Volume 9, Book 93, Number 625:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
A man asked the Prophet “What deeds are the best?” The Prophet said: (1) To perform the (daily
compulsory) prayers at their (early) stated fixed times, (2) To be good and dutiful to one’s own par –
ents. (3) and to participate in Jihad in Allah’s Cause.”
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 554:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
While I was walking in company with the Prophet in one of the fields of Medina, the Prophet was
reclining on a palm leave stalk which he carried with him. We passed by a group of Jews. Some of
them said to the others, “Ask him about the spirit.” The others said, “Do not ask him, lest he would say
something that you hate.” Some of them said, “We will ask him.” So a man from among them stood up
and said, ‘O Abal-Qasim! What is the spirit?” The Prophet kept quiet and I knew that he was being
divinely inspired. Then he said: “They ask you concerning the Spirit, Say: The Spirit; its knowledge is
with my Lord. And of knowledge you (mankind) have been given only a little.” (17.85)
Volume 9, Book 92, Number 400:
Narrated Ibn Masud:
I was with the Prophet at one of the farms of Medina while he was leaning on a date palm leaf-
stalk. He passed by a group of Jews and some of them said to the other, Ask him (the Prophet) about
the spirit. Some others said, “Do not ask him, lest he should tell you what you dislike” But they went
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up to him and said, “O Abal Qasim! Inform us bout the spirit.” The Prophet stood up for a while,
waiting. I realized that he was being Divinely Inspired, so I kept away from him till the inspiration
was over. Then the Prophet said, “(O Muhammad) they ask you regarding the spirit, Say: The spirit its
knowledge is with my Lord (i.e., nobody has its knowledge except Allah)” (17.85) (This is a miracle of
the Qur’an that all the scientists up till now do not know about the spirit, i.e, how life comes to a
body and how it goes away at its death) (See Hadith No. 245, Vol. 6)
Volume 9, Book 91, Number 353:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The (call for prayer) Adhan of Bilal should not stop anyone of you from tak –
ing his Suhur for he pronounces the Adhan in order that whoever among you is praying the night
prayer, may return (to eat his Suhur) and whoever among you is sleeping, may get up, for it is not
yet dawn (when it is like this).” (Yahya, the sub-narrator stretched his two index fingers side ways).
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 8, Book 78, Number 664:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
that Allah’s Prophet led them in the Zuhr prayer and he offered either more or less Rakat, and it
was said to him, “O Allah’s Apostle ! Has the prayer been reduced, or have you forgotten?” He asked,
“What is that?” They said, “You have prayed so many Rak’at.” So he performed with them two more
prostrations and said, “These two prostrations are to be performed by the person who does not know
whether he has prayed more or less (Rakat) in which case he should seek to follow what is right. And
then complete the rest (of the prayer) and perform two extra prostrations.”
Volume 8, Book 74, Number 281:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
Allah’s Apostle taught me the Tashah-hud as he taught me a Sura from the Quran, while my hand
was between his hands. (Tashah-hud was) all the best compliments and the prayers and the good
things are for Allah. Peace and Allah’s Mercy and Blessings be on you, O Prophet! Peace be on us and
on the pious slaves of Allah, I testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and I also
testify that Muhammad is Allah’s slave and His Apostle. (We used to recite this in the prayer) during
the lifetime of the Prophet , but when he had died, we used to say, “Peace be on the Prophet.”
Volume 8, Book 73, Number 85:
Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:
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Once Allah’s Apostle divided and distributed (the war booty). An Ansar man said, “By Allah !
Muhammad, by this distribution, did not intend to please Allah.” So I came to Allah’s Apostle and in –
formed him about it whereupon his face became changed with anger and he said, “May Allah bestow
His Mercy on Moses for he was hurt with more than this, yet he remained patient.”