Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 122 of 122

1. Aa'isha narrated, 'When Ibrahim [the Prophet's son] passed away, the Prophet (SAWA) cried such that tears rolled onto his beard, so people said to him, 'O Prophet of Allah, you dissuade people from crying and here you are now crying?!' to which he replied, 'This is not crying, it is compassion, for he who does not have compassion [for others] will not be treated with compassion [by Allah].'

   Amali al-Tusi, p. 388, no. 227; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 86 · permalink

2. Abu Hurayra narrated, 'A man from the family of the Prophet (SAWA) had passed away and the women were gathered around crying for him when `Aumar stood up and prohibited them from doing so, and told them to go away from there. The Prophet (SAWA) then said, 'Leave them O `Aumar, for verily the eye feels teary [at the moment], the heart is afflicted and the pain of the incident is still fresh.'

   al-Nasai, p. 4, no. 19; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 86 · permalink

3. Afflictions are easy for one who is abstemious in this world.

   Kanz al-Fawa' id li al-Karajiki, v. 2, p. 163; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 87 · permalink

4. He who finds an affliction too great to bear should think about [the greatness of his affliction resulting from] my passing away from this world, and his own affliction will become easier to bear.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 82, p. 84, no. 26; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 86 · permalink

5. Fever makes one's sin fall just as trees let their leaves fall.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 614; Page No. 88&89 · permalink

6. Verily Satan addresses his devils saying, 'Avail yourselves to meat, intoxicants and women, for verily I do not see the merging together of more evils except through these.

   Bihar al-Anwar,v. 62, p. 293; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 272 · permalink

7. Force yourselves to do good, and exert yourselves therein, for verily evil is something man naturally tends towards.

   Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 120; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 272 · permalink

8. Expectation is a mercy for my community; without expectation no mother would nurse her child, nor would anyone plant a tree.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 173, no. 8; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 272 · permalink

9. A man who expects to be alive tomorrow is a man who expects to be alive forever.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 167, no. 31; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 273 · permalink

10. It has been narrated that the Prophet (SAWA) took three sticks and set one of them in front of him, another one next to it, and the third far away from the two. He then asked, 'Do you know what this is?' to which they replied, 'Allah and His Messenger know better.' He said, 'This one is man, and this is death [next to it], while that one is expectation, which man entertains [about his long life], but death falls upon him prior to his expectation.'

    Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 272; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 275 · permalink

11. O Abu Dharr, beware of backbiting, for verily backbiting is worse than adultery ' [Abu Dharr narrates], I asked, 'O Prophet of Allah, and what is backbiting?' to which he replied, 'Your mentioning something about your fellow brother that he would not like.' I asked, 'O Prophet of Allah, and what if the thing mentioned about him was actually true about him?' so he replied, 'Know that if you say something about him that is true then you have indeed backbit about him, and if you what you have said is not true, then you have indeed slandered him

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 89, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 126 · permalink

12. It is bad enough to talk about your brother regarding what is true [let alone what is false]!

    al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 3, p. 506, no. 13; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 127 · permalink

13. Four types of people are such that talking about them behind their backs is not considered backbiting: the immoral person who makes a public display of his immorality; the dishonest leader who, even if you were to be good to would not appreciate you and if you were to be bad to would not forgive you; those who joke about their [and others'] mothers; and one who is a dissenter, who defames my community, and draws his sword against it.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 261, no. 64; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 127 · permalink

14. Whoever does a good service to his fellow brother by deterring people from talking behind his back in a gathering where he hears them backbiting him, Allah will repel from him a thousand types of evil in this world as well as in the Hereafter.

    Amali al-Saduq, p. 350; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 128 · permalink

15. He in whose presence a fellow Muslim brother is talked about behind his back, and who does not defend him despite having the ability to do so, Allah disgraces him in this world as well as in the Hereafter.

    al-Faqih, v. 4, p. 372; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 129 · permalink

16. Holy Prophet Muhammad al Mustaf? (s.a.w.w.) was asked about the penance for backbiting, to which he replied, 'You must seek Allah's forgiveness on behalf of the one you have talked about every time you remember him.'

    al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 357, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 129 · permalink

17. Whoever believes in Allah and the Day of Resurrection must not annoy his neighbour

    al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 667, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 635 · permalink

18. The archangel Gabriel continuously advises me about standing for prayer in the night such that I really thought the good people in my community will never sleep

    Amali al-Saduq, p. 349, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 636 · permalink

19. Allah has mercy on the man who wakes up in the night to pray, and wakes his wife so she too prays, and sprinkles water on her face if she refuses to get up. And Allah has mercy on the woman who wakes up in the night to pray, and wakes her husband to pray too, and sprinkles water on his face if he refuses to get up.

    Sunan e Abi Dawood, p. 145; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 636 · permalink

20. Verily when a servant withdraws to be alone with his Master in the middle of the dark night and intimately converses with Him, Allah places divine light into his heart then He, Exalted be His Splendour, says to His angels, 'O My angels, look at My servant how he seeks solitude to be with Me in the middle of the dark night while the worthless ones remain heedless and the negligent ones sleep. Witness that verily I have forgiven him

    Amali al-Saduq, p. 230, no. 9; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 636 · permalink

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