Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) was asked, “What is the best deed?” He replied, “To
believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then
asked, “What is the next (in goodness)? He replied, “To participate in
Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah’s Cause.” The questioner again
asked, “What is the next (in goodness)?” He replied, “To perform Hajj
(Pilgrim age to Mecca) ‘Mubrur, (which is accepted by Allah and is
performed with the intention of seeking Allah’s pleasure only and not
to show off and without committing a sin and in accordance with the
traditions of the Prophet).”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) distributed (Zakat) amongst (a group of) people while
I was sitting there but Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) left a man whom I thought the
best of the lot. I asked, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Why have you left that
person? By Allah I regard him as a faithful believer.” The Prophet (ﷺ)
commented: “Or merely a Muslim.” I remained quiet for a while, but
could not help repeating my question because of what I knew about him.
And then asked Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), “Why have you left so and so? By
Allah! He is a faithful believer.” The Prophet (ﷺ) again said, “Or merely
a Muslim.” And I could not help repeating my question because of what
I knew about him. Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “O Sa’d! I give to a person
while another is dearer to me, for fear that he might be thrown on his
face in the Fire by Allah.”

A person asked Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) . “What (sort of) deeds in or (what
qualities of) Islam are good?” He replied, “To feed (the poor) and
greet those whom you know and those whom you don’t know.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of
its dwellers were women who were ungrateful.” It was asked, “Do they
disbelieve in Allah?” (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied,
“They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the
favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have
always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees
something in you (not of her liking), she will say, ‘I have never
received any good from you.”

At Ar-Rabadha I met Abu Dhar who was wearing a cloak, and his slave,
too, was wearing a similar one. I asked about the reason for it. He
replied, “I abused a person by calling his mother with bad names.” The
Prophet said to me, ‘O Abu Dhar! Did you abuse him by calling his
mother with bad names You still have some characteristics of
ignorance. Your slaves are your brothers and Allah has put them under
your command. So whoever has a brother under his command should feed
him of what he eats and dress him of what he wears. Do not ask them
(slaves) to do things beyond their capacity (power) and if you do so,
then help them.’ ”

While I was going to help this man (‘Ali Ibn Abi Talib), Abu Bakra met
me and asked, “Where are you going?” I replied, “I am going to help
that person.” He said, “Go back for I have heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)
saying, ‘When two Muslims fight (meet) each other with their swords,
both the murderer as well as the murdered will go to the Hell-fire.’ I
said, ‘O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! It is all right for the murderer but what
about the murdered one?’ Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) replied, “He surely had the
intention to kill his companion.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever possesses the following three qualities
will have the sweetness (delight) of faith:1. The one to whom Allah and His Apostle becomes dearer than anything
else.2. Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah’s sake.3. Who hates to revert to Atheism (disbelief) as he hates to be thrown
into the fire.”

I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying, “The reward of deeds depends upon the
intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he
has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman
to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Love for the Ansar is a sign of faith and hatred
for the Ansar is a sign of hypocrisy.”

(the mother of the faithful believers) Al-Harith bin Hisham asked Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! How is the Divine Inspiration revealed to you?” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) replied, “Sometimes it is (revealed) like the ringing of a bell, this form of Inspiration is the hardest of all and then this state passes off after I have grasped what is inspired. Sometimes the Angel comes in the form of a man and talks to me and I grasp whatever he says.” ‘Aisha added: Verily I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) being inspired divinely on a very cold day and noticed the sweat dropping from his forehead (as the Inspiration was over).