Whoever performs Hajj without engaging in rafath (sexual relations or obscene speech) or sinning will return like the day his mother gave birth to him No prayer should be offered in the presence of food or when he is resisting the need to relieve himself of the two filths If you say to your companion 'listen' on Friday while the Imām is delivering the sermon, you have thus engaged in idle talk Five are acts of Fitrah (natural disposition): circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, trimming the mustache, clipping the nails, and plucking the armpit hair Trim the mustaches and let the beards grow If anyone performs ablution like this ablution of mine and offers two Rak'ahs during which he does not think of anything else, Allah will forgive his past sins O Allah, do not make my grave an idol that is worshiped The most burdensome prayers for the hypocrites are the ‘Ishā’ and Fajr prayers. If they were to know the virtue of them, they would come to them, even if they had to crawl Allah does not accept the prayer of any of you who is in the state of Hadath (minor ritual impurity) until he performs ablution The tooth-stick purifies the mouth and pleases the Lord The five (daily) prayers, Friday prayer to the next Friday prayer, and Ramadan to the next Ramadan are expiation of the sins committed between them, so long as major sins are avoided The one who maintains ties of kinship is not the one who recompenses the good done to him by his relatives; rather, he is the one who keeps good relations with those relatives who severs the bond of kinship with him Whoever fasts Ramadan, out of faith and in pursuit of reward, his past sins will be forgiven Whoever performs Qiyām (night prayer) in the Night of Decree, out of faith and in pursuit of reward, his past sins will be forgiven Verily, the lawful is clear, and the unlawful is clear Verily, Allah has enjoined kindness in all things There should be no harm or reciprocal harm. Whoever causes harm, Allah harms him, and whoever makes things difficult, Allah makes things difficult for him Avoid what I have forbidden you from; and do as much as you can, of what I have ordered you. Indeed, those before you were ruined because of their excessive questioning and disagreeing with their prophets Jibrīl kept enjoining me regarding the good treatment of the neighbor to the extent that I thought he would inherit him Incantations, amulets, and love-potions are Shirk (polytheism) Do not curse the dead, for they have reached the result of what they have done Whoever performs the Fajr prayer is under the protection of Allah Charity does not diminish wealth, and Allah does not increase a servant, on account of his forgiveness, except in honor, and no one humbles himself seeking the pleasure of Allah except that Allah will elevate him The most perfect believer in terms of his faith is the one who has the most excellent manners, and the best of you are those who are best to their womenfolk The world is but an enjoyment and the best of worldly enjoyments is a righteous woman Allah said: 'O son of Adam, spend, and I will spend on you.' The worthiest stipulations to be fulfilled are those which make sexual intercourse lawful for you The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to celebrate Allah’s oneness with these words after every prayer There are no days in which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than on these days," referring to the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah Whoever abandons the ‘Asr prayer, his deeds will be rendered worthless Whoever performs ablution perfectly, his sins will come out from his body, to the extent that it will come out from under his nails If a man spends something on his family, seeking reward from Allah for it, it will be recorded for him as charity The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade qaza‘ (shaving part of one's head and leaving other parts unshaven) Beware of (smearing yourselves with) urine, because it is the main cause of punishment in the grave Do not sit on graves, and do not pray towards them Those are a people who, when a righteous slave or a righteous man from among them dies, they build a place of worship I have been commanded to prostrate on seven bones The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to say between the two prostrations: "Allahumma ighfir li warhamni wa ‘āfeni wahdeni warzuqni (O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, grant me safety, guide me, and provide for me) Allahumma anta as-salām wa minka as-salām, tabārakta yadha al-jalāl wa al-ikrām Pray while standing; if you cannot, then while sitting; and if you cannot, then while lying on your side Do you hear the Adhān?" He replied in the affirmative. Thereupon, he said: "Then respond to it When one of you joins the prayer and finds the Imām in a certain position, he should do what the Imām is doing The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) taught us the sermon of need There is no marriage except with a guardian Whoever kills a mu‘āhad (a non-Muslim who is granted the pledge of protection by the Muslims) shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance can be smelt at a distance of forty years The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who gives a bribe and the one who receives a bribe to influence a judgment Islam is built on five Do you think that if I perform the obligatory payers, fast Ramadan, treat the lawful as lawful, and treat the unlawful as unlawful, Purity is half of faith, al-hamdulillāh (praise be to Allah) fills the Scale, and subhān Allah wa al-hamdulillāh (glory and praise be to Allah) fills what is between the heavens and the earth Beware of negnot washing your heels properly, for not doing so can lead to them being burnt in the Hellfire! So, perform your ablution thoroughly When the Muezzin (the caller to prayer) says, 'Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar Whoever forgets a prayer should perform it as soon as he remembers it; there is no expiation for it except that What stands between a man and polytheism and disbelief is the abandonment of the prayers The covenant between us and them is prayer; so, whoever abandons it has disbelieved ‘Umrah in Ramadan is equivalent to Hajj – or Hajj with me. The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to observe I‘tikāf [spiritual retirement in the mosque] during each Ramadan for ten days. The year in which he died, he observed I‘tikāf for twenty days. The best Jihad for you (women) is an accepted Hajj. A woman was found killed in one of the military campaigns of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). I went to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) and asked: 'We live in the land of the People of the Book; can we eat in their plates?" He forbade vowing, and said: "Indeed, a vow does not bring any good; rather it is only a means to extract something from the miser." By Allah - if Allah wills - if I take an oath to do something and then find something else better than it, I do that which is better and make expiation for breaking the oath. The first cases to be settled among people on the Day of Judgement will be the cases of blood (homicide) Whoever fights so that the word of Allah be supreme is indeed fighting in the cause of Allah. If anyone swears by a religion other than Islam falsely and intentionally, he is as he has said When you hear the Adhan (call to prayer), repeat what the Muezzin says Leave them, for I had put them on when they were in the state of purity this is a vein. Abstain from prayer only for a number of days similar to those of your normal menses; then, take a ritual bath and pray Straighten your rows, for indeed, straightening the rows is part of the perfection of the prayer When any of you performs ablution, let him sniff water in his nose and then blow it out. Whoever cleans his private parts with stones, let him do so with an odd number of stones Life in this world is sweet and green, and indeed, Allah has made you successors there to see how you will behave. So, be cautious of this world and be cautious of women I memorized from the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) ten Rak‘ahs (units of prayer) When the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to get up at night, he would cleanse his mouth with the tooth-stick A complaint was made to the Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) about the person who doubts that something has happened to him during his prayer. He said: He should not leave (his prayer) unless he hears a sound or perceives a smell If the Iqāmah for prayer is proclaimed, and the dinner is served, start with the dinner Let not a believing man hate a believing woman. If he dislikes one of her characteristics, he will be pleased with another I was with the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) then he urinated, and performed ablution and wiped over his leather socks When you go to a place to relieve yourselves, do not turn your face or back toward the Qiblah while defecating or urinating, but face east or west. No one of you should hold his penis with his right hand while urinating, or clean himself after answering the call of nature using his right hand, or breathe into the vessel The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade praying after the Fajr prayer up until the sun rises, and after the ‘Asr prayer until the sun sets Is he who raises his head before the Imam not afraid that Allah may transform his head into that of a donkey or his shape into that of a donkey? The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to raise his hands to the level of his shoulders when he commenced the prayer, when he said Takbīr before bowing, and when he raised his head after bowing, he would raise them to that level as well The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) taught me the Tashahhud, with my hand between his two hands, as he would teach me a Surah from the Qur’an Allāuhumma inni a‘ūdhu bika min ‘adhāb al-qabr, wa min ‘adhāb an-nār, wa min fitnat al-mahya wa al-mamāt, wa min fitnat al-masīh ad-dajjāl O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother ransom you, what is it you say between the (opening) Takbīr and the recitation (of the Qur'an)? He said: I say: O Allah, keep me away from my sins as You have kept the east away from the west. O Allah, cleanse me from my sins as a white garment is cleansed from dirt. O Allah, wash my sins away with water, snow and hail Be moderate in prostration, and let none of you spread his forearms on the ground like a dog I asked Anas ibn Mālik: Did the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) use to pray with his shoes on? He said: Yes! When a dog drinks from the vessel of any of you, let him wash it seven times The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to say before entering the bathroom: "Allāhumma inni a‘ūdhu bika min al-khubuth wa al-khabā’ith (O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the male and female devils) Whoever sincerely asks Allah, the Almighty, for martyrdom, Allah will raise him to the status of martyrs even if he dies on his bed People were commanded to make (Tawāf around) the Ka‘bah the last thing they do, but an exception was made for the menstruating woman I prepared water for Allah's Messenger to purify himself from the major ritual impurity. He poured water with his right hand onto his left hand twice or three times and then washed his private parts and rubbed his hand on the ground or the wall On taking a ritual bath from Janābah (major ritual impurity), the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to wash his hands and perform ablution like that for prayer, then wash himself Do not take my grave as a place of festivity (which you visit repeatedly), and do not take your houses as graves. Send blessings upon me, for your greeting will reach me no matter where you are I was a man of frequent discharge of Madhi (pre-seminal fluid) and I was too shy to ask the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) about it given his daughter's status. So, I asked Al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad to ask him and he did. Thereupon, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Let him wash his penis and perform ablution When you put on clothes and when you perform ablution, you should begin with your right side Which deed is dearest to Allah? He said: "Offering prayer at its earliest appointed time." I said: Then, what comes next? He said: "Dutifulness to one's parents." I said: Then, what comes next? He said: "Jihad in the way of Allah What is the reason for those people's fear? They willingly accept what is precise thereof, and react ruinously when it comes to what is broadly indicative Every morning, two angels descend. One of them says: O Allah, give the one who spends (in the way of Allah) compensation. The other one says: 'O Allah, give the one who withholds (from spending in the way of Allah) damage I was with Sa‘īd ibn Jubayr when he said: Who among you saw a shooting star last night? I said: It was I. Then I said: In fact, I was not (busy) in prayer, but I was stung by a scorpion Verily, I will give the flag tomorrow to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger, and is loved by Allah and His Messenger, and Allah will bring victory under his leadership Whoever equips a fighter in the cause of Allah has indeed taken part in the fight himself; and whoever looks after the dependents of a fighter in his absence properly has indeed taken part in the fight himself and performed ablution like that of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) in front of them Are you not aware that Islam wipes out all (sins) that preceded it, and that Hijrah wipes out all (sins) that preceded it, and that Hajj wipes out all (sins) that preceded it? I came to the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) while he was cleansing his mouth with a ripe tooth-stick. The edge of the tooth-stick was on his tongue and he was making a sound like: “ugh, ugh” as if he was heaving, and the tooth-stick was in his mouth It was sufficient for you to do this with your hands." Then, he struck the ground once with his hands, then wiped the right hand with the left one, the back side of his hands and his face No prophet had been sent before me by Allah to his people but he had, among his people, disciples and companions, who followed his ways and obeyed his command. Then, there came after them successors who claimed what they did not practice and practiced what they were not commanded to do A man, who was set for travel, asked the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him): Which type of Jihad is better? He replied: A word of truth said to a despotic ruler I gave the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) a pledge to testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, to establish the prayer, to pay Zakah, to hear and obey, and to give sincere advice to every Muslim O Mu‘ādh, by Allah! I love you. I advise you, O Mu‘ādh, never fail to say after every prayer: O Allah, help me remember You, thank You, and worship You in an excellent manner Woe to the heel bones from the Hellfire The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) delayed the ‘Ishā' prayer until part of the night had passed and it was dark. ‘Umar came to him saying: O Messenger of Allah, come to pray, the women and children have slept. He came out with his head dripping with water and said: Had it not been hard for my Ummah, I would have commanded them to perform that prayer at this hour Allah, Glorified and Exalted, said: All the actions of the son of Adam are for him, except for fasting. Indeed, it is for Me, and I give reward for it Wake up ‘Āʾishah and pray Witr O Allah, I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your wrath and in Your pardon from Your punishment, and I seek refuge in You from You. I am not capable of enumerating praise of You. You are as You have praised Yourself The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked: Which part of the prayer is the best? He replied: The long standing What did the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) use to start with upon entering his house? She said: With the tooth-stick That is a man in whose ears (or he said: in whose ear) the devil urinated Ten practices are part of the Fitrah: Trimming the mustache, letting the beard grow, using the tooth-stick, rinsing the nose, trimming the nails, washing the finger joints, plucking the armpit hair, shaving the pubic hair, and washing the private parts with water During your sleep, Satan ties three knots at the back of the head of each one of you, and he seals each knot with the following words: The night is long, so keep on sleeping Make frequent prostration to Allah, for every prostration that you make for Allah, He will raise your position a degree and will remit one of your sins The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) would strive more in Ramadan than he would strive in other than it, and in the last ten of it than he would strive in other than them We used to prepare for the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) his tooth-stick and the water he used for making ablution. Then, Allah would awaken him whenever He willed during the night, and he would brush his teeth with the tooth-stick, make ablution, and perform prayer Anyone whose feet get covered with dust in the cause of Allah will not be touched by Hellfire The martyr feels nothing from the agony of death except as one of you feels from the sting of an ant Whoever is pleased to be saved by Allah from the anguish of the Day of Judgment, let him give the insolvent a respite or grant him remission Whoever prays the Bardayn will enter Paradise If I am killed for the cause of Allah, will my sins be forgiven? The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to sleep at the beginning of the night and rise at its end to pray O Messenger of Allah, I have two neighbors, so which one of them should I give a gift to? He said: The one whose door is the nearest to you Do not ask me unnecessarily about what I did not mention to you. Verily, what destroyed those who were before you was their asking too many questions and their disagreement with their Prophets. So, if I forbid you from something, then avoid it; and if I command you to do something, then do as much of it as you can Breastfeeding produces the same interdiction which childbirth produces If anyone fasts a day for the sake of Allah, Allah shall keep his face away from Hell (the distance of) seventy years People will retain goodness as long as they hasten to break their fast None of you should fast on Friday, unless he fasts a day before it or a day after it We used to pay it (Zakat al-Fitr) as one Sā‘ of food, or one Sā‘ of barley, or one Sā‘ of dry crumbled milk, or one Sā‘ of raisins We had Suhūr with the Messenger (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), and then he stood for prayer. I asked: What was the interval between Suhūr and the Adhān? He said: As long as the recitation of 50 verses There is no emigration after the Conquest, but there is Jihad and good intention, and whenever you are called for Jihad, you should immediately respond to the call The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to practice I‘tikāf in the last ten nights of Ramadan until he passed away; then, his wives followed this practice after him Eat the Sahūr (pre-dawn meal) for indeed there is a blessing in it A man asked the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) about fasting while traveling. He answered: If you wish then fast, and if you wish then do not fast Do not fast a day or two days ahead of Ramadan, except a person who is in the habit of observing a particular fast; he may fast on that day The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) made it obligatory for every male and female, the free and the slave, to pay Sadaqat al-Fitr (or said Sadaqat Ramadan) It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to travel the distance of one day and night unless she is accompanied by a Mahram The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) would sometimes get up at the time of Fajr while in a state of Janābah after having sexual intercourse with his wives, then he would take a ritual bath and fast The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade fasting the two days: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Ad'ha; wearing a garment that is void of openings for hands; sitting on one’s buttocks while holding his both legs pulled back with his arms in case he wore only one garment; and praying after the Fajr and ‘Asr prayers Whoever forgets that he is fasting and eats or drinks, let him complete his fast, for it was Allah who fed him and gave him to drink These are two days which the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited fasting on: the day you break your fast (Eid al-Fitr) and the day you eat from your sacrificial animals (Eid al-Ad'ha) The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) would thus say Talbiyah: O Allah, I respond to Your call! I do respond. I respond to Your call; You have no partner. I do respond. Praise, blessings, and sovereignty are only Yours. You have no partner My close friend advised me to do three things: fast three days of every month, perform the two Rak‘ahs of Duha, and perform the Witr prayer before I go to sleep Seek the Laylat al-Qadr in the odd nights of the last ten nights of Ramadan I see that your dreams have coincided with each other upon the last seven nights. So, whosoever seeks it, let him seek it in the last seven nights When the night approaches from this side, and the day retreats from that side, then it is time for the fasting person to break his fast Zakah is not due on what is less than five ounces, nor on what is less than five camels, nor on what is less than five Wasqs O Messenger of Allah, I had vowed, before embracing Islam, to make I‘tikāf for one night – another narration reads: for one day – the Sacred Mosque. He said: Then fulfill your vow. Observe the fast when you see it and break the fast when you see it, but if the sky is overcast and you cannot see it, then act on estimation Has Allah not given you something to give as charity? Every utterance of "glory be to Allah" is charity; every utterance of "Allah is the Greatest" is charity; every utterance of "praise be to Allah" is charity; and every utterance of "there is no god but Allah" is charity Leave what you doubt to what you do not doubt A man's prayer in congregation is twenty-something degrees higher than his prayer in his house and market The blood of a Muslim is inviolable except by one of three: adultery by a married person, a life for a life (homicide), abandoning Islam and separating from the Islamic body Were people to be given everything that they claimed, some men would (unjustly) claim the properties and blood of (other) people. However, the onus of proof is on the plaintiff and the oath is upon the one who denies the claim When the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) missed prayer at night because of sickness or otherwise, he would pray twelve Rak‘ahs during the daytime The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) dissociates himself from the woman who wails, the woman who shaves her head out of grief, and the woman who tears up her clothes out of grief Whoever eats garlic or onions should keep away from us - or our mosque - and stay at home With the start of the last ten days of Ramadan, the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) would pray all night, wake up his family, show diligence (in worship), and tie up his lower garment firmly "He is in Hellfire." The people then went to look at him and found in his place a cloak which he had stolen from the war booty What if there was a river at the door of any of you wherein he takes a bath five times a day? Would there remain any of his filth? We used to speak during prayer; a man would talk with his companion at his side in the prayer until [this verse] was revealed: {...And stand before Allah in devout obedience.} So we were commanded to keep silent, such that we were forbidden to talk The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) would frequently say in his Rukū‘ and prostration: Glory and praise be to You, our Lord. O Allah, forgive me A solar eclipse occurred during the Prophet's lifetime and he sent someone to summon people for a congregational prayer. They gathered and he came forward and began the prayer by making Takbīr. He bowed four times and prostrated four times in two Rak‘ahs At every part of the night, the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) prayed Witr: at its beginning, middle, and end. Finally he settled on performing Witr just before dawn Command your children to pray when they are seven years old, and beat them for (not offering) it when they are ten, and separate them (boys and girls) in beds The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us, and we said: O Messenger of Allah, we have learned how to greet you, but how should we invoke the blessings of Allah upon you? The prayer of the one who did not recite the Opening of the Book (Surat al-Fātihah) is invalid Whoever takes a bath on Friday, like the bath taken from sexual impurity, and then goes (to the mosque) on the first hour is like the one who offers a camel as a sacrifice; and whoever goes on the second hour is like the one who offers a cow as a sacrifice Whoever of you comes to attend the Friday prayer, let him take a bath Whoever attends a funeral until he offers the funeral prayer will get a reward equal to one Qirāt; and whoever attends it until the dead person is buried will get a reward equal to two Qirāts. It was asked: What are the two Qirāts? He replied: Like two huge mountains