Musnad Ahmad

It is narrated from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a dead goat. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Why did you not benefit from its skin?" The people said, "O Messenger of Allah, it is dead." He said, "Its eating is forbidden, (but) its skin can be purified by tanning."

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once someone asked the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the ruling if a mouse falls into ghee and dies. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If the ghee is solid, then remove the part (where the mouse fell) and the ghee around it, and then use the remaining ghee.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that I and the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to perform ghusl from the same vessel.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) performed ghusl after janabah, he would first wash his hands, then pour water from his right hand onto his left hand and wash his private parts, and rub his hand on the ground to clean it. Then he would perform ablution as for prayer, then pour water over his head and the rest of his body, and after the bath, he would move from that place and wash his feet (because water would collect there).

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once, in the morning, the Prophet (peace be upon him) felt heaviness in his health, so someone asked, "O Messenger of Allah, what is the matter that you are feeling unwell this morning?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, "Jibreel (peace be upon him) had promised to meet me, but he did not come, although he has never broken a promise before." For three nights, Jibreel did not come. Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) considered a puppy under our bed to be the cause. Accordingly, on the order of the Prophet (peace be upon him), it was removed and water was poured there. Shortly after, Jibreel (peace be upon him) came. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to him, "You had promised to come to me, but I did not see you?" He replied, "We do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture." So the Prophet (peace be upon him) ordered the killing of dogs that very day, to the extent that if someone asked for permission to keep a small dog for the protection of his garden, the Prophet (peace be upon him) would also order it to be killed.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) performed ablution with the leftover water from which she had performed ghusl after janabah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once I was in a state of impurity, and ghusl was also obligatory on the Prophet (peace be upon him). I performed ghusl with water from a tub in which some water was left. When the Prophet (peace be upon him) came to perform ghusl, I said, "I have performed ghusl of janabah with this water." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Janabah does not affect the water," and he performed ghusl with the same water.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once someone asked the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the ruling if a mouse falls into ghee and dies. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If the ghee is solid, then remove the part (where the mouse fell) and the ghee around it, and then use the remaining ghee.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once the Prophet (peace be upon him) performed prayer, and a part of the cloak of one of the noble wives was on the Prophet (peace be upon him), and the other part was on the noble wife.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to pray on a mat.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that she was in her menstrual period and would lie in front of the prayer mat of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace be upon him) would continue to pray on his mat, and when he went into prostration, a part of his garment would touch me as well.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that she was in her menstrual period and would lie in front of the prayer mat of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace be upon him) would continue to pray on his mat, and when he went into prostration, a part of his garment would touch me as well.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that she was in her menstrual period and would lie in front of the prayer mat of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace be upon him) would continue to pray on his mat, and when he went into prostration, a part of his garment would touch me as well.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) would prostrate and if a kid goat wanted to pass from there, the Prophet (peace be upon him) would further separate his arms from his sides.

Once, the nephew of Hazrat Maymunah, Hazrat Ibn Abbas, came to her. She said, "Son, what is the matter that your hair appears disheveled?" He replied that the woman who combs his hair, Umm Ammar, is in her days (of menstruation). Hazrat Maymunah said, "Son, what do the days have to do with the hands? The Prophet (peace be upon him) would come to one of us, and she would be in her days, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) would place his head in her lap while she was in her days, and he would recite the Holy Qur'an. Then she would stand up and spread a mat for the Prophet (peace be upon him), and in that state, she would place it at the place where the Prophet (peace be upon him) would pray. Son, what do the days have to do with the hands?"

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) would come to one of us and she would be in her days (of menstruation), then she would stand up and spread a mat for the Prophet (peace be upon him), and in that state she would place it at the spot where the Prophet (peace be upon him) would pray.

Abu Bakr says that once I offered the funeral prayer behind Abu al-Malih. He said, "Straighten the rows and intercede for him in a good manner. If I were to like any man, I would have liked this deceased." Then he narrated from his chain the narration of Hazrat Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "If a group offers the funeral prayer for a Muslim, their intercession is accepted for him." Abu al-Malih says that by "group" is meant forty to a hundred or even more people.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) ate the meat of the shoulder, then stood up and began to pray without performing a fresh ablution.

It is narrated from Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed that once he entered the house of Ummul Momineen Hazrat Maymunah bint Harith, who was his maternal aunt, along with the Prophet (peace be upon him). She placed the meat of a lizard (dabb) before the Prophet (peace be upon him), which had been brought from Najd by Umm Hafeed bint Harith, who was married to a man from Banu Ja'far. The blessed habit of the Prophet (peace be upon him) was that he would not partake of anything until he had asked what it was. Accordingly, one of the wives of the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Why do you not tell the Prophet (peace be upon him) what he is eating?" Upon this, they informed him that it was the meat of a lizard. The Prophet (peace be upon him) left it. Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed says, "I asked, 'O Messenger of Allah! Is it forbidden?' The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, 'No, but it is not the food of my people, so I prefer to be cautious about it.'" So I pulled it towards myself and began to eat it, and during this, the Prophet (peace be upon him) kept watching me.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) married me when we had come out of the state of Ihram and had departed from Makkah Mukarramah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once she took a loan from someone. Someone said to her, "You are taking a loan while you have nothing to repay it with?" She replied, "I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him) say that whoever takes a loan from someone and Allah knows that he intends to repay it, then Allah enables him to repay it."

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once I freed a slave girl and the Prophet (peace be upon him) came to me, so I informed him about it. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "May Allah grant you the reward for it. If you had given her to your maternal cousins, the reward would have been greater."

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) performed prostration, he would keep his arms so far apart from his sides that the whiteness of his blessed armpits could be seen from behind.

Badiyah says that once Hazrat Maymunah sent me to the wife of Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas, with whom she had a close relationship. I saw that her bed was separate from the bed of Hazrat Ibn Abbas. I thought that perhaps there was some discord between them, so I asked her about it. She told me that there was nothing of the sort, but rather, I am in my menstrual period, and when that happens, he does not come near my bed. I came to Hazrat Maymunah and told her this as well. She sent me to Hazrat Ibn Abbas and said, "Are you turning away from the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him)? The Prophet (peace be upon him) used to sleep with his wives even if they were in their menstrual period, and there would be nothing between them except the cloth that was above the knees."

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

Abdur Rahman bin Sa’ib says that Hazrat Maymunah said to him, “Nephew, shall I not perform ruqyah for you with the words taught by the Prophet (peace be upon him)?” I replied, “Why not?” She said, “I perform ruqyah for you in the name of Allah. May Allah grant you healing from every illness that is in your body. O Lord of the people, remove his suffering and grant healing, for You are the only healer, and there is no healing except Your healing.”

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once I freed a slave girl and the Prophet (peace be upon him) came to me, so I informed him about it. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "May Allah grant you the reward for it. If you had given her to your maternal cousins, the reward would have been greater."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha and Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Do not prepare nabidh in dabba’, muzaffat, hantam, and naqir, and every intoxicating thing is forbidden.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha and Maymunah that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Do not prepare nabidh in dabba’, muzaffat, hantam, and naqir, and every intoxicating thing is forbidden.

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

Ibrahim bin Abdullah says that a woman became very ill, and she made a vow that if Allah granted her recovery, she would travel to Bayt al-Maqdis and pray there. By Allah’s will, she was cured. She began preparations for the journey and went to bid farewell to Hazrat Maymunah and informed her of her intention. She (Maymunah) said: Sit down and eat the food I have prepared, and pray in the Prophet’s Mosque, for I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him) say that one prayer in the Prophet’s Mosque is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque except the Ka’bah.

Ata bin Yasar says that I asked the noble wife of the Prophet, Hazrat Maymunah, about wiping over leather socks (masah on khuffain), so she told me that once I submitted in the presence of the Messenger of Allah, "O Messenger of Allah, can a person wipe over the leather socks at any time, or will he have to take them off?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, "Yes."

Yazid bin Asam says that the Prophet (peace be upon him) married Maymunah while she was not yet a mahram, and he was alone with her while she was still not a mahram. She passed away at a place called Saraf, and we buried her at the same place where the Prophet (peace be upon him) had been alone with her in a tent. I and Ibn Abbas descended into her grave.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: What will be your condition when the religion will become mixed, desires will prevail, there will be discord between brothers, and the Kaaba will be set on fire.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him) say: "My Ummah will remain upon goodness as long as illegitimate children do not become numerous among them, and when illegitimate children begin to increase among them, then the time will be near when Allah's punishment will encompass all of them."

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) performed prostration, he would keep his arms so far apart from his sides that the whiteness of his blessed armpits could be seen from behind.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once two rak'ahs before Asr were missed by the Prophet (peace be upon him), which the Prophet (peace be upon him) performed after Asr.

It is narrated from Hazrat Maymunah that once the Prophet (peace be upon him) passed by some people of the Quraysh who were dragging a goat like a donkey. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to them, "If you had only taken off its skin (what harm would there have been)?" They replied, "This goat is dead." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Water and the leaves of the Salam tree (a tree similar to the acacia) purify it."

Once, the nephew of Hazrat Maymunah, Hazrat Ibn Abbas, came to her. She said, "Son, what is the matter that your hair appears disheveled?" He replied that the woman who combs his hair, Umm Ammar, is in her days (of menstruation). Hazrat Maymunah said, "Son, what do the days have to do with the hands? The Prophet (peace be upon him) would come to one of us and she would be in her days, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) would place his head in her lap while she was in her days and recite the Holy Qur'an. Then she would stand up and spread the mat for the Prophet (peace be upon him), and in that state, she would place it at the place where the Prophet (peace be upon him) would pray. Son, what do the days have to do with the hands?"