Abu Hurayrah
أبو هريرة عبد الرحمن بن صخر
Companion, died 57 AH in Madinah. Named in the chains of 5,488 narrations of the library, 969 in Bukhari, 557 in Muslim, 492 in Abu Dawud.
5,488narrations name him
16collections
57 AHhe died, in Madinah
Narrations he is named in
Bukhari969Muslim557Abu Dawud492Tirmidhi544Nasa'i559Ibn Majah596Muwatta156Ahmad14Darimi245Riyad as-Salihin309Bulugh al-Maram186Al-Adab Al-Mufrad226Shama'il22Mishkat579Nawawi's Forty9Forty Qudsi25
Mishkat al-Masabih, page 11 of 20
Mishkat al-Masabih 1923DaifAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone breaks his fast one day in Ramadan without a concession* or without being ill, a perpetual fast will not atone for it even if he observes it.”
*e.g. while travelling.
Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Ibn…Mishkat al-Masabih 1924He reported God’s messenger as saying, “Many a one who fasts gets nothing from his fasting but thirst, and many a one who prays
during the night gets nothing from his night prayers but wakefulness.”
Darimi transmitted it. The tradition of Laqit ibn Sabira…Mishkat al-Masabih 1940SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “It is not allowable for a woman to fast when her husband is present without his permission,* and she may not allow anyone to enter his house without his permission.”
*This refers not to Ramadan, but to a…Mishkat al-Masabih 1948SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “The most excellent fast after Ramadan is in God’s month al-Muharram, and the most excellent prayer after what is prescribed is prayer during the night.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1960SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying. “None of you must fast on a Friday unless he fasts the day before or the day after.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1961SahihHe reported God’s messenger as saying, “Do not choose Thursday night as a particular night for prayer, and do not choose Friday as a particular day for fasting, unless it occurs during a fast one of you is observing.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1965SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “Men’s deeds are presented on Mondays and Thursdays, and I like mine to be presented when I am fasting.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1971DaifGod’s messenger prohibited fasting on the day of Arafa at Arafa.Mishkat al-Masabih 1981DaifAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “There is zakat applicable to everything, and the zakat of the body is fasting.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1982SahihHe said that the Prophet used to fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and when someone remarked on this to him he said, “On Monday and Thursday God forgives every Muslim except two who are at variance, for He says they must be left till they make peace with one…Mishkat al-Masabih 1983He reported God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone out of a desire to please God fasts for a day, God will remove him from jahannam as far as a crow flies from the time it is a young bird till it dies of old age.”
Ahmad transmitted it, and Baihaqi transmitted…Mishkat al-Masabih 1986SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “When one of you is invited to a meal at a time when he is fasting he should say he is fasting.” In a version he said, “When one of you receives an invitation he should accept it. If he is fasting he should…Mishkat al-Masabih 2006SahihThe Qur’an was gone over* to the Prophet once annually, but that this was done twice in the year in which he died. He used to engage in private devotions in the mosque during ten nights every year, but he did this during twenty nights in the year in which he…Mishkat al-Masabih 2017SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “Would one of you like, when he returns to his family, to find there three large, fat pregnant she-camels? When we replied that we would, he said, ‘Three verses which one of you recites in his prayer are better…Mishkat al-Masabih 2025SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “Do not make your houses graveyards*. The devil flies from the house in which sura al-Baqara is recited.”
*A house in which there is no prayer or recitation of the Qur’an is here intended. The dead cannot…Mishkat al-Masabih 2029SahihI had been placed in charge of the zakat of Ramadan by God’s messenger, and when someone came to me and began to take up handfuls of the food, I seized him and told him I was certainly going to take him before God’s messenger. But when he said, “I am needy…Mishkat al-Masabih 2047HasanWhen God’s Messenger once asked Ubayy ibn Kab how he recited in the course of the prayer and he recited Umm al- Qur’an (Al-Qur’an 1), he said, “By Him in whose hand my soul is, nothing like it has been sent down in the Torah, the Injil, the Zabur, or the…Mishkat al-Masabih 2048He reported God’s messenger as saying, “Learn and recite the Qur’an, for to one who learns, recites and uses it in prayer at night it is like a bag filled with musk whose fragrance diffuses itself everywhere; and he who learns it and goes to sleep having it…Mishkat al-Masabih 2049Daif“If anyone recites in the morning Ha Mim al-Mumin (Al-Qur’an, 40:1-3) to ‘to Him is the final goal’ and the Throne Verse (Al-Qur’an, 2:255) he will be guarded by them till the evening, and if anyone recites them in the evening he will be guarded by them till…Mishkat al-Masabih 2053Abu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “A thousand years before creating the heavens and the earth God recited Ta Ha (Qur’an, 20) and Ya Sin, and when the angels heard the recitation they said, ‘Happy are a people to whom this comes down, happy are…Mishkat al-Masabih 2054DaifHe reported God’s messenger as saying, “If someone recites Ha Mim ad-Dukhan (Qur’an, 44) any night, seventy thousand angels will ask forgiveness for him in the morning.”
Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying that this is a gharib tradition and that Umar ibn Abu…Mishkat al-Masabih 2055DaifHe reported God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone recites Ha Mim ad-Dukhan on a Thursday night his sins will be forgiven.”
Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying that this is a gharib daif tradition and that Hisham Abul Miqdam its transmitter is declared to be weak.Mishkat al-Masabih 2057SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “A sura in the Qur’an containing thirty verses interceded for a man till his sins were forgiven. It was ‘Blessed is He in whose hand is the kingdom.’” (Qur’an, 67)
Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Nasai and Ibn…Mishkat al-Masabih 2064SahihThe Prophet, on hearing a man reciting “Say, He is God, One” remarked, “It is certain.” I asked him what was certain, and he replied that it was paradise.
Malik, Tirmidhi and Nasai transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 2069Abu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “Expound the Qur’an and take as guide its unusual expressions, they being the things made obligatory in it and the limits set in it.”
Transmitted by Baihaqi in Shuab al-iman.Mishkat al-Masabih 2096Abu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “God has not listened to anything as He does to a prophet chanting* the Qur’an.”
*There are different opinions about the meaning of yataghanna which is here used. While some explain it as in the translation…Mishkat al-Masabih 2097He reported God’s messenger as saying, “God has not listened to anything as He does to a prophet with a good voice reciting the Qur’an aloud.”
(Bukhari and Muslim.)Mishkat al-Masabih 2098SahihHe reported God’s messenger as saying, “He does not belong to us who does not chant the Qur’an.”
Bukhari transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 2127SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “Every prophet has a supplication which receives an answer, but whereas every prophet made his supplication in this world, I have kept mine till the day of resurrection to be used in intercession for my people…Mishkat al-Masabih 2136HasanAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “Nothing is more honourable in God’s sight than supplication.”