Hadeeths

Hadeeth 101
“Verily Al**h has forbidden to you disobedience to mothers, burying daughters alive, denying what you owe and demanding what you have no right to, and has disliked for you idle talk and gossip, excessive questioning, and squandering wealth”
“Mothers” are mentioned for emphasis because mothers are normally weaker of the two parents (and more prone to emotion). “Has dislike for you idle talk and gossip” because it leads to greater sins such as backbiting. “Excessive questioning” is disliked when a person questions a person to test their knowledge or when a person asks questions about issues that does not concern a person.
Hadeeth 102
“The most beloved practice in the sight of Al**h is love for the sake of Al**h and hatred for the sake of Al**h”
Love and hatred for the sake of Al**h can only be completed after a person fulfils his religious obligations. These two acts cannot gain greater reward than the fardh acts such as prayer and zakat nor can priority be given to them.
Hadeeth 103
“Verily the world is accursed and accursed is what it contains, except the remembrance of Al**h, that which Al**h loves, and someone with sacred knowledge or someone learning it”
Ibn Abbas (RA) said “Al**h has divided the world into three portions: one for the believer, one for the hypocrite and one for the unbeliever. A believer makes provisions (for the hereafter), a hypocrite adorns (himself) and an unbeliever enjoys (himself).”
“Someone with sacred knowledge” or “someone learning it” is mentioned to emphasize the importance of the student and teacher of sacred knowledge.
Hadeeth 104
“Among those actions and good deeds (whose rewards) a believer will recover after his death are sacred knowledge he taught and spread, a pious child he left behind, a copy of the Quran he left as a legacy, a masjid he constructed or a house he built for the traveller, a stream he set flowing, or voluntary charity he gave from his wealth while he was alive and healthy – they will continue to reach him after his death”
“Sacred knowledge he taught and spread” is general and includes authorized works or books. “A copy of the Quran as a legacy” for people to read from, it can also be Islamic sciences and religious literature. The masjid he made can be his school. Giving charity when a person is alive is better than when he is dead because your deeds stop in your grave.
Hadeeth 105
“Verily Al**h supports this religion even with a sinner”
Sometimes, a sinful person (or even an unbeliever) may do something that could be done (knowingly or) unknowingly which might be of benefit to the faith.
For example: A person may establish a masjid or madrasa with corrupt intentions or to compete with another. Many Muslims may benefit from the masjid or madrasa but the person would be sinning because of his corrupt intentions.

Hadeeth 106
“One of the signs of the final hour is that people will boast to each other in (the grand construction) of masjids”
Hadeeth 107
“The cure to ignorance is to question”
You can ask questions regarding faith to seek answers – namaaz etc.
Hadeeth 108
“Actions will be judged only according to their sealing states (at death)”
A person will be judged in the hereafter according to the state he dies in. A hadeeth of the messenger of Al**h (SAW) explained that if a person does good all his life but near death he does bad things then he dies as a bad person and vice versa.
Hadeeth 109
“The grave is but a garden from the gardens of paradise or a pit from the pits of hellfire”
A hadeeth scholar said “Whoever remembers the grave frequently will find it to be a garden of paradise, and whoever is heedless of its remembrance will find it to be a pit of hellfire.”
You should do good things in your life not bad then you would have a choice of what you want in your grave.
Hadeeth 110
“There is a danger of poverty leading to unbelief”
There are many meanings of this hadeeth. One is people who are poor at heart, meaning they lack world gains but are rich at heart. Poverty of the heart could lead to unbelief.
Another is when you don’t give to the poor because of losing money. “This world is a prison for a believer and paradise of an unbeliever.”
Hadeeth 111
“Every person will be resurrected in the condition he dies”
If they die in a good state, then he/she will be with the righteous. If a person died in a bad state, then he/she will be resurrected with the unrighteous.
Hadeeth 112
“For a person to be classified as a liar it is sufficient that he say everything he hears”
If a person was to relay information with verification is classified as a liar. A person should have verification with another person before passing information to another person.
Hadeeth 113
“Every sin is forgiven for a martyr except debt”
Both major and minor sins are forgiven if a person dies as a martyr. However, debts and rights owed to people must be forgiven by the person first before Al**h will forgive them. If a person is poor (only has one piece of clothing) then inshaal**h, Al**h will repay the debts of the one who intended to pay back his debts but was unable to due to lack of means.
For example: A women can be classed as a martyr if: * She dies during labour * She dies on the way to hajj * She dies during the days of her period A man can be classed as a martyr if: * He dies during a battle fighting in the path of Al**h
Hadeeth 114
“Accursed is the slave of the dinar and the dirham”
This hadeeth is directed to those whose main aim in life is wealth, in which they forget the remembrance of Al**h and other religious obligations.
Hadeeth 115
“Hellfire is veiled with desires and paradise is veiled with displeasures”
Imaam Nawawi writes that paradise cannot be gained except by getting past hardships, and hellfire is gained by indulging in desire.
Hadeeth 116
“A son of Adam becomes old but two things in him become young: greed for wealth and greed for more life”
One’s greed for wealth and greed for life increases as one gets older.
Hadeeth 117
“What an excellent person the religious scholar is – when needed he is helpful and when not needed he enriches himself”
When you need advice from a religious scholar, he helps. Otherwise he remains independent and engages himself in study and worship.
Hadeeth 118
“Three things follow a dead person, then two things return and one remains with him: his family, wealth, and deeds go with him, then his family and wealth return (from his gravesite) and his deeds remain”
The best investment a person can make in this world is good deeds for the hereafter, for else is in vain.
Hadeeth 119
“It is a heinous breach of trust that you tell your brother something that makes him believe you, when you are lying (to him)”
Hadeeth 120
“What an evil person is he who stores merchandise and, if Al**h cause the prices to fall, is grieved and, if he causes them to increase, is pleased”
This hadeeth refers to a person who needs food. Then the person increases the price and sells them at a higher price.

Hadeeth 121
“A talebearer will not enter paradise”
A “Qattat” is a person who listens in on peoples conversations (without their knowledge) and afterwards spreads the information to others. Whereas a “Nammam” is one who spreads information after being present in the discussion (while the people are aware of his or her presence). And a “Fattash” is a person who spreads information after poking around for it and inquiring others about it.
Hadeeth 122
“One who breaks kinship will not enter paradise”
Hadeeth 123
“A believer is not bitten from the same hole twice”
A believer must act intelligently so that he is not deceived twice. This hadeeth warns us saying that we should not be allowed to be deceived.
Hadeeth 124
“A person will not enter paradise from whose mischief his neighbours are not safe”
Hadeeth 125
“The body nourished with unlawful means will not enter paradise”
If a person commits theft and then they buy food and drink with that money. Then the food and drink they have bought with the stolen money is haram.
Hadeeth 126
“None of you is a (perfect) believer until his desires are in conformance with what I have come with”
For a person to be a complete believer, his ambitions, desires and goals must all be in accordance with what is pleasing to Al**h and his messenger (SAW).
Hadeeth 127
“It is not lawful for a Muslim to frighten another Muslim”
Part of trusting another Muslim is that one should not fear being frightened by him.
Hadeeth 128
“Angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture or a dog”
“Pictures” refers to all animate drawings, pictures and photos, whether they cast a shadow or not, unless they are in an album, hidden etc. Also, pictures with dogs on walls should be covered or thrown away. If there is a book on your bed or cabinet it has to be covered when you are praying your namaaz because it won’t count. This doesn’t include any pictures of scenery.

Hadeeth 129
“None among you is a (perfect) believer until I become more beloved to him than his father, his children, and all the people”
You have to put our prophet (SAW) first before anyone, then the four khalifah’s and then the rest of the ummah.
Hadeeth 130
“It is not lawful for a Muslim to sever relationships with his brother for more than three days. Whoever does sever relationships for more than three days and then he dies will enter hellfire”
“And dies” without repentance and “will go to hellfire”. Turpushti explains that he gets a places in hellfire through the final decision is in hellfire. If on severs ties for religious reasons e.g.: innovator or an unreligious person, it will not be prohibited. Our prophet (SAW) severed ties with three companions for 50 days following the battle of Tabuk.
Hadeeth 131
“Mercy is not taken away except from a wretched person”
This indicates that mercy is a bounty from Al**. When a person is merciful to himself and others, Al**h is merciful to him.
Hadeeth 132
“Verily another person’s belongings are unlawful (to take) except with his heart’s content”
One would be allowed to take someone’s belongings, by asking them not by force, intimidation or pressure. If a person took the belonging by asking them by force, intimidation or pressure then it would be without the hearts consent and this is unlawful.
Hadeeth 133
“Angels do not accompany a group in which there is a dog or bell”
Guard or hunter “dogs” are left out in this warning. Regarding “bells” is because it distracts one from the remembrance of Al**h. But if a person uses a whistle to symbolize the end of lunch then this is ok.
Hadeeth 134
“Convey from me, even if only a verse”
The meaning of a “verse” can be a hadeeth, Quranic ayat or knowledge received from our prophet (SAW).
Hadeeth 135
“Treat people according to their individual statuses”
People should be honoured according to their position on the scales of knowledge, piety, moral excellence and nobility. One should observe these individual statuses when dealing with them. People are of different ranks and positions in this world and must be treated accordingly. You should never degrade or humiliate a person.
For Example: If the is a head teacher in the room and your teacher and you then you teacher would honour the head teacher over you because the head teacher has a higher status than you.

Hadeeth 136
“Intercede so that you may be rewarded”
“Interceding” for someone can be putting in good work for them, or doing something that can be of benefit or a permissible position.
Hadeeth 137
“Leave that which put you in doubt for that which does not”
Abandon practices or statements which you have a doubt whether they are prohibited or Sunnah or innovations (bidat) and restrict yourself to what is clearly lawful. A believer should inquire about the practice in regard to his faith. Messenger of Al**h (SAW) said “Truthfulness is a source of contentment and falsehood is a source of doubt”.
For example: You are not sure you are allowed to eat from Nando’s then you should inquire about it but even you don’t find an answer and you are in doubt then don’t eat from Nando’s. Whereas you know you can eat from chicken ranch so then you do not need to inquire about chicken ranch.
Hadeeth 138
“Fear Al**h wherever you may be; follow up a bad deed with a good one, and it will erase it; and treat people with good character”
“Fear Al**h” by fulfilling all of his commands and refraining from what is prohibited. “Wherever you may be” means that you should fear Al**h in such a way you fear him all the time not just be expressed in front of others. “With a good one” for example: repentance or other good deeds, for Al**h Says “Verily, good deeds remove bad deeds”.
Hadeeth 139
“Do not befriend anyone but a believer, and let not anyone but a god fearing person eat your food”
A believer’s friendship should be with believers, whose company will provide spiritual benefit and bring one closer to Allah. It should not be with unbelievers or hypocrites. ”Let not anyone but a god fearing person eat your food” because feeding creates a feeling of love between a host and a guest, and this type of feeling is best with the pious. This does not include feeding the poor.
Hadeeth 140
“Fulfil the trust of the one who entrusts you, and do not betray the one who betrays you”
A person should not repay an excess with another excess. It is superior to repay in kindness. This does not prohibit reclaiming owns possessions, since that is reclaiming one’s own rights and not an excess.
Hadeeth 141
“Say, “I believe in Al**h,” and then stand firm”
“standing firm” means fulfilling all obligations and abstaining from all prohibitions in all external and internal actions. Once you accept Allah as god you have to stay steadfast on all the commands that you have been ordered to do! “Istiqama” is a difficult matter since you have to a) Belief – Worship b) Actions – Abstaining from haraam c) Conduct – Refraining from boasting.
“Istiqama” on the straight path (in this world) is as difficult as crossing the bridge over hellfire. Both paths are more delicate than hair and sharper that the sword.
Hadeeth 142
“The most virtuous from among you should make the call to prayer for you, and the fine reciters from among you should lead you in prayer”
Prayer will be valid behind a transgressor, though in most cases strongly disliked.
Hadeeth 143
“Do not admit those who do not begin with the salaam”
The importance of saying of saying salaam when entering a place (for instance, the home).
For Example: If your brother/sister comes into the house without saying salaam send them back out of the house. Tell your brother/sister to say salaam then let your brother/sister into the house.
Hadeeth 144
“Do not pluck out gray hair, for it is the light of a Muslim”
When a person gets older and grows grey hair, he usually becomes more wary of committing sin and turns to performing good acts. His good deeds become a source of light for him in the hereafter.
Hadeeth 145
“Exercise abstinence from the world and Al**h will love you, and abstain from what people have and they will love you”
“Abstinence from the world” is reached by abandoning love for it, abstaining from things which are beyond his basic needs. This increases one’s worship for Allah and Allah loves him because the person has abandoned the enemy of Allah – the world.
“Abstaining from what people have” will cause them to love you because you are not seen as a competitor or threat to them.
Hadeeth 146
“Be in the world as though you were a stranger or a wayfarer”
Do not become so attached to this world because the world is only a bridge that needs to be crossed, so a believer should occupy himself in worship and abstain from worldly affairs. Hadeeth 147
“Pay the labourer his due before his sweat dries”
Hadeeth 148
“Give glad tidings (to the people) and do not frighten (them) away, and create ease and do not create difficulty”
Lead people to righteousness, do not lead them away. Instead invite them to worship. “Create ease and do not make difficult” means do not force people to do more than is required of them.
For Example: When collecting Zakah from them, do not attempt to take the best of their wealth but take that of a medium quality.

Hadeeth 149
“Do not curse the rooster because it wakes (people) for prayer”
A Muslim Zoologist states “The most fascinating quality of a rooster is its precise awareness of the times of night” This a benefit because it wakes people up for fajr so the rooster should not be cursed.
Hadeeth 150
“Do not own an estate and thus begin to desire the world”
“Estate” could refer to a business, farm or orchard. Becoming absorbed in the running of an estate could make one neglectful of his duties to Allah and lead him to cherish the pleasures of the world. This hadeeth warns against occupations that makes one heedless of his obligations to Allah.
Hadeeth 151
“Oppose the polytheists; lengthen the beard and clip the moustache”
“Luha” is the hair that grows on the cheeks and the chin. A scholar explains: The command in the hadeeth is to let the beard grow and to not clip it short as one should do with the moustache.
A narration states that our Prophet (SAW) would clip from the sides and length of his beard. This is not haram because it is cutting a bit, also you can cut it if it is over a fistful. This was the practice of Abdullah Ibn Umar.
Hadeeth 152
“Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and free slaves”
Hadeeth 153
“A judge should not pass judgement between two people when he is angry”
It is also disliked for a judge to pass judgement in extremely hot or cold conditions. Also when the judge is hungry, thirsty or ill he should not pass judgement because it is hard for a person to make a correct judgement when in deep thought.
Hadeeth 154
“Beware of living sumptuously, for the (true) servants of Al**h do not live sumptuously”
“Living sumptuously” means living for the world by fulfilling ones desires. This characteristic is typical of the unbelievers, sinners, heedless, and ignorant ones.
Hadeeth 155
“Do not revile the dead, for they have passed on to what they have sent forth”
You should not say anything bad about the dead, Muslim or non - Muslim, except those who are the enemies of the Prophet (SAW).
Hadeeth 156
“Preserve what you have memorized of the Qur’an, because by Him in whose hand lies my life, it escapes (from the heart) faster than a camel does from its rope”
The Quran is not a speech of a human but of Allah. It is a blessing of Allah that can be memorized. However we should pray it often because it can be lost and difficult recapture than a runaway camel.

Hadeeth 157
“Be reposeful in prostration and do not rest your forearms on the ground as a dog does”
The great hadeeth master and Shafi Jurist state that in a lengthy prostration you can rest your arms on your thighs. This does not extend to women since they have to place their arms firmly on the ground.
Hadeeth 158
“Command your children to perform prayer when they are seven years of age, and beat them for neglecting it when they are ten, and (at that age) separate their beds (between boys and girls)”
Prayer, the most important obligation of Islam, should be taught into the lives of children by the age of ten, well before they reach puberty. Due to the rise of sexual awareness at that age, the sleeping areas of boys and girls should be separated so that they learn to abstain from haram and ensure correct social behaviour.
“Beat them” has been explained to use hands not a rod, and maximum 3 strikes, you cannot leave wounds or injuries as this is only for discipline.
Hadeeth 159
“Do not sit on graves and do not pray facing them”
It is severely disliked for you to sit, sleep, step or walk on a grave.
“Do not pray facing them”, if there is a special place for prayer in a graveyard where there is no impurity or graves, then prayer would be permitted there.
Hadeeth 160
“Fear Allah regarding these mute animals (horses, camels etc); mount them when they are sufficiently rested and alight from them before tiring them”
Hadeeth 161
“Do not treat the backs of your beasts as pulpits”
Do not sit on your animals for long periods, gossiping, passing time, or doing something that could be done on the ground. Allow the animals to rest, and do not exhaust them beyond their limits.
Hadeeth 162
“Do not sit between two people except with their permission”
They may be together due to close friendship or they may be engaged in a private conversation and a disturbance would interrupt them.
Hadeeth 163
“Do not express joy at your brother’s calamity lest Allah take pity on him and afflict you with calamity”

Hadeeth 164
“Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah”
“No veil between it and Allah” means that the supplication is strong and more likely to be accepted by Allah. “A wronged one” refers to the one who has been cheated or oppressed.
Hadeeth 165
“A man should not be alone with a (marriageable) woman, and woman should not travel except with the accompaniment of an unmarriageable kinsman”
“Mahram” (for men) includes all those who are unmarriageable through blood relationship, like sister, aunt, wet nurse, mother in law or grandmother in law.
A companion came to our prophet (SAW) and said: “I have just been recruited for such – and – such battle and my wife has departed for the pilgrimage.” The messenger (SAW) said, “Go and perform pilgrimage with your wife.” This has explained as a woman should not travel without a mahram. The distance she can travel without a mahram is 48 miles.
Hadeeth 166
“Do not use anything with a soul as a target”
It is forbidden to use animals as a target practise. Hunting them for their meat is permissible.
Hadeeth 167
“Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it”
Allama Tibi explains that charity is used as a protective shield against calamities. Calamities are either blocked or repelled with charity.
Hadeeth 168
“Guard against the Hellfire, if even with half a date, and whoever does not possess that then with a good word”
One should strive to safeguard himself against hellfire (with any good deed), even if this be by donating half a date in charity. If one does not possess even that, then you should try and say something nice to a person like making dua for him.
Hadeeth 169
“Fight the polytheists with your wealth, life, and tongue”
Fighting with the “tongue” has been explained as inviting them to Allah and revealing falsehood, confusion, and differences of their beliefs.
Hadeeth 170
“Take advantage of five conditions before five others: youth before old age, good health before illness, prosperity before poverty, free time before becoming occupied and life before death”
Hadeeth 171
“The powerful one is not he who overpowers somebody, but the powerful one is he who restrains himself when angry”
The one who is able to restrain himself is more powerful because he has been able to overcome his greatest enemy – his anger and lower self. After which it becomes easier to overcome all other enemies.

Hadeeth 172
“The one who turns a wife against her husband or turns a slave against his master is not of us”
It is an evil act to turn a wife against her husband in any way, whether by speaking ill of him or hinting divorce. “Is not of us” means his character is un – Islamic or he is not a true believer.
Hadeeth 173
“One who does not have mercy on our young or respect for our old and does not enjoin the good and forbid the wrong is not of us”
Hadeeth 174
“A believer is not he who maligns, curses, or is obscene or vulgar”
Hadeeth 175
“Richness does not come from an abundance of wealth; (true) richness is the richness of the heart”
This is because a person with richness of the heart is free from desire for worldly goods and is focused on the hereafter. He is happy with what he has, and the one who has only for this world is in reality a pauper, even though he has so much, because of his desire, he wants more.
Hadeeth 176
“A true believer is not he who eats to his fill while his neighbour goes hungry at his side”
Part of being a good believer is that one asks as to his neighbour’s needs and attempt to fulfil them.
Hadeeth 177
“The (true) maintainer of kinship is not one who merely reciprocates. The (true) maintainer is the one who reconciles ties when they are severed”
A person who maintains a good relationship with relatives only if they do is not considered a true maintainer to ties, because he is doing so out of kindness. Hence, he will not gain the complete reward for it.
Hadeeth 178
“A liar is not he who settles disagreements between two people and (as such) speaks well (of them to each other) and conveys good”
This hadeeth means leaving out the negative and mentioning the positive aspects of one conflicting party to another in order to resolve things between them, and not actually fabricating a lying about anything. Imaam Muslim relates that the narrator of the hadith, Umm Kulthum bunt Uqba ibn Abi Muit, said, “I have not heard the messenger (SAW) grant concessions in the untruths people tell except in three cases: war, reconciling between people and a husband’s words to his wife’s and a wife’s words to her husband.”
Hadeeth 179
“Nothing is more honoured in the sight of Allah than supplication”
This is because dua is an expression of one’s helplessness and need and a confession of the independence, might, power and strength of Allah. During dua, a person truly realises his position of slavery and humbles himself to Allah.
Hadeeth 180
“Hearing (about something) is not like seeing (it)”
After mentioning the above, Allah’s messenger (SAW) gave an example of when Musa (AS) did not drop the tablets when Allah informed him of his people engaging in idolatry, but dropped them in anger only when seeing them in that condition.

Hadeeth 181
“He who beats his cheeks, rends his garments, and cries out as people did in pre – Islamic times is not of us”
Wailing over ones deceased is forbidden in Islam. However, feeling sadness in the heart and shedding tears as a natural reaction to loss is not forbidden.