“It is as if I can see theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ), telling us the story of one of theProphets:‘His people beat him, and he was wiping the blood fromhis face andsaying: “O Lord forgive my people, for they do notknow.’”

“We are more likely to express doubt than Ibrahim when hesaid:“My Lord! Show me how You give life to the dead.’ He(Allah) said: ‘Doyou not believe?’ He (Ibrahim) said: ‘Yes (Ibelieve), but to bestronger in Faith.’[2:260] And may Allah havemercy on Lut. He wishedto have a powerful support. And if i were tostay in prison as long asYusuf stayed, I would have accepted theoffer.’”

On the Day of Uhud, a molarof the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was broken and he was wounded. Bloodstarted pouring down his face, and he started to wipe his face andsay: “How can any people prosper if they soak the face of theirProphet with blood when he is calling them to Allah?” Then Allahrevealed: “Not for you is the decision.”[3:128]

“One day, Jibril (as) came to theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he was sitting in a sorrowful statewithhis face soaked with blood, because some of the people of Makkahhadstruck him. He said: ‘What is the matter with you?’ He said:‘Thesepeople did such and such to me.’ He said: ‘Would youlike me to showyou a sign?’ He said: ‘Yes, show me.’ He lookedat a tree on the farside of the valley and said: ‘Call that tree.’So he called it, and itcame walking until it stood before him. Hesaid: ‘Tell it to go back.’So he told it, and it went back toits place. Then the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) said: ‘That issufficient for me.’”

“Count for me all those who have uttered (the word of)Islam.”We said: “O Messenger of Allah, do you fear for us whenwe numberbetween six and seven hundred?” The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said:“You do not know, perhaps you will be tested.”

“O Jibril, what is thisgoodfragrance?” He said: “This is the fragrance of the grave ofthehairdresser and her two sons and her husband.” He said: “Thatbeganwhen Khadir, who was one of the nobles of the Children ofIsrael, usedto pass by a monk in his cell. The monk used to meet himand he taughthim Islam. When Khadir reached adolescence, his fathermarried him toa woman. He taught her and made her promise not toteach it to anyone.He used not to touch women, so he divorced her,then his fathermarried him to another woman, and he taught her andmade her promisenot to teach it to anyone. One of them kept thesecret but the otherdisclosed it, so he fled until he came to anisland in the sea. Twomen came, gathering firewood, and saw him. Oneof them kept the secretbut the other disclosed it and said: ‘Ihave seen Khadir.’ It wassaid: ‘Who else saw him besides you?’He said: ‘So-and-so.’ (The otherman) was questioned but he keptsilent. According to their religion,the liar was to be killed. Thewoman who had kept the secret gotmarried, and while she was combingthe hair of Pharoah’s daughter, shedropped the comb and said: ‘MayPharoah perish!’ (The daughter) toldher father about that. Thewoman had two sons and a husband. (Pharoah)sent for them, and triedto make the woman and her husband give uptheir religion, but theyrefused. He said: ‘I am going to kill you.’They said: ‘Itwould be an act of kindness on your part, if you killus, to put usin one grave.’ So he did that.” When the Prophet (ﷺ)was takenon the Night Journey (Isra’), he noticed a good fragranceand askedJibril about it and he told him.”

“The greatest reward comes with the greatest trial. WhenAllahloves a people He tests them. Whoever accepts that wins Hispleasurebut whoever is discontent with that earns His wrath.”

“The believer who mixes with people and bears their annoyancewith patience will have a greater reward than the believer who doesnot mix with people and does not put up with their annoyance.”

“There are three things, whoever has them has found the tasteoffaith (One of the narrators) Bundar said: ‘The sweetness offaith;When he loves a man and only loves him for the sake of Allah.WhenAllah and His Messenger are more beloved to him than anythingelse;and when being thrown into the fire is dearer to him than goingbackto disbelief after Allah has saved him from it.”

“Do not associate anything with Allah, even if you are cut andburned. Do not neglect any prescribd prayer deliberately, for whoeverneglects it deliberately no longer has the protection of Allah. Anddonot drink wine, for it is the key to all evil.”

“I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: ‘There isnothingleft of this world except trials and tribulations.’”

“There will come to the people years of treachery, when theliarwill be regarded as honest, and the honest man will be regardedas aliar; the traitor will be regarded as faithful, and the faithfulmanwill be regarded as a traitor; and the Ruwaibidah will decidematters.’ It was said: ‘Who are the Ruwaibidah?’ He said: ‘Vileandbase men who control the affairs of the people.’”

“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, this world will notpassaway until a man will pass by a grave, and will roll on it andsay:‘Would that I were in the place of the occupant of thisgrave!’ Andthe reason for that will not be any religious motive,rather it willbe because of calamity.”

“You will be picked over just as (good) dates are selected(separated) from its bad ones. So the best of you will be taken andthe worst of you will be left, so die if you can.”

“Adhering to religion will only become harder and worldlyaffairs will only become more difficult, and people will only becomemore stingy, and the Hour will only come upon the worst of people,andthe only Mahdi (after Muhammad (ﷺ)) is ‘Eisa bin Maryam.”

“I and the Hour have been sent like these two,” and he helduphis two fingers together.

"The Prophet (ﷺ)looked out at us from a room, when we were talking about the Hour. Hesaid: 'The Hour will not begin until there are ten signs: Dajjal,(False Christ), the smoke, and the rising of the sun from the west.'"

“I came to the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) during the campaign of Tabuk, when he was in a tent madeofleather, so I sat in front of the tent. The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)said: ‘Enter, O ‘Awf.’ I said, ‘All of me, O Messengerof Allah?’ Hesaid: ‘All of you.’ Then he said: ‘O ‘Awf,remember six things (thatwill occur) before the Hour comes, one ofwhich is my death.’ I wasvery shocked and saddened at that. Hesaid: ‘Count that as the first.Then (will come) the conquest ofBaitul-Maqdis (Jerusalem); then adisease which will appear among youand cause you and your offspringto die as martyrs and will purifyyour deeds; then there will be(much) wealth among you, so that if aman were to be given one hundredDinar he would still bedissatisfied; and there will be tribulationamong you that will notleave any Muslim house untouched;* then therewill be a treatybetween you and the Romans, then they will betray youand marchagainst you with eighty banners, under each of which will betwelvethousand (troops).’”

“The Hour will not begin until you kill your ruler andfight one another with swords, and your world is inherited by theworst of you.”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)came out one day to the people, and a man came to him and said:‘OMessenger of Allah, when will the Hour be?’ He said: ‘Theone who isasked about it does not know more than the one who isasking. But Iwill tell you of its portents. When the slave womangives birth to hermistress, that is one of its portents. When thebarefoot and nakedbecome leaders of the people, that is one of itsportents. Whenshepherds compete in constructing buildings, that isone of itsportents. (The Hour) is one of five (things) which no oneknows exceptAllah.’ Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited thewords: “Verily,Allah, with Him (alone) is the knowledge of theHour, He sends downthe rain, and knows that which is in the wombs.(to the end of theVerse).”[31:34]