Abdullah ibn Masud
أبو عبد الرحمن عبد الله بن مسعود بن غافل
Companion, died 28 AH in Kufa. Named in the chains of 964 narrations of the library, 166 in Bukhari, 73 in Muslim, 74 in Abu Dawud.
964narrations name him
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28 AHhe died, in Kufa
Narrations he is named in
Bukhari166Muslim73Abu Dawud74Tirmidhi121Nasa'i112Ibn Majah99Muwatta12Darimi71Riyad as-Salihin65Bulugh al-Maram28Al-Adab Al-Mufrad25Shama'il6Mishkat111Nawawi's Forty1
Mishkat al-Masabih, page 3 of 4
Mishkat al-Masabih 1765SahihIbn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying,
“If one who is afflicted by poverty refers it to men, his poverty will not be brought to an end; but if one refers it to God, He will soon give him sufficiency, either by a speedy death or by a sufficiency which…Mishkat al-Masabih 1833Daifa man who gets up at night and recites God’s book; a man who gives sadaqa with his right hand and concealing it (Abdallah thought he added ‘from his left hand’); and a man who is on an expedition and faces the enemy when his companions are routed.
Tirmidhi…Mishkat al-Masabih 1838DaifIbn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying,
“If anyone gives liberally to his family on the day of Ashura, God will be liberal to him the rest of the year.”
Sufyan said he had tested it and found it to be so.
Razin transmitted it, and Baihaqi in Shuab…Mishkat al-Masabih 1967SahihAbdallah ibn Masud said that God’s messenger used to fast the first three days every month, and he would seldom break his fast on a Friday.
Tirmidhi and Nasai transmitted it, and Abu Dawud transmitted up to “three days every month.”Mishkat al-Masabih 2042Hasan“If anyone recites a letter of God’s Book he will be credited with a good deed, and a good deed gets a tenfold reward (Al-Qur’an, 6:160). I do not say that A.L.M are one letter*, but alif is a letter, lam is a letter and mim is a letter.”
*These letters occur…Mishkat al-Masabih 208337, 45, 47, 48, 50, 61, 67, and 93. The name is most appropriately explained as meaning that this is the section of the Qur’an which contains many shorter suras.
Darimi transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 2085Ibn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying, “He who recites sura al-Waqia (Qur’an, 56) every night will never be afflicted by want.” Ibn Masud used to order his daughters to recite it every night.
Transmitted by Baihaqi in Shuab al-iman.Mishkat al-Masabih 2092SahihIbn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying, “It is wrong for one to say that he has forgotten such and such a verse, for he has been made to forget. Study the Qur’an, for it is more apt to escape from men’s minds than animals.”
(Bukhari and Muslim, Muslim…Mishkat al-Masabih 2099SahihWhen God’s Messenger was on the pulpit he asked him to recite to him and he replied, “Shall I recite to you when it was sent down to you?” He said that he liked to hear it from someone else, so Abdallah recited Surat an-Nisa up to this verse, “How then shall…Mishkat al-Masabih 2140DaifIbn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying, “Ask God for some of His bounty, for God likes to be asked, and the most excellent worship is expectation of relief.”Mishkat al-Masabih 2215HasanThe Prophet said: he met Abraham on the night he was taken up to heaven, and he said, “Convey my greeting to your people, Muhammad, and tell them that paradise has good soil and sweet water, that it consists of level, treeless plains, and that its plants are…Mishkat al-Masabih 2257SahihAbdallah ibn Masud told him two traditions, one of them from God’s messenger and the other from him self. He said, “The believer sees in his sins as though he were sitting under a mountain which he fears may fall on him, but the profligate sees his sins like…Mishkat al-Masabih 2262DaifAbdallah ibn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying, “He who repents of a sin is like him who has committed no sin.”
In Majah and Baihaqi, in Shuab al-iman, transmitted it, the latter saying its only transmitter was an-Nahrani who is unknown. In Sharh…Mishkat al-Masabih 2266SahihIbn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying, “Paradise is nearer to each of you than the thong of his sandal, and the same applies to hell.”Mishkat al-Masabih 2347Ibn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying that if anyone is afflicted by much care he should say, “O God, I am Thy servant, the son of Thy servant, the son of Thy handmaid, and at Thy disposal; my forelock is in Thy hand; Thy judgment is effective…Mishkat al-Masabih 2378SahihAbdallah ibn Masud told on the authority of the Prophet that he used to say, “O God, I ask Thee for guidance, piety, self-control and a competence.”Mishkat al-Masabih 2417HasanIbn Masud reported God’s messenger as saying, “Make the hajj and the ‘umra follow one another closely, for they remove poverty and sins as a blacksmith’s bellows remove impurities from iron, gold and silver; and a hajja which is accepted gets no less a reward…Mishkat al-Masabih 2498Abdallah ibn Masud said he never saw God’s messenger observe a prayer out of its proper time with the exception of two, the sunset and the evening prayer, which he combined, and the dawn prayer which he observed that day (i.e. al-Muzdalifa) before its proper…Mishkat al-Masabih 2511SahihAbdallah ibn Masud came to the largest jamra and with the House on his left and Mina on his right he threw seven pebbles saying “God is most great” each time. Then he said, “Thus did he to whom sura al-Baqara was sent down throw.”
Bukhari and Muslim.Mishkat al-Masabih 2657Abdallah ibn Masud reported God’s Messenger as saying, “No man who acquires unlawful property and gives some of it in alms will have it accepted from him; neither will he receive a blessing for it if he con-tributes some of it; and if he leaves some of it…Mishkat al-Masabih 2667Abdallah ibn Masud reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Trying to earn a lawful livelihood is an obligatory duty in addition to the duties which are obligatory.”
Baihaqi transmitted it in Shuab al-iman.Mishkat al-Masabih 2710Ibn Masud reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Even though usury be much it leads in the end to penury.”
Ibn Majah and Baihaqi, in Shuab al-iman, transmitted it, and Ahmad also transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 2762SahihAbdallah ibn Masud reported God’s Messenger as saying, “When two people who are arranging a business transaction disagree the decision rests with the seller, but the buyer has the right to choose whether he will confirm this*.”
Tirmidhi transmitted it.
In…Mishkat al-Masabih 2939DaifAbout a case where there was a grandmother and her son that she was the first grandmother to whom God’s Messenger gave a sixth which was not due to her when she had a son who was still alive.Mishkat al-Masabih 2956Abdallah ibn Masud reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Young man, those of you who can support a wife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves you from immorality; but those who cannot should devote themselves to fasting…Mishkat al-Masabih 2975SahihIbn Masud reported God’s Messenger as saying, “A woman must not come in close contact with another and then describe her to her husband, for that is as if he were looking at her.”Mishkat al-Masabih 2984God’s Messenger saw a woman who charmed him, so he went to Sauda who was making perfume in the company of some women. They left him, and after he had satisfied his desire he said, “If any man sees a woman who charms him he should go to his wife, for she has…Mishkat al-Masabih 3024SahihGod’s Messenger taught us the tashahhud in the prayer and in case of some need, saying that the tashahhud in the prayer is, “The adorations of the tongue, acts of worship and all good things belong to God. Peace, and God’s mercy and blessings be upon you, O…Mishkat al-Masabih 3032SahihWhen we were on an expedition along with God’s Messenger and had no women with us we asked whether we should not have ourselves castrated, but he forbade us to do that. Then he granted us licence to contract temporary marriages, and one would marry a woman…Mishkat al-Masabih 3080Sahih‘Alqama quoted Ibn Masud as saying he was asked about a man who had married a woman without fixing any settlement on her or cohabiting with her till he died. Ibn Masud said she should receive the type of dower given to women of her class with so diminution or…