12 Muhammad and his Companions
12. Muhammad and his Companions
30:5654 - Allah's Messenger said: I recognise the stone in Mecca which used to pay me salutations before my advent as a Prophet. {So it seems that a stone can pay salutations. Idolatry in reverse?}
30:5655 - Allah's Messenger said: I shall be pre-eminent amongst the descendants of Adam on the Day of Resurrection and I will be the first intercessor and the first whose intercession will be accepted by Allah.
30:5672 - Allah's Messenger said: Insects and moths fall in the fire and I would be making efforts to take them out, and I am going to hold you back from fire, but you are slipping from my hand.
30:5675 - Allah's Messenger said: The Apostles before me is that of a person who built a house quite imposing and beautiful, but for one brick in one of its corners. People would go round it, appreciating the building, but saying: Why has the brick not been fixed here? He said: I am that brick and I am the last of the Apostles.
30:5705 - Allah's Messenger said: My reservoir {in paradise Muhammad will have his own reservoir} would be as extensive as the distance between Aila and San'a, of Yemen.
30:5710 - Allah's Apostle said: You would be shown in it jugs of gold and silver more numerous than stars in the sky. {Muhammad had no clue about the number of stars in the sky}.
30:5728 - There came to Muhammad a person and he gave him a large flock and he went back to his people and said: My people embrace Islam, for Muhammad gives charity.
30:5731 - Allah's Messenger said: In case we get wealth from Bahrain (war booty from a raid), I would give you so much and so much; he made an indication of it with both his hands.
30:5761 - Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Apostle used to come to our house and there was perspiration upon his body. My mother brought a bottle and began to pour the sweat in that. Muhammad asked: What is this that you are doing? Thereupon she said: That is your sweat which we mix in our perfume and it becomes the most fragrant perfume.
30:5765 - Muhammad said: At times an Angel in the form of a human being comes to me and speaks and I retain whatever he speaks.
30:5811 - Allah's Messenger said: I have many names: I am Muhammad, I am Ahmad, I am al-Mahi through whom Allah obliterates unbelief, and I am Hashir the gatherer at whose feet people will be gathered, and I am 'Aqib after whom there will be no Prophet.
30:5814 - Allah's Messenger said: What has happened that I granted permission in a matter but you disapprove it and avoid it? By Allah, I have the best knowledge of Allah and I fear Him most.
31:5876 - Amr al-'As asked Muhammad: Who amongst people are dearest to you? He said: A'isha, then Her father and then Umar.
31:5917 - Ali asked: Allah's Messenger, on what issue should I fight with the people? Thereupon he (Muhammad) said: Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger, and when they do that then their blood and their riches are secured from destruction from your hands
31:6040 - Allah's Messenger took hold of his sword and said: Who would take it from me? All the persons stretched their hands saying: I would do it. He (Allah's Apostle) said: Who would take it in order to fulfil its rights? Simak Abu Dujana said: I am here to take it and fulfil its rights. He took it and struck the heads of the polytheists.
31:6074 - Allah's Messenger said: Hassan, write satire against the non-believers.
31:6081 - Allah's Messenger said: Satirise against the non-believing, for the satire is more grievous to them than the hurt of an arrow. So he sent for Hassan b. Thabit who said: Now you have called for this lion who strikes the enemies with his tail. I shall tear them with my tongue as the leather is torn.
32:6204 - A person came to Allah's Messenger and said: I have relatives with whom I try, to have close relationship, but they break this relation. I treat them well, but they treat me ill. I am sweet but they are harsh towards me. Upon this Muhammad said: If it is so, then you in fact throw hot ashes upon their faces and there would always remain with you on behalf of Allah an Angel to support you who would keep you dominant over them so long as you adhere to this path (Islam).