Narrated Ibn `Abbas: `Umar said, Our best Qur'an reciter is Ubai and our best judge is `Ali; and in spite of this, we leave some of the statements of Ubai because Ubai says, 'I do not leave anything that I have heard from Allah's Messenger while Allah: Whatever verse (Revelations) do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We bring a better one or similar to it. (2.106)
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The Prophet said, Allah said, 'The son of Adam tells a lie against me though he has no right to do so, and he abuses Me though he has no right to do so. As for his telling a lie against Me, it is that he claims that I cannot recreate him as I created him before; and as for his abusing Me, it is his statement that I have offspring. No! Glorified be Me! I am far from taking a wife or offspring.'
Read More..Narrated Anas: `Umar said, I agreed with Allah in three things, or said, My Lord agreed with me in three things. I said, 'O Allah's Messenger ! Would that you took the station of Abraham as a place of prayer.' I also said, 'O Allah's Messenger ! Good and bad persons visit you! Would that you ordered the Mothers of the believers to cover themselves with veils.' So the Divine Verses of Al-Hijab (i.e. veiling of the women) were revealed. I came to know that the Prophet had blamed some of his wives so I entered upon them and said, 'You should either stop (troubling the Prophet ) or else Allah will give His Apostle better wives than you.' When I came to one of his wives, she said to me, 'O `Umar! Does Allah's Messenger haven't what he could advise his wives with, that you try to advise them?' Thereupon Allah revealed:-- It may be, if he divorced you (all) his Lord will give him instead of you, wives better than you Muslims (who submit to Allah).. (66.5)
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: (The wife of the Prophet) Allah's Messenger said, Don't you see that when your people built the Ka`ba, they did not build it on all Abraham's foundations? I said, O Allah's Messenger ! Why don't you rebuild it on Abraham's foundations? He said, Were your people not so close to (the period of Heathenism, i.e. the Period between their being Muslims and being infidels), I would do so. The sub-narrator, `Abdullah bin `Umar said, Aisha had surely heard Allah's Messenger saying that, for I do not think that Allah's Messenger left touching the two corners of the Ka`ba facing Al-Hijr except because the Ka`ba was not built on all Abraham's foundations.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The people of the Scripture (Jews) used to recite the Torah in Hebrew and they used to explain it in Arabic to the Muslims. On that Allah's Messenger said, Do not believe the people of the Scripture or disbelieve them, but say:-- We believe in Allah and what is revealed to us. (2.136)
Read More..Narrated Al-Bara: The Prophet prayed facing Bait-ulMaqdis (i.e. Jerusalem) for sixteen or seventeen months but he wished that his Qibla would be the Ka`ba (at Mecca). (So Allah Revealed (2.144) and he offered `Asr prayers(in his Mosque facing Ka`ba at Mecca) and some people prayed with him. A man from among those who had prayed with him, went out and passed by some people offering prayer in another mosque, and they were in the state of bowing. He said, I, (swearing by Allah,) testify that I have prayed with the Prophet facing Mecca. Hearing that, they turned their faces to the Ka`ba while they were still bowing. Some men had died before the Qibla was changed towards the Ka`ba. They had been killed and we did not know what to say about them (i.e. whether their prayers towards Jerusalem were accepted or not). So Allah revealed:-- And Allah would never make your faith (i.e. prayer) to be lost (i.e. your prayers offered (towards Jerusalem). Truly Allah is Full of Pity, Most Merciful towards mankind. (2.143)
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