SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET (peace
be upon him)1 to 21
FOUNDATION OF ISLAM
1.
Sayyidina Ibn ‘Umar (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Islam is based five things:-
1.
The testimony, that here is none worthy, of
worship
except ALLAH, and Muhammad (SALLALLAHO-ALAIHE-WA-AALEHI-WASALLAM) is HIS
Servant and Messenger.
2.
The observance of prayer
3.
The payment of Zakah
4.
The performance of Hajj
5.
Fasting during the month of Ramadan.
(Bukhari and Muslim)
1.
Sayyidina Anas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
If three things are
found in anyone, he will savour the sweetness of faith. They are that:
a. ALLAH and HIS
Messenger (Peace Be upon Him) are dearer to him than
else.
b. He loves a human
being for the sake of ALLAH alone.
c. After ALLAH has
rescued him from dis-belief, he has
as great a dislike of returning to it as of being cast into Hell. (Bukhari and
Muslim)
3. Sayyidina Abbas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
He will savour the
sweetness of faith who is pleased with ALLAH as his LORD, into Islam as (his)
religion and with Muhammad (Peace Be upon Him) as Messenger. (Muslim)
4. Sayyidina Anas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
None of you is a
Believer until I am (Peace Be upon Him) dearer to him than his father, his
children and all mankind. (Bukhari and Muslim)
5.
Sayyidina Ibn ‘Umar (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
I have been ordered
to fight against people till they testify that there is none worthy of worship
except ALLAH and that Muhammad (Peace Be upon Him) is the Messenger of ALLAH,
observe prayer and pay Zakah. So, if they perform these, then they save their
lives and properties from me; except for the laws of Islam and their reckoning,
that will be done by ALLAH alone. (Bukhari and Muslim)
6.
‘Ubaidah bin as-Samit (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Give me the pledge
that:
You will not associate
anything with ALLAH, or steal, or commit fornication, or kill your children or
speak slander forging falsehood, or be disobedient in doing the approved. As
for one of you who fulfils his pledge, ALLAH will reward him. But as for him
who perpetrates any of these things and receives punishment against it in this
world, it will be an expiration for that sin. If one of you indulges in any of
these things and ALLAH conceals it for him, it is in the HANDS of ALLAH-if HE
wishes, HE may forgive him and if HE wishes, HE may punish him. (Bukhari and
Muslim)
7.
Sayyidina Abu Uma’amah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
If anyone loves (another) for the
sake of ALLAH, hates (HIS enemy) for the sake of ALLAH, spends for the sake of
ALLAH and withholds for the sake of ALLAH then he has perfected his faith. (Abu
Dawood, Mishkat)
8.
Sayyidina Abu Hurrayrah & Sayyidina Fadalah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-homa)
A Muslim is one from
whose tongue and hand other Muslims are safe. A believer is one whom men do not fear concerning
their lives and property. And the mujahid is one who makes jihad with himself so
that he obeys ALLAH and the muhajir is one who withdraws from
dis-obedience and sin. (Bukhari and Muslim)
9.
Sayyidina Abu Uma’amah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
When your piety pleases
you and your bad deed displeases you, you are a believer. (Ahmad and Mishkat)
10.
Sayyidina Jabir (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
The best discourse
is the Book of ALLAH, and the best guidance is the one shown by Muhammad
(SALLALLAHO-ALAIHE-WA-AALEHI-WASALLAM). The worst things are bid’ah
(innovations) and every innovation is misguidance. . (Muslim and Mishkat)
11.
Sayyidina Jabir (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
My example and the
message with which ALLAH has sent me is like the example of a man who came to a
people and said, “O people! I have seen with my own eyes an army (as want to
attack you). I am one to warn you, so flee, flee…” Some of his people obeyed
him, and setting off at nightfall walked away and escaped. But some others did
not believe him and stayed where they were. When it was dawn, the army came and
surrounded them and destroyed them so that they were no more. This is the
example of those who obeyed me and of those who belie me. (Bukhari, Muslim and
Mishkat)
12.
Sayyidina Abu Hurrayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
My example is like a
man who has kindled a fire and when it lights up the neighborhood the insects
that jump into the fire began to fall into it. He tries to prevent them but
they persisted and continued falling into the fire. Thus, I seize you by the
hennas of your dresses to pull you from the fire but you keep falling into it.
(Bukhari, Muslim and Mishkat)
13.
Sayyidina Abu Moosa (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
The guidance and
knowledge with which ALLAH has sent me are like abundant rain that fell on a
land. Some part of the land was good, absorbed the water and brought forth
plenty of herbage and pasture. Some area of the land was hard and retained the
water whereby ALLAH gave benefit to men who drank themselves and let others
drink and irrigated (fields) with that water. Some other portion of the land
was unreceptive and could not retain water or produce herbage. This is like
those people who attain knowledge of AALAH’s religion and receive benefit from
the message given to me by ALLAH so they learn and teach others. It is also
like those who do not even look up to learn and do not accept the guidance of
ALLAH which I have been given. (Bukhari and Muslim)
14.
Al-Miqdaam bin Ma’dikarb and Al-Irbaad bin Saariyah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-homa)
Heed it! I have been
given the Qur’an and something else like it (the Sunnah). Remember! It is not
far off when someone with a full stomach reclines on his couch and says, “Abide
by the Qur’an. What you find declared lawful in it, treat it as lawful and what
you find prohibited in it, treat it as prohibited.” But, in fact, what the
Messenger of ALLAH has prohibited is like what ALLAH has disallowed. Listen
carefully! By ALLAH, I have commanded you often, exhorted you frequently,
disallowed you many things; and these are as many found in the Qur’an or more
numerous. (Abu Dawood, Mishkat)
15.
Al-Irbaad bin Saariyah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
I enjoin you to fear ALLAH and I enjoin you to listen to
and obey (your ruler) even if he is an Abyssinian slave because he among you
who lives after me will see great disagreement. You are bound, therefore, to
follow my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly-guided
Khulafa (caliphs). Hold to it fast and keep away from innovation in religion.
Any new thing in religion is innovation and every innovation is mis-guidance.
(Abu Dawood, Tirmizi, Ibn Majah, Mishkat)
16. Al-Irbaad
bin Saariyah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
ALLAH will not cause all my
people to be misled. The HAND of ALLAH is over the (Muslims) community. If
anyone separates himself (from them) he will be separated in the Fire (from
them). (Tirmizi, Mishkat)
17.
Sayyidina Ibn Umar (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Follow the great majority of Muslims for he who separates
will be separate in the Fire. (Ibn Majah, Mishkat)
18.
Sayyidina Mu’aaz bin Jabal (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Surely, the devil is a wolf
to man just as the wolf that devours sheep. It catches the sheep that walks by
itself, far away from the flock or the one that keeps itself at a distance.
(Ahmad, Mishkat)
19.
Sayyidina Maalik (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
I have left with you two
things and you will not go astray as long as you hold fast to them, the Book of
ALLAH and the Sunnah, of HIS Messenger, Muhammad
(SALLALLAHO-ALAIHE-WA-AALEHI-WASALLAM) . (Muwatta, Mishkat).
20.
Sayyidina Abu Hurrayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
My example and that of all
other Prophets (Peace Be upon Them) is like a palace that was built
beautifully, but the place of one brick was left incomplete. Those who watched
it went around it admiring its beauty but wondering at the missing brick. So, I
am the one who has filled the place of the brick; the palace (of Prophet-hood)
is completed with me and with me the Messengers (Peace Be upon Them) have all
been sent. I am the (final) brick (of the palace of Prophet-hood
21.
Sayyidina Abu Hurrayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
The last Day will not come
until about thirty deceivers are born, each of whom lays claim on being the
Messenger of ALLAH. (Bukhari)
Collected by Muhammad Sharif Fauji from The Book “Sayings
of The Prophet” (Peace Be Upon Him), Darul Ishaat, Urdu Bazaar Karachi
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