Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The truest verse that the poets have said is: 'Behold! Everything besides Allah is false.'"
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20964
Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I am not of falsehood, nor is falsehood of me." This meaning was given by Abu Ubaydah.
The Shaykh says: Abu Ubayd al-Qasim bin Sallam says that "al-dad" means play and amusement.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20965
Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: It is dearer to me that I worship an idol that used to be worshipped in the Jahiliyyah than that I play gambling. This was (a game of) sticks with which people used to play on the ground.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20966
Sayyiduna Fadalah bin Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Whether I play with dice, or perform ablution with the blood of swine and then offer the prayer, it is all the same.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20967
Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) passed by some boys who were playing kijjah; these were holes containing pieces of wood with which they played. Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) filled them in and forbade them from it. The narrator says: They were not opened again until afterwards.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20968
Nafi' narrates from Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) that Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) came to his household while they were playing "al-arba'ata 'ashar", "the game of fourteen pieces", and he broke it. He (the narrator) says: I heard Hammad say that he broke it over (his) head.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20969
Sayyiduna Salamah bin al-Akwa' (may Allah be pleased with him) used to forbid his sons from playing "al-arba' 'asharah", "the game of fourteen pieces". It was asked: Why do you forbid them? He said: They swear oaths and lie. It has also been narrated from Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she disliked it.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) says: Whoever plays any of these believing it to be permissible, his testimony is not rejected. The Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him) says: This is because of the difference of opinion about it, or about some of it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20970
Bassam bin Abdullah al-Sayrafi says: I asked Abu Ja'far (may Allah have mercy on him) about nardashir, and he disliked it and said that Ali bin al-Husayn (may Allah have mercy on him) used to play shaharadah with his family.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) says: If it makes him heedless to the point that the time of prayer passes, his testimony will be rejected because of his belittling the prayer.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20971
Yahya bin Habban narrates from Ibn Muhayriz that a man of Kinanah who was called al-Mukhdaji heard a man in Syria, who was called Abu Muhammad, saying that the witr is obligatory. Al-Mukhdaji says: I went to Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) and informed him. Sayyiduna Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Abu Muhammad has made a mistake, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty has made five prayers obligatory upon His servants. Whoever does not waste them out of belittling them, Allah will admit him into Paradise. And whoever does not offer these prayers has no promise from Allah; if He wills, He will punish him, and if He wills, He will admit him into Paradise."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20972
Abu Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him) says: I asked al-Qasim bin Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him): What is maysir? He said: Everything that distracts from the remembrance of Allah and from the prayer is maysir.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20973
Umar bin Ubaydullah used to say to al-Qasim bin Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him): Nard is maysir; what is your view about chess, is it maysir? Al-Qasim bin Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Everything that distracts from the remembrance of Allah and from the prayer is maysir."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20974