Narrated `Aisha: Um Habiba and Um Salama mentioned a church they had seen in Ethiopia and in the church there were pictures. When they told the Prophet of this, he said, Those people are such that if a pious man amongst them died, they build a place of worship over his grave and paint these pictures in it. Those people will be Allah's worst creatures on the Day of Resurrection .
Read More..Narrated Um Khalid bint Khalid: When I came from Ethiopia (to Medina), I was a young girl. Allah's Apostle made me wear a sheet having marks on it. Allah's Apostle was rubbing those marks with his hands saying, Sanah! Sanah! (i.e. good, good).
Read More..Narrated `Abdullah: We used to greet the Prophet while he used to be in prayers, and he used to reply to our greetings. But when we came back from Najashi (the King of Ethiopia) we greeted him (while he was praying) and he did not reply to us. We said, O Allah's Apostle! We used to greet you in the past and you used to reply to us. He said, Verily The Mind is occupied and busy with more important matter during the prayer. (So one cannot return One's greetings.)
Read More..Narrated Abu Musa: We received the news of the departure of the Prophet (to Medina) while we were in Yemen. So we went on board a ship but our ship took us away to An-Najashi (the Negus) in Ethiopia. There we met Ja`far bin Abi Talib and stayed with him till we came (to Medina) by the time when the Prophet had conquered Khaibar. The Prophet said, O you people of the ship! You will have (the reward of) two migrations.
Read More..Narrated Jabir: When Negus died, the Prophet said, Today a pious man has died. So get up and offer the funeral prayer for your brother Ashama.
Read More..Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah Al-Ansari: Allah's Apostle led the funeral prayer for the Negus and made us stand in rows behind him and I was in the second or third row.
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