Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr: Allah's Apostle was informed that I have said: By Allah, I will fast all the days and pray all the nights as long as I live. On that, Allah's Apostle asked me. Are you the one who says: 'I will fast all the days and pray all the nights as long as I live?' I said, Yes, I have said it. He said, You cannot do that. So fast (sometimes) and do not fast (sometimes). Pray and sleep. Fast for three days a month, for the reward of a good deed is multiplied by ten time, and so the fasting of three days a month equals the fasting of a year. I said, O Allah's Apostle! I can do (fast) more than this. He said, Fast on every third day. I said: I can do (fast) more than that, He said: Fast on alternate days and this was the fasting of David which is the most moderate sort of fasting. I said, O Allah's Apostle! I can do (fast) more than that. He said, There is nothing better than that.
Read More..Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr bin Al-As: The Prophet said to me, I have been informed that you pray all the nights and observe fast all the days; is this true? I replied, Yes. He said, If you do so, your eyes will become weak and you will get bored. So fast three days a month, for this will be the fasting of a whole year, or equal to the fasting of a whole year. I said, I find myself able to fast more. He said, Then fast like the fasting of (the Prophet) David who used to fast on alternate days and would not flee on facing the enemy.
Read More..Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr: Allah's Apostle said to me, The most beloved fasting to Allah was the fasting of (the Prophet) David who used to fast on alternate days. And the most beloved prayer to Allah was the prayer of David who used to sleep for (the first) half of the night and pray for 1/3 of it and (again) sleep for a sixth of it.
Read More..Narrated Mujahid: I asked Ibn `Abbas, Should we perform a prostration on reciting Surat-Sa`d? He recited (the Sura) including: 'And among his progeny, David, Solomon..(up to)...so follow their guidance (6.84-91) And then he said, Your Prophet is amongst those people who have been ordered to follow them (i.e. the preceding apostles).
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The prostration in Sura-Sa`d is not amongst the compulsory prostrations, though I saw the Prophet prostrating on reciting it.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, A strong demon from the Jinns came to me yesterday suddenly, so as to spoil my prayer, but Allah enabled me to overpower him, and so I caught him and intended to tie him to one of the pillars of the Mosque so that all of you might see him, but I remembered the invocation of my brother Solomon: 'And grant me a kingdom such as shall not belong to any other after me.' (38.35) so I let him go cursed.
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