Narrated Usama bin Zaid: Allah's Apostle used to put me on (one of) his thighs and put Al-Hasan bin `Ali on his other thigh, and then embrace us and say, O Allah! Please be Merciful to them, as I am merciful to them.
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: I never felt so jealous of any woman as I did of Khadija, though she had died three years before the Prophet married me, and that was because I heard him mentioning her too often, and because his Lord had ordered him to give her the glad tidings that she would have a palace in Paradise, made of Qasab and because he used to slaughter a sheep and distribute its meat among her friends.
Read More..Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d: The Prophet said, I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like this, putting his index and middle fingers together.
Read More..Narrated Safwan bin Salim: The Prophet said The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person, is like a warrior fighting for Allah's Cause or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all the night. Narrated Abu Huraira that the Prophet said as above.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person is like a warrior fighting for Allah's Cause. (The narrator Al-Qa'nabi is not sure whether he also said Like the one who prays all the night without slackness and fasts continuously and never breaks his fast. )
Read More..Narrated Abu Sulaiman and Malik bin Huwairith: We came to the Prophet and we were (a few) young men of approximately equal age and stayed with him for twenty nights. Then he thought that we were anxious for our families, and he asked us whom we had left behind to look after our families, and we told him. He was kindhearted and merciful, so he said, Return to your families and teach them (religious knowledge) and order them (to do good deeds) and offer your prayers in the way you saw me offering my prayers, and when the stated time for the prayer becomes due, then one of you should pronounce its call (i.e. the Adhan), and the eldest of you should lead you in prayer.
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