History of Khulafah Rashideen by Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti - translated by Abdassamad Clarke

An-Nawawi said in his Tahdhib: As-Siddiq related of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, one hundred and forty-two hadith. The reason for the small number of his narrations given the precedence of his companionship and his staying close to I he Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was that h is death came before the spread of hadith and the concern of the Followers for listening to them, acquiring them and memorising them.

I say: cUmar, may Allah be pleased with him, mentioned in the previous hadith on the oath of allegiance that Abu Bakr left nothing which had been revealed about the Ansar or which the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had said about them but that he mentioned it. This is the best proof of the great amount of material he had memorised of the Sunnah and the vastness of his knowledge of the Qur’an. cUmar ibn al-Khattab transmitted from him, as did cUthman ibn cAffan, fAli, Ibn cAwf, Ibn Mascud, Hudhayfah, Ibn cUmar, Ibn az-Zubayr, Ibn cAmr, Ibn ‘Abbas, Anas, Zaid ibn Thabit, al-Bara’ ibn cAzib, Abu Hurayrah, ‘Uqbah ibn al-Harith, his son cAbd ar-Rahman, Zaid ibn Arqam, ‘Abdullah ibn Mughaffal, cUqbah ibn cAmir al-Juhani, cImran ibn Husayn, AbuT-Barzah al-Aslami, Abu Sacid al-Khudri, Abu Musa al-Ashcari, Abu’t-Tufayl al-Laythi, Jabir ibn cAbdullah, Bilal, cA’ishah his daughter, Asma’ his daughter, and of the Followers: Aslam the freed slave of cUmar, Wasit al-Bajili and a number of others.

I have decided to enumerate his hadith here concisely, explaining after each hadith who made it public. I will treat each of them singly in their different paths of transmission in a musnad work devoted to that, inshaAllah.

1. The hadith of the Hijrah (the two Shaykhs [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] and others).

2. The hadith of the sea, ‘It is completely pure, its water (for purification and cleansing), permitted are its dead (to eat).’ (Ad- Daraqutni).

3. ‘The siivak (toothstick) cleans the mouth and pleases the Lord.’ (Ahmad).

4. ‘That the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ate (meat of a) shoulder then later prayed and did not perform wudu (washing to prepare for the prayer).’ (Al-Bazzar and Abu Yacla).

5. ‘Let none of you make wudu because of the taste of his food which is permitted for him to eat.’ (Al-Bazzar).

6. ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade striking people at prayer.’ (Abu Yacla and al- Bazzar).

7. ‘The last prayer which the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed was behind me in a single garment.’ (Abu Yacla).

8. ‘Whoever it would please to recite the Qur’an freshly as it was revealed, then let him recite with the recitation of Ibn Umm cAbd (i.e. Ibn Mascud).’ (Ahmad).

9. He said to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ‘Teach me a prayer with which I can supplicate in my salah! He said, ‘Say, “O Allah I have wronged myself with a great wrong and none forgives wrong actions but You, so forgive me with a forgiveness from You and show mercy to me. Truly, You are the All-Forgiving, the Compassionate.’” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim).

10. ‘Whoever prayed the dawn prayer then he is in a covenant with Allah, so do not betray Allah with respect to His covenant. Whoever kills him, Allah will seek him out until He throws him in the Fire upon his face.’ (Ibn Majah).

11. ‘No Prophet has ever died until a man of his ummah led him in prayer.’ (Al-Bazzar).

12. ‘No man makes a wrong action then performs wudu’ and does his wudu well, then performs two rakcfat and seeks Allah’s forgiveness but that He will forgive him.’ (Ahmad, the authors of the four Sunan, and Ibn Hibban).

13. Allah has not made a prophet die but in the place in which he would love to be buried.’ (At-Tirmidhi).

14. ‘May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians; they took the graves of their prophets as places of prostration.’ (Abu Yacla).

15. ‘The dead person has boiling water sprinkled on him for the tears of the living (i.e. the tears of wailing and mourning, particularly ritualised or professional mourning. The tradition is held not to refer to tears of sadness and sorrow).’ (Abu Yacla).

16. ‘Protect yourselves from the Fire even if it were with (giving) the half of a date, because it straightens that which is crooked, repels an evil death, and it stands with the hungry one in its stead with the satiated one.’ (Abu Yacla).

17. The hadith of the obligations of sadaqat in its full length. (Al- Bukhari and others).

18. From Ibn Abi Mulaykah that he said: The reins fell from the hands of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and he struck upon the foreleg of his camel and made it kneel down. They said to him, ‘Why did you not tell us to give it back to you?’ He said, ‘My beloved, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, told me that I was not to ask people for anything.’ (Ahmad).

19. ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, told Asma’ bint cUmays when she brought forth Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr to bathe herself and to enter ihram (for the Hajj, as she gave birth on the way to Makkah).’ (Al-Bazzar and at-Tabarani).

20. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was asked, ‘Which part of Hajj is best?’ He said, ‘The raising of the voice (with talbiyah) and the shedding of blood (of animals brought to sacrifice).’ (At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah).

21. That he kissed the (Black) Stone and said, ‘If I had not seen the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, kiss you I would not have kissed you.’ (Ad-Daraqutni).

22. That the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sent an immunity to the people of Makkah, ‘Let not an idolater perform Hajj after this year, nor let a naked person go around the House.’ (Ahmad).

23. ‘That which is between my house and my minbar is one of the meadows of the Garden, and my minbar is upon one of the fountains of the Garden.’ (Abu Yacla).

24. The full hadith of his going, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to the home of Abu’l-Haytham ibn at-Tayyihan. (Abu Yacla).

25. ‘Gold for gold, like for like. And silver for silver, like for like.

The one who gives increase or seeks increase is in the Fire.’ (Abu Yacla and al-Bazzar).

26. ‘Cursed is whoever harms a believer or plots against him.’ (At- Tirmidhi).

27. ‘A mean person will not enter the Garden, nor a deceiver, nor a treacherous one, nor one of evil character. The first to enter the Garden is the slave when he obeys Allah and obeys his master.’ (Ahmad).

28. ‘The clientage (of a slave which includes inheriting from him as a relative) is for the one who sets free.’ (Ad-Diya’ al-Maqdisi in al-Mukhtarah).

29. ‘We (prophets) are not inherited from; that which we leave is a sadaqah.’ (Al-Bukhari).

30. ‘When Allah grants a prophet a means of subsistence (such as land yielding an income) and then later makes him die, He will appoint it for the one who undertakes it (the khilafah) after him.’ (Abu Dawud).

31. ‘He is ungrateful (kafara) to Allah who declares himself free of his lineage, even though it be in a minute way.’ (Al-Bazzar).

32. ‘You and that which is yours are for your father.’ Abu Bakr said, I Ic only meant by that maintenance.’ (Al-Bayhaqi).

13. ‘Whoever’s two feet become dusty in the way of Allah, Allah will forbid them from (entering) the Fire.’ (Al-Bazzar).

34. ‘I have been ordered to fight men until . . (The two Shaykhs Mid others).

35. ‘How excellent a slave of Allah and brother to his kinsfolk Is Khalid ibn al-Walid, and (he is) one of the swords of Allah, may Allah draw him against the disbelievers and hypocrites.’ (Ahmad).

36. ‘The sun has not risen over a man better than cUmar.’ (At- Tirmidhi).

37. ‘Whoever is put in charge of any affair of the Muslims and he appoints in command over them anyone out of favouritism, then there is the curse of Allah upon him, and Allah will not accept I tom him either repentance nor a ransom until He enters him into Jahannam. Whoever gives anyone the sanctuary of Allah, and he violates the sanctuary of Allah in any way without right then may the curse of Allah be upon him.’ (Ahmad).

38. The hadith of Maciz and his stoning. (Ahmad).

39. ‘He is not persistent (in wrong action) who seeks forgiveness, even if he repeats it seventy times a day.’ (At-Tirmidhi).

40. ‘That he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took counsel on the command of war.’ (At-Tabarani).

41. The hadith ‘When “Whoever does evil will be recompensed i t ...” (Qur’an 4: 123) was revealed ...’ (At-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban and others).

42. ‘You recite this ayah, “O you who believe, you are responsible for your own selves . . (Qur’an 5: 105).’ (Ahmad, the four authors of hooks called Sunan and Ibn Hibban).

43. ‘What do you think of two of whom Allah is the third?’ (The two Shaykhs).

44. ‘O Allah, by spear-thrusts and by plague.’ (Abu YaTa).

45. ‘(Surah) Hud made me grey ...’ (Ad-Daraqutni in al-cIlal).

46. ‘Associating partners (with Allah) among my ummah is more hidden than the creeping of ants . . (Abu Yacla and others).

47. ‘Messenger of Allah, teach me something I can say in the morning and the evening ...’ (Al-Haytham ibn Kulayb in his Musnad, and At-Tirmidhi and others have it among those ascribed to Abu Hurayrah).

48. ‘Take hold of “No god but Allah” and seeking forgiveness, because Iblis said, “I destroyed people with wrong actions and they destroyed me with ‘No god but Allah’ and seeking forgiveness.

When I saw that, I destroyed them with whims so that they think they are guided aright.’” (Abu Yacla).

49. ‘When, “Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet!" (Qur’an 49: 2) was revealed, I said, “Messenger of Allah, I will not speak to you except as the decrepit do.’” (Al-Bazzar).

50. ‘Each one is eased to that for which he is created.’ (Ahmad).

51. ‘Whoever forges a lie against me intentionally or rejects something I have ordered, then let him take up his abode in Jahannam.’ (Abu Yacla).

52. ‘What is the salvation of this matter ... in “No god but Allah”.’ (Ahmad and others).

53. ‘“Go out and announce among people that whoever witnesses that there is no god but Allah, the Garden becomes a must for him.” So I went out and cUmar met me ...’ (Abu Yacla. It is recorded from a hadith of Abu Hurayrah and is most unusual as a hadith of Abu Bakr).

54. ‘There are two types from my ummah who will not enter the Garden, al-Murji’ah and al-Qadariyyah.’ (Ad-Daraqutni in AlcIlal).

55. ‘Ask Allah for health and safety.’ (Ahmad, an-Nasa’i and Ibn Majah who has it by many different chains of transmission).

56. ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he wanted some matter, used to say, “O Allah, do good to me and choose for me.’” (At-Tirmidhi).

57. ‘The supplication of debt is, “O Allah, the dispeller of worry (Al-Bazzar and al-Hakim).

58. ‘Every body which has grown from (the nourishment of) usury, I he Fire is more appropriate for it,’ and in another wording, ‘A body nourished on what is forbidden will not enter the Garden.’ (Abu Ya'la).

59. ‘There is nothing in the body which does not complain of the sharpness of the tongue.’ (Abu Yacla).

60. ‘Allah descends on the midmost night of Shacban and in it forgives every human apart from a kafir or a man in whose heart there is a grudge.’ (Ad-Daraqutni).

61. ‘The Dajjal will emerge in the east from a land known as Khurasan, and peoples will follow him whose faces are as if they are shields formed of two hides, one sewn upon the other.’ (At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah).

62. ‘I have been given seventy thousand who will enter the Garden without any reckoning.’ (Ahmad).

63. The Hadith of Intercession in its full length with people’s going hack and forward between prophet after prophet. (Ahmad).

64. ‘Even if mankind were to travel in a valley and the Ansar were to travel in another valley, I would travel in the valley of the Ansar'.

(Ahmad).

65. ‘Quraysh are the masters of this authority, the best of them following the best of them and the worst of them following the worst of them.’ (Ahmad).

66. The hadith that he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made a last testament about the Ansar at his death and said, ‘Accept from their one who behaves excellently well and overlook (the behaviour of) their evildoer.’ (Al-Bazzar and at-Tabarani).

67. ‘I know a land which is called Oman whose shores the sea sprinkles, and in which there is a tribe of the Arabs. If my messenger were to come to them they would not shoot him either with arrows or stones.’ (Ahmad and Abu Yacla).

68. The hadith that Abu Bakr passed by al-Hasan while he was playing with some boys and he put him upon his neck and said, ‘My father! A resemblance with the Prophet and no resemblance to cAli.’ Ibn Kathir said: This is as if it were a hadith connected to the Prophet, because it has the strength of him saying, ‘Truly the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to resemble al-Hasan.’ 69. The hadith that ‘The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to visit Umm Ayman.’ (Muslim).

70. The hadith on the killing of the thief for the fifth theft. (Abu Yacla and ad-Daylami).

71. The hadith of the story of Uhud. (At-Tayalisi and at-Tabarani).

72. ‘While I was with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, I saw him pushing something away from himself but I did not see anything, so I said, “Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, what are you pushing away?” He said, “The world. It extended itself towards me, so I said, ‘Get away from me!’ So it said to me, ‘Why! You will not grasp me!?”” (Al-Bazzar).

This is what Ibn Kathir narrated in Musnad as-Siddiq of the hadith which are connected back to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, but there escaped him other hadith which we will follow on with in order to complete the number which an-Nawawi mentioned.

73. ‘Kill the tick (bloodsucker) whatever he may be among men.’ (At-Tabarani in al-Awsai).

74. ‘Look to whose houses you frequent, whose land you inhabit and in whose path you walk.’ (Ad-Daylami).

75. ‘Increase in sending blessings upon me, for Allah has appointed for my grave an angel; so that when a man of my ummah sends blessings, that angel will say to me, “So-and-so the son of so-and-so has this very hour sent blessings upon you.’” (Ad-Daylami).

76. ‘The Jumucah (Friday prayer) to the Jumucah is an expiation for what is between them, and the ghusl (complete washing of the entire body) on the day of the Jumucah is an expiation.’ (A hadith of al-cAqili in ad-Ducafa [weak traditions]).

77. ‘The heat of Jahannam will only be for my ummah like the heat of the hot baths.’ (At-Tabarani).

78. ‘Beware of lying, for lying is remote from iman! (Ibn Lai in Makarim al-Akhlaq).

79. ‘Give the good news of the Garden to whoever took part in Badr.’ (Ad-Daraqutni in al-Afrad).

80. ‘The deen is Allah’s weighty banner. Who is able to carry it?’ (Ad-Daylami).

81. ‘Surah Yasin is called the one which encompasses people generally in its goodness, which feeds and provides the means of living.’ (Ad-Daylami, and al-Bayhaqi in Shucab al-Iman).

82. ‘The humble and just ruler (sultan) is the shade of Allah and His spear in the land. There will be raised up for him (in the record of his actions) every day and night the actions of sixty siddiqs.’ (Abu’sh-Shaykh and al-cAqili in ad-Ducafa, and Ibn Hibban in Kitab ath-Thawab).

83. ‘Musa said to his Lord, “What is the recompense for whoever consoles a mother bereaved of her child?” He said, “I will shade him in My shade.’” (Ibn Shahin in at-Targheeb, and ad-Daylami).

84. ‘O Allah, strengthen Islam with cUmar ibn al-Khattab.’ (At- Tabarani in al-Awsat).

85. ‘Game is not caught, nor a thorny tree lopped, nor the root of a tree cut except through insufficient glorification (of Allah).’ (Ibn Rahwayh in his Musnad).

86. ‘If I had not been sent among you, cUmar would have been sent.’ (Ad-Daylami).

87. ‘If the people of the Garden had traded, they would have traded in cloth.’ (Abu Yacla).

88. ‘Whoever rebels, inviting (allegiance) to himself or to another, while there is an imam {amir or khalifah) over people, then the curse of Allah, the angels and all men is upon him, so kill him.’ (Ad-Daylami in at-Tarikh).

89. ‘Whoever records some knowledge or a hadith from me, reward will not cease being recorded for him as long as that knowledge or hadith remains.’ (Al-Hakim in at-Tarikh).

90. ‘Whoever walks barefoot in obedience of Allah, then Allah will not ask him on the Day of Resurrection about what He made obligatory upon him.’ (At-Tabarani in al-Awsat).

91. ‘Whoever it would please that Allah should shade him from the boiling of Jahannam, and that He should place him in His shade, then let him not be tough on the mu’minun, and let him be compassionate to them.’ (Ibn Lai in Makarim al-Akhlaq, Abu’sh- Shaykh, and Ibn Hibban in ath-Thawab).

92. ‘Whoever rises in the morning intending obedience towards Allah, Allah will record for him the reward of his day even if he disobeys Him.’ (Ad-Daylami).

93. ‘A people do not abandon jihadbut that Allah will envelop them in punishment.’ (At-Tabarani in al-Awsat).

94. ‘One who forges a lie will not enter the Garden.’ (Ad-Daylami without an isnad).

95. ‘Do not despise any one of the Muslims because the small one of the Muslims is, with Allah, great.’ (Ad-Daylami).

96. ‘Allah says, “If you wish for My mercy then show mercy to My creation.’” (Abu’sh-Shaykh, Ibn Hibban and ad-Daylami).

97. ‘I asked the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about the lower garment and he took hold of the calf muscle. I said, “Messenger of Allah, increase me!” He took hold of the forepart of the muscle. I said, “Increase me,” and he said, “There is no good in what is lower than that.” I said, “We are destroyed, Messenger of Allah!” He said, “Abu Bakr, aim for and take a middle course and you will be safe.’” (Abu Nucaym in Hilyat al-Awliya’).

98. ‘My palm and the palm of cAli are equal in justice.’ (Ad-Daylami and Ibn cAsakir).

99. ‘Do not neglect to seek refuge from the shaytan, for if you do not see him, he is not unaware of you.’ (Ad-Daylami who did not quote a chain of transmission).

100. ‘Whoever builds a mosque for Allah, then Allah will build a house for him in the Garden.’ (At-Tabarani in al-Awsat).

101. ‘Whoever has eaten of this foul-smelling herb (garlic) then let him not approach our mosque.’ (At-Tabarani in al-Awsat).

102. The hadith of the raising of the hands in the opening, the liowing, the prostration and the rising. (Al-Bayhaqi in as-Sunan).

103. ‘That he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave a camel as a gift to Abu Jahl.’ (Al-Ismacili in his Mufjarri).

104. ‘Looking at cAli is an act of worship.’8 (Ibn cAsakir).