40 HADĪTH | SHAYKH'UL ISLĀM IBNU TAYMIYYAH RAHIMAHULLĀH

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الأربعين التي رواها ابن تيمية بالسند

40 Hadīth that which Ibnu Taymiyyah Narrated with Isnād (Chain of Narration)

شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية

Shaykh'ul Islām Ibnu Taymiyyah (Rahimahullāh)

Khutbat'ul Ha'jah

Our Da'wah (Call)

40 Hadīth that which Ibnu Taymiyyah Narrated with Isnād (Chain of Narration)

Muqaddimah (Preface)

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خُطْبَةُ الْحَاجَةِ

إِنَّ الْحَمْدَ لِلّٰهِ، نَحْمَدُهُ، وَنَسْتَعِينُهُ، وَنَسْتَغْفِرُهُ، وَنَعُوذُ بِاللهِ مِنْ شُرُورِ أَنْفُسِنَا، وَمِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ أَعْمَالِنَا، مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللهُ فَلاَ مُضِلَّ لَهُ، وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلاَ هَادِيَ لَهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلٰهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ.

﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلاَ تَمُوتُنَّ إِلاَّ وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ.﴾ [آل عمران: 102]

﴿يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ نَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالاً كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاءً وَاتَّقُوا اللهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامَ إِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا.﴾ [النساء: 1]

﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللهَ وَقُولُوا قَوْلاً سَدِيدًا. يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَمَنْ يُطِعِ اللهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا.﴾ [الأحزاب: 71-70]

أَمَّا بَعْدُ: فَإِنَّ أَصْدَقَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ اللهِ، وَخَيْرَ الْهَدْيِ هَدْيُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَشَرَّ الْأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا، وَكُلَّ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ، وَكُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلاَلَةٌ، وَكُلَّ ضَلاَلَةٍ فِي النَّارِ.

Khutbat’ul Hājah (The Sermon of Necessity)

All praise is due to Allāh. We praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allāh from the evil within ourselves and our evil deeds. Whoever Allāh guides, there is no one who can led him astray, and whoever Allāh leads astray, then there is no one who can guide him. I bear witness there is no -true- deity -worthy of worship- except Allāh, He is One and He has no partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Rasūl (Messenger).

“O you who believe! Fear Allāh as He should be feared, and die not except as Muslims.” (Āl-i Imrān 3/102)

“O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person, and from him He created his wife, and from them both He created many men and women and fear Allāh through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and beware of severing the ties of kinship. Surely, Allāh is Ever an All-Watcher over you.” (an-Nisā 4/1)

“O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allāh and fear Him, and speak the truth. He will set your deeds right and forgive your sins. And whoever obeys Allāh and His Messenger, has truly achieved a great triumph.” (al-Ahzāb 33/70-71)

Ammā Ba’d (to Proceed):

Verily, the most truthful speech is the Kalāmullāh (Speech of Allāh), the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam. The worst of affairs are the newly invented matters. Every newly invented matter is a Bid’ah (religious innovation), and every Bid’ah is a Dalālah (misguidance), and every misguidance is in the Nār (Hellfire).[1]

Footnotes:

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This Du'ā (prayer) which Shaykh’ul Islām Ibnu Taymiyyah Rahimahullāh accounted as “a knot between the Islāmic system and Īmān” (Ibnu Taymiyyah, Majmū’ul Fatāwā, 14/223) which is known as “Khutbat’ul Hājah (The Sermon of Necessity)” was recited by Rasūlullah Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam during the beginning of his Jumu’ah Khutbah (Friday Sermon). Various portions of this renown Khutbah has been narrated with different wordings in an-Nasā’ī, Hadīth no: 3278; Muslim, Hadīth no: 868; Abū Dāwūd, Hadīth no: 2118; at-Tirmidhī, Hadīth no: 1105, and in other compilations of Hadīth.

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Our Da’wah (Call)

Our sole purpose primarily, is to circulate the Aqidah of Tawhid everywhere we are able to reach. This is the call of all the Rasul (messenger) and Nabi (prophet) from Adam (alayhi salam) to the Khatam’ul Anbiya (the last of the prophets) Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), striving against all types of Kufr and Shirk that nullify Tawhid and exposing fake deities and Taaghout which call people to worship them. Allah Ta’ala states the following Ayah in this regards:

وَقَاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لَا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ لِلّٰهِ فَإِنِ انْتَهَوْا فَإِنَّ اللّٰهَ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ
“And fight them on until there is no more persecution, and religion becomes Allah's in its entirety.” (al-Baqarah 2/193; al-Anfal 8/39)

In addition, the Aqidah of “al-Wara wa’l Bara” which is one of the most important Rukn (pillar) of Tawhid, the Takfir of the Mushrikin fixed to the Aqidah of “al-Wara wa’l Bara”, accordingly the limits of Imaan and Kufr becoming evident is one of the hallmarks of our Da’wah. The removal of the doubts regarding the matters of Aqidah, especially in the matters of Imaan and Kufr that are innovated by the Dai (caller) of Baatil (falsehood) is also one of our purposes. We aspire to establish the Wasat (medium) Aqidah of Ahl’us Sunna wa’l Ja’maah that is far from Ifrat (taking maters to the extreme) and Tarfit (neglecting its true meaning).

After Tawhid, the most important topic we call to is the Sunnah. Connotation especially to the matters of Aqidah but not limited to it; accepting and practicing every matter of Islam as Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and his Ashaab counseled and lived, also rejecting every Bid’ah innovated after them. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) in a Sahih (authentic) Hadith stated that his Ummah (nation) will be divided into seventy-three sects and that only one of them will be saved. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) named them as Firqa’i Naajiyah (the Saved Group) and described their affair stating:

مَا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ وَأَصْحَابِي
“(Those who follow) my path and the path of my Ashaab (companions)... ”²

The Ahl’us Sunnah wa’l Ja’maah is the only group that follows this noble path.

No individual or group entered the saved group by merely identifying themselves as Ahl’us Sunnah. The most apparent quality of the Ahl’us Sunnah is submitting to the Salaf’us Salihin (the righteous predecessors) whom are the best of the people and the first three generations (of beginning of the Islam) and staying away from the Bid’ah and Munkar (evil) that was innovated by the Khalaf (later generations). As narrated in the Sahih (of Bukhari) from Imran bin Husayn (radiyallahu anh) Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) stated:

خَيْرُ أُمَّتِي قَرْنِي، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، - قَالَ عِمْرَانُ فَلاَ أَدْرِي: أَذَكَرَ بَعْدَ قَرْنِهِ قَرْنَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلاَثًا - ثُمَّ إِنَّ بَعْدَكُمْ قَوْمًا يَشْهَدُونَ وَلاَ يُسْتَشْهَدُونَ وَيَخُونُونَ وَلاَ يُؤْتَمَنُونَ، وَيَنْذُرُونَ وَلاَ يَفُونَ، وَيَظْهَرُ فِيهِمُ السِّمَنُ
“The best of my followers are those living in my generation (i.e. my contemporaries). And then those who will follow the latter. -Imran (radiyallahu anh) added: I do not remember whether he mentioned two or three generations after his generation- There will come after you, people who will bear witness without being asked to do so, and will be treacherous and untrustworthy, and they will vow and never fulfill their vows, and fatness will appear among them."³

After Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and his Ashaab, the Rabbani Ulama took on the mission of calling to Tawhid and the Sunnah fitting the Hadith:

الْعُلَمَاءُ خُلَفَاءُ الأَنْبِيَاءِ إِنَّ الأَنْبِيَاءَ
“The scholars are the successors of the prophets."⁴

At this point, our goal is to become a bridge between Ilm and the people by conveying the legacy concerning the Ilm (sacred knowledge) of the Rabbani Ulama, which attained the mission of calling to Tawhid and the Sunnah after the prophets. The source of this Ilm reaches Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) through Jibril-i Amin (alayhi salam) to the Lord of the Worlds (Jalla wa Jalaluhu). The Ulama will represent this Ilm until the Day of Qiyamah (Doomdsay). Since Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) stated:

لاَ يَزَالُ مِنْ أُمَّتِي أُمَّةٌ قَائِمَةٌ بِأَمْرِ اللّٰهِ، لاَ يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَذَلَهُمْ، وَلاَ مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ، حَتَّى يَأْتِيَهُمْ أَمْرُ اللّٰهِ وَهُمْ عَلَى ذٰلِكَ
"A group of people amongst my followers will remain obedient to Allah's orders and they will not be harmed by anyone who will not help them or who will oppose them, till Allah's Order (the Last Day) comes upon them while they are still on the right path."⁵

That is why it is also our goal to spread the books of the Ulamaa (pl. Alim; scholars) whom had been stand bearers of the Aqidah of the Ahl’us Sunnah wa’l Jama’ah throughout history and the Ilm that they inherited from Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). In order to reach this goal; we take the Manhaj (methodology of attaining Ilm) of the Salaf’us Salihin whom are praised by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) as base for us. We would like to convey the legacy of the A’immah (pl. Imam) of Hadith and Sunnah who had not been affected from Kalaam (theological rhetoric) and philosopy, persistent upon the Aqidah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and his Ashaab, in short; the scholars among the Firqa-i Najiyaah and “Taifat’ul Mansura (Victorious Group)”.

Our call (Inshallah) will never be calling people to our own views that have no base from the Salaf nor to groups that have been consituted by the Asabiyyah (tribalism/nationalism) of Jaahiliyyah (the prelslaamic days of ignorance).

Tawfiq (success) is lies in Allah Ta’ala...

Footnotes:

^2- Tirmidhi, Hadith no: 2641.

^3- Bukhari, Hadith no: 3650.

^4- Bazzar, Musnad al-Bazzar, 10/68.

^5- Bukhari, Hadith no: 3641.

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Muqaddimah (Preface)⁶

Bismillahirrahmānirrahīm,

O Rabb (Lord) help me (in narrating “40 Hadīth that which Ibnu Taymiyyah Narrated with Isnād”)!

Zayn Abū Muhammad Abd’ir Rahmān Ibn’ul Imād Abū Bakr bin Zurayq al-Hanbalī (Rahimahullāh) informed us in his book more than once that Abu’l Abbās Ahmad bin Abī Bakr bin Ahmad bin Abd’ul Hamīd al-Maqdisī (Rahimahullāh) informed us. We listened from him on Saturday 24th Safar year 797H that he wrote to the three Shaykh; Abū Ishāq al-Harmalī (Rahimahullāh), Abū Muhammad al-Baqarī (Rahimahullāh) and Abu’l Abbās ar-Raslānī (Rahimahullāh) that they said, Hāfidh Abū Abdullāh Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Uthmān adh-Dhahabī (Rahimahullāh) informed us as an absolute permit and they both said, ash-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ālim al-Allamah al-Barī’ (the skilled) al-Awhad’ul Quduwwah (the exemplary one) Hāfidh Abu’l Abbās Ahmad bin Abd’ul Halīm bin Abd’us Salām bin Taymiyyah (Rahimahullāh) informed us. Dhahabī (Rahimahullāh) said, I read to him in (the month) Jamadiy’al Akhir year 721H. He (Rahimahullāh) said,

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنَسْتَعِينُهُ وَنَسْتَهْدِيه وَنَسْتَغْفِرُهُ وَنَعُوذُ بِاَللَّهِ مِنْ شُرُورِ أَنْفُسِنَا وَمِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ أَعْمَالِنَا مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلَا مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضَلِّلْ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُ.
وَنَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَنَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ. وَصَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَسْلِيمًا.

Hamd (thanks and praise) is due to Allāh Ta’ālā, we praise He Ta’ālā, and we seek His help, His Hidayah (guidance) and His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allāh from the evil within ourselves, and the consequences of our evil deeds. Whomever Allāh guides will never be led astray, and whomever Allāh leads astray will never find guidance.

We bear witness there is no -true- God -deserving to be worshiped- but Allāh; alone without any partners, and we bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger whom Allāh sent with guidance and “the Religion of Truth (Islām)”, that Allah make it prevail over all religion, even though the Mushrikun (idol worshipers/pagans) may detest (it).⁷ May peace and abundance of greetings of Allāh be upon Muhammad, his household and his Ashāb (companions). (Āmīn!)

Footnotes:

^6- A Jama’ah (group) listened this “40 Hadīth that which Ibnu Taymiyyah (Rahimahullāh) Narrated with Isnād (Chain of Narration)” from Dhahabī (Rahimahullāh).

^7- Shaykh (Rahimahullāh) refers to the Ayah,

هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ
“It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He make it prevail over all religion, even though the Mushrikūn (idol worshipers/pagans) may detest (it).” (as-Saff 61/9)

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The First Hadīth

Imām Zay’nud Dīn Abu’l Abbās Ahmad bin Abd’id Dā’im bin Ni’mah bin Ahmad al-Maqdisī informed (reported to) us, –it was recited to him and I heard from him in the year 677H- Abu’l Faraj Abd’ul Mun’im bin Abd’il Wahhāb bin Sa’d bin Kulayb informed us, it was recited to him, Abu’l Qāsim Ali bin Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Bayān ar-Razzāz informed us, it was recited to him, Abu’l Hasan Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Mukhlad al-Bazzāz informed us, Abū Ali Ismā’īl bin Muhammad bin Ismā’īl as-Saffār informed us, Hasan bin Arafah bin Yazid al-Abdī narrated to us, Abū Bakr bin Ayyāsh narrated to me on the authority of Abū Ishāq as-Sabi’ī on the authority of Bara bin Āzib (Radiyallāhu anh) that he said:

Rasūlullāh (Sallalahu Alayhi wa Sallam) and his Ashāb (companions) came out then we entered Ihram for Hajj. Bara bin Āzib (Radiyallāhu Anh) said, When we came to Makkah, Rasūlullāh (Sallalahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said,

اجْعَلُوا حَجَّكُمْ عُمْرَةً قَالَ: فَقَالَ النَّاسُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَحْرَمْنَا بِالْحَجِّ فَكَيْفَ نَجْعَلُهَا عُمْرَةً؟ . قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ اُنْظُرُوا الَّذِي آمُرُكُمْ بِهِ فَافْعَلُوا قَالَ: فَرَدُّوا عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلَ فَغَضِبَ ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَى عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا غَضْبَانَ فَرَأَتْ الْغَضَبَ فِي وَجْهِهِ فَقَالَتْ: مَنْ أَغْضَبَك أَغْضَبَهُ اللَّهُ قَالَ: وَمَالِي لَا أَغْضَبُ وَأَنَا آمِرٌ بِالْأَمْرِ وَلَا أُتْبَعُ
“Make your Hajj (to) an Umrah. He said, The people said, O Messenger of Allāh, we have entered Ihram for Hajj, how can we make it an Umrah? He said, upon this Rasūlullāh (Sallalahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said: Look at what I command you to do, and do it. He said, the people did not obey (repeated their question) therefore Rasūlullāh (Sallalahu Alayhi wa Sallam) got angry and went away until Rasūlullāh (Sallalahu Alayhi wa Sallam) entered upon Āisha (Radiyallāhu Anha) in extreme anger. Āisha (Radiyallāhu Anha) saw anger in his face, so she said, Who has made you angry? May Allah vex him! Rasūlullāh (Sallalahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said: Why should I not get angry, when I give a command and it is not followed (in obedience)?”

It was narrated by Nasa’ī and Ibnu Mājah from the Hadīth of Abu Bakr bin Ayyāsh.

The Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in the month of Safar, year 575H, died on Monday 8th Rajab, year 668H.⁸

Footnotes:

^8- Shaykh’ul Islām Ibnu Taymiyyah (Rahimahullāh) after narrating the Hadīth, here and there shared both or only the birth or the death year of the Shaykh he listened the Hadīth from.

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The Second Hadith

Ash-Shaykh’ul Musnad Kamāl’ud Dīn Abū Nasr Abd’ul Azīz bin Abd’il Mun’im Ibn’ul Khadr bin Shibl Ibnu Abd’ul Hārithī informed us about the Qirāh (recitation) done upon him, and I listened to him on the day of Jumu’ah (Friday) the sixth of Sha’bān in the year 669 at “Jāmi’ (Mosque) Dimashq”. Hāfidh Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim Ibnu’l Hāfidh Abū’l Qāsim Ali Ibnu’l Hasan bin Hibatillāh Ibnu Asākir informed us about the recitation done upon him in Rabī’u’l Ākhir in the year 695, (he said) Abū’l Fadā’il Nāsir bin Mahmūd bin Ali al-Qudsī as-Sā’igh informed us. Abū’l Qāsim Nasr bin Ahmad bin Muqātil as-Sūsī also informed us, about the recitation upon both of them. They said: Abū’l Hasan Ali bin Ahmad bin Zuhayr al-Mālikī (said): Abū’l Hasan Ali bin Muhammad Ibnu Shujā’ ar-Rab’ī al-Mālikī narrated to us that: Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’ur Rahman bin Ubaydullāh al-Qattān (said:) Khaythamah narrated to us that: Abbās Ibn’ul Walīd narrated to us that: Uqbah bin Alqamah (said:) Sa’īd bin Abd’ul Azīz narrated to us, from Atiyyah bin Qays, from Abdullāh bin Amr (Radiyallahu Anhuma) that he said that Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said:

إنِّي رَأَيْت عَمُودَ الْكِتَابِ اُنْتُزِعَ مِنْ تَحْتِ وِسَادَتِي فَنَظَرْت فَإِذَا هُوَ نُورٌ سَاطِعٌ عَمَدَ بِهِ إلَى الشَّامِ أَلَا إنَّ الْإِيمَانَ - إذَا وَقَعَتْ الْفِتَنُ - بِالشَّامِ
“Verily I saw the spine of a book stripped from under my pillow, so I looked at it and it was an eminent Nūr (light), it (the light) was to embark upon Shām (Syria). Verily, when the Fitan (trials and tribulations) arise Imān (belief) will be in Shām.”

He (Rahimahullāh) was born in the year 589H and he died in Sha’bān, year 672H.

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The Third Hadīth

Imām Taqiy’ud Dīn Abū Muhammad Ismā’īl bin Ibrāhīm bin Abī'l Yusr at-Tannūkhī informed, the recitation upon him –and I listened to it in the year 669, Abū Tāhir Barakāt bin Ibrāhīm al-Khushū’ī informed us, that it was recited upon him, Abū Muhammad Abd’ul Karīm bin Hamza Ibn’ul Khadir as-Sulamī informed us that, Abū’l Husayn Tahir bin Ahmad bin Ali bin Mahmūd al-Mahmūdī al-Ānī informed that Abū’l Fadhl Mansūr bin Nasr bin Abd’ur Rahīm bin bintu’l Kāghidī told us, Abū Amr al-Hasan bin Ali Ibn’ul Hasan al-Attār told us that Ibrāhīm bin Abdullāh bin Umar bin Bakīr Ibn’ul Hārith al-Qaysī told us that, Waki Ibn’ul Jarrāh bin Mulayh ar-Ruwāsī narrated from al-Āmash, from Abū Sālih, from Abū Sa’īd al-Khudrī (Radiyallāhu Anh) that he said: Rasūlullāh (Salallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) stated,

يُدْعَى نُوحٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: هَلْ بَلَّغْت؟ فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ فَيُدْعَى قَوْمُهُ فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ: هَلْ بَلَّغَكُمْ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: مَا أَتَانَا مِنْ نَذِيرٍ وَمَا أَتَانَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ فَيُقَالُ لِنُوحِ: مَنْ يَشْهَدُ لَك؟ فَيَقُولُ: مُحَمَّدٌ وَأُمَّتُهُ فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ:

“Nūh (Alayh’is Salām) will be called (to the presence of Allāh Ta’ālā) on Yawm’ul Qiyāmah (the Day of Resurrection), and it will be said to him, ‘Did you convey (the message of Allāh Ta’ālā)?” Nūh (Alayh’is Salām) will say, ‘Yes (I conveyed the message of Allāh Ta’ālā).’ Then the nation of Nūh (Alayh’is Salām) will be called (to the presence of Allāh Ta’ālā) and it will be said to them, “Was it conveyed (Did Nūh convey Allah’s message to you)?” They will say, ‘No warner came to us and no one came to us.’ Then it will be said to Nūh (Alayh’is Salām), ‘Who will give witness for you?’ Nūh (Alayh’is Salām) will say, ‘Muhammad (Salallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) and his Ummah (nation).’ Thus, this is (as it is in the) statement of Allāh Ta’ālā,

وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أُمَّةً وَسَطًا
“Thus We made of you a Wasat Ummah…” (al-Baqarah 2/143)

He said: (The term used in the Ayah) “الْوَسَطُ al-Wasat (the middle/ moderate)” is “الْعَدْلُ al-Adl (justly balanced).”

He was born in the year 589H and died in Safar year 672H.

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The Fourth Hadīth

Al-Faqīh Sayf’ud Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā bin Abd’ur Rahmān bin Najm bin Abd’ul Wahhāb al-Hanbalī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it on the day of Jumu’ah on the 10th of Shawwāl in the year 669H, and Abū Abdullāh Muhammad bin Abd’ul Mun’im Ibn’ul Qawwās, and Mu’ammil bin Muhammad al-Bālisī and Abū Abdullāh Muhammad bin Abū Bakr al-Āmirī in (his book) at-Tarīkh, and Abū’l Abbās Ahmad bin Shaybān, and Abū Bakr bin Muhammad al-Harawi, and Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā bin Abū Mansūr Ibn’us Sayrafī and Abū’l Faraj Abd’ur Rahmān bin Sulaymān al-Baghdādī, and ash-Shams bin az-Zayn, and Kamāl Abd’ur Rahīm, and Ibn’ul Asqalānī, and Zaynab Bint Makkī, and Sitt’ul Arab, the first one said, Ibnu Shaybān, and Zaynab said: Abū Hafs Umar bin Muhammad Ibnu Tabarzadh informed us, al-Bāqūn and Ibnu Shaybān said, Zayd Ibn’ul Hasan al-Kindī informed us, Zada Ibn’us Sayrafī, so he said, and Abū Muhammad Abd’ul Azīz bin Ma’ālī bin Ghunaymah bin Maniyyinā (informed us) that it was recited upon him, they said, al-Qādhī Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’ul Bāqī bin Muhammad bin Abdullāh al-Ansārī informed us, (from) Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm bin Umar bin Ahmad al-Barmakī informed us, (from) Abū Muhammad Abdullāh bin Ibrāhīm bin Ayyūb bin Māsī informed us, Abū Muslim Ibrāhīm bin Abdullāh bin Muslim al-Kajī narrated to us, Muhammad bin Abdullāh al-Ansārī narrated to us, Humayd narrated to me, from Anas (Radiyallāhu Anh) that ar-Rubay bint’un Nadr, who was his paternal aunt, slapped a Jāriyah (slave girl), so she broke her tooth. (The relatives of ar-Rubay) offered them (the girl’s relatives) to accept the Arsh (compensation that is paid in return of wounds) but they refused. Then they asked for forgiveness, but they refused. Thus, they went to the Nabī (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam), so he ordered them to do Qisās (retaliation). Then her brother Anas Ibn’un Nadr (Radiyallāhu Anh) came and said, “Yā Rasūlullāh! The tooth of ar-Rubay will be broken? No, by the One who has sent you with the Haqq (truth), her tooth will not be broken.” Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said, “O Anas! Kitābullāh (orders) Qisās.” Then the tribe was pleased (i.e. relatives of the girl) forgave her. Therefore Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said,

إنَّ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللَّه مَنْ لَوْ أَقْسَمَ عَلَى اللَّه لَأَبَرَّهُ
“There are from amongst Ibādullāh (the slaves of Allāh) those who if they take an oath by Allāh, Allāh fulfils it.”

Narrated by Bukhārī from (Muhammad Ibnu Abdullah) al-Ansārī. His birth date is 592H, and he died in the Shawwāl of 672H.

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The Fifth Hadīth

Al-Hājj’ul Musnad Abū Muhammad Abū Bakr Ibnu Muhammad bin Abū Bakr bin Abd’il Wāsi’ al-Harawī informed us on the fourth of Rabī’ul Awwal in the year 668 (Hijri), and the mentioned people with their Sanad (chain) up to al-Ansārī, he said, Humayd narrated to me from Anas (Radiyallāhu Anh) that Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said,

اُنْصُرْ أَخَاك ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا قَالَ: قُلْت: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّه أَنْصُرُهُ مَظْلُومًا فَكَيْفَ أَنْصُرُهُ ظَالِمًا؟ قَالَ: تَمْنَعُهُ مِنْ الظُّلْمِ فَذَاكَ نَصْرُك إيَّاهُ
“Help your brother, whether he is a Dhālim (oppressor) or he is a Madhlūm (oppressed one)!” Anas said, I said, “Yā Rasūlullāh! I help him when he is a Madhlūm, so how can I help him when he is a Dhālim?” Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said, “By preventing him from adh-Dhulm (oppression). Thus this is helping him.”

Al-Bukhārī reported it from Uthmān bin Abī Shayba from Hushaym. Tirmidhī also reported it from Muhammad bin Hātim from al-Ansārī –(with the same Sanad) just as we reported it- and he said, “Hasan Sahīh”. ash-Shaykh Shams’ud Dīn bin Abī Umar informed it to us -and I recited upon him- that Abū’l Yaman al-Kindī informed us. He mentioned his birthdate 594H, and he died in Rajab in the year 673H.

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The Sixth Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh’ul Musnad Zayn’ud Dīn Abu’l Abbās al-Mu’ammal bin Muhammad bin Alī İbnu Muhammad bin Alī bin Mansūr Ibn’ul Mu’ammal al-Bālisī reported to us about the recitation upon him, and I listened to it in the year 669H, and he mentioned people with their Sanad up to al-Ansārī, he said, Sulaymān at-Taymī informed me, from Anas bin Mālik (Radiyallāhu Anh) that he said, Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said,

مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّدًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنْ النَّارِ
“Whoever lies about me intentionally, then let him occupy his seat in the Nār (fire i.e. Hell-fire).”

Narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim with the same meaning from the narration of Abd’ul Azīz bin Suhayb from Anas (Radiyallāhu Anh).
 
He was born in the year 602H and it is also said on the 3rd, and he died in Rajab in the year 677H.

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The Seventh Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh’ul Adl Rashīd’ud Dīn Abū Abdullāh Muhammad bin Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Sulaymān al-Āmirī reported to us about the recitation upon him, and I  listened to it in the year 669H, and the mentioned people with their Sanad up to al-Ansārī, he said, at-Taymī narrated to me, Anas bin Mālik (Radiyallāhu Anh) narrated to us and he said,

عَطَسَ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجُلَانِ فَشَمَّتَ - أَوْ فَشَمَّتَ - أَحَدَهُمَا وَلَمْ يُشَمِّتْ الْآخَرَ - أَوْ فَشَمَّتَهُ وَلَمْ يُشَمِّتْ الْآخَرَ - فَقِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَطَسَ عِنْدَك رَجُلَانِ فَشَمَّتَ أَحَدَهُمَا وَلَمْ تُشَمِّتْ الْآخَرَ - أَوْ فَشَمَّتَهُ وَلَمْ تُشَمِّتْ الْآخَرَ - فَقَالَ: إنَّ هَذَا حَمِدَ اللَّهَ فَشَمَّتّه وَأَنَّ هَذَا لَمْ يَحْمَدْ اللَّهَ فَلَمْ أُشَمِّتْهُ
“Two men sneezed in the presence of the Nabī (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) so the Nabī (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) did Shammat (said Yarhamukallāh i.e. may Allāh have mercy upon you!)

Or the Nabī (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said Yarhamukallāh to the first one but did not say Yarhamukallāh to the second one.

Or the Nabī (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said Yarhamukallāh but did not say Yarhamukallāh to the second one.

Thus, it was said, Yā Rasūlullāh! Two men sneezed at your presence and you said Yarhamukallāh to one of them and did not say Yarhamukallāh to the other!?

Or Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) replied to him but not to the other!?”

Thus Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam) said, “This one praised Allāh so I said Yarhamukallāh back to him, and this one did not praise Allāh so I did not say Yarhamukallāh to him.”

Al-Bukhārī narrated it from Muhammad Ibnu Kathīr from Sufyān ath-Thawrī (Hadīth no: 6221), and Muslim narrated it from Muhammad bin Abdullāh bin Numayr from Hafs Ibnu Giyāth (Hadīth no: 2991); both of them narrated from (Sulaymān) at-Taymī.

He died in Dhu’l Hijjah in the year 682H.

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The Eighth Hadīth

Imām, Ālim, Zāhid Kamāl’ud Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā bin Abī Mansūr bin Abi’l Fath bin Rāfi bin Alī al-Harrānī Ibn’us Sayrafī informed us about the recitation upon him in (the month of) Shawwāl in the year 668H. (He said:) Abū’l Abbās Ahmad bin Yahyā bin Barakah Ibn’ud Dībaqī informed us about the recitation upon him -while I listened (to it)-  that Abū Mansūr Abd’ur Rahmān bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Wāhid Ibn’il Hasan al-Qazzāz informed us regarding the recitation upon him on the 21st of (the Month of) Jamād’al Ūlā in the year of 534H, (he said:) Abū Ja’far Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Umar Ibn’ul Muslim al-Mu’addil while dictating his wording with the dictation of our Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Khatīb in (the month of) Safar in the year 463H that Abu’l Fadhl Ubaydullāh bin Abd’ir Rahmān bin Muhammad az-Zuhrī informed us that Abū Bakr Ja’far bin Muhammad Ibn’il Hasan Ibn’il Mustafādh al-Firyābī informed us that Qutaybah bin Sa’īd narrated to us that Ismā’īl bin Ja’far narrated to us from Abū Suhayl Nāfi’ bin Mālik bin Abī Āmir who narrated from his father who narrated from Abū Hurayrah Radiyallāhu Anh who narrated from Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam that he said,

آيَةُ الْمُنَافِقِ ثَلَاثَةٌ: إذَا حَدَّثَ كَذَبَ وَإِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ وَإِذَا اُؤْتُمِنَ خَانَ
“The signs of the Munāfiq (hypocrite) are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he makes an agreement, he proves treacherous; and when he is entrusted, he betrays.”

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The Ninth Hadīth

Shaykh, Faqīh, Imām, Ālim, al-Bāri, Jamāl’ud Dīn Abu’l Faraj Abd’ur Rahmān bin Sulaymān bin Sa’īd bin Sulaymān al-Baghdādī informed us about the recitation upon him and I listened to it in the year 668H. (He said:) Abu’l Yaman Zayd Ibn’ul Hasan bin Zabad al-Kindī informed us about the recitation upon him. (He said:) Abū Abdullāh al-Husayn bin Alī bin Ahmad al-Muqrī informed us. (He said:) Abu’l Husayn Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad Ibn’un Naqūr informed us that Abū Tāhir Muhammad bin Abd’ir Rahmān Ibn’ul Abbās al-Mukhlis informed us in the year 390H that Yahyā narrated to us that Yūnus narrated to us  that: Abu’l Ahwas narrated to us from Ash’ath bin Abi’sh Sha’thā from Muhammad bin Umayr from Abū Hurayrah Radiyallāhu Anh said,

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ بَيْعَتَيْنِ وَعَنْ لُبْسَتَيْنِ: أَنْ يَلْبَسَ الرَّجُلُ الثَّوْبَ الْوَاحِدَ وَيَشْتَمِلَ بِهِ وَيَطْرَحَ أَحَدَ جَانِبَيْهِ عَلَى مَنْكِبِهِ وَيَحْتَبِي فِي الثَّوْبِ الْوَاحِدِ. وَأَنْ يَقُولَ: انْبِذْ إلَيَّ ثَوْبَك وَأَنْبِذُ إلَيْك ثَوْبِي مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يُقَلِّبَا

“Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam forbade from two types of business transactions and dressing in two types of clothing:

For a man to wear one piece of clothing while wrapping himself with it by throwing one of its sides on his shoulder (leaving his other shoulder uncovered) and for him to sit with his legs drawn up while wrapped in one garment (in a manner which will conceal his private parts). And for him to say without examining the garments, “Throw your garment to me and I will throw my garment to you.”⁹”

Shaykh (Rahimahullāh) was born in the year 585H in Harrān, and he died in (the month of) Sha’bān, in the year 670H in Dimashq (Damascus).

Footnotes:

^9- The second type of transaction that Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam forbade was the “Mulāmasah Transaction”.
   
The “Mulāmasah Transaction (touch sale)” is for a buyer to only touch the garment he wants to buy which would oblige him to buy it without flipping it over and examining it. (for further details on the issue, see Umdat’ul Fiqh, Kitāb’ul Buyū, p. 53-54; al-Uddah, 1/325-326; al-Mutli, p. 275)

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The Tenth Hadīth

Sharaf’ud Dīn Abū Abdillāh Muhammad bin Abd’il Mun’im bin Umar bin Abdillāh bin Ghudayr Ibn’il Qawwās at-Tā’ī informed us about the recitation upon him and I listened to it in the year 675H and Abu’l Hasan Ibn’ul Bukhārī informed us that Abu’l Abbās al-Khadir bin Kāmil bin Sālim as-Sarūjī informed us about the recitation upon him. (He said:) Abū Abdillāh al-Husayn bin Alī bin Ahmad al-Muqrī informed us; and al-Fakhr al-Bukhārī said that Abu’l Yaman al-Kindī and also Abu’l Qāsim Ismā’īl bin Ahmad bin Umar as-Samarqandī both said that Abu’l Husayn Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abdillāh Ibn’un Naqūr informed us. (He said:) Abu’l Husayn Muhammad bin Abdillāh Ibn’il Husayn bin Abdillāh bin Hārūn Ibni Akhī Mīmīy’id Daqqāq informed us that Abdullāh narrated to us that Dāwūd narrated to us that al-Walīd bin Muslim narrated to us from Abū Ghassān Muhammad bin Mutarrif from Zayd bin Aslam from Alī Ibn’ul Husayn from Sa’īd bin Marjānah from Abū Hurayrah Radiyallāhu Anh from the Nabī Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam that he said,

مَنْ أَعْتَقَ رَقَبَةً أَعْتَقَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِكُلِّ عُضْوٍ مِنْهَا عُضْوًا مِنْهُ مِنْ النَّارِ حَتَّى فَرْجَهُ بِفَرْجِهِ

“Whoever frees a slave, Allāh Azza wa Jalla will free his limbs from an-Nār (Hell-fire i.e., Jahannam) for every limb that he frees; until his private part for (freeing) the slaves private part.”

Al-Bukhārī narrated this from Muhammad bin Abd’ir Rahīm, from Dāwūd bin Rashīd, and Muslim narrated it from Dāwūd himself. At-Tirmidhī narrated it from Qutaybah from al-Layth from Ibn’ul Hādd from Umar bin Alī Ibn’il Husayn from Sa’īd bin Marjānah.

The Shaykh (Rahimahullāh) was born in the year 602H and he died in (the month of) Rabī’ul Ākhir, in the year 682H.

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The Eleventh Hadīth

Al-Mashāyikh (pl. Shaykh), as-Sulahā (pl. Sālih; righteous), al-Musnidūn (pl. Musnid; the one who narrates Hadīth with Isnād), Abū Abdullāh Muhammad bin Badr bin Muhammad bin Ya’īsh al-Jazarī, Abū’l Abbās Ahmad bin Shaybān, Abu’l Fadhl Ismā’īl bin Abī Abdillāh Ibn’ul Asqalānī, and Zaynab bint Ahmad bin Kāmil informed us informed us about the recitation upon him and I listened to it in (the month of) Sha’bān, the year 675H in Qāsyūn. They said: Abū Hafs Umar bin Muhammad bin Tabarzadh al-Baghdādī informed us about the recitation upon him, and we listened to it. (He said:) Abu’l Qāsim Abdullāh bin Ahmad bin Abd’il Qādir bin Yūsuf, Abū Mansūr Abd’ur Rahmān bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Wāhid al-Qazzāz, and Abu’l Fath Abdullāh bin Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Baydhāwī informed us about the recitation upon them, and I listened to it. They said: Abū Ja’far Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Muslim al-Mu’addil informed us that Abū Tāhir Muhammad bin Abd’ir Rahmān Ibn’ul Abbās al-Mukhlis informed us that Abu’l Qāsim Abdullāh bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Azīz al-Baghawī informed us that Abdullāh bin Mutī narrated to me that Ismā’īl bin Ja’far narrated to us. (Abu’l Qāsim) al-Baghawī said: Sālih bin Mālik also narrated to me that Abd’ul Azīz bin Abdillāh narrated to us. (Abu’l Qāsim) al-Baghawī said: my grandfather also narrated to me that Yazīd bin Hārūn narrated to us. All of them (Ismā’īl bin Ja’far, Abd’ul Azīz bin Abdillāh, and Yazīd bin Hārūn) narrated from Humayd, from Anas Radiyallāhu Anh that the Nabī Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

دَخَلْت الْجَنَّةَ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِقَصْرِ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ فَقُلْت: لِمَنْ هَذَا الْقَصْرُ؟ فَقَالُوا: لِشَابِّ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَظَنَنْت أَنِّي أَنَا هُوَ فَقُلْت: وَمَنْ هُوَ؟ قَالُوا: عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ

“I entered al-Jannah (paradise), and suddenly, I was at a palace made from gold. So I said, “Who does this palace belong to?” Thereupon, they said, “A youth from amongst Quraysh.” So I thought that I was that youth. So I said: “And who is he?” They said, “‘Umar Ibn’ul Khattāb.”

This wording of the Hadīth belongs to Ibnu Mutī.

The Shaykh (Rahimahullāh) died in (the month of) Sha’bān, in the year 675H.

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The Twelfth Hadīth

Al-Faqīh, al-Imām, al-Ālim, al-Āmil (the one who acts upon his knowledge), Zayn’ud Dīn Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm bin Ahmad bin Abi’l Faraj bin Abī Tāhir bin Muhammad bin Nasr, as known as Ibn’us Sadīd al-Ansārī al-Hanafī informed us about the recitation upon him in the month of Rajab, the year 675H. (He said:) Abu’l Yaman Zayd Ibn’ul Hasan bin Zayd al-Kindī informed us about the recitation upon him, and Zaynab bint Makkī informed us, she said: Abū Hafs Ibnu Tabarzadh informed us. Both of them (Abu’l Yaman and Abū Hafs) said: Al-Qādhī Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’il Bāqī bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Ansārī informed us. (He said:) Abu’l Hasan Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Īsā al-Bāqillānī informed us. (He said:) Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Ja’far bin Hamdān bin Mālik al-Qatī’ī narrated to us that Muhammad bin Mūsā al-Qurashī narrated to us that Awn bin Imārah narrated to us that Humayd at-Tawīl narrated to us from Anas bin Mālik Radiyallāhu Anh that he said Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

الصَّائِمُ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ نِصْفِ النَّهَارِ

“The (optional) fasting person is free to choose between what is in front of him (completing the fast) and between half of the day (breaking his fast).”

The Shaykh (Rahimahullāh) died when he was 73 years old in (the month of) Jumād’al Ūlā, in the year 677H.

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The Thirteenth Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh, al-Imām, al-Muqri (the one who has Ijāzāt [permission] to recite in the ten Qirā’āt [Accents of Reciting the Qur’ān], given by a qualified teacher in the science of Qirā’āt), ar-Ra’īs (the leader), al-Fādhil (the virtuous), Kamāl’ud Dīn Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm bin Ahmad bin Ismā’īl bin Fāris at-Tamīmī as-Sa’dī informed us about the recitation upon him, and I listened to it in (the month of) Ramadhān, the year 674H. (He said:) Abu’l Yaman Zayd Ibn’ul Hasan bin Zayd al-Kindī informed us. (He said:) al-Qādhī (the judge) Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’il Bāqī al-Ansārī informed us. (He said:) Abu’l Husayn Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Hasanūn an-Nursī informed us in the year 455H. (He said:) Abū Tāhir Muhammad bin Abd’ir Rahmān al-Mukhlis informed us. (He said:) Abu’l Qāsim Abdullāh bin Muhammad al-Baghawī narrated to us that Shurayh bin Yūnus, Muhammad bin Yazīd al-Ādamī, Ibn’ul Bazzār, and Hārūn bin Abdillāh all narrated to us. They said: Ma’n narrated to us from Mu’āwiyah bin Sālih from Bahīr bin Sa’d from Khālid bin Ma’dān from Uqbah bin Āmir al-Juhanī Radiyallāhu Anh that he said: Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

الْمُسِرُّ بِالْقُرْآنِ كَالْمُسِرِّ بِالصَّدَقَةِ وَالْجَاهِرُ بِالْقُرْآنِ كَالْجَاهِرِ بِالصَّدَقَةِ

“The one who recites the Qur’ān secretly (quietly) is like the one who gives Sadaqah (charity) secretly, and the one who recites the Qur’ān loudly is like the one who gives Sadaqah publicly.”

Ālī informed us (this Hadīth) with its degree, and Ahmad bin Abd’id Dā’im agreed with him (in the narration). (He said:) Ibnu Kulayb informed us that Ibnu Bayān informed us. (He said:) Ibnu Mukhlad narrated to us that as-Saffār informed us that Ibnu Arafah narrated to us that Ismā’īl bin Ayyāsh narrated to us from Bahīr, then he mentioned the Hadīth.

The Shaykh (Rahimahullāh) was born in the year 596H, and he died in (the month of) Safar, year 676H.

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The Fourteenth Hadīth

Al-Imām, al-Musnid (the one who narrates Hadīth with Isnād) Zayn’ud Dīn Abu’l Abbās Ahmad bin Abi’l Khayr Salāmah bin Ibrāhīm bin Salāmah Ibn’ul Haddād ad-Dimashqī informed us about my recitation upon him, and I listened to it in (the month of) Rabī’ul Awwal, the year 675H. I said to him: You were informed by Abū Sa’īd Khalīl bin Abi’r Rajā bin Abi’l Fath ar-Rārānī about his Ijāzah (permission), and it was also recited upon my father, and I listened to it in Harrān, in the year 666H. Yūsuf bin Khalīl informed you that ar-Rārānī informed us that Abū Alī al-Hasan bin Ahmad Ibn’ul Hasan al-Haddād informed us, Abū Nu’aym Ahmad bin Abdillāh bin Ahmad bin Ishāq al-Hāfidh informed us, Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Yūsuf bin Khallād informed us, al-Hārith bin Abī Usāmah narrated to us that Abdullāh bin Bakr narrated to us that Humayd narrated to us from Anas bin Mālik Radiyallāhu Anh that he said,

رَأَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَبْلًا مَمْدُودًا بَيْن سَارِيَتَيْنِ مِنْ سَوَارِي الْمَسْجِدِ. قَالَ: مَا هَذَا الْحَبْلُ؟ قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فُلَانَةُ تُصَلِّي مَا عَقَلَتْ؛ فَإِذَا غَلَبَتْ أَخَذَتْ بِهِ قَالَ: فَلْتُصَلِّ مَا عَقَلَتْ؛ فَإِذَا غَلَبَتْ فَلْتَنَمْ

“Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam saw a rope hanging in between two pillars of the many pillars of the Masjid. Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, What is this rope? They said, O Rasūlullāh! So-and-so lady prays Salāh as long as she can bear, and when she becomes overcome (by sleep), she holds (the rope). He Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, She should pray as long as she can bear, and when she is becomes overcome (by sleep), she should sleep.”

Birth of the Shaykh Rahimahullāh took place in Rabī’ul Awwal, year 609H and died on the Day of Āshūrā, in the year 678H.

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The Fifteenth Hadīth

Al-Adl, al-Musnad, Amīn’ud Dīn Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim bin Abī Bakr bin Qāsim bin Ghunaymah al-Irbilī, Abū Bakr bin Umar bin Yūnus al-Mazī al-Hanafī, and Abū Abdillāh Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Sulaymān al-Āmirī, informed us about the recitation upon them, and I listened to it in the year 677H. The first (Abū Muhammad al-Irbilī) said: Abu’l Hasan al-Mu’ayyad informed us from Muhammad Ibn’ul Fadhl bin Ahmad al-Firāwī. The other two (Abū Bakr al-Mazī al-Hanafī and Abū Abdillāh al-Āmirī) said: Abu’l Qāsim Abd’us Samad Ibn’ul Harsitānī informed us about the recitation upon him. Al-Farāwī informed us about an Ijāzah (permission), Abu’l Husayn Abd’ul Ghāfir bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Ghāfir al-Fārisī informed us. (He said:) Abū Ahmad Muhammad bin Īsā bin Amrawayh al-Julūdī informed us that Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin Sufyān informed us. (He said:) Muslim Ibn’ul Hajjāj al-Qushayrī narrated to us that Khalaf bin Hishām, Abu’r Rabī az-Zahrānī, and Qutaybah bin Sa’īd all narrated from Hammād. Khalaf said: Hammād bin Zayd narrated to us from Muhammad bin Ziyād that Abū Hurayrah Radiyallāhu Anh narrated to us that he said: Muhammad Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

أَمَا يَخْشَى الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ قَبْلَ الْإِمَامِ أَنْ يُحَوِّلَ اللّٰهُ رَأْسَهُ رَأْسَ حِمَارٍ

“Doesn’t the one who lifts his head before the Imām have Khashyah (awe) from Allāh that He may transform his head to the head of a donkey?”

Al-Irbilī Rahimahullāh was born in the year 595H, or before it in Irbīl, and he died in (the month of) Jumād’al Ūlā, year 680H. Al-Mazī Rahimahullāh was born in the year 593H and he died in (the month of) Sha’bān, year 680H.

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The Sixteenth Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh, al-Imām, al-Ālim, Qādiy’ul Qudāt (the Chief Judge) Shams’ud Dīn Abū Muhammad Abdullāh bin Muhammad bin Atā bin Hasan al-Hanafī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the year 667H, and Abu’l Abbās Ibnu Allān and Abu’l Abbās Ibnu Shaybān also informed us. They said: Abū Alī Hanbal bin Abdillāh Ibn’ul Faraj ar-Rasāfī informed us about the recitation upon him. (He said:) Abu’l Qāsim Hibatullāh bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Wāhid Ibn’ul Husayn ash-Shaybānī informed us, Abū Alī al-Hasan bin Alī bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Madhhab at-Tamīmī informed us. (He said:) Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Ja’far bin Hamdān bin Mālik al-Qatī’ī informed us that Abū Abd’ur Rahmān Abdullāh Ibn’ul Imām Abī Abdillāh Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal ash-Shaybānī Radiyallāhu Anh narrated to us. (He said:) Abū Ahmad bin Muhammad narrated to me, Sufyān narrated to us, from Abdullāh bin Dīnār. (He said:) I heard Umar Radiyallāhu Anh saying: Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

مَنْ اقْتَنَى كَلْبًا - إلَّا كَلْبَ مَاشِيَةٍ أَوْ كَلْبَ قَنْصٍ - نَقَصَ مِنْ أَجْرِهِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ قِيرَاطَانِ

“Whoever owns a dog -except for a sheepdog or a hound dog- every day, two Qīrāt (a unit of measurement equivalent to 0.234 gr) will decrease from his reward.”

Birth of the Shaykh Rahimahullāh took place in the year 595H and died in (the month of) Jumād’al Ūlā, in the year 673H.

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The Seventeenth Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh al-Imām, al-Ālim, al-Allāmah, az-Zāhid, Qādiy’ul Qudāt Shams’ud Dīn Abū Muhammad Abd’ur Rahmān bin Abī Umar Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Qudāmah al-Maqdisī al-Hanbalī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the (month of) Sha’bān, in the year 667H in Qāsiyūn, and Ibnu Shaybān, Ibn’ul Asqalānī, and Ibn’ul Hamawī also informed us. They said: Abū Hafs Umar bin Muhammad bin Tabarzadh informed us. (He said:) Abu’l Qāsim Hibatullāh bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Wāhid Ibn’ul Husayn informed us, Abū Tālib Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Ghaylān al-Bazzāz informed us. Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abdillāh bin Ibrāhīm ash-Shāfi’ī informed us that Muhammad bin Salamah al-Wāsitī narrated to us. (He said:) Yazīd bin Hārūn narrated to us, Sulaymān at-Taymī narrated to us from Abū Uthmān an-Nahdī, from Abū Mūsā al-Ash’arī Radiyallāhu Anh, that he said,

كُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَكَانَ الْقَوْمُ يَصْعَدُونَ عَقَبَةً أَوْ ثَنْيَةً فَإِذَا صَعِدَ الرَّجُلُ قَالَ: لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَاَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ - قَالَ: أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ - وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى بَغْلَتِهِ يَعْرِضُهَا فِي الْجَبَلِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَا أَبَا مُوسَى إنَّكُمْ لَا تُنَادُونَ أَصَمَّ وَلَا غَائِبًا. ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ قَيْسٍ - أَوْ يَا أَبَا مُوسَى - أَلَا أَدُلَّك عَلَى كَلِمَةٍ مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ. قَالَ قُلْت: بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قُلْ: لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إلَّا بِاَللَّهِ

“We were with Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam and the people were climbing a mountain pass or a mountain trail. When a man climbed up, he said, “La Ilaha Illallāh Wallāhu Akbar (there is no -true- deity -worthy of worship- except Allāh, and Allāh is the greatest)”. Abū Mūsā said, “I think that he said this with his highest voice.” Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam was on his mule, advancing it towards the mountain. So the Nabī Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, “O Abū Mūsā! You are neither calling a deaf nor an absent one!” Then he said, “O Abdullāh bin Qays!” or “O Abū Mūsā! Should I not inform you of a sentence from amongst the treasures of Jannah?” I said, “Of course, O Rasūlullāh!” He Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, “Say, “Lā Hawla wa Lā Quwwata Illā Billāh (there is no might or power except with Allāh).”

Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in the year 597H and died in the year 682H.

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The Eighteenth Hadīth

Al-Musnad, al-Asīl (noble), al-Adl (just), Majd’ud Dīn Abū Abdillāh Muhammad bin Ismā’īl bin Uthmān Ibn’ul Mudhaffar bin Hibatillāh bin Asākir ad-Dimashqī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the (month of) Sha’bān, in the year 667H. (He said:) al-Hāfidh Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim bin Alī Ibn’ul Hasan bin Hibatillāh bin Asākir informed us about the recitation upon him. The merchant and Mawlā (freed-slave) of Ibn’ul Bukhārī, Abu’d Durr Yāqūt bin Abdillāh ar-Rūmī informed us about the recitation upon him. Zaynab Bint Makkī and Ismā’īl Ibn’ul Asqalānī also informed us. Zaynab and Isma’īl said: Ibnu Tabarzadh, al-Qādhī Abū Bakr al-Ansārī, Abū Bakr Ahmad Ibn’ul Ashqar ad-Dallāl, Abū Ghālib Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Quraysh, and Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Dahrūj informed us. All of them said: Abū Muhammad Abdullāh bin Muhammad bin Abdillāh bin Hazār Mard as-Sarīfīnī informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū Tāhir Muhammad bin Abd’ir Rahmān Ibn’ul Abbās al-Mukhlis narrated to us, with dictation in (the month of) Sha’bān, year 393H. (He said:) Abu’l Qāsim Abdullāh bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Baghawī narrated to us, Shaybān bin Farrūkh narrated to us, Mubārak bin Fadhālah narrated to us, al-Hasan narrated to us from Anas Radiyallāhu Anh that he said,

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَخْطُبُ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ إلَى جَانِبِ خَشَبَةٍ مُسْنِدًا ظَهْرَهُ إلَيْهَا. فَلَمَّا كَثُرَ النَّاسُ قَالَ: ابْنُوا لِي مِنْبَرًا لَهُ عَتَبَتَانِ فَلَمَّا قَامَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يَخْطُبُ حَنَّتْ الْخَشَبَةُ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ. قَالَ أَنَسٌ: وَأَنَا فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَسَمِعْت الْخَشَبَةَ تَحِنُّ حَنِينَ الْوَالِهِ فَمَا زَالَتْ تَحِنُّ حَتَّى نَزَلَ إلَيْهَا فَاحْتَضَنَهَا فَسَكَتَتْ

“Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam used to deliver a sermon on the day of Jumu’ah next to a log while he used to recline his back on it. When the people increased, he said, “Construct a Minbar (pulpit) for me which has two steps.” So when he stood up on the Minbar giving the sermon, the log longingly wept for Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam. Anas Radiyallāhu Anh said: “I was present in the Masjid, and the log was longingly weeping as though it was longing for its Wālī. It did not stop weeping until Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam descended (from the Minbar) to it and hugged so it became quiet.”

When al-Hasan Radiyallāhu Anh used to narrate this Hadīth, he used to cry and then say,

“O servants of Allāh! The log would weep while longing for Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam because of its yearning for Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam due to his place in the eyes of Allāh Azza wa Jalla. So you are more deserving of yearning to meet him!”

Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in the year 587H and died in (the month of) Dhu’l Qa’dah, the year 699H.

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The Nineteenth Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh, al-Imām, as-Sadr’ur Ra’īs (the grand chief scholar), Shams’ud Dīn Abu’l Ghanā’im al-Muslim bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Muslim bin Allān al-Qaysī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the year 680H. Abu’l Hasan Ibn’ul Bukhārī also informed us. They both said: Abu’l Yaman Zayd Ibn’ul Hasan bin Zayd al-Kindī informed us about the recitation upon him. Al-Qādhī Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’il Bāqī bin Muhammad al-Ansārī informed us. Abū Muhammad al-Hasan bin Alī bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Hasan al-Jawharī narrated to us with dictation that Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Ja’far bin Hamdān bin Mālik al-Qatī’ī informed us. Bishr bin Mūsā narrated to us, Abū Nu’aym narrated to us, al-A’mash narrated to us from Abū Sālih from Abū Hurayrah Radiyallāhu Anh, that he said: Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: الصَّوْمُ لِي وَأَنَا أَجْزِي بِهِ يَدَعُ شَهْوَتَهُ وَأَكْلَهُ وَشُرْبَهُ مِنْ أَجْلِي وَالصَّوْمُ جُنَّةٌ وَلِلصَّائِمِ فرحتان: فَرْحَةٌ حِينَ يُفْطِرُ وَفَرْحَةٌ حِينَ يَلْقَى اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَلَخُلُوفُ فَمِ الصَّائِمِ أَطْيَبُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مِنْ رِيحِ الْمِسْكِ

“Allāh Azza wa Jalla said: Fasting is for Me and I will reward it. The one who fasts forsakes his desires, food, and drink for My sake. Fasting is a shield, and there are two delights for the one who is fasting: A delight when he breaks his fast and a delight when he meets Allāh Azza wa Jalla. Surely, the smell of the mouth of the one who fasts is more pleasant in the sight of Allāh than the smell of musk.”

Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in the year 594H and died on the sixth of Dhu’l Hijjah, in the year 680H.

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The Twentieth Hadīth

Ar-Ra’īs (the chief scholar), Imād’ud Dīn Abū Muhammad Abd’ur Rahmān bin Abi’s Su’r Ibn’us Sayyid Ibn’us Sāni al-Ansārī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the year 676H, and Abu’l Izz Yūsuf bin Ya’qūb Ibn’ul Mujāwir and al-Muslim bin Allān informed us. They said: Abu’l Yaman Zayd Ibn’ul Hasan bin Zayd al-Kindī informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū Mansūr Abd’ur Rahmān bin Muhammad bin Zurayq al-Qazzāz ash-Shaybānī informed us about the recitation upon him. Al-Hāfidh Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Alī bin Thābit al-Khatīb al-Baghdādī informed us. Abū Umar Abd’ul Wāhid bin Muhammad bin Abdullāh bin Mahdī informed us. Al-Qādhī Abū Abdillāh al-Husayn bin Ismā’īl al-Mahāmilī narrated to us. Abū Mūsā Muhammad Ibn’ul Muthannā narrated to us. Ibnu Uyaynah narrated to us from Hishām bin Urwah from his father from Ā’ishah Radiyallāhu Anhā,

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَمَّا جَاءَ إلَى مَكَّةَ دَخَلَهَا مِنْ أَعْلَاهَا وَخَرَجَ مِنْ أَسْفَلِهَا

“That when the Nabī Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam came to Makkah, he entered it from its high end and came out of it from its low end.”

It was reported by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī, and an-Nasā’ī from Abū Mūsā.

Shaykh Rahimahullāh died in (the month of) Ramadhān, the year 679H.

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The Twenty-First Hadīth

Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm bin Ismā’īl bin Ibrāhīm bin Yahyā bin Ulwī Ibn’ul Husayn ad-Darjī al-Qurashī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in (the month of) Rajab, year 680H. Abū Ja’far Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Nasr bin Abi’l Fath as-Saydalānī informed us with an Ijāzah (permission from his teachers). Abū Alī al-Hasan bin Ahmad Ibn’ul Hasan al-Haddād informed us. Al-Hāfidh Abū Nu’aym Ahmad bin Abdullāh bin Ahmad bin Ishāq informed us. Abū Muhammad Abdullāh bin Ja’far bin Ahmad bin Fāris informed us. He said: I heard Sufyān bin Uyaynah say: Āsim narrated to us from Zirr.

He said: I came to Safwān bin Assāl al-Murādī Radiyallāhu Anh, so he said to me, “What has brought you?” I said, “I came to seek knowledge.” So he said, “Verily, the Malā’ikah (pl. Malak; angels) lower their wings for the Tālib’ul Ilm (student of knowledge) while being pleased with what he is seeking.” I said, “I am not at ease with –or my heart is not at ease by- wiping over the Khuffayn (leather socks) after defecating and urinating, so did you hear anything from Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam with this regards?” Safwān said,

نَعَمْ كَانَ يَأْمُرُنَا إذَا كُنَّا سَفَرًا - أَوْ مُسَافِرِينَ - أَنْ لَا نَنْزِعَ خِفَافَنَا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ وَلَيَالِيهِنَّ إلَّا مِنْ جَنَابَةٍ؛ وَلَكِنْ مِنْ غَائِطٍ أَوْ بَوْلٍ أَوْ نَوْمٍ

“Yes. Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam used to order us when we traveled –or when we were travellers- to not remove our Khuff for three days and three nights except from sexual impurity, but not from defecation, urination, or sleep.”

I said, “Did you hear Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam mention guidance [desires/temptations]?” Safwān said,

نَعَمْ بينا نَحْنُ مَعَهُ فِي مَسِيرٍ إذْ نَادَاهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ بِصَوْتِ لَهُ جَهْوَرِيٍّ فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَأَجَابَهُ عَلَى نَحْوٍ مِنْ كَلَامِهِ: هَاؤُمُ قَالَ: أَرَأَيْت رَجُلًا يُحِبُّ قَوْمًا وَلَمْ يَلْحَقْ بِهِمْ؟ قَالَ: الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ. ثُمَّ لَمْ يَزَلْ يُحَدِّثُنَا أَنَّ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَغْرِبِ بَابًا يَفْتَحُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لِلتَّوْبَةِ مَسِيرَةَ عَرْضِهِ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً وَلَا يُغْلَقُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ: {يَوْمَ يَأْتِي بَعْضُ آيَاتِ رَبِّكَ لَا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إيمَانُهَا} . . الْآيَةَ

“Yes! When we were with Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam on a journey, a Bedouin called out to him with a loud, high-pitched voice, saying, “O Muhammad!” So Rasūlullāh gave him a response with a speech similar to the Bedouin’s saying: “Here!” The Bedouin said, “What is your opinion regarding a man who loves a nation but does not catch up with them (in good deeds)?” Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, “A man is with the one he loves.” Then he Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam did not stop narrating to us that there is a door -towards the direction of the west, its width is a span of forty year- which Allāh Azza wa Jalla opened for Tawbah (repentance), and it will not be closed until the sun rises from its which its direction of the west. And this is the statement of Allāh Azza wa Jalla in the Āyah:

يَوْمَ يَأْتِي بَعْضُ آيَاتِ رَبِّكَ لَا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إيمَانُهَا

“The Day that some of the signs of your Lord will come no soul will benefit from its faith.” (al-An’ām 6/158)

Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in the year 599H and died in the month of Safar, the year 671H.

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The Twenty-Second Hadīth

Najīb’ud Dīn Abu’l Murhaf, al-Miqdād bin Abi’l Qāsim Hibatullāh Ibn’ul Miqdād bin Alī al-Qaysī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it. Abū Muhammad Abd’ul Azīz bin Mahmūd Ibn’ul Mubārak Ibn’ul Akhdar informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’il Bāqī al-Ansārī informed us. Abū Ishāq al-Barmakī informed us. Abū Muhammad bin Māsi informed us. Abū Muslim al-Kijjī narrated to us. Muhammad bin Abdillāh al-Ansārī narrated to us. Sulaymān at-Taymī narrated to me from Anas bin Mālik Radiyallāhu Anh that he said: Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

لَا هِجْرَةَ بَيْنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَوْقَ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ - أَوْ قَالَ ثَلَاثَ لَيَالٍ

“It is not allowed for two Muslims to boycott each other for more than three days -or he said three nights.”

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The Twenty-Third Hadīth

Al-Imām, Abū Abdillāh Muhammad bin Āmir bin Abī Bakr al-Gasūlī informed us about my recitation to him in the year 682H. Abū’l Barakāt Dāwūd bin Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Mulā’ib informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū’l Fadhl Muhammad bin Umar bin Yūsuf al-Armawī informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū’l Ghanā’im Abd’us Samad bin Alī bin Muhammad Ibn’ul Ma’mūn informed us. Abū’l Hasan Alī bin Umar bin Ahmad bin Mahdī ad-Dāraqutnī informed us. Abdullāh bin Muhammad bin Abd’il Azīz al-Baghawī narrated to us. Sālih bin Hātim bin Wardān narrated to us. Al-Mu’tamir bin Sulaymān narrated to us. Abd’ur Razzāq narrated to me from Ma’mar, from az-Zuhrī, from Āmir bin Sa’d from his father that he said,

قُلْت: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَعْطَيْت فُلَانًا وَفُلَانًا وَمَنَعْت فُلَانًا وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ. قَالَ: أَوْ مُسْلِمٌ

“I said, O Rasūlullāh! You gave to so-and-sos, and you prevented from so-and-so while he is a Mu’min (believer)?” Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, “Or a Muslim.”

When he was almost 80 years old, Shaykh Rahimahullāh died in the Month of Jumād’al Ākhirah, in the year 684H.

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The Twenty-Fourth Hadīth

Ash-Shaykh Fakhr’ud Dīn Abū’l Hasan Alī bin Ahmad bin Abd’il Wāhid bin Ahmad bin Abd’ir Rahmān bin Ismā’īl bin Mansūr Ibn’ul Bukhārī al-Maqdisī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the year 681H. Ash-Shaykh Shams’ud Dīn Abd’ur Rahmān bin Abī Umar also informed us in the year 667H. Abū’l Mahāsin Muhammad bin Kāmil bin Ahmad at-Tanūkhī informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū Muhammad Tāhir bin Sahl bin Bishr al-Isfarāyīnī informed us. Abū’l Qāsim al-Husayn Ibn’ul Hasan bin Muhammad bin Ibrāhīm al-Hinnā’ī informed us. Abū’l Hasan Abd’ul Wahhāb Ibn’ul Walīd bin Mūsā bin Rāshid bin Khālid bin Yazīd bin Abdillāh al-Kullābī narrated to us, with his wording. Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Kharīm bin Marwān al-Uqaylī informed us about the recitation upon him while I heard it. Abū’l Walīd Hishām bin Ammār bin Nusayr bin Maysarah as-Sulamī informed us. Mālik bin Anas narrated to us. Ishāq bin Abdillāh bin Abī Talhah narrated to us, from Anas bin Mālik Radiyallāhu Anh that Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

الرُّؤْيَا الْحَسَنَةُ مِنْ الرَّجُلِ الصَّالِحِ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سِتَّةٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ جُزْءًا مِنْ النُّبُوَّةِ

“A good dream of a righteous man is one of forty-six parts of Nubuwwah (prophethood).”

Al-Bukhārī narrated it from al-Qa’nabī from Mālik.

Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in Salkh, year 595H, and died in the Month of Rabī’ul Ākhir, the year 690H.

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The Twenty-Fifth Hadīth

Abu’l Abbās Ahmad bin Shaybān bin Taghlib bin Haydarah ash-Shaybānī informed us about the recitation upon him and I heard it in the year 684H. Abū Hafs Umar bin Muhammad bin Tabarzadh al-Baghdādī informed us about the recitation upon him. Abū Ghālib Ahmad Ibn’ul Hasan bin Ahmad bin Abdillāh Ibn’il Bannā informed us about the recitation upon him while we listened to it. Abū Muhammad al-Hasan bin Alī bin Muhammad Ibn’il Hasan bin Abdillāh al-Jawharī informed us about the recitation upon him in the month of Ramadhān, year 452H. Abū Bakr Ahmad bin Ja’far bin Hamdān bin Mālik al-Qatī’ī informed us about the recitation upon him while I was present and listening. Abū Alī Bishr bin Mūsā bin Sālih al-Asadī narrated to us. Abū Nu’aym narrated to us. Al-A’mash narrated to us from Shaqīq bin Salamah, he said: Abdullah Radiyallāhu Anh said,

“When we used to pray behind the Nabī Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam, we used to say, “As-Salāmu Alāllāhi (Peace be upon Allāh)”, without saying “Ibādillāh (the slaves of Allāh)” “As-Salāmu alā Jibrīla wa Mīkā’īla as-Salāmu alā Fulānin wa Fulānin (Peace be upon Jibrīl and Mīkā’īl, peace be on so-and-so).

So the Nabī Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam turned toward us and said,

اللَّهُ هُوَ السَّلَامُ فَإِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَقُلْ: التَّحِيَّاتُ لِلَّهِ وَالصَّلَوَاتُ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ. السَّلَامُ عَلَيْك أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ. السَّلَامُ عَلَيْنَا وَعَلَى عِبَادِ اللَّهِ الصَّالِحِينَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ

“Allāh is as-Salām, so if anyone of you prays he should say, “At-Tahiyyātu Lillāhi wa’s Salawātu wa’t Tayyibātu. As-Salāmu Alayka Ayyuhan Nabiyyu wa Rahmatullāhi wa Barakātuhu. As-Salāmu alaynā wa alā Ibādillāh’is Sālihīn. Ashhadu an La Ilaha Illallāh, wa Ashhadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasūluh. (All compliments, prayers and good things are due to Allāh. May peace and the mercy and blessings of Allāh be upon you o Nabī (Prophet)! May peace be upon us and upon the Sālih (righteous) servants of Allāh! I bear witness that there is no -true- deity -worthy of worship- except Allāh, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messenger.)”

Recorded by al-Bukhārī. Muslim recorded it from Ibn’ul Muthannā from Ghundur from Shu’ba from Mansūr. Both of them recorded it from Shaqīq.

Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born in the year 599H died in the month of Safar, the year 685H.

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The Twenty-Sixth Hadīth

Abū Yahyā Ismā’īl bin Abī Abdillāh bin Hammād bin Abd’il Karīm al-Asqalānī informed us about my recitation upon him in the year 681H, Abu’l Abbās Ibnu Shaybān, al-Jammāl Ahmad bin Abī Bakr al-Hamawī, Abu’l Hasan Ibn’ul Bukhārī, and Alī bin Mahmūd bin Shihāb informed us. They said: Abū Hafs Umar bin Muhammad bin Tabarzadh al-Baghdādī informed us about the recitation upon him. Hibatullāh bin Muhammad Ibn’il Husayn ash-Shaybānī informed us. Abū Tālib Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Ghaylān al-Bazzār informed us. Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abdillāh bin Ibrāhīm ash-Shāfi’ī informed us. Abu’l Hasan Alī Ibn’ul Hasan bin Abdawayh al-Jarrār informed us. Abdullāh bin Bakr as-Sahmī narrated to us. Humayd narrated to us from Anas Radiyallāhu Anh that he said,

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي طَرِيقٍ وَمَعَهُ أُنَاسٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَعَرَضَتْ لَهُ امْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَتْ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لِي إلَيْك حَاجَةٌ فَقَالَ: يَا أُمَّ فُلَانٍ؛ اجْلِسِي فِي أَدْنَى نَوَاحِي السِّكَك حَتَّى أَجْلِسَ إلَيْك فَفَعَلَتْ؛ فَجَلَسَ إلَيْهَا حَتَّى قَصَّتْ حَاجَتَهَا

“Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam was in a path while a group of his companions were with him. A women became visible to him and said, “O Rasūlullāh! I have a need for you!” So he Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said, “O mother of so-and-so! Sit down in the closest part of this street so that I may sit next to you.” Thereupon, she did this and he Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam sat with her until he fulfilled her need.”

Imām Ahmad narrated it from Abdullāh bin Bakr.

Ibn’ul Asqalānī heard it when he was four years old in the year 599H, and died in the Month of Ramadhān, year 682H. Ibnu Shihāb was born in the year 595H and died in the Month of Ramadhān, year 680H.

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The Twenty-Seventh Hadīth

The great, pious, Shaykh, Kamāl’ud Dīn Abū Muhammad Abd’ur Rahīm bin Abd’il Malik bin Yūsuf bin Qudāmah al-Maqdisī informed us about the recitation upon him while I listened to it in the Month of Safar, year 680H. Abu’l Abbās bin Shaybān also informed us. Abū Hafs Umar bin Muhammad Ibni Tabarzadh al-Baghdādī informed us about the recitation upon him. Al-Qādhī Abū Bakr Muhammad bin Abd’il Bāqī bin Muhammad al-Bazzār and Abu’l Mawāhib Ahmad [bin Muhammad] bin Abd’il Malik bin Mulūk al-Warrāq informed us. Both of them said: al-Qādhī Abu’t Tayyib Tāhir bin Abdillāh at-Tabarī informed us. Muhammad bin Ahmad Ibn’il Ghitrīf informed us. Abū Khalīfah narrated to us. Muslim bin Ibrāhīm narrated to us from Hishām and Shu’bah from Qatādah from Sa’īd Ibn’ul Musayyab from Ibnu Abbās. Ibnu Abbās said: Rasūlullāh Sallallāhu Alayhi wa Sallam said,

الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْعَائِدِ فِي قَيْئِهِ

“The one who retracts his gift is like the one who eats his vomit.”

This Hadīth is Muttafaqun Alayh (reported by al-Bukhārī and Muslim).

The Shaykh Rahimahullāh was born roughly in the year 598H and passed away in the Month of Jumāda’l Ūlā, year 680H.