Volume 6, Book 60, Number 238:
Narrated Abdullah:
Regarding the explanation of the Verse: ‘Those whom they call upon (worship) (like Jesus the Son
of Mary, angels etc.) desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord (Allah) as to which of them
should be the nearer and they hope for His Mercy and fear His torment.’ (17.57) They themselves
(e.g. Angels, saints, Apostles, Jesus, etc.,) worshipped Allah, Those Jinns who were worshipped by
some Arabs became Muslims (embraced Islam), but those human beings stuck to their (old) religion.
Al-Amash said extra: ‘Say, (O Muhammad): Call unto those besides Him whom you assume (to be
gods).’ (17.56)
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Volume 6, Book 60, Number 223:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “When Allah has ordained some affair in the Heaven, the angels beat with their
wings in obedience to His statement, which sounds like a chain dragged over a rock.” (‘Ali and other
sub-narrators said, “The sound reaches them.”) “Until when fear is banished from their (angels)
hearts, they (angels) say, ‘What was it that your Lord said? They say, ‘The truth; And He is the Most
High, the Most Great.’ (34.23) Then those who gain a hearing by stealing (i.e. devils) will hear Allah’s
Statement:– ‘Those who gain a hearing by stealing, (stand one over the other like this).
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(Sufyan, to illustrate this, spread the fingers of his right hand and placed them one over the other
horizontally.) A flame may overtake and burn the eavesdropper before conveying the news to the
one below him; or it may not overtake him till he has conveyed it to the one below him, who in his
turn, conveys it to the one below him, and so on till they convey the news to the earth. (Or probably
Sufyan said, “Till the news reaches the earth.”) Then the news is inspired to a sorcerer who would
add a hundred lies to it. His prophecy will prove true (as far as the heavenly news is concerned). The
people will say. ‘Didn’t he tell us that on such-and-such a day, such-and-such a thing will happen?
We have found that is true because of the true news heard from heaven.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 239:
Narrated Abdullah:
Regarding the Verse: ‘Those whom they call upon (worship) (like Jesus the Son of Mary or angels
etc.) desire (for themselves) means of access, to their Lord….’ (17.57) (It was revealed regarding)
some Jinns who used to be worshipped (by human beings). They later embraced Islam (while those
people kept on worshipping them).
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 224:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
(The same Hadith above, starting: ‘When Allah has ordained some affair…’) In this narration the
word foreteller is added to the word wizard.
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 240:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Regarding: ‘And We granted the vision (Ascension to the Heaven “Miraj”) which We showed you
(O Muhammad as an actual eye witness) but as a trial for mankind.’ (17.60) It was an actual eye-
witness which was shown to Allah’s Apostle during the night he was taken on a journey (through the
heavens). And the cursed tree is the tree of Az-Zaqqum (a bitter pungent tree which grows at the
bottom of Hell).
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 225:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
(While we were going for the Battle of Tabuk and when we reached the places of the dwellers of
Al-Hijr), Allah’s Apostle said about the dwellers of Al-Hijr (to us). “Do not enter (the dwelling places)
of these people unless you enter weeping, but if you weep not, then do not enter upon them, lest you
be afflicted with what they were afflicted with.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 226:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Mualla:
While I was praying, the Prophet passed by and called me, but I did not go to him till I had fin –
ished my prayer. When I went to him, he said, “What prevented you from coming?” I said, “I was
praying.” He said, “Didn’t Allah say” “O you who believes Give your response to Allah (by obeying
Him) and to His Apostle.” (8.24) Then he added, “Shall I tell you the most superior Sura in the Qur’an
before I go out of the mosque?” When the Prophet intended to go out (of the Mosque), I reminded
him and he said, “That is: “Alhamdu-lillahi Rabbil-‘Alamin (Surat-al-fatiha)’ which is the seven oft
repeated verses (Al-Mathani) and the Grand Quran which has been given to me.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 227:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The Um (substance) of the Quran is the seven oft-repeated verses (Al-Math –
aini) and is the Great Quran (i.e. Surat-al-Fatiha).”
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