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 9 of 20
Mishkat al-Masabih 1685HasanAbu Hurayrah said God’s messenger cursed women who visited graves.
Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a hasan sahih tradition. He added that some learned men consider this was before the Prophet gave licence to visit…Mishkat al-Masabih 1688SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“If any owner of gold or silver does not pay what is due on it, when the day of resurrection comes plates of fire will be beaten out for him, they will be heated in the fire of jahannam, and his side, forehead…Mishkat al-Masabih 1689SahihHe reported God s messenger as saying,
“If God gives anyone property and he does not pay the zakat on it, his property will be made to appear to him on the day of resurrection as a large bald snake with black spots over its eyes. It will be put round his neck…Mishkat al-Masabih 1693Abu Hurayrah told how when God’s messenger sent Umar to collect sadaqa people said that Ibn Jamil, Khalid b. al-Walid and al-Abbas refused. So God’s messenger said,
“Ibn Jamil is not objecting, but he was poor and God and His messenger enriched him. * As for…Mishkat al-Masabih 1705SahihWhen Abu Bakr was made the Prophet’s successor after his death and infidelity arose among certain Arabs, Umar ibn al-Khattab asked Abu Bakr how he could fight with the people when God’s messenger had said, “I have been commanded to fight with the people till…Mishkat al-Masabih 1706He reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The treasure of one of you on the day of resurrection will be a large bald snake from which he will flee, but it will keep following after him till he gives it his fingers to eat.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1710SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“No sadaqa is due from a Muslim on his slave or his horse.”
In a version he said, “There is no sadaqa on his slave except that given at the breaking of the fast.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1713Abu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“No retaliation is payable for a wound caused by a dumb animal, or for an accident in a well or a mine, but a fifth is payable on buried treasure.” *
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
* The word used (rikaz) is applied…Mishkat al-Masabih 1737SahihAbu Hurayrah told that al-Hasan ibn ‘All took one of the dates of the sadaqa and put it in his mouth, whereupon the Prophet said, ‘Leave it alone, leave it alone,’ in order that he might throw it away. He then said,
‘Do you not know that we* do not eat the…Mishkat al-Masabih 1739SahihWhen God’s messenger was brought food he asked whether it was a present or sadaqa, and if he was informed that it was sadaqa he told his companions to eat, but did not eat himself; if however he was informed that it was a present he put in his hand and ate…Mishkat al-Masabih 1742SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying, “If I were invited to eat a trotter I would accept the invitation, and if I were presented with a fore-leg I would accept it.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1743SahihHe reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The poor man (miskin) is not the one who goes round to people and is dismissed with one or two morsels, and one or two dates, but is he who does not get enough to satisfy him, is not taken notice of so that alms may be…Mishkat al-Masabih 1751SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“He who begs the property of others to increase his own is asking only for live coals,* so let him ask little or much.”
Muslim transmitted it.
* A reference incurring some of the punishment of hell.Mishkat al-Masabih 1772SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“If I had gold to the extent of Uhud I would not like to keep any of it more than three days, except what I put aside to pay a debt.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1773SahihHe reported him as saying that two angels come down every morning and one says, “O God, give him who spends something in place of it;” the other says, “O God, give him who withholds destruction.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1775SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as stating that God most high had said,
“If you spend, son of Adam, I shall spend on you.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1777SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The niggardly man and the one who gives alms are like two men wearing coats of iron with their hands pressed closely to their breasts and their collar-bones. As often as the one who gives alms does so it…Mishkat al-Masabih 1780Abu Hurayrah told that when a man asked God’s messenger which sadaqa produced the greatest reward he replied,
“That which you give when you are healthy and inclined to be mean, fearing poverty and hoping for a competence. Do not put it off and then say when…Mishkat al-Masabih 1782DaifAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The generous man is near God, near paradise, near men and far from hell, but the miserly man is far from God, far from paradise, far from men and near hell. Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to…Mishkat al-Masabih 1787SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The worst things in a man are anxious niggardliness and unrestrained cowardice.”
Abd Dawud transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 1789SahihGod’s messenger told of a man who expressed his intention to give sadaqa, and who when he took it out placed it in a thief’s hand. In the morning the people were talking and saying, “Sadaqa was given to a thief last night.” The man said, “O God, to Thee be…Mishkat al-Masabih 1790SahihHe said that the Prophet told of a man in a waterless plain hearing a voice from a cloud say, “Water so and so’s garden.”
Those clouds then moved away and emptied their water on a lava tract, and a channel collected the whole of that water. He followed the…Mishkat al-Masabih 1791He said he had heard the Prophet say there were three men among the B. Israil, one leprous, one bald and one blind, whom God wished to test. He therefore sent to them an angel who came to the leper and asked him what he would like best and he replied, “A good…Mishkat al-Masabih 1798When the Prophet once visited Bilal and saw he had a heap of dates, he asked him what it was. One his replying, “It is something I have stored up for tomorrow,” he said, “Are you not afraid that tomorrow you may see on account of it steam in the fire of…Mishkat al-Masabih 1799He reported God’s messenger as saying,
“Liberality is a tree in paradise of which he who is liberal will seize a branch, and the branch will not leave him till it brings him into paradise. And niggardliness is a tree in hell of which he who is niggardly will…Mishkat al-Masabih 1801SahihAbu Hurayrah reported God’s messenger as saying,
“If anyone gives as sadaqa the equivalent of a date from something lawfully earned, for God accepts only what is lawful, God will accept it with His right hand, then foster it for the one who gave it as one of…Mishkat al-Masabih 1802SahihHe reported God’s messenger as saying,
“Sadaqa does not reduce property; God increases the honour of him who forgives another; and no one will humble himself for God’s sake without God exalting him.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1803He reported God’s messenger as saying,
“If anyone contributes a pair of anything in God’s path he will be invited to enter by the gates of paradise, for paradise has gates. Those who engage in prayer will be invited to enter by the gate of prayer; those who…Mishkat al-Masabih 1804SahihHe said that God’s messenger asked who had observed a fast that day and Abu Bakr said he had.
He asked who had followed a bier that day and Abu Bakr said he had.
He asked who had fed a poor man that day and Abu Bakr said he had.
He asked who had visited an…Mishkat al-Masabih 1805SahihHe reported God’s messenger as saying,
“None of you Muslim women must consider even a sheep’s trotter too insignificant a gift to give to her neighbour.”