Volume 8, Book 75, Number 360:
Narrated Qais:
I came to Khabbab who had been branded with seven brands(1) and he said, “Had Allah’s Apostle
not forbidden us to invoke (Allah) for death, I would have invoked (Allah) for it.”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 361:
Narrated Qais:
I came to Khabbab who had been branded with seven brands over his abdomen, and I heard him
saying, “If the Prophet: had not forbidden us to invoke (Allah) for death, I would have invoked Allah
for it.”
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 362:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle said,” None of you should long for death because of a calamity that had befallen
him, and if he cannot, but long for death, then he should say, ‘O Allah! Let me live as long as life is
better for me, and take my life if death is better for me.’ “
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 363:
Narrated As-Sa’ib bin Yazid:
My aunt took me to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! My sister’s son is sick.” So he
passed his hand over my head and invoked for Allah’s blessing upon me and then performed the
ablution. I drank from the water of his ablution and I stood behind him and looked at his Khatam
(the seal of Prophethood) between his shoulders (and its size was) like the button of a tent.
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 364:
Narrated Abu ‘Aqil:
that his grandfather. ‘Abdullah bin Hisham used to take him from the market or to the market (the
narrator is in doubt) and used to buy grain and when Ibn Az-Zubair and Ibn ‘Umar met him, they
would say to him, “Let us be your partners (in trading) as the Prophet invoked for Allah’s blessing
upon you.” He would then take them as partners and he would Sometimes gain a whole load carried
by an animal which he would send home.
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Volume 8, Book 75, Number 355:
Narrated Anas:
My mother said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Please invoke Allah on behalf of your servant.” He said, “O Al –
lah! Increase his wealth and children, and bestow Your Blessing on whatever You give him.” a time
of distress.
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 345:
Narrated Jarir:
Allah’s Apostle said to me. “Will you relieve me from Dhi-al-Khalasa? ” Dhi-al-Khalasa was an
idol which the people used to worship and it was called Al-Ka’ba al Yamaniyya. I said, “O Allah’s
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Apostle I am a man who can’t sit firm on horses.” So he stroked my chest (with his hand) and said, “O
Allah! Make him firm and make him a guiding and well-guided man.” So I went out with fifty (men)
from my tribe of Ahrnas. (The sub-narrator, Sufyan, quoting Jarir, perhaps said, “I went out with a
group of men from my nation.”) and came to Dhi-al-Khalasa and burnt it, and then came to the
Prophet and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I have not come to you till I left it like a camel with a skin dis –
ease.” The Prophet then invoked good upon Ahmas and their cavalry (fighters).
Volume 8, Book 75, Number 346:
Narrated Anas:
Um Sulaim said to the Prophet “Anas is your servant.” The Prophet said, “O Allah! increase his
wealth and offspring, and bless (for him) what ever you give him.”