Volume 6, Book 60, Number 196:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Tonight two (visitors) came to me (in my dream) and took me to a town built
with gold bricks and silver bricks. There we met men who, half of their bodies, look like the most-
handsome human beings you have ever seen, and the other half, the ugliest human beings you have
ever seen. Those two visitors said to those men, ‘Go and dip yourselves in that river. So they dipped
themselves therein and then came to us, their ugliness having disappeared and they were in the
most-handsome shape. The visitors said, ‘The first is the Garden of Eden and that is your dwelling
place.’ Then they added, ‘As for those people who were half ugly and half handsome, they were those
who mixed good deeds and bad deeds, but Allah forgave them.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 181:
Narrated Zaid bin Wahb:
We were with Hudhaifa and he said, “None remains of the people described by this Verse (9.12),
“Except three, and of the hypocrites except four.” A bedouin said, “You the companions of
Muhammad! Tell us (things) and we do not know that about those who break open our houses and
steal our precious things? ‘ He (Hudhaifa) replied, “Those are Al Fussaq (rebellious wrongdoers) (not
disbelievers or hypocrites). Really, none remains of them (hypocrite) but four, one of whom is a very
old man who, if he drinks water, does not feel its coldness.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 197:
Narrated Al-Musaiyab:
When Abu Talib’s death approached, the Prophet went to him while Abu Jahl and ‘Abdullah bin
Abi Umaiya were present with him. The Prophet said, “O uncle, say: None has the right to be wor –
shipped except Allah, so that I may argue for your case with it before Allah.” On that, Abu Jahl and
‘Abdullah bin Abu Umaiya said, “O Abu Talib! Do you want to renounce ‘Abdul Muttalib’s religion?”
Then the Prophet said, “I will keep on asking (Allah for) forgiveness for you unless I am forbidden to
do so.” Then there was revealed:–
‘It is not fitting for the Prophet and those who believe that they should invoke (Allah) for forgive –
ness for pagans even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are compan –
ions of the Fire.’ (9.113)
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 182:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The Kanz (money, the Zakat of which is not paid) of anyone of you will ap –
pear in the form of bald-headed poisonous male snake on the Day of Resurrection.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 198:
Narrated Abdullah bin Ka’b:
I heard Ka’b bin Malik talking about the Verse:– ‘And to the three (He also forgave) who re –
mained behind.’ (9.118) saying in the last portion of his talk, “(I said), ‘As a part (sign) of my repent –
ance, I would like to give up all my property in the cause of Allah and His Apostle,’ The Prophet said
to me, ‘Keep some of your wealth as it is good for you.” (To the three (He also forgave) who remained
behind till for them the earth, vast as it is, was straitened…” (9.118)
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Volume 6, Book 60, Number 183:
Narrated Zaid bin Wahb:
I passed by (visited ) Abu Dhar at Ar-Rabadha and said to him, “What has brought you to this
land?” He said, “We were at Sham and I recited the Verse: “They who hoard up gold and silver and
spend them not in the way of Allah; announce to them a painful torment, ” (9.34) where upon
Muawiya said, ‘This Verse is not for us, but for the people of the Scripture.’ Then I said, ‘But it is both
for us (Muslim) and for them.’ “
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 199:
Narrated Abdullah bin Kab:
I heard Ka’b bin Malik who was one of the three who were forgiven, saying that he had never re –
mained behind Allah’s Apostle in any Ghazwa which he had fought except two Ghazwat Ghazwat-
al’Usra (Tabuk) and Ghazwat-Badr. He added. “I decided to tell the truth to Allah’s Apostle in the
forenoon, and scarcely did he return from a journey he made, except in the forenoon, he would go
first to the mosque and offer a two-Rak’at prayer. The Prophet forbade others to speak to me or to my
two companions, but he did not prohibit speaking to any of those who had remained behind except –
ing us. So the people avoided speaking to us, and I stayed in that state till I could no longer bear it,
and the only thing that worried me was that I might die and the Prophet would not offer the funeral
prayer for me, or Allah’s Apostle might die and I would be left in that social status among the people
that nobody would speak to me or offer the funeral prayer for me. But Allah revealed His Forgiveness
for us to the Prophet in the last third of the night while Allah’s Apostle was with Um Salama. Um
Salama sympathized with me and helped me in my disaster. Allah’s Apostle said, ‘O Um Salama! Ka’b
has been forgiven!’ She said, ‘Shall I send someone to him to give him the good tidings?’ He said, ‘If
you did so, the people would not let you sleep the rest of the night.’ So when the Prophet had offered
the Fajr prayer, he announced Allah’s Forgiveness for us. His face used to look as bright as a piece of
the (full) moon whenever he was pleased. When Allah revealed His Forgiveness for us, we were the
three whose case had been deferred while the excuse presented by those who had apologized had
been accepted. But when there were mentioned those who had told the Prophet lies and remained
behind (the battle of Tabuk) and had given false excuses, they were described with the worse de –
scription one may be described with. Allah said: ‘They will present their excuses to you (Muslims)
when you return to them. Say: Present no excuses; we shall not believe you. Allah has already in –
formed us of the true state of matters concerning you. Allah and His Apostle will observe your ac –
tions.” (9.94)
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 184:
Narrated Abu Bakr:
The Prophet said, “Time has come back to its original state which it had when Allah created the
Heavens and the Earth; the year is twelve months, four of which are sacred. Three of them are in
succession; Dhul-Qa’da, Dhul-Hijja and Al-Muharram, and (the fourth being) Rajab Mudar (named
after the tribe of Mudar as they used to respect this month) which stands between Jumad (ath-thani)
and Sha’ban.”