Volume 8, Book 76, Number 518:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Some rough bedouins used to visit the Prophet and ask him, “When will the Hour be?” He would
look at the youngest of all of them and say, “If this should live till he is very old, your Hour (the death
of the people addressed) will take place.” Hisham said that he meant (by the Hour), their death.
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 519:
Narrated Abu Qatada bin Rib’i Al-Ansari:
A funeral procession passed by Allah’s Apostle who said, “Relieved or relieving?” The people asked,
“O Allah’s Apostle! What is relieved and relieving?” He said, “A believer is relieved (by death) from
the troubles and hardships of the world and leaves for the Mercy of Allah, while (the death of) a
wicked person relieves the people, the land, the trees, (and) the animals from him.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 520:
Narrated Abu Qatada:
The Prophet said, “Relieved or relieving. And a believer is relieved (by death).”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 521:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle said, “When carried to his grave, a dead person is followed by three, two of which
return (after his burial) and one remains with him: his relative, his property, and his deeds follow
him; relatives and his property go back while his deeds remain with him.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 522:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said, “When anyone of you dies, his destination is displayed before him in the
forenoon and in the afternoon, either in the (Hell) Fire or in Paradise, and it is said to him, “That is
your place till you are resurrected and sent to it.”
Volume 8, Book 76, Number 523:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
The Prophet said, “Do not abuse the dead, for they have reached the result of what they have
done.”
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Volume 8, Book 76, Number 508:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet had a she-camel called Al’Adba’ and it was too fast to surpass in speed. There came a
bedouin riding a camel of his, and that camel outstripped it (i.e. Al-Aqba’). That result was hard on
the Muslims who said sorrowfully, “Al- Adba has been outstripped.” Allah’s Apostle said, “It is due
from Allah that nothing would be raised high in this world except that He lowers or puts it down.”
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Volume 8, Book 76, Number 509:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Allah said, ‘I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a pious wor –
shipper of Mine. And the most beloved things with which My slave comes nearer to Me, is what I
have enjoined upon him; and My slave keeps on coming closer to Me through performing Nawafil
(praying or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory) till I love him, so I become his sense of
hearing with which he hears, and his sense of sight with which he sees, and his hand with which he
grips, and his leg with which he walks; and if he asks Me, I will give him, and if he asks My protec –
tion (Refuge), I will protect him; (i.e. give him My Refuge) and I do not hesitate to do anything as I
hesitate to take the soul of the believer, for he hates death, and I hate to disappoint him.”