Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Inform me of a tree which resembles a Muslim, giving its fruits at every season
by the permission of its Lord, and the leaves of which do not fall." I thought of the date-palm tree, but
I disliked to speak because Abu Bakr and `Umar were present there. When nobody spoke, the Prophet (ﷺ)
said, "It is the date-palm tree" When I came out with my father, I said, "O father! It came to my mind
that it was the date-palm tree." He said, "What prevented you from saying it?" Had you said it, it
would have been more dearer to me than such-and-such a thing (fortune)." I said, "Nothing prevented
me but the fact that neither you nor Abu Bakr spoke, so I disliked to speak (in your presence).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 78, Hadith 170
It is a sign of having knowledge that, when you do not know something, you say: 'Allah knows better.'
Allah said to his Prophet:
'Say: No wage do I ask of you for this (Quran), nor am I one of the pretenders (a person who pretends
things which do not exist)' (38.86) When the Quraish troubled and stood against the Prophet (ﷺ) he said,
"O Allah! Help me against them by afflicting them with seven years of famine like the seven years of
Joseph." So they were stricken with a year of famine during which they ate bones and dead animals
because of too much suffering, and one of them would see something like smoke between him and the
sky because of hunger. Then they said: Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we are
believers. (44.12) And then it was said to the Prophet (by Allah), "If we remove it from them. they
will revert to their ways (of heathenism)." So the Prophet (ﷺ) invoked his Lord, who removed the
punishment from them, but later they reverted (to heathenism), whereupon Allah punished them on
the day of the Battle of Badr, and that is what Allah's Statement indicates:
'Then watch for the day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible...we will indeed
(then) exact retribution.' (44.10).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 344
A woman came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Men (only) benefit by your teachings,
so please devote to us from (some of) your time, a day on which we may come to you so that you may
teach us of what Allah has taught you." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Gather on such-and-such a day at suchand-
such a place." They gathered and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came to them and taught them of what Allah
had taught him. He then said, "No woman among you who has lost her three children (died) but that
they will screen her from the Fire." A woman among them said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! If she lost two
children?" She repeated her question twice, whereupon the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Even two, even two, even
two!" (See Hadith No. 341, Vol. 2)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 96, Hadith 41