Volume 4, Book 56, Number 677:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Once Allah’s Apostle; offered the morning prayer and then faced the people and said, “While a
man was driving a cow, he suddenly rode over it and beat it. The cow said, “We have not been cre –
ated for this, but we have been created for sloughing.” On that the people said astonishingly, “Glori –
fied be Allah! A cow speaks!” The Prophet said, “I believe this, and Abu Bakr and ‘Umar too, believe it,
although neither of them was present there. While a person was amongst his sheep, a wolf attacked
and took one of the sheep. The man chased the wolf till he saved it from the wolf, where upon the
wolf said, ‘You have saved it from me; but who will guard it on the day of the wild beasts when there
will be no shepherd to guard them except me (because of riots and afflictions)? ‘ ” The people said
surprisingly, “Glorified be Allah! A wolf speaks!” The Prophet said, “But I believe this, and Abu Bakr
and ‘Umar too, believe this, although neither of them was present there.” (See the Foot-note of page
No. 10 Vol.5)
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 678:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “A man bought a piece of and from another man, and the buyer found an
earthenware jar filled with gold in the land. The buyer said to the seller. ‘Take your gold, as I have
bought only the land from you, but I have not bought the gold from you.’ The (former) owner of the
land said, “I have sold you the land with everything in it.’ So both of them took their case before a
man who asked, ‘Do you have children?’ One of them said, “I have a boy.’ The other said, “I have a
girl.’ The man said, ‘Marry the girl to the boy and spend the money on both of them and give the rest
of it in charity.’ “
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 679:
Narrated Usama bin Zaid:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Plague was a means of torture sent on a group of Israelis (or on some people
before you). So if you hear of its spread in a land, don’t approach it, and if a plague should appear in
a land where you are present, then don’t leave that land in order to run away from it (i.e. plague).”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 680:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) I asked Allah’s Apostle about the plague. He told me that it was a Punish –
ment sent by Allah on whom he wished, and Allah made it a source of mercy for the believers, for if
one in the time of an epidemic plague stays in his country patiently hoping for Allah’s Reward and
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believing that nothing will befall him except what Allah has written for him, he will get the reward
of a martyr.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 665:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Your period (i.e. the Muslims’ period) in comparison to the periods of the
previous nations, is like the period between the ‘Asr prayer and sunset. And your example in com –
parison to the Jews and the Christians is like the example of a person who employed some laborers
and asked them, ‘Who will work for me till midday for one Qirat each?’ The Jews worked for half a
day for one Qirat each. The person asked, ‘Who will do the work for me from midday to the time of
the ‘Asr (prayer) for one Qirat each?’ The Christians worked from midday till the ‘Asr prayer for one
Qirat. Then the person asked, ‘Who will do the work for me from the ‘Asr till sunset for two Qirats
each?’ ” The Prophet added, “It is you (i.e. Muslims) who are doing the work from the Asr till sunset,
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so you will have a double reward. The Jews and the Christians got angry and said, ‘We have done
more work but got less wages.’ Allah said, ‘Have I been unjust to you as regards your rights?’ They
said, ‘No.’ So Allah said, ‘Then it is My Blessing which I bestow on whomever I like. “
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 681:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
The people of Quraish worried about the lady from Bani Makhzum who had committed theft.
They asked, “Who will intercede for her with Allah’s Apostle?” Some said, “No one dare to do so ex –
cept Usama bin Zaid the beloved one to Allah’s Apostle .” When Usama spoke about that to Allah’s
Apostle Allah’s Apostle said, (to him), “Do you try to intercede for somebody in a case connected with
Allah’s Prescribed Punishments?” Then he got up and delivered a sermon saying, “What destroyed the
nations preceding you, was that if a noble amongst them stole, they would forgive him, and if a poor
person amongst them stole, they would inflict Allah’s Legal punishment on him. By Allah, if Fatima,
the daughter of Muhammad stole, I would cut off her hand.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 666:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
I heard ‘Umar saying, “May Allah Curse so-and-so! Doesn’t he know that the Prophet said, ‘May
Allah curse the Jews for, though they were forbidden (to eat) fat, they liquefied it and sold it. “
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 682:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
I heard a person reciting a (Quranic) Verse in a certain way, and I had heard the Prophet reciting
the same Verse in a different way. So I took him to the Prophet and informed him of that but I no –
ticed the sign of disapproval on his face, and then he said, “Both of you are correct, so don’t differ, for
the nations before you differed, so they were destroyed.”