Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "Three men from among those who were before you, set out together till they reached a cave at night and entered it. A big rock rolled down the mountain and closed the mouth of the cave. They said (to each other), Nothing could save you from this rock but to invoke Allah by giving reference to the righteous deed which you have done (for Allah's sake only).' So, one of them said, 'O Allah! I had old parents and I never provided my family (wife, children etc.) with milk before them. One day, by chance I was delayed, and I came late (at night) while they had slept. I milked the sheep for them and took the milk to them, but I found them sleeping. I disliked to provide my family with the milk before them. I waited for them and the bowl of milk was in my hand and I kept on waiting for them to get up till the day dawned. Then they got up and drank the milk. O Allah! If I did that for Your Sake only, please relieve us from our critical situation caused by this rock.' So, the rock shifted a little but they could not get out." The Prophet added, "The second man said, 'O Allah! I had a cousin who was the dearest of all people to me and I wanted to have sexual relations with her but she refused. Later she had a hard time in a famine year and she came to me and I gave her one-hundred-and-twenty Dinars on the condition that she would not resist my desire, and she agreed. When I was about to fulfill my desire, she said: It is illegal for you to outrage my chastity except by legitimate marriage. So, I thought it a sin to have sexual intercourse with her and left her though she was the dearest of all the people to me, and also I left the gold I had given her. O Allah! If I did that for Your Sake only, please relieve us from the present calamity.' So, the rock shifted a little more but still they could not get out from there." The Prophet added, "Then the third man said, 'O Allah! I employed few laborers and I paid them their wages with the exception of one man who did not take his wages and went away. I invested his wages and I got much property thereby. (Then after some time) he came and said to me: O Allah's slave! Pay me my wages. I said to him: All the camels, cows, sheep and slaves you see, are yours. He said: O Allah's slave! Don't mock at me. I said: I am not mocking at you. So, he took all the herd and drove them away and left nothing. O Allah! If I did that for Your Sake only, please relieve us from the present suffering.' So, that rock shifted completely and they got out walking.
| Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 2272 |
| In-book reference | : Book 37, Hadith 12 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 3, Book 36, Hadith 472 |
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| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3076 |
| In-book reference | : Book 47, Hadith 128 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3076 |
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 1476 |
| In-book reference | : Book 16, Hadith 12 |
Narrated AbuDharr:
The Prophet (saws) said: In the morning alms are due from every bone in man's fingers and toes. Salutation to everyone he meets is alms; enjoining good is alms; forbidding what is disreputable is alms; removing what is harmful from the road is alms; having sexual intercourse with his wife is alms. The people asked: He fulfils his desire, Messenger of Allah; is it alms? He replied: Tell me if he fulfilled his desire where he had no right, would he commit a sin ? He then said: Two rak'ahs which one prays in the forenoon serve instead of all that.
Abu Dawud said: Hammad did not mention enjoining good and forbidding what is disreputable.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 5243 |
| In-book reference | : Book 43, Hadith 471 |
| English translation | : Book 42, Hadith 5223 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 2389 |
| In-book reference | : Book 14, Hadith 77 |
| English translation | : Book 13, Hadith 2383 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1901 |
| In-book reference | : Book 27, Hadith 5 |
| English translation | : Vol. 4, Book 1, Hadith 1901 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2398 |
| In-book reference | : Book 36, Hadith 96 |
| English translation | : Vol. 4, Book 10, Hadith 2398 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3019 |
| In-book reference | : Book 47, Hadith 71 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3019 |
[At-Tirmidhi].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 716 |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 37 |
[Abu Dawud and At- Tirmidhi].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 734 |
| In-book reference | : Book 2, Hadith 8 |
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 1044 |
| In-book reference | : Book 8, Hadith 54 |
| Grade: | Da'if (Darussalam) [ arid its text is munkar (odd); it is virtually fabricated] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 461 |
| In-book reference | : Book 4, Hadith 55 |
| Grade: | Hasan because of corroborating evidence, this isnad is da‘eef] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 486 |
| In-book reference | : Book 4, Hadith 79 |
| مُنكر (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 1555 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 33 |
| لم تتمّ دراسته (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 2259 |
| In-book reference | : Book 9, Hadith 34 |
| لم تتمّ دراسته (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 2342 |
| In-book reference | : Book 9, Hadith 115 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 281 |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 15 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 281 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 598 |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 332 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 598 |
| Grade: | Da'if (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 3813 |
| In-book reference | : Book 33, Hadith 157 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 33, Hadith 3813 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 1090 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 288 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 5, Hadith 1090 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 1422 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 620 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 5, Hadith 1422 |
Narrated AbuQatadah:
A man came to the Prophet (saws) and said: How do you fast, Messenger of Allah? The Messenger of Allah (saws) became angry at what he said.
When Umar observed this (his anger), he said: We are satisfied with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad as Prophet. We seek refuge in Allah from the anger of Allah, and from the anger of His Apostle. Umar continued to repeat these words till his anger cooled down. He then asked: Messenger of Allah, what is the position of one who observes a perpetual fast?
He replied: May he not fast or break his fast. Musaddad said in his version: He has neither fasted nor broken his fast. The narrator, Ghaylan, doubted the actual wordings.
He asked: What is the position of one who fasts two days and does not fast one day?
He said: Is anyone able to do that? He asked: What is the position of one who fasts every second day (i.e. fasts one day and does not fasts the next day)?
He (the Prophet) said: This is the fast that David observed.
He asked: Messenger of Allah, what is the position of one who fasts one day and breaks it for two days? He replied: I wish I were given the power to observe that. Then the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: The observance of three days' fast every month and of one Ramadan to the other (i.e. the fast of Ramadan every year) is (equivalent to) a perpetual fast. I seek from Allah that fasting on the day of Arafah may atone for the sins of the preceding and the coming year, and I seek from Allah that fasting on the day of Ashura' may atone for the sins of the preceding year.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 2425 |
| In-book reference | : Book 14, Hadith 113 |
| English translation | : Book 13, Hadith 2419 |
| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 2, Hadith 134 |
| English translation | : Book 2, Hadith 260 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 2, Hadith 262 |
| Grade: | Da'if (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 479 |
| In-book reference | : Book 3, Hadith 27 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 3, Hadith 479 |
That he heard is father, narating a Hadith, which he heard from the Messenger of Allah (saws) in which he stood among them, mentioning to them that Jihad in the cause of Allah and faith in Allah were the most virtuous of deeds. Then a man stood and said: "O Messenger of Allah! If I were killed in the cause of Allah, would my sins forgiven ?" So the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "Yes, If you are killed in Allah's cause, and you are patient, seeking the reward, advancing, not fleeing." Then the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "What was it that you said?" So he replied: "If I were killed in the cause of Allah, would my sins be removed (forgiven)?" So the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "Yes, If you are patient, seeking the reward, advancing, not fleeing - except debt. For Jibril said that to me."
[Abu 'Eisa said:] There are narrations on this topic from Anas, Muhammad bin Jahsh, And Abu Hurairah. This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.
Some of them reported this Hadith from Sa'eed Al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurairah, from the Prophet (saws) similar to this. Yahya bin Sa'eed Al-Ansari and more than one narrator reported this from Sa'eed Al-Maqburi from 'Abdullah bin Abi Qatadah, from his fahter, from the Prophet (saws). This is more correct than the narration of Sa'eed Al-Maqburi from Abu Hurairah.
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1712 |
| In-book reference | : Book 23, Hadith 46 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 21, Hadith 1712 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3393 |
| In-book reference | : Book 48, Hadith 24 |
| English translation | : Vol. 6, Book 45, Hadith 3393 |
| Grade: | Hasan because of corroborating evidence] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 1056 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 475 |
| مُتَّفق عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3926 |
| In-book reference | : Book 19, Hadith 138 |
| Reference | : Hisn al-Muslim 254 |
| Grade: | Da’if (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 1578 |
| In-book reference | : Book 6, Hadith 146 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 6, Hadith 1578 |
| Grade: | Da'if (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3762 |
| In-book reference | : Book 49, Hadith 161 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 46, Hadith 3762 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2966 |
| In-book reference | : Book 47, Hadith 18 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 2966 |
[Al-Hakim].
((رواه الحاكم أبو عبد الله، وقال: حديث صحيح على شرط مسلم)).
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 1493 |
| In-book reference | : Book 16, Hadith 29 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) [ Muslim (686)] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 174 |
| In-book reference | : Book 2, Hadith 91 |
| مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 338 |
| In-book reference | : Book 3, Hadith 50 |
| مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 1538 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 16 |
| ضَعِيف (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 1755 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 227 |
| ضَعِيف (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 2404 |
| In-book reference | : Book 9, Hadith 174 |
| صَحِيحٌ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 667 |
| In-book reference | : Book 4, Hadith 99 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 886 |
| In-book reference | : Book 4, Hadith 310 |
| صَحِيحٌ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 1898 |
| In-book reference | : Book 6, Hadith 125 |
Abu Huraira reported:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 194a |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 386 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 1, Hadith 378 |
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| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 1387 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 585 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 5, Hadith 1387 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 427 |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 161 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 427 |
| Reference | : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 497 |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 7 |
| English translation | : Book 29, Hadith 497 |
And with this (same) chain, (it was reported) from the Prophet (saws) who said: "Indeed greater reward comes with greater trial. And indeed, when Allah loves a people He subjects them to trials, so whoever is content, then for him is pleasure, and whoever is discontent, then for him is wrath."
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2396 |
| In-book reference | : Book 36, Hadith 94 |
| English translation | : Vol. 4, Book 10, Hadith 2396 |
وَبِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " مَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَنَامَ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ فَنَامَ عَلَى يَمِينِهِ ثُمَّ قَرَأَْ (قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ ) مِئَةَ مَرَّةٍ فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ يَقُولُ لَهُ الرَّبُّ يَا عَبْدِي ادْخُلْ عَلَى يَمِينِكَ الْجَنَّةَ "
. قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ حَدِيثِ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مِنْ غَيْرِ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ أَيْضًا عَنْ ثَابِتٍ .| Grade: | Da'if (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2898 |
| In-book reference | : Book 45, Hadith 24 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 42, Hadith 2898 |
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 38 |
| In-book reference | : Introduction, Hadith 38 |
"And perform As-Salat (Iqamat-As-Salat), at the two ends of the day and in some hours of the night [i.e., the five compulsory Salat (prayers)]. Verily, the good deeds remove the evil deeds (i.e., small sins)". (11:114)
That person said, "O Messenger of Allah (PBUH), does it concern me only?". He (Messenger of Allah (PBUH)) said, "It concerns the whole of my Ummah".
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 434 |
| In-book reference | : Introduction, Hadith 434 |
[Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 793 |
| In-book reference | : Book 3, Hadith 16 |