Narrated Asma bint Abi Bakr: I saw Zaid bin Amr bin Nufail standing with his back against the Ka'ba and saying, O people of Quraish! By Allah, none amongst you is on the religion of Abraham except me. He used to preserve the lives of little girls: If somebody wanted to kill his daughter he would say to him, Do not kill her for I will feed her on your behalf. So he would take her, and when she grew up nicely, he would say to her father, Now if you want her, I will give her to you, and if you wish, I will feed her on your behalf.
Read More..Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah: When the Ka`ba was rebuilt, the Prophet and `Abbas went to carry stones. `Abbas said to the Prophet (Take off and) put your waist sheet over your neck so that the stones may not hurt you. (But as soon as he took off his waist sheet) he fell unconscious on the ground with both his eyes towards the sky. When he came to his senses, he said, My waist sheet! My waist sheet! Then he tied his waist sheet (round his waist).
Read More..Narrated `Amr bin Dinar and 'Ubaidullah bin Abi Yazid: In the lifetime of the Prophet there was no wall around the Ka`ba and the people used to pray around the Ka`ba till `Umar became the Caliph and he built the wall around it. 'Ubaidullah further said, Its wall was low, so Ibn Az-Zubair built it.
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: 'Ashura' (i.e. the tenth of Muharram) was a day on which the tribe of Quraish used to fast in the prelslamic period of ignorance. The Prophet also used to fast on this day. So when he migrated to Medina, he fasted on it and ordered (the Muslims) to fast on it. When the fasting of Ramadan was enjoined, it became optional for the people to fast or not to fast on the day of Ashura.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The people used to consider the performance of `Umra in the months of Hajj an evil deed on the earth, and they used to call the month of Muharram as Safar and used to say, When (the wounds over) the backs (of the camels) have healed and the foot-marks (of the camels) have vanished (after coming from Hajj), then `Umra becomes legal for the one who wants to perform `Umra. Allah's Apostle and his companions reached Mecca assuming Ihram for Hajj on the fourth of Dhul-Hijja. The Prophet ordered his companions to perform `Umra (with that lhram instead of Hajj). They asked, O Allah's Apostle! What kind of finishing of Ihram? The Prophet said, Finish the Ihram completely.'
Read More..Narrated Sa`id bin Al-Musaiyab's grand-father: In the pre-lslamic period of ignorance a flood of rain came and filled the valley in between the two mountains (around the Ka`ba).
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