Volume 6, Book 60, Number 333:
Narrated Masruq:
We came upon ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud and he said “O people! If somebody knows something, he can
say it, but if he does not know it, he should say, “Allah knows better,’ for it is a sign of having know –
ledge to say about something which one does not know, ‘Allah knows better.’ Allah said to His Proph –
et: ‘Say (O Muhammad ! ) No wage do I ask of You for this (Quran) nor am I one of the pretenders (a
person who pretends things which do not exist).’ (38.86) Now I will tell you about Ad-Dukhan (the
smoke), Allah’s Apostle invited the Quraish to embrace Islam, but they delayed their response. So he
said, “O Allah! Help me against them by sending on them seven years of famine similar to the seven
years of famine of Joseph.” So the famine year overtook them and everything was destroyed till they
ate dead animals and skins. People started imagining to see smoke between them and the sky because
of severe hunger. Allah said:
‘Then watch you for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible, covering
the people. . . This is painful torment.’ (44.10-11) (So they invoked Allah) “Our Lord! Remove the
punishment from us really we are believers.” How can there be an (effectual) reminder for them
when an Apostle, explaining things clearly, has already come to them? Then they had turned away
from him and said: ‘One taught (by a human being), a madman?’ ‘We shall indeed remove punish –
ment for a while, but truly, you will revert (to disbelief).’ (44.12-15) Will the punishment be re –
moved on the Day of Resurrection?” ‘Abdullah added, “The punishment was removed from them for a
while but they reverted to disbelief, so Allah destroyed them on the Day of Badr. Allah said:
‘The day We shall seize you with a mighty grasp. We will indeed (then) exact retribution.” (44.16)
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 334:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Some pagans who committed murders in great number and committed illegal sexual intercourse
excessively, came to Muhammad and said, “O Muhammad! Whatever you say and invite people to, is
good: but we wish if you could inform us whether we can make an expiration for our (past evil)
deeds.” So the Divine Verses came: ‘Those who invoke not with Allah any other god, not kill such life
as Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse.’ (25.68) And
there was also revealed:– ‘Say: O My slaves who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not
of the Mercy of Allah.’ (39.53)
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 335:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
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A (Jewish) Rabbi came to Allah’s Apostle and he said, “O Muhammad! We learn that Allah will put
all the heavens on one finger, and the earths on one finger, and the trees on one finger, and the wa –
ter and the dust on one finger, and all the other created beings on one finger. Then He will say, ‘I am
the King.’ Thereupon the Prophet smiled so that his pre-molar teeth became visible, and that was the
confirmation of the Rabbi. Then Allah’s Apostle recited:
‘No just estimate have they made of Allah such as due to Him.’ (39.67)
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 336:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “Allah will hold the whole earth, and roll all the heavens up in His
Right Hand, and then He will say, ‘I am the King; where are the kings of the earth?”‘
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 321:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
We said, “O Allah’s Apostle! (We know) this greeting (to you) but how shall we invoke Allah for
you?” He said, “Say! Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin ‘Abdika wa rasulika kama- sallaita ‘ala all
Ibrahim wa barik ala Muhammadin wa’ala all Muhammadin kama barakta ‘ala all Ibrahim.’ Al-Laith
said: ‘Ala Muhammadin wa ‘ala all Muhammadin kama barakta ala all Ibrahim.
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 337:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “I will be the first to raise my head after the second blowing of the trumpet and
will see Moses hanging the Throne, and I will not know whether he had been in that state all the
time or after the blowing of the trumpet.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 322:
Narrated Ibn Abi Hazim and Ad-Darawardi:
Yazid said, “Kama sallaita ala Ibrahima wa barik ‘ala Muhammad in wa all Muhammadin kama
barakta ‘ala Abrahima wa all Ibrahim.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 338:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Between the two blowing of the trumpet there will be forty.” The people said, “O
Abu Huraira! Forty days?” I refused to reply. They said, “Forty years?” I refused to reply and added:
Everything of the human body will decay except the coccyx bone (of the tail) and from that bone Al –
lah will reconstruct the whole body.