Ahadith

Jundub ibn Abdullah relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who performs the salat at Fajr comes under the guarantee of Allah, so beware lest Allah should call you to account in respect of anything concerning His guarantee, for should He call any of you to account in respect of anything - concerning His guarantee and find him wanting, that one would be hurled down to the fire of hell (Muslim). (At-Taubah 5)

Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet said: I have been commanded that I should continue to fight till the enemy bear witness that there is none worthy of worship save Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger, and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat. When they do that they will have secured their lives and their properties against me, subject to their obligations under Islam, and they will be accountable to Allah (Bokhari and Muslim). (At-Taubah 5)

Tariq ibn Ushaim relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: He who affirms that there is none worthy of worship save Allah and rejects all that is worshipped beside him secures his life and property and is accountable only to Allah (Muslim). (At-Taubah 5)

Miqdad ibn Aswad relates: I asked the Messenger of Allah: Tell me, if I am fighting a pagan and he cuts off one of my hands with his sword and then takes shelter behind a tree and says: I submit to Allah; shail I kill him after he has said this? He said: No. Do not kill him. I expostulated: Messenger of Allah, even after he cuts off one of my hands and thereafter says this? He said: Do not kill him, for if you kill him, he will be in the position in which you were before you killed him, and you will be in the position in which he was before he uttered the words that he did utter (Bokhari and Muslim). (Al-Baqarah 42, Al-Buruj 14, Aal-e-`Imran 30, Ar-Rahman 48)

Usamah ibn Zaid relates: The Holy Prophet sent us on a scouting expedition to Huraqah, a valley of the Juhnah, and we arrived at its springs in the morning. A man of the Ansar and I came upon one of their men and when we had covered him he called out: There is none worthy of worship save Allah. On this the Ansari held back, but I finished him off with my spear. When we returned to Medina, this incident came to the knowledge of the Holy Prophet. He asked me: Usamah, did you kill him after he had affirmed: There is none worthy of worship save Allah? I said: Messenger of Allah, he made the affirmation only to save himself. He said again: Did you kill him after he had affirmed: There is none worthy of worship save Allah? He went on repeating it till I wished I had not accepted Islam before that day (Bokhari and Muslim). Another version is: The Holy Prophet said: Did he affirm: There is none worthy of worship save Allah; and yet you killed him? I said: Messenger of Allah, he said it out of fear of our arms. He said: Why did you not cleave his heart to discover whether he had said it from his heart or not? He kept repeating it till I wished I had accepted Islam only that day.

Jundub ibn Abdullah relates that the Holy Prophet despatched a Muslim force against a pagan community and the two forces met in combat. One of the pagans would decide to go for a Muslim and advancing upon him would kill him. One of the Muslims, and it was said among us that it was Usamah ibn Zaid, was on the look out to take him at a disadvantage. When he raised his sword over him, the man called out: There is none worthy of worship save Allah. But the Muslim killed him. When the news of the combat reached the Holy Prophet he was also informed of this incident. He sent for the Muslim and inquired from him: Why did you kill him? He said: Messenger of Allah, hé created confusion among the Muslims and killed several of them, So and So, So and So, etc. | advanced upon him and when he saw my sword he exclaimed: There is none worthy of worship save Allah. The Holy Prophet asked: Did you kill him? He said: Yes. The Holy Prophet said: When the Day of Judgment comes, what will you do to his: There is none worthy of worship save Allah? He said: Messenger of Allah, pray for forgiveness for me. The Holy Prophet kept on repeating without any change:" _ What will you do to his: There is none worthy of worship save Allah, when the Day of Judgment comes?

Abdullah ibn Utbah ibn Mas‘ud relates that he heard Umar ibn Khattab say: In the time of the Holy Prophet people were called to account through revelation. Now revelation has been cut off and we shall call you to account on the basis of your overt acts. So that whoever displays to us good we shall confirm it and accept it and we shall not inquire into his secret conduct; Allah will call him to account for that; but whoever displays to us evil we shall not uphold it and shall not accept it, even if he protests that there was good in his heart (Bokhari). (Al-Baqarah 42, Al-Buruj 14, Aal-e-`Imran 30, Ar-Rahman 48)

Ibn Mas‘ud relates that the Holy Prophet said: Everyone of you gets ready for his birth in the womb of his mother in the condition of a sperm- drop for forty days and then as a clot for forty days and then as a lump of flesh for forty days and then an angel is sent who breathes the soul into it and is commanded to record four things about it: its provision, its term of life, its conduct and whether it will be unfortunate or fortunate. Then by Him beside Whom there is none worthy of worship one of you behaves like the dwellers of Paradise till there is left between him and it but the space of a hand and then that which is recorded overtakes him and he begins to behave like the denizens of the Fire and eventually enters it. On the other hand, one of you behaves like the denizens of the Fire till there is left between him and it only the space of a hand then what is recorded overtakes him and he begins to behave like the dwellers of Paradise and eventually enters it (Bokhari and Muslim). (Al-Baqarah 42, Al-Buruj 14)

Ibn Mas‘ud relates that the Holy Prophet said: On the Day of Judgment hell will be brought and it will have seventy thousand bridles, each bridle being pulled by seventy thousand angels (Muslim). (Al-Baqarah 42, Al-Buruj 14, Aal-e-`Imran 30, Ar-Rahman 48)

Nu‘man ibn Bashir relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say that the least tormented of the denizens of the Fire will be a person who will have two brands of fire under his feet whereby his brain will be on the boil. He will imagine himself the worst tormented person: and yet he will be the least tormented of them (Bokhari and Muslim). (Al-Baqarah 42, Al-Buruj 14, Aal-e-`Imran 30, Ar-Rahman 48)