Category: Bukhari

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “(There are) two words which are dear to the Beneficent (Allah) and very light (easy) for the tongue (to say), but very heavy in weight in the balance. They are: ”Subhan Allah wa-bi hamdihi” and ”Subhan Allah Al-`Azim.”(see Hadith6682).

Some people asked the Prophet (ﷺ) regarding the soothsayers. He said, “They are nothing.” They said, “O
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Some of their talks come true.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “That word which happens to be
true is what a Jinn snatches away by stealth (from the Heaven) and pours it in the ears of his friend
(the foreteller) with a sound like the cackling of a hen. The soothsayers then mix with that word, one
hundred lies.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “There will emerge from the East some people who will recite the Qur’an but it will
not exceed their throats and who will go out of (renounce) the religion (Islam) as an arrow passes
through the game, and they will never come back to it unless the arrow, comes back to the middle of
the bow (by itself) (i.e., impossible). The people asked, “What will their signs be?” He said, “Their
sign will be the habit of shaving (of their beards and their heads). (Fath-ul-Bari, Page 322, Vol. 17th)

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, “Allah said, ‘Who are most unjust than those who try to create something
like My creation? I challenge them to create even a smallest ant, a wheat grain or a barley grain.’ ”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘The example of a believer who recites the Qur’an is that of a citron (a citrus fruit)
which is good in taste and good in smell. And the believer who does not recite the Qur’an is like a date
which has a good taste but no smell. And the example of an impious person who recites the Qur’an is
that of Ar-Rihana (an aromatic plant) which smells good but is bitter in taste. And the example of an
impious person who does not recite the Qur’an is that of a colocynth which is bitter in taste and has no
smell.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “The painter of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it
will be said to them, Make alive what you have created.’ ”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The painters of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it
will be said to them, ‘Make alive what you have created.”

There were good relations and brotherhood between this tribe of Jurm and the Ash`ariyyin. Once,
while we were sitting with Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari, there was brought to him a meal which contained
chicken meat, and there was sitting beside him, a man from the tribe of Bani Taimul-lah who looked
like one of the Mawali. Abu Musa invited the man to eat but the man said, “I have seen chicken eating
some dirty things, and I have taken an oath not to eat chicken.” Abu Musa said to him, “Come along,
let me tell you something in this regard. Once I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) with a few men from Ash`ariyyin
and we asked him for mounts. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, By Allah, I will not mount you on anything; besides I
do not have anything to mount you on.’ Then a few camels from the war booty were brought to the
Prophet, and he asked about us, saying, ‘Where are the group of Ash`ariyyin?’ So he ordered for five
fat camels to be given to us and then we set out. We said, ‘What have we done? Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) took
an oath that he would not give us anything to ride and that he had nothing for us to ride, yet he
provided us with mounts. We made Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) forget his oath! By Allah, we will never be
successful.’ So we returned to him and reminded him of his oath. He said, ‘I have not provided you
with the mount, but Allah has done so. By Allah, I may take an oath to do something, but on finding
something else which is better, I do that which is better and make the expiation for my oath.’ ”

The delegates of `Abdul Qais came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and said, “The pagans of the tribe of Mudar
intervene between you and us therefore we cannot come to you except in the Holy months. So please
order us to do something good (Religious deeds) by which we may enter Paradise (by acting on them)
and we may inform our people whom we have left behind to observe it.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “I order
you to do four things and forbid you from four things: I order you to believe in Allah. Do you know
what is meant by belief in Allah? It is to testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah,
to offer prayers perfectly, to give Zakat, and to give Al-Khumus (one-fifth of the war booty) (in
Allah’s Cause). And I forbid you four things, (i.e., Do not drink alcoholic drinks) Ad-Dubba, An-
Naqir, (pitched water skins), Az-Zuruf, Al-Muzaffat and Al–Hantam (names of utensils used for the
preparation of alcoholic drinks).” (See Hadith No. 50, Vol. 1)

I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying: “Before Allah created the creations, He wrote a Book (wherein He has written): “My Mercy has preceded my Anger.’ And that is written with Him over the Throne.”(seeHadith 3194)