Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his
father from Humran, the mawla of Uthman ibn Affan, that Uthman ibn
Affan was once sitting on the Maqaid (the benches surrounding the
Madina Mosque, or else a stone near Uthman ibn Affan's house where he
sat to discuss with people), when the muadhdhin came and told him that
it was time for the asr prayer. He called for water and did wudu. Then
he said, "By Allah, I shall tell you something which I would not tell
you if it were not in the Book of Allah. I heard the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, 'If a man does
wudu, and makes sure he does it correctly, and then does the prayer,
he will be forgiven everything that he does between then and the time
when he prays the next prayer.' "
Yahya said that Malik said,
"I believe he meant this ayat - 'Establish prayer at the two ends of
the day and in some watches of the night. Good actions take away wrong
actions. That is a reminder for those who remember.' " (Sura 11 ayat
114).
Muwatta Malik Book 2, Hadith 29
On the authority of his father (Sa'd) and his grandfather (Dumayrah) (according to Musa's version) who were present in the battle of Hunayn with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): After the advent of Islam, Muhallam ibn Jaththamah al-Laythi killed a man of Ashja'.
That was the first blood-money decided by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (for payment). Uyaynah spoke about the killing of al-Ashja'i, for he belonged to Ghatafan, and al-Aqra' ibn Habis spoke on behalf of Muhallam, for he belonged to Khunduf. The voices rose high, and the dispute and noise grew.
So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do you not accept blood-money, Uyaynah?
Uyaynah then said: No, I swear by Allah, until I cause his women to suffer the same fighting and grief as he caused my women to suffer. Again the voices rose high, and the dispute and noise grew.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do you not accept the blood-money Uyaynah? Uyaynah gave the same reply as before, and a man of Banu Layth called Mukaytil stood up. He had a weapon and a skin shield in his hand.
He said: I do not find in the beginning of Islam any illustration for what he has done except the one that "some sheep came on, and those in the front were shot; hence those in the rear ran away". (The other example is that) "make a law today and change it."
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Fifty (camels) here immediately and fifty when we return to Medina. This happened during some of his journeys. Muhallam was a tall man of dark complexion. He was with the people. They continued (to make effort for him) until he was released. He sat before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), with his eyes flowing.
He said: Messenger of Allah! I have done (the act) of which you have been informed. I repent to Allah, the Exalted, so ask Allah's forgiveness for me. Messenger of Allah!
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: Did you kill him with your weapon at the beginning of Islam. O Allah! do not forgive Muhallam. He said these words loudly.
AbuSalamah added: He (Muhallam) then got up while he was wiping his tears with the end of his garment.
Ibn Ishaq said: His people alleged that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked forgiveness for him after that.
Abu Dawud said: Al-Nadr b. Shumail said: al-ghiyar means blood-wit.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 41, Hadith 10
that he asked `Aisha, saying to her, "O Mother! (In what connection was this Verse revealed):
'If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with orphan girls (to the end of the verse) that your
right hands possess?" (4.3) Aisha said, "O my nephew! It was about the female orphan under the
protection of her guardian who was interested in her beauty and wealth and wanted to marry her with
a little or reduced Mahr. So such guardians were forbidden to marry female orphans unless they deal
with them justly and give their full Mahr; and they were ordered to marry women other than
them."`Aisha added, "(Later) the people asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), for instructions, and then Allah
revealed: 'They ask your instruction concerning the women . . . And yet whom you desire to marry.'
(4.127) So Allah revealed to them in this Verse that-if a female orphan had wealth and beauty, they
desired to marry her and were interested in her noble descent and the reduction of her Mahr; but if she
was not desired by them because of her lack in fortune and beauty they left her and married some
other woman. So, as they used to leave her when they had no interest in her, they had no right to
marry her if they had the desire to do so, unless they deal justly with her and gave her a full amount of
Mahr."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 76
Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, "The first
person to deduct zakat from allowances was Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan."
(i.e. the deduction being made automatically) .
Malik said,
"The agreed sunna with us is that zakat has to be paid on twenty
dinars (of gold coin), in the same way as it has to be paid on two
hundred dirhams (of silver)."
Malik said, "There is no zakat
to pay on (gold) that is clearly less than twenty dinars (in weight)
but if it increases so that by the increase the amount reaches a full
twenty dinars in weight then zakat has to be paid. Similarly, there is
no zakat to pay on (silver) that is clearly less than two hundred
dirhams (in weight), but if it increases so that by the increase the
amount reaches a full two hundred dirhams in weight then zakat has to
be paid. If it passes the full weight then I think there is zakat to
pay, whether it be dinars or dirhams." (i.e. the zakat is assessed by
the weight and not the number of the coins.)
Malik said,
about a man who had one hundred and sixty dirhams by weight, and the
exchange rate in his town was eight dirhams to a dinar, that he did
not have to pay any zakat. Zakat had only to be paid on twenty dinars
of gold or two hundred dirhams.
Malik said, in the case of a
man who acquired five dinars from a transaction or in some other way
which he then invested in trade, that, as soon as it increased to a
zakatable amount and then a year elapsed, he had to pay zakat on it,
even if the zakatable amount was reached one day before or one day
after the passing of a year. There was then no zakat to pay on it from
the day the zakat was taken until a year had elapsed over it.
Malik said, in the similar case of a man who had in his possession ten
dinars which he invested in trade and which reached twenty dinars by
the time one year had elapsed over them, that he paid zakat on them
right then and did not wait until a year had elapsed over them,
(counting) from the day when they actually reached the zakatable
amount. This was because a year had elapsed over the original dinars
and there were now twenty of them in his possession. After that there
was no zakat to pay on them from the day the zakat was paid until
another year had elapsed over them.
Malik said, "What we are
agreed upon (here in Madina) regarding income from hiring out slaves,
rent from property, and the sums received when a slave buys his
freedom, is that no zakat is due on any of it, whether great or small,
from the day the owner takes possession of it until a year has elapsed
over it from the day when the owner takes possession of it."
Malik said, in the case of gold and silver which was shared between
two co-owners, that zakat was due from any one whose share reached
twenty dinars of gold, or two hundred dirhams of silver, and that no
zakat was due from anyone whose share fell short of this zakatable
amount. If all the shares reached the zakatable amount and the shares
were not equally divided, zakat was taken from each man according to
the measure of his share. This applied only when the share of each man
among them reached the zakatable amount, because the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had said, "There is no
zakat to pay on less than five awaq of silver."
Malik
commented, "This is what I prefer most out of what I have heard about
the matter."
Malik said, "When a man has gold and silver
dispersed among various people he must add it all up together and then
take out the zakat due on the total sum ."
Malik said, "No
zakat is due from some one who acquires gold or silver until a year
has elapsed over his acquisition from the day it became his."
Muwatta Malik Book 17, Hadith 7
When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) died and Abu Bakr was elected as a Caliph after him, some of the Arabs
reverted to disbelief, `Umar said to Abu Bakr, "How dare you fight the people while Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
said, I have been ordered to fight the people till they say 'None has the right to be worshipped but
Allah' And whoever says: None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' waves his wealth and his
life from me unless he deserves a legal punishment lusty, and his account will be with Allah! Abu
Bakr said, "By Allah, I will fight him who discriminates between Zakat and prayers, for Zakat is the
Compulsory right to be taken from the wealth By Allah, if they refuse to give me even a tying rope
which they use to give to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), I would fight them for withholding it." `Umar said, 'By
Allah, It was nothing, except I saw that Allah had opened the chest of Abu Bakr to the fight, and I
came to know for certain that was the truth."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 96, Hadith 16
"Ammar bin Yasir led us in prayer and he made it brief. Some of the people said to him: 'You made the prayer sort (or brief).' He said: 'Nevertheless I still recited supplications that I heard from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).' When he got up and left, a man -- he was my father but he did not name himself -- followed him and asked him about that supplication, then he came and told the people:
"Allāhumma bi `ilmikal-ghaiba wa qudratika 'alal-khalqi aḥyinī mā `alimtal-ḥayāta khairan lī, wa tawaffanī idhā `alimtal-wafāta khairan lī. Allāhumma wa 'as'aluka khashyataka fil-ghaibi wash-shahādati wa 'as'aluka kalimatal-ḥaqqi fir-riḍā'i wal ghaḍab, wa as'alukal-qaṣda fil faqri wal-ghina, wa 'as'aluka na`īman lā yanfadu wa 'as'aluka qurrata `ainin lā tanqaṭi`u wa as'alukar-riḍā'i ba`dal-qaḍā'i wa 'as'aluka bardal `aishi ba`dal-mawti, wa 'as'aluka ladhdhatan-naẓari ilā wajhika wash-shawqa ilā liqā'ika fī ghairi ḍarrā'a muḍirratin wa lā fitnatin muḍillatin, Allāhumma zayyinnā bizīnatil-īmāni waj`alna hudātan muhtadīn (O Allah, by Your knowledge of the unseen and Your power over creation, keep me alive so long as You know that living is good for me and cause me to die when You know that death is better for me. O Allah, cause me to fear You in secret and in public. I ask You to make me true in speech in times of pleasure and of anger. I ask You to make me moderate in times of wealth and poverty. And I ask You for everlasting delight and joy that will never cease. I ask You to make me pleased with that which You have decreed and for an easy life after death. I askYou for the sweetness of looking upon Your face and a longing to meet You in a manner that does not entail a calamity that will bring about harm or a trial that will cause deviation. O Allah, beautify us with the adornment of faith and make us among those who guide and are rightly guided."
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 13, Hadith 127
The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love you, upon whom you invoke God's blessings and who invoke His blessing upon you. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you, who curse you and whom you curse. (Those present) said: Shouldn't we overthrow them at this? He said: No, as long as they establish prayer among you. No, as long as they establish prayer among you. Mind you! One who has a governor appointed over him and he finds that the governor indulges in an act of disobedience to God, he should condemn the governor's act, in disobedience to God, but should not withdraw himself from his obedience. Ibn Jabir said: Ruzaiq narrated to me this hadith. I asked him: Abu Miqdam, have you heard it from Muslim b. Qaraza or did he describe it to you and he heard it from 'Auf (b. Malik) and he transmitted this tradition of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)? Upon this Ruzaiq sat upon his knees and facing the Qibla said: By Allah, besides Whom there is no other God, I heard it from Muslim b. Qaraza and he said that te had heard it from Auf (b. Malik) and he said that he had heard it from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).
Sahih Muslim Book 33, Hadith 102
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "Anybody who spends a pair of something in Allah's Cause will be
called from all the gates of Paradise, "O Allah's slave! This is good.' He who is amongst those who
pray will be called from the gate of the prayer (in Paradise) and he who is from the people of Jihad
will be called from the gate of Jihad, and he who is from those' who give in charity (i.e. Zakat) will be
called from the gate of charity, and he who is amongst those who observe fast will be called from the
gate of fasting, the gate of Raiyan." Abu Bakr said, "He who is called from all those gates will need
nothing," He added, "Will anyone be called from all those gates, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)?" He said, "Yes,
and I hope you will be among those, O Abu Bakr."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 62, Hadith 18
"I heard 'Awf bin Malik say: "I heard the Messenger of Allah offering the funeral prayer for one who had died, and I heard him say in his supplication: Allahummaghfir lahu warhamhu wa 'afihi, wa a'fu 'anhu, wa akrim nuzulahu wa wassi' mudkhalahu waghsilhu bil-ma wath-thalji wal-barad, wa naqqihi min al-khataya kama naqqaita-thawb al-abyad min ad-danas. Wa abdilhu daran khairan min darihi, wa ahlan khayran min ahlihi, wa zawjan khayran min zawjihi. Wa adkhilahul-jannah wa najjihi min an-nar" (O Allah, forgive him and have mercy on him, keep him safe and sound and forgive him, honor the place where he settles and make his entrance wide; wash him with water and snow and hail, and cleanse him of his sin as you cleanse a white garment of dirt. O Allah, give him a house better than his house and a family better than his family and a wife better than his wife, and admit him to Paradise and save him from Hellfire)." Or he said: "Wa a'idhhu min 'adhab al-qabr (And protect him from the torment of the grave.)"
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 21, Hadith 167
The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said to me: When you go to your bed, perform ablution like the ablution for prayer, and then lie on your right side and say: O Allah I have handed over my face to thee, entrusted my affairs to thee, and committed my back to thee out of desire for and fear to thee. There is no refuge and no place of safety from thee except by having recource to thee. I believe in Thy Book which Thou hast sent down and in Thy prophet whom thou hast sent down. He said : If you die (that night), you would die in the true religion, and utter these words in the last of that you utter (other prayers). Al-Bara said : I said: I memorise them, and then I repeated, saying “and in Thy Apostle whom Thou hast sent”. He said : No, say : “and in Thy Prophet whom Thou hast sent.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 43, Hadith 274
“The earth was
brought together for me so that I could see the east and the west,
and
I was given two treasures, the yellow (or the red) and the white
–
meaning gold and silver. And it was said to me: ‘Your dominion
will
extend as far as has been shown to you.’ I asked Allah for
three
things: That my nation would not be overwhelmed by famine that
would
destroy them all, and that they would not be rent by schism and
fight
one another, but it was said to me: ‘When I (Allah) issue My
decree it
cannot be revoked. But I will never cause your nation to be
overwhelmed by famine that would destroy them all, and I will not
gather their enemies against them (and destroy them) until they
annihilate one another and kill one another.’ Once they start to
fight
amongst themselves, that will continue until the Day of
Resurrection.
What I fear most for my nation is misguiding leaders.
Some tribes
among my nation will worship idols and some tribes among
my nation
will join the idolaters. Before the Hour comes there will
be nearly
thirty Dajjals (great liars), each of them claiming to be a
Prophet.
But a group among my nation will continue to adhere to the
truth and
be victorious, and those who oppose them will not harm
them, until the
command of Allah comes to pass.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 36, Hadith 27
On the day of the Battle of Khaibar my brother fought a fierce fight by the side of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). His sword rebounded and killed him. The Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon hill) talked about his death and doubted (whether it was martyrdom). (They said): (He is) a man killed by his own weapon, and expressed doubt about his affair. Salama said: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) returned from Khaibar, I said: Messenger of Allah, permit me that I may recite to you some rajaz verses. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) permitted him. 'Umar b. Khattab said: I know what you will recite. I recited:
By God, if God had guided us not,
We would hive neither been guided aright nor practised charity,
Nor offered prayers.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: What you have said is true, 'I (continued):
And descend on us peace and tranquillity
And keep us steadfast if we encounter (with our enemies)
And the polytheists have rebelled against us.
When I finished my rajaz, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Who composed these verses? I said: They were composed by my brother. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: May God show mercy to him! I said: By God, some people are reluctant to invoke God's mercy on him (because) they say he is a man who died by his own sword. (Hearing this) the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He died as God's devotee and warrior. Ibn Shihab has said: I asked one of the sons of Salama (b. Akwa') about (the death of 'Amir). He related to me a similar tradition except that he said: When I said some people were reluctant invoke God's blessings on him, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be, upon him said: They lied. ('Amir) died as God's devotee and warrior (in the cause of Allah). For him there is a double reward, and he pointed out this by putting his two fingers together.
Sahih Muslim Book 32, Hadith 151
I spent the night in the house of my mother's sister, Maimuna, and observed how the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed (at night). He got up and relieved himself. He then washed his face and hands and then went to sleep. He again got up and went near the water-skin and loosened its straps and then poured some water in a bowl and inclined it with his hands (towards himself). He then performed a good ablution between the two extremes and then stood up to pray. I also came and stood by his left side. He took hold of me and made me stand on his right side. It was in thirteen rak`ahs that the (night) prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was completed. He then slept till he began to snore, and we knew that he had gone to sleep by his snoring. He then went out (for the dawn prayer), and said while praying or prostrating himself: "O Allah! place light in my heart, light in my hearing, light in my sight, light on my right, light on my left, light in front of me, light behind me, light above me, light below me, make light for me," or he said: "Make me light."
Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith 222