Volume 8, Book 78, Number 639:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
I heard the Prophet saying, “Perform the bowing and the prostration properly (with peace of
mind), for, by Him in Whose Hand my soul is, I see you from behind my back when you bow and
when you prostrate.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 638:
Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri:
A man heard another man reciting: Surat-ul-Ikhlas (The Unity) ‘Say: He is Allah, the One (112)
and he was repeating it. The next morning he came to Allah’s Apostle and mentioned the whole story
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to him as if he regarded the recitation of that Sura as insufficient On that, Allah’s Apostle said, “By
Him in Whose Hand my soul is! That (Sura No. 112) equals one-third of the Qur’an.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 637:
Narrated Abdullah bin Masud:
While Allah’s Apostle was sitting, reclining his back against a Yemenite leather tent he said to his
companions, “Will you be pleased to be one-fourth of the people of Paradise?” They said, ‘Yes.’ He
said “Won’t you be pleased to be one-third of the people of Paradise” They said, “Yes.” He said, “By
Him in Whose Hand Muhammad’s soul is, I hope that you will be one-half of the people of Paradise.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 636:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Hind bint ‘Utba bin Rabi ‘a said, “O Allah ‘s Apostle! (Before I embraced Islam), there was no family
on the surface of the earth, I wish to have degraded more than I did your family. But today there is
no family whom I wish to have honored more than I did yours.” Allah’s Apostle said, “I thought simil –
arly, by Him in Whose Hand Muhammad’s soul is!” Hind said, “O Allah’s Apostle! (My husband) Abu
Sufyan is a miser. Is it sinful of me to feed my children from his property?” The Prophet said, “No,
unless you take it for your needs what is just and reasonable.”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 635:
Narrated Al-Bara ‘bin ‘Azib:
A piece of silken cloth was given to the Prophet as a present and the people handed it over
amongst themselves and were astonished at its beauty and softness. Allah’s Apostle said, “Are you as –
tonished at it?” They said, “Yes, O Allah’s Apostle!” He said, “By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, the
handkerchiefs of Sa’d in Paradise are better than it.”
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Narrated Abu Huraira:
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Allah’s Apostle said, “(The Prophet) Solomon once said, ‘Tonight I will sleep with ninety women,
each of whom will bring forth a (would-be) cavalier who will fight in Allah’s Cause.” On this, his
companion said to him, “Say: Allah willing!” But he did not say Allah willing. Solomon then slept with
all the women, but none of them became pregnant but one woman who later delivered a half-man.
By Him in Whose Hand Muhammad’s soul is, if he (Solomon) had said, ‘Allah willing’ (all his wives
would have brought forth boys) and they would have fought in Allah’s Cause as cavaliers. “
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 633:
Narrated Abu Dhar:
I reached him (the Prophet ) while in the shade of the Ka’ba; he was saying, “They are the losers, by
the Lord of the Ka’ba! They are the losers, by the Lord of the Ka’ba!” I said (to myself ), “What is
wrong with me? Is anything improper detected in me? What is wrong with me? Then I sat beside
him and he kept on saying his statement. I could not remain quiet, and Allah knows in what sorrow –
ful state I was at that time. So I said, ‘ Who are they (the losers)? Let My father and mother be sacri –
ficed for you, O Allah’s Apostle!” He said, “They are the wealthy people, except the one who does like
this and like this and like this (i.e., spends of his wealth in Allah’s Cause).”
Volume 8, Book 78, Number 632:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Abu-l-Qasim (the Prophet) said, “By Him in Whose Hand Muhammad’s soul is, if you know that
which I know, you would weep much and laugh little.”