Volume 4, Book 55, Number 615:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “It was said to Bani Israel, Enter the gate (of the town) with humility (prostrat –
ing yourselves) and saying: “Repentance”, but they changed the word and entered the town crawling
on their buttocks and saying: “A wheat grain in the hair.”
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Volume 4, Book 55, Number 616:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “(The Prophet) Moses was a shy person and used to cover his body completely
because of his extensive shyness. One of the children of Israel hurt him by saying, ‘He covers his
body in this way only because of some defect in his skin, either leprosy or scrotal hernia, or he has
some other defect.’ Allah wished to clear Moses of what they said about him, so one day while Moses
was in seclusion, he took off his clothes and put them on a stone and started taking a bath. When he
had finished the bath, he moved towards his clothes so as to take them, but the stone took his clothes
and fled; Moses picked up his stick and ran after the stone saying, ‘O stone! Give me my garment!’
Till he reached a group of Bani Israel who saw him naked then, and found him the best of what Al –
lah had created, and Allah cleared him of what they had accused him of. The stone stopped there
and Moses took and put his garment on and started hitting the stone with his stick. By Allah, the
stone still has some traces of the hitting, three, four or five marks. This was what Allah refers to in
His Saying:– “O you who believe! Be you not like those Who annoyed Moses, But Allah proved his
innocence of that which they alleged, And he was honorable In Allah’s Sight.” (33.69)

Volume 4, Book 55, Number 619:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Angel of Death was sent to Moses when he came to Moses, Moses slapped him on the eye. The
angel returned to his Lord and said, “You have sent me to a Slave who does not want to die.” Allah
said, “Return to him and tell him to put his hand on the back of an ox and for every hair that will
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come under it, he will be granted one year of life.” Moses said, “O Lord! What will happen after
that?” Allah replied, “Then death.” Moses said, “Let it come now.” Moses then requested Allah to let
him die close to the Sacred Land so much so that he would be at a distance of a stone’s throw from
it.” Abu Huraira added, “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘If I were there, I would show you his grave below the
red sand hill on the side of the road.”

Volume 4, Book 55, Number 620:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
A Muslim and a Jew quarreled. The Muslim taking an oath, said, “By Him Who has preferred
Muhammad over all people…!” The Jew said, “By Him Who has preferred Moses, over all people.” The
Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew who came to the Prophet to tell him what had happened
between him and the Muslim. The Prophet said, “Don’t give me superiority over Moses, for the people
will become unconscious (on the Day of Resurrection) and I will be the first to gain consciousness to
see Moses standing and holding a side of Allah’s Throne. I will not know if he has been among those
people who have become unconscious; and that he has gained consciousness before me, or he has
been amongst those whom Allah has exempted.”