“The Messenger of
Allah
(ﷺ) used to teach us Istikharah, just as he used to teach us a
Surah of the Qur’an. He said: ‘If anyone of you is deliberating
about
a decision he has to make, then let him pray two Rak’ah of
non-
obligatory prayer, then say: Allahumma inni astakhiruka bi
‘ilmika wa
astaqdiruka bi qudratika wa as’aluka min
fadlikal-‘azim, fa innaka
taqdiru wa la aqdir, wa ta’lamu wa la
a’lam, wa Anta ‘allamul-ghuyub.
Allahumma in kunta ta’lamu
hadhal-amra (then the matter should be
mentioned by name) ma kan min
shay’in khairan li fi dini wa ma’ashi wa
‘aqibati amri, aw
khairanli fi ‘ajili amri wa ajilihi, faqdurhu li wa
yassirhu li wa
barik li fihi. Wa in kunta ta’lamu [O Allah, I seek
Your guidance
(in making a choice) by virtue of Your knowledge, and I
seek ability
by virtue of Your power, and I ask You of Your great
bounty. You have
power, I have none. And You know, I know not. You are
the Knower of
hidden things. O Allah, if in Your knowledge, this
matter (then it
should be mentioned by name) is good for me in my
religion, my
livelihood and my affairs, or both in this world and in
the Hereafter
then ordain it for me, make it easy for me, and bless it
for me. And
if in Your knowledge]. Then saying similar to what he said
the first
time, except: Wa in kana sharran li fasrifhu ‘anni wasrifni
‘anhu
waqdur li al-khair haithuma kana thumma raddini bihi (If it is
bad
for me then turn it away from me and turn me away from it, and
ordain
for me the good wherever it may be and make me pleased with
it).’”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 5, Hadith 581
We went with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) during the year of the Farewell Pilgrimage. We entered into the state of Ihram for Umra. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Who has the sacrificial animal with him, he should put on Ihram for Hajj along with Umra. and should not put it off till he has completed them (both Hajj and Umra). She said: When I came to Mecca. I was having menses, I neither circumambulated the House, nor ran between as-safa' and al-Marwa. I complained about it to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he said: Undo your hair, comb it, and pronounce Talbiya for Hajj, and give up Umra (for the time being), which I did. When we had performed the Hajj, the Messenger of Allah (way peace he upon him) sent me with Abd al-Rabman b. Abu Bakr to Tan'im saying: This is the place for your Umra. Those who had put on Ihram for Umra circumambulated the House, and ran between al-safa' and al-Marwa. They then put off Ihram and then made the last circuit after they had returned from Mina after performing their Hajj, but those who had combined the Hajj and the Umra made only one circuit (as they had combined Hajj and 'Umra).
Sahih Muslim Book 15, Hadith 119
“You
have kinship and rights, and I see you entering upon these rulers and
speaking to them as Allah wills you should speak. But i heard Bilal
bin Harith Al-Muzani, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ),
say that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘One of you may speak a
word that pleases Allah, and not know how far it reaches, but Allah
will record for him as pleasure, until the Day of Resurrection due to
that word. And one of you may speak a word that angers Allah, and not
know how far it reaches, but Allah will record against him his anger,
until the Day he meets Him due to that word.”
'Alqamah said: "So look, woe to you, at what you say and what you speak about, for there is something that I wanted to say but I refrained because of what I heard from Bilal bin Harith."
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 36, Hadith 44
“We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and Amr bin Murrah came and said: 'O Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), Allah (SWT) has decreed that I be doomed, and He has not guided me to earn a living except by beating my tambourine with my hand; give me permission to sing without doing anything immoral.' The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'I will not give you permission, or honor you nor give you, what you want. You are lying, O enemy of Allah. Allah (SWT) has granted you a good, lawful provision, but you have chosen the provision that Allah (SWT) has forbidden to you instead of that which He has permitted. If I had warned you before, I would have done such and such to you. Get away from me and repent to Allah (SWT). If you do that again, after this warning, I will give you a painful beating and shave your head, to make an example of you, and I will banish you from among your people, and tell the young men of Al-Madinah to come and take your goods,'Amr stood up, suffering grief and humiliation that is known only to Allah (SWT).
When he went away, the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 'Those sinners, whoever among them dies without having repented, Allah (SWT) will gather him on the Day of Resurrection just as he was in this world, effeminate and naked, with not even a piece of cloth to conceal him from the people. Every time he gets up, he will fall to the ground.'”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 20, Hadith 81
The Quraish people became very worried about the Makhzumiya lady who had committed theft. They
said, "Nobody can speak (in favor of the lady) to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and nobody dares do that except
Usama who is the favorite of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). " When Usama spoke to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about that
matter, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do you intercede (with me) to violate one of the legal punishment of
Allah?" Then he got up and addressed the people, saying, "O people! The nations before you went
astray because if a noble person committed theft, they used to leave him, but if a weak person among
them committed theft, they used to inflict the legal punishment on him. By Allah, if Fatima, the
daughter of Muhammad committed theft, Muhammad will cut off her hand.!"
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 86, Hadith 17
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from his
father that he said to Umar ibn al-Khattab, "There is a blind she-
camel behind the house,'' soUmar said, "Hand it over to a household so
that they can make (some) use of it." He said, "But she is blind."
Umar replied, "Then put it in a line with other camels." He said, "How
will it be able to eat from the ground?" Umar asked, "Is it from the
livestock of the jizya or the zakat?" and Aslam replied, "From the
livestock of the jizya." Umar said, "By AIIah, you wish to eat it."
Aslam said, "It has the brand of the jizya on it." So Umar ordered it
to be slaughtered. He had nine platters, and on each of the platters
he put some of every fruit and delicacy that there was and then sent
them to the wives of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, and the one he sent to his daughter Hafsa was the last of them
all, and if there was any deficiency in any of them it was in Hafsa's
portion.
"He put meat from the slaughtered animal on the
platters and sent them to the wives of the Prophet, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, and he ordered what was left of the meat of
the slaughtered animal to be prepared. Then he invited the Muhajirun
and the Ansar to eat it."
Malik said, "I do not think that
livestock should be taken from people who pay the jizya except as
jizya."
Muwatta Malik Book 17, Hadith 48
Yahya related to me from Malik that the best of what he had heard
about a man who is forced by necessity to eat carrion is that he ate
it until he was full and then he took provision from it. If he found
something which would enable him to dispense with it, he threw it
away.
Malik when asked whether or not a man who had been
forced by necessity to eat carrion, should eat it when he also found
the fruit, crops or sheep of a people in that place, answered, "If he
thinks that the owners of the fruit, crops, or sheep will believe his
necessity so that he will not be deemed a thief and have his hand cut
off, then I think that he should eat from whatever he finds that which
will remove his hunger but he should not carry any of it away. I
prefer that he does that than that he eat carrion. If he fears that he
will not be believed, and will be deemed a thief for what he has
taken, then I think that it is better for him to eat the carrion, and
he has leeway to eat carrion in this respect. Even so, I fear that
someone who is not forced by necessity to eat carrion might exceed the
limits out of a desire to consume other peoples' property, crops or
fruit."
Malik said, "That is the best of what I have heard."
Muwatta Malik Book 25, Hadith 19
Messenger of Allah, verily ours is a tribe of Rabi'a and there stand between you and us the unbelievers of Mudar and we find no freedom to come to you except in the sacred month. Direct us to an act which we should ourselves perform and invite those who live beside us. Upon this the Prophet remarked: I command you to do four things and prohibit you against four acts. (The four deeds which you are commanded to do are): Faith in Allah, and then he explained it for them and said: Testifying the fact. that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, performance of prayer, payment of Zakat, that you pay Khums (one-fifth) of the booty fallen to your lot, and I prohibit you to use round gourd, wine jars, wooden pots or skins for wine. Khalaf b. Hisham has made this addition in his narration: Testifying the fact that there is no god but Allah, and then he with his finger pointed out the oneness of the Lord.
Sahih Muslim Book 1, Hadith 23
Umar and a group of the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) set out with the
Prophet to Ibn Saiyad. He found him playing with some boys near the
hillocks of Bani Maghala. Ibn Saiyad at that time was nearing his
puberty. He did not notice (the Prophet's presence) till the Prophet (ﷺ)
stroked him on the back with his hand and said, "Ibn Saiyad! Do you
testify that I am Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)?" Ibn Saiyad looked at him and said,
"I testify that you are the Apostle of the illiterates."
Then Ibn Saiyad asked the Prophet. "Do you testify that I am the
apostle of Allah?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, "I believe in Allah and
His Apostles." Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said (to Ibn Saiyad). "What do you
see?" Ibn Saiyad replied, "True people and false ones visit me." The
Prophet said, "Your mind is confused as to this matter." The Prophet (ﷺ)
added, " I have kept something (in my mind) for you." Ibn Saiyad said,
"It is Ad-Dukh." The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to him), "Shame be on you! You
cannot cross your limits." On that 'Umar said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!
Allow me to chop his head off." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If he should be him
(i.e. Ad-Dajjal) then you cannot overpower him, and should he not be
him, then you are not going to benefit by murdering him."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 56, Hadith 261
We set out with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) shortly before the appearance of the new moon of Dhi-l-Hijja and he
said, "Whoever wants to assume Ihram for `Umra may do so, and whoever wants to assume Ihram for
Hajj may do so. Had not I brought the Hadi with me, I would have assumed Ihram for `Umra." Some
of the people assumed Ihram for `Umra while others for Hajj. I was amongst those who had assumed
Ihram for `Umra. I got my menses before entering Mecca, and was menstruating till the day of
`Arafat. I complained to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about it, he said, "Abandon your `Umra, undo and comb your
hair, and assume Ihram for Hajj." So, I did that accordingly. When it was the night of Hasba (day of
departure from Mina), the Prophet (ﷺ) sent `Abdur Rahman with me to at-Tan`im.
The sub-narrator adds: He (`Abdur-Rahman) let her ride behind him. And she assumed Ihram for
`Umra in lieu of the abandoned one. Aisha completed her Hajj and `Umra, and no Hadi, Sadaqa
(charity), or fasting was obligatory for her.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 26, Hadith 13
I said to Ata': Which time do you deem fit for me to say the 'Isya' prayer, -as an Imam or alone, -that time which is called by people 'Atama? He said: I heard Ibn 'Abbas saying: The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) one night delayed the 'Isya' prayer till the people went to sleep. They woke up and again went to sleep and again woke up. Then 'Umar b. Khattab stood up and said (loudly)" Prayer." Ata' further reported that Ibn 'Abbas said: The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) came out, and as if I am still seeing him with water trickling from his head, and with his hand placed on one side of the head, and he said: Were it not hard for my Ummah, I would have ordered them to observe this prayer like this (i. e. at late hours). I inquired from 'Ata' how the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) placed his hand upon his head as Ibn Abbas had informed. So Ata' spread his fingers a little and then placed the ends of his fingers on the side of his head. He then moved them like this over his head till the thumb touched that part of the ear which is near the face and then it (went) to the earlock and the part of the heard. It (the bind) neither held nor caught anything but this is how (it moved oil). I said to Ata': Was it mentioned to you (by Ibn Abbas) how long did the Apostle (ﷺ) delay it (the prayer) during that eight? He said: I do not know (I cannot give you the exact time). Ali' said: I love that I should say prayer, whether as an Imam or alone at delayed hours as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said that night, but if It is hard upon you in your individual capacity or upon people in the congregation and you are their Imam, then say prayer ('Isha') at the middle hours neither too early nor too late.
Sahih Muslim Book 5, Hadith 285
Umar b. Khattab set out for Syria. As he came at Sargh (a town by the side of Hijaz on the way to Syria), there met him the commander of the forces, Abu Ubaida b. Jandb, and his companions. They informed him that a scourge had broken out in Syria. Ibn 'Abbas further reported that 'Umar said: Call to me tile earliest emigrants. So I called them. He (Hadrat 'Umar) sought their advice, and they told him that the scourge had broker, out in Syria. There was a difference of opinion (whether they should proceed further or go back to their homes in such a situation). Some of them said: You ('Umar) have set forth for a task, and, therefore, we would not advise you to go back, whereas some of them said: You have along with you the remnants (of the sacred galaxy) of men and (the blessed) Companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), so we would not advise you to go forth towards this calamity (with such eminent persons and thus expose them deliberately to a danger). He (Hadrat 'Umar) said: You can now go away. He said: Call to me the Ansar. So I called them to him, and he consulted them, and they trod the same path as was trodden by the Muhajirin, and they differed in their opinions as they had differed. He said: Now, you can go. He again said: Call to me the old persons of the Quraish who had migrated before the Victory (that is the Victory of Mecca), so I called them (and Hadrat 'Umar consulted them) and not even two persons differed (from the opinion held by the earlier delegates). They said: Our opinion is that you better go back along with the people and do not make them go to this scourge, So 'Umar made announcement to the people: In the morning I would be on the back of my side. So they (set forth in the morning), whereupon Abu 'Ubaida b. Jarrah said: Are you going to run away from the Divine Decree? Thereupon 'Umar said: Had it been someone else to say this besides you! 'Umar (in fact) did not approve of his opposing (this decision) and he said: Yes, we are running from the Divine Decree (to the) Divine Decree. You should think if there had been camels for you and you happened to get down in a valley having two sides, one of them covered with verdure and the other being barren, would you not (be doing) according to the Divine Decree if you graze them in verdure? And in case you graze them in the barren land (even then you would be grazing them) according to the Divine Decree.
There happened to come 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf and he had been absent in connection with some of his needs. He said: I have with me a knowledge of it, that I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: If you hear of its presence (the presence of plague) in a land, don't enter it, but if it spreads in the land where you are, don't fly from it. Thereupon 'Umar b. Khattab praised Allah and then went back?
Sahih Muslim Book 39, Hadith 136
"While he was on the Minbar, I heard Al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah saying - and he attributed it to the Prophet (ﷺ) - 'Indeed Musa asked his Lord: "O Lord! Who is the lowest in rank among the people of Paradise?" He said: "A man who comes after the people of Paradise have been admitted to Paradise, and he is told to enter. He says: 'How can I enter when they have gotten all of their abodes, and all that is to be had?'" He said: "So it is said to him: 'Would you accept if you were to have what a king in the world?' He says: 'Yes, O Lord! I accept.' So it is said to him: 'Then for you is this and its like, and its like again, and its like again.' So he says: 'I accept, O Lord!' So it is said to him: 'Then for you is this and ten the like thereof.' So he says: 'I accept, O Lord!' So it is said: 'Indeed you shall have this, and whatever your soul desires, and whatever delights your eyes.'"
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 47, Hadith 250
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "(On the Day of Resurrection) camels will come to their owner in the best state of
health they have ever had (in the world), and if he had not paid their Zakat (in the world) then they
would tread him with their feet; and similarly, sheep will come to their owner in the best state of
health they have ever had in the world, and if he had not paid their Zakat, then they would tread him
with their hooves and would butt him with their horns." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "One of their rights is that
they should be milked while water is kept in front of them." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "I do not want anyone
of you to come to me on the Day of Resurrection, carrying over his neck a sheep that will be bleating.
Such a person will (then) say, 'O Muhammad! (please intercede for me,) I will say to him. 'I can't help
you, for I conveyed Allah's Message to you.' Similarly, I do not want anyone of you to come to me
carrying over his neck a camel that will be grunting. Such a person (then) will say "O Muhammad!
(please intercede for me)." I will say to him, "I can't help you for I conveyed Allah's message to you."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 24, Hadith 7
My Ansari neighbor from Bani Umaiya bin Zaid who used to live at `Awali Al-Medina and used to
visit the Prophet (ﷺ) by turns. He used to go one day and I another day. When I went I used to bring the
news of that day regarding the Divine Inspiration and other things, and when he went, he used to do
the same for me. Once my Ansari friend, in his turn (on returning from the Prophet), knocked
violently at my door and asked if I was there." I became horrified and came out to him. He said,
"Today a great thing has happened." I then went to Hafsa and saw her weeping. I asked her, "Did
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) divorce you all?" She replied, "I do not know." Then, I entered upon the Prophet (ﷺ) and
said while standing, "Have you divorced your wives?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied in the negative. On that I
said, "Allahu-Akbar (Allah is Greater)." (See Hadith No. 119, Vol. 3 for details)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 3, Hadith 31