Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the
double faced people who appear to some people with one face and to other people with another face.”

Once the Prophet (ﷺ) went through the grave-yards of Medina and heard the voices of two humans who
were being tortured in their graves. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “They are being punished, but they are not being
punished because of a major sin, yet their sins are great. One of them used not to save himself from
(being soiled with) the urine, and the other used to go about with calumnies (Namima).” Then the
Prophet asked for a green palm tree leaf and split it into two pieces and placed one piece on each
grave, saying, “I hope that their punishment may be abated as long as these pieces of the leaf are not
dried.”

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, “A Qattat will not enter Paradise.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The best family among the Ansar is the Banu An-Najjar. ”

A man asked permission to enter upon Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Admit him. What an evil
brother of his people or a son of his people.” But when the man entered, the Prophet (ﷺ) spoke to him in a
very polite manner. (And when that person left) I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! You had said what you had
said, yet you spoke to him in a very polite manner?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “O `Aisha! The worst people
are those whom the people desert or leave in order to save themselves from their dirty language or
from their transgression.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) led us in the Zuhr prayer, offering only two rak`at and then (finished it) with Taslim, and
went to a piece of wood in front of the mosque and put his hand over it. Abu Bakr and `Umar were
also present among the people on that day but dared not talk to him (about his unfinished prayer). And
the hasty people went away, wondering. “Has the prayer been shortened” Among the people there was
a man whom the Prophet (ﷺ) used to call Dhul-Yadain (the longarmed). He said, “O Allah’s Prophet!
Have you forgotten or has the prayer been shortened?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Neither have I forgotten,
nor has it been shortened.” They (the people) said, “Surely, you have forgotten, O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)!”
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, Dhul-Yadain has told the truth.” So the Prophet (ﷺ) got up and offered other two rak`at
and finished his prayer with Taslim. Then he said Takbir, performed a prostration of ordinary duration
or longer, then he raised his head and said Takbir and performed another prostration of ordinary
duration or longer and then raised his head and said Takbir (i.e. he performed the two prostrations of
Sahu, i.e., forgetfulness).

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) passed by two graves and said, “Both of them (persons in the grave) are being
tortured, and they are not being tortured for a major sin. This one used not to save himself from being
soiled with his urine, and the other used to go about with calumnies (among the people to rouse
hostilities, e.g., one goes to a person and tells him that so-and-so says about him such-and-such evil
things). The Prophet (ﷺ) then asked for a green leaf of a date-palm tree, split it into two pieces and planted
one on each grave and said, “It is hoped that their punishment may be abated till those two pieces of
the leaf get dried.” (See Hadith No 215, Vol 1).

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) went out to inform the people about the (date of the Night of decree (Al-Qadr). There
happened a quarrel between two Muslim men. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “I came out to inform you about the
Night of Al-Qadr, but as so-and-so and so-and-so quarrelled, so the news about it had been taken
away; and may be it was better for you. So look for it in the ninth, the seventh, or the fifth (of the last
ten days of Ramadan).

I saw Abu Dhar wearing a Burd (garment) and his slave too was wearing a Burd, so I said (to Abu
Dhar), “If you take this (Burda of your slave) and wear it (along with yours), you will have a nice suit
(costume) and you may give him another garment.” Abu Dhar said, “There was a quarrel between me
and another man whose mother was a non-Arab and I called her bad names. The man mentioned
(complained about) me to the Prophet. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Did you abuse so-and-so?” I said, “Yes” He
said, “Did you call his mother bad names?” I said, “Yes”. He said, “You still have the traits of (the
Pre-lslamic period of) ignorance.” I said. “(Do I still have ignorance) even now in my old age?” He
said, “Yes, they (slaves or servants) are your brothers, and Allah has put them under your command.
So the one under whose hand Allah has put his brother, should feed him of what he eats, and give him
dresses of what he wears, and should not ask him to do a thing beyond his capacity. And if at all he
asks him to do a hard task, he should help him therein.”

(who was one of the companions who gave the pledge of allegiance to the Prophet (ﷺ) underneath the tree
(Al-Hudaibiya)) Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Whoever swears by a religion other than Islam (i.e. if
somebody swears by saying that he is a non-Muslim e.g., a Jew or a Christian, etc.) in case he is
telling a lie, he is really so if his oath is false, and a person is not bound to fulfill a vow about a thing
which he does not possess. And if somebody commits suicide with anything in this world, he will be
tortured with that very thing on the Day of Resurrection; And if somebody curses a believer, then his
sin will be as if he murdered him; And whoever accuses a believer of Kufr (disbelief), then it is as if
he killed him.”