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.’ “
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. “