I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) with a company of Muzainah and we swore allegiance to him. The buttons of his shirt were open. I swore allegiance to him and I put my hand inside the collar of his shirt and felt the seal.
‘Urwah said: I always saw Mu’awiyah and his son opening their buttons of the collar during winter and summer. They never closed their buttons.
Mujahid reported: We were with Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, on a journey. We passed by a place and he kept to the side away from it. He was asked, “Why did you do that?” Ibn Umar said:
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَعَلَ هَذَا فَفَعَلْتُ
I saw the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, do that, do I did that.
Source: Musnad Aḥmad 4730, Sahih.
عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ رضي الله عنه أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَأْتِي شَجَرَةً بَيْنَ مَكَّةَ وَالْمَدِينَةِ فَيَقِيلُ تَحْتَهَا وَيُخْبِرُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ
Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, would come to a tree between Mecca and Medina, and he would take a nap under it. He told people that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had done so.
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “If somebody innovates something which is not in harmony with the principles of our religion, that thing is rejected.” Sahih Al-Bukhari 2697, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud.
Hadith 27:
Jabir b. Abdullah said:
When Allah’s Messenger (may peace he upon him) delivered the sermon, his eyes became red, his voice rose, and his anger increased so that he was like one giving a warning against the enemy and saying: “The enemy has made a morning attack on you and in the evening too.” He would also say: “The Last Hour and I have been sent like these two.” And he would join his forefinger and middle finger; and would further say: “The best of the speech is embodied in the Book of Allah, and the best of the guidance is the guidance given by Muhammad. And the most evil affairs are their innovations; and every innovation is error.” He would further say:, I am more dear to a Muslim even than his self; and he who left behind property that is for his family; and he who dies under debt or leaves children (in helplessness), the responsibility (of paying his debt and bringing up his children) lies on me.” Muslim 867, Ibn Majah 25.
Hadith 28:
Abu `Amir al-Hawdhani said:
Mu`awiyah b. Abi Sufiyan stood among us and said: Beware! The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us and said: Beware! The people of the Book before were split up into seventy two sects, and this community will be split into seventy three: seventy two of them will go to Hell and one of them will go to Paradise, and it is the majority group.
Ibn Yahya and `Amr added in their version : “ There will appear among my community people who will be dominated by desires like rabies which penetrates its patient”, `Amr’s version has: “penetrates its patient. There remains no vein and no joint but it penetrates it.” Sunan Abi Dawud 4597.
Hadith 29:
Abu Barzah reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
إِنَّ مِمَّا أَخْشَى عَلَيْكُمْ شَهَوَاتِ الْغَيِّ فِي بُطُونِكُمْ وَفُرُوجِكُمْ وَمُضِلَّاتِ الْهَوَى
Verily, among what I fear most for you are seductive temptations in your stomachs and passions, and the misguidance of whims.
Source: Musnad Aḥmad 19274, Sahih. abuaminaelias.com
Hadith 30:
Anas ibn Malik reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
ثَلاثٌ مُهْلِكَاتٌ شُحٌّ مُطَاعٌ وَهَوًى مُتَّبَعٌ وَإِعْجَابُ الْمَرْءِ بِنَفْسِهِ مِنَ الْخُيَلاءِ وَثَلاثٌ مُنْجِيَاتٌ الْعَدْلُ فِي الرِّضَا وَالْغَضَبِ وَالْقَصْدُ فِي الْغِنَى وَالْفَاقَةِ وَمَخَافَةُ اللَّهِ فِي السِّرِّ وَالْعَلانِيَةِ
Three are destructive vices: greed that is obeyed, whims that are followed, and a man impressed with himself. Three are salvific virtues: justice in a time of pleasure or anger, moderation in a time of wealth or poverty, and the fear of Allah in public and in private.
Source: al-Mu’jam al-Awsaṭ 5598, Hasan Li Ghairihi. abuaminaelias.com.
Hadith 31:
Anas ibn Malik reported:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ حَجَبَ التَّوْبَةَ عَنْ صَاحِبِ كُلِّ بِدْعَةٍ
Verily, Allah blocks the repentance of all who commit heretical innovations.
حَتَّى يَدَعَ بِدْعَتَهُ
Until he abandons his innovation.
At-Tabrani 4214, 281, Al-Bayhaqi in Shu’ab al-Iman 9547.
Hadith 32:
Quoted:
So he who does not follow my tradition in religion, is not from me (not one of my followers).
(Context of full Hadith)
A group of three men came to the houses of the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) asking how the Prophet (ﷺ) worshipped (Allah), and when they were informed about that, they considered their worship insufficient and said, “Where are we from the Prophet (ﷺ) as his past and future sins have been forgiven.” Then one of them said, “I will offer the prayer throughout the night forever.” The other said, “I will fast throughout the year and will not break my fast.” The third said, “I will keep away from the women and will not marry forever.” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) came to them and said, “Are you the same people who said so-and-so? By Allah, I am more submissive to Allah and more afraid of Him than you; yet I fast and break my fast, I do sleep and I also marry women. So he who does not follow my tradition in religion, is not from me (not one of my followers).
(Al-Bukhari 5063 and Sahih Muslim 1401)
Hadith 33:
Al-‘Irbad ibn Sariyah reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “I have left you upon a clear path, its clarity is the same by night or day. No one deviates from it after me but the he will be ruined.”
Source: Sunan Ibn Mājah 44, Sahih. abuaminaelias.com
Hadith 34:
Mundhir b. Jarir reported on the authority of his father:
While we were in the company of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in the early hours of the morning, some people came there (who) were barefooted, naked, wearing striped woollen clothes, or cloaks, with their swords hung (around their necks). Most of them, nay, all of them, belonged to the tribe of Mudar. The colour of the face of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) underwent a change when he saw them in poverty. He then entered (his house) and came out and commanded Bilal (to pronounce Adhan). He pronounced Adhan and Iqima, and he (the Holy Prophet) observed prayer (along with his Companion) and then addressed (them reciting verses of the Holy Qur’an): ‘” 0 people, fear your Lord, Who created you from a single being” to the end of the verse,” Allah is ever a Watcher over you” (iv. 1). (He then recited) a verse of Sura Hashr:” Fear Allah. and let every soul consider that which it sends forth for the morrow and fear Allah” (lix. 18). (Then the audience began to vie with one another in giving charity.) Some donated a dinar, others a dirham, still others clothes, some donated a sa’ of wheat, some a sa’ of dates; till he (the Holy Prophet) said: (Bring) even if it is half a date. Then a person from among the Ansar came there with a money bag which his hands could scarcely lift; in fact, they could not (lift). Then the people followed continuously, till I saw two heaps of eatables and clothes, and I saw the face of the Messenger (ﷺ) glistening, like gold (on account of joy). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He who sets a good precedent in Islam, there is a reward for him for this (act of goodness) and reward of that also who acted according to it subsequently, without any deduction from their rewards; and he who sets in Islam an evil precedent, there is upon him the burden of that, and the burden of him also who acted upon it subsequently, without any deduction from their burden.
Sahih Muslim 1017a, Sunan An-Nasai 2554, Sunan Ibn Majah 203, Jaami At-Tirmidhi 2675.
Hadith 35:
On the authority of Hudaifa ibn Al-Yaman who said: A man asked (some charity) in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, but the people withheld from him (did not give him anything). Then a man gave him (something), the people also gave (following him).
Thus the Prophet ﷺ said: Whoever starts a good act and people follow him (in doing that), for him is his reward and a reward similar of those who followed him, without any reduction in the reward of the ones who followed him (in the good deed).
Whoever starts an evil deed and people follow him (in doing that), for him is his sin and a sin similar of those who followed him, without any reduction in the sin of the ones who followed him (in the evil deed).
Musnad Ahmad 23289, Sahih.
Hadith 36:
Ibn Mas’ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The first son of Adam* takes a share of the guilt of every one who murders another wrongfully because he was the initiator of committing murder”.
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim] [Riyadh As-Saliheen, Book 1, #172]
Hadith 37:
It was narrated from Sahl bin Sa’d that:
The Messenger of Allah said: “This goodness contains many treasures, and for those there are keys. So glad tidings to the one whom Allah makes a key to good and a lock for evil, and woe to the one whom Allah makes a key to evil and a lock to good.”
( Sunan Ibn Majah 237, Hasan Li Ghairihi)
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