Volume 3, Book 33, Number 261:
Narrated ‘Amra bint ‘AbdurRahman from ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle mentioned that he would practice Itikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. ‘Aisha
asked his permission to perform Itikaf and he permitted her. Hafsa asked ‘Aisha to take his permis –
sion for
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 262:
Narrated ‘Urwa:
Aisha during her menses used to comb and oil the hair of the Prophet while he used to be in Itikaf
in the mosque. He would stretch out his head towards her while she was in her chamber.
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Book 34: Sales and Trade
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 256:
Narrated Abu Said:
We practiced Itikaf with Allah’s Apostle in the middle ten days (of Ramadan). In the morning of
the twentieth (of Ramadan) we shifted our baggage, but Allah’s Apostle came to us and said, “Who –
ever was m Itikaf should return to his place of Itikaf, for I saw (i.e. was informed about the date of)
this Night (of Qadr) and saw myself prostrating in mud and water.” When I returned to my place the
sky was overcast with clouds and it rained. By Him Who sent Muhammad with the Truth, the sky
was covered with clouds from the end of that day, and the mosque which was roofed with leaf-stalks
of date palm trees (leaked with rain) and I saw the trace of mud and water over the nose of the
Prophet and its tip.
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 257:
Narrated ‘Amra bint ‘Abdur-Rahman from ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle used to practice Itikaf every year in the month of Ramadan. And after offering the
morning prayer, he used to enter the place of his Itikaf. ‘Aisha asked his permission to let her practice
Itikaf and he allowed her, and so she pitched a tent in the mosque. When Hafsa heard of that, she
also pitched a tent (for herself), and when Zainab heard of that, she too pitched another tent. When,
in the morning, Allah’s Apostle had finished the morning prayer, he saw four tents and asked, “What
is this?” He was informed about it. He then said, “What made them do this? Is it righteousness? Re –
move the tents, for I do not want to see them.” So, the tents were removed. The Prophet did not per –
form Itikaf that year in the month of Ramadan, but did it in the last ten days of Shawwal.
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 258:
Narrated Abdullah bin Umar:
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‘Umar bin Al-Khattab said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I vowed in the Pre-lslamic period to perform Itikaf
in Al-Masjid-al-Haram for one night.” The Prophet said, “Fulfill your vow.” So, he performed Itikaf
for one night.
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 259:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
that ‘Umar had vowed in the Pre-lslamic period to perform Itikaf in Al-Masjid-al-Haram. (A sub-
narrator thinks that ‘Umar vowed to perform Itikaf for one night.) Allah’s Apostle said to ‘Umar, “Ful –
fill your vow.”
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 260:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet used to perform Itikaf every year in the month of Ramadan for ten days, and when it
was the year of his death, he stayed in Itikaf for twenty days.
Volume 3, Book 33, Number 251:
Narrated Ali bin Al-Husain:
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Safiya, the wife of the Prophet told me that she went to Allah’s Apostle to visit him in the mosque
while he was in Itikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. She had a talk with him for a while, then she
got up in order to return home. The Prophet accompanied her. When they reached the gate of the
mosque, opposite the door of Um-Salama, two Ansari men were passing by and they greeted Allah’s
Apostle . He told them: Do not run away! And said, “She is (my wife) Safiya bint Huyai.” Both of them
said, “Subhan Allah, (How dare we think of any evil) O Allah’s Apostle!” And they felt it. The Prophet
said (to them), “Satan reaches everywhere in the human body as blood reaches in it, (everywhere in
one’s body). I was afraid lest Satan might insert an evil thought in your minds.”