Greetings

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Abu Musa reported that he was with the Prophet ﷺ in one of the gardens of Madinah. The Prophet had a stick in his hand with which he was striking the water and mud. A man came asking for the gate to be opened, and the Prophet said, “Open it for him and give him the good news of Paradise.” I went and found Abu Bakr, so I opened it for him and gave him the good news of Paradise. Then another man asked for it to be opened, and the Prophet said, “Open it for him and give him the good news of Paradise.” It was Umar, so I opened it and gave him the good news. Then another man asked for it to be opened. The Prophet had been reclining, but sat up and said, “Open it for him and give him the good news of Paradise, along with a trial that will befall him—or come to pass.” I went and found Uthman. I opened it for him and told him what the Prophet had said. He replied, “Allah is the One whose help is sought.”

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Salama ibn Wardan said: I saw Anas ibn Malik shaking hands with people. He asked me, “Who are you?” I said, “A client of Banu Layth.” He stroked my head three times and said, “May Allah bless you.”

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Anas ibn Malik said: When the people of Yemen came, the Prophet ﷺ said, “The people of Yemen have come. They are more tenderhearted than you, and they were the first to introduce handshaking.”

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Al-Bara ibn Azib said: Part of greeting one fully is to shake your brother’s hand.

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Ibrahim ibn Marzuq al-Thaqafi said: My father told me—and he had belonged to Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, from whom al-Hajjaj took him—that Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr sent me to his mother, Asma bint Abi Bakr, to tell her how al-Hajjaj was treating them. She prayed for me and stroked my head. At that time, I was a young boy.

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Jabir ibn Abdullah said: I had heard a report from a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, so I bought a camel, loaded my provisions on it, and traveled for a month until I reached Syria. There I found Abdullah ibn Unays. I sent him word that Jabir was at the door. The messenger returned and asked, “Jabir ibn Abdullah?” I said yes. He came out and embraced me. I said, “A report reached me that I had not heard. I feared that I might die—or you might die—before I heard it.” He said: I heard the Prophet ﷺ say, “Allah will gather the servants—or the people—barefoot, naked, uncircumcised, and with nothing.” I asked, “What does ‘with nothing’ mean?” He replied, “They will have nothing with them.” He continued: “He will call them with a voice heard by those far away”—I think he said, “as clearly as by those nearby”—“saying: ‘I am the King. No one among the people of Paradise should enter Paradise while someone among the people of the Fire seeks redress from him for an injustice; and no one among the people of the Fire should enter the Fire while someone among the people of Paradise seeks redress from him for an injustice.’” I asked, “How, when we will come to Allah barefoot, naked, and with nothing?” He replied, “Through good deeds and bad deeds.”

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Aisha, Mother of the Believers, said: I never saw anyone whose speech and manner of speaking more closely resembled those of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than Fatima. When she came to him, he stood up for her, welcomed her, kissed her, and seated her in his place. When he came to her, she stood up for him, took his hand, welcomed him, kissed him, and seated him in her place. She came to him during the illness in which he died, and he welcomed and kissed her.

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Ibn Umar said: We were on an expedition, and the people broke and fled. We said, “How can we face the Prophet ﷺ after fleeing?” Then the verse was revealed: “except one who withdraws to maneuver for battle” (Qur’an 8:16). We said, “We will not return to Madinah, lest anyone see us.” Then we said, “Perhaps we should go back.” The Prophet ﷺ came out after the dawn prayer. We said, “We are the fugitives.” He replied, “Rather, you are those who return to the fight.” We kissed his hand, and he said, “I am your supporting group.”

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Abd al-Rahman ibn Razin said: We passed by al-Rabadha, and we were told, “Salama ibn al-Akwa is here.” We went to him and greeted him. He held out his hands and said, “With these two hands I pledged allegiance to the Prophet of Allah ﷺ.” He extended a large palm, as though it were a camel’s hoof, and we stood up and kissed it.

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Thabit asked Anas, “Did you touch the Prophet ﷺ with your hand?” He said yes, and Thabit kissed it.

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Al-Zari ibn Amir said: We arrived and were told, “That is the Messenger of Allah.” We took his hands and feet and kissed them.

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Suhayb said: I saw Ali kiss the hand and feet of al-Abbas.

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Abu Mijlaz said: Muawiya came out while Abdullah ibn Amir and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr were seated. Ibn Amir stood up, while Ibn al-Zubayr remained seated; he was the more dignified of the two. Muawiya said: The Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever is pleased that Allah’s servants stand before him should take his place in the Fire.”

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Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: Allah created Adam ﷺ in his form, and his height was sixty cubits. Then He said, “Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen to how they greet you, for it will be your greeting and the greeting of your descendants.” He went and said, “Peace be upon you.” They replied, “Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah,” adding “and the mercy of Allah” to it. Everyone who enters Paradise will be in Adam’s form. Since then, creation has continued to diminish.

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Al-Bara reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Spread the greeting of peace, and you will be safe.”

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Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “You will not enter Paradise until you believe, and you will not believe until you love one another. Shall I tell you something that will make you love one another?” They replied, “Yes, Messenger of Allah.” He said, “Spread the greeting of peace among yourselves.”

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Abdullah ibn Amr reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Worship the All-Merciful, feed people, spread the greeting of peace, and you will enter the Gardens.”

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Bashir ibn Yasar said: No one would get ahead of Ibn Umar in offering the greeting of peace.

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Jabir said: A rider should greet a person walking, and a person walking should greet someone seated. When two people are walking, whichever of them begins the greeting is the better one.

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Nafi reported that Ibn Umar told him: Al-Agharr, a man from Muzayna who had been a Companion of the Prophet ﷺ, was owed several wasqs of dates by a man from Banu Amr ibn Awf. He went to him repeatedly. He said: I came to the Prophet ﷺ, and he sent Abu Bakr al-Siddiq with me. Everyone we met greeted us. Abu Bakr said, “Do you not see that when people greet you first, they earn the reward? You greet them first, and you will earn the reward.” Ibn Umar is relating this about himself.