Narrated 'Abdullah: I was hiding beneath the covering of the Ka'bah, and three men came along - a man from the Quraish, and two of his brothers-in-law from Thaqif, or a man from Thaqif and two of his brothers-in-law from Quraish. Their bellies were fat, and they did not have much understanding. They said something that I could not understand, then one of them said: 'Do you think that Allah can hear what we are talking about?' Another said: 'If we raise our voices, He will hear it, but if we do not raise our voices, He will not hear it.' The other one said: 'If He can hear something from us, then He can hear all of it.' 'Abdullah said: I mentioned that to the Prophet (ﷺ), so Allah revealed: 'And you have not been hiding yourselves, lest your ears and your eyes and your skin should testify against you...' up to His saying: '...and you have become of those utterly lost! (42:22 & 23)
Read More..Narrated Anas bin Malik: that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited: Verily those who say: Our Lord is Allah, and then they stand firm (41:30). - He said: People have said it, then most of them disbelieved, so whoever dies upon it, then he is among those who stood firm.
Read More..Narrated Tawus: Ibn 'Abbas was asked about this Ayah: Say: No reward do I ask of you for this except to be kind for my kinship with you (42:23). So Sa'eed bin Jubair said: 'To be kind to the family of Muhammad.' Ibn 'Abbas replied: 'You know that there was no family of the Quraish except that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had some relatives among them.' He said: 'Except that you should uphold ties of kinship that exist between me and you.'
Read More..Narrated 'Ubaidullah bin Al-Wazi': A Shaikh from Banu Murrah narrated to me, he said: 'I arrived in Al-Kufah and was informed about Bilal bin Abi Burdah so I said: Indeed there is a lesson in him so I went to him while he was imprisoned in his home, which he had built.' He said: 'After everything that had happened to him he had changed due to the punishment and the beatings, and now he was living in isolation. So I said: All praise is due to Allah O Bilal! I have seen you passing you by us holding your nose, and it was not from the dust! And today you are in this state.' So he said: 'Where are you from?' I said: 'From Banu Murrah bin 'Abbad.' So he said: 'Shall I not narrate a Hadith to you, perhaps Allah will benefit you by it?' I said: 'Go ahead.' He said: 'My father, Abu Burdah narrated from his father Abu Musa, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: No worshiper suffers a calamity nor what is worse than that or less, except due to a sin, and what Allah pardons as a result of it is more. He (Abu Musa) said: And he recited: And whatever misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned (42:30).
Read More..Narrated Abu Umamah: that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: No people go astray after having been guided, but they resort to arguing. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited this Ayah: '...They quoted not the above example except for argument. Nay! But they are quarrelsome people... (43:58)'
Read More..Narrated Masruq: A man came to 'Abdullah and said: 'A story teller has said that a smoke will appear from the earth, taking the hearing of disbelievers and manifesting as a cold for the believers.' He became angry, and since he was reclining, he sat up then said: 'When one of you is asked about something he knows, then let him speak accordingly' - Mansur (one of the narrators) narrated it as: Then let him inform of it - And when asked about what he does not know, then let him say: Allah knows best. For indeed, it is part of a man's knowledge, that when he is asked about something he does not know, he says: Allah knows best. For verily Allah, Most High said to His Prophet: Say: No wage do I ask of you for this, nor am I one of the pretenders (38:86). When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw that the Quraish were behaving stubbornly with him, he said: O Allah! Assist me against them with seven (years of famine) like the seven of Yusuf. So He punished them with drought making everything barren, until they ate skins and carcasses - one of them said: bones. He said: 'And it appeared that smoke was coming out of the earth. So Abu Sufyan came to him and said: Verily your people are being destroyed, so supplicate to Allah for them. He said: So this is about His saying: 'The Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke, covering the people, this is a painful torment (44:10 & 11).' Mansur narrated it as: So this is about His saying: Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers (44:12). - So shall the punishment be removed from them in the Hereafter? Al-Batshah (humiliated defeat in Badr), Al-Lizam (disbeliever captives from Badr), the smoke, - one of them said: The moon the other said: The Romans have all passed.
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