Narrated Shaqiq: While we were waiting for `Abdullah (bin Mas`ud). Yazid bin Muawiya came. I said (to him), Will you sit down? He said, No, but I will go into the house (of Ibn Mas`ud) and let your companion (Ibn Mas`ud) come out to you; and if he should not (come out), I will come out and sit (with you). Then `Abdullah came out, holding the hand of Yazid, addressed us, saying, I know that you are assembled here, but the reason that prevents me from coming out to you, is that Allah's Apostle used to preach to us at intervals during the days, lest we should become bored.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The Prophet said, There are two blessings which many people lose: (They are) Health and free time for doing good.
Read More..Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, O Allah! There is no life worth living except the life of the Hereafter, so (please) make righteous the Ansar and the Emigrants.
Read More..Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d As-Sa`idi: We were in the company of Allah's Apostle in (the battle of) Al-Khandaq, and he was digging the trench while we were carrying the earth away. He looked at us and said, O Allah! There is no life worth living except the life of the Hereafter, so (please) forgive the Ansar and the Emigrants.
Read More..Narrated Sahl: I heard the Prophet saying, A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in Paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it; and an undertaking (journey) in the forenoon or in the afternoon for Allah's Cause, is better than the whole world and whatever is in it.
Read More..Narrated Mujahid: `Abdullah bin `Umar said, Allah's Apostle took hold of my shoulder and said, 'Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler. The sub-narrator added: Ibn `Umar used to say, If you survive till the evening, do not expect to be alive in the morning, and if you survive till the morning, do not expect to be alive in the evening, and take from your health for your sickness, and (take) from your life for your death.
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