Ahadith

Abu Hurairah relates: I have known seventy of the Company of the Lounge not one of whom possessed a cloak, only a loin cloth or a blanket which they suspended from their necks and which reached down half way to their shanks or to their ankles. They managed to keep it in place with their hands lest their private parts might be exposed (Bokhari). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: The world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the disbeliever (Muslim). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet took hold of his shoulders and said: Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveller. Ibn Umar used to say: When you arrive at the evening do not look forward to the morning and when you arrive at the morning do not look forward to the evening. During health prepare for illness and while you are alive prepare for death (Bokhari). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Abu Abbas Sahi ibn Sa‘ad Sa‘idi relates that a man came to the Holy Prophet and said to him: Messenger of Allah, instruct me in something by acting on which I should win the love of Allah and the love of people. He told him: Do not desire the world, and Allah will love you; and do not desire that which people have and they will love you (Ibn-i-Majah). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Nu'man ibn Bashir relates that Umar ibn Khattab expatiated upon the worldly prosperity that people had achieved and said: | have known the Holy Prophet pass his day in hunger depending upon a few cheap dates to assuage it (Muslim). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Ayesha relates: When the Holy Prophet died there was nothing eatable in my house except a small quantity of barley in a bin upon which I subsisted for a long time. Then I measured what was left of it and it was soon finished (Bokhari and Muslim). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Amr ibn Harith relates that on his death the Holy Prophet left no dinar or dirhem or slave or bondwoman, or anything except his white riding mule, his arms and his land which he had given in charity for travellers (Bokhari). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Khubaib ibn Arat relates: We migrated with the Holy Prophet seeking the pleasure of Allah and looking only to Him for our reward. Some of us died without enjoying anything of it. Of such was Mus‘ab ibn Umair who was killed in the battle of Uhud, leaving only a small sheet. If we covered his head with it his feet were exposed, and if we covered his feet his head was left uncovered. So the Holy Prophet told us to cover his head and to put some fragrant grass over his feet. Others of us are reaping the ripe fruits of our reward (Bokhari and Muslim). : (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Sahl ibn Sa‘ad Sa‘idi relates that the Holy Prophet said: If in the sight of Allah the world had the value equal to that of the wing of a mosquito, He would not have allowed a disbeliever to drink a mouthful of water out of it (Tirmidhi). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)

Abu Hurairah relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: The world is aceursed and so is all that is in it save only the remembrance of Allah and that which pleases Allah, and the learned and the scholars (Tirmidhi). (Yunus 26, Al-Hadid 22, Aal-e-`Imran 16, Fatir 7, Al-`Ankabut 66)