Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

(the wife of the Prophet) In the lifetime of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) the women used to get up when they
finished their compulsory prayers with Taslim. The Prophet (ﷺ) and the men would stay on at their places
as long as Allah will. When the Prophet (ﷺ) got up, the men would then get up.

When Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) finished the Fajr prayer, the women would leave covered in their sheets and
were not recognized owing to the darkness.

My father said, “Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Whenever I stand for prayer, I want to prolong it but on
hearing the cries of a child, I would shorten it as I dislike to put its mother in trouble.”

Had Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) known what the women were doing, he would have forbidden them from going to
the mosque as the women of Bani Israel had been forbidden. Yahya bin Sa`id (a sub-narrator) asked
`Amra (another sub-narrator), “Were the women of Bani Israel forbidden?” She replied “Yes.”

Whenever Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) completed the prayer with Taslim, the women used to get up immediately
and Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) would remain at his place for someone before getting up. (The sub-narrator (Az-
Zuhri) said, “We think, and Allah knows better, that he did so, so that the women might leave before
men could get in touch with them).

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever eats garlic or onion should keep away from our mosque or should remain
in his house.” (Jabir bin `Abdullah, in another narration said, “Once a big pot containing cooked
vegetables was brought. On finding unpleasant smell coming from it, the Prophet (ﷺ) asked, ‘What is in
it?’ He was told all the names of the vegetables that were in it. The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that it should be
brought near to some of his companions who were with him. When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw it he disliked to
eat it and said, ‘Eat. (I don’t eat) for I converse with those whom you don’t converse with (i.e. the
angels).

The Prophet (ﷺ) prayed in the house of Um Sulaim; and I, along with an orphan stood behind him while
Um Sulaim (stood) behind us.

A man asked Anas, “What did you hear from the Prophet (ﷺ) about garlic?” He said, “The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
‘Whoever has eaten this plant should neither come near us nor pray with us.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used to offer the Fajr prayer when it was still dark and the believing women used to
return (after finishing their prayer) and nobody could recognize them owing to darkness, or they could
not recognize one another.

I heard Ash-Shu`bi saying, “A person who was accompanying the Prophet (ﷺ) passed by a grave that was
separated from the other graves told me that the Prophet (ﷺ) once led the people in the (funeral) prayer
and the people had aligned behind him. I said, “O Aba `Amr! Who told you about it?” He said, “Ibn `Abbas.”