Volume 4, Book 52, Number 87:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle went towards the Khandaq (i.e. Trench) and saw the Emigrants and the Ansar dig –
ging in a very cold morning as they did not have slaves to do that for them. When he noticed their
fatigue and hunger he said, “O Allah! The real life is that of the Here-after, (so please) forgive the
Ansar and the Emigrants.” In its reply the Emigrants and the Ansar said, “We are those who have giv –
en a pledge of allegiance to Muhammad that we will carry on Jihad as long as we live.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 88:
Narrated Anas:
The Emigrants and the Ansar started digging the trench around Medina carrying the earth on
their backs and saying, “We are those who have given a pledge of allegiance to Muhammad that we
will I carry on Jihad as long as we live.” The Prophet kept on replying, “O Allah, there is no good ex –
cept the good of the Hereafter; so confer Your Blessings on the Ansar and the Emigrants.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 89:
Narrated Al-Bara:
The Prophet went on carrying (i.e. the earth) and saying, “Without You (O Allah!) we would have
got no guidance.”
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 4 > BOOK 52: FIGHTING FOR THE CAUSE OF ALLAH (JIHAAD)
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 90:
Narrated Al-Bara:
On the day (of the battle) of Al-Ahzab (i.e. clans) I saw the Prophet carrying earth, and the earth
was covering the whiteness of his abdomen. And he was saying, “Without You (O Allah!) we would
have got no guidance, nor given in charity, nor prayed. So please bless us with tranquility and make
firm our feet when we meet our enemies.
Indeed (these) people have rebelled against (oppressed) us but never shall we yield if they try to
bring affliction upon us.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 91:
Narrated Anas:
We returned from the Ghazwa of Tabuk along with the Prophet. (See Hadith No. 92 below) .
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 92:
Narrated Anas:
While the Prophet was in a Ghazwa he said, “Some people have remained behind us in Medina
and we never crossed a mountain path or a valley, but they were with us (i.e. sharing the reward
with us), as they have been held back by a (legal) excuse. “
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 93:
Narrated Abu Said:
I heard the Prophet saying, “Indeed, anyone who fasts for one day for Allah’s Pleasure, Allah will
keep his face away from the (Hell) fire for (a distance covered by a journey of) seventy years.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 77:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet used to say, “O Allah! I seek refuge with You from helplessness, laziness, cowardice
and feeble old age; I seek refuge with You from afflictions of life and death and seek refuge with You
from the punishment in the grave.”