Somebody said to Usama, "Will you go to so-and-so (i.e. `Uthman) and talk to him (i.e. advise him
regarding ruling the country)?" He said, "You see that I don't talk to him. Really I talk to (advise) him
secretly without opening a gate (of affliction), for neither do I want to be the first to open it (i.e.
rebellion), nor will I say to a man who is my ruler that he is the best of all the people after I have
heard something from Allah s Apostle ." They said, What have you heard him saying? He said, "I
have heard him saying, "A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and thrown in the (Hell)
Fire, so that his intestines will come out, and he will go around like a donkey goes around a millstone.
The people of (Hell) Fire will gather around him and say: O so-and-so! What is wrong with you?
Didn't you use to order us to do good deeds and forbid us to do bad deeds? He will reply: Yes, I used
to order you to do good deeds, but I did not do them myself, and I used to forbid you to do bad deeds,
yet I used to do them myself."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 59, Hadith 77
Pray with us these two, meaning two days. When the sun passed the meridian, he gave command to Bilal who uttered the call to prayer. Then he commanded him and pronounced Iqama for noon prayer (Then at the time of the afternoon prayer) he again commanded and Iqama for the afternoon prayer was pronounced when the sun was high, white and clear. He then commanded and Iqama for the evening prayer was pronounced, when the sun had set. He then commanded him and the Iqama for the night prayer was pronounced when the twilight had disappeared. He then commanded him and the Iqama for the morning prayer was pronounced, when the dawn had appeared. When it was the next day, he commanded him to delay the noon prayer till the extreme heat had passed and he did so, and he allowed it to be delayed till the extreme heat had passed. He observed the afternoon prayer when the sun was high, delaying it beyond the time he had previously observed it. He observed the evening prayer before the twilight had vanished; he observed the night prayer when a third of the night had passed; and he observed the dawn prayer when there was clear daylight. He (the Holy Prophet) then said: Where is the man who inquired about the time of prayer? He (the inquirer) said: Messenger of Allah, here I am. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The time for your prayer is within the limits of what you have seen.
Sahih Muslim Book 5, Hadith 225
Ibn `Abbas said: "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) delivered a sermon on the Day of Nahr, and said, 'O people! (Tell
me) what is the day today?' The people replied, 'It is the forbidden (sacred) day.' He asked again,
'What town is this?' They replied, 'It is the forbidden (Sacred) town.' He asked, 'Which month is this?'
They replied, 'It is the forbidden (Sacred) month.' He said, 'No doubt! Your blood, your properties,
and your honor are sacred to one another like the sanctity of this day of yours, in this (sacred) town
(Mecca) of yours, in this month of yours.' The Prophet (ﷺ) repeated his statement again and again. After
that he raised his head and said, 'O Allah! Haven't conveyed (Your Message) to them'. Haven't I
conveyed Your Message to them?' " Ibn `Abbas added, "By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, the
following was his will (Prophet's will) to his followers:--It is incumbent upon those who are present to
convey this information to those who are absent Beware don't renegade (as) disbelievers (turn into
infidels) after me, Striking the necks (cutting the throats) of one another.' "
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 25, Hadith 217
The Prophet (ﷺ) sent an army unit (for some campaign) and appointed a man from the Ansar as its
commander and ordered them (the soldiers) to obey him. (During the campaign) he became angry
with them and said, "Didn't the Prophet (ﷺ) order you to obey me?" They said, "Yes." He said, "I order
you to collect wood and make a fire and then throw yourselves into it." So they collected wood and
made a fire, but when they were about to throw themselves into, it they started looking at each other,
and some of them said, "We followed the Prophet (ﷺ) to escape from the fire. How should we enter it
now?" So while they were in that state, the fire extinguished and their commander's anger abated. The
event was mentioned to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he said, "If they had entered it (the fire) they would never
have come out of it, for obedience is required only in what is good." (See Hadith No. 629. Vol. 5)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 93, Hadith 9
While we were with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) a bedouin got up and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Settle my case
according to Allah's Book (Laws)." Then his opponent got up and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! He has
said the truth! Settle his case according to Allah's Book (Laws.) and allow me to speak," He said, "My
son was a laborer for this man and he committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife. The people
told me that my son should be stoned to death but I ransomed him with one-hundred sheep and a slave
girl. Then I asked the religious learned people and they told me that his wife should be stoned to death
and my son should receive one-hundred lashes and be sentenced to one year of exile.' The Prophet (ﷺ)
said, "By Him in Whose Hands my life is, I will judge between you according to Allah's Book (Laws):
As for the slave girl and the sheep, they are to be returned; and as for your son, he shall receive onehundred
lashes and will be exiled for one year. You, O Unais!" addressing a man from Bani Aslam,
"Go tomorrow morning to the wife of this (man) and if she confesses, then stone her to death." The
next morning Unais went to the wife and she confessed, and he stoned her to death.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 95, Hadith 14
That once he stayed overnight in the house of his aunt, the wife of the Prophet. He added: I lay on the
cushion transversely while Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) lay along with his wife in the lengthwise direction of
cushion. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) slept till the middle of the night, either a bit before or a bit after it, and then
woke up rubbing the traces of sleep off his face with his hands, and then recited the last ten Verses of
Suratal-`Imran. Then he got up and went to a hanging water skin, performed ablution from it ---- and
performed it perfectly. Then he stood up to perform the prayer. I also did the same as he had done and
then went to stand beside him. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) put his right hand on my head and held and twisted my
right ear. He then offered two rak`at, then two rak`at then two rak`at, then two then two rak`at, then
two rak`at, and finally, one rak`a witr. Then lay down again till the Muadhdhin (i.e. the call-maker)
came to him, whereupon he got up and offered a light two rak`at prayer and went out (to the Mosque)
and offered the (compulsory congregational) Fajr prayer.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 94
"We used to hope that an intelligent Bedouin would show up to question the Prophet while we were with him. So one while we were with him, a Bedouin came, kneeling in front of the Prophet, and he said: 'O Muhammad, your messenger came to us and told us that you say that Allah sent you.' So the Prophet say: 'Yes.' He said, 'So, (swear) by the One who raised the heaves, and spread out the earth, and erected the mountains; has Allah sent you?' The Prophet said, 'Yes.' He said: 'Your messenger told us that you say that there are five prayers required from us in a day and a night.' The Prophet said, 'Yes.' He said, 'By the One Who sent you, has Allah ordered that you you?' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Your messenger told us that you say that we are required to fast for a month out of the year.' He said, 'He told the truth.' He said, 'By the One Who sent you, has Allah ordered that you?' The Prophet said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Your messenger told us that Zakat is required from our wealth.' The Prophet said, 'He told the truth.' He said, 'By the One Who sent you, has Allah ordered you that?' The Prophet said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Your messenger told us that you say that we are required to perform Hajj to Allah's House if able to undertake the journey.' The Prophet said, 'Yes.' He said, 'By the One Who sent you, has Allah Commanded you that?' (The Prophet said:) 'Yes.' So he said: 'By the One Who sent you with the Truth, I will not leave any of them, nor surpass them.' Then he got up quickly (leaving). The Prophet said: 'If the Bedouin told the truth, then he will enter Paradise.'"
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 7, Hadith 3
My uncle Anas bin An-Nadr was absent from the Battle of Badr. He said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I was
absent from the first battle you fought against the pagans. (By Allah) if Allah gives me a chance to
fight the pagans, no doubt. Allah will see how (bravely) I will fight." On the day of Uhud when the
Muslims turned their backs and fled, he said, "O Allah! I apologize to You for what these (i.e. his
companions) have done, and I denounce what these (i.e. the pagans) have done." Then he advanced
and Sa`d bin Mu`adh met him. He said "O Sa`d bin Mu`adh ! By the Lord of An-Nadr, Paradise! I am
smelling its aroma coming from before (the mountain of) Uhud," Later on Sa`d said, "O Allah's
Apostle! I cannot achieve or do what he (i.e. Anas bin An-Nadr) did. We found more than eighty
wounds by swords and arrows on his body. We found him dead and his body was mutilated so badly
that none except his sister could recognize him by his fingers." We used to think that the following
Verse was revealed concerning him and other men of his sort: "Among the believers are men who
have been true to their covenant with Allah.........." (33.23)
His sister Ar-Rubbaya' broke a front tooth of a woman and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ordered for retaliation. On
that Anas (bin An-Nadr) said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! By Him Who has sent you with the Truth, my
sister's tooth shall not be broken." Then the opponents of Anas's sister accepted the compensation and
gave up the claim of retaliation. So Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "There are some people amongst Allah's
slaves whose oaths are fulfilled by Allah when they take them."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 56, Hadith 22
An ally of Bani Zuhra who took part in the battle of Badr with the Prophet, that he said, "O Allah's
Apostle! If I meet an unbeliever and we have a fight, and he strikes my hand with the sword and cuts
it off, and then takes refuge from me under a tree, and says, 'I have surrendered to Allah (i.e.
embraced Islam),' may I kill him after he has said so?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do not kill him." Al-
Miqdad said, "But O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! He had chopped off one of my hands and he said that after he
had cut it off. May I kill him?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said. "Do not kill him for if you kill him, he would be in
the position in which you had been before you kill him, and you would be in the position in which he
was before he said the sentence." The Prophet (ﷺ) also said to Al-Miqdad, "If a faithful believer conceals
his faith (Islam) from the disbelievers, and then when he declares his Islam, you kill him, (you will be
sinful). Remember that you were also concealing your faith (Islam) at Mecca before."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 87, Hadith 5
:
“When the Messenger of Allah died and Abu Bakr was appointed as Khalifah, and some of the Arab’s disbelieved, Umar said: ‘O Abu Bakr! How can you fight the people when the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight the people until they say La ilaha illallah (there is none worthy of worship except Allah). Whoever says La ilaha illallah, his life and his property are safe from me, except for its right, and his reckoning will be with Allah?’ Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, said: ‘By Allah, I will surely fight those who separate prayer and Zakah, for Zakah is what is due on wealth. By Allah, if they withhold from me a small she-goat that they used to give to the Messenger of Allah I will fight them for withholding it.’ (Umar said) ‘By Allah, when I realized that Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, had opened the chest of Abu Bakr to fighting, then I knew that it was the truth.’”
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 25, Hadith 7
`Abdullah (bin Masud) said. "Allah curses those ladies who practice tattooing and those who get
themselves tattooed, and those ladies who remove the hair from their faces and those who make
artificial spaces between their teeth in order to look more beautiful whereby they change Allah's
creation." His saying reached a lady from Bani Asd called Um Yaqub who came (to `Abdullah) and
said, "I have come to know that you have cursed such-and-such (ladies)?" He replied, "Why should I
not curse these whom Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has cursed and who are (cursed) in Allah's Book!" Um Yaqub
said, "I have read the whole Qur'an, but I did not find in it what you say." He said, "Verily, if you have
read it (i.e. the Qur'an), you have found it. Didn't you read:
'And whatsoever the Apostle gives you take it and whatsoever he forbids you, you abstain (from it).
(59.7)
She replied, "Yes, I did," He said, "Verily, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade such things." "She said, "But I see
your wife doing these things?" He said, "Go and watch her." She went and watched her but could not
see anything in support of her statement. On that he said, "If my wife was as you thought, I would not
keep her in my company."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 406
When Allah gave victory to His Apostle over the people of Mecca, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stood up among
the people and after glorifying Allah, said, "Allah has prohibited fighting in Mecca and has given
authority to His Apostle and the believers over it, so fighting was illegal for anyone before me, and
was made legal for me for a part of a day, and it will not be legal for anyone after me. Its game should
not be chased, its thorny bushes should not be uprooted, and picking up its fallen things is not allowed
except for one who makes public announcement for it, and he whose relative is murdered has the
option either to accept a compensation for it or to retaliate." Al-`Abbas said, "Except Al-Idhkhir, for
we use it in our graves and houses." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Except Al-Idhkhir." Abu Shah, a Yemenite,
stood up and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Get it written for me." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Write it for Abu
Shah." (The sub-narrator asked Al-Auza'i): What did he mean by saying, "Get it written, O Allah's
Apostle?" He replied, "The speech which he had heard from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 45, Hadith 9
Yahya said that he heard Malik speak about someone who pledged
goods as security for a loan, and they perished with the broker. The
one who took out the loan confirmed its specification. They agreed on
the amount of the loan, but challenged each other about the value of
the pledge, the pledger saying that it had been worth twenty dinars,
whilst the broker said that it had been worth only ten, and that the
amount loaned on security was twenty dinars. Malik said, "It is said
to the one in whose hand the pledge is, 'describe it.' If he describes
it he is made to take an oath on it and then the people of experience
evaluate that description. If the value is more than what was loaned
on security for it, it is said to the broker, 'Return the rest of his
due to the pledger.' If the value is less than what was loaned on
security for it, the broker takes the rest of his due from the
pledger. If the value is the exact amount of the loan, the pledge is
compensated for by the loan."
Yahya said that he heard Malik
say, "What is done in our community about two men who have a dispute
about an amount of money loaned on the security of a pledge - the
pledger claiming that he pledged it for ten dinars and the broker
insisting that he took the pledge as security for twenty dinars, and
the pledge is clearly in the possession of the broker - is that the
broker is made to take an oath when the value of the pledge is fully
known. If the value of the pledge is exactly what he swore that he had
loaned on security for it, the broker takes the pledge as his right.
He is more entitled to take precedence with an oath since he has
possession of the pledge. If the owner of the pledge wants to give him
the amount which he swore that he was owed, he can take the pledge
back. If the pledge is worth less than the twenty dinars he loaned,
then it is said to the pledger, 'Either you give him what he has sworn
to and take your pledge back, or you swear to what you said you
pledged it for.' If the pledger takes the oath, then what the broker
has increased over the value of the pledge will become invalid. If the
pledger does not take an oath, he must pay what the broker swore to."
Malik said, "If a pledge given on security for a loan
perishes, and both parties deny each other's rights, with the broker
who is owed the loan saying that he gave twenty dinars, and the
pledger who owes the loan saying that he was given only ten, and with
the broker who is owed the loan saying the pledge was worth ten
dinars, and the broker who owes the loan saying it was worth twenty,
then the broker who is owed the loan is asked to describe the pledge.
If he describes it, he must take an oath on its description. Then
people with experience of it evaluate that description. If the value
of the pledge is estimated to be more than what the broker claims it
was, he takes an oath as to what he claimed, and the pledger is given
what is over from the value of the pledge. If its value is less than
what the broker claims of it, he is made to take an oath as to what he
claims is his. Then he demands settlement according to the actual
value of the pledge. The one who owes the loan is then made to take an
oath on the extra amount which remains owing against him to the
claimant after the price of the pledge is reached. That is because the
broker becomes a claimant against the pledger. If he takes an oath,
the rest of what the broker swore to of what he claimed above the
value of the pledge is invalidated. If he draws back, he is bound to
pay what remains due to the broker after the value of the pledge."
Muwatta Malik Book 36, Hadith 21
that 'Umar bin Al-Khattab was asked about this Ayah: And when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed and made them testify as to themselves: "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We testify," lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: 'Verily, we have been unaware of this (7:172).'" So 'Umar bin Al-Khattab said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) being asked about it. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'Indeed Allah created Adam, then He wiped his back with His Right Hand, and his offspring came out of him. So he said: "I created these for Paradise, and they will do the deeds of the people of Paradise." Then He wiped his back, and his offspring came out of him. So He said: "I created these for the Fire, and they will do the deeds of the people of the Fire." A man said: 'Then of what good is doing deeds O Messenger of Allah!' The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'Verily, when Allah created a man for Paradise, He makes him perform the deeds of the people of Paradise, until he dies doing one of the deeds of the people of Paradise. So Allah will admit him into Paradise. And when He created a man for the Fire, He makes him perform the deeds of the people of the Fire until he dies doing the deeds of the people of the Fire. So Allah will enter him into the Fire.'"
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 47, Hadith 127