Volume 7, Book 72, Number 700:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Once I was walking with Allah’s Apostle and he was wearing a Najram Burd with thick margin. A
bedouin followed him and pulled his Burd so violently that I noticed the side of the shoulder of Al –
lah’s Apostle affected by the margin of the Burd because of that violent pull. The Bedouin said, “O
Muhammad! Give me some of Allah’s wealth which is with you.” Allah’s Apostle turned and looked at
him, and smiling, ‘he ordered that he be given something.
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 701:
Narrated Abu Hazim:
Shahl bin Sad said, “A lady came with a Burda. Sahl then asked (the people), “Do you know what
Burda is?” Somebody said, “Yes. it is a Shamla with a woven border.” Sahl added, “The lady said, ‘O
Allah’s Apostle! I have knitted this (Burda) with my own hands for you to wear it.” Allah’s Apostle
took it and he was in need of it. Allah’s Apostle came out to us and he was wearing it as an Izar. A
man from the people felt it and said, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Give it to me to wear.’ The Prophet s said,
‘Yes.’ Then he sat there for some time (and when he went to his house), he folded it and sent it to him.
The people said to that man, ‘You have not done a right thing. You asked him for it, though you
know that he does not put down anybody’s request.’ The man said, ‘By Allah! I have only asked him
so that it may be my shroud when I die.” Sahl added, “Late it was his shroud.”
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 702:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying “From among my followers, a group (o 70,000) will enter Paradise
without being asked for their accounts, Their faces will be shining like the moon.” ‘Ukasha bin
Muhsin Al-Asadi got up, lifting his covering sheet and said, “O Allah’s Apostle Invoke Allah for me
that He may include me with them.” The Prophet said! “O Allah! Make him from them.” Then another
man from Al-Ansar got up and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Invoke Allah for me that He may include me
with them.” On that Allah’s Apostle said, “‘Ukasha has anticipated you.”
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 687:
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah:
The Prophet came to visit Abdullah bin Ubai (bin Salul) after he had been put in his grave. The
Prophet ordered that ‘Abdullah be taken out. He was taken out and was placed on the knees on the
knees of the Prophet, who blew his (blessed) breath on him and dressed the body with his own shirt.
And Allah knows better.
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 703:
Narrated Qatada:
I asked Anas, “What kind of clothes was most beloved to the Prophet?” He replied, “The Hibra (a
kind of Yemenese cloth).”
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Volume 7, Book 72, Number 688:
Narrated Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
When Abdullah bin Ubdi (bin Salul) died, his son came to Allah’s Apostle and said ‘ O Allah’s
Apostle, give me your shirt so that I may shroud my fathers body in it. And please offer a funeral
prayer for him and invoke Allah for his forgiveness.” The Prophet gave him his shirt and said to him
‘Inform us when you finish (and the funeral procession is ready) call us. When he had finished he
told the Prophet and the Prophet proceeded to order his funeral prayers but Umar stopped him and
said, “Didn’t Allah forbid you to offer the funeral prayer for the hypocrites when He said: “Whether
you (O Muhammad) ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness for them: (and even) if you ask
forgiveness for them seventy times. Allah will not forgive them.” (9.80) Then there was revealed:
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“And never (O Muhammad) pray for any of them that dies, nor stand at his grave.” (9.34) Thence –
forth the Prophet did not offer funeral prayers for the hypocrites.
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 704:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The most beloved garment to the Prophet to wear was the Hibra (a kind of Yemenese cloth).
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 689:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle has set forth an example for a miser and a charitable person by comparing them to
two men wearing two iron cloaks and their hands are raised to their breasts and necks. Whenever
the charitable man tries to give a charitable gift, his iron cloak expands till it becomes so wide that it
will cover his fingertips and obliterate his tracks And, whenever the miser wants to give a charitable
gift, his cloak becomes very tight over him and every ring gets stuck to its place Abu Huraira added; I
saw Allah’s Apostle putting his finger in the (chest) pocket of his shirt like that If you but saw him
trying to widen (the opening of his shirt) but it did not widen