‘A’isha said that when some of the Prophet’s wives asked him which of them would join him soonest, he replied that it would be the one with the longest arm. So they took a rod and measured, and Sauda was the one among th…
Abu Huraira said that God’s messenger told of a man who expressed his intention to give sadaqa, and who when he took it out placed it in a thief’s hand. In the morning the people were talking and saying, “Sadaqa was give…
He said that the Prophet (ﷺ) told of a man in a waterless plain hearing a voice from a cloud say, “Water so and so’s garden.”
Those clouds then moved away and emptied their water on a lava tract, and a channel collected…
He said he had heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say there were three men among the B. Isra’il, one leprous, one bald and one blind, whom God wished to test. He therefore sent to them an angel who came to the leper and asked him wha…
Umm Bujaid said she told God’s messenger that a poor man would stand at her door till she was ashamed, for she had nothing in her house to put in his hand, and he replied,
“Put something in his hand, even though it shoul…
A client of ‘Uthman said that Umm Salama was presented with a piece of meat, and because the Prophet (ﷺ) liked meat she told the servant to put it in the house as the Prophet (ﷺ) might perhaps eat it. She put it in the w…
Ibn ‘Abbas said that the Prophet (ﷺ) asked some people whether they would like him to tell them who was in the worst position, and when they replied that they would, he said,
“The one who is asked for something in God’s…
Abu Dharr said that he came with his stick in his hand and asked ‘Uthman for permission to enter and this was granted. ‘Uthman then told Ka‘b that ‘Abd ar-Rahman had died leaving some property and asked what he thought a…
‘Uqba b. al-Harith said that on an occasion when he had prayed the afternoon prayer in Medina behind the Prophet, he got up quickly after uttering the salutation and, stepping over the people, went to one of the rooms of…
‘A’isha said that during the illness of God’s messenger she had six or seven dinars belonging to him which he ordered her to distribute, but she was kept busy ministering to his suffering. He asked her what had happened…
Abu Huraira said that when the Prophet (ﷺ) once visited Bilal and saw he had a heap of dates, he asked him what it was. One his replying, “It is something I have stored up for tomorrow,” he said, “Are you not afraid that…
He reported God’s messenger as saying,
“Liberality is a tree in paradise of which he who is liberal will seize a branch, and the branch will not leave him till it brings him into paradise. And niggardliness is a tree in…
‘Ali reported God’s messenger as saying,
“Give the sadaqa without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.”*
Razln transmitted it.
* The idea is that it acts as a barrier beyond which calamity cannot pass.