The Assassination of ʿUmar – Part 1
Note: the English version of this account is based on Dr. Muḥammad Muḥsin Khan’s translation of Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī, with slight modifications. The notes have been compiled from classic ḥadīth commentaries…
Note: the English version of this account is based on Dr. Muḥammad Muḥsin Khan’s translation of Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī, with slight modifications. The notes have been compiled from classic ḥadīth commentaries…
Part one can be viewed here. As soon as he said Takbīr, I heard him say, “The dog has killed or eaten me,” when the murderer stabbed him. A non-Arab…
‘Amr b. Al-‘Âs was once walking with a group of his friends, when he passed by the bloated, rotting carcass of mule. He said: “By Allah! To eat your fill…
Muhammad b. Ziyâd said, “I met [some of] the Salaf. They would live in one building with their families. One of them might receive guests, and the cooking pot of…
ʿAbdullāh b. ‘Amr – Allāh be pleased with them both – said: Killing a believer is worse to Allāh than the ending of the world. Al-Nasā`ī, Al-Sunan. Graded sahīh by…
ʿAbdullāh b. Mas’ūd – Allāh be pleased with him – said: Women are but an ‘awrah (something private to be covered). A woman might leave her house without there being…
Al-Hāfidh Ibn Kathīr – Allāh have mercy upon him – reports the following incident in his tafsīr of Sūrah Al-Jinn, verse 11: Ahmad b. Sulaymān al-Najjād said in his Amālī:…
Hudhayfah – Allāh be pleased with him – said: Whoever wears silk; Allāh will make him wear fire for a day – not one of your days, but one of…
ʿAbdullāh b. ‘Amr – Allāh be please with them both – said: It would be better for a person to be turned to dust than to deliberately walk in front…
Abū Hurayrah – Allāh be pleased with him – once passed by the market in Medinah. He stopped at the market and said, “O people of the market, how incapable…