Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge, Allah will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise; and he who is made slow by his actions will not be speeded by his genealogy.
Read More..Narrated Abu Namlah al-Ansari: When he was sitting with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and a Jew was also with him, a funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, does this funeral speak? The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Allah has more knowledge. The Jew said: It speaks. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Whatever the people of the Book tell you, do not verify them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and His Messenger. If it is false, do not confirm it, and if it is right, do not falsify it.
Read More..Narrated Zayd ibn Thabit: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ordered me (to learn the writing of the Jews), so I learnt for him the writing of the Jews. He said: I swear by Allah, I do not trust Jews in respect of writing for me. So I learnt it, and only a fortnight passed that. I mastered it. I would write for him when he wrote (to them), and read to him when something was written to him.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: I used to write everything which I heard from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. I intended (by it) to memorise it. The Quraysh prohibited me saying: Do you write everything that you hear from him while the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم is a human being: he speaks in anger and pleasure? So I stopped writing, and mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He signalled with his finger to him mouth and said: Write, by Him in Whose hand my soul lies, only right comes out from it.
Read More..Narrated Al-Muttalib bin Abdullah bin Hantab: Al-Muttalib ibn Abdullah ibn Hantab said: Zayd ibn Thabit entered upon Muawiyah and asked him about a tradition. He ordered a man to write it. Zayd said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ordered us not to write any of his traditions. So he erased it.
Read More..Abu Hurairah said: When Makkah was conquered, the Holy Prophet peace be upon him stood up. He (Abu Hurairah)then mentioned the sermon of the Holy prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He said: A man of the Yemen, who was called Abu shah, go up and said ; Messenger of Allah! Write it for me. He said: Write for Abu shah.
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