Narrated Ubayy bin Ka'b: I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the saying of Allah, Most High: 'And We sent him to a hundred thousand, or even more (37:147). He said: 'Twenty thousand (more).'
Read More..Samurah narrated regarding the saying of Allah, Most High: And his progeny, them We made survivors (37:77).' The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Ham, Sam and Yafith - with (the letter) Tha.
Read More..Narrated Samurah: that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sam was the father of Arabs, Ham the father of the Ethiopians, and Yafith the father of the Romans.
Read More..Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: Abu Talib fell ill, so the Quraish went to see him, and the Prophet (ﷺ) went to see him. There was a gathering there with Abu Talib, so Abu Jahl stood up enraged, to prevent him (the Prophet (ﷺ) from entering). He said: He complained to Abu Talib. So he (Abu Talib) said: 'O my nephew! What is it that you want from your people?' He said: 'I only want one word from them, for which, if they were to say it, then the Arabs will become their followers, and the non-Arabs will pay Jizyah to them.' He said: 'One word?' He replied: 'One word.' So he said: 'O uncle! Let them say La Ilaha Illallah' so they replied: 'One God? We have not heard (the like) of this in the religion of these later days. This is nothing but an invention.' He said: So the (following) was revealed in the Qur'an about them: 'Sad. By the Qur'an full of reminding. Those who disbelieve are in false pride and opposition...' up to His saying: 'We have not heard (the like) of this in the religion of these later days. This is nothing but an invention (38:1-7).'
Read More..Narrated Abu Qilabah: from Ibn 'Abbas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: During the night, my Lord, Blessed is He, and Most High, came to me in the best of appearances. He (one of the narrators) said - I think he said it was during a dream - So he said: 'O Muhammad! Do you know in what the most exalted group busy themselves with?' He said: I said: 'No.' He said: So He placed His Hand between my shoulders, until I sensed its coolness between my breast. - or he said: on my throat, so I knew what was in the heavens, and what was in the earth. He said: 'O Muhammad! Do you know in what the most exalted group busy themselves with?' I said: 'Yes, in the acts that atone: and the acts that atone are; lingering in the Masjid after the Salat, walking on the feet to the congregation, Isbagh Al-Wudu, in difficulty, and whoever does that, he lives in goodness and dies upon goodness, and his wrongs shall be like that of the day his mother bore him.' He said: 'O Muhammad! When you have performed Salat then say: 'O Allah! Indeed I ask of You, the doing of good deeds, avoiding the evil deeds, and loving the poor. And when you have willed Fitnah for your slave, then take me to You, without making me suffer from Fitnah.' He [the Prophet (ﷺ)] said: And the acts that raise ranks are spreading the Salam, feeding others, and Salat during the night, while the people are sleeping.
Read More..Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: My Lord, Blessed is He and Most High, came to me in the best of appearances. So he said: 'O Muhammad!' I said: 'Here I am O my Lord! And I am at Your service.' He said: 'What is it that the most exalted group busy themselves with?' I said: '[Lord] I do not know.' So He placed His Hand between my shoulders, until I sensed its coolness between my breast, so I knew what was in between the east and the west. He said: 'O Muhammad!' I said: 'Here I am O my Lord! And I am at Your service.' He said: 'What is it that the most exalted group busy themselves with?' I said: 'In the acts that raise ranks and the acts that atone, and in recording the footsteps to the congregation, Isbagh Al-Wudu in difficulties, and awaiting the Salat after the Salat. And whoever preserves them, he shall live in goodness and die upon goodness, and his sins shall be like that on the day upon which his mother bore him.'
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