Whoever performs Hajj and does not commit obscenity or commit any evil therein will go back (free of sin) as on the day his mother gave birth to him. Prayer should not be offered when food is ready, nor when one is in dire need of answering the call of nature If you said to your companion: "Be quiet and listen" on Friday while the Imām is delivering the sermon, then you would be guilty of idle talk Five are the acts of Fitrah (natural disposition): circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, cutting the mustache, clipping the nails, and plucking the armpit hair Trim the mustaches and grow the beards Whoever performs ablution as I have done and then stands and prays two Rak‘ahs without letting his thoughts wander, his previous sins will be forgiven O Allah, do not make my grave an idol that is worshiped. Allah's wrath was intense upon a people who took the graves of their prophets as places of worship 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. I sometimes thought of ordering for the prayer to be commenced, and I would appoint a man to lead the people in prayer, and then I would go, along with some men having bundles of firewood, to the people who are not attending the prayer and burn their houses with fire upon them Allah does not accept the prayer of anyone of you who is in the state of Hadath (minor ritual impurity), until he performs ablution The tooth-stick cleans 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 in between them, so long as major sins are avoided The one who upholds 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 had severed the bond of kinship with him He who observes fasting during the month of Ramadan faithfully and expecting its reward from Allah will have his past sins forgiven Whoever spends the Night of Qadr standing (in voluntary prayer) out of faith and seeking reward from Allah, his previous sins will be forgiven Verily, the lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear, and between them are doubtful matters which many people do not know of. Whoever avoids doubtful matters clears his liability regarding his religion and his honor, and whoever falls into doubtful matters will fall into the unlawful There should be neither harm nor reciprocating harm 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 the good treatment of the neighbor to the extent that I thought he would include the neighbor as an heir Indeed, Ruqyahs, Tamā'im, and Tiwalah are polytheism Do not insult the dead, because they have attained the fruits of their deeds Whoever performs the Fajr prayer is under the protection of Allah, so none of you should harm the one under the protection of Allah in any way Charity never diminishes wealth, and Allah does not increase the one who pardons others except in honor, and no one humbles himself seeking the pleasure of Allah except that Allah, the Exalted, will raise his rank The most perfect believer in his faith is the one who has the most excellent manners, and the best of you are those who are best to their wives This world is but an enjoyment and the best of its enjoyments is a righteous woman Allah, the Almighty, said: Spend, O son of Adam, you will be spent on The conditions that are the worthiest of being fulfilled are those which make sexual intercourse lawful for you He used to say at the conclusion of every prayer: There is no god but Allah; He is One There are no days on which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than these days If anyone abandons the ‘Asr prayer, their deeds will be rendered null and void He who performs ablution perfectly, his sins will leave his body If a man spends something on his family, seeking reward from Allah for it, it shall be recorded for him as charity The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade Qaza‘ (shaving parts of the 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 pray facing graves and do not sit on them Those are a people who, when a righteous slave or a righteous man from among them dies, they build a place of worship over his grave and place those images therein. They are the most evil people in the sight of Allah I have been commanded to prostrate on seven bones: the forehead (and he pointed to his nose), the hands, the knees, and the extremities of the feet, and not to tuck up the clothes and hair The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to say between the two prostrations: O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, grant me wellness and safety, guide me and provide for me When the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) finished his prayer, he would seek Allah’s forgiveness three times; then say: O Allah, You are the One free from imperfections, and peace and perfection come from You. Blessed are You, the Owner of Majesty and Honor Pray standing; if you cannot, then sitting; if you cannot, then lying on your side A blind man came to the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah, I have no one to lead me to the mosque. He asked the Messenger of Allah to allow him to pray at home, which the Messenger of Allah did. When the man was leaving, the Prophet called him back and said: Can you hear the Adhān? He replied in the affirmative. Thereupon, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) 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 (to be said in case) of need: Praise be to Allah. We seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with Him from the evils of our souls 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 (of traveling) 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 upon five (pillars) Performing the obligations only Purity is half of the Imān The reward of repeating after the Adhān (prayer call) Whoever forgets a prayer should perform it once he remembers it, and there is no expiation for it except this What stands between a man and polytheism and disbelief is abandonment of prayer 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 Judgment 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 Muezzin, repeat what he says. Once I was in the company of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey and I bent down to take off his leather socks, but he asked me to leave them as he had put them on after performing ablution. So, he wiped over them Fātimah bint Abi Hubaysh asked the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him): I am a woman who has continuous flow of vaginal bleeding; so, my menses does not cease. Should I abstain from prayer? He replied: 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 anyone 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. Whoever wakes up from his sleep, let him wash his hands three times before putting them in the water vessel, for none of you knows where his hands were during his sleep 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, for indeed, the first temptation of the children of Israel was due to women I prayed with the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) two Rak‘ahs before the Zhuhr prayer, two Rak‘ahs after it, two Rak‘ahs after the Friday prayer, two Rak‘ahs after the Maghrib prayer, and two Rak‘ahs after the ‘Ishā' 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 Isn't he who raises his head before the Imām 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 Sūrah from the Qur’an The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to say the following supplication: "O Allah, I seek refuge with You from the punishment of the grave, the punishment of the Fire, the trials of life and death, and the trial of the Anti-Christ." 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 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, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to wash his hands, then 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 used to experience frequent discharge of pre-ejaculatory fluid, and I was too shy to ask the Messenger (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) about it given the fact that his daughter was my wife. So I asked Al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad to ask him about it. Thereupon, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) replied: Let him wash his penis and perform ablution (after it) When you put on clothes and when you perform ablution, you should begin with your right side I asked the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him): Which deed is dearest to Allah? He said: Offering prayer at the appointed time. I said: Then, what comes next? He said: Dutifulness to one's parents 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 I witnessed ‘Amr ibn Abi Hasan asking ‘Abdullāh ibn Zayd about the Prophet's ablution. So, he ordered for a small bucket of water to be brought, and performed ablution like that performed by the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). He poured water from the bucket over his hands and washed his hands thrice 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 would have been enough for you to do this with your hands like this. Then he struck the ground once with his hands and then used the left hand to wipe over the right, as well as the back side of his hands and 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) pledge to establish the prayer, pay Zakah, and advise 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 times more superior (in reward) to his prayer in his market or his home 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 The five prayers are like a great river running by your door in which you wash five times every day 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 in beds O Messenger of Allah, we have learned how to greet you, but how should we invoke the grace of Allah upon you? He said: Say: O Allah, bestow Your grace upon Muhammad and his family just as You bestowed Your grace upon Ibrahīm and his family. Verily, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious. And bless Muhammad and his family just as You blessed Ibrahīm and his family. Verily, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious The prayer of someone who did not recite Sūrat 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 Whoever seizes the right of a Muslim by taking a false oath, Allah will condemn him to Hell and will forbid Paradise for him He who performs ablution properly, then comes to the Friday prayer and listens to it attentively and keeps silent, his sins between that Friday and the following Friday will be forgiven, with the addition of three more days; but he who touches a pebble has engaged in idle activity He who goes to the mosque in the morning or in the evening, Allah prepares an honorable abode for him in Paradise, every time he goes to the mosque; in the morning or in the evening Whoever passes through any of our mosques or markets with arrows with him, he should hold them by their heads lest he injures any of the Muslims with them O people, spread the greeting of peace profusely, maintain kinship ties, feed others, and pray at night when people are asleep, you will enter Paradise in peace O Messenger of Allah, who is the best among people? If a man calls his wife to fulfill his desire, she should come to him even if she is busy with the oven All of you are shepherds, and every one of you is responsible for his herd. A leader is a shepherd, a man is the shepherd over his family and a woman is the shepherd over her husband’s house and his children. So all of you are shepherds, and every one of you is responsible for his herd Whoever unjustly usurps even one handspan of land, his neck will be encircled with it down the seven earths When the Imām says amen, you too say amen, for whoever says amen at the same time the angels say amen will have his previous sins forgiven The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade Munābadhah, which is when a man throws a garment to another thus selling it to him before the buyer unfolds it or examines it. He also forbade Mulāmasah, which is when a man touches a garment [thus buying it] without examining it The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the sale of fruits until they are ripe. They said: What is meant by ripe? He said: When they become red. He added: What if Allah prevents the fruits, how could one of you consider his brother's money lawful for himself? The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited the selling of a fruit until it is evidently ripe. He forbade both the buyer and the seller He who gives in charity the value of a date which was lawfully earned, and Allah only accepts that which has been lawfully earned, then Allah will accept it with His right hand and nurture it for him, just as one of you nurtures his foal, until it becomes like a mountain O young men, those of you who can afford to should marry; it restrains the gaze and fortifies one's chastity. Those who cannot should fast; it controls the sexual desire If any of you leads the people in prayer, let him shorten it, because among them are the weak, the sick, and the busy. If any of you prays alone, then let him prolong (his prayer) as much as he wishes Beware of entering upon women. A man from the Ansār said: O Messenger of Allah, what about Al-Hamw? He said: Al-Hamw is death Gold for gold is usury unless they are exchanged on the spot; silver for silver is usury unless they are exchanged on the spot; wheat for wheat is usury unless they are exchanged on the spot; and barley for barley is usury unless they are exchanged on the spot The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the town-dweller to sell (merchandise) on behalf of a Bedouin The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited the sale of exchange of gold with silver on credit The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the sale of silver for silver and gold for gold except for equal quantities, and commanded us to buy silver with gold as we desire, and to buy gold with silver as we desire Whenever the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) appointed a man to lead an army or a military detachment, he would advise him to fear Allah and treat well those Muslims who are with him They used to beat us over testimony and promises when we were still children Fasting three days every month is fasting your entire lifetime Place your hand where you feel pain in your body The Imām is appointed so that he should be followed; so, do not act differently from him. When he makes Takbīr all of you should say it after him; bow when he bows; say "O our Lord, all praise be to You" when he says: Allah hears the one who praises Him; prostrate when he prostates; and all of you should pray sitting when he prays sitting A previously married woman should not be married until her verbal consent has been sought, and a virgin should not be married until her permission has been sought. They said: O Messenger of Allah, what is her permission? He said: When she remains silent The difference between our fasting and the fasting of the People of the Book is the Suhūr meal The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) was the most generous of people The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) would not fast in any month more than he did in Sha‘bān He who prays before sunrise and before sunset will not enter Hellfire If I were to live till the next year, I would definitely fast the ninth day There is no Muslim man who, when an obligatory prayer becomes due, perfects its ablution... There are statements of remembrance following the prayer; whoever says or does them will never be a loser Whoever visits a sick person whose time of death has not come and says, seven times "I ask Allah the Great, the Lord of the Great Throne, to cure you", except that Allah will cure him from that sickness He who feeds a fasting person will earn the same reward as him Whoever says when he hears the Muezzin: "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone without any partner, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. I am pleased with Allah as a Lord, with Muhammad as a Messenger, and with Islam as a religion," his sins shall be forgiven Madīnah is a sanctuary from ‘Ayr to Thawr (mountains). Whoever innovates something new (in religion) or shelters an innovator in it will incur the curse of Allah, the angels, and all the people, and Allah will accept from him neither an obligatory nor a supererogatory prayer on the Day of Resurrection Whoever learned archery then forsook it, is not one of us, or he said: he has indeed disobeyed Whoever dies without having fought (in the cause of Allah) or having thought of fighting (in the cause of Allah) will die while having one of the qualities of hypocrisy Any owner of gold or silver who does not pay what is due on them, on the Day of Resurrection, plates of fire will be heated for him in the fire of Hell and with them his flank, forehead, and back will be seared Guard yourselves against Hellfire, even with half a date There is no day on which Allah sets free more of His slaves from Fire than the Day of ‘Arafah. He verily draws near, then He boasts about them before the angels saying: What do these people want? Its water is pure and its dead animals are lawful (to eat) If there is enough water to fill two pitchers, then it will bear no impurity Two kinds of dead meat and two kinds of blood have been made lawful for you. The two kinds of dead meat are fish and locusts, and the two kinds of blood are the liver and spleen If a fly falls into the drink of any one of you, he should dip it (in the drink) and then remove it, for in one of its wings there is a disease and in the other there is cure He who drinks in a vessel (made) of gold or silver has, in fact, swallowed in his stomach fire from Hell Were it not that I would cause difficulty for my followers, I would command them to use the tooth-stick with every prayer If any of you wakes up from his sleep and wants to perform ablution, let him blow from his nose the water that he inhales three times, for the devil spends the night on his nostril The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was performing ablution; he rinsed his mouth thrice and blew water out of his nose thrice. He then washed his face thrice and his right and left forearms thrice, then he took more water and wiped over his head, and then he washed his feet until he cleaned them The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) performed ablution and passed a wet hand on his forelock, over the turban, and over the two leather socks The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to run the water around his elbows while performing ablution The prayer of a person who does not perform ablution is invalid, and the ablution of a person who does not mention the name of Allah is invalid Go back and perform ablution properly The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to take a ritual bath with one Sā‘ of water up to five Mudd and used to perform ablution with one Mudd If any Muslim performs ablution well then stands and prays two Rak‘ahs while focused on them with his heart and his face, Paradise is guaranteed for him I saw the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) wiping over the top of his leather socks If one of you makes ablution and then wears his leather socks, then let him wipe over them (in his next ablution) and pray while having them on without taking them off, except if he becomes in the state of Janābah The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) kissed some of his wives, and then went out for prayer without making ablution Is it not but a piece of him You praised this, so Paradise has been affirmed for him, and you dispraised this, so Hell has been affirmed for him. You are Allah's witnesses on earth The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the man who wears women's clothes and the woman who wears men's clothes If you had been from this city, I would have inflicted pain on you. You raise your voices in the Prophet's Mosque O people, you eat two plants that I only find offensive: onion and garlic Whoever has a sacrificial animal for slaughtering, once the crescent of Dhu al-Hijjah is declared, he should not cut anything of his hair or his nails until he sacrifices Whoever swears saying: "I have nothing to do with Islam," if he is lying, then he will be as he said: and if he is telling the truth, his Islam will be defective O womenfolk, give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the inhabitants of Hellfire. They said: Why is that, O Messenger of Allah? He said: You curse frequently and you are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone deficient in intelligence and religion, yet a decisive and sensible man could be led and subdued by one of you After becoming pure, we did not consider turbid and yellowish discharges to be of any significance Stop (praying) and wait for as long as your menstrual period would normally prevent you from praying, and then take a ritual bath If any of you has sexual intercourse with his wife and then wished to have intercourse again, then let him perform ablution between the two times Whoever performs ablution on Friday, that is good, and whoever takes a bath has done what is better Taking a bath on Friday is obligatory for every pubescent male Muslim, and (also) cleaning the teeth with the tooth-stick, and applying perfume if available Beware of the two things that provoke cursing. They said: O Messenger of Allah, what are those two things which provoke cursing? He said: The one who relieves himself on people’s roads or in their shade When Ramadan comes, the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hell are closed, and the devils are chained The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) fasted on the Day of ‘Āshūrā' The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to sleep while in a state of Janābah without touching water