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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "While a dog was going round a well and was about to die of thirst, an Israeli
prostitute saw it and took off her shoe and watered it. So Allah forgave her because of that good
deed."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 60, Hadith 134
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That he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "While a lady was nursing her child, a rider passed by and she
said, 'O Allah! Don't let my child die till he becomes like this (rider).' The child said, 'O Allah! Don't
make me like him,' and then returned to her breast (sucking it). (After a while) they passed by a lady
who was being pulled and teased (by the people). The child's mother said, 'O Allah! Do not make my
child like her.' The child said, 'O Allah! Make me like her.' Then he said, 'As for the rider, he is an
infidel, while the lady is accused of illegal sexual intercourse (falsely) and she says: Allah is sufficient
for me (He knows the truth).
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That he heard Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan (talking) on the pulpit in the year when he performed the Hajj.
He took a tuft of hair that was in the hand of an orderly and said, "O people of Medina! Where are
your learned men? I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) forbidding such a thing as this (i.e. false hair) and he used to
say, 'The Israelis were destroyed when their ladies practiced this habit (of using false hair to lengthen
their locks).