Ahadith

Ayesha relates that the Holy Prophet said: Fever is a demonstration of the heat of hell. Try to cool it down with water (Bokhari and Muslim).

Ayesha relates that the Holy Prophet said: If a person dies under the obligation of having to make up a deficiency of fasts his heir should observe the number of fasts on his behalf (Bokhari and Muslim).

Auf ibn Malik ibn Tufail relates that Ayesha was told that Abdullah ibn Zubair had said in respect of a sale or a gift that she had made: If Ayesha does not stop this kind of thing I shall declare her incapable of adminstering her property. She asked: Has he really said this? and was told that he had. Thereupon she declared: | vow it before Allah that I shall never speak to fbn Zubair, When this period became long Ibn Zubair had someone intercede on his behalf with her. She said: I shall accept no intercession on his behalf and will not go back on my vow. After the lapse of another long period Ibn Zubair approached Miswar ibn Makhramah and Abdur Rahman ibn Aswad ibn Abd Yaghuth and said to them: I request you in the name of Allah that you take me to Ayesha for it is not lawful for her that she should have vowed to cut off my relationship with her. These two took him with them and went to Ayesha and called out: Peace be on you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Have we your permission to enter? She said: You may enter. They asked: All of us? She answered: Yes? all of you; not knowing that Ibn Zubair was with them. When they entered, Ibn Zubair went behind the screen and holding on to Ayesha, his aunt, began to plead with her and to weep and his two companions also pleaded that she should talk to him and accept his apology. They said: You are aware that the Holy Prophet has forbidden cutting off communication and‘has said that it is not lawful for a Muslim to keep away from a brother Muslim for more than three days. When they persisted in urging her she also reminded them of the rights of kinship and started weeping. She said: I have made a vow which is very severe but they continued their pleading till she relented and spoke to Ibn Zubair. As expiation of her vow she freed forty slaves but even so whenever she mentioned her vow thereafter she would take to weeping till her scarf became wet with her tears (Bokhari).

Ugqbah ibn ‘Amir relates that the Holy Prophet went over to the graves of the martyrs of the Battle of Uhud and prayed over them eight years after the battle as if he was saying goodbye to the living and to the dead. Then he ascended the pulpit and said: I am going ahead of you and I am a witness over you and our meeting shall be at the Reservoir and I am looking at it just now. I am not afraid on your account that you will become guilty of associating anything with Allah but I am afraid that you might become fond of this world. Uqbah says this was my last opportunity of looking at the Holy Prophet (Bokhari and Muslim). Another version is: Lam atraid that you might become fond of the world and start fighting among yourselves and be ruined as those were ruined who were before you. Uqbah says: This was the last time that I saw the Holy Prophet on the pulpit. Another version is: 1 am your forerunner and am a witness against you and I am looking at the Reservoir at this moment and I have been given" the keys of the treasures of the earth (or the keys of the earth) and I am not afraid that after ] am gone you will associate anything with Allah but I am afraid that you might become fond of the world.

Abu Zaid Amr ibn Akhtab relates: The Holy Prophet led the dawn Prayer and thereafter mounted the pulpit and addressed us till the time of the noon Prayer. He then came down from the pulpit and led the Prayer and again ascended the pulpit and addressed us till the time of the afternoon Prayer when he came down and led the Prayer and again mounted the pulpit and addressed us till the sun went down. In the course of his address he talked to us of that which had happened and that which was to happen. The most knowledgeable among us have preserved it in their memories (Muslim).

Ayesha relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who vows that he would obey Allah, should obey Him. But he who vows that he would disobey Allah, should not do so (Bokhari).

Umm Shariq relates that the Holy Prophet told her to kill lizards saying: It blew on the fire which was kindled for Abraham (Bokhari and Muslim).

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who kills a lizard at the first stroke will have so many good deeds to his credit. He who kills it at the second stroke will have so many (less than the first) and he who kills it at the third stroke will have so many. Another version is: He who kills a lizard at the first stroke will be credited with a hundred good deeds and at the second stroke less than that and at the third less than the second (Muslim).

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: A man made up his mind to give alms. He set out with his alms and put them in the hands of a thief. Next day people began to say: Last night a thief was bestowed alms. The man supplicated: Allah, to Thee belongs all Praise. I shall now give alms again. He went out with his alms and put them in the hands of an adulteress. Next day the people talked: Last night alms were bestowed on an adulteress. The man supplicated: Allah, I praise Thee for enabling me to bestow alms even on an adulteress and J shall give alms once more. He went out with his alms and put them in the hands of a rich man. Next day the people talked: Last night alms were bestowed upon a rich man. The man supplicated: Allah, all praise is Thine, in respect of the thief and the adulteress and the rich man. He was told in his dream: Your alms to the thief might persuade the thief to stop stealing, and in consequence of your alms the adulteress might give up her misconduct and the rich man might draw a lesson from your alms and might start spending out of that which Allah has bestowed upon him (Bokhari).