Category:The Book of Model Behavior of the Prophet Kitab AlSunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud

The Book of Model Behavior of the Prophet Kitab AlSunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud Key Points

1. Narrated Abu Huraira The Prophet ﷺ said The Jews were split up into seventy one or seventy two sects and the Christians were split up into seventy one or seventy two sects and my community will be split up into seventy three sects . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25813 Category:Chapter on Explanation of the Sunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
2. Abu Amir AlHawdhani said Muawiyah Bin Abi Sufiyan stood among us and said Beware The Apostle of Allah ﷺ stood among us and said Beware The people of the Book before were split up into seventy two sects and this community will be split into seventy three seventy two of them will go to Hell and one of them will go to Paradise and it is the majority group Ibn Yahya and Amr added in their version There will appear among my community people who will be dominated by desires like rabies which penetrates its patient Amrs version has penetrates its patient . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25814 Category:Chapter on Prohibition Of Controversy And Of Following The Allergorical Verses In the Quran in Sunan Abu Dawoud
3. Abdullah Bin Kaab Bin Malik who used to lead his father from among his sons when he became blind said I heard Kaab Bin Malik the transmitter Ibn AlSarh then narrated the story of his remaining behind from the Prophet ﷺ during the campaign of Tabuk say The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the Muslims to speak to any of us three . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25816 Category:Chapter on The Abandonment Of Saluting The Heretics in Sunan Abu Dawoud
4. Abu Huraira reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying If anyone summons other to follow right guidance his reward will be equivalent to that of the people who follow him without their rewards being diminished in any respect on that account and if anyone summons others to follow error the sin of which sins being diminished in any respect on that account . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25825 Category:Chapter on Making Distinction Between The Prophets in Sunan Abu Dawoud
5. Abu Dawud said In this tradition Mamar on the authority of AlZuhrl said The words wa la yun iyannaka instead of wa la yuthniyannaka with the same meaning it may not distract you salih Bin Kaisan on the authority of AlZurhrl said in this tradition the words Almushtaharat well know things . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25828 Category:Chapter on Belief In Divine Decree in Sunan Abu Dawoud
6. He wrote to him To begin with I enjoin upon you to fear Allah to be moderate in obeying His Command to follow the sunnah practice of His Prophet ﷺ and to abandon the novelties which the innovators introduced after his Sunnah has been established and they were saved from its trouble i . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25829 Category:Chapter on The Offspring Of Polytheists in Sunan Abu Dawoud
7. novelty or innovation so stick to Sunnah for it is for you if Allah chooses a protection then you should know that any innovation which the people introduced was refuted long before it on the basis of some authority or there was some lesson in it for the Sunnah was introduced by the people who were conscious of the error slip foolishness and extremism in case of the sunnah was opposed . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25829 Category:Chapter on The Offspring Of Polytheists in Sunan Abu Dawoud
8. So accept for yourself what the people in the past had accepted for themselves for they had complete knowledge of whatever they were informed and by penetrating insight they forbade to do prohibited acts they had more strength than us to disclose the matters of religion and they were far better than us by virtue of their merits . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25829 Category:Chapter on The Offspring Of Polytheists in Sunan Abu Dawoud
9. There is nothing which is not surrounded by His knowledge and not counted by His register and not destined by His decree . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25829 Category:Chapter on The Offspring Of Polytheists in Sunan Abu Dawoud
10. Ibn aown said If we learnt that the remark of AlHasan would reach the extent that it has reached we would write a book for his withdrawal and call witnesses to him but we said This is a remark that surprisingly came out from him and it will not be transmitted to others . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25837 Category:Chapter on The Pond in Sunan Abu Dawoud
11. You and Abu Bakr were weighed and you were heavier Abu Bakr and Umar were weighed and Abu Bakr was heavier Umar and Uthman were weighed and Umar was heavier than the scale was taken up . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25849 Category:Chapter on Adherence To The Sunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
12. Narrated Safinah The Prophet ﷺ said The Caliphate of Prophecy will last thirty years then Allah will give the Kingdom of His Kingdom to anyone He wills Saeed told that Safinah said to him Calculate Abu Bakr caliphate as two years Umar as ten Uthman as twelve and Ali so and so . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25860 Category:Chapter on The Offspring Of Polytheists in Sunan Abu Dawoud
13. Narrated Saeed Ibn Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl Abdullah Ibn Zalim AlMazini said I heard Saeed Ibn Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl say When so and so came to Kufah and made so and so stand to address the people Saeed Ibn Zayd caught hold of my hand and said Are you seeing this tyrant I bear witness to the nine people that they will go to Paradise . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25861 Category:Chapter on The Jahmiyah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
14. Abu Dawud said This tradition has been transmitted by AlAshjai from Sufyan from Mansur from Hilal Bin Yasaf from Ibn Hayan on the authority of Abdullah Bin Zalim through his different chain of narrators in a a similar manner . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25862 Category:Chapter on The Vision Of Allah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
15. So Saeed Ibn Zayd got up and said I bear witness to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that I heard him say Ten persons will go to Paradise The Prophet ﷺ will go to Paradise Abu Bakr will go to Paradise Umar will go to Paradise Uthman will go to Paradise Ali will go to Paradise Talha h will go to Paradise AlZubair Ibn AlAwam will go to paradise Saad Ibn Malik will go to Paradise and Abdulrahman Ibn Awuf will go to Paradise . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25862 Category:Chapter on The Vision Of Allah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
16. He said Dont I see that the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ are being abused but you neither stop it nor do anything about it I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say and I need not say for him anything which he did not say and then he would ask me tomorrow when I see him Abu Bakr will go to Paradise and Umar will go to Paradise . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25865 Category:Chapter on Intercession in Sunan Abu Dawoud
17. Abu Said AlKhudri reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying Do not revile my Companions by him in whose hand my soul is if one of you contributed the amount of gold equivalent to Uhud it would not amount to as much as the mudd of one of them or half of it . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25872 Category:Chapter on On The Killing Of The Khawarij in Sunan Abu Dawoud
18. So Hudhaifah came to salman who was in his vegetable farm and said Salman what prevents you from testifying me of what I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ Salman said The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sometimes would be angry and said in anger something to some of his Companions he would be sometimes pleased and said in pleasure something to some of his Companions . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25873 Category:Chapter on Fighting Against The Khawarij in Sunan Abu Dawoud
19. Is this an order that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had given you or is this your opinion that you have He said The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not give me any order but this is an opinion that I have . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25877 Category:Chapter on Keeping Away From Heretics And Hating Them in Sunan Abu Dawoud
20. Narrated Abu Umamah The Prophet ﷺ said If anyone loves for Allah sake hates for Allah sake gives for Allah sake and withholds for Allah sake he will have perfect faith . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25888 Category:Chapter on Refutation Of The Murjiah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
21. Sad said Messenger of Allah You gave so and so so and so but did not give anything to so and so while he is a believer . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25889 Category:Chapter on Proof Of Increase And Decrease Of Faith in Sunan Abu Dawoud
22. Abdullah Bin Amr reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristics of hypocrisy till he abandons it when he talks he lies when he makes a promise he violates it when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he deviates from the Truth . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25894 Category:Chapter on Refutation Of The Jahmiyah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
23. Abu Mousa AlAshari reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying Allah created Adam from a handful which he took from the whole of the earth so the children of Adam are in accordance with the earth some red some white some black some a mixture also smooth and rough bad and good . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25900 Category:Chapter on Questioning And Punishment In The Grave in Sunan Abu Dawoud
24. A man or some people asked Then why action He replied Those who are among the number of those who go to Paradise will be helped to do the deeds of the people who will go to Paradise and those who are among the number of those who go to Hell will be helped to do the deeds of those who will go to Hell . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25912 Category:Chapter on Order Of The Companions In Respect Of Merit in Sunan Abu Dawoud
25. Were you to spend in support of Allahs cause an amount of gold equivalent to Uhud Allah would not accept it from you till you believed in divine decree and knew that what has come to you could not miss you and that what has missed you could not come to you . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25913 Category:Chapter on The Caliphs in Sunan Abu Dawoud
26. Ubadah Bin AlSamit said to his son Son You will not get the taste of the reality of faith until you know that what has come to you could not miss you and that what has missed you could not come to you . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25913 Category:Chapter on The Caliphs in Sunan Abu Dawoud
27. Narrated Umar Ibn AlKhattab Muslim Ibn Yasar AlJuhani said When Umar Ibn AlKhattab was asked about the verse When your Lord took their offspring from the backs of the children of Adam AlQanabi recited the verse he said I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say when he was questioned about it Allah created Adam then passed His right hand over his back and brought forth from it his offspring saying I have these for Paradise and these will do the deeds of those who go to Paradise . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25916 Category:Chapter on Proof Of Abu Bakr Caliphate in Sunan Abu Dawoud
28. But when He creates a servant for Hell He employs him in doing the deeds of those who will go to Hell so that his final action before death is one of the deeds of those who go to Hell for which He will bring him into Hell . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25917 Category:Chapter on Instructions Regarding Refraining From Speech During The Period Of Turmoil in Sunan Abu Dawoud
29. Abdullah Bin Masud said The Messenger of Allah ﷺ who spoke the truth and whose word was belief told us the following The constituents of one of you are collected for forty days in his mothers womb then they become a piece of congealed blood for a similar period then they become a lump of flesh for a similar period . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25918 Category:Chapter on Making Distinction Between The Prophets in Sunan Abu Dawoud
30. One of you will do the deeds of those who go to Paradise so that there will be only a cubit between him and it or will be within a cubit then what is decreed will overcome him so that he will do the deeds of those who go to Hell and will enter it and one of you will do the deeds of those who go to hell so that there will be only a cubit between him and it or will be within a cubit then what is decreed will overcome him so that he will do the deeds of those who go to Paradise and will enter it . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25919 Category:Chapter on Refutation Of The Murjiah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
31. He replied It may be otherwise Aisha for Allah created Paradise and created those who will go to it and He created it for them when they were still in their fathers loins and he created hell and created those who will go to it and created it for them when they were still in their fathers loins . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25920 Category:Chapter on Proof Of Increase And Decrease Of Faith in Sunan Abu Dawoud
32. Jarir Bin Abdullah said When we are were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ he looked at the moon on the night when it was full that is fourteenth and said You will see your Lord as you see this moon and have no doubts about seeing him . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25940 Category:Chapter on The Abandonment Of Saluting The Heretics in Sunan Abu Dawoud
33. Narrated Abu Razin AlUqayli I asked Messenger of Allah will each one of us see his Lord Ibn Muadh version has being alone with Him on the Day of Resurrection And what sign is there is His creation He replied Abu Razin does each one of you not see the moon Ibn Muadh version has on the night when it is full being alone with it Then the agreed version goes I said Yes . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25943 Category:Chapter on Order Of The Companions In Respect Of Merit in Sunan Abu Dawoud
34. Abu Huraira reported the Prophet ﷺ as saying Our lord gets down every night to the heaven of this world when a third night remains and says Is there anyone who prays to Me so that I may accept his prayer Is there anyone who asks of Me so that I may give him Is there anyone who asks for my forgiveness so that I may forgive him . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25943 Category:Chapter on Order Of The Companions In Respect Of Merit in Sunan Abu Dawoud
35. When he comes to them they recover and say O Jibril what did your Lord say He would say The truth and they would say The truth the truth . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25946 Category:Chapter on Prohibition Of Abusing The Companions Of The Apostle of Allah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
36. The version of Jabir adds here He hears the beat of their sandals when they go back and at that moment he is asked O so and so Who is your Lord what is your religion and who is your Prophet Hannad version says Two angels will come to him make him sit up and ask him Who is your Lord He will reply My Lord is Allah . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25968 Category:Chapter on Explanation of the Sunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
37. They will ask Who made you aware of this He will reply I read Allah Book believed in it and considered it true which is verified by Allah words Allah Book believed in it and considered it true which is verified by Allah words Allah establishes those who believe with the word that stands firm in this world and the next . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25968 Category:Chapter on Explanation of the Sunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud
38. Will you remember your family on the th Day of resurrection the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said There are three places where no one will remember anyone at the scale until one knows whether his weight is light or heavy at the examination of the book when one is commanded Take and read Allahs record until he knows whether his book will be put into his right hand or into his left hand or behind his back and the path when it is placed across JAHANNAM . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25969 Category:Chapter on Prohibition Of Controversy And Of Following The Allergorical Verses In the Quran in Sunan Abu Dawoud
39. Umm Salamah wife of the Prophet ﷺ is reported to have said The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said You will have commanders some of whom you will approve and some of whom you will disapprove . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25970 Category:Chapter on Keeping Away From Heretics And Hating Them in Sunan Abu Dawoud
40. Ali then said O people I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say there will appear from among my community people who recite the Quran and your recitation has no comparison with their recitation and your prayer has no comparison with their prayer and your fasts have no comparison with their fasts . SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25981 Category:Chapter on Refutation Of The Murjiah in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Most Postive Sentiment Hadith in The Book of Model Behavior of the Prophet Kitab AlSunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Positive Sentiment may indicate a Permissible, Encouraged Actions or Sunnah

1. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet ﷺ said: The most perfect believer in respect of faith is he who is best of them in manners. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25899
2. Narrated Abu Razin AlUqayli: I asked: Messenger of Allah! will each one of us see his Lord? Ibn Muadh version has: being alone with Him; on the Day of Resurrection? And what sign is there is His creation? He replied: Abu Razin! does each one of you not see the moon? Ibn Muadh version has: on the night when it is full; being alone with it? Then the agreed version goes: I said: Yes. He said: Allah is more great. Ibn Muadh version has: It is only part of Allah creation; but Allah is more glorious and greater. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25948
3. Narrated Abu Umamah: The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone loves for Allah sake; hates for Allah sake; gives for Allah sake and withholds for Allah sake; he will have perfect faith. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25898
4. Sufyan said according to one chain ; and Abu AlSalit said according to another chain : A man wrote to Umar Bin Abd AlAziz asking him about Divine decree. He wrote to him: To begin with; I enjoin upon you to fear Allah; to be moderate in obeying His Command; to follow the sunnah practice of His Prophet ﷺ and to abandon the novelties which the innovators introduced after his Sunnah has been established and they were saved from its trouble i.e. novelty or innovation ; so stick to Sunnah; for it is for you; if Allah chooses; a protection ; then you should know that any innovation which the people introduced was refuted long before it on the basis of some authority or there was some lesson in it; for the Sunnah was introduced by the people who were conscious of the error; slip; foolishness; and extremism in case of the sunnah was opposed. So accept for yourself what the people in the past had accepted for themselves; for they had complete knowledge of whatever they were informed; and by penetrating insight they forbade to do prohibited acts ; they had more strength than us to disclose the matters of religion ; and they were far better than us by virtue of their merits. If right guidance is what you are following; then you outstriped them to it. And if you say whatever the novelty occurred after them was introduced by those who followed the way other then theirs and disliked them. It is they who actually outstripped; and talked about it sufficiently; and gave a satisfactory explanation for it. Below them there is no place for exhaustiveness; and above them there is no place for elaborating things. Some people shortened the matter more than they had done; and thus they turned away from them ; and some people raised the matter more than they had done; and thus they exaggerated. They were on right guidance between that. You have written to me asking about confession of Divine decree; you have indeed approached a person who is well informed of it; with the will of Allah. I know what whatever novelty people have brought in; and whatever innovation people have introduced are not more manifest and more established than confession of Divine decree. The ignorant people i.e. the Arabs before Islam in pre-Islamic times have mentioned it ; they talked about it in their speeches and in their poetry. They would console themselves for what they lost; and Islam then strengthened it i.e. belief in Divine decree. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not mention it in one or two traditions; but the Muslims heard it from him; and they talked of it from him; and they talked of it during his lifetime and after his death. They did so out of belief and submission to their Lord and thinking themselves weak. There is nothing which is not surrounded by His knowledge; and not counted by His register and not destined by His decree. Despite that; it has been strongly mentioned in His Book: from it they have derived it; and from it they have and so ? they also read in it what you read; and they knew its interpretation of which you are ignorant. After that they said: All this is by writing and decreeing. Distress has been written down; and what has been destined will occur ; what Allah wills will surely happen; and what He does not will will not happen. We have no power to harm or benefit ourselves. Then after that they showed interest in good works and were afraid of bad deeds. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25829
5. Abu Huraira reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying : Faith has over seventy branches; the most excellent of which is the declaration that there is no god but Allah; and the humblest of which is the removal of a bone from the road. And modesty is a branch of faith. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25893
6. Anas Bin Malik said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dozed for a short while and raised his smiling. He either said to them people or they said to him: Messenger of Allah! Why did you laugh? He said: A surah has been revealed to me just now; and then he recited: In the name of Allah; Most Gracious. Most Merciful. To thee We have granted the fount of abundance up to the end. When he recited; he asked: Do you know what Alkauthar is? They replied: Allah and his Apostle know best. He said: It is a river which my Lord; the Exalted; has promised me to grant in Paradise: there is abundance of good and upon it there is a pond which my people will approach on the Day of Resurrection. There are vessels as numerous as stars in the sky. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25964
7. Narrated Umar Ibn AlKhattab: AlAqra; the muadhdhin announcer of Umar Ibn AlKhattab said: Umar sent me to a bishop and I called him. Umar said to him: Do you find me in the Book? He said: Yes. He asked: How do you find me? He said: I find you like a castle. Then he raised a whip to him; saying: What do you mean by castle? He replied: An iron castle and severely trustworthy. He asked: How do you find the one who will come after me? He said: I find him a pious caliph; except that he will prefer his relatives. Umar said: May Allah have mercy on Uthman: He said it three times. He then asked: How do you find the one who will come after him? He replied: I find him like rusty iron. Umar then put his hand on his head; and said: O filthy! O filthy! He said: Commander of the Faithful! He is a pious caliph; but when he is made caliph; the sword will be unsheathed and blood will be shed.Abu Dawud said: Aldafr means filth or evil smell. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25873
8. Abu Huraira reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: If anyone summons other to follow right guidance; his reward will be equivalent to that of the people who follow him; without their rewards being diminished in any respect on that account; and if anyone summons others to follow error the sin of which sins being diminished in any respect on that account. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25826

Most Negative Sentiment Hadith in The Book of Model Behavior of the Prophet Kitab AlSunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud

Negative Sentiment may indicate a Forbidden, Disliked, or Discouraged Actions

1. Narrated AlAbbas Ibn AbdulMuttalib: I was sitting in AlBatha with a company among whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sitting; when a cloud passed above them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked at it and said: What do you call this? They said: Sahab. He said: And muzn? They said: And muzn. He said: And anan? They said: And anan. Abu Dawud said: I am not quite confident about the word anan. He asked: Do you know the distance between Heaven and Earth? They replied: We do not know. He then said: The distance between them is seventy-one; seventy-two; or seventy-three years. The heaven which is above it is at a similar distance going on till he counted seven heavens. Above the seventh heaven there is a sea; the distance between whose surface and bottom is like that between one heaven and the next. Above that there are eight mountain goats the distance between whose hoofs and haunches is like the distance between one heaven and the next. Then Allah; the Blessed and the Exalted; is above that. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25940
2. Anas Bin Malik said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the garden of the palm trees of Banu AlNajjar. He heard a voice and was terrified. He asked: Who are the people buried in these graves? The people replied: Messenger of Allah! These are some people who died in the pre-Islamic times. He said: Seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of the fire; and the trail of Antichrist. They asked: Why is it that; Messenger of Allah? He said: When a man is placed in his grave; an angel comes to him and says to him: Whom did you worship? Allah then guides him and he says: I worshiped Allah. He is then asked: What was your opinion of this man? He replies: He is Allahs servant and His Apostle. He will not then be asked about anything else. He will then be taken to his abode in Hell and will be told: This was your abode in Hell; but Allah protected you and had mercy on you substituted for you an abode in Paradise for it. He will say: Leave me so that I may go and give glad tidings to my family. He will be told: Dwell. When an infidel is placed in his grave; an angel comes to him; reprimands him and asks him: Whom did you worship? He replies: I do not know. He will be told: You neither knew nor did you follow the believers. He is then asked: What was your opinion on this man? He replies: I held the opinion that the other people held. He will then give him a blow between his ears with an iron hammer and will utter a shout which will be heard by all the creatures near him with the exception of men and jinn. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25968
3. Sufyan said according to one chain ; and Abu AlSalit said according to another chain : A man wrote to Umar Bin Abd AlAziz asking him about Divine decree. He wrote to him: To begin with; I enjoin upon you to fear Allah; to be moderate in obeying His Command; to follow the sunnah practice of His Prophet ﷺ and to abandon the novelties which the innovators introduced after his Sunnah has been established and they were saved from its trouble i.e. novelty or innovation ; so stick to Sunnah; for it is for you; if Allah chooses; a protection ; then you should know that any innovation which the people introduced was refuted long before it on the basis of some authority or there was some lesson in it; for the Sunnah was introduced by the people who were conscious of the error; slip; foolishness; and extremism in case of the sunnah was opposed. So accept for yourself what the people in the past had accepted for themselves; for they had complete knowledge of whatever they were informed; and by penetrating insight they forbade to do prohibited acts ; they had more strength than us to disclose the matters of religion ; and they were far better than us by virtue of their merits. If right guidance is what you are following; then you outstriped them to it. And if you say whatever the novelty occurred after them was introduced by those who followed the way other then theirs and disliked them. It is they who actually outstripped; and talked about it sufficiently; and gave a satisfactory explanation for it. Below them there is no place for exhaustiveness; and above them there is no place for elaborating things. Some people shortened the matter more than they had done; and thus they turned away from them ; and some people raised the matter more than they had done; and thus they exaggerated. They were on right guidance between that. You have written to me asking about confession of Divine decree; you have indeed approached a person who is well informed of it; with the will of Allah. I know what whatever novelty people have brought in; and whatever innovation people have introduced are not more manifest and more established than confession of Divine decree. The ignorant people i.e. the Arabs before Islam in pre-Islamic times have mentioned it ; they talked about it in their speeches and in their poetry. They would console themselves for what they lost; and Islam then strengthened it i.e. belief in Divine decree. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not mention it in one or two traditions; but the Muslims heard it from him; and they talked of it from him; and they talked of it during his lifetime and after his death. They did so out of belief and submission to their Lord and thinking themselves weak. There is nothing which is not surrounded by His knowledge; and not counted by His register and not destined by His decree. Despite that; it has been strongly mentioned in His Book: from it they have derived it; and from it they have and so ? they also read in it what you read; and they knew its interpretation of which you are ignorant. After that they said: All this is by writing and decreeing. Distress has been written down; and what has been destined will occur ; what Allah wills will surely happen; and what He does not will will not happen. We have no power to harm or benefit ourselves. Then after that they showed interest in good works and were afraid of bad deeds. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25829
4. The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Yahya Bin Yamur and Humaid Bin Abdulrahman through a different chain of narrators. This version has : we met Abdullah Bin Umar. We told him about divine decree and what they said about it. He then mentioned something similar to it. He added : A man of Muzainah or juhainah asked : What is the good in doing anything; Messenger of Allah ? should we think that a thing has passed and gone or a thing that has happened now without predestination ? He replied : About a thing that has passed and gone i.e. predestined. A man or some people asked: Then; why action? He replied: Those who are among the number of those who go to Paradise will be helped to do the deeds of the people who will go to Paradise; and those who are among the number of those who go to Hell will be helped to do the deeds of those who will go to Hell. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25913
5. Narrated Abu Rafi: The Prophet ﷺ said: Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when he hears something regarding me which I have commanded or forbidden and saying: We do not know. What we found in Allah Book we have followed. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25822
6. The tradition mentioned above has again been transmitted by Simak through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect as this lengthy tradition. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25942
7. Aisha said: I thought in my mind that my affair was far inferior to the speaking of Allah about me with a command that will be recited. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25952
8. Narrated AlBara Ibn Azib: We went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ accompanying the bier of a man of the Ansar. When we reached his grave; it was not yet dug. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sat down and we also sat down around him as if birds were over our heads. He had in his hand a stick with which he was scratching the ground. He then raised his head and said: Seek refuge with Allah from the punishment in the grave. He said it twice or thrice. The version of Jabir adds here: He hears the beat of their sandals when they go back; and at that moment he is asked: O so and so! Who is your Lord; what is your religion; and who is your Prophet? Hannad version says: Two angels will come to him; make him sit up and ask him: Who is your Lord? He will reply: My Lord is Allah. They will ask him: What is your religion? He will reply: My religion is Islam. They will ask him: What is your opinion about the man who was sent on a mission among you? He will reply: He is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They will ask: Who made you aware of this? He will reply: I read Allah Book; believed in it; and considered it true; which is verified by Allah words: Allah Book; believed in it; and considered it true; which is verified by Allah words: Allah establishes those who believe with the word that stands firm in this world and the next. The agreed version reads: Then a crier will call from Heaven: My servant has spoken the truth; so spread a bed for him from Paradise; clothe him from Paradise; and open a door for him into Paradise. So some of its air and perfume will come to him; and a space will be made for him as far as the eye can see. He also mentioned the death of the infidel; saying: His spirit will be restored to his body; two angels will come to him; make him sit up and ask him: Who is your Lord? He will reply: Alas; alas! I do not know. They will ask him: What is your religion? He will reply: Alas; alas! I do not know. They will ask: Who was the man who was sent on a mission among you? He will reply: Alas; alas! I do not know. Then a crier will call from Heaven: He has lied; so spread a bed for him from Hell; clothe him from Hell; and open for him a door into Hell. Then some of its heat and pestilential wind will come to him; and his grave will be compressed; so that his ribs will be crushed together. Jabir version adds: One who is blind and dumb will then be placed in charge of him; having a sledge-hammer such that if a mountain were struck with it; it would become dust. He will give him a blow with it which will be heard by everything between the east and the west except by men and jinn; and he will become dust. Then his spirit will be restored to him. SunanAbuDawoud-017-001-25970

Notables Mentioned in The Book of Model Behavior of the Prophet Kitab AlSunnah in Sunan Abu Dawoud

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