11. Clothing, Behaviour, Greetings, Poetry and Visions
24:5126 - Allah's Apostle said: He who drinks in the vessel of silver in fact drinks down in his belly the fire of Hell.
24:5129 - Allah's Messenger forbade us to wear rings or gold rings, to drink in silver vessels, to use the saddle cloth made of red silk, to wear garments made of Qassi material or garments made of silk or brocade and velvet.
24:5131 - The Prophet forbade drinking in silver vessels, for one who drinks in them in this world would not drink in them in the hereafter.
24:5134 - Allah's Messenger said: Do not drink in gold and silver vessels, and do not wear brocade or silk, for these are meant for the non-believers in this world, but they are meant for you in the hereafter on the day of resurrection.
24:5141 - Umar b. Khattab saw someone selling garments of silk at the door of the mosque. Allah's Messenger said: Go, who wears it has no share of reward in the hereafter. Then these garments were sent to Allah's Messenger who presented one silk garment to Umar. Thereupon Umar said: You make me wear this contrary to what you had to say. Whereupon Allah's Messenger said: I have not presented you this for wearing but to sell to the unbelievers in Mecca.
24:5150 - 'Abdullah b. Zubair said: Behold! do not dress your women with silk clothes for Allah's messenger said: Do not wear silk, for one who wear it in this world will not wear it in the Hereafter.
24:5173 - Allah's Messenger saw me wearing clothes dyed in saffron whereupon he said: These are the clothes worn by the non-believers, so do not wear them. I said: I will wash them. He said: No burn them. {Muhammad may have been aware that saffron was worn by Buddhist and Hindu Monks and hence forbid any likeness to them.}
24:5190 - Allah's Messenger said: There should be a bedding for a man, a bedding for his wife and the third one for the guest, and the fourth one is for Satan.
24:5231 - Allah's Messenger said: When one of you puts on sandals, he should first put in the right foot, and when he takes off he should take off the left one first, or he should put them on together or take them off together.
24:5235 - Allah's Messenger said: When the straps of the shoe are broken, he should not walk with one sandal until he has got the straps repaired, and he should not walk with one shoe.
24:5244 - Abu Qubafa was led to Muhammad on the day of the Conquest of Mecca and his head and beard were white, whereupon Allah's Messenger said: Change (colour) it with something but avoid black.
24:5245 - Allah's Messenger said: The Jews and the Christians do not dye their hair, so oppose them.
24:5246 - Gabriel made a promise with Allah's Messenger to come at a definite hour; that hour came but he did not visit him. Muhammad said: Never has Allah or His messengers (angels) ever broken their promise. Then he cast a glance and found a puppy under his cot and said: 'A'isha, when did this dog enter here? She said: By Allah, I don't know. He then commanded and it was turned out. Then Gabriel came and Allah's Messenger said to him: You promised me and I waited for you but you did not come. Whereupon Gabriel said: It was the dog in your house which prevented me from entering, for we (angels) do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture. {Apparently angels are not fond of dogs or pictures.}
24:5248 - Then on that very morning Muhammad commanded the killing of dogs until he announced that the dog kept for the orchards should also be killed, but he spared the dog meant for the protection of extensive fields.
24:5254 – Aisha reported: The Prophet set out for an expedition. I had screened my door with a curtain having portraits of winged horses upon it. When he came back he saw that carpet I perceived signs of disapproval on his face. He pulled it until it was torn. It was cut into pieces and he said: God has not commanded us to clothe stones and clay.
24:5255 – Aisha reported: We had a curtain with us which had portraits of birds upon it. Whenever a visitor came, he found them in front of him. Thereupon Allah's Messenger said to me: Change them, for whenever I enter the room I see them and it brings to my mind the pleasures of worldly life.
24:5261 – Aisha reported: Allah's Messenger visited me and I had a shelf with a thin cloth curtain hanging over it on which there were portraits. No sooner did he see it than he tore it and the colour of his face underwent a change and he said: The most grievous torment from the Hand of Allah on the Day of Resurrection awaits those who imitate Allah in the act of His creation. Aisha said: We tore it into pieces.
24:5268 – Allah's Messenger having said: Those who paint pictures would be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it would be said to them: Breathe soul into what you have created.
24:5270 – Allah's Messenger said: The most grievously tormented people amongst the denizens of Hell on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures. The soul will be breathed in every picture prepared by him and it shall punish him in the Hell.
24:5289 – Allah's Messenger forbade having a part of a boy's head shaved and leaving a part unshaven.
24:5298 – Allah's Messenger said: The woman who adds false hair and the woman who asks for it have been cursed.
24:5301 – Allah has cursed those women who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck hair from their faces and those who make spaces between their teeth for beautification. Allah's Messenger said: Had there been anything like it in my wives, I would have never slept with them in the bed.
24:5306 – Allah's Messenger forbid this and said: The people of Bani Isra'il were ruined at the time when their women wore false hair.
25:5316 – Allah's Messenger said: I am Qasim in the sense that I distribute the spoils of war and the dues of Zakat (tax) amongst you.
25:5338 – Allah's Messenger said: The vilest name in Allah's sight is Malik al-Amidh (King of Kings). There is no king but Allah.
25:5345 – Asma' reported I gave birth to a child there. Allah's Messenger placed him on his lap and then commanded for the dates to be brought. He chewed them and then put the saliva in the child's mouth. The first thing which went into his stomach was the saliva of Allah's Messenger. He then rubbed his palate with dates and then invoked blessings for him.
25:5356 – Allah's Messenger said: Permission for entering the house should be sought three times and if permission is granted to you then go in, otherwise go back.
25:5367 – Sa'idi reported that a person peeped through the hole of the door of Allah's Messenger and he had with him some pointed comb with which he had been adjusting the hair of his head. Allah's Messenger said to him: If I were to know that you had been peeping I would have thrust it in your eyes.
25:5370 – Allah's Messenger said: He, who peeped into the house of people without their consent, it is permissible for them to put out his eyes. There is no harm for you.
26:5379 - Allah's Messenger said: Six are the rights of a Muslim with another Muslim. When you meet him, offer him greetings; when he invites you to a feast accept it; When he seeks your council give him; When he sneezes and says: “All praise is due to Allah” you say “May Allah show mercy to you”; When he falls ill visit him; and when he dies follow his bier.
26:5389 – Allah's Messenger said: Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.
26:5397 – Sauda, a wife of Allah's Messenger went during one night when it was dark to relieve herself. 'Umar called her saying: Sauda, we recognise you. It was then that Allah revealed the verses pertaining to veil. {A woman cannot be recognised outside her house.}
26:5399 – Allah's Messenger said: No person should spend the night with a married woman, but only in case he is married to her.
26:5400 – Allah's Messenger said: Beware of getting, into the houses and meeting women. A person asked: What about the husband's brother, whereupon Muhammad said: Husband's brother is like death.
26:5405 – Allah's Messenger said: Satan circulates in the body of man like the circulation of blood and I was afraid lest it should instil any evil in your heart.
26:5425 – Gabriel came and said: Muhammad, have you fallen ill? Thereupon Muhammad said: Yes. He (Gabriel) said: “In the name of Allah I exorcise you from everything and safeguard you from every evil that may harm you and from the evil eye of a jealous one. Allah would cure you and I invoke the name of Allah for you.”
26:5427 – Allah's Messenger said: The influence of an evil eye is a fact; if anything would precede the destiny it would be the influence of an evil eye, and when you are asked to take bath as cure from an evil eye, you should take bath.
26:5427 – A Jew had cast a spell upon Allah's Messenger with the result that he felt he did things he had not done. Allah's Messenger said: “There came to me two men and sat near my head and the other near my feet. The one at my feet said: What is the trouble with the man? The other said: A spell has affected him. It was Labid b. A'sam by the comb and by the hair stuck to the comb which is now in the well of Dhi Arwan.” Allah's Messenger sent some of the persons from among his Companions there and then said: Its water was yellow like henna and its trees were like heads of the devils.
26:5432 – When any person amongst us fell ill, Allah's Messenger used to rub him with his right band and then say: O Lord of the people, grant him health, heal him, for Thou art a Great Healer. There is no healing but with Thy healing Power one is healed and illness is removed.
26:5444 – When any person fell ill with a disease the Apostle of Allah placed his forefinger upon the ground and then lifted it by reciting the name of Allah. He said: The dust of our ground with the saliva of any one of us would serve as a means whereby our illness would be cured with the sanction of Allah
26:5484 – Allah's messenger said: The fever is due to the intense heat of the Hell, so cool it with water.
26:5493 – Allah's Messenger said: Plague is a calamity which was sent to Bani Isra'il or upon those who were before you. So when you hear that it has broken out in a land, don't go to it, and when it has broken out in the land where you are, don't run out of it.
26:5519 – Allah's Messenger said: There is no epidemic disease, no divination, but good omen pleases me.
26:5526 – Allah's Messenger said. If bad luck is a fact, then it is in the horse, the woman and the house.
26:5538 – As we were sitting during the night with Allah's Messenger a meteor shot gave a dazzling light. Allah's Messenger said: Allah issues Command when He decides to do a thing. Then the dwellers of heaven seek information from them until this information reaches the heaven of the world. In this process of transmission the jinn (devil) snatches what he manages to overhear and he carries it to his friends. And when the Angels see the jinn they attack them with meteors.
26:5541 – There was a leper amongst the delegation from Thaqif. Allah's Apostle sent a message to him: We have accepted your allegiance, so you may go. {Muhammad obviously was not too keen on meeting a leper}.
26:5542 – Allah's Messenger commanded the killing of snakes having stripes over it, for it affects eyesight and miscarries pregnancy.
26:5545 – Allah's Messenger commanded the killing of dogs and the killing of the striped and the short-tailed snakes, for both of them affect the eyesight adversely and cause miscarriage.
26:5557 – Abu as-Sa'ib said: We went with Allah's Messenger to participate in the Battle of Trench when a young man in the midday sought permission to return to his family. He came back and found his wife standing between the two doors (outside). He bent towards her smitten by jealousy and made a dash towards her with a spear in order to stab her. She said: Keep your spear away and enter the house until you see that which has made me come out. He entered and found a big snake coiled on the bedding. He darted with the spear and pierced it but the snake quivered and attacked him. We came to Allah's Apostle and said: Request Allah that that man be brought back to life. Thereupon he said: There are in Medina jinns (devils) who have accepted Islam, so when you see any one of them, pronounce a warning to it for three days, and if they appear before you after that, then kill it for that is a devil. {A few points to note on this one: If a wife steps outside her house without necessary permission she should be killed. Muhammad was not able to supplicate Allah to return the young man back to life. And Muhammad was under the impression that some snakes were devils who you could warn to leave your house. But if it hung around for three days you should kill it because it is Satan.}
26:5564 – Allah's Messenger said: He who killed a gecko (lizard) with the first stroke for him is ordained one hundred virtues, and with the second stroke one less than that and with the third one less than that. {Those who maintain a farm of lizards and perfect the art of killing them with one stroke will accumulate countless virtues!}
26:5567 – Allah's Messenger said: An ant had bitten a Prophet, while under a tree and he ordered that the tree and colony of the ants should be burnt. And Allah revealed to him: “Because of an ant's bite you have burnt a community from amongst the communities which sings my glory.” {Apparently ants sing the glory of Allah, Allah's prophet was not aware of that nor was he tolerant enough to spare an entire colony of ants or a tree for the bite of a single ant.}
27:5589 - Allah's Messenger said: Karm (Arabic for 'worthy of respect') is a Muslim person. {Apparently non-Muslims are not worthy of respect}.
28:5611 - As we arrived at Arj there we met a poet who had been reciting poetry. Thereupon Allah's Messenger said: Catch the satan or detain the satan, for filling the belly of a man with pus is better than stuffing his brain with poetry.
28:5612 - Allah's Apostle said: He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.
29:5613 - Allah's Messenger said: A good vision comes from Allah and a bad dream from the devil. So when one of you sees a bad dream which he does not like, he should spit on his left side thrice and seek refuge with Allah from its evil; then it will not harm him.
29:5618 - Allah's Messenger said: If one sees a dream which one does not like, one should not disclose it to anyone, then it would not harm him. If one sees a good vision one should feel pleased but should not disclose it to anyone but whom one loves.
29:5621 - Allah's Messenger said: When the Resurrection Day is near a believer's dream can hardly be false. The vision of a Muslim is the forty-fifth part of Prophecy. I would love to see fetters {shackles for the ankles or feet} in the dream, for the fetters are an indication of one's steadfastness in religion. {Muhammad provides an analogy of one being steady in religion to one in bondage.}
29:5632 - Allah's Messenger said: The pious dreams are the seventieth part of Prophecy. {Note that in hadith 5621 he says that they are forty-fifth part.}
29:5638 - Allah's Messenger said: He who saw me in sleep in fact saw me, for it is not possible for the Satan to appear in my form. When any one of you sees a dream of the devil he should not inform anyone, for it is a sort of vain sport of devil in the state of sleep.
29:5641 - Allah's Apostle said: None amongst you should narrate the vain sporting of devil with you in your dreams.
29:5649 - Allah's Messenger said: I saw in sleep that I was about to migrate from Mecca to a land abounding in palm trees. I saw in this dream of mine that I was brandishing a sword and its upper end was broken and this is what fell in the form of misfortune to the believers on the Day of Uhud. I brandished the sword for the second time and it became all right and this is what came to be true when Allah granted us victory and solidarity of the believers.
29:5650 - Allah's Messenger said: While I was sleeping I saw in my hands two gold bangles. This had a disturbing effect upon me and I was given a suggestion in the sleep that I should blow over them, so I blew over them and they were no more. And I interpreted these two bangles as the two great liars 'Anasi the inhabitant of San'a' and the other one Musailima the inhabitant of Yamama. {Both of these men lived at the time of the Prophet. Both claimed prophethood. Musailima even claimed a joint share in the prophethood of Muhammad. Anasi and Musailima both led revolts and were killed.}
SB 71:60 - Narrated 'Aisha: Magic was worked on Allah's Apostle so that he used to think that he had sexual relations with his wives while he actually had not. Sufyan said: That is the hardest kind of magic as it has such an effect.{Muhammad halucinated about events which were attributed by his followers to magic.}
SB 73:89 - Narrated 'Aisha: - The Prophet continued for such-and-such period imagining that he has slept (had sexual relations) with his wives, and in fact he did not. One day he said, to me, "O 'Aisha! Allah has instructed me regarding a matter about which I had asked Him. There came to me two men, one of them sat near my feet and the other near my head. The one near my feet, asked the one near my head (pointing at me), 'What is wrong with this man? The latter replied, 'He is under the effect of magic.' {Muhammad himself admitted to visions of men informing him that he was prone to magic.}