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayer. You are like the women of Yusuf." So the messenger went to Hazrat Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), and during the blessed life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), he led the prayer. The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain.

Abu Sa'id, the freedman of Banu Hashim, narrated to us, he said: Zaidah narrated to us, he said: Abdul Malik, meaning Ibn Umair, narrated to us, from Abu Burdah ibn Abi Musa, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, became ill, so he said: "Instruct Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayer." And he mentioned it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once explained by gesture that in travel, one should perform prayer on the back of the animal in this manner.

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Qais that once the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) led us in prayer, and after the prayer he said, "Remain seated in your places." Then he came to the men first and said, "Allah Almighty has commanded me to instruct you to fear Allah and to speak the truth." Then he went to the women and said to them as well, "Allah Almighty has commanded me to instruct you to fear Allah and to speak the truth." Then he returned to the men and said, "When you go to the mosques and markets of the Muslims and you have arrows with you, keep their tips under control, lest they strike someone and you cause harm or injure someone."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that I heard the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: After eating anything whose color has been changed by fire, perform ablution.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When the funeral of a Jew, Christian, or Muslim passes in front of you, you should stand up, because you do not stand for the sake of the funeral, but for the angels who are with the funeral. Abdullah bin Sakhbara says that once we were sitting with Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) waiting for a funeral, when another funeral passed by us and we stood up. Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) asked, "Why did you stand up?" We said, "It was you people who told us this." He asked, "What is that?" I said, "Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When the funeral of a Jew, Christian, or Muslim passes in front of you, you should stand up, because we do not stand for it, but for the angels present with it." Upon this, Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did this only once with a Jew. These people were People of the Book, and the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to emulate them. When it was prohibited, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stopped and did not do so again.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) that once we were sitting with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when a man asked for something. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Intercede for him, you will be rewarded, and Allah will decree what He wills upon the tongue of His Prophet.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) decreed that the blood money for each finger is ten camels.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: My Ummah will perish due to "ta‘n" and "ta‘oon". Explaining the meaning of ta‘oon, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is the stings of your enemy jinn, and in both cases there is martyrdom.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever offers twelve rak‘ahs during the day, apart from the obligatory prayers, a house will be built for him in Paradise.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no marriage without a guardian (wali)."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When a woman applies perfume and passes by some people so that they may smell her fragrance, then she is such and such (an adulteress).

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever has a slave-girl and gives her excellent education and teaches her good manners, then sets her free and marries her, he will receive a double reward. Similarly, a slave who fulfills the right of Allah and also fulfills the right of his master, or a person from the People of the Book who believed in the Shariah of Jesus (peace be upon him) and also believed in the Shariah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), he too will receive a double reward.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: For the person who always fasts, Hell will become so narrow for him—saying this, he closed his palms into fists to demonstrate.

Abu Tayyaḥ narrates from a tall, dark-skinned man that he came to Basra with Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him). He wrote a letter to Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him). Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote back to him that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was once walking, and upon reaching soft ground near the side of a garden, he urinated there and said: Among the Children of Israel, when any person urinated and a little urine touched his body, he would cut off that part with scissors. And he said: When any of you intends to urinate, he should look for soft ground for it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: On the Day of Resurrection, people will be presented three times. In the first two presentations, there will be disputes and excuses, and at the time of the third presentation, the books of deeds will fly and reach people's hands—some in their right hand and some in their left hand.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The deceased is punished because of the weeping of the people of the neighborhood over him. When the wailing woman says, "Alas, my arm! Alas, my helper! Alas, my breadwinner!" then the deceased is pulled and asked, "Were you really her arm, her helper, and her breadwinner?"

The narrator Asid bin Abi Asid, upon hearing this hadith, said: "Subhan Allah! Allah Almighty says that no person will bear the burden of another?" So Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O wretch! I am narrating to you the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him), and you are saying this? Who among us is a liar? By Allah! I am not lying about Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him), and he did not fabricate anything against the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." It is narrated from Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Before the Day of Judgment, 'Harj' will occur." The people asked: "What is meant by 'Harj'?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Killing." The people asked: "Even more than the number we kill now? We kill more than seventy thousand people every year!" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It does not mean killing the polytheists, but rather killing one another." The people asked: "Will our intellects be with us at that time?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The intellects of the people of that time will be taken away, and only foolish people will remain who will think they are following a religion, but they will not be upon any religion." Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "By the One in Whose hand is my soul, if that time comes, I do not find any way out for myself or for you except that we leave it as we entered it, and do not become involved in anyone's killing or wealth."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) or Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever likes to wear a ring of fire on his beloved body, let him wear a ring of gold; whoever likes to place a bracelet of fire on his beloved body, let him wear a bracelet of gold. However, silver is permitted, so make use of it for adornment.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) felt fear from any person or nation, he would supplicate: O Allah! I place You before their chests and I seek refuge in You from their evil.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) felt fear from any person or nation, he would supplicate: O Allah! I put You before their chests and I seek refuge in You from their evil.

Mazidah bin Jabir narrates from his mother that during the caliphate of Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), I was once in the mosque of Kufa. At that time, our leader was Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him). I heard him saying that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has commanded to fast on the tenth of Muharram, so you should also fast.

Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) reminded us of the prayer of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), which we used to perform with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but had forgotten or deliberately abandoned. He used to say "Allahu Akbar" every time he bowed (for ruku‘), when rising from bowing, and when going into prostration (sajdah).

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught us that when you stand for prayer, one of you should become the imam, and when the imam recites (Qur'an), you should remain silent.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he set out on a journey of jihad with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). At night, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) camped. Once, I woke up at night and did not find the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in his sleeping place. Various fears and doubts began to arise in my mind. I went out in search of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and met Hazrat Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him), who was in the same state as I was. Meanwhile, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appeared coming from the front. We said, "O Messenger of Allah! (peace and blessings be upon him) You are in a war zone; we fear for your life. When you had some need, why did you not take someone with you?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "I heard a sound like that produced by a millstone or like the buzzing of bees. A messenger from my Lord came to me and gave me the choice between two things: that half of my Ummah would enter Paradise, or that I would be granted the right of intercession. So I preferred the aspect of intercession." Both said, "O Messenger of Allah! (peace and blessings be upon him) Pray to Allah that He includes us in your intercession." The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed for them. Later, when these two informed other noble companions (may Allah be pleased with them) about this, they too began to come to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, "O Messenger of Allah! (peace and blessings be upon him) Pray to Allah that He includes us in your intercession." The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would pray for them. When this became too frequent, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Every person who dies in such a state that he does not associate anyone with Allah will be included in my intercession."