Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

Abu Bakr invited a group of people and told me, “Look after your guests.” Abu Bakr added, I am
going to visit the Prophet (ﷺ) and you should finish serving them before I return.” `Abdur-Rahman said,
So I went at once and served them with what was available at that time in the house and requested
them to eat.” They said, “Where is the owner of the house (i.e., Abu Bakr)?” `Abdur-Rahman said,
“Take your meal.” They said, “We will not eat till the owner of the house comes.” `Abdur-Rahman
said, “Accept your meal from us, for if my father comes and finds you not having taken your meal yet,
we will be blamed severely by him, but they refused to take their meals . So I was sure that my father
would be angry with me. When he came, I went away (to hide myself) from him. He asked, “What
have you done (about the guests)?” They informed him the whole story. Abu Bakr called, “O `Abdur
Rahman!” I kept quiet. He then called again. “O `Abdur-Rahman!” I kept quiet and he called again,
“O ignorant (boy)! I beseech you by Allah, if you hear my voice, then come out!” I came out and said,
“Please ask your guests (and do not be angry with me).” They said, “He has told the truth; he brought
the meal to us.” He said, “As you have been waiting for me, by Allah, I will not eat of it tonight.”
They said, “By Allah, we will not eat of it till you eat of it.” He said, I have never seen a night like this
night in evil. What is wrong with you? Why don’t you accept your meals of hospitality from us?” (He
said to me), “Bring your meal.” I brought it to him, and he put his hand in it, saying, “In the name of
Allah. The first (state of fury) was because of Satan.” So Abu Bakr ate and so did his guests.

We said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! You send us out and it happens that we have to stay with such people as
do not entertain us. What do you think about it?” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said to us, “If you stay with some
people and they entertain you as they should for a guest, accept is; but if they do not do then you
should take from them the right of the guest, which they ought to give.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should serve his guest generously;
and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should unite the bond of kinship (i.e. keep good
relation with his kith and kin); and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should talk what is
good or keep quiet.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should serve his guest generously.
The guest’s reward is: To provide him with a superior type of food for a night and a day and a guest is
to be entertained with food for three days, and whatever is offered beyond that, is regarded as
something given in charity. And it is not lawful for a guest to stay with his host for such a long period
so as to put him in a critical position.”Narrated Malik:Similarly as above (156) adding, “Who believes in Allah and the Last Day should talk what is good or
keep quiet.” (i.e. abstain from dirty and evil talk, and should think before uttering).

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should not hurt his neighbor and
whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should serve his guest generously and whoever believes
in Allah and the Last Day, should speak what is good or keep silent.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “A believer is not stung twice (by something) out of one and the same hole.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) entered upon me and said, “Have I not been informed that you offer prayer all the
night and fast the whole day?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Do not do so; Offer prayer at night and also
sleep; Fast for a few days and give up fasting for a few days because your body has a right on you,
and your eye has a right on you, and your guest has a right on you, and your wife has a right on you. I
hope that you will have a long life, and it is sufficient for you to fast for three days a month as the
reward of a good deed, is multiplied ten times, that means, as if you fasted the whole year.” I insisted
(on fasting more) so I was given a hard instruction. I said, “I can do more than that (fasting)” The
Prophet said, “Fast three days every week.” But as I insisted (on fasting more) so I was burdened. I
said, “I can fast more than that.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Fast as Allah’s prophet David used to fast.” I said,
“How was the fasting of the prophet David?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “One half of a year (i.e. he used to fast
on alternate days). ‘

A man asked permission to see the Prophet. He said, “Let Him come in; What an evil man of the tribe
he is! (Or, What an evil brother of the tribe he is).
But when he entered, the Prophet (ﷺ) spoke to him gently in a polite manner. I said to him, “O Allah’s
Apostle! You have said what you have said, then you spoke to him in a very gentle and polite manner?
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The worse people, in the sight of Allah are those whom the people leave
(undisturbed) to save themselves from their dirty language.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) was given a gift of a few silken cloaks with gold buttons. He distributed them amongst
some of his companions and put aside one of them for Makhrama. When Makhrama came, the
Prophet said, “I kept this for you.” (Aiyub, the sub-narrator held his garment to show how the Prophet (ﷺ)
showed the cloak to Makhrama who had something unfavorable about his temper.)

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to mix with us to the extent that he would say to a younger brother of mine, ‘O
Aba `Umair! What did the Nughair (a kind of bird) do?”