The above hadith was likewise narrated with another chain of transmitters.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The similitude of mine and that of the Apostles (before me) is that of a person who constructed a building and he built it fine and well and the people went round it saying: Never have we seen a building more imposing than this, but for one brick, and I am that brick (with which you give the finishing touch to the building).

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Abu Kurayb narrated to us, they said: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us. (H) And Ibn Numayr narrated to us, my father narrated to us, both of them from Al-A'mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah. (H) And Qutaybah ibn Sa'id narrated to us, Al-Mughira—meaning Al-Hizami—narrated to us. (H) And Ibn Abi 'Umar narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, both of them from Abu Al-Zinad, from Al-A'raj, from Abu Hurayrah. (H) And Ubaydullah ibn Mu'adh narrated to us, my father narrated to us, Shu'bah narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ziyad, he heard Abu Hurayrah. (H) And Muhammad ibn Rafi' narrated to us, 'Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, Ma'mar informed us, from Hammam ibn Munabbih, from Abu Hurayrah—all of them said, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him:

"Leave me as long as I leave you; and in the narration of Hammam: as long as you are left. Indeed, those before you were destroyed only because of their excessive questioning and their disagreement with their prophets." Then they mentioned something similar to the hadith of Az-Zuhri, from Sa'id and Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: I am most akin to Jesus Christ among the whole of mankind, and all the Prophets are of different mothers but belong to one religion and no Prophet (ﷺ) was raised between me and Jesus.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said that Ibrahim circumcised himself with the help of adze when he was eighty years old.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah (RA) through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Zuhri, and there is a clear mention of the stories of ox and goat (and the words are): I believe in it and so do Abu Bakr (RA) and Umar, but they were not at that time present there.

Abu Usaid Ansar reported: I bear witness to the fact that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: The best settlements of the Ansar are of those of Banu Najjar, then of Banu 'Abu al-Aslihal and then of Banu Harith bin Khazraj, then of Banu Sa'ida and there is in every settlement of the Ansar good. Abu Salama reported that Abu Usaid said: Can I tell a Iie about Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ? And if I were a liar, I would have started with my tribe Banu Sa'ida. This was conveyed to Sa'd bin 'Ubida and he found (rankling) in his mind and said: We have been left behind (in the sense) that we have been (mentioned) last of the four. He (Sa'd) sid: Saddle my pony so that I should go to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) . His nephew saw him and said: Are you going to contradict (the order of) precedence set by Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) , whereas Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has the best knowledge of it? Is it not sufficient for you that you are the fourth amongst the four (best tribes of the Ansar)? So he returned and said: Allah and His Messenger know best, and he commanded that his pony should be unsaddled.

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Shu'bah with the same chain of transmitters.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: By Him in Whose Hand is the life of Muhammad, (the tribes of) Ghifar, Aslam, Muzaina, or from the tribe of Juhaina or from the tribe of Muzaina, they would be better in the eye of Allah than Asad, Tayyi, and Ghatfan on the Day of Resurrection.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Tufail and his companions said: Allah's Messenger, the tribe of Daws has disbelieved and has belied you, so invoke curse upon them. It was said: Let Daws be destroyed, whereupon he (Allah's Messenger) said: Allah guide aright the tribe of Daws and direct them to me.

This hadith has been transmitted through other chains of transmitters.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Good amongst the women are those who ride camels. One of them said: They are pious women of the Quraish, and the other one said: The women of the Quraish are kind to the orphans in their childhood and look after the wealth of their spouses.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Hurairah (RA) with a slight variation of wording and there is no word" orphan".

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Avoid suspicion, for suspicion is the gravest lie in talk and do not be inquisitive about one another and do not spy upon one another and do not feel envy with the other, and nurse no malice, and nurse no aversion and hostility against one another. And be fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying: O Allah, I make a covenant with Thee against which Thou wouldst never go. I am a human being and thus for a Muslim whom I give any harm or whom I scold or upon whom I invoke curse or whom I beat, make this a source of blessing, purification and nearness to Thee on the Day of Resurrection.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Zinad with a slight variation of wording.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The worst amongst the people is the double-faced one; he comes to some people with one face and to others with the other face.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: When any one of you fights with his brother he should avoid striking at the face.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Zinad and he said: " When one amongst you strikes (at the face)."

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: There was argument between Adam ؑؑand Moses (ؑ), and Adam ؑؑcame the better of Moses (ؑ). Moses (ؑ) said to him: You are the same Adam ؑwho misled people, and caused them to get out of Paradise. Adam ؑsaid: You are the same ( Moses (ؑ)) whom Allah endowed the knowledge of everything and selected him amongst the people as His Messenger. He said: Yes. Adam ؑthen again said: Even then you blame me for an affair which had been ordained for me before I was created.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) was asked about the children of the polytheists who die young. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: It is Allah Who knows what they would be doing.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: There are ninety-nine names of Allah; he who commits them to memory would get into Paradise. Verily, Allah is Odd (He is one, and it is an odd number) and He loves odd number. And in the narration of Ibn 'Umar (the words are): "He who enumerated them."

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant when he turns penitently towards Him than one of you would be on finding the lost camel.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: When Allah created the creation as He was upon the Throne, He put down in His Book: Verily, My mercy predominates My wrath.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: My mercy excels My wrath.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that a person who had never done any good deed asked the members of his family to burn his dead body when he would die and to scatter half of its ashes over the land and half in the ocean. By Allah, if Allah finds him in His grip, He would torment him with a torment with which He did not afflict anyone amongst the people of the world; and when the person died, it was done to him as he had commanded (his family) to do. Allah commanded the land to collect (the ashes scattered on it) and He commanded the ocean and that collected (ashes) contained in it. Allah questioned him why he had done that He said: My Lord, it is out of Thine fear that I have done it and Thou art well aware of it, and Allah granted him pardon.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) as saying: A bulky person would be brought on the Day of Judgment and he would not carry the weight to the eye of Allah equal even to that of a gnat. Nor shall We set up a balance for them on the Day of Resurrection" (xviii. 105).

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah (RA) through another chain of transmitters.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying that: Allah the Exalted and Glorious, said: I have prepared for My pious servants which no eye has ever seen, and no ear has ever heard, and no human heart has ever perceived but it is testified by the Book of Allah. He then recited:" No soul knows what comfort has been concealed from them, as a reward for what they did". (xxxii. 17)

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: I have prepared for My pious servants which no eye (has ever) seen, no ear has (ever) heard and no human heart has ever perceived those bounties leaving apart (those bounties) about which Allah has informed you.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah (RA) through another chain of transmitters with the addition of these words:" He will not be able to cover this distance."

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as seying: The fire which sons of Adam ؑburn is only one-seventieth part of the Fire of Hell. His Companions said: By Allah, even ordinary fire would have been enough (to burn people). Thereupon he said: It is sixty-nine parts in excess of (the heat of) fire in this world each of them being equivalent to their heat.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as say- ing: There was a dispute between the Hell and the Paradise and it (the Hell) said: The haughty and the proud would find abode in me. And the Paradise said: The meek and the humble would find their abode in me. Thereupon Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, (addressing the Hell) said: You are (the means) of My punishment by which I punish those of My servants whom I wish. (And addressing the Paradise) He said: You are only My Mercy by means of which 1 shall show mercy to those whom I wish, but each one of you would be full.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Hell and the Paradise fell into dispute and the Hell said: I have been dis- tinguished by the proud and the haughty. And the Paradise said: What is the matter with me that the meek and the humble amongst people and the downtrodden and the simple enter me? Thereupon Allah said to the Paradise: You are (the means) of My Mercy whereby I show mercy to those of My servants whom 1 wish, and He said to the Hell: You are (the means) of punishment whereby 1 punish those of My servants whoml wish. Both of you will be full. The Hell will riot be filled up until Allah puts down His foot in it. The Hell would say: Enough, enough, enough, and at that time it will be filled up, all its parts integrated together.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Euphrates would soon uncover a mountain of gold but he who is present there should not take anything from that.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Last Hour would not come until a person would pass by a grave of another person and he would say: I wish it had been my abode.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Last Hour would not come until you fight with a people wearing shoes of hair and the Last Hour would not come until you fight with a people having small eyes and broad snub noses.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Last Hour would not come until there would arise about thirty impostors, liars, and each one of them would claim that he is a messenger of Allah.

Fatima bin Qais reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sat on the pulpit and said: O people, Tamim Dari has reported to me that some persons of his tribe sailed in the ocean in a boat and it capsised and then some of them travelled on one of the planks of the boat and they went to an island in the ocean. The rest of the hadith is the same.