Chapters On Zuhd

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Salih ibn Abd Allah and Suwayd ibn Nasr narrated to us. Salih said: Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak narrated to us; Suwayd said: Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak informed us, from Abd Allah ibn Said ibn Abi Hind, from his father, from Ibn Abbas, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'There are two blessings in which many people are deceived: health and free time.' Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Yahya ibn Said narrated to us: Abd Allah ibn Said ibn Abi Hind narrated to us, from his father, from Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet, a report with the same meaning. A report on this subject is also related from Anas ibn Malik. He said: 'This hadith is hasan sahih.' More than one narrator transmitted it from Abd Allah ibn Said ibn Abi Hind as a report traced to the Prophet, while some transmitted it from him as a Companion's statement.

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Bishr ibn Hilal al-Sawwaf al-Basri narrated to us: Jafar ibn Sulayman narrated to us, from Abu Tariq, from al-Hasan, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Who will take these words from me and act on them, or teach them to someone who will act on them?' Abu Hurayrah said: 'I said, I will, Messenger of Allah.' He took my hand, counted five, and said: 'Avoid what Allah has forbidden and you will be the most devoted of people; be content with what Allah has allotted you and you will be the richest of people; be good to your neighbor and you will be a believer; love for people what you love for yourself and you will be a Muslim; and do not laugh excessively, for excessive laughter deadens the heart.' Abu Isa said: 'This hadith is gharib; we know it only through Jafar ibn Sulayman. Al-Hasan did not hear anything from Abu Hurayrah; this is what is related from Ayyub, Yunus ibn Ubayd, and Ali ibn Zayd, who said that al-Hasan did not hear from Abu Hurayrah. Abu Ubaydah al-Naji narrated this hadith from al-Hasan as his own statement, without mentioning Abu Hurayrah or the Prophet.'

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Abu Musab al-Madani narrated to us, from Muharrar ibn Harun, from Abd al-Rahman al-Araj, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Hasten to do good deeds before seven things: poverty that makes one forget, wealth that makes one arrogant, an illness that ruins one, senility that brings confusion, a sudden death, the Dajjal—who is the worst absent one to be awaited—or the Hour. The Hour is more dreadful and more bitter.' He said: 'This hadith is hasan gharib. We know it from al-Araj, from Abu Hurayrah, only through Muharrar ibn Harun. Bishr ibn Umar and others also narrated it from Muharrar. Ma mar narrated a report like it from someone who heard Said al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet; that version uses the wording asking whether you wait.

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Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to us: al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Remember often the destroyer of pleasures'—meaning death. A report on this subject is also related from Abū Saʿīd. Abū ʿĪsā said: 'This hadith is ḥasan gharīb.'

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Hannād narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn narrated to us: Hishām ibn Yūsuf narrated to us: ʿAbdullāh ibn Buḥayr narrated to me that he heard Hāniʾ, the client of ʿUthmān, say: When ʿUthmān stood beside a grave, he would weep until his beard became wet. Someone said to him, 'You remember Paradise and the Fire and do not weep, yet you weep over this?' He replied: 'The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The grave is the first station of the Hereafter. If one is saved from it, what comes after is easier; if one is not saved from it, what comes after is more severe.' The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: 'I have never seen a sight except that the grave is more dreadful than it.' He said: 'This hadith is ḥasan gharīb; we know it only through Hishām ibn Yūsuf.'

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Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to us: Abū Dāwūd narrated to us: Shuʿbah informed us, from Qatādah, who said: I heard Anas relate from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: 'Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him; and whoever dislikes meeting Allah, Allah dislikes meeting him.' Reports on this subject are also related from Abū Hurayrah, ʿĀʾishah, Anas, and Abū Mūsā. He said: 'The hadith of ʿUbādah is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.'

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Abū al-Ashʿath—Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī—narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭufāwī narrated to us: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: When the verse 'Warn your nearest kindred' (Quran 26:214) was revealed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'O Ṣafiyyah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, O Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad, O Banū ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, I cannot avail you in anything against Allah. Ask me for whatever you wish from my wealth.' Reports on this subject are also related from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Mūsā, and Ibn ʿAbbās. He said: 'The hadith of ʿĀʾishah is ḥasan gharīb.' Some transmitted it from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah in this form; others transmitted it from Hishām, from his father, from the Prophet as a mursal report, without mentioning ʿĀʾishah.

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Hannād narrated to us: ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Masʿūdī, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'A man who weeps out of fear of Allah will not enter the Fire until milk returns to the udder, and the dust raised in Allah's cause and the smoke of Hell will never be combined.' Reports on this subject are also related from Abū Rayḥānah and Ibn ʿAbbās. He said: 'This hadith is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.' Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was the client of the family of Ṭalḥah, a trustworthy Medinan; Shuʿbah and Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated from him.

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Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ narrated to us: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us: Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn al-Muhājir, from Mujāhid, from Muwarriq, from Abū Dharr, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'I see what you do not see and hear what you do not hear. The heaven has groaned, and it is right that it should groan: there is no space the width of four fingers in it without an angel placing his forehead in prostration to Allah. If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much; you would not take pleasure with women upon your beds, and you would go out to the open ground, crying out to Allah.' I wish I were a tree that was cut down. Abū ʿĪsā said: 'Reports on this subject are related from Abū Hurayrah, ʿĀʾishah, Ibn ʿAbbās, and Anas. This hadith is ḥasan gharīb.' It is also related by another route that Abū Dharr said, 'I wish I were a tree that was cut down.'

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Abū Ḥafṣ—ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās—narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much.' This hadith is ṣaḥīḥ.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Ibn Abī ʿAdī narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, who narrated to me, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'A man may utter a word that he sees no harm in, yet because of it he will plunge seventy autumns into the Fire.' He said: 'This hadith is ḥasan gharīb through this chain.'

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Bahz ibn Ḥakīm narrated to us: my father narrated to me, from my grandfather, who said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Woe to the one who tells a story to make people laugh and lies; woe to him, woe to him.' A report on this subject is also related from Abū Hurayrah. He said: 'This hadith is ḥasan.'

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Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Baghdādī narrated to us: ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us: my father narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: One of his Companions died, and a man said, 'Rejoice in Paradise!' The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'How do you know? Perhaps he spoke about what did not concern him or withheld something that would not have diminished him.' He said: 'This hadith is gharīb.'

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Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Naysābūrī and others narrated to us: Abū Mushir narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Samāʿah, from al-Awzāʿī, from Qurrah, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Part of a person's excellent Islam is leaving alone what does not concern him.' He said: 'This hadith is gharīb. We know it from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet, only through this chain.'

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Qutaybah narrated to us: Mālik ibn Anas narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Part of a person's excellent Islam is leaving alone what does not concern him.' Abū ʿĪsā said: More than one of al-Zuhrī's companions transmitted a similar report from al-Zuhrī, from ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn, from the Prophet, as a mursal report. In our view, this is more sound than the report from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah. ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn did not meet ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

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Hannād narrated to us: ʿAbdah narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, who narrated to me from my father, from my grandfather, who said: I heard Bilāl ibn al-Ḥārith al-Muzanī, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), say: I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'One of you may utter a word pleasing to Allah, not realizing how far it will reach, and Allah will decree His good pleasure for him on account of it until the Day he meets Him. And one of you may utter a word that angers Allah, not realizing how far it will reach, and Allah will decree His anger against him on account of it until the Day he meets Him.' Reports on this subject are also related from Umm Ḥabībah. He said: 'This hadith is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.' More than one narrator transmitted it from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr in this way, through his father, his grandfather, and Bilāl ibn al-Ḥārith. Mālik transmitted it from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from his father, from Bilāl ibn al-Ḥārith, omitting 'from his grandfather.'

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Qutaybah narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'If this world were worth even a mosquito's wing to Allah, He would not give a disbeliever a sip of water from it.' A report on this subject is also related from Abū Hurayrah. Abū ʿĪsā said: 'This hadith is ṣaḥīḥ gharīb through this chain.'

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Suwayd ibn Naṣr informed us: ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from Mujālid, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddād, who said: I was with the group who stopped with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) beside a dead young goat. The Messenger of Allah said: 'Do you think its owners considered it worthless when they threw it away?' They said: 'They threw it away because it was worthless, Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'This world is even more insignificant to Allah than this is to its owners.' Reports on this subject are also related from Jābir and Ibn ʿUmar. Abū ʿĪsā said: 'The hadith of al-Mustawrid is ḥasan.'

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Abu Hurayrah reported that the Messenger of Allah said: “This world is cursed, and everything in it is cursed, except the remembrance of Allah and what is connected to it, a scholar, and a student of knowledge.” Abu Isa graded this hadith hasan gharib.

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Al-Mustawrid, a man of Banu Fihr, reported that the Messenger of Allah said: “Compared with the Hereafter, this world is like what one of you gets when he dips his finger into the sea. So look at what he brings back.” Abu Isa graded this hadith hasan sahih. Ismail ibn Abi Khalid was known by the kunya Abu Abdullah, and Qays’s father, Abu Hazim, was named Abd ibn Awf and was a Companion.