Volume 9, Book 84, Number 59:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
When the Prophet died and Abu Bakr became his successor and some of the Arabs reverted to dis –
belief, ‘Umar said, “O Abu Bakr! How can you fight these people although Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have
been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, ‘and
whoever said, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, Allah will save his property and his
life from me, unless (he does something for which he receives legal punishment) justly, and his ac –
count will be with Allah?’ “Abu Bakr said, “By Allah! I will fight whoever differentiates between
prayers and Zakat as Zakat is the right to be taken from property (according to Allah’s Orders). By
Allah! If they refused to pay me even a kid they used to pay to Allah’s Apostle, I would fight with
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them for withholding it.” ‘Umar said, “By Allah: It was nothing, but I noticed that Allah opened Abu
Bakr’s chest towards the decision to fight, therefore I realized that his decision was right.”
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 58:
Narrated Abu Burda:
Abu Musa said, “I came to the Prophet along with two men (from the tribe) of Ash’ariyin, one on
my right and the other on my left, while Allah’s Apostle was brushing his teeth (with a Siwak), and
both men asked him for some employment. The Prophet said, ‘O Abu Musa (O ‘Abdullah bin Qais!).’ I
said, ‘By Him Who sent you with the Truth, these two men did not tell me what was in their hearts
and I did not feel (realize) that they were seeking employment.’ As if I were looking now at his Siwak
being drawn to a corner under his lips, and he said, ‘We never (or, we do not) appoint for our affairs
anyone who seeks to be employed. But O Abu Musa! (or ‘Abdullah bin Qais!) Go to Yemen.'” The
Prophet then sent Mu’adh bin Jabal after him and when Mu’adh reached him, he spread out a cush –
ion for him and requested him to get down (and sit on the cushion). Behold: There was a fettered
man beside Abu Muisa. Mu’adh asked, “Who is this (man)?” Abu Muisa said, “He was a Jew and be –
came a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism.” Then Abu Muisa requested Mu’adh to sit down
but Mu’adh said, “I will not sit down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and His
Apostle (for such cases) and repeated it thrice. Then Abu Musa ordered that the man be killed, and
he was killed. Abu Musa added, “Then we discussed the night prayers and one of us said, ‘I pray and
sleep, and I hope that Allah will reward me for my sleep as well as for my prayers.'”
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57:
Narrated ‘Ikrima:
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached
Ibn ‘Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle for –
bade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them ac –
cording to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'”
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 56:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
A man said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Shall we be punished for what we did in the Prelslamic Period of
ignorance?” The Prophet said, “Whoever does good in Islam will not be punished for what he did in
the Pre-lslamic Period of ignorance and whoever does evil in Islam will be punished for his former
and later (bad deeds).”
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Volume 9, Book 84, Number 55:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr:
A bedouin came to the Prophet and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! What are the biggest sins?: The Proph –
et said, “To join others in worship with Allah.” The bedouin said, “What is next?” The Prophet said, “To
be undutiful to one’s parents.” The bedouin said “What is next?” The Prophet said “To take an oath
‘Al-Ghamus.” The bedouin said, “What is an oath ‘Al-Ghamus’?” The Prophet said, “The false oath
through which one deprives a Muslim of his property (unjustly).”
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 54:
Narrated Abu Bakra:
The Prophet. said, “The biggest of the great sins are: To join others in worship with Allah, to be un –
dutiful to one’s parents, and to give a false witness.” He repeated it thrice, or said, “….a false
statement,” and kept on repeating that warning till we wished he would stop saying it. (See Hadith
No.7, Vol. 8)
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 53:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
When the Verse: ‘It is those who believe and confuse not their belief with wrong (i.e., worshipping
others besides Allah): (6.82) was revealed, it became very hard on the companions of the Prophet
and they said, “Who among us has not confused his belief with wrong (oppression)?” On that, Allah’s
Apostle said, “This is not meant (by the Verse). Don’t you listen to Luqman’s statement: ‘Verily! Joining
others in worship with Allah is a great wrong indeed.’ (31.13)
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 842:
Narrated Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani:
A man came to the Prophet and said, “I beseech you to judge us according to Allah’s Laws.” Then
his opponent who was wiser than he, got up and said, “He has spoken the truth. So judge us accor –
ding to Allah’s Laws and please allow me (to speak), O Allah’s Apostle.” The Prophet said, “Speak.” He
said, “My son was a laborer for the family of this man and he committed illegal sexual intercourse
with his wife, and I gave one-hundred sheep and a slave as a ransom (for my son), but I asked the
religious learned people (regarding this case), and they informed me that my son should be flogged
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one-hundred stripes, and be exiled for one year, and the wife of this man should be stoned (to
death).”The Prophet said, “By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, I will Judge you (in this case) according
to Allah’s Laws. The one-hundred (sheep) and the slave shall be returned to you and your son shall
be flogged one-hundred stripes and be exiled for one year. And O Unais! Go in the morning to the
wife of this man and ask her, and if she confesses, stone her to death.” She confessed and he stoned
her to death.
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