Musnad Ahmad

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The meaning of your oath that will be considered valid is the one which your companion (the one demanding the oath) also confirms."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The blood of one who dies by falling into a well is wasted, the blood of one who dies in a mine or desert is also wasted, and for the buried treasure (found by someone), one-fifth (khums) is obligatory."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that once Uyaina bin Hisn came to the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He saw that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was kissing one of the two grandsons, Hasan or Husain (may Allah be pleased with them). He said, "O Messenger of Allah! You kiss them, whereas I have ten sons, but I have not kissed any of them?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He who does not show mercy to others, mercy is not shown to him."

Muhammad bin Ziyad says that once Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by some people who were performing ablution. Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "Perform ablution thoroughly, for I heard Abul Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Woe to the heels from the fire of Hell.'"

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best era of my Ummah is the one in which I have been sent, then the era of those who come after them, then the era of those who come after them is the best." (Now Allah knows best whether the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the third group after them or not.) After that, there will come a people who will love obesity and will be ready to give testimony even before it is demanded."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If a man is declared bankrupt and someone finds his own property with him in its original form, then he has a greater right to that property than others."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If an animal is kept with someone as collateral, its fodder will be obligatory upon the one holding it, and the milk of a milking animal can be drunk, but whoever drinks its milk, its expense will also be upon him, and it can also be ridden."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When there is a dispute among people regarding the measurement of a path, then resolve it by agreeing upon seven cubits."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Imru’ al-Qais will be the standard-bearer of the poets who will go to Hell."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) has promised us the battle of India. If I am able to participate in this jihad and am martyred, I will be counted among the best of martyrs, and if I return alive, I will be Abu Huraira, freed from the fire of Hell.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "An obligatory prayer is an expiation for the sins committed between it and the next prayer; similarly, one Friday (prayer) is an expiation for the sins committed until the next Friday, and one month (Ramadan) is an expiation for the sins committed until the next month (Ramadan)." After that, he said: "Except for three sins." I understood that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this sentence for a specific reason. (In any case! The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:) Except for associating partners with Allah, breaking a covenant, and abandoning the Sunnah. I asked: O Messenger of Allah! We understand what associating partners with Allah means, but what is meant by breaking a covenant? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Breaking a covenant means that you pledge allegiance to someone, then you prepare to oppose him and take up the sword to fight him. And abandoning the Sunnah means leaving the community of Muslims."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The intensity of heat is due to the effect of the heat of Hell, so perform the prayer when it becomes cooler."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Permission should be sought from a virgin girl for marriage, and consultation should be done with a previously married woman." Someone asked: "O Messenger of Allah! A virgin girl feels shy (so how should her permission be obtained?)" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Her silence is her consent."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Trim the moustache well and let the beard grow fully."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade marrying a woman together with her paternal aunt or maternal aunt.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The days of Tashreeq are days of eating, drinking, and remembering Allah." In another chain of narration, only eating and drinking are mentioned.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no significance in Islam for offering sacrifice in the month of Rajab, nor is there any significance for sacrificing the first offspring of an animal in the name of idols."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs Hajj in such a way that he does not approach his women and does not commit any sinful act, he will return to his home as (pure) as the day his mother gave birth to him."

Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that once Hazrat Sulaiman (peace be upon him) said: "Tonight I will go around to my wives, and each one of them will give birth to a boy who will fight in the path of Allah." On this occasion, he forgot to say insha'Allah (if Allah wills), so only one of his wives gave birth to an incomplete child. Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If he had said insha'Allah, then truly a hundred sons would have been born to him, and all of them would have fought in the path of Allah."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that my beloved friend (peace be upon him) advised me regarding three things (which I will not leave until my death): to perform the Witr prayer before sleeping, to fast three days in every month, and to take a bath on Friday.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Five things are part of natural disposition: trimming the mustache, cutting the nails, plucking the armpit hair, removing the pubic hair, and circumcision."

Abu Rafi’ says that once I performed the ‘Isha prayer with Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him). In it, he recited Surah Inshiqaq, and upon reaching the verse of prostration, he performed the prostration of recitation. After the prayer, I asked, “O Abu Hurairah? (What did you do?)” He replied, “I have performed prostration on this verse following the example of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so I will continue to prostrate upon reaching this verse until I meet the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).”

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If a fly falls into the vessel of any one of you, then let him remember that in one wing of the fly there is healing and in the other there is disease, and it protects itself with the wing that has the disease (it puts that wing into the vessel first). Therefore, he should immerse the fly completely in it (then using it is up to his discretion)."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When any one of you arrives at a gathering, he should greet with salam, and when he wishes to leave the gathering, he should also greet with salam. The first occasion does not have more right than the second."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No child has the capacity to compensate for the crime of his father (the punishment for the father's crime will not be taken from his children), except for this: if someone finds his father in a state of slavery, he should buy him and set him free.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The Imam is appointed so that he may be followed, so when he says the takbeer, you should also say the takbeer; when he bows (in ruku), you should also bow; when he says "Sami' Allahu liman hamidah," you should say "Rabbana lakal hamd"; and when he performs the prayer sitting, then all of you should also perform the prayer sitting.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever is made a judge among the people, it is as if he has been slaughtered without a knife.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the companions (may Allah be pleased with them): "Do you know what backbiting is?" The companions (may Allah be pleased with them) replied, "Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) know best." The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Backbiting is that you mention about your brother something regarding a fault which is not in him." Someone asked, "Please tell us, if that fault is actually present in my brother which I mention in his absence, then what is the ruling?" The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If the fault you mention is present in him, then you have backbitten him, and if the fault you mention is not present in him, then you have slandered him."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) offered the funeral prayer for Najashi and said four takbirs in it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the month of Ramadan would approach, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would say: "The month of Ramadan is coming to you, it is a blessed month. Allah has made its fasting obligatory upon you. In this blessed month, the gates of Paradise are opened and the gates of Hell are closed, and the devils are chained. In this month, there is a night which is better than a thousand months. Whoever is deprived of its goodness and blessings is truly deprived."

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that once a person called out and asked the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), "Can any one of us pray in a single garment?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied, "Does each one of you have two garments?"

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: On the Day of Resurrection, some part of the tribes of Aslam, Ghifar, Muzaina, and Juhaina will be better in the sight of Allah than Banu Asad, Banu Uzfan, Hawazin, and Tamim.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him) said: On the day of Friday, there comes a moment such that if a Muslim servant attains it while standing and offering prayer and asking Allah for goodness, then Allah surely grants him that thing. And the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) indicated with his hand to show the brevity of that moment.

Muhammad says that once people boasted or discussed among themselves whether the number of men is greater or women? So Hazrat Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, said: Did not Abu al-Qasim, peace and blessings be upon him, say: The first group to enter Paradise will have faces shining like the full moon of the fourteenth night, and the group entering after them will be like the brightest star in the sky. Each of them will have two wives, whose shin marrow will be visible from outside the flesh, and there will be no unmarried person in Paradise.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade drinking water directly from the mouth of a water-skin. The narrator of the hadith, Ayyub, says that he was informed that a man drank water by putting his mouth to the mouth of a water-skin, and a snake came out of it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No person should prevent his neighbor from placing wood (or a beam) on his wall.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: True charity is with contentment of the heart. The upper hand is better than the lower hand, and you should begin giving charity and alms to those who are under your responsibility.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that once Hazrat Jibreel (peace be upon him) came to the service of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! Khadijah is coming to you with a vessel in which there is some curry or food or drink. When she reaches you, convey to her greetings of peace from her Lord and from me, and give her the glad tidings of a house in Paradise made of pearls, in which there will be neither noise nor any fatigue.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty has taken it upon Himself regarding the person who sets out in His path, that if he sets out only with the intention of striving in My path, believing in Me and affirming My Messenger, then it is My responsibility to admit him into Paradise or to return him to his abode in such a state that he has attained reward or spoils of war.

By the One in Whose hand is the life of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), whoever is wounded in the path of Allah, he will come on the Day of Resurrection in the same fresh state as he was on the day he was wounded. Its color will be like blood, but its fragrance will be like musk.

By the One in Whose hand is the life of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), if I did not think that it would be hard on the Muslims, I would never stay behind any expedition that sets out in the path of Allah, but I do not find the means so that they could follow me, nor would they be pleased in their hearts, and after me, they would begin to stay behind from participating in jihad. By the One in Whose hand is the life of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), I wish that I strive in the path of Allah and attain martyrdom, then be given life, then participate in jihad and be martyred, then participate in jihad and be martyred.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that once the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Allah! Forgive those who have their heads shaved. The companions (may Allah be pleased with them) submitted: O Messenger of Allah! Pray for those who have their hair cut short as well. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) again said: O Allah! Forgive those who have their heads shaved. The fourth time, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also included those who have their hair cut short in his supplication.