Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of 'Allah (ﷺ) said: When any one of you stands for prayer and there is a thing before him equal to the back of the saddle that covers him and in case there is not before him (a thing) equal to the back of the saddle, his prayer would be cut off by (passing of an) ass, woman, and black dog. I said: O Abu Dharr, what feature is there in a black dog which distinguish it from the red dog and the yellow dog? He said: O, son of my brother, I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as you are asking me, and he said: The black dog is a devil.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: How would you act when you are under the rulers who would delay the prayer beyond its prescribed time, or they would make prayer a dead thing as far as its proper time is concerned? I said: What do you command? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe the prayer at its proper time, and if you can say it along with them do so, for it would be a supererogatory prayer for you. Khalaf (one of the narrators in the above hadith) has not mentioned "beyond their (prescribed) time".

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: O Abu Dharr, you would soon find after me rulers who would make their prayers dead. You should say prayer at its prescribed time. If you say prayer at its prescribed time that would be a supererogatory prayer for you, otherwise you saved your prayer.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: My friend (the Holy Prophet) bade me to hear and obey (the ruler) even if he is a slave having his feet and arms cut off, and observe prayer at its prescribed time. (And further said): It you find people having observed the prayer, you in fact saved your prayer, otherwise (if you join with them) that would be a Nafl prayer for you.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) struck my thigh and said: How would you act if you survive among the people who would delay prayers beyond their (prescribed) time? He (Abu Dharr) said: What do you command (under this situation)? He (the Holy Prophet) slid: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, then go (to meet) your needs, and if when he hears the Iqamah is pronounced, and you are present in the mosque, then observe prayer (along with the Jama'at).

'Abu'l-'Aliyat al-Bara reported: Ibn Ziyad delayed the prayer. 'Abdullah bin Samit came to me and I placed a chair for him and he sat in it and I made a mention of what Ibn Ziyad had done. He bit his lips (as a sign of extreme anger and annoyance) and struck at my thigh and said: I asked Abu Dharr (RA) as you have asked me, and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh, and said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as you have asked me and he struck my thigh just as I have struck your thigh, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, and if you can say prayer along with them. do so, and do not say "I have observed prayer and so I shall not pray."

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: (The Messenger of Allah) (ﷺ) said: How would you, or how would thou, act if you survive to live among people who defer prayer beyond the (prescribed) time? (The narrator said: Allah and His Messenger know best). whereupon he said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, but if when he hears the Iqamah is pronounced for (congregational) prayer, then observe prayer along with them. for herein is an excess of virtue.

Abu'l-'Aliyat al-Bara' reported: I said to 'Abdullah bin Samit: We say our Jumu'a prayer behind those rulers who defer the prayer. He ('Abdullah bin Samit), struck. my thigh that I felt pain and said: I asked Abu Dharr (RA) about it, he struck my thigh and said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about it. Upon this he said: Observe prayer at its prescribed time, and treat prayer along with them (along with those Imams who deter prayer) as Nafl. 'Abdullah said: It was narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) struck the thigh of Abu Dharr.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Verily there would arise from my Ummah after me or soon after me a group (of people) who would recite the Qur'an, but it would not go beyond their throats, and they would pass clean through their religion just as the arrow passes through the prey, and they would never come back to it. They would be the worst among the creation and the creatures. Ibn Samit (one of the narrators) said: I met Rafi' bin 'Amr Ghifari, the brother of Al-Hakam Ghifari and I said: What is this hadith that I heard from Abu Dharr, i. e. so and so? and then I narrated that hadith to him and said: I heard it from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) .

It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Dharr (RA) who said: My friend (i. e. the Holy Prophet) advised me to listen (to the man in position of authority) and obey (him) even if he were a slave maimed (and disabled).

Abu Dharr (RA) said: Allah's Messenger, what about the vessels of that Cistern? He said: By Him in Whose Hand is the life of Muhammad, the vessels would outnumber the stars in the sky and its planets shining on a dark cloudless night. These would be the vessels of Paradise. He who drinks out of it (the Cistern) would never feel thirsty. There would flow in it two spouts from Paradise and he who would drink out of it would not feel thirsty; and the distance between its (two corners) is that between 'Amman and Aila, and its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey.

Hudhab bin Khalid Azdi said: Sulaiman bin Mughira narrated to us, he said: Humaid bin Hilal informed us from Abdullah bin Samit, who said that Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I, my brother Anis, and our mother, all three of us, left from our tribe Ghifar, who used to consider the sacred months as permissible. So we went to one of our maternal uncles. He treated us well and did good to us, but his people became jealous of us and said to him: "When you leave your house, Anis commits adultery with your wife." He came to us and spread this rumor foolishly. I said: "The favor you did to us is now ruined, we cannot stay with you anymore." So we went to our camels, loaded our belongings, and our uncle wrapped himself in his cloth and began to weep. We left until we camped in front of Mecca. Anis made a bet with our camels for an equal number more. Then both went to a soothsayer, and the soothsayer said to Anis: "He is better." So Anis brought us all the camels and as many more. Abu Dharr said: "O son of my brother! I prayed three years before meeting the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." I asked: "For whom did you pray?" Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "For Allah, the Exalted." I asked: "In which direction did you face?" He said: "I faced in the direction Allah turned my face." I used to pray the Isha prayer in the last part of the night and would lie like a blanket until the sun rose. Anis said: "I have some work in Mecca, you stay here, I will go." He went and delayed his return. When he came back, I asked: "What did you do?" He said: "I met a man in Mecca who is upon your religion and says that Allah has sent him." I asked: "What do people call him?" He said: "People call him a poet, a soothsayer, and a magician." And Anis himself was a poet. He said: "I have heard the words of soothsayers, but the words this man recites are not the words of soothsayers, and I have measured his words against all the meters of poetry, but after me, no one's tongue will be able to compose poetry like it. By Allah, he is truthful and the people are liars." I said: "You stay here, I will go and see this man." Then I came to Mecca and picked out a weak person from among the people of Mecca (because a strong person might harm me), and asked him: "Where is the man whom you call a Sabi (apostate)?" He pointed at me and said: "This is the Sabi (since you are asking about the Sabi)." Hearing this, all the people of the valley attacked me with stones and bones until I fell unconscious. When I regained consciousness and stood up, I saw that I was as if a red idol (i.e., covered in blood from head to toe). Then I came to Zamzam, washed off all the blood, and drank Zamzam water. So, O my nephew! I stayed there for thirty nights or thirty days, and I had no food except Zamzam water (whenever I felt hungry, I drank it). Then I became fat until the folds of my belly hung down (from obesity), and I did not feel the weakness of hunger in my chest. Once, the people of Mecca slept on a moonlit night, and at that time no one was circumambulating the Ka'bah except two women who were calling upon Isaf and Na'ilah (Isaf and Na'ilah were two idols in Mecca; Isaf was a man and Na'ilah a woman, and the disbelievers believed that they committed adultery there, so they were transformed into idols), they came before me while circumambulating. I said: "Marry one to the other (i.e., Isaf to Na'ilah)." Hearing this, they did not desist from their act. Then I said openly: "Put wood in their private parts (i.e., this obscenity is due to the worship of Isaf and Na'ilah)," and I did not use a euphemism (i.e., I did not use indirect language but openly cursed Isaf and Na'ilah to anger those accursed women who were calling upon them in Allah's House instead of Allah)." Hearing this, both women screamed and said: "If only there was someone from our people (to punish this man for his disrespect)." On the way, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) met them as they were descending from the mountain. They asked the women: "What happened?" They said: "A Sabi has come who is hiding in the curtains of the Ka'bah." They asked: "What did this Sabi say?" They said: "He said something that fills the mouth (i.e., they could not utter it)." And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came until he kissed the Black Stone, circumambulated with his companion, and prayed. When they finished praying, Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I was the first to greet and said: 'Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah!' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah.' Then he asked: 'Who are you?' I said: 'A man from Ghifar.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) lowered his hand and placed his fingers on his forehead (as if in remembrance). I thought to myself that perhaps he disliked that I said I was from (the tribe of) Ghifar. I reached out to take his hand, but his companion (Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him), who knew more about the Prophet's condition than I did, stopped me. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his head and said: 'When did you come here?' I replied: 'I have been here for thirty nights or days.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Who feeds you?' I said: 'I have nothing except Zamzam water.' Then I became fat until the folds of my belly turned over, and I do not feel the weakness of hunger in my chest.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Zamzam water is blessed, it is food and it fills like food.' Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'O Messenger of Allah! Allow me to host him tonight.' Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) left, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) as well, and I went with both of them. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) opened a door and brought out some dried grapes from Ta'if; this was the first food I ate in Mecca. Then I stayed as long as I stayed, and after that I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: 'A land with date palms has been shown to me, and I think that land is none other than Yathrib.' (Yathrib was the name of Madinah). Then he said: 'Go to your people and invite them to the religion on my behalf; perhaps Allah will benefit them through you and reward you.' I went to Anis, and he asked: 'What did you do?' I said: 'I have accepted Islam and affirmed the Prophethood of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).' He said: 'I do not dislike your religion; I too have accepted Islam and affirmed his Prophethood.' Then we both went to our mother, and she said: 'I do not dislike your religion either; I too have accepted Islam and affirmed it.' Then we loaded our belongings on the camels until we reached our tribe Ghifar. Half of the tribe became Muslim, and their leader was Ima' bin Rahdah Ghifari, who was also their chief. The other half said: 'When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) comes to Madinah, we will become Muslim.' Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, and the remaining half also became Muslim. The people of (the tribe of) Aslam came and said: 'O Messenger of Allah! We too become Muslim like our Ghifari brothers.' So they also became Muslim. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Allah has forgiven Ghifar, and Allah has saved Aslam.'"

Abdullah bin Samit reported that Abu Dharr (RA) said: Son of my brother, I used to observe prayer two years before the advent of Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) . I said: To which direction did you turn your face? He said: To which Allah directed me to turn my face. The rest of the hadith is the same but with this addition that they went to a Kahin and his brother Unais began to praise him until he (in verses declared) him (Unais) as winner (in the contest of poetry), and so we got his camels, mixed them with our camels, and there is in this hadith also these words that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) came there and he circumambulated the House and observed two Rak'ahs of prayer behind the Station (of Ibrahim). I came to him and I was the first amongst persons to greet him with Assalam-o-'Alaikum, and I said to Allah's Messenger Let there be peace upon you. And he said: Let there be peace upon you too; who are you? And in the hadith (these words are) also found: Since how long have you been here? And Abu Bakr (RA) said: Let him be my guest tonight.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Go to your people and say that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) says: Ghifar (is a tribe) to whom Allah granted pardon, and Aslam (is the tribe) to whom Allah granted safety.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: To the tribe of Aslam Allah has granted safety and to the tribe of Ghifar Allah has granted pardon.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Abu Dharr, when you prepare the broth, add water to that and give that (as a present) to your neighbour.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) commanded me thus: Whenever you prepare a broth, add water to it, and have in your mind the members of the household of your neighbours and then give them out of this with courtesy.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said to me: Don't consider anything insignificant out of good things even if it is that you meet your brother with a cheerful countenance.

Abu Dharr (RA) reported: It was said to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) : What is your opinion about the person who has done good deeds and the people praise him? He said: It is glad tidings for a believer (which he has received in this mortal world).

Abu Dharr (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was asked as to which words were the best. He said: Those for which Allah made a choice for His Angels and His servants (and the words are): "Hallowed be Allah and praise is due to Him."

Abu Dharr (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Should I not inform you about the words liked most by Allah? I said: Allah's Messenger, do inform me about the words liked most by Allah. He said: Verily, the words liked most by Allah are: "Hallowed be Allah and praise is due to Him."