Book 52: Testimonies
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 2637
Hajjaj (bin Minhal) narrated to us that Abdullah bin Umar Numairi told us that Thauban narrated to us. And Laith (bin Sa'd) said: Yunus told me that it is narrated from Ibn Shihab. He said: Urwah bin Zubair and (Sa'id) bin Musayyab and Alqamah bin Waqqas and Ubaidullah bin Abdullah told me about the incident of Hazrat Aishah (ra), and some parts of their narration confirm one another. That is, when the slanderers had slandered (Hazrat Aishah (ra)), the Messenger of Allah (saw) called Hazrat Ali (ra) and Hazrat Usamah (ra). This happened when the revelation had stopped. He (saw) sought their counsel about leaving his wife. Hazrat Usamah (ra) said: She is your wife, and we know nothing but good. Barirah (ra) said: I have not seen anything in her which I would consider a fault in her. At the most it is that she is a young girl. She leaves her family's kneaded dough and falls asleep, and a goat comes and eats it. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Who is there who will rid us of the accusation of a person who has caused me great pain concerning my wife? By Allah, I know nothing about my wife except good. And they mention such a man, about whom too I know only that he is a good (person).”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2638
Abul Yaman narrated to us that Shu'aib told us. He narrated from Zuhri that Salim said: I heard Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra). He said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) and Hazrat Ubayy bin Ka'b (ra) Ansari set out. Both were heading for the date grove in which Ibn Sayyad lived. When the Messenger of Allah (saw) reached there, he (saw) began to walk hiding himself behind the trunks of the date palms, and he was trying to hear something from Ibn Sayyad quietly before he could see him. And Ibn Sayyad was lying on his bed wrapped in his sheet. A humming sound was coming from the sheet. The mother of Ibn Sayyad saw the Prophet (saw) while he was coming, keeping himself concealed behind the trunks of the date palms. She said to Ibn Sayyad: Here is Muhammad (saw). Ibn Sayyad stopped. The Prophet (saw) said: “If (his mother) had left him alone, he would have revealed (himself).”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2639
Abdullah bin Muhammad (Musnadi) narrated to me that Sufyan (bin Uyainah) told us. He narrated from Zuhri, Zuhri from Urwah, Urwah from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that the wife of Rifa'ah Qurazi (Tamimah) came to the Prophet (saw) and said: I was with Rifa'ah, and he divorced me, and the divorce was final. After that I married Abdur Rahman bin Zubair (ra), but what he has is like the fringe of a garment. He (saw) asked: “Do you want to go back to Rifa'ah? That cannot be until you have enjoyed him and he has enjoyed you.” At that time Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) was sitting with him, and Hazrat Khalid bin Sa'id (ra) bin As was waiting at the door to be given permission to come in. (Khalid (ra) called out and) said: Abu Bakr (ra), are you listening to what this woman is openly saying before the Prophet (saw)?
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2640
Hibban (bin Musa) narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) informed us that Umar bin Sa'id bin Abi Husain told us. He said: Abdullah bin Abi Mulaikah told me, narrating from Hazrat Uqbah bin Harith (ra), that he married the daughter of Abu Ihab bin Aziz. Then a woman came to him and said: I suckled Uqbah (ra) and this woman whom he has married. Uqbah (ra) said to her: I do not know that you suckled me, nor did you tell me. Then Uqbah (ra) sent to ask the family of Abu Ihab. They said: We do not know that this woman suckled our companion. Thereupon he rode to the Prophet (saw) in Medina and asked him, and the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “What now, when this has been said?” Thereupon Uqbah (ra) left that woman and married another wife.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2641
Hakam bin Nafi' narrated to us that Shu'aib told us. He narrated from Zuhri that he said: Humaid bin Abdur Rahman bin Auf narrated to me that Abdullah bin Utbah said: I heard Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (ra). He said that in the time of the Messenger of Allah (saw) some people were taken to account on the basis of revelation, and now revelation has ceased, and we will take you to account only on the basis of those deeds of yours which become apparent to us. So whoever shows us good deeds, we will be satisfied with him and will bring him close to us, and we have nothing to do with his inner self. Allah will take account (from him) of his inner self. And whoever shows us evil deeds, we will not be satisfied with him nor regard him as truthful, even if he claims that his inner self is good.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2642
Sulaiman bin Harb narrated to us that Hammad bin Zaid told us. He narrated from Thabit, Thabit from Hazrat Anas (ra), that he said: They passed by the Prophet (saw) carrying a bier. The people praised the deceased well. He (saw) said: “(Paradise) has become due for him.” Then after that they passed by him with another (bier), and the people spoke ill of him, or the narrator said some other word, and he said: “(Hell) has become due for him.” It was said to him: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! You said for this one too that (Paradise) has become due, and for that one you said that (the Fire) has become due. He said: “It is the testimony of the community. The believers are Allah's witnesses on earth.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2643
Musa bin Isma'il told us that Dawud bin Abil Furat narrated to us that Abdullah bin Buraidah told us, narrating from Abul Aswad, that he said: I came to Medina, and there was an epidemic in it, and people were dying a terrible death. I sat with Hazrat Umar (ra), and meanwhile a bier passed by. It was praised well, and Hazrat Umar (ra) said: It has become due. Then a second bier passed by and it too was praised well, and Hazrat Umar (ra) said: It has become due. Then a third passed by, and it was spoken ill of, and Hazrat Umar (ra) said: It has become due. I asked: Commander of the Faithful! What is this ‘it has become due’? He said: I said what the Prophet (saw) had said: “Any Muslim in whose favour four persons bear witness to good, Allah will admit him into Paradise.” We asked: And three as well? He said: “Three as well.” We said: Two as well? He said: “Two as well.” Then after that we did not ask about one.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2644
Adam narrated to us that Shu'bah told us (that he said:) Hakam told us. He narrated from Irak bin Malik, Irak from Urwah bin Zubair, Urwah from Hazrat Aishah (ra). She said: Aflah asked my permission to come in. I did not give him permission. He said: Do you observe the veil from me, while I am your uncle? I said: How is that? He said: My brother's wife suckled you with my brother's milk. She said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (saw) about it, and he (saw) said: “Aflah has spoken the truth; give him permission to come in.”
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Muslim bin Ibrahim told us. Hammam narrated to us that Qatadah told us. He narrated from Jabir bin Zaid, Jabir from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), that he said: The Prophet (saw) said about the daughter of Hazrat Hamzah (ra): “She is not lawful for me. The relationship that is forbidden by lineage is also forbidden by suckling. She is my foster niece.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2646
Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us that Malik told us. He narrated from Abdullah bin Abi Bakr, Abdullah from Amrah bint Abdur Rahman, that Hazrat Aishah (ra), the wife of the Prophet (saw), told her that the Prophet (saw) was with her and she heard the voice of a man who was asking permission to come into the house of Hazrat Hafsah (ra). Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: I said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! I think this is such and such a person, the foster uncle of Hafsah (ra). (In one manuscript of Bukhari it reads thus:) Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! This man is asking permission to come into your house. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “I think this is so and so, who is the foster uncle of Hafsah (ra).” Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: If so and so were alive, that is, she said this of her own foster uncle, he too would come in to me. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Yes. Suckling makes unmarriageable (Mahram) the same relations that are unmarriageable by birth.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2647
Muhammad bin Kathir narrated to us that Sufyan (Thauri) told us. He narrated from Ash'ath bin Abish Sha'tha', Ash'ath from his father, his father from Masruq, that Hazrat Aishah (ra) said that the Prophet (saw) came (to me) and at that time there was a man with me. He (saw) said: “Aishah (ra), who is this?” I said: My foster brother. He said: “Aishah (ra)! You women should look carefully who your brother is, for suckling (in fact) is only that in which the quantity of milk is such that the child is satisfied by it.” (Like Muhammad bin Kathir, Abdur Rahman) bin Mahdi also related this same narration, quoting from Sufyan (Thauri).
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2648
Isma'il narrated to us, he said: (Abdullah) bin Wahb told me. He narrated from Yunus. And Laith said: Yunus told me. It is narrated from Ibn Shihab that Urwah bin Zubair told me: A woman stole in the days of the Conquest of Mecca and she was brought to the Messenger of Allah (saw). He (saw) gave judgement concerning her, and her hand was cut off. Hazrat Aishah (ra) said: Her repentance was good, and she married, and after that whenever she came I would present her need before the Messenger of Allah (saw).
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Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Uqail, Uqail from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Ubaidullah bin Abdullah, Ubaidullah from Hazrat Zaid bin Khalid (ra), Hazrat Zaid (ra) from the Messenger of Allah (saw), that for the man who had committed fornication and was not married, he (saw) ordered that he be given a hundred lashes and be exiled for one year.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2650
Abdan narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) told us. Abu Hayyan (Yahya bin Sa'id) Taimi told us. He narrated from Sha'bi, Sha'bi from Hazrat Nu'man bin Bashir (ra). He said: My mother said to my father that he should make a gift (Hibah) to Nu'man from his property. (He did not agree.) Then it occurred to him, and he made the gift to me. My mother said: I will not be satisfied until you make the Prophet (saw) a witness. So he took me by the hand, and I was only a child at that time, and took me to the Prophet (saw) and said: His mother, who is the daughter of Rawahah, has demanded of me that I make a gift to him. He (saw) asked: “Do you have other children besides him?” He said: Yes. (Nu'man) said: I think he said: “Do not make me a witness to an injustice.” And Abu Hariz related it from Sha'bi thus: “I do not become a witness to an injustice.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2651
Adam told us. Shu'bah narrated to us that Abu Jamrah told us. He said: I heard Zahdam bin Mudarrib. Zahdam said: I heard Hazrat Imran bin Husain (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) has said: “The best of you are the people of my time. Then those who come after them. Then those who will come after them.” Imran said: I do not know whether after this the Prophet (saw) mentioned two generations or three. The Prophet (saw) said: “After you there will be people who will be treacherous and will not be trusted, and they will bear witness of their own accord although their testimony will not be sought, and they will make vows and not fulfil them, and they will grow very fat.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2652
Muhammad bin Kathir narrated to us that Sufyan told us. He narrated from Mansur, Mansur from Ibrahim (Nakha'i), Ibrahim from Ubaidah (Salmani), Ubaidah from Hazrat Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (ra), he from the Prophet (saw), that he (saw) said: “The best people are those of my time. Then those who come after it. Then those who will come after them. Then people will come such that one of them will begin to give testimony even before the sworn testimony, though he will have seen nothing at all, and when asked to swear will swear at once.” Ibrahim (Nakha'i) said: We used to be beaten (in childhood) for bearing witness and for making pledges and covenants.
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Sahih al-Bukhari 2653
Abdullah bin Munir narrated to us that he heard Wahb bin Jarir and Abdul Malik bin Ibrahim, that they both said: Shu'bah told us. He narrated from Ubaidullah bin Abi Bakr bin Anas, Ubaidullah from Hazrat Anas (ra), that he said: The Prophet (saw) was asked about the major sins, and he (saw) said: “Associating partners with Allah, disobedience to parents, killing a soul unjustly, and giving false testimony (these are the greatest sins).” (Like Wahb bin Jarir,) Ghundar (Muhammad bin Ja'far), Abu Amir (Aqadi), Bahz (bin Asad) and Abdus Samad (bin Abdul Warith) also related this same narration from Shu'bah.
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Musaddad told us. Bishr bin Mufaddal narrated to us that Jurairi told us. He narrated from Abdur Rahman bin Abi Bakrah, Abdur Rahman from his father (ra), that he said: The Prophet (saw) said three times: “Shall I not tell you the major sins?” The Companions said: Certainly, O Messenger of Allah (saw)! Please tell us. He (saw) said: “Associating partners with Allah and disobedience to parents.” And he was reclining; he sat up and said: “Beware, and lying too.” He said: He kept repeating it so many times that we said: Would that he would fall silent! And Isma'il bin Ibrahim narrated it thus: Jurairi narrated to us that Abdur Rahman told us.
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Muhammad bin Ubaid bin Maimun narrated to us that Isa bin Yunus told us. He narrated from Hisham, Hisham from his father, his father from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that she said: The Prophet (saw) heard a man reciting (the Holy Qur’an) in the mosque, and he (saw) said: “May Allah have mercy on him, he has reminded me of such and such verses which I had forgotten in such and such a Surah.” And Abbad bin Abdullah, narrating from Hazrat Aishah (ra), added this much more: The Prophet (saw) was offering the Tahajjud Prayer (Salat) in my house when he heard the voice of Abbad (bin Bishr (ra)), who was praying in the mosque. So he asked: “Aishah (ra)! Is this the voice of Abbad?” I said: Yes. He said: “O Allah! Have mercy on Abbad.”
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Malik bin Isma'il told us that Abdul Aziz bin Abi Salamah narrated to us that Ibn Shihab told us. He narrated from Salim bin Abdullah, Salim from Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra), that he said: The Prophet (saw) said: “Note that Bilal (ra) gives the call to prayer (Adhan) at night, so keep eating and drinking until Ibn Umm Maktum (ra) gives the Adhan,” or he said: “until you hear the Adhan of Ibn Umm Maktum (ra).” And Hazrat Ibn Umm Maktum (ra) was a blind man; he would not give the Adhan until people told him that it was dawn.
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