Introduction

(Agharr Abi Muslim reported:I bear witness to the fact that both Abu Huraira and Abu Sa'id Khudri were present when Allah's Messenger may peace be upon him) said: The people do not sit but they are surrounded by angels and covered by Mercy, and there descends upon them tranquillity as they remember Allah, and Allah makes a mention of them to those who are near Him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters

محمد بن جعفر نے کہا : ہمیں شعبہ نے حدیث بیان کی ، کہا : میں نے ابواسحاق کو ابومسلم اغر سے حدیث بیان کرتے ہوئے سنا ، انہوں نے کہا : میں حضرت ابوہریرہ اور حضرت ابوسعید خدری رضی اللہ عنہ کے بارے میں گواہی دیتا ہوں ، ان دونوں نے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے بارے میں گواہی دی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " جو قوم بھی اللہ عزوجل کو یاد کرنے کے لیے بیٹھتی ہے ، ان کو فرشتے گھیر لیتے ہیں ، رحمت ڈھانپ لیتی ہے اور ان پر اطمینان قلب نازل ہوتا ہے اور اللہ ان کا ذکر ان میں کرتا ہے جو اس کے پاس ہوتے ہیں ۔

(Agharr Abi Muslim reported:I bear witness to the fact that both Abu Huraira and Abu Sa'id Khudri were present when Allah's Messenger may peace be upon him) said: The people do not sit but they are surrounded by angels and covered by Mercy, and there descends upon them tranquillity as they remember Allah, and Allah makes a mention of them to those who are near Him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters

محمد بن جعفر نے کہا : ہمیں شعبہ نے حدیث بیان کی ، کہا : میں نے ابواسحاق کو ابومسلم اغر سے حدیث بیان کرتے ہوئے سنا ، انہوں نے کہا : میں حضرت ابوہریرہ اور حضرت ابوسعید خدری رضی اللہ عنہ کے بارے میں گواہی دیتا ہوں ، ان دونوں نے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے بارے میں گواہی دی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " جو قوم بھی اللہ عزوجل کو یاد کرنے کے لیے بیٹھتی ہے ، ان کو فرشتے گھیر لیتے ہیں ، رحمت ڈھانپ لیتی ہے اور ان پر اطمینان قلب نازل ہوتا ہے اور اللہ ان کا ذکر ان میں کرتا ہے جو اس کے پاس ہوتے ہیں ۔

Khaula bint Hakim Sulamiyya reported:I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: When any one of you stays at a place, he should say:" I seek refuge in the Perfect Word of Allah from the evil of that He created." Nothing would then do him any harm until he moves from that place. Abu Huraira reported that a person came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said:" Allah's Messenger, I was stung by a scorpion during the night. Thereupon he said: Had you recited these words in the evening:" I seek refuge in the Perfect Word of Allah from the evil of what He created," it would not have done any harm to you

عبداللہ بن وہب نے کہا : ہمیں عمرو بن حارث نے خبر دی کہ یزید بن ابی حبیب اور حارث بن یعقوب نے انہیں یعقوب بن عبداللہ بن اشج سے حدیث بیان کی ، انہوں نے بسر بن سعید سے ، انہوں نے سعد بن ابی وقاص رضی اللہ عنہ سے اور انہوں نے حضرت خولہ بنت حکیم سلمیہ سے روایت کی ، انہوں نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کو یہ فرماتے ہوئے سنا : " تم میں سے کوئی شخص جب کسی منزل پر پہنچے تو یہ کلمات کہے : " میں ہر اس چیز کے شر سے جو اللہ نے پیدا کی ، اس نے مکمل ترین کلمات کی پناہ میں آتا ہوں ، اس طرح وہاں سے کوچ کر جانے تک کوئی بھی چیز اسے نقصان نہیں پہنچائے گی ۔

Abu Huraira reported that Fatima came to Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and asked for a servant and told him of the hardship of household work. He said:You would not be able to get a servant from us. May I not direct you to what is better than the servant for you? Recite Subhaana Allah thirty-three times, al- Hamdu li-Allah thirty-three times and Allah-o-Akbar thirty-four times as you go to bed. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Suhail with the same chain of transmitters

روح بن قاسم نے سہیل سے ، انہوں نے اپنے والد ( ابوصالح ) سے اور انہوں نے حضرت ابوہریرہ رضی اللہ عنہ سے روایت کی کہ حضرت فاطمہ رضی اللہ عنہا ایک خدمت گزار ( کنیز ) مانگنے کے لیے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے پاس آئیں اور آپ سے کام کی شکایت کی تو آپ نے فرمایا : " تمہیں کدمت گزار تو ہمارے ہاں نہیں ملا ۔ " ( ہمارے گھر میں بھی موجود نہیں ) ، فرمایا : " کیا میں تمہیں ایسی بات نہ بتاؤں جو تمہارے لیے خدمت گزار سے بہت بہتر ہے؟ جب تم بستر پر جاؤ تو تینتیس بار سبحان اللہ کہو ، تینتیس بار الحمدللہ کہو اور چونتیس بار اللہ اکبر کہو ۔

Abu Huraira reported that Fatima came to Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and asked for a servant and told him of the hardship of household work. He said:You would not be able to get a servant from us. May I not direct you to what is better than the servant for you? Recite Subhaana Allah thirty-three times, al- Hamdu li-Allah thirty-three times and Allah-o-Akbar thirty-four times as you go to bed. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Suhail with the same chain of transmitters

روح بن قاسم نے سہیل سے ، انہوں نے اپنے والد ( ابوصالح ) سے اور انہوں نے حضرت ابوہریرہ رضی اللہ عنہ سے روایت کی کہ حضرت فاطمہ رضی اللہ عنہا ایک خدمت گزار ( کنیز ) مانگنے کے لیے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے پاس آئیں اور آپ سے کام کی شکایت کی تو آپ نے فرمایا : " تمہیں کدمت گزار تو ہمارے ہاں نہیں ملا ۔ " ( ہمارے گھر میں بھی موجود نہیں ) ، فرمایا : " کیا میں تمہیں ایسی بات نہ بتاؤں جو تمہارے لیے خدمت گزار سے بہت بہتر ہے؟ جب تم بستر پر جاؤ تو تینتیس بار سبحان اللہ کہو ، تینتیس بار الحمدللہ کہو اور چونتیس بار اللہ اکبر کہو ۔

Safwan (and he was Ibn 'Abdullah b. Safwan, and he had been married to Umm Darda') reported:I visited Abu Darda's house in Syria. I did not find him there but Umm Darda' (was present at the house). She said: Do you intend to perform Hajj during this year? I said: Yes. She said: Do supplicate Allah for blessings upon us, for Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon hiin) used to say: The supplication of a Muslim for his brother at his back (in his absence) is responded so long as he makes a supplica- tion for blessings for his brother and the commissioned Angel says: Amen, and says: May it be for you too I I went to the bazar and met Abfi Dardi' and he narrated like this from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)

عیسیٰ بن یونس نے کہا : ہمیں عبدالملک بن ابی سلیمان نے ابوزبیر سے حدیث بیان کی ، انہوں نے عبداللہ بن صفوان کے بیٹے صفوان سے روایت کی ، ( حضرت ابودرداء رضی اللہ عنہ کی بیٹی ) درداء ، ان ( صفوان ) کی زوجیت میں تھی ، وہ کہتے ہیں : اور میں شام آیا تو حضرت ابودرداء رضی اللہ عنہ کے ہاں ان کے گھر گیا ، وہ نہیں ملے ، میں حضرت ام درداء رضی اللہ عنہا سے ملا تو انہوں نے کہا : کیا تم اس سال حج کا ارادہ رکھتے ہو؟ میں نے کہا : جی ہاں ۔ انہوں نے کہا : ہمارے لیے خیر کی دعا کرنا کیونکہ نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم فرمایا کرتے تھے : " مسلمان کی اپنے بھائی کے لیے اس کی پیٹھ پیچھے کی گئی دعا مستجاب ہوتی ہے ، اس کے سر کے قریب ایک فرشتہ مقرر ہوتا ہے ، وہ جب بھی اپنے بھائی کے لیے دعائے خیر کرتا ہے تو مقرر کیا ہوا فرشتہ اس پر کہتا ہے : آمین ، اور تمہیں بھی اسی کے مانند عطا ہو ۔

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than if one of you gets up and he finds his camel missing in a waterless desert (and then he accidentally finds it). This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik through another chain of transmitters

ہداب بن خالد نے کہا : ہمیں ہمام نے حدیث بیان کی ، انہوں نے کہا : ہمیں قتادہ نے حضرت انس بن مالک رضی اللہ عنہ سے حدیث سنائی کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " اللہ تعالیٰ کو اپنے بندے کی توبہ سے ، تم میں سے کسی ایسے شخص کی نسبت ہمیں زیادہ خوشی ہوتی ہے جب کٹیل صحرا میں اس کے ( اس ) اونٹ ( کے آں ے ) پر اس کی آنکھ کھلتی ہے جسے وہ صحرا میں گم کر چکا ہوتا ہے ۔

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than if one of you gets up and he finds his camel missing in a waterless desert (and then he accidentally finds it). This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik through another chain of transmitters

ہداب بن خالد نے کہا : ہمیں ہمام نے حدیث بیان کی ، انہوں نے کہا : ہمیں قتادہ نے حضرت انس بن مالک رضی اللہ عنہ سے حدیث سنائی کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " اللہ تعالیٰ کو اپنے بندے کی توبہ سے ، تم میں سے کسی ایسے شخص کی نسبت ہمیں زیادہ خوشی ہوتی ہے جب کٹیل صحرا میں اس کے ( اس ) اونٹ ( کے آں ے ) پر اس کی آنکھ کھلتی ہے جسے وہ صحرا میں گم کر چکا ہوتا ہے ۔

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that a person committed sin beyond measure and when he was going to die, he left this will:(When I die), bum my dead body and then cast them (the ashes) to the wind and in the ocean. By Allah, if my Lord takes hold of me, He would torment me as He has not tormented anyone else. They did as he had asked them to do. He (the Lord) said to the earth: Return what you have taken. And he was thus restored to his (original form). He (Allah) said to him: What prompted you to do this? He said: My Lord, it was Thine fear or Thine awe, and Allah pardoned him because of this. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that a woman was thrown into Hell-Fire because of a cat whom she had tied and did not provide it with food. nor did she set it free to eat vermin of the earth until it died emaciated. Az-Zuhri said: (These two ahadith) show that a person should neither feel confident (of getting into Paradise) because of his deeds, nor should he lose (all hopes) of getting into Paradise

معمر نے کہا : زہری نے مجھ سے کہا : کیا میں تمہیں دو عجیب حدیثیں نہ سناؤں؟ ( پھر ) زہری نے کہا : مجھے حمید بن عبدالرحمان نے حضرت ابوہریرہ رضی اللہ عنہ سے خبر دی ، انہوں نے نبی اکرم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " ایک شخص نے اپنے آپ پر ہر قسم کی زیادتی کی ( ہر گناہ کا ارتکاب کر کے خود کو مجرم بنایا ۔ ) تو جب اس کی موت کا وقت آیا تو اس نے اپنے بیٹوں کو وصیت کی اور کہا : جب میں مر جاؤں تو مجھے جلا دینا ، پھر مجھے ریزہ ریزہ کر دینا ، پھر مجھے ہوا میں ، سمندر میں اڑا دینا ۔ اللہ کی قسم! اگر میرے رب نے مجھے قابو کر لیا تو مجھے یقینا ایسا عذاب دے گا جو کسی اور کو نہ دیا ہو گا ۔ " آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " انہوں نے اس کے ساتھ یہی کیا ۔ تو اللہ نے زمین سے کہا : جو تو نے لیا پورا واپس کر ، تو وہ ( پورے کا پورا سامنے ) کھڑا تھا ۔ اللہ نے اس سے فرمایا : تو نے جو کیا اس پر تمہیں کس چیز نے اکسایا؟ اس نے کہا : میرے پروردگار! تیری خشیت نے ۔ ۔ یا کہا ۔ ۔ : تیرے خوف نے تو اسی ( بات ) کی بنا پر اس ( اللہ ) نے اسے بخش دیا ۔

Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, Stretches out His Hand during the night so that the people may repent for the fault committed from dawn till dusk and He stretches out His Hand during the day so that the people may repent for the fault committed from dusk to dawn. (He would accept repentance) before the sun rises in the west (before the Day of Resurrection). A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters

محمد بن جعفر نے کہا : ہمیں شعبہ نے عمرہ بن مرہ سے حدیث بیان کی ، انہوں نے کہا : میں نے ابوعبید کو حضرت ابوموسیٰ رضی اللہ عنہ سے حدیث بیان کرتے ہوئے سنا ، انہوں نے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " اللہ عزوجل رات کو اپنا دست ( رحمت بندوں کی طرف ) پھیلا دیتا ہے تاکہ دن کو گناہ کرنے والا توبہ کرے اور دن کو اپنا دست ( رحمت ) پھیلا دیتا ہے تاکہ رات کو گناہ کرنے والا توبہ کرے ( اور وہ اس وقت تک یہی کرتا رہے گا ) یہاں تک کہ سورج مغرب سے طلوع ہو جائے ۔

Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, Stretches out His Hand during the night so that the people may repent for the fault committed from dawn till dusk and He stretches out His Hand during the day so that the people may repent for the fault committed from dusk to dawn. (He would accept repentance) before the sun rises in the west (before the Day of Resurrection). A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters

محمد بن جعفر نے کہا : ہمیں شعبہ نے عمرہ بن مرہ سے حدیث بیان کی ، انہوں نے کہا : میں نے ابوعبید کو حضرت ابوموسیٰ رضی اللہ عنہ سے حدیث بیان کرتے ہوئے سنا ، انہوں نے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " اللہ عزوجل رات کو اپنا دست ( رحمت بندوں کی طرف ) پھیلا دیتا ہے تاکہ دن کو گناہ کرنے والا توبہ کرے اور دن کو اپنا دست ( رحمت ) پھیلا دیتا ہے تاکہ رات کو گناہ کرنے والا توبہ کرے ( اور وہ اس وقت تک یہی کرتا رہے گا ) یہاں تک کہ سورج مغرب سے طلوع ہو جائے ۔

Ibn Shihab reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made an expedition to Tabuk and he (the Holy Prophet) had in his mind (the idea of threatening the) Christians of Arabia in Syria and those of Rome. Ibn Shihab (further) reported that 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Abdullah b. Ka'b informed him that Abdullah b. Ka'b who served as the guide of Ka'b b. 'Malik as he became blind that he heard Ka'b b. Malik narrate the story of his remaining behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from the Battle of Tabuk. Ka'b b. Malik said:I never remained behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from any expedition which he undertook except the Battle of Tabuk and that of the Battle of Badr. So far as the Battle of Badr is concerned, nobody was blamed for remaining behind as Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and the Muslims (did not set out for attack but for waylaying) the caravan of the Quraish, but it was Allah Who made them confront their enemies without their intention (to do so). I had the honour to be with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the night of 'Aqaba when we pledged our allegiance to Islam and it was more dear to me than my participation in the Battle of Badr, although Badr was more popular amongst people as compared with that (Tabuk). And this is my story of remaining back from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the occasion of the Battle of Tabuk. Never did I possess means enough and (my circumstances) more favourable than at the occasion of this expedition. And, by Allah, I had never before this expedition simultaneously in my possession two rides. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) set out for this expedition in extremely hot season; the journey was long and the land (which he and his army had to cover) was waterless and he had to confront a large army, so he informed the Muslims about the actual situation (they had to face), so that they should adequately equip themselves for this expedition, and he also told them the destination where he intended to go. And the Muslims who accompanied Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) at that time were large in numbers but there was no proper record of them. Ka'b (further) said: Few were the persons who wanted to absent themselves, and were under the impression that they could easily conceal themselves (and thus remain undetected) until revelations from Allah, the Exalted and Glorious (descended in connection with them). And Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) set out on an expedition when the fruits were ripe and their shadows had been lengthened. I had weakness for them and it was during this season that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made preparations and the Muslims too along with them. I also set out in the morning so that I should make preparations along with them but I came back and did nothing and said to myself: I have means enough (to make preparations) as soon as I like. And I went on doing this (postponing my preparations) until people were about to depart and it was in the morning that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) set out and the Muslims too along with him, but I made no preparations. I went early in the morning and came back, but I made no decision. I continued to do so until they (the Muslims) hastened and covered a good deal of distance. I also made up my mind to march on and to meet them. Would that I had done that but perhaps it was not destined for me. After the departure of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as I went out amongst people, I was shocked to find that I did not find anyone like me but people who were labelled as hypocrites or the people whom Allah granted exemption because of their incapacity and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took no notice of me until he had reached Tabuk. (One day as he was sitting amongst the people in Tabuk) he said: What has happened to Ka'b b. Malik? A person from Banu' Salama said: Allah's Messenger, the (beauty) of his cloak and his appreciation of his sides have allured him and he was thus detained. Mua'dh b. Jabal said: Woe be upon that what you contend. Allah's Messenger, by Allah, we know nothing about him but good. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), however, kept quiet. It was during that time that he (the Holy Prophet) saw a person (dressed in all white (garment) shattering the illusion of eye (mirage). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: May he be Abu Khaithama and, lo, it was Abu Khaithama al-Ansari and he was that person who contributed a sa' of dates and was scoffed at by the hypocrites. Ka'b b. Malik farther said: When this news reached me that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was on his way back from Tabuk I was greatly perturbed. I thought of fabricating false stories and asked myself how I would save myself from his anger on the following day. In this connection, I sought the help of every prudent man from amongst the members of my family and when it was said to me that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was about to arrive, all the false ideas banished (from my mind) and I came to the conclusion that nothing could save me but the telling of truth, so I decided to speak the truth and it was in the morning that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) arrived (in Medina). And it was his habit that as he came back from a journey he first went to the mosque and observed two Rak'ahs of nafl prayer (as a mark of gratitude) and then sat amongst people. And as he did that, those who had remained behind him began to put forward their excuses and take an oath before him and they were more than eighty persons. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) accepted their excuses on the very face of them and accepted their allegiance and sought forgiveness for them and left their secret (intentions) to Allah, until I presented myself to him. I greeted him and he smiled and there was a tinge of anger in that. He (the Holy Prophet) then said to me: Come forward. I went forward until I sat in front of him. He said to me: What kept you back? Could you not afford to go in for a ride? I said: Allah's Messenger, by Allah, if I were to sit in the presence of anybody else from amongst the worldly people I would have definitely saved myself from his anger on one pretext (or the other) and I have also the knack to fall into argumentation, but, by Allah, I am fully aware of the fact that if I were to put forward before you a false excuse to please you Allah would definitely provoke your wrath upon me, and if I speak the truth you may be annoyed with me, but I hope that Allah would make its end well and, by Allah, there is no valid excuse for me. By Allah, I never possessed so good means, and I never had such favourable conditions for me as I had when I stayed behind you (failed to join the expedition). Thereupon, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: This man told the truth, so get up until Allah gives a decision in your case. I stood up and some people of Banu' Salama followed me in hot haste, and they said to me: By Allah, we do not know about you that you committed a sin prior to this. You, however, showed inability to put forward an excuse before Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as those who stayed behind him have put forward excuses. It would have been enough for the forgiveness of your sin that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) would have sought forgiveness for you. By Allah, they continued to incite me until I thought of going back to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and contradict myself. Then I said to them: Has anyone else also met the same fate? They said: Yes, two persons have met the same fate as has fallen to you and they have made the sane statement as you have made, and the same verdict has been delivered in their case as it has been delivered in your case. I said: Who are they? They said: Murara b. ar-Rabi'a 'Amiri and Hilal b. Umayya al-Waqafi. They made a mention of these two pious persons to me who had participated in the Battle of Badr and there was an example for me in them. I went away when they named these two persons. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the Nluslims to talk with three of us from amongst those (persons) who had stayed behind him. The people began to avoid us and their attitude towards us underwent a change and it seemed as if the whole atmosphere had turned (hostile) against us and it was in fact the same atmosphere ot which I was fully aware and in which I had lived (for a fairly long time). We spent fifty nights in this very state and my two friends confined themselves withen their houses and spent (most of the) time in weeping, but as I was young and strong amongst them I got (out of my house), participated in congregational prayers, moved about in the bazar; but none spoke to me. I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as he sat amongst (people) after the prayer, greeted him and asked myself whether his lips stirred in response to my greetings (or not). Then I observed prayer beside him and looked at him with stealing glances and when I attended to my prayer, he looked at me and when I cast a glance at him he turned away his eyes from me. And when the harsh treatment of the Muslims towards me extended to a (considerable) length of time, I walked until I climbed upon the wall of the garden of Abu Qatada, and he was my cousin, and I had the greatest love for him. I greeted him but, by Allah, he did not respond to my greetings. I said to him: Abu Qatada, I adjure you by Allah, arn't you well aware of the fact that I love Allah and His Messenger (ﷺ) the most. He kept quiet. I again repeated saying: I adjure you by Allah. arn't you well aware of the fact that I love Allah and His Messenger (ﷺ) the most. He kept quiet. I again adjured him, whereupon he said: Allah and the Messenger (ﷺ) are best aware of it. My eyes began to shed tears and I came back climbing down from the wall and as I was walking in the bazar of Medina a Nabatean from amongst the Nabateans of Syria, who had come to sell foodgrains in Medina, asked people to direct him to Ka'b b. Malik. People gave him the indication by pointing towards me. He came to me and delivered to me a letter of the King of Ghassan and as I was a scribe I read that letter and it was written like this:" Coming to my point, it has been conveyed to us that your friend (the Holy Prophet) is subjecting you to cruelty and Allah has not created you for a place where you are to be degraded and where you cannot find your right place, so you come to us that we should accord you honour. As I read that letter I said: This is also a calamity, so I burnt it in the oven. When out of the fifty days, forty days had passed and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) received no revelation, there came the messenger of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to me and said: Verily, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has commanded you to remain separate from your wife. I said: Should I divorce her or what (else) should I do? He said: No, but only remain separate from her and don't have sexual contact with her. The same message was sent to my companions. So I said to my wife: You better go to your parents and stay there with them until Allah gives the decision in my case. The wife of Hilal b. Umayya came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said: Allah's Messenger, Hilal b. Umayya is a senile person, he has no servant. Do you disapprove of my serving him? He said: No, but don't go near him. She said: By Allah, he has no such instinct in him. By Allah, he spends his time in weeping from that day to this day. Some of the members of my family said to me: Were you to seek permission from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in regard to your wife as he has granted permission to the wife of Hilal b. Umayya to serve him. I said: I would not seek permission from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), for I cannot say what Allah's Apostle may say in response to seeking my permission. Moreover, I am a young man. It was in this state that I spent ten more nights and thus fifty nights had passed that (people) had observed boycott with us. It was on the morning of the fiftieth night that I observed my dawn prayer and was sitting on one of the roofs of our houses. And I was in fact sitting in that very state which Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, has described about us in these words:" Life had become hard for myself and the earth had compressed despite its vastness," that I heard the noise of an announcer from the peak of the hill of Sal' saying at the top of his voice: Ka'b b. Malik, there is glad tidings for you. I fell down in prostration and came to realise that there was (a message of) relief for me. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had informed the people of the acceptance of our repentance by Allah as he offered the dawn prayer. So the people went on to give us glad tidings and some of them went to my friends in order to give them the glad tidings and a person galloped his horse and came from the tribe of Aslam and his horse reached me more quickly than his voice. And when he came to me whose sound I heard, he gave me the glad tidings. I took off my clothes and clothed him with them because of his bringing good news to me and, by Allah, I possessed nothing else (in the form of clothes) than these two on that occasion, and I asked one to lend me two clothes and dressed myself in them. I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and on my way I met groups of people who greeted me because of (the acceptance of) repentance and they said: Here is a greeting for you for your repentance being accepted by Allah. (I moved on) until I came to the mosque and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had been sitting there amongst persons. So Talha b. 'Ubaidullah got up and rushed towards me and he shook hands with me and greeted me and, by Allah, no person stood up (to greet me) from amongst the emigrants except he. Ka'b said that he never forgot (this good gesture of) Talha. Ka'b further said: I greeted Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) with Assalam-o-'Alaikam and his face was glistening because of delight, and he said: Let there be glad tidings and blessings for you, the like of which (you have neither found nor you will find, as you find today) since your mother gave your birth. I said: Allah's Messenger. is this acceptance of repentance from you or from Allah? He said: No, (it is not from ma), it is from Allah, and it was common with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that as he was happy his face brightened up and it looked like a part of the moon and it was from this that we recognised it (his delight). As I sat before him, I said: Allah's Messenger, am I allowed to give in charity my wealth for Allah's sake and for the sake of His Messenger (ﷺ)? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Keep some property with you as it is better for you. I said: I shall keep with me that part (of my property) which fell to my lot (on the occasion of the expedition of) Khaibar. I said: Allah's Messenger, verily, Allah has granted me salvation because of truth and, therefore, (I think) that repentance implies that I should not speak anything but truth as long as I live. He said: By Allah, I do not know whether anyone amongst the Muslims was put to more severe trial than I by Allah because of telling the truth. And since I made a mention of this to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) up to this day I have not told any lie and, by Allah, I have decided not to tell a lie and I hope that Allah would save me (from trials) for the rest of my life and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed these verses:" Certainly, Allah has turned in Mercy to the Prophet and the emigrants and the helpers who followed him in the hour of hardship after the hearts of a part of them were about to deviate; then He turned to them in mercy. Surely, to them He is Compassionate, Merciful and (He turned in Mercy) to the three who were left behind until the earth despite its vastness became strait for them and their souls were also straitened to them." And this revelation reached up to the (words):" O you who believe, develop God consciousness, and be with the truthful" (ix. 117-118). Ka'b said: By Allah, since Allah directed me to Islam there has been no blessing more significant for me than this truth of mine which I spoke to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and if I were to tell a lie I would have been ruined as were ruined those who told lies, for in regard to those who told lies Allah used harshest words used for anyone as He descended revelation (and the words of Allah are):" They will swear by Allah to you when you return to them so that you may leave them alone. So leave them alone. Surely, they are unclean and their resort is Hell, recompense for what they earned. They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them but if you are pleased with them, yet surely Allah is not pleased with the transgressing people" (ix. 95-96). K'ab said that the matter of us three persons was deferred as compared with those who took an oath in the presence of Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) and he accepted their allegiance and sought forgiveness for them and Allah did not give any decision in regard to us. It was Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, Who gave decisions in our case, three who remained behind. (The words of the Qur'an)" the three who were left behind" do not mean that we remained back from Jihad but these imply that He kept our matter behind them who took oath and presented excuse before Him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters

عُقیل بن ابن شہاب سے یونس کی سند کے ساتھ زہری سے بالکل اسی طرح روایت کی ۔

Ibn Shihab reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made an expedition to Tabuk and he (the Holy Prophet) had in his mind (the idea of threatening the) Christians of Arabia in Syria and those of Rome. Ibn Shihab (further) reported that 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Abdullah b. Ka'b informed him that Abdullah b. Ka'b who served as the guide of Ka'b b. 'Malik as he became blind that he heard Ka'b b. Malik narrate the story of his remaining behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from the Battle of Tabuk. Ka'b b. Malik said:I never remained behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from any expedition which he undertook except the Battle of Tabuk and that of the Battle of Badr. So far as the Battle of Badr is concerned, nobody was blamed for remaining behind as Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and the Muslims (did not set out for attack but for waylaying) the caravan of the Quraish, but it was Allah Who made them confront their enemies without their intention (to do so). I had the honour to be with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the night of 'Aqaba when we pledged our allegiance to Islam and it was more dear to me than my participation in the Battle of Badr, although Badr was more popular amongst people as compared with that (Tabuk). And this is my story of remaining back from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the occasion of the Battle of Tabuk. Never did I possess means enough and (my circumstances) more favourable than at the occasion of this expedition. And, by Allah, I had never before this expedition simultaneously in my possession two rides. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) set out for this expedition in extremely hot season; the journey was long and the land (which he and his army had to cover) was waterless and he had to confront a large army, so he informed the Muslims about the actual situation (they had to face), so that they should adequately equip themselves for this expedition, and he also told them the destination where he intended to go. And the Muslims who accompanied Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) at that time were large in numbers but there was no proper record of them. Ka'b (further) said: Few were the persons who wanted to absent themselves, and were under the impression that they could easily conceal themselves (and thus remain undetected) until revelations from Allah, the Exalted and Glorious (descended in connection with them). And Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) set out on an expedition when the fruits were ripe and their shadows had been lengthened. I had weakness for them and it was during this season that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made preparations and the Muslims too along with them. I also set out in the morning so that I should make preparations along with them but I came back and did nothing and said to myself: I have means enough (to make preparations) as soon as I like. And I went on doing this (postponing my preparations) until people were about to depart and it was in the morning that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) set out and the Muslims too along with him, but I made no preparations. I went early in the morning and came back, but I made no decision. I continued to do so until they (the Muslims) hastened and covered a good deal of distance. I also made up my mind to march on and to meet them. Would that I had done that but perhaps it was not destined for me. After the departure of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as I went out amongst people, I was shocked to find that I did not find anyone like me but people who were labelled as hypocrites or the people whom Allah granted exemption because of their incapacity and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took no notice of me until he had reached Tabuk. (One day as he was sitting amongst the people in Tabuk) he said: What has happened to Ka'b b. Malik? A person from Banu' Salama said: Allah's Messenger, the (beauty) of his cloak and his appreciation of his sides have allured him and he was thus detained. Mua'dh b. Jabal said: Woe be upon that what you contend. Allah's Messenger, by Allah, we know nothing about him but good. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), however, kept quiet. It was during that time that he (the Holy Prophet) saw a person (dressed in all white (garment) shattering the illusion of eye (mirage). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: May he be Abu Khaithama and, lo, it was Abu Khaithama al-Ansari and he was that person who contributed a sa' of dates and was scoffed at by the hypocrites. Ka'b b. Malik farther said: When this news reached me that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was on his way back from Tabuk I was greatly perturbed. I thought of fabricating false stories and asked myself how I would save myself from his anger on the following day. In this connection, I sought the help of every prudent man from amongst the members of my family and when it was said to me that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was about to arrive, all the false ideas banished (from my mind) and I came to the conclusion that nothing could save me but the telling of truth, so I decided to speak the truth and it was in the morning that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) arrived (in Medina). And it was his habit that as he came back from a journey he first went to the mosque and observed two Rak'ahs of nafl prayer (as a mark of gratitude) and then sat amongst people. And as he did that, those who had remained behind him began to put forward their excuses and take an oath before him and they were more than eighty persons. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) accepted their excuses on the very face of them and accepted their allegiance and sought forgiveness for them and left their secret (intentions) to Allah, until I presented myself to him. I greeted him and he smiled and there was a tinge of anger in that. He (the Holy Prophet) then said to me: Come forward. I went forward until I sat in front of him. He said to me: What kept you back? Could you not afford to go in for a ride? I said: Allah's Messenger, by Allah, if I were to sit in the presence of anybody else from amongst the worldly people I would have definitely saved myself from his anger on one pretext (or the other) and I have also the knack to fall into argumentation, but, by Allah, I am fully aware of the fact that if I were to put forward before you a false excuse to please you Allah would definitely provoke your wrath upon me, and if I speak the truth you may be annoyed with me, but I hope that Allah would make its end well and, by Allah, there is no valid excuse for me. By Allah, I never possessed so good means, and I never had such favourable conditions for me as I had when I stayed behind you (failed to join the expedition). Thereupon, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: This man told the truth, so get up until Allah gives a decision in your case. I stood up and some people of Banu' Salama followed me in hot haste, and they said to me: By Allah, we do not know about you that you committed a sin prior to this. You, however, showed inability to put forward an excuse before Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as those who stayed behind him have put forward excuses. It would have been enough for the forgiveness of your sin that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) would have sought forgiveness for you. By Allah, they continued to incite me until I thought of going back to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and contradict myself. Then I said to them: Has anyone else also met the same fate? They said: Yes, two persons have met the same fate as has fallen to you and they have made the sane statement as you have made, and the same verdict has been delivered in their case as it has been delivered in your case. I said: Who are they? They said: Murara b. ar-Rabi'a 'Amiri and Hilal b. Umayya al-Waqafi. They made a mention of these two pious persons to me who had participated in the Battle of Badr and there was an example for me in them. I went away when they named these two persons. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the Nluslims to talk with three of us from amongst those (persons) who had stayed behind him. The people began to avoid us and their attitude towards us underwent a change and it seemed as if the whole atmosphere had turned (hostile) against us and it was in fact the same atmosphere ot which I was fully aware and in which I had lived (for a fairly long time). We spent fifty nights in this very state and my two friends confined themselves withen their houses and spent (most of the) time in weeping, but as I was young and strong amongst them I got (out of my house), participated in congregational prayers, moved about in the bazar; but none spoke to me. I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as he sat amongst (people) after the prayer, greeted him and asked myself whether his lips stirred in response to my greetings (or not). Then I observed prayer beside him and looked at him with stealing glances and when I attended to my prayer, he looked at me and when I cast a glance at him he turned away his eyes from me. And when the harsh treatment of the Muslims towards me extended to a (considerable) length of time, I walked until I climbed upon the wall of the garden of Abu Qatada, and he was my cousin, and I had the greatest love for him. I greeted him but, by Allah, he did not respond to my greetings. I said to him: Abu Qatada, I adjure you by Allah, arn't you well aware of the fact that I love Allah and His Messenger (ﷺ) the most. He kept quiet. I again repeated saying: I adjure you by Allah. arn't you well aware of the fact that I love Allah and His Messenger (ﷺ) the most. He kept quiet. I again adjured him, whereupon he said: Allah and the Messenger (ﷺ) are best aware of it. My eyes began to shed tears and I came back climbing down from the wall and as I was walking in the bazar of Medina a Nabatean from amongst the Nabateans of Syria, who had come to sell foodgrains in Medina, asked people to direct him to Ka'b b. Malik. People gave him the indication by pointing towards me. He came to me and delivered to me a letter of the King of Ghassan and as I was a scribe I read that letter and it was written like this:" Coming to my point, it has been conveyed to us that your friend (the Holy Prophet) is subjecting you to cruelty and Allah has not created you for a place where you are to be degraded and where you cannot find your right place, so you come to us that we should accord you honour. As I read that letter I said: This is also a calamity, so I burnt it in the oven. When out of the fifty days, forty days had passed and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) received no revelation, there came the messenger of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to me and said: Verily, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has commanded you to remain separate from your wife. I said: Should I divorce her or what (else) should I do? He said: No, but only remain separate from her and don't have sexual contact with her. The same message was sent to my companions. So I said to my wife: You better go to your parents and stay there with them until Allah gives the decision in my case. The wife of Hilal b. Umayya came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said: Allah's Messenger, Hilal b. Umayya is a senile person, he has no servant. Do you disapprove of my serving him? He said: No, but don't go near him. She said: By Allah, he has no such instinct in him. By Allah, he spends his time in weeping from that day to this day. Some of the members of my family said to me: Were you to seek permission from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in regard to your wife as he has granted permission to the wife of Hilal b. Umayya to serve him. I said: I would not seek permission from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), for I cannot say what Allah's Apostle may say in response to seeking my permission. Moreover, I am a young man. It was in this state that I spent ten more nights and thus fifty nights had passed that (people) had observed boycott with us. It was on the morning of the fiftieth night that I observed my dawn prayer and was sitting on one of the roofs of our houses. And I was in fact sitting in that very state which Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, has described about us in these words:" Life had become hard for myself and the earth had compressed despite its vastness," that I heard the noise of an announcer from the peak of the hill of Sal' saying at the top of his voice: Ka'b b. Malik, there is glad tidings for you. I fell down in prostration and came to realise that there was (a message of) relief for me. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had informed the people of the acceptance of our repentance by Allah as he offered the dawn prayer. So the people went on to give us glad tidings and some of them went to my friends in order to give them the glad tidings and a person galloped his horse and came from the tribe of Aslam and his horse reached me more quickly than his voice. And when he came to me whose sound I heard, he gave me the glad tidings. I took off my clothes and clothed him with them because of his bringing good news to me and, by Allah, I possessed nothing else (in the form of clothes) than these two on that occasion, and I asked one to lend me two clothes and dressed myself in them. I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and on my way I met groups of people who greeted me because of (the acceptance of) repentance and they said: Here is a greeting for you for your repentance being accepted by Allah. (I moved on) until I came to the mosque and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had been sitting there amongst persons. So Talha b. 'Ubaidullah got up and rushed towards me and he shook hands with me and greeted me and, by Allah, no person stood up (to greet me) from amongst the emigrants except he. Ka'b said that he never forgot (this good gesture of) Talha. Ka'b further said: I greeted Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) with Assalam-o-'Alaikam and his face was glistening because of delight, and he said: Let there be glad tidings and blessings for you, the like of which (you have neither found nor you will find, as you find today) since your mother gave your birth. I said: Allah's Messenger. is this acceptance of repentance from you or from Allah? He said: No, (it is not from ma), it is from Allah, and it was common with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that as he was happy his face brightened up and it looked like a part of the moon and it was from this that we recognised it (his delight). As I sat before him, I said: Allah's Messenger, am I allowed to give in charity my wealth for Allah's sake and for the sake of His Messenger (ﷺ)? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Keep some property with you as it is better for you. I said: I shall keep with me that part (of my property) which fell to my lot (on the occasion of the expedition of) Khaibar. I said: Allah's Messenger, verily, Allah has granted me salvation because of truth and, therefore, (I think) that repentance implies that I should not speak anything but truth as long as I live. He said: By Allah, I do not know whether anyone amongst the Muslims was put to more severe trial than I by Allah because of telling the truth. And since I made a mention of this to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) up to this day I have not told any lie and, by Allah, I have decided not to tell a lie and I hope that Allah would save me (from trials) for the rest of my life and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed these verses:" Certainly, Allah has turned in Mercy to the Prophet and the emigrants and the helpers who followed him in the hour of hardship after the hearts of a part of them were about to deviate; then He turned to them in mercy. Surely, to them He is Compassionate, Merciful and (He turned in Mercy) to the three who were left behind until the earth despite its vastness became strait for them and their souls were also straitened to them." And this revelation reached up to the (words):" O you who believe, develop God consciousness, and be with the truthful" (ix. 117-118). Ka'b said: By Allah, since Allah directed me to Islam there has been no blessing more significant for me than this truth of mine which I spoke to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and if I were to tell a lie I would have been ruined as were ruined those who told lies, for in regard to those who told lies Allah used harshest words used for anyone as He descended revelation (and the words of Allah are):" They will swear by Allah to you when you return to them so that you may leave them alone. So leave them alone. Surely, they are unclean and their resort is Hell, recompense for what they earned. They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them but if you are pleased with them, yet surely Allah is not pleased with the transgressing people" (ix. 95-96). K'ab said that the matter of us three persons was deferred as compared with those who took an oath in the presence of Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) and he accepted their allegiance and sought forgiveness for them and Allah did not give any decision in regard to us. It was Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, Who gave decisions in our case, three who remained behind. (The words of the Qur'an)" the three who were left behind" do not mean that we remained back from Jihad but these imply that He kept our matter behind them who took oath and presented excuse before Him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters

عُقیل بن ابن شہاب سے یونس کی سند کے ساتھ زہری سے بالکل اسی طرح روایت کی ۔

Anas reported that the people of Mecca demanded from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that he should show them (some) signs (miracles) and he showed twice the splitting of the moon. This hadlth has been narrated on the authority of Anas through another chain of transmitters

۔ شیبان نےکہا : ہمیں قتادہ نے حضرت انس رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت کی کہ اہل مکہ نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے مطالبہ کہ آپ انھیں ( اپنی نبوت کی سچائی کی ) کوئی نشانی دکھائیں تو آپ نے انھیں چاند کے دو ٹکڑے ہونا دکھایا ۔

Anas reported that the people of Mecca demanded from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that he should show them (some) signs (miracles) and he showed twice the splitting of the moon. This hadlth has been narrated on the authority of Anas through another chain of transmitters

۔ شیبان نےکہا : ہمیں قتادہ نے حضرت انس رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت کی کہ اہل مکہ نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے مطالبہ کہ آپ انھیں ( اپنی نبوت کی سچائی کی ) کوئی نشانی دکھائیں تو آپ نے انھیں چاند کے دو ٹکڑے ہونا دکھایا ۔

Abu Musa reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:There is none to show more patience at listening to the most irksome things than Allah, the Exalted and Glorious. 'Partnership is associated to Him (polytheism), and (fatherhood) of a child is attributed to Him, but in spite of this He protects them (people) and provides them sustenance.' This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Musa with a slight variation of wording

ابو بکر بن ابی شیبہ نے ہمیں حدیث بیان کی ، کہا : ہمیں ابو معاویہ اور ابو اسامہ نے اعمش سے حدیث بیان کی ، انھوں نے سعید بن جبیر سے ، انھوں نے ابو عبدالرحمان سلمی سے اور انھوں نے حضرت ابو موسیٰ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت کی ، کہا : رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " تکلیف دل باتیں سن کر اللہ سے زیادہ صبر کرنے والا کوئی نہیں ، ا س کے ساتھ دوسروں کو شریک ٹھہرایا جاتا ہے اور اس کی اولاد بنائی جاتی ہے پھر بھی وہ انھیں عافیت میں رکھتا ہے اور انھیں رزق عطا کرتا ہے ۔

Abu Musa reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:There is none to show more patience at listening to the most irksome things than Allah, the Exalted and Glorious. 'Partnership is associated to Him (polytheism), and (fatherhood) of a child is attributed to Him, but in spite of this He protects them (people) and provides them sustenance.' This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Musa with a slight variation of wording

ابو بکر بن ابی شیبہ نے ہمیں حدیث بیان کی ، کہا : ہمیں ابو معاویہ اور ابو اسامہ نے اعمش سے حدیث بیان کی ، انھوں نے سعید بن جبیر سے ، انھوں نے ابو عبدالرحمان سلمی سے اور انھوں نے حضرت ابو موسیٰ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت کی ، کہا : رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " تکلیف دل باتیں سن کر اللہ سے زیادہ صبر کرنے والا کوئی نہیں ، ا س کے ساتھ دوسروں کو شریک ٹھہرایا جاتا ہے اور اس کی اولاد بنائی جاتی ہے پھر بھی وہ انھیں عافیت میں رکھتا ہے اور انھیں رزق عطا کرتا ہے ۔

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:None amongst you would attain salvation purely because of his deeds. A person said: Allah's Messenger, even you? Thereupon he said: Yes, not even I except that Allah wraps me in Mercy, but you should act with moderation. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Bukair b. al-Ashajj with a slight variation of wording

لیث نے بکیر سے انھوں نے بسربن سعید سے ، انھوں نے حضرت ابو ہریرہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور انھوں نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " تم میں سے کسی شخص کو محض اس کا عمل نجات نہیں دلائے گا ۔ " ایک شخص نے کہا : اللہ کے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم !آپ کو بھی نہیں؟آپ نے فرمایا : " مجھے بھی نہیں مگر یہ کہ اللہ تعالیٰ اپنی طرف سے مجھے اپنی رحمت سے چھپالے ، لیکن تم سیدھے راستے پر چلو ۔

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:None amongst you would attain salvation purely because of his deeds. A person said: Allah's Messenger, even you? Thereupon he said: Yes, not even I except that Allah wraps me in Mercy, but you should act with moderation. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Bukair b. al-Ashajj with a slight variation of wording

لیث نے بکیر سے انھوں نے بسربن سعید سے ، انھوں نے حضرت ابو ہریرہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور انھوں نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " تم میں سے کسی شخص کو محض اس کا عمل نجات نہیں دلائے گا ۔ " ایک شخص نے کہا : اللہ کے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم !آپ کو بھی نہیں؟آپ نے فرمایا : " مجھے بھی نہیں مگر یہ کہ اللہ تعالیٰ اپنی طرف سے مجھے اپنی رحمت سے چھپالے ، لیکن تم سیدھے راستے پر چلو ۔

Sahl b. Sa'd reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:In Paradise, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider can travel for a hundred years without covering (the distance) completely. This hadith has also been transmitted on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) is reported to have said: In Paradise, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider of a fine and swift-footed horse would travel for a hundred years without covering the distance completely. There would be the pleasure of Allah for the inmates of Paradise and He would never be annoyed with them

ابوحازم نے حضر ت سہل بن سعد رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے ، انھوں نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے ر وایت کی کہ آپ نے فرمایا : " جنت میں ایک درخت ہے ، ایک سوار اس کے سائے میں سوسال تک چلتا رہے تو بھی اس کو طے نہ کرسکے ۔

Sahl b. Sa'd reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:The inmates of Paradise will look to the upper apartment of Paradise as you see the planets in the sky. I narrated this hadith to Nu'man b. Abi 'Ayyash and he said: I heard Abu Sa'id al-Khudri as saying: As you see the shining planets in the eastern and western (sides of) horizon

یعقوب بن عبدالرحمان القاری نے ہمیں ابوحازم سے حدیث بیان کی ، انھوں نے حضرت سہل بن سعد رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت کی کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا؛ " جنت والے جنت کے بالا خانے کو اس طرح دیکھیں گے جس طرح تم لوگ آسمان میں ستارے کو دیکھتے ہو ۔

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:By Him, in Whose hand is my life, the world would not come to an end until a person would pass by a grave, would roll over it and express the desire that he should be in the place of the occupant of that grave not because of religious reasons but because of this calamity

ابو حازم نے حضرت ابوہریرۃ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت کی ، کہا : رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " اس ذات کی قسم جس کے ہاتھ میں میری جان ہے!دنیا اس وقت تک رخصت نہیں ہوگی ، یہاں تک کہ ایک شخص ( کسی کی ) قبر کے پاس سے گزرے تواس پر لوٹ پوٹ ہوگا اور کہے گا : کاش!اس قبر و الے کی جگہ میں ہوتا اور اس کے پاس دین نہیں ہوگا ، بس آزمائش ہوگی ۔

Abu Sa'id and Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:There would be in the last phase of the time a caliph who would distribute wealth but would not count

اور ابو معاویہ نے داؤد بن ابی ہندسے انھوں نے ابونضرہ سے انھوں نے حضرت ابو سعید رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور انھوں نے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے اسی کے مانند روایت کی ۔

Abdullah b. Umar reported:'Umar b. Khattab went along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in the company of some persons to Ibn Sayyad that he found him playing with children near the battlement of Bani Maghala and Ibn Sayyad was at that time just at the threshold of adolescence and he did not perceive (the presence of Holy Prophet) until Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) struck his back with his hands. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Ibn Sayyad, don't you bear witness that I am the messenger of Allah? Ibn Sayyad looked toward him and he said: I bear witness to the fact that you the messenger of the unlettered. Ibn Sayyad said to the Allah's Messenger (ﷺ): Do you bear witness to the fact that I am the messenger of Allah? Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) rejected this and said: I affirm my faith in Allah and in His messengers. Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to him: What do you see? Ibn Sayyad said: It is a Dukh. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: May you be disgraced and dishonoured, you would not not be able to go beyond your rank. 'Umar b. Khattab said: Allah's Messenger, permit me that I should strike his neck. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If he is the same (Dajjal) who would appear near the Last Hour, you would not be able to overpower him, and if he is not that there is no good for you to kill him. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar further narrated that after some time Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and Ubayy b. Ka'b went towards the palm trees where Ibn Sayyad was. When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) went near the tree he hid himself behind a tree with the intention of hearing something from Ibn sayyad before Ibn Sayyad could see him, but Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saw him on a bed with a blanket around him from which a murmuring sound was being heard and Ibn Sayyad's mother saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) behind the trunk of the palm tree. She said to Ibn Sayyad: Saf (that being his name), here is Muhammad. Thereupon Ibn Sayyad jumped up murmuring and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If she had left him alone he would have made things clear. Abdullah b. Umar told that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stood up amongst the people and lauded Allah as He deserved, then he made a mention of the Dajjal and said: I warn you of him and there is no Prophet who has not warned his people against the Dajjal. Even Noah warned (against him) but I am going to tell you a thing which no Prophet told his people. You must know that he (the Dajjal) is one-eyed and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, is not one-eyed. Ibn Shihab said: 'Umar b. Thabit al-Ansari informed me that some of the Companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) informed him that the day when Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) warned people against the Dajjal, he also said: There would be written between his two eyes (the word) Kafir (infidel) and everyone who would resent his deeds would be able to read or every Muslim would be about to read, and he also said: Bear this thing in mind that none amongst you would be able to see Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, until he dies

یونس نے ابن شہاب سے ر وایت کی کہ سالم بن عبداللہ نے انھیں بتایا ، انھیں حضرت عبداللہ بن عمر رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ نے خبر دی کہ سیدنا عمر رضی اللہ عنہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے ساتھ چند لوگوں میں ابن صیاد کے پاس گئے حتیٰ کہ اسے بنی مغالہ کے قلعے کے پاس لڑکوں کے ساتھ کھیلتے ہوئے دیکھا ان دنوں ابن صیاد جوانی کے قریب تھا ۔ اس کو خبر نہ ہوئی یہاں تک کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس کی پیٹھ پر اپنا ہاتھ مارا ۔ پھر آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس سے پوچھا کہ کیا تو اس بات کی گواہی دیتا ہے کہ میں اللہ تعالیٰ کا رسول ہوں؟ ابن صیاد نے آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کی طرف دیکھا اور کہا کہ میں گواہی دیتا ہوں کہ تم امییّن کے رسول ہو ( امی کہتے ہیں ان پڑھ اور بے تعلیم کو ) ۔ پھر ابن صیاد نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے کہا کہ تم اس بات کی گواہی دیتے ہو کہ میں اللہ تعالیٰ کا رسول ہوں؟ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس بات کا کچھ جواب نہ دیا؟ ( اور اس سے مسلمان ہونے کی درخواست نہ کی کیونکہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم اس کے مسلمان ہونے سے مایوس ہو گئے اور ایک روایت میں صاد مہملہ سے یعنی آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس کو لات سے مارا ) اور فرمایا کہ میں اللہ پر اور اس کے رسولوں پر ایمان لایا ۔ پھر رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس سے پوچھا کہ تجھے کیا دکھائی دیتا ہے؟ وہ بولا کہ میرے پاس کبھی سچا آتا ہے اور کبھی جھوٹا ۔ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ تیرا کام گڑبڑ ہو گیا ( یعنی مخلوط حق و باطل دونوں سے ) پھر آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ میں نے تجھ سے پوچھنے کے لئے ایک بات دل میں چھپائی ہے ۔ ابن صیاد نے کہا کہ وہ دخ ( دھواں ) ہے ۔ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ ذلیل ہو ، تو اپنی قدر سے کہاں بڑھ سکتا ہے؟ سیدنا عمر رضی اللہ عنہ نے کہا کہ یا رسول اللہ! مجھے چھوڑئیے میں اس کی گردن مارتا ہوں ۔ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ اگر یہ وہی ( یعنی دجال ) ہے تو تو اس کو مار نہ سکے گا اور اگر یہ وہ ( دجال ) نہیں ہے تو تجھے اس کا مارنا بہتر نہیں ہے ۔

Abdullah b. Umar reported:'Umar b. Khattab went along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in the company of some persons to Ibn Sayyad that he found him playing with children near the battlement of Bani Maghala and Ibn Sayyad was at that time just at the threshold of adolescence and he did not perceive (the presence of Holy Prophet) until Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) struck his back with his hands. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Ibn Sayyad, don't you bear witness that I am the messenger of Allah? Ibn Sayyad looked toward him and he said: I bear witness to the fact that you the messenger of the unlettered. Ibn Sayyad said to the Allah's Messenger (ﷺ): Do you bear witness to the fact that I am the messenger of Allah? Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) rejected this and said: I affirm my faith in Allah and in His messengers. Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to him: What do you see? Ibn Sayyad said: It is a Dukh. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: May you be disgraced and dishonoured, you would not not be able to go beyond your rank. 'Umar b. Khattab said: Allah's Messenger, permit me that I should strike his neck. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If he is the same (Dajjal) who would appear near the Last Hour, you would not be able to overpower him, and if he is not that there is no good for you to kill him. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar further narrated that after some time Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and Ubayy b. Ka'b went towards the palm trees where Ibn Sayyad was. When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) went near the tree he hid himself behind a tree with the intention of hearing something from Ibn sayyad before Ibn Sayyad could see him, but Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saw him on a bed with a blanket around him from which a murmuring sound was being heard and Ibn Sayyad's mother saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) behind the trunk of the palm tree. She said to Ibn Sayyad: Saf (that being his name), here is Muhammad. Thereupon Ibn Sayyad jumped up murmuring and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If she had left him alone he would have made things clear. Abdullah b. Umar told that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stood up amongst the people and lauded Allah as He deserved, then he made a mention of the Dajjal and said: I warn you of him and there is no Prophet who has not warned his people against the Dajjal. Even Noah warned (against him) but I am going to tell you a thing which no Prophet told his people. You must know that he (the Dajjal) is one-eyed and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, is not one-eyed. Ibn Shihab said: 'Umar b. Thabit al-Ansari informed me that some of the Companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) informed him that the day when Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) warned people against the Dajjal, he also said: There would be written between his two eyes (the word) Kafir (infidel) and everyone who would resent his deeds would be able to read or every Muslim would be about to read, and he also said: Bear this thing in mind that none amongst you would be able to see Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, until he dies

یونس نے ابن شہاب سے ر وایت کی کہ سالم بن عبداللہ نے انھیں بتایا ، انھیں حضرت عبداللہ بن عمر رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ نے خبر دی کہ سیدنا عمر رضی اللہ عنہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے ساتھ چند لوگوں میں ابن صیاد کے پاس گئے حتیٰ کہ اسے بنی مغالہ کے قلعے کے پاس لڑکوں کے ساتھ کھیلتے ہوئے دیکھا ان دنوں ابن صیاد جوانی کے قریب تھا ۔ اس کو خبر نہ ہوئی یہاں تک کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس کی پیٹھ پر اپنا ہاتھ مارا ۔ پھر آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس سے پوچھا کہ کیا تو اس بات کی گواہی دیتا ہے کہ میں اللہ تعالیٰ کا رسول ہوں؟ ابن صیاد نے آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کی طرف دیکھا اور کہا کہ میں گواہی دیتا ہوں کہ تم امییّن کے رسول ہو ( امی کہتے ہیں ان پڑھ اور بے تعلیم کو ) ۔ پھر ابن صیاد نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے کہا کہ تم اس بات کی گواہی دیتے ہو کہ میں اللہ تعالیٰ کا رسول ہوں؟ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس بات کا کچھ جواب نہ دیا؟ ( اور اس سے مسلمان ہونے کی درخواست نہ کی کیونکہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم اس کے مسلمان ہونے سے مایوس ہو گئے اور ایک روایت میں صاد مہملہ سے یعنی آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس کو لات سے مارا ) اور فرمایا کہ میں اللہ پر اور اس کے رسولوں پر ایمان لایا ۔ پھر رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے اس سے پوچھا کہ تجھے کیا دکھائی دیتا ہے؟ وہ بولا کہ میرے پاس کبھی سچا آتا ہے اور کبھی جھوٹا ۔ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ تیرا کام گڑبڑ ہو گیا ( یعنی مخلوط حق و باطل دونوں سے ) پھر آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ میں نے تجھ سے پوچھنے کے لئے ایک بات دل میں چھپائی ہے ۔ ابن صیاد نے کہا کہ وہ دخ ( دھواں ) ہے ۔ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ ذلیل ہو ، تو اپنی قدر سے کہاں بڑھ سکتا ہے؟ سیدنا عمر رضی اللہ عنہ نے کہا کہ یا رسول اللہ! مجھے چھوڑئیے میں اس کی گردن مارتا ہوں ۔ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا کہ اگر یہ وہی ( یعنی دجال ) ہے تو تو اس کو مار نہ سکے گا اور اگر یہ وہ ( دجال ) نہیں ہے تو تجھے اس کا مارنا بہتر نہیں ہے ۔

Hudhaifa reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:the Dajjal would have with him water and fire and his fire would have the effect of cold water and his water would have the effect of fire, so don't put yourself to ruin. Abu Mas'ud reported: I also heard it from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)

محمد بن جعفرنے ہمیں حدیث بیان کی کہا : ہمیں شعبہ نے عبدالملک بن عمیر سے حدیث بیان کی ، انھوں نےربعی بن حراش سے انھوں نے حضرت حذیفہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور انھوں نے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے دجال کے بارے میں ، ( فرمایا ) " بےشک اس کے ہمراپانی ہوگااور آگ ہوگی اس کی آگ ( اصل میں ) ٹھنڈا پانی ہوگا اور اس کا پانی آگ ہوگی توتم لوگ ( دھوکے میں ) ہلاک نہ ہوجانا ۔

Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:The believer does not allow to be stung twice from one (and the same) hole. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of transmitters

عقیل نے زہری سے ، انھوں نے ابن مسیب سے ، انھوں نے حضرت ابوہریرۃ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور انھوں نے نبی کریم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " مومن ایک سوراخ سے دو مرتبہ نہیں ڈسا جاتا ۔

Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:The believer does not allow to be stung twice from one (and the same) hole. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of transmitters

عقیل نے زہری سے ، انھوں نے ابن مسیب سے ، انھوں نے حضرت ابوہریرۃ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور انھوں نے نبی کریم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کی کہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " مومن ایک سوراخ سے دو مرتبہ نہیں ڈسا جاتا ۔

Ubadah b. Walid b. Samit reported:I and my father set out in search of knowledge to a tribe of the Ansar before their death (i. e. before the Companions of the Prophet left the world) and I was the first to meet Abu Yasar, a Companion of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and there was a young man with him who carried the record of letters with him and there was a mantle prepared by the tribe of Ma'afiri upon him. And his servant too had a Ma'afiri mantle over him. My father said to him: My uncle, I see the signs of anger or that of agony on your face. He said: Yes, such and such person, the son of so and so, of the tribe of Harami owed me a debt. I went to his family, extended salutations and said: Where is he? They said: He is not here. Then came out to me his son who was at the threshold of his youth. I said to him: Where is your father? He said: No sooner did he hear your sound than he hid himself behind my mother's bedstead. I said to him: Walk out to me, for I know where you are. He came out. I said to him: What prompted you to hide yourself from me? He said: By God, whatever I would say to you would not be a lie. By Allah, I fear that I should tell a lie to you and in case of making promise with you I should break it, as you are the Companion of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). The fact is that I was hard up in regard to money. I said: Do you adjure by Allah? He said: I adjure by Allah. I said: Do you adjure by Allah? He said: I adjure by Allah. I said: Do you adjure by Allah? He said: I adjure by Allah. Then he brought his promissory note and he wrote off (the debt) with his hand and said: Make payment when you find yourself solvent enough to pay me back; if you are not, then there is no liability upon you. These two eyes of mine saw, and he (Abu'I-Yasar) placed his fingers upon his eyes and these two ears of mine heard and my heart retained, and he pointed towards his heart that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: He who gives time to one who is financially hard up (in the payment of debt) or writes off his debt, Allah will provide him His shadow. I said to him: My uncle, if you get the cloak of your servant and you give him your two clothes, or take his two clothes of Ma'afir and give him your cloak, then there would be one dress for you and one for him. He wiped my head and said: O Allah, bless the son of my brother. O, son of my brother, these two very eyes of mine saw and these two ears of mine listened to and this heart of mine retained this, and he pointed towards the heart that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Feed them (the servants) and clothe them (the servants) what you wear, and if I give him the goods of the world, it is easy for me than this that he should take my virtues on the Day of Resurrection. We went on till we came to Jabir b. Abdullah in the mosque and he was busy in observing prayer in one cloth which he had joined at its opposite ends. I made my way through the people till I sat between him and the Qibla and I said: May Allah have mercy upon you. Do you observe prayer with one cloth on your body whereas your mantle is lying at your side? He pointed me with his hand towards my breast just like this and he separated his fingers and bent them in the shape of a bow. And (he said): I thought that a fool like you should come to me so that he should see me as I do and he should then also do like it. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came to us in this very mosque and he had in his hand the twig of the palm-tree and he saw mucus towards the Qibla of the mosque and he erased it with the help of the twig. He then came to us and said: Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him? We were afraid. He then again said: Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him? We were afraid. He again said: Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him? We said: Allah's Messenger, none of us likes it. And he said: If one amongst you stands for prayer, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, is before him he should not spit in front of him, or on his right side, but should spit on his left side beneath his left foot and if he is impelled to do so all of a sudden (in spite of himself) he should then spit in his cloth and fold it in some part of it. (and he further said: ) Bring some sweet-smelling thing. A young man who belonged to our tribe stood up, went and brought scent in his palm. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took that and applied it to the end of that twig and then touched the place where there had been mucus. Jabir said: This is why you should apply scent to your mosques. It is reported on the same authority: We set out along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on an expedition of Batn Buwat. He (the Holy Prophet) was in search of al-Majdi b. 'Amr al-Juhani. (We had so meagre equipment) that five. six or seven of us had one camel to ride and so we mounted it turn by turn. Once there wan. the turn of an Ansari to ride upon the camel. He made it kneel down to ride over it (and after having. mounted it), he tried to raise it up but it hesitated. So he said. May there be curse of Allah upon you! Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Who is there to curse his camel? He said: Allah's Messenger, it' is I. Thereupon he said: Get down from the camel and let us not have in our company the cursed one. Don't curse your own selves, nor your children. nor your belongings. There is the possibility that your curse may synchronies with the time when Allah is about to confer upon you what you demand and thus your prayer may be readily responded. It is reported on the same authority: We set out on an expedition along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) until it was evening, and we had been near a. water reservoir of Arabia. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Who would be the person who would go ahead and set right the reservoir and drink water himself and serve us with it? Jabir said: I stood up and said: Allah's Messenger, it is I who am ready to do that. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Who is the person to accompany Jabir? And then Jabbar b. Sakhr stood up. So we went to that well and poured in that tank a bucket or two of water and plastered it with clay and then began to fill it (with water) until it was filled to the brim. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was the first who appeared before us, and he said: Do you (both) permit me to drink water out of it? We said: Yea, Allah's Messenger. He led his camel to drink water and it drank. He then pulled its rein and it stretched its legs and began to urinate. He then took it aside and made it kneel down at another place and then came to the tank and performed ablution. I then got up and performed ablution like the ablution of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and Jabbar b. Sakhr went in order to relieve himself and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) got up to observe prayer and there was a mantle over me. I tried to invert its ends but it was too short (to cover my body easily). It had its borders. I then inverted it (the mantle) and drew its opposite ends and then tied them at my neck. I then came and stood upon the left side of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). He caught hold of me and made me go round behind him, until he made me stand on his right side. Then Jabbar b. Sakhr came. He performed ablution and then came and stood on the left side of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) caught hold of our hands together, pushed us back and made us stand behind him. Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) began to look upon me with darting looks, but I did not perceive that. After that I became aware of it and he pointed with the gesture of his hand that I should wrap my loin-cloth. When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had finished the prayer, he said: Jabir! I said: Allah's Messenger, at thy beck and call. He said: When the cloth around you is inadequate, then tie the opposite ends but when it is small, tie it over the lower body. Jabir reported: We set out on an expedition with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and the only means of sustenance for every person amongst us was only one date for a day and we used to chew it. And we struck the leaves with the help of our bow and ate them until the sides of our mouths were injured. It so happened one day that a person was overlooked and not given a date. We carried that person and bore witness to the fact that he had not been given that date so he was offered that and he got up and received that. Jabir reported: We set out on an expedition along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) until we got down at a spacious valley and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) went to relieve himself. I followed him with a bucket full of water and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) looked about and he found no privacy but two trees at the end of the valley and Allah's Messenger (may. peace be upon him) went to one of them and took hold of one of its twigs and said: Be thou under my control by the permission of Allah, and so it came under his control like the camel who has its nosestring in the hand of its rider, and then he came to the second tree and took hold of a twig and said: Be thou under my control with the permission of Allah, and it came under his control, and when he came in the middle of the two trees he joined together the two twigs and said: join with the permission of Allah. Jabir said: I was afraid lest Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) should be aware of my nearness and go still farther. And Muhammad b. Abbad has used the word" faitab'd" and I began to talk to myself. And as I saw, I suddenly found Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) before me and the two trees were separated and each one of them was standing at its place. I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) standing for a short time, nodding his head towards right and left. Isma'il pointed towards the right and left with the help of his head (in order to demonstrate how the Prophet had pointed). Then he (the Holy Prophet) came to me and said: Jabir did you see my place where I was standing? I said: Allah's Messenger, yes. He then said: Then you should go to those two trees and cut a twig from each of them and go to that place with them where I was standing and stand there where I was standing and place a twig on the right and a twig on the left. Jabir said: I set out and took hold of a stone and broke it and sharpened it and then I came to those trees and cut a twig from each one of them. I then came dragging them until I stood at the place where Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had been standing and placed a twig on the right and a twig on the left. Then I met him and said: Allah's Messenger, I have done that, but (kindly) explain to me the reason for it. Thereupon he said: I passed by two graves the occupants of which had been undergoing torment. I liked to make intercession for them so that the might be relieved of this torment y as long as these twigs remain fresh. Jabir said: We came back to the (camp of the) army and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Jabir, call people for per- forming wudu. I cried: Come and perform wudu, come and perform wudu, come and perform wudu. I said: Allah's Messenger, there is not even a drop of water in the army camp, and there. was a person who used to cool the water for Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in the old water-skin which kept hanging by the twig. He asked me to go to such and such Ansari and ask him to see if there was any water in that skin. I went to him and cast a glance in it but did not find anything but a drop in the mouth of that water-skin and if I were to draw that, the water-skin's,. dried part would suck it up. I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said: Allah's Messenger, I have not found anything in it but a drop of water in the mouth of the water-skin and now if I were to draw that, it would be absorbed. He said: Go and bring that to me. I brought that to him. He took hold of it -and began to utter something which I could not understand and then pressed it with his hand and gave that to me and said: Jabir, announce for the tub to be brought. So I announced that the tub of the army (be brought). It was brought accordingly and I placed it before him (the Holy Prophet). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) placed his hands in the tub like this: with his fingers stretched out, and then he placed his fingers at the bottom of the tub and said: Jabir, take it (that waters-skin) and pour water over me, by reciting Bismillah, and I poured water and I said: Bismillah, and found water sprouting out between the fingers of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Then that tub gushed forth until it was filled up and the Messenger (ﷺ) said: Jabir, make an announcement to the effect: He who needs water should take that. Jabir said: The people came and got water until they were all satiated. I said: Is there anyone left who wants to get it? And Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) then lifted up his hand from that tub and it was still full. Then the people made a complaint to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about hunger and he said: May Allah provide you food! We came to the bank of the ocean and the ocean was tossing and it threw out a big animal and we lit fire and cooked it and took it until we had eaten to our heart's content. Jabir said: I and such and such five persons entered Its socket and nobody could see us until we had come out, and we took hold of one of its ribs and twisted it into a sort of arch, then we called the tallest of the persons of the army and the hugest of the camels of the army and it had the big saddle over it, and it could easily pass through it without the rider having need to bend down

ہارون بن معروف اور محمد بن عباد نے ہمیں حدیث بیان کی ، الفاظ دونوں سے ملتے جلتے ہیں جبکہ سیاق ہارون کا ہے ۔ دونوں نے کہا : ہمیں حاتم بن اسماعیل نے یعقوب بن مجاہد ابو حزرہ سے حدیث بیان کی ، انھوں نے عبادہ بن ولید بن عبادہ بن صامت سے ر وایت کی ، انھوں نے کہا : میں اور میرے والد طلب علم کے لیے انصار کے اس قبیلے کی ہلاکت سے پہلے اس میں گئے ، سب سے پہلے شخصد جن سے ہماری ملاقات ہوئی وہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے صحابی حضرت ابو یسر رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ تھے ، ان کےساتھ ان کایک غلام بھی تھا جس کے پاس صحائف ( دستاویزات ) کا ایک مجموعہ تھا ، حضرت ابو یسر رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ کے بدن پر ایک دھاری دار چادر اور معافر کا بنا ہوا ایک کپرا تھا ۔ اور ان کے غلام کے جسم پر بھی ایک دھاری دار چادر اور ایک معافری کپڑا تھا ۔ میرے والد نے ان سے کہا : چچا!میں غصے کی بنا پر آپ کے چہرے پر رنگ کی تبدیلی دیکھ رہا ہوں ، انھوں نے کہا : ہاں ، فلاں بن فلاں ، جس کاتعلق بنو حرام سے ہے ، سلام کیا اور میں نے پوچھا : کیا وہ ہے؟گھر والوں نے کہا : نہیں ہے پھر اچانک اس کا ایک کمر عمر لڑکا میرے سامنے گھر سے نکلا ، میں نے اس سے پوچھا : تیر ا باپ کہاں ہے؟اس نے کہا : انھوں نے آپ کی آواز سنی تو وہ میری والدہ کے چھپر کھٹ میں گھس گئے ہیں ۔ میں نےکہا : نکل کرمیری طرف آجاؤ ، مجھے پتہ چل گیا ہے کہ تم کہاں ہو ۔ وہ باہر نکل آیا میں نے پوچھا : اس بات کا باعث کیابنا کہ تم مجھ سے چھپ گئے؟اس نے کہا : اللہ کی قسم!میں آپ کو بتاتا ہوں اور میں آپ سے جھوٹ نہیں بولوں گا ، اللہ کی قسم!میں اس بات سے ڈرا کہ کہیں میں آپ سے بات کروں اور جھوٹ بولوں اور میں آپ سے وعدہ کروں اور آپ کے ساتھ اس کی خلاف ورزی کروں ، جبکہ آپ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے صحابی ہیں اور اللہ کی قسم میں تنگ دست تھا ، انھوں نے کہا کہ میں نے کہا : اللہ کی قسم!اس نے کہا : اللہ کی قسم!میں نے ( دوبارہ ) کہا : اللہ کی قسم!اس نے کہا : اللہ کی قسم!میں نے ( پھر ) کہا : اللہ کی قسم!اس نے کہا : اللہ کی قسم!کہا : پھر انھوں نے اپنا صحیفہ ( جس پر قرض کی تحریر لکھی ہوئی تھی ) نکالا اور اپنے ہاتھ سے اس کومٹا دیا ( پھر مقروض سے ) کہا : اگر تمھیں ادائیگی کے لیے مال مل جائے تو میرا قرض لوٹا دینا اور نہیں تو تم بری الذمہ ہو ، میں گواہی دیتا ہوں کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کو میری ان دونوں آنکھوں کی بصارت نے ( دیکھا ) اور ( یہ کہتے ہوئے ) انھوں نے اپنی دو انگلیاں اپنی دو آنکھوں پر رکھیں ، اور میرے ان دونوں کانوں نے سنا اور میرے اس دل نے یاد رکھا ۔ اور انھوں نے اپنے دل والی جگہ پر اشارہ کیا ۔ جب کہ آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم فرمارہےتھے : " جس شخص نے کسی تنگ دست کو مہلت دی یا اس کا قرض ختم کردیا اللہ تعالیٰ اپنے سائے سے اس پر سایہ کرے گا ۔

Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported in connection with the verse:" Those whom they call upon, themselves seek the means of access to their Lord," that it related to a group of people who worshipped a party amongst the Jinn. The group from amongst the Jinn embraced Islam, but the people kept worshipping them as they did before, and it was (on this occasion) that the verse was revealed:" Those whom they call upon, themselves seek the means of access to their Lord." This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sulaiman with the same chain of transmitters

سفیان نے اعمش سے انھوں نے ابراہیم سے ، انھوں نے ابو معمر سے اور انھوں نے حضرت عبداللہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے ( اس آیت کے متعلق ) روایت کی : " وہ لوگ جنھیں یہ ( کافر ) پکارتے ہیں ، وہ خود اپنے رب کی طرف وسیلہ تلاش کرتے ہیں ۔ " ( ابن مسعود رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ نے ) کہا : انسانوں کی ایک جماعت جنوں کی ایک جماعت کی پرستش کرتی تھی ، تو جنوں کی جماعت نے اسلام قبول کرلیا اور انسان بدستور ان کی عبادت سے لگے رہے ۔ اس پر ( یہ آیت ) نازل ہوئی : " وہ لوگ جنھیں یہ پکارتے ہیں ، وہ خود اپنے رب کی طرف ( کسی نیک عمل کا ) وسیلہ تلاش کرتے ہیں ۔