Volume 4, Book 52, Number 87:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle went towards the Khandaq (i.e. Trench) and saw the Emigrants and the Ansar dig –
ging in a very cold morning as they did not have slaves to do that for them. When he noticed their
fatigue and hunger he said, “O Allah! The real life is that of the Here-after, (so please) forgive the
Ansar and the Emigrants.” In its reply the Emigrants and the Ansar said, “We are those who have giv –
en a pledge of allegiance to Muhammad that we will carry on Jihad as long as we live.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 88:
Narrated Anas:
The Emigrants and the Ansar started digging the trench around Medina carrying the earth on
their backs and saying, “We are those who have given a pledge of allegiance to Muhammad that we
will I carry on Jihad as long as we live.” The Prophet kept on replying, “O Allah, there is no good ex –
cept the good of the Hereafter; so confer Your Blessings on the Ansar and the Emigrants.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 89:
Narrated Al-Bara:
The Prophet went on carrying (i.e. the earth) and saying, “Without You (O Allah!) we would have
got no guidance.”
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Volume 4, Book 52, Number 90:
Narrated Al-Bara:
On the day (of the battle) of Al-Ahzab (i.e. clans) I saw the Prophet carrying earth, and the earth
was covering the whiteness of his abdomen. And he was saying, “Without You (O Allah!) we would
have got no guidance, nor given in charity, nor prayed. So please bless us with tranquility and make
firm our feet when we meet our enemies.
Indeed (these) people have rebelled against (oppressed) us but never shall we yield if they try to
bring affliction upon us.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 91:
Narrated Anas:
We returned from the Ghazwa of Tabuk along with the Prophet. (See Hadith No. 92 below) .
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 75:
Narrated Muhammad bin Jubair:
Jubair bin Mut’im told me that while he was in the company of Allah’s Apostle with the people re –
turning from Hunain, some people (bedouins) caught hold of the Prophet and started begging of him
so much so that he had to stand under a (kind of thorny tree (i.e. Samurah) and his cloak was
snatched away. The Prophet stopped and said, “Give me my cloak. If I had as many camels as these
thorny trees, I would have distributed them amongst you and you will not find me a miser or a liar
or a coward.”
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 76:
Narrated ‘Amr bin Maimun Al-Audi:
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Sad used to teach his sons the following words as a teacher teaches his students the skill of writing
and used to say that Allah’s Apostle used to seek Refuge with Allah from them (i.e. the evils) at the
end of every prayer. The words are:
‘O Allah! I seek refuge with You from cowardice, and seek refuge with You from being brought
back to a bad stage of old life and seek refuge with You from the afflictions of the world, and seek
refuge with You from the punishments in the grave.’
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 77:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet used to say, “O Allah! I seek refuge with You from helplessness, laziness, cowardice
and feeble old age; I seek refuge with You from afflictions of life and death and seek refuge with You
from the punishment in the grave.”