Zuhd

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Abu Kurayb narrated to us; Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Abu al-Safar, from ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) passed by while we were working on a reed hut of ours. He said: “What is this?” I replied: “It is a hut of ours that has fallen into disrepair; we are fixing it.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “I think the matter will come sooner than that.”

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Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Uthman al-Dimashqi narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us; ‘Isa ibn ‘Abd al-A‘la ibn Abi Farwah narrated to us; Ishaq ibn Abi Talhah narrated to me, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) passed by a domed structure at the door of a man from the Ansar and said: “What is this?” They replied: “A dome built by so-and-so.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Any wealth spent in this manner will be a burden upon its owner on the Day of Resurrection.” The Ansari heard this and dismantled it. Later the Prophet (ﷺ) passed by and did not see it. He asked about it and was told that its owner had dismantled it after hearing what he had said. He replied: “May Allah have mercy on him. May Allah have mercy on him.”

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Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Abu Nu‘aym narrated to us; Ishaq ibn Sa‘id ibn ‘Amr ibn Sa‘id ibn al-‘As narrated to us, from his father Sa‘id, from Ibn ‘Umar, who said: I remember building a house with the Messenger of Allah’s (ﷺ) knowledge, to shelter me from rain and sun; no one among Allah’s creation helped me with it.

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Isma‘il ibn Musa narrated to us; Sharik narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Harithah ibn Mudarrib, who said: We went to visit Khabbab, who said: “My illness has lasted a long time. If I had not heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say, ‘Do not wish for death,’ I would have wished for it.” He also said: “A servant is rewarded for all his spending except what he spends on earth”—or he said, “on building.”

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Harmalah ibn Yahya narrated to us; ‘Abdullah ibn Wahb narrated to us; Ibn Lahi‘ah informed me, from Ibn Hubayrah, from Abu Tamim al-Jayshani, who said: I heard ‘Umar say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “If you relied upon Allah as He ought to be relied upon, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds: they leave in the morning with empty stomachs and return in the evening full.”

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Sallam ibn Shurahbil Abu Shurahbil, from Habba and Sawa’, the two sons of Khalid, who said: We entered upon the Prophet (ﷺ) while he was working on something, and we helped him. He said: “Do not despair of provision as long as your heads are moving. A human being is born red and with no covering on his skin; then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, provides for him.”

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Ishaq ibn Mansur informed us; Abu Shu‘ayb Salih ibn Ruzaq al-‘Attar narrated to us; Sa‘id ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jumahi narrated to us, from Musa ibn ‘Ulay ibn Rabah, from his father, from ‘Amr ibn al-‘As, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The heart of the son of Adam has branches stretching into every valley. Whoever lets his heart follow all of them, Allah will not care in which valley He lets him perish. But whoever relies upon Allah, He will spare him from being pulled in many directions.”

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Muhammad ibn Tarif narrated to us; Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Abu Sufyan, from Jabir, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “Let none of you die except while thinking well of Allah.”

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Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us; Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah informed us, from Ibn ‘Ajlan, from al-A‘raj, from Abu Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet (ﷺ), who said: “The strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than the weak believer, though there is good in both. Be keen for what benefits you, and do not give up. If something overcomes you, say, ‘Allah decreed it, and what He willed He did.’ Beware of saying, ‘If only,’ for saying ‘if only’ opens the work of Satan.”

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‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us; ‘Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us, from Ibrahim ibn al-Fadl, from Sa‘id al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “A wise saying is the believer’s lost property; wherever he finds it, he has the greatest right to it.”

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Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azim al-‘Anbari narrated to us; Safwan ibn ‘Isa narrated to us, from ‘Abdullah ibn Sa‘id ibn Abi Hind, from his father, who said: I heard Ibn ‘Abbas say that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “There are two blessings in which many people are deceived and incur loss: health and free time.”

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Muhammad ibn Ziyad narrated to us; al-Fudayl ibn Sulayman narrated to us; ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Uthman ibn Khuthaym narrated to us; ‘Uthman ibn Jubayr—the freedman of Abu Ayyub—narrated to me, from Abu Ayyub, who said: A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: “Messenger of Allah, teach me briefly.” He said: “When you stand for prayer, pray as if bidding farewell. Do not say anything for which you would have to apologize, and give up hope of obtaining what is in other people’s hands.”

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn Musa narrated to us, from Hammad ibn Salamah, from ‘Ali ibn Zayd, from Aws ibn Khalid, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The one who sits listening to wisdom and then speaks of nothing he heard from its speaker except evil is like a man who comes to a shepherd and says, ‘Shepherd, give me a sheep from your flock to slaughter.’ The shepherd says, ‘Go and take by the ear the best one.’ So he goes and takes the sheepdog by the ear.” Abu al-Hasan ibn Salamah said: Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim narrated this to us; Musa narrated to us; Hammad narrated a similar report, with the wording: “Take a sheep by the ear of the best one.”

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Suwayd ibn Sa‘id narrated to us; ‘Ali ibn Mushir narrated to us. Another chain: ‘Ali ibn Maymun al-Raqqi narrated to us; Sa‘id ibn Maslamah narrated to us. Both chains go back through al-A‘mash, from Ibrahim, from ‘Alqamah, from ‘Abdullah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “No one who has an atom’s weight of mustard seed of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise, and no one who has an atom’s weight of mustard seed of faith in his heart will enter the Fire.”

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Hannad ibn al-Sari narrated to us; Abu al-Ahwas narrated to us, from ‘Ata’ ibn al-Sa’ib, from al-Agharr Abu Muslim, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Allah, Glorified is He, says: ‘Grandeur is My mantle and mightiness is My cloak. Whoever challenges Me regarding either of them, I will cast into Hell.’”

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‘Abdullah ibn Sa‘id and Harun ibn Ishaq narrated to us; they said: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Muharibi narrated to us, from ‘Ata’ ibn al-Sa’ib, from Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ‘Abbas, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Allah, Glorified is He, says: ‘Grandeur is My mantle and mightiness is My cloak. Whoever challenges Me regarding either of them, I will cast into the Fire.’”

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Harmalah ibn Yahya narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; ‘Amr ibn al-Harith informed me that Darrij narrated to him, from Abu al-Haytham, from Abu Sa‘id, from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), who said: “Whoever humbles himself one degree for Allah, Glorified is He, Allah will raise him by one degree. Whoever shows arrogance toward Allah by one degree, Allah will lower him by one degree until He places him in the lowest of the low.”

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Nasr ibn ‘Ali narrated to us; ‘Abd al-Samad and Salm ibn Qutaybah narrated to us; they said: Shu‘bah narrated to us, from ‘Ali ibn Zayd, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: A female servant among the people of Madinah would take the Messenger of Allah’s (ﷺ) hand, and he would not withdraw his hand from hers until she had taken him wherever she wished in Madinah to attend to her need.

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‘Amr ibn Rafi‘ narrated to us; Jarir narrated to us, from Muslim al-A‘war, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to visit the sick, accompany funeral processions, accept invitations from enslaved people, and ride a donkey. During the campaigns of Qurayzah and al-Nadir he rode a donkey; on the day of Khaybar he rode a donkey bridled with a palm-fiber cord, with a saddlecloth of palm fiber beneath him.

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Ahmad ibn Sa‘id narrated to us; ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Waqid narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Matar, from Qatadah, from Mutarrif, from ‘Iyad ibn Himar, from the Prophet (ﷺ), who addressed them and said: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has revealed to me that you should humble yourselves to one another, so that no one boasts over another.”