. Allah made Adam 60 cubits high (generally
a cubit was 18 inches. Therefore, Adam was 90 feet tall)
. The Prophet said, "Allah created Adam, making him 60
cubits tall. When He created him, He said to him, "Go
and greet that group of angels, and listen to their reply, for
it will be your greeting (salutation) and the greeting (salutations
of your offspring." So, Adam said (to the angels), As-Salamu
Alaikum (i.e. Peace be upon you). The angels said, "As-salamu
Alaika wa Rahmatu-l-lahi" (i.e. Peace and Allah's Mercy be
upon you). Thus the angels added to Adam's salutation the expression,
'Wa Rahmatu-l-lahi,' Any person who will enter Paradise will resemble
Adam (in appearance and figure). People have been decreasing in
stature since Adam's creation." Volume 4, Book 55, Number
543 , Narrated Abu Huraira.
. Water flowed out from under the fingernails of Muhammad
. We used to consider miracles as Allah's Blessings, but you people
consider them to be a warning. Once we were with Allah's Apostle
on a journey, and we ran short of water. He said, "Bring
the water remaining with you." The people brought a utensil
containing a little water. He placed his hand in it and said,
"Come to the blessed water, and the Blessing is from Allah."
I saw the water flowing from among the fingers of Allah's Apostle
, and no doubt, we heard the meal glorifying Allah, when it was
being eaten (by him). Volume 4, Book 56, Number 779 , Narrated
'Abdullah:
. A man was blown by a wind to a distant mountain
. We took part in the holy battle of Tabuk in the company of the
Prophet and when we arrived at the Wadi-al-Qura, there was a woman
in her garden. The Prophet asked his companions to estimate the
amount of the fruits in the garden, and Allah's Apostle estimated
it at ten Awsuq (One Wasaq = 60 Sa's) and 1 Sa'= 3 kg. approximately).
The Prophet said to that lady, "Check what your garden will
yield." When we reached Tabuk, the Prophet said, "There
will be a strong wind to-night and so no one should stand and
whoever has a camel, should fasten it." So we fastened our
camels. A strong wind blew at night and a man stood up and
he was blown away to a mountain called Taiy, The King of Aila
sent a white mule and a sheet for wearing to the Prophet as a
present, and wrote to the Prophet that his people would stay in
their place (and will pay Jizya taxation.) Volume 2, Book 24,
Number 559 , Narrated Abu Humaid As-Sa'idi
. Muhammad is ordered by Allah to fight all people until
they worship Allah
. Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah)
to fight against the people until they testify that none has the
right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's
Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory
charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives
an property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning
(accounts) will be done by Allah." Volume 1, Book 2, Number
24 , Narrated Ibn 'Umar.
. The Qur'an was revealed in the dialect of the Quraish
. "(The Caliph 'Uthman ordered Zaid bin Thabit, Said bin
Al-As, 'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair and 'Abdur-Rahman bin Al-Harith
bin Hisham to write the Quran in the form of a book (Mushafs)
and said to them. "In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit
(Al-Ansari) regarding any dialectic Arabic utterance of the Quran,
then write it in the dialect of Quraish, for the Quran was
revealed in this dialect." So they did it." Volume
6, Book 61, Number 507
, Narrated Anas bin Malik.
. The Qur'an was not collected together by Muhammad
. Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me when the people! of Yamama had
been killed (i.e., a number of the Prophet's Companions who fought
against Musailama). (I went to him) and found 'Umar bin Al-Khattab
sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said (to me), "Umar has come
to me and said: "Casualties were heavy among the Qurra' of
the! Qur'an (i.e. those who knew the Quran by heart) on the day
of the Battle of Yalmama, and I am afraid that more heavy casualties
may take place among the Qurra' on other battlefields, whereby
a large part of the Qur'an may be lost. Therefore I suggest,
you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur'an be collected." I said
to 'Umar, "How can you do something which Allah's Apostle
did not do?" 'Umar said, "By Allah, that is a good
project. "Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till
Allah opened my chest for it and I began to realize the good in
the idea which 'Umar had realized." Then Abu Bakr said (to
me). 'You are a wise young man and we do not have any suspicion
about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah's
Apostle. So you should search for (the fragmentary scripts
of) the Qur'an and collect it in one book)." By Allah
If they had ordered me to shift one of the mountains, it would
not have been heavier for me than this ordering me to collect
the Qur'an. Then I said to Abu Bakr, "How will you do
something which Allah's Apostle did not do?" Abu Bakr
replied, "By Allah, it is a good project." Abu Bakr
kept on urging me to accept his idea until Allah opened my chest
for what He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and 'Umar. So I
started looking for the Qur'an and collecting it from (what
was written on) palmed stalks, thin white stones and also from
the men who knew it by heart, till I found the last Verse
of Surat At-Tauba (Repentance) with Abi Khuzaima Al-Ansari, and
I did not find it with anybody other than him. The Verse is: 'Verily
there has come unto you an Apostle (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves.
It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty..(till
the end of Surat-Baraa' (At-Tauba) (9.128-129) Then the complete
manuscripts (copy) of the Qur'an remained with Abu Bakr till he
died, then with 'Umar till the end of his life, and then with
Hafsa, the daughter of 'Umar." Volume 6, Book 61, Number
509 , Narrated Zaid bin Thabit.
. The Qur'an was compiled because of differences among
various manuscripts
. Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman came to Uthman at the time when the people
of Sham and the people of Iraq were Waging war to conquer Arminya
and Adharbijan. Hudhaifa was afraid of their (the people of
Sham and Iraq) differences in the recitation of the Qur'an,
so he said to 'Uthman, "O chief of the Believers! Save this
nation before they differ about the Book (Quran) as Jews and the
Christians did before." So 'Uthman sent a message to Hafsa
saying, "Send us the manuscripts of the Qur'an so that we
may compile the Qur'anic materials in perfect copies and return
the manuscripts to you." Hafsa sent it to 'Uthman. 'Uthman
then ordered Zaid bin Thabit, 'Abdullah bin AzZubair, Said bin
Al-As and 'AbdurRahman bin Harith bin Hisham to rewrite the manuscripts
in perfect copies. 'Uthman said to the three Quraishi men,
"In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in
the Qur'an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, the Qur'an
was revealed in their tongue." They did so, and when
they had written many copies, 'Uthman returned the original manuscripts
to Hafsa. 'Uthman sent to every Muslim province one copy of
what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur'anic
materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole
copies, be burnt. Said bin Thabit added, "A Verse from
Surat Ahzab was missed by me when we copied the Qur'an and I used
to hear Allah's Apostle reciting it. So we searched for it and
found it with Khuzaima bin Thabit Al-Ansari. (That Verse was):
'Among the Believers are men who have been true in their covenant
with Allah.' (33.23) Volume 6, Book 61, Number 510 ,
Narrated Anas bin Malik.
. A Qur'anic verse is cancelled
. The Prophet sent seventy men from the tribe of Bani Salim to
the tribe of Bani Amir. When they reached there, my maternal uncle
said to them, "I will go ahead of you, and if they allow
me to convey the message of Allah's Apostle (it will be all right);
otherwise you will remain close to me." So he went ahead
of them and the pagans granted him security But while he was reporting
the message of the Prophet , they beckoned to one of their men
who stabbed him to death. My maternal uncle said, "Allah
is Greater! By the Lord of the Kaba, I am successful." After
that they attached the rest of the party and killed them all except
a lame man who went up to the top of the mountain. (Hammam, a
sub-narrator said, "I think another man was saved along with
him)." Gabriel informed the Prophet that they (i.e the martyrs)
met their Lord, and He was pleased with them and made them pleased.
We used to recite, "Inform our people that we have met our
Lord, He is pleased with us and He has made us pleased "
Later on this Quranic Verse was cancelled. The Prophet
invoked Allah for forty days to curse the murderers from the tribe
of Ral, Dhakwan, Bani Lihyan and Bam Usaiya who disobeyed Allah
and his Apostle." Volume 4, Book 52, Number 57 , Narrated
Anas. See also Volume 4, Book 52 , See also, 69, and 299 .
. Various Qur'an manuscripts had missing verses
. Zaid bin Thabit said, "When the Quran was compiled from
various written manuscripts, one of the Verses of Surat Al-Ahzab
was missing which I used to hear Allah's Apostle reciting.
I could not find it except with Khuzaima bin Thabjt Al-Ansari,
whose witness Allah's Apostle regarded as equal to the witness
of two men. And the Verse was:-- "Among the believers are
men who have been true to what they covenanted with Allah."
(33.23) Volume 4, Book 52, Number 62 , Narrated
Kharija bin Zaid.
. Muhammad was once bewitched
. "Once the Prophet was bewitched so that he began to
imagine that he had done a thing which in fact he had not done."
Volume 4, Book 53, Number 400
, Narrated Aisha.
. Muhammad said that one wing of a house fly has a disease
and the other wing has the cure
. The Prophet said "If a house fly falls in the drink
of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of
its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease."
Volume 4, Book 54, Number 537
, Narrated Abu Huraira.
. Allah forgave a prostitute of her sins because she gave water
to a dying dog
. Allah's Apostle said, "A prostitute was forgiven by
Allah, because, passing by a panting dog near a well and seeing
that the dog was about to die of thirst, she took off her shoe,
and tying it with her head-cover she drew out some water for it.
So, Allah forgave her because of that." Volume 4, Book
54, Number 538
, Narrated Abu Huraira.
. Angels don't enter houses with dogs in them
. The Prophet said, "Angels do not enter a house witch has
either a dog or a picture in it." Volume 4, Book 54, Number
539 , Narrated Abu Talha.
. Jinn eat dung and animal bones
. That once he was in the, company of the Prophet carrying a water
pot for his ablution and for cleaning his private parts. While
he was following him carrying it(i.e. the pot), the Prophet said,
"Who is this?" He said, "I am Abu Huraira."
The Prophet said, "Bring me stones in order to clean my private
parts, and do not bring any bones or animal dung." Abu Huraira
went on narrating: So I brought some stones, carrying them in
the corner of my robe till I put them by his side and went away.
When he finished, I walked with him and asked, "What about
the bone and the animal dung?" He said, "They are of
the food of Jinns. The delegate of Jinns of (the city of) Nasibin
came to me--and how nice those Jinns were--and asked me for the
remains of the human food. I invoked Allah for them that they
would never pass by a bone or animal dung but find food on them."
Volume 5, Book 58, Number 200
, Narrated Abu Huraira.
. Women and sons can be mortgaged
. ". . . Now we want you to lend us a camel load or two of
food." (Some difference between narrators about a camel load
or two.) Kab said, "Yes, (I will lend you), but you should
mortgage something to me." Muhammad bin Mas-lama and his
companion said, "What do you want?" Ka'b replied, "Mortgage
your women to me." They said, "How can we mortgage our
women to you and you are the most handsome of the 'Arabs?"
Ka'b said, "Then mortgage your sons to me." They said,
"How can we mortgage our sons to you? Later they would be
abused by the people's saying that so-and-so has been mortgaged
for a camel load of food. That would cause us great disgrace,
but we will mortgage our arms to you." Volume 5, Book 59,
Number 369 , Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah.
. The Angel Gabriel had 600 wings.
. I asked Sir about the Statement of Allah: 'And was at a distance
of but two bow-lengths or (even) nearer. So did Allah convey the
Inspiration to His slave (Gabriel) and then he (Gabriel) conveyed
that to Muhammad.' (53.10) He said, "Abdullah (bin Mas'ud)
informed us that Muhammad had seen Gabriel with six hundred
wings." Volume 6, Book 60, Number 380 ,
Narrated assailant.
. The moon was cut into two pieces
. During the lifetime of Allah's Apostle the moon was split into
two parts; one part remained over the mountain, and the other
part went beyond the mountain. On that, Allah's Apostle said,
"Witness this miracle." 388The moon was cleft asunder
while we were in the company of the Prophet, and it became two
parts. The Prophet said, Witness, witness (this miracle)."
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 387-388 , Narrated Ibn Masud and
Abdullah. See also 389-391
.
. A fever is from the heat of hell fire
. I used to sit with Ibn 'Abbas in Mecca. Once I had a fever and
he said (to me), "Cool your fever with Zam-zam water, for
Allah's Apostle said: 'It, (the Fever) is from the heat of
the (Hell) Fire; so, cool it with water (or Zam-zam water)."
Volume 4, Book 54, Number 483
, Narrated Abu Jamra Ad-Dabi.
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