Musnad Ahmad

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade killing snakes that live in houses, except for those snakes which have a short tail or two stripes, because such snakes cause blindness and cause miscarriages in women, and whoever leaves these snakes (without killing them) is not from among us.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that in the era of ignorance, the Quraysh used to fast on the 10th of Muharram, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also used to fast on this day. After migrating to Madinah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) continued to fast on this day and instructed his companions (may Allah be pleased with them) to do so as well. Then, when the fasting of the month of Ramadan was made obligatory, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began to fast only in Ramadan and abandoned the fast of Ashura. Now, whoever wishes may fast on this day, and whoever wishes may leave it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say to her: "When you are angry, I can tell that you are angry, and when you are pleased, I can tell that as well." She asked, "O Messenger of Allah! How do you know this?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied, "When you are angry, you say 'O Muhammad,' and when you are pleased, you say 'O Messenger of Allah.'"

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the command of my exoneration was revealed from the sky, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me and informed me of it. So I said, "We praise Allah Almighty; we do not thank you."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that she and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform ghusl of janabah from the same vessel of water.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted her to leave Muzdalifah before Fajr because she was a weak woman.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed in my room, and people were following the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in prayer from outside the room and were participating in his prayer.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would wake up at night to perform prayer, he would begin the prayer with two light rak'ahs.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted a household of the Ansar to perform ruqyah (spiritual healing) for every stinging creature.

Abdullah bin Shaqiq (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I asked Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) about the voluntary prayers of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so she said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray four rak'ahs in my house before the Zuhr prayer, then he would go outside and lead the people in prayer, and after returning to my house he would pray two rak'ahs, then after leading the people in Maghrib prayer he would come home and pray two rak'ahs, then he would lead the 'Isha prayer and come to my house and pray two rak'ahs, at night he would pray nine rak'ahs in which witr was included, in the night prayer the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for a long time and sit for quite a while, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would recite and perform ruku' and sujood while standing and also recite and perform ruku' and sujood while sitting, and when the true dawn would appear he would pray two rak'ahs, then go outside and lead the people in the Fajr prayer.

Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I used to braid the garlands for the sacrificial animals of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) with my own hands. While she was narrating this hadith, I heard the sound of her hands from behind the curtain. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to stay among us as a non-Mahram.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that we were in the state of Ihram with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and riders would pass by us. When they came near us, we would lower our shawls from our heads and let them hang over our faces, and when they had passed, we would remove them.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say in the prostration of recitation: "My face has prostrated before the One Who created it and granted it the power of hearing and speech, and this prostration has also occurred with His ability and help."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was waiting for some news and it was delayed, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would recite this verse of Tarafah on such an occasion: "The person will bring you news whom you did not provide provisions for the journey."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the use of vessels called naqir, muqayyar, dubba, and hantam.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that I never saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performing the Duha prayer, except that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from a journey, he would offer two rak'ahs.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The prohibition of fosterage is not established by sucking milk from a woman's breast once or twice.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that sometimes the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would be praying at home and the door would be closed. When I would come, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would walk over, open the door for me, and then return to his place and stand there. Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) also mentioned that the door was in the direction of the Qiblah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: For a boy, two equal goats should be sacrificed for aqeeqah, and for a girl, one goat.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that after the passing of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Hazrat Siddiq Akbar (may Allah be pleased with him) came and placed his face between the eyes of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and put his hands on the temples of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, "Oh my Prophet, oh my beloved, oh my friend."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would begin the prayer with Takbeer and would start the recitation with Surah Al-Fatiha. When he would go into Ruku, he would neither raise his head high nor lower it, but would keep it in between. When he would rise from Ruku, he would not perform the second prostration until he sat up straight. In every two rak'ahs, he would recite "At-Tahiyyat". He forbade keeping the heels upright like Satan and would spread his left foot and keep his right foot upright. He also forbade any of us from spreading our arms like a dog, and he would end the prayer with Salam.

Muhammad ibn Ja'far narrated to us, Husayn al-Mu'allim narrated to us, from Budayl, from Abu al-Jawza', from Aisha, that she said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to do likewise, and he said: He would raise his head, and he said: like the sitting of a beast of prey.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The purest thing a person eats is that which he earns himself, and a person's children are also part of his earnings.

Furwah bin Nawfal says that I asked Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) about the supplication of the Prophet (peace be upon him), so she said that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to supplicate: O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the evil of what my soul has done.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) never struck any servant or any wife, nor did he ever hit anyone with his own hand except when he was fighting in the way of Allah. If anyone committed insolence against the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he never took revenge on that person, but if the sanctities of Allah were violated, he would take revenge for the sake of Allah. And whenever two options were presented before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and one of them was easier, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would choose the easier one, unless it was a sin, because if it was a sin, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would keep away from it more than anyone else.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that if anyone among the family of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would get a fever, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would order porridge to be prepared. When it was ready, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would order it to be eaten and would say that it strengthens the heart of a saddened person and removes the worries from the heart of a sick person just as any of you women removes dirt from her face with water.

Mu’adhah (may Allah have mercy on her) says that a woman asked Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), “Does a menstruating woman have to make up the missed prayers?” She replied, “Have you become a Kharijite? In the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when our ‘days’ would come, we neither made up the prayers nor were we ordered to make them up.”

Abu Burdah says that once Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) brought out a sheet, which was called "Malbada," and a thick lower garment before us and said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) departed from this world in these two garments.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that if a group of about one hundred Muslims offers the funeral prayer for a deceased Muslim and intercedes for him, their intercession for him is accepted.

Aswad says that once some people mentioned before Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had appointed Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) as his executor (wasiyy). She said, "When did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appoint him as his executor? I was supporting the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) against my chest. He asked for a basin, and ultimately his soul departed in my lap, and I did not even realize that he had passed away. So when did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appoint him as his executor?"

Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) says that I know best how the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite the Talbiyah, then she repeated the words of the Talbiyah: "Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, La Sharika Laka Labbayk, Innal Hamda Wan-Ni’mata Laka Wal-Mulk, La Sharika Laka."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would observe i'tikaf and would extend his head out from the mosque, and I would wash it while I was menstruating.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform Witr with nine rak'ahs. Then, when his age increased and his blessed body became heavy, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) started performing Witr with seven rak'ahs.

Someone asked Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) and Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), "Which deed was most beloved to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?" They replied, "That which is done consistently, even if it is little."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that sometimes when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would wake up at night to pray, one corner of the blanket would be over the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the other corner would be over Aisha, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would continue to pray.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that once there was a solar eclipse, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began to pray and stood for a long time, then he bowed and made a long bowing, then before going into prostration he raised his head and stood for a long time, but this standing was shorter than the first one, then he bowed and this bowing was shorter than the previous long bowing, then he prostrated, then stood up for the second rak'ah and did the same as he had done in the first rak'ah, but in this rak'ah the first standing was longer than the second, and the first bowing was longer than the second, in this way the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) completed the prayer while the solar eclipse had ended.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the pure wives of the Prophet (peace be upon him) would be in the state of menstruation, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) would have intimacy with his wives over the waist-wrapper.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade wearing gold, we said, "O Messenger of Allah! Can we not take a little gold and mix musk with it?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Why do you not mix it with silver, then blend it with saffron, so that the silver will also become like gold."

Muhammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Khusaif, and Marwan narrated to us, he said: Khusaif narrated to us, from Ata’, from Umm Salamah, similar to that.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that once Hazrat Siddiq Akbar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to her place and there were two girls playing the duff. Hazrat Siddiq Akbar (may Allah be pleased with him) scolded them, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him, "Leave them, for every nation has a festival."