Judgments (Ahkaam)

Abū Bakr said to the delegation of Buzākha: “You will follow the tails of camels until God shows the successor of His Prophet and the Emigrants a course of action for which they can excuse you.”

Jābir ibn Samura said: I heard the Prophet say, “There will be twelve commanders.” He said a word that I did not hear, so my father told me, “He said, ‘All of them will be from Quraysh.’”

Abū Hurayra reported that the Messenger of God said: “By the One in whose hand is my soul, I considered ordering firewood to be gathered, then ordering that the prayer be announced, then appointing a man to lead the people in prayer, and then going to some men who stay away and burning their houses over them. By the One in whose hand is my soul, if one of them knew that he would find a fatty bone or two choice morsels of meat, he would attend the night prayer.”

Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf reported that Yūnus said that Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān said that Abū ʿAbd Allāh explained: “A mirmāt is the meat between a sheep’s hooves, like a minsaʾa or a miḍāʾa; the initial mīm is pronounced with kasra.”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik reported that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik—who used to guide Kaʿb, one of his sons, after he became blind—said: I heard Kaʿb ibn Mālik say: When I stayed behind from the Messenger of God on the expedition to Tabūk—then he related his account—the Messenger of God forbade the Muslims to speak to us. We remained in that state for fifty nights, until the Messenger of God announced that God had accepted our repentance.