Category: Ibn Majah

It was narrated from Ubayy bin Ka’b that on the night when he (ﷺ)
was taken on the Night Journey (Isra’), the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ)
noticed a good fragrance and said: “O Jibril, what is this
good
fragrance?” He said: “This is the fragrance of the grave of
the
hairdresser and her two sons and her husband.” He said: “That
began
when Khadir, who was one of the nobles of the Children of
Israel, used
to pass by a monk in his cell. The monk used to meet him
and he taught
him Islam. When Khadir reached adolescence, his father
married him to
a woman. He taught her and made her promise not to
teach it to anyone.
He used not to touch women, so he divorced her,
then his father
married him to another woman, and he taught her and
made her promise
not to teach it to anyone. One of them kept the
secret but the other
disclosed it, so he fled until he came to an
island in the sea. Two
men came, gathering firewood, and saw him. One
of them kept the secret
but the other disclosed it and said: ‘I
have seen Khadir.’ It was
said: ‘Who else saw him besides you?’
He said: ‘So-and-so.’ (The other
man) was questioned but he kept
silent. According to their religion,
the liar was to be killed. The
woman who had kept the secret got
married, and while she was combing
the hair of Pharoah’s daughter, she
dropped the comb and said: ‘May
Pharoah perish!’ (The daughter) told
her father about that. The
woman had two sons and a husband. (Pharoah)
sent for them, and tried
to make the woman and her husband give up
their religion, but they
refused. He said: ‘I am going to kill you.’
They said: ‘It
would be an act of kindness on your part, if you kill
us, to put us
in one grave.’ So he did that.” When the Prophet (ﷺ)
was taken
on the Night Journey (Isra’), he noticed a good fragrance
and asked
Jibril about it and he told him.”

It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “The greatest reward comes with the greatest trial. When
Allah
loves a people He tests them. Whoever accepts that wins His
pleasure
but whoever is discontent with that earns His wrath.”

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “The believer who mixes with people and bears their annoyance
with patience will have a greater reward than the believer who does
not mix with people and does not put up with their annoyance.”

It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “There are three things, whoever has them has found the taste
of
faith (One of the narrators) Bundar said: ‘The sweetness of
faith;
When he loves a man and only loves him for the sake of Allah.
When
Allah and His Messenger are more beloved to him than anything
else;
and when being thrown into the fire is dearer to him than going
back
to disbelief after Allah has saved him from it.”

It was narrated from Abu Darda’ that my close friend (ﷺ) advised
me: “Do not associate anything with Allah, even if you are cut and
burned. Do not neglect any prescribd prayer deliberately, for whoever
neglects it deliberately no longer has the protection of Allah. And
do
not drink wine, for it is the key to all evil.”

Mu’awiyah said: “I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: ‘There is
nothing
left of this world except trials and tribulations.’”

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “There will come to the people years of treachery, when the
liar
will be regarded as honest, and the honest man will be regarded
as a
liar; the traitor will be regarded as faithful, and the faithful
man
will be regarded as a traitor; and the Ruwaibidah will decide
matters.’ It was said: ‘Who are the Ruwaibidah?’ He said: ‘Vile
and
base men who control the affairs of the people.’”

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, this world will not
pass
away until a man will pass by a grave, and will roll on it and
say:
‘Would that I were in the place of the occupant of this
grave!’ And
the reason for that will not be any religious motive,
rather it will
be because of calamity.”

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “You will be picked over just as (good) dates are selected
(separated) from its bad ones. So the best of you will be taken and
the worst of you will be left, so die if you can.”

It was narrated from Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudri that the Messenger of
Allah (ﷺ) stood up to deliver a sermon, and one of the things he
said was: “Indeed, fear of people should not prevent a man from speaking
the truth, if he knows it.”
Then Abu Sa’eed wept and said: “By Allah, we have seen things that made us scared (and we did not speak up).”