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.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, Solomon (the son of) David said, 'Tonight I will sleep with seventy ladies each of whom will conceive a child who will be a knight fighting for Allah's Cause.' His companion said, 'If Allah will.' But Solomon did not say so; therefore none of those women got pregnant except one who gave birth to a half child. The Prophet further said, If the Prophet Solomon had said it (i.e. 'If Allah will') he would have begotten children who would have fought in Allah's Cause. Shuaib and Ibn Abi Az-Zinad said, Ninety (women) is more correct (than seventy).
Read More..Narrated Abu Dhaar: I said, O Allah's Apostle! Which mosque was built first? He replied, Al-Masjid-ul-Haram. I asked, Which (was built) next? He replied, Al-Masjid-ul-Aqs-a (i.e. Jerusalem). I asked, What was the period in between them? He replied, Forty (years). He then added, Wherever the time for the prayer comes upon you, perform the prayer, for all the earth is a place of worshipping for you.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, My example and the example o the people is like that of a person who lit a fire and let the moths, butterflies and these insects fall in it.
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