Volume 6, Book 60, Number 297:
Narrated Masruq:
While a man was delivering a speech in the tribe of Kinda, he said, “Smoke will prevail on the Day
of Resurrection and will deprive the hypocrites their faculties of hearing and seeing. The believers
will be afflicted with something like cold only thereof.” That news scared us, so I went to (Abdullah)
Ibn Mas’ud while he was reclining (and told him the story) whereupon he became angry, sat up and
said, “He who knows a thing can say, it, but if he does not know, he should say, ‘Allah knows best,’ for
it is an aspect of knowledge to say, ‘I do not know,’ if you do not know a certain thing. Allah said to
His prophet. ‘Say (O Muhammad): No wage do I ask of you for this (Qur’an), nor I am one of the pre –
tenders (a person who pretends things which do not exist.)’ (38.86)
The Qur’aish delayed in embracing Islam for a period, so the Prophet invoked evil on them, saying,
‘O Allah! Help me against them by sending seven years of (famine) like those of Joseph.’ So they were
afflicted with such a severe year of famine that they were destroyed therein and ate dead animals
and bones. They started seeing something like smoke between the sky and the earth (because of
severe hunger). Abu Sufyan then came (to the Prophet) and said, “O Muhammad! You came to order
us for to keep good relations with Kith and kin, and your kinsmen have now perished, so please in –
voke Allah (to relieve them).’ Then Ibn Mas’ud recited:– ‘Then watch you for the day that the sky
will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible….but truly you will return! (to disbelief) (44.10-15)
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Ibn Mas’ud added, Then the punishment was stopped, but truly, they reverted to heathenism (their
old way). So Allah (threatened them thus): ‘On the day when we shall seize you with a mighty grasp.’
(44.16) And that was the day of the Battle of Badr. Allah’s saying- “Lizama” (the punishment) refers
to the day of Badr Allah’s Statement:
‘Alif-Lam-Mim, the Romans have been defeated, and they, after their defeat, will be victorious,’
(30.1-3) (This verse): Indicates that the defeat of Byzantine has already passed.
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 279:
Narrated Masruq:
‘Aisha said that Hassan bin Thabit came and asked permission to visit her. I said, “How do you per –
mit such a person?” She said, “Hasn’t he received a severely penalty?” (Sufyan, the subnarrator, said:
She meant the loss of his sight.) Thereupon Hassan said the following poetic verse:
“A chaste pious woman who arouses no suspicion. She never talks about chaste heedless women
behind their backs.’ On that she said, “But you are not so.”
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 280:
Narrated Masruq:
Hassan came to Aisha and said the following poetic Verse: ‘A chaste pious woman who arouses no
suspicion. She never talks against chaste heedless women behind their backs.’ ‘Aisha said, “But you
are not,” I said (to ‘Aisha), “Why do you allow such a person to enter upon you after Allah has re –
vealed:
“…and as for him among them who had the greater share therein’?” (24.11)
She said, “What punishment is worse than blindness?” She added, “And he used to defend Allah’s
Apostle against the pagans (in his poetry).
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 258:
Narrated Masruq:
Khabbab said, “During the pre-lslamic period, I was a blacksmith and Al-Asi bin Wail owed me a
debt.” So Khabbab went to him to demand the debt. He said, “I will not give you (your due) till you
disbelieve in Muhammad.” Khabbab said, “By Allah, I shall not disbelieve in Muhammad till Allah
makes you die and then resurrects you.” Al-Asi said, “So leave me till I die and then be resurrected,
for I will be given wealth and children whereupon I will pay you your debt.” So this Verse was re –
vealed:–
‘Have you seen him who disbelieved in Our Signs and, (yet) says: I shall certainly be given wealth
and children.’ (19.77)
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 153:
Narrated Masruq:
‘Abdullah bin Masud was mentioned before Abdullah bin ‘Amr who said, “That is a man I still love,
as I heard the Prophet saying ‘Learn the recitation of Quran from four from ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud
–he started with him–Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudaifa, Mu’adh bin Jabal and Ubai bin Ka’b.”
Volume 5, Book 57, Number 103:
Narrated Masruq:
‘Abdullah (bin Mas’ud) was mentioned before ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr. The latter said, “That is a man I
continue to love because I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘ Learn the recitation of the Qur’an from (any
of these) four persons: ‘Abdullah bin Masud, Salim the freed slave of Abu Hudhaifa, Ubai bin Kab,
and Muadh bin Jabal.” I do not remember whether he mentioned Ubai first or Muadh.
Volume 4, Book 55, Number 602:
Narrated Masruq:
I asked Um Ruman, ‘Aisha’s mother about the accusation forged against ‘Aisha. She said, “While I
was sitting with ‘Aisha, an Ansari woman came to us and said, ‘Let Allah condemn such-and-such
person.’ I asked her, ‘Why do you say so?’ She replied, ‘For he has spread the (slanderous) story.’
‘Aisha said, ‘What story?’ The woman then told her the story. ‘Aisha asked, ‘Have Abu Bakr and Al –
lah’s Apostle heard about it ?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Aisha fell down senseless (on hearing that), and when
she came to her senses, she got fever and shaking of the body. The Prophet came and asked, ‘What is
wrong with her?’ I said, ‘She has got fever because of a story which has been rumored.’ ‘Aisha got up
and said, ‘By Allah! Even if I took an oath, you would not believe me, and if I put forward an excuse,
You would not excuse me. My example and your example is just like that example of Jacob and his
sons. Against that which you assert, it is Allah (Alone) Whose Help can be sought.’ (12.18) The
Prophet left and then Allah revealed the Verses (concerning the matter), and on that ‘Aisha said,
‘Thanks to Allah (only) and not to anybody else.”
Volume 4, Book 54, Number 458:
Narrated Masruq:
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I asked Aisha “What about His Statement:– “Then he (Gabriel) approached And came closer, And
was at a distance Of but two bow-lengths Or (even) nearer?” (53.8-9) She replied, “It was Gabriel
who used to come to the Prophet in the figure of a man, but on that occasion, he came in his actual
and real figure and (he was so huge) that he covered the whole horizon.”