Volume 1, Book 8, Number 460:
Narrated ‘Kab bin Malik:
During the life-time of Allah’s Apostle I asked Ibn Abi Hadrad in the mosque to pay the debts
which he owed to me and our voices grew so loud that Allah’s Apostle heard them while he was in
his house. So he came to us after raising the curtain of his room. The Prophet said, “O Ka’b bin
Malik!” I replied, “Labaik, O Allah’s Apostle.” He gestured with his hand to me to reduce the debt to
one half. I said, “O Allah’s Apostle have done it.” Allah’s Apostle said (to Ibn Hadrad), “Get up and pay
it.”
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 461:
Narrated Nafi’:
Ibn ‘Umar said, “While the Prophet was on the pulpit, a man asked him how to offer the night
prayers. He replied, ‘Pray two Rakat at a time and then two and then two and so on, and if you are
afraid of the dawn (the approach of the time of the Fajr prayer) pray one Rak’a and that will be the
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witr for all the Rakat which you have offered.” Ibn ‘Umar said, “The last Rakat of the night prayer
should be odd for the Prophet ordered it to be so.
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 462:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
A man came to the Prophet while he was delivering the sermon and asked him how to offer the
night prayers. The Prophet replied, ‘Pray two Rakat at a time and then two and then two and so on
and if you are afraid of dawn (the approach of the time of the Fajr prayer) pray one Rak’a and that
will be the with for all the Rakat which you have prayed.” Narrated ‘Ubaidullah bin ‘Abdullah bin
‘Umar: A man called the Prophet while he was in the mosque.
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 446:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Barira came to seek my help regarding her manumission. I told herself you like I would pay your
price to your masters but your Al-Wala(1) would be for me.” Her masters said, “If you like, you can
pay what remains (of the price of her manumission), (Sufyan the sub-narrator once said), or if you
like you can manumit her, but her (inheritance) Al-Wala would be for us. “When Allah’s Apostle
came, I spoke to him about it. He said, “Buy her and manumit her. No doubt Al-Wala(1) is for the
manumitted.” Then Allah’s Apostle stood on the pulpit (or Allah’s Apostle ascended the pulpit as Sufy –
an once said), and said, “What about some people who impose conditions which are not present in
Allah’s Book (Laws)? Whoever imposes conditions which are not in Allah’s Book (Laws), his condi –
tions will be invalid even if he imposed them a hundred times.”
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 447:
Narrated Ka’b:
In the mosque l asked Ibn Abi Hadrad to pay the debts which he owed to me and our voices grew
louder. Allah’s Apostle heard that while he was in his house. So he came to us raising the curtain of
his room and said, “O Ka’b!” I replied, “Labaik, O Allah’s Apostle!” He said, “O Ka’b! reduce your debt
to one half,” gesturing with his hand. I said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I have done so.” Then Allah’s Apostle
said (to Ibn Abi Hadrad), “Get up and pay the debt to him.”
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 448:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
A black man or a black woman used to sweep the mosque and he or she died. The Prophet asked
about her (or him). He was told that she (or he) had died. He said, “Why did you not inform me?
Show me his grave (or her grave).” So he went to her (his) grave and offered her (his) funeral pray –
er.”
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Volume 1, Book 8, Number 449:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When the verses of Surat “Al-Baqara”‘ about the usury Riba were revealed, the Prophet went to the
mosque and recited them in front of the people and then banned the trade of alcohol.
Volume 1, Book 8, Number 451:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet sent some horsemen to Najd and they brought a man called Thumama bin Uthal from
Bani Hanifa. They fastened him to one of the pillars of the mosque. The Prophet came and ordered
them to release him. He went to a (garden of) date-palms near the mosque, took a bath and entered
the, mosque again and said, “None has the right to be worshipped but Allah an Muhammad is His
Apostle (i.e. he embraced Islam).”