Volume 8, Book 73, Number 237:
Narrated Um Salama:
(One night) the Prophet woke up and said, “Subhan Allah ! How many treasures have been (dis –
closed) sent down! And how many afflictions have been descended! Who will go and wake the
sleeping lady-occupants up of these dwellings (for praying)?” (He meant by this his wives.) The
Prophet added, “A well-dressed soul (person) in this world may be naked in the “Hereafter.” ‘Umar
said, “I asked the Prophet, ‘Have you divorced your wives?’ He said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Allahu Akbar.’ “
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 236:
Narrated ‘Ali:
We were with the Prophet in a funeral procession, and he started scraping the ground with a
small stick and said, “There is none amongst you but has been assigned a place (either) in Paradise
and (or) in the Hell-Fire.” The people said (to him), “Should we not depend upon it?” He said: carry on
doing (good) deeds, for everybody will find easy such deeds as will lead him to his destined place. He
then recited: “As for him who gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to Allah..” (92.5)
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 235:
Narrated Abu Musa:
That he was in the company of the Prophet in one of the gardens of Medina and in the hand of the
Prophet there was a stick, and he was striking (slowly) the water and the mud with it. A man came
(at the gate of the garden) and asked permission to enter. The Prophet said, “Open the gate for him
and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise. “I went, and behold! It was Abu Bakr. So I opened
the gate for him and informed him of the glad tidings of entering Paradise. Then another man came
and asked permission to enter. The Prophet said, “Open the gate for him and give him the glad tid –
ings of entering Paradise.” Behold! It was ‘Umar. So I opened the gate for him and gave him the glad
tidings of entering Paradise. Then another man came and asked permission to enter.
The Prophet was sitting in a leaning posture, so he sat up and said, “Open the gate for him and
give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise with a calamity which will befall him or which will
take place.” I went, and behold ! It was Uthman. So I opened the gate for him and gave him the glad
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tidings of entering Paradise and also informed him of what the Prophet had said (about a calamity).
‘Uthman said, “Allah Alone Whose Help I seek (against that calamity).
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 234:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
Once I stayed overnight at the house of Maimuna and the Prophet was there with her. When it
was the last third of the night, or some part of the night, the Prophet got up looking towards the sky
and recited: ‘Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of Night and
Day, there are indeed signs for men of u understanding.’ (3.190)
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 233:
Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah:
That he heard Allah’s Apostle saying. “Then there was a pause in the revelation of the Divine In –
spiration to me. Then while I was walking all of a sudden I heard a voice from the sky, and I raised
my sight towards the sky and saw the same angel who had visited me in the cave of Hira,’ sitting on a
chair between the sky and the earth.”
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 232:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Some people asked Allah’s Apostle about the fore-tellers. Allah’s Apostle said to them, “They are
nothing (i.e., liars).” The people said, ‘O Allah’s Apostle ! Sometimes they tell something which comes
out to be true.” Allah’s Apostle said, “That word which comes to be true is what a jinx snatches away
by stealing and then pours it in the ear of his fore-teller with a sound similar to the cackle of a hen,
and then they add to it one-hundred lies.”
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 231:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
There was a state of fear in Medina. Allah’s Apostle rode a horse belonging to Abu Talha (in order
to see the matter). The Prophet said, “We could not see anything, and we found that horse like a sea
(fast in speed).”
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Volume 8, Book 73, Number 230:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet had a Had (a camel driver) called Anjasha, and he had a nice voice. The Prophet said
to him, “(Drive) slowly, O Anjasha! Do not break the glass vessels!” And Qatada said, “(By vessels’) he
meant the weak women.”