Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone applies collyrium, he should do it an odd number of times. If he does so, he has done well; but if not, there is no harm. If anyone cleanses himself with pebbles, he should use an odd number. If he does so, he has done well; but if not, there is no harm. If anyone eats, he should throw away what he removes with a toothpick and swallow what sticks to his tongue. If he does so, he has done well; if not, there is no harm. If anyone goes to relieve himself, he should conceal himself, and if all he can do is to collect a heap of send, he should sit with his back to it, for the devil makes sport with the posteriors of the children of Adam. If he does so, he has done well; but if not, there is no harm.

Narrated Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Were it not hard on my ummah, I would order them to use the tooth-stick at the time of every prayer. Abu Salamah said: Zayd ibn Khalid used to attend the prayers in the mosque with his tooth-stick on his ear where a clerk carries a pen, and whenever he got up for prayer he used it.

Shuraih asked Aishah: "What would the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do as soon as he entered the house?" She replied: " (He would use) the siwak. "

Abu Alqamah said that Uthman called for water and performed ablution. He then poured water with the right hand or the left hand ; he then washed them up to the wrist ; he then rinsed the mouth and snuffed up water three times. The narrator mentioned that Uthman washed each part three times. He then wiped head and washed his feet. He said: I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performing ablution as you saw me perform ablution. He then reported the tradition like that of al-Zuhrl and completed it.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Cleanse your nose well (after snuffing up water) twice or thrice.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Saad al-Ansari: I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as to what makes it necessary to take a bath and about the (prostatic) fluid that flows after taking a bath. He replied: that is called madhi (prostatic fluid). It flows from every male. You should wash your private parts and testicles because of it and perform ablution as you do for prayer.

This tradition has also been reported through a different chain of narrators in a similar way. This version says: “Until you see me that I have come out”. Abu dawud said: No one except Mamar has narrated the words “that I have come out”. And the version transmitted by Ibn ‘Uyainah from Mamar does not mention the words “that I have come out”.

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade trailing garments during prayer and that a man should cover his mouth. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been narrated by 'Isi on the authority of Ata from Abu Hurairah: The Prophet ﷺ forbade trailing garments during prayer.

Amr bin Huraith said: As if I am hearing the voice of the prophet (may peace by upon him) who would recite at the morning prayer “Oh, but I call to witness the planets, the stars which rise and set” (surah 81: 15-16)

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: Go out and announce in Madina that prayer is not valid but the recitation of the Quran even though it might be fatihat al-kitab and something more.

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: Ali said on the pulpit in the mosque of Kufah: When Friday comes, the devils go to the markets with their flags, and involve people in their needs and prevent them from the Friday prayer. The angels come early in the morning, sit at the door of the mosque, and record that so-and-so came at the first hour, and so-and-so came at the second hour until the imam comes out (for preaching). When a man sits in a place where he can listen (to the sermon) and look (at the imam), where he remains silent and does not interrupt, he will receive a double reward. If he stays away, sits in a place where he cannot listen (to the sermon), silent, and does not interrupt, he will receive the reward only once. If he sits in a place where he can listen (to the sermon) and look (at the imam), and he does not remain silent, he will have the burden of it. If anyone says to his companion sitting besides him to be silent (while the imam is preaching), he is guilty of idle talk. Anyone who interrupts (during the sermon) will receive nothing (no reward) on that Friday. Then he (the narrator) says in the end of this tradition: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say so. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by al-Walid bin Muslim from Ibn Jabir. This version adds: bi'l-raba'ith (instead of al-raba'ith, needs preventing the people from prayer). Further, this adds: Freed slave of his wife Umm Uthman bin Ata.

Jabir bin Samurah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave two sermons between which he sat, recited the Quran and gave the people an exhortation.

This tradition has also been transmitted by Ibrahim bin Musa al-Razi, from 'Isa, on the authority of Ibn Jabir to the same effect. Abu Dawud said: Abdullah bin al-'Ala narrated on the authority of Nafi saying: When the twilight was about to disappear, he alighted and combined both (the prayers).

Narrated Imran ibn Husayn: I went on an expedition with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I was present with him at the conquest. He stayed eighteen days in Makkah and prayed only two rak'ahs (at each time of prayer). And he said: You who live in the town must pray four; we are travellers.

Masruq said: I asked Aishah about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I said to her: At what time he prayed at night ? She said: When he heard the cock crow, he got up and prayed.

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Prophet ﷺ said: Allah is single (witr) and loves what is single, so observe the witr, you who follow the Quran.

Narrated Ubayy ibn Kab: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to observe witr with (reciting) "Glorify the name of thy Lord, the most High" (Surah 87), "Say O disbelievers" (Surah 109), and "Say, He is Allah, the One, Allah, the eternally besought of all" (112).

Thawban, the client of Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: When the Prophet ﷺ finished the prayer, he asked forgiveness three times and said: "O Allah. . . . . " The narrator then narrated the tradition like that of Aishah.

Aishah narrated that the Prophet ﷺ would supplicate with the following words: "O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the trials of the Fire, and the punishment of the Fire, and from the evils of richness and poverty. "

The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Abu al-Yusr through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: "and from sorrow".

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Prophet ﷺ said: There are forty characteristics; the highest of them is to give a goat on loan (for benefiting from its milk). If any man carries out any of those characteristics with the hope of getting a reward and testifying to the promise for it, Allah will admit him to Paradise for it. Abu Dawud said: In the version of Musaddad, Hassan said: So we counted other characteristics than lending the goat: to return the greeting, to respond to sneezing, and remove things which cause annoyance to the people from their path, and similar other things. We could not reach fifteen characteristics.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Qurt: The Prophet ﷺ said: The greatest day in Allah's sight is the day of sacrifice and next the day of resting which Isa said on the authority of Thawr is the second day. Five or six sacrificial camels were brought to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and they began to draw near to see which he would sacrifice first. When they fell down dead, he said something in a low voice, which I could not catch. So I asked: What did he say? He was told that he had said: Anyone who wants can cut off a piece.

Abd al-Hamid ibn Jafar reported from his father on the authority of his grandfather Rafi ibn Sinan that he (Rafi ibn Sinan) embraced Islam and his wife refused to embrace Islam. She came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: My daughter; she is weaned or about to wean. Rafi said: My daughter. The Prophet ﷺ said to him: Be seated on a side. And he said to her: Be seated on a side. He then seated the girl between them, and said to them: Call her. The girl inclined to her mother. The Prophet ﷺ said: O Allah! guide her. The daughter then inclined to her father, and he took her.

Narrated Uthman bin Hakim: I asked Saeed bin Jubair about fasting during Rajab. He said: Ibn Abbas told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to fast to such an extent that we thought that he would never break his fast ; and he would go without fasting to such and extent that he would never fast.

Narrated Muawiyah: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Migration will not end until repentance ends, and repentance will not end until the sun rises in the west.

Narrated Abu Ayyub al-Ansari: Abu Ayyub heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Capitals will be conquered at your hands, and you will have to raise companies in large armies. A man will be unwilling to join a company, so he will escape from his people and go round the tribes offering himself to them, saying: Whose place may I take in such and such expedition? Whose place may I take in such and such expedition? Beware: That man is a hireling to the last drop of his blood.

Narrated Al-Bara ibn Azib: Yunus ibn Ubayd, client of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, said that Muhammad ibn al-Qasim sent to al-Bara ibn Azib to ask him about the standard of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: It was black and square, being made of a woollen rug.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet ﷺ sacrificed two horned rams which were white with black markings and had been castrated. When he made them face the qiblah, he said: I have turned my face towards Him. Who created the heavens and the earth, following Abraham's religion, the true in faith, and I am not one of the polytheists. My prayer, and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the Universe, Who has no partner. That is what I was commanded to do, and I am one of the Muslims. O Allah it comes from Thee and is given to Thee from Muhammad and his people. In the name of Allah, and Allah is Most Great. He then made sacrifice.

Narrated Yazid Dhu Misr: I came to Utbah ibn AbdusSulami and said: AbulWalid, I went out seeking sacrificial animals. I did not find anything which attracted me except an animal whose teeth have fallen. So I abominated it. What do you say (about it)? He said: Why did you not bring it to me? He said: Glory be to Allah: Is if lawful for you and not lawful for me? He said: Yes, you doubt and I do not doubt. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has forbidden an animal whose ear has been uprooted so much so that its hole appears (outwardly), and an animal whose horn has broken from the root, and an animal which has totally lost the sight of its eye, and an animal which is so thin and weak that it cannot go with the herd, and an animal with a broken leg.

Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa: The Prophet ﷺ said: A woman gets inheritance from the three following: one she has set free, a foundling, and her child about whom she has invoked a curse on herself if she was untrue in declaring he was not born out of wedlock.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Prophet ﷺ was brought a pouch containing bead and divided it among free women and slave women. Aishah said: My father used to divide things between free men and slave.

Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed the wailing woman and the woman who listens to her.

Uyaynah also reported the aforementioned tradition (No. 3176) through a different chain of transmitters. This version goes: We attended the funeral of Abdur Rahman ibn Samurah and he said: He (Abu Bakrah) made his mule run quickly and pointed with the flog.

Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in prayer over bier of a Muslim and I heard him say: O Allah, so and so, son of so and so, is in Thy protection, so guard him from the trial in the grave. (Abdur Rahman in his version said: "In Thy protection and in Thy nearer presence, so guard him from the trial in the grave) and the punishment in Hell. Thou art faithful and worthy of praise. O Allah, forgive him and show him mercy. Thou art the forgiving and the merciful one. " Abdur Rahman said: "On the authority of Marwan ibn Janah. "

Narrated Uthman ibn Affan: Whenever the Prophet ﷺ became free from burying the dead, he used to stay at him (i. e. his grave) and say: Seek forgiveness for your brother, and beg steadfastness for him, for he will be questioned now. Abu Dawud said: The full name of the narrator Buhair is Buhair bin Raisan.

Narrated Abu Marthad al-Ghanawi: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: Do not sit on the graves, and do not pray facing them.

Narrated Al-Numan bin Bashir: I heard Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: But between them are certain doubtful things which many people do not recognize. He who guards against doubtful things keeps his religion and his honor blameless, but he who falls into doubtful things falls into what is unlawful.

Narrated Hanzlah bin Qais al-Ansari: I asked Rafi bin Khadij about the lease of land for gold and silver (i. e. for dinars and dirhams). There is no harm in it, for the people used to let out land in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for what grew by the current of water and at the banks of streamlets and at the places of cultivation. So sometimes this (portion) perished and that (portion) was saved, and sometimes this remained intact and that perished. There was no (form of) lease among the people except this. Therefore, he forbade it. But if there is something which is secure and known, then there is no harm in it. The tradition of Ibrahim is more perfect. Qutaibah said: "from Hanzalah on the authority of Rafi ". Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has been transmitted by Yahya bin Saeed from Hanzalah.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet ﷺ forbade payment for dog and cat.

Umm Salamah reported the Prophet ﷺ as saying when two men were disputing over inheritance and old things: I decide between you on the basis of my opinion in cases about which no revelation has been sent down to me.