Volume 4, Book 56, Number 794:
Narrated ‘Adi:
as above (i.e. Hadith No. 793).
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 795:
Narrated ‘Uqba bin ‘Amr:
The Prophet once came out and offered the funeral prayer for the martyrs of Uhud, and proceeded
to the pulpit and said, “I shall be your predecessor and a witness on you, and I am really looking at
my sacred Fount now, and no doubt, I have been given the keys of the treasures of the world. By Al –
lah, I am not afraid that you will worship others along with Allah, but I am afraid that you will envy
and fight one another for worldly fortunes.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 796:
Narrated Usama:
Once the Prophet stood on one of the high buildings (of Medina) and said, “Do you see what I see?
I see affliction pouring among your hours like raindrops.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 797:
Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh:
That the Prophet came to her in a state of fear saying, “None has the right to be worshiped but Al –
lah! Woe to the Arabs because of evil that has come near. Today a hole has been made in the wall of
Gog and Magog as large as this.” pointing with two of his fingers making a circle. Zainab said, “I said,
‘O Allah’s Apostle! Shall we be destroyed though amongst us there are pious people? ‘ He said, ‘Yes, if
evil increases.”
Narrated Um Salama: The Prophet woke up and said, “Glorified be Allah: What great (how many)
treasures have been sent down, and what great (how many ) afflictions have been sent down!”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 798:
Narrated Sasaa:
Abu Said Al-Khudr said to me, “I notice that you like sheep and you keep them; so take care of
them and their food, for I have heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘A time will come upon the people when
the best of a Muslim’s property will be sheep, which he will take to the tops of mountains and to the
places of rain-falls to run away with his religion in order to save it from afflictions.’ ”
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 4 > BOOK 56: VIRTUES AND MERITS OF THE PROPHET (PBUH) AND HIS COMPANIONS
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 799:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “There will be afflictions (and at the time) the sitting person will be better than
the standing one, and the standing one will be better than the walking, and the walking will be bet –
ter than the running. And whoever will look towards those afflictions, they will overtake him, and
whoever will find a refuge or a shelter, should take refuge in it.” The same narration is reported by
Abu Bakr, with the addition, “(The Prophet said), ‘Among the prayers there is a prayer the missing of
which will be to one like losing one’s family and property.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 800:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
The Prophet said, “Soon others will be preferred to you, and there will be things which you will
not like.” The companions of the Prophet asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What do you order us to do (in
this case)? ” He said, “(I order you) to give the rights that are on you and to ask your rights from Al –
lah.”
Volume 4, Book 56, Number 785:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
That he heard Jabir bin ‘Abdullah saying, “The roof of the Mosque was built over trunks of date-
palms working as pillars. When the Prophet delivered a sermon, he used to stand by one of those
trunks till the pulpit was made for him, and he used it instead. Then we heard the trunk sending a
sound like of a pregnant she-camel till the Prophet came to it, and put his hand over it, then it be –
came quiet.”