Volume 8, Book 73, Number 29:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, Allah divided Mercy into one-hundred parts and He kept its ninety-
nine parts with Him and sent down its one part on the earth, and because of that, its one single part,
His creations are Merciful to each other, so that even the mare lifts up its hoofs away from its baby
animal, lest it should trample on it.”
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 30:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
I said ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Which sin is the greatest?” He said, “To set up a rival unto Allah, though
He Alone created you.” I said, “What next?” He said, “To kill your son lest he should share your food
with you.” I further asked, “What next?” He said, “To commit illegal sexual intercourse with the wife
of your neighbor.” And then Allah revealed as proof of the statement of the Prophet: ‘Those who in –
voke not with Allah any other god)…………….. (to end of verse)…’ (25.68)
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Volume 8, Book 73, Number 31:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
The Prophet took a child in his lap for Tahnik (i.e. he chewed a date in his mouth and put its juice
in the mouth of the child). The child urinated on him, so he asked for water and poured it over the
place of the urine.
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 32:
Narrated Usama bin Zaid:
Allah’s Apostle used to put me on (one of) his thighs and put Al-Hasan bin ‘Ali on his other thigh,
and then embrace us and say, “O Allah! Please be Merciful to them, as I am merciful to them. “
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 33:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
I never felt so jealous of any woman as I did of Khadija, though she had died three years before the
Prophet married me, and that was because I heard him mentioning her too often, and because his
Lord had ordered him to give her the glad tidings that she would have a palace in Paradise, made of
Qasab and because he used to slaughter a sheep and distribute its meat among her friends.
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 34:
Narrated Sahl bin Sa’d:
The Prophet said, “I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in
Paradise like this,” putting his index and middle fingers together.
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 35:
Narrated Safwan bin Salim:
The Prophet said “The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person, is like a
warrior fighting for Allah’s Cause or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all the night.”
Narrated Abu Huraira that the Prophet said as above.
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 36:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
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Allah’s Apostle said, “The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person is like
a warrior fighting for Allah’s Cause.” (The narrator Al-Qa’nabi is not sure whether he also said “Like
the one who prays all the night without slackness and fasts continuously and never breaks his fast.”)