Volume 4, Book 56, Number 671:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
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Allah’s Apostle said, “Once three persons (from the previous nations) were traveling, and suddenly
it started raining and they took shelter in a cave. The entrance of the cave got closed while they were
inside. They said to each other, ‘O you! Nothing can save you except the truth, so each of you should
ask Allah’s Help by referring to such a deed as he thinks he did sincerely (i.e. just for gaining Allah’s
Pleasure).’ So one of them said, ‘O Allah! You know that I had a laborer who worked for me for one
Faraq (i.e. three Sas) of rice, but he departed, leaving it (i.e. his wages). I sowed that Faraq of rice and
with its yield I bought cows (for him). Later on when he came to me asking for his wages, I said (to
him), ‘Go to those cows and drive them away.’ He said to me, ‘But you have to pay me only a Faraq of
rice,’ I said to him, ‘Go to those cows and take them, for they are the product of that Faraq (of rice).’
So he drove them. O Allah! If you consider that I did that for fear of You, then please remove the
rock.’ The rock shifted a bit from the mouth of the cave. The second one said, ‘O Allah, You know that
I had old parents whom I used to provide with the milk of my sheep every night. One night I was
delayed and when I came, they had slept, while my wife and children were crying with hunger. I
used not to let them (i.e. my family) drink unless my parents had drunk first. So I disliked to wake
them up and also disliked that they should sleep without drinking it, I kept on waiting (for them to
wake) till it dawned. O Allah! If You consider that I did that for fear of you, then please remove the
rock.’ So the rock shifted and they could see the sky through it. The (third) one said, ‘O Allah! You
know that I had a cousin (i.e. my paternal uncle’s daughter) who was most beloved to me and I
sought to seduce her, but she refused, unless I paid her one-hundred Dinars (i.e. gold pieces). So I
collected the amount and brought it to her, and she allowed me to sleep with her. But when I sat
between her legs, she said, ‘Be afraid of Allah, and do not deflower me but legally. ‘I got up and left
the hundred Dinars (for her). O Allah! If You consider that I did that for fear of you than please re –
move the rock. So Allah saved them and they came out (of the cave).” (This Hadith indicates that one
can only ask Allah for help directly or through his performed good deeds. But to ask Allah through
dead or absent prophets, saints, spirits, holy men, angels etc. is absolutely forbidden in Islam and it is
a kind of disbelief.)
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 672:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
That he heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “While a lady was nursing her child, a rider passed by and
she said, ‘O Allah! Don’t let my child die till he becomes like this (rider).’ The child said, ‘O Allah!
Don’t make me like him,’ and then returned to her breast (sucking it). (After a while) they passed by
a lady who was being pulled and teased (by the people). The child’s mother said, ‘O Allah! Do not
make my child like her.’ The child said, ‘O Allah! Make me like her.’ Then he said, ‘As for the rider, he
is an infidel, while the lady is accused of illegal sexual intercourse (falsely) and she says: Allah is suf –
ficient for me (He knows the truth).”
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Volume 4, Book 56, Number 673:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “While a dog was going round a well and was about to die of thirst, an Israeli
prostitute saw it and took off her shoe and watered it. So Allah forgave her because of that good
deed.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 674:
Narrated Humaid bin ‘Abdur-Rahman:
That he heard Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan (talking) on the pulpit in the year when he performed the
Hajj. He took a tuft of hair that was in the hand of an orderly and said, “O people of Medina! Where
are your learned men? I heard the Prophet forbidding such a thing as this (i.e. false hair) and he used
to say, ‘The Israelis were destroyed when their ladies practiced this habit (of using false hair to
lengthen their locks).”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 675:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Amongst the people preceding you there used to be ‘Muhaddithun’ (i.e. persons
who can guess things that come true later on, as if those persons have been inspired by a divine
power), and if there are any such persons amongst my followers, it is ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 676:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, “Amongst the men of Bani Israel there was a man who had murdered ninety-
nine persons. Then he set out asking (whether his repentance could be accepted or not). He came
upon a monk and asked him if his repentance could be accepted. The monk replied in the negative
and so the man killed him. He kept on asking till a man advised to go to such and such village. (So he
left for it) but death overtook him on the way. While dying, he turned his chest towards that village
(where he had hoped his repentance would be accepted), and so the angels of mercy and the angels
of punishment quarrelled amongst themselves regarding him. Allah ordered the village (towards
which he was going) to come closer to him, and ordered the village (whence he had come), to go far
away, and then He ordered the angels to measure the distances between his body and the two vil –
lages. So he was found to be one span closer to the village (he was going to). So he was forgiven.”
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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.’ “