Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

I asked `Abdullah bin Abi `Aufa, ‘Did Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) carry out the Rajam penalty ( i.e., stoning to
death)?’ He said, “Yes.” I said, “Before the revelation of Surat-an-Nur or after it?” He replied, “I don’t
Know.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The one who commits an illegal sexual intercourse is not a believer at the time of
committing illegal sexual intercourse and a thief is not a believer at the time of committing theft and a
drinker of alcoholic drink is not a believer at the time of drinking. Yet, (the gate of) repentance is open
thereafter.”

I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Which is the biggest sin?” He said, “To set up rivals to Allah by
worshipping others though He alone has created you.” I asked, “What is next?” He said, “To kill your
child lest it should share your food.” I asked, “What is next?” He said, “To commit illegal sexual
intercourse with the wife of your neighbor.”

I will narrate to you a narration which nobody will narrate to you
after me. I heard that from the Prophet. I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying,
“The Hour will not be established” or said: “From among the portents
of the Hour is that the religious knowledge will betaken away (by the
death of religious Scholars) and general ignorance (of religion) will
appear; and the drinking of alcoholic drinks will be very common, and
(open) illegal sexual intercourse will prevail, and men will decrease
in number while women will increase so much so that, for fifty women
there will only be one man to look after them.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)s said, “When a slave (of Allah) commits illegal sexual
intercourse, he is not a believer at the time of committing it; and if
he steals, he is not a believer at the time of stealing; and if he
drinks an alcoholic drink, when he is not a believer at the time of
drinking it; and he is not a believer when he commits a murder,”
‘Ikrima said: I asked Ibn Abbas, “How is faith taken away from him?”
He said, Like this,” by clasping his hands and then separating them,
and added, “But if he repents, faith returns to him like this, by
clasping his hands again.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Seven (people) will be shaded by Allah by His Shade on the Day of Resurrection
when there will be no shade except His Shade. (They will be), a just ruler, a young man who has been
brought up in the worship of Allah, a man who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are then
flooded with tears, a man whose heart is attached to mosques (offers his compulsory congregational
prayers in the mosque), two men who love each other for Allah’s Sake, a man who is called by a
charming lady of noble birth to commit illegal sexual intercourse with her, and he says, ‘I am afraid of
Allah,’ and (finally), a man who gives in charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his
right hand has given.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever guarantees me (the chastity of) what is between his legs (i.e. his private
parts), and what is between his jaws (i.e., his tongue), I guarantee him Paradise.”

A group of people from `Ukl (tribe) came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and they were living with the people of As-
Suffa, but they became ill as the climate of Medina did not suit them, so they said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)!
Provide us with milk.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, I see no other way for you than to use the camels of Allah’s
Apostle.” So they went and drank the milk and urine of the camels, (as medicine) and became healthy
and fat. Then they killed the shepherd and took the camels away. When a help-seeker came to Allah’s
Apostle, he sent some men in their pursuit, and they were captured and brought before mid day. The
Prophet ordered for some iron pieces to be made red hot, and their eyes were branded with them and
their hands and feet were cut off and were not cauterized. Then they were put at a place called Al-
Harra, and when they asked for water to drink they were not given till they died. (Abu Qilaba said,
“Those people committed theft and murder and fought against Allah and His Apostle.”)

A group of people from `Ukl (or `Uraina) tribe —-but I think he said that they were from `Ukl came to
Medina and (they became ill, so) the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) she-camels
and told them to go out and drink the camels’ urine and milk (as a medicine). So they went and drank
it, and when they became healthy, they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. This news
reached the Prophet (ﷺ) early in the morning, so he sent (some) men in their pursuit and they were
captured and brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) before midday. He ordered to cut off their hands and legs and
their eyes to be branded with heated iron pieces and they were thrown at Al-Harra, and when they
asked for water to drink, they were not given water. (Abu Qilaba said, “Those were the people who
committed theft and murder and reverted to disbelief after being believers (Muslims), and fought
against Allah and His Apostle”).

Some people from the tribe of `Ukl came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and embraced Islam. The climate of Medina
did not suit them, so the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered them to go to the (herd of milch) camels of charity and to
drink, their milk and urine (as a medicine). They did so, and after they had recovered from their
ailment (became healthy) they turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the
camels and took the camels away. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent (some people) in their pursuit and so they were
(caught and) brought, and the Prophets ordered that their hands and legs should be cut off and that
their eyes should be branded with heated pieces of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be
cauterized, till they die.