Ali ibn Abi Talib
أبو الحسن علي بن أبي طالب
Companion, died 40 AH in Kufa. Named in the chains of 1,102 narrations of the library, 46 in Bukhari, 22 in Muslim, 84 in Abu Dawud.
1,102narrations name him
14collections
40 AHhe died, in Kufa
Narrations he is named in
Bukhari46Muslim22Abu Dawud84Tirmidhi110Nasa'i71Ibn Majah90Muwatta16Ahmad457Darimi54Riyad as-Salihin14Bulugh al-Maram34Al-Adab Al-Mufrad13Shama'il5Mishkat86
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Mishkat al-Masabih 80SahihAli reported God’s messenger as saying, “The place which everyone of you will occupy in hell or in paradise has been recorded.” When his hearers asked him whether they should not trust simply in what had been recorded for them and abandon doing good deeds, he…Mishkat al-Masabih 98Sahihhe must testify that there is no god but God and that I am God’s messenger whom He sent with the truth; he must believe in death and in the resurrection after death; and he must believe in the divine decree.Mishkat al-Masabih 237Ali reported God’s messenger as saying, “Good is the man learned
in religion who, if people have need of him benefits them, but who, if
they ignore him enriches himself.”* Razin transmitted it.
*i.e. with religious exercises and study.Mishkat al-Masabih 261Ali reported God’s messenger as saying, “ A time is soon coming to
mankind when nothing of Islam but its name will remain and only the
written form of the Qur’an will remain. Their mosques will be in fine
condition but will be devoid of guidance, their…Mishkat al-Masabih 285SahihMy prostatic fluid flowed readily, and I was ashamed to consult the Prophet because of the position of his daughter so I gave orders to al-Miqdad to consult him, and the Prophet said, “He must wash his penis and perform ablution.”Mishkat al-Masabih 293SahihI asked the Prophet about prostatic fluid and he replied, “For prostatic fluid ablution is necessary, but for seminal emission washing.”Mishkat al-Masabih 297HasanAli reported God’s messenger as saying, “The leather strap of the anus is the eyes, so one who sleeps should perform ablution.
Abu Dawud transmitted it, and the shaikh and imam Muhyi as-Sunna said that this does not refer to one who is sitting because of…Mishkat al-Masabih 334SahihAli reported God’s messenger as saying, “The covering between the eyes of the jinn and the private parts of the children of Adam when one of them enters the privy is provided by his saying, ‘In the name of God.’”Mishkat al-Masabih 412DaifAli reported God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone leaves a spot on a hair which has been sexually defiled without washing it, such and such an amount of hell will have to be suffered for it.” Ali said, “On that account I cut my hair; on that account I cut my…Mishkat al-Masabih 417DaifAli reported that a man came to the Prophet and said, “I washed because of sexual defilement, then prayed the dawn prayer but noticed a spot about the size of a nail which had not been touched by the water.” God’s messenger replied, “If you had rubbed your…Mishkat al-Masabih 428SahihAli said, “The Prophet used to come out of the privy, recite the Qur’an to us and eat meat with us, nothing restraining him from the Qur’an but seminal defilement.”
Abu Dawud and Nasai transmitted it, and Ibn Majah transmitted something similar.Mishkat al-Masabih 431DaifAli reported God’s messenger as saying, “The angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture, a dog, or one who is defiled.”
Abu Dawud and Nasai transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 479SahihShuraih ibn Hani said, “I asked Ali ibn Abu Talib about wiping over the shoes and he replied that God’s messenger had appointed three days and nights as the period when a traveller may do it and one day and night as the period for one who is not travelling.”Mishkat al-Masabih 487SahihAli said, “If the religion were based on opinion, it would be more important to wipe the under part of the shoe than the upper, but I have seen God’s messenger wiping over the upper part of his shoes.”Mishkat al-Masabih 562Daifprayer when its time comes, a funeral, and the marriage of an unmarried woman when she finds one of suitable class for her.Mishkat al-Masabih 588SahihAli reported God’s Messenger as saying at the battle of the Trench,2 “They have restrained us from the middle prayer,3 the afternoon prayer. God fill their houses and their graves with fire!”
2. The siege of Medina by Quraish in 5 A.H.
3. Cf. (Al-Qur’an…Mishkat al-Masabih 763SahihAli said that when the Prophet stood up for prayer (a version saying, when he began the prayer) he said the takbir, then said, “I have turned my face as a hanif* towards Him who created the heavens and the earth, and I am not a polytheist. My prayer and my…Mishkat al-Masabih 849Ali reported God’s Messenger as saying, “I like for you, Ali what I like for myself, and I dislike for you what I dislike for myself; do not sit on your heels between the two sajdas.”Mishkat al-Masabih 878HasanAli reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The niggardly one is the man in whose presence I am mentioned but who does not invoke a blessing on me.”
Tirmidhi transmitted it, and Ahmad transmitted it from al-Husain ibn Ali. Tirmidhi said this is a hasan sahih…Mishkat al-Masabih 919DaifI heard God’s Messenger say on the timbers of this pulpit, “If anyone recites the Throne verse (Al-Qur’an; 2:255) at the end of every prayer, nothing but death will prevent him from entering paradise; and if he recites it when he goes to bed, God will grant…Mishkat al-Masabih 1081SahihAli and Muadh ibn Jabal reported God’s Messenger as saying, “When any of you comes to pray and the imam is at a certain point, he must do as the imam does.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1110SahihAli said that God’s Messenger used to pray four rakas before the afternoon prayer, separating them with a salutation to the angels who are near God’s presence and the Muslims and believers who come after them.Mishkat al-Masabih 1111He said that God’s Messenger used to pray two rakas before the afternoon prayer.Mishkat al-Masabih 1203SahihAli reported God’s Messenger as saying, “God is single (witr) and loves what is single, so observe the witr, you who follow the Qur’an.”
Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Nasai transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 1209SahihAli said that the Prophet used to say at the end of his witr, “O God, I seek refuge in Thy good pleasure from Thine anger, and in Thy forgiveness from Thy punishment, and I seek refuge in Thy mercy from Thy wrath.* I cannot reckon the praise due to Thee. Thou…Mishkat al-Masabih 1214DaifAli said that God’s Messenger used to pray three rakas when observing the witr, reciting nine suras from al-Mufassal in the course of them, three in each raka, the last of them being “Say, He is God, One” (Al-Qur’an; 112).Mishkat al-Masabih 1240DaifAli reported God’s Messenger as saying, “When the middle night of Shaban comes, spend the night in prayer and fast during the day, for in it God most high comes down at sunset to the lowest heaven and says, ‘Is there no one who asks forgiveness so that I may…Mishkat al-Masabih 1386DaifAli said, “God’s Messenger enjoined us to pay great attention to the eye and the ear, and not sacrifice an animal with a slit which leaves something hanging at the front or back of the ear, or with a lengthwise slit or a perforation in the ear.”
Tirmidhi…Mishkat al-Masabih 1387He said, “God’s Messenger forbade us to sacrifice an animal with a broken horn or a slit ear.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1471Sahih‘All said he heard God’s messenger say, ‘No Muslim will pay a sick visit to another in the morning without seventy thousand angels invoking blessings on him till the evening, or visit him in the evening without seventy thousand angels invoking blessings on…