Ibn Umar said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to observe Itikaf during the last ten days of Ramadan. Nafi said: Abdullah (bin Umar) showed me the place in the mosque where Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to observe Itikaf.
Read More..Abu Hurairah said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to observe Itikaf during ten days of Ramadan every year. But when the year in which he died, he observed Itikaf for twenty days.
Read More..Aishah said: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم observed Itikaf, he would put his head near me, and I would comb it. and he entered the house only to fulfill human needs (i. e. to urinate or to relieve himself).
Read More..A similar tradition has been transmitted by Aishah from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم through a different chain of narrators. Abu Dawud said: And Yunus also narrated in a similar way from al-Zuhri, and no one supported Malik in his narration from Urwah from Umrah ; and Mamar, Ziyad bin Sad and others have also narrated it from al-Zuhri from Urwah on the authority of Aishah.
Read More..Aishah said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to observe Itikaf in the mosque and put his head near me through the opening of the apartment, and I would wash his head. Musaddad said: And I would comb it while I was menstruating.
Read More..Safiyyah said: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was observing Itikaf (in the mosque), I would come to him to visit him. I had a talk with him and then stood up. I then returned and he (the Prophet) also stood up to accompany me (to my house). Her dwelling place was in the house of Usamah bin Zaid. Two men from the Ansar (helpers) passed (by him at the moment). When they saw the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, they walked quickly. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Be at ease, she is Safiyyah daughter of Huyayy. They said: Be glory to Allah, Messenger of Allah! He said: Satan runs in man like blood. I feared he might inspire something in your mind, or he said: evil (the narrator doubted).
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