Abu Musa al-Ashari
أبو موسى عبد الله بن قيس بن سليم
Companion, died 42 AH in Kufa. Named in the chains of 498 narrations of the library, 126 in Bukhari, 66 in Muslim, 38 in Abu Dawud.
498narrations name him
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42 AHhe died, in Kufa
Narrations he is named in
Bukhari126Muslim66Abu Dawud38Tirmidhi30Nasa'i40Ibn Majah43Muwatta3Ahmad4Darimi21Riyad as-Salihin48Bulugh al-Maram8Al-Adab Al-Mufrad19Shama'il1Mishkat51
Mishkat al-Masabih, page 1 of 2
Mishkat al-Masabih 11Sahihone of the people of the Book who believes in his prophet and believes in Muhammad; a slave when he fulfils what is due to God and what is due to his patrons; and a man who has a slavegirl with whom he has intercourse, who gives her a good training in manners…Mishkat al-Masabih 22SahihThe Prophet said:, “No one is more patient over injury which he hears than God. Men attribute a son to Him, yet He preserves them and provides for them.”Mishkat al-Masabih 86SahihGod’s messenger stood up among us and made five statements, saying, “God does not sleep, as it is unfitting that He should do so; He lowers the scale and raises it up; the deeds done by night are taken up to Him before the day’s deeds are done; the deeds done…Mishkat al-Masabih 94SahihHe heard God’s messenger say, “God created Adam from a handful which he took from the whole of the earth; so the children of Adam are in accordance with the earth, some red, some white, some black, some a mixture, also smooth and rough, bad and good.”Mishkat al-Masabih 97God’s messenger said, “The heart is like a feather in desert country which the winds keep turning over and over.”Mishkat al-Masabih 142SahihThe Prophet said:, “I and the message with which God has entrusted me are just like a man who came to a people and said, ‘I have seen the army with my own eyes, and I am a simple warner, so flee, flee.’ A section of his people obeyed him, and setting off at…Mishkat al-Masabih 144SahihGod’s messenger said, “The guidance and knowledge with which God has commissioned me are like abundant rain which fell on some ground. Part of it was good, and absorbing the water, it brought forth abundant herbage and pasture; and there were some bare…Mishkat al-Masabih 321DaifOne day when I was with the Prophet he wanted to pass water, so he went to some soft ground at the foot of a wall and did it, after which he said, “When any of you wishes to pass water, he should look for to do it in.”Mishkat al-Masabih 581SahihAbu Musa reported God’s Messenger as saying, “He who observes the two cool times of prayer (at dawn and after nightfall) will enter paradise.”Mishkat al-Masabih 652SahihAbu Musa reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The one who will receive the greatest reward for prayer is he who lives farthest away, and he who has farthest to walk and he who waits for the prayer to observe it with the imam will have a greater reward than…Mishkat al-Masabih 775SahihWhen you pray make your rows straight and let one of your number act as your imam. If you say the takbir when he says it and say Amen when he says “Not of those with whom Thou art angry nor of those who go astray”, God will accept your prayer. When he says…Mishkat al-Masabih 1005HasanAbu Musa reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Every eye is adulterous, and when a woman perfumes herself and passes a company, she is such and such meaning adulterous.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1021DaifAbu Musa al-Ashari reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Two and over constitute a congregation.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1239HasanAbu Musa al-Ashari reported God’s Messenger as saying, “God most high looks down on the middle night of Shaban and forgives all His creatures, except a polytheist or one who is hostile.”
Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Ahmad transmitted it from Abdallah ibn…Mishkat al-Masabih 1286SahihI heard my father say that he heard God’s Messenger say regarding the time on Friday, “It is between the time when the imam sits down and the end of the prayer.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1366SahihSaid b. al-‘As said he asked Abu Musa and Hudhayfah how God’s Messenger said ‘God is most great’ on the day of sacrifice and of the breaking of the fast. Abu Musa said he uttered it four times as he did at funerals and Hudhayfah said that that was correct.’Mishkat al-Masabih 1406SahihThere was an eclipse of the sun, and the Prophet got up in trepidation fearing that the last hour fiad come. He then went to the mosque and prayed, standing, bowing and prostrating himself longer than I had ever seen him do. He then said, “These signs which…Mishkat al-Masabih 1444SahihAbu Musa reported God’s messenger as saying, “Feed the hungry, visit the sick and free the captive.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1465SahihAbu Musa reported God’s messenger as saying, “When a man is ill or on a journey, what he was accustomed to do when staying at home and well will be recorded for him.”(This refers to his observance of salat, etc., cf. the traditions of Abdallah ibn Amr and…Mishkat al-Masabih 1479The Prophet said:, “No affliction great or small afflicts a man but for a sin, but there are more which God forgives.” Then he recited, “Whatever misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have done; but He forgives much.”(Qur’an, xlii, 30)Mishkat al-Masabih 1601Abu Musa reported God’s messenger as saying, “When the bier of a Jew, a Christian, or a Muslim passes you, stand up for it. You are not standing for its sake, but for the angels who are accompanying it.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1651When a man’s child dies God most high asks His angels whether they have taken His servant’s child and they reply that they have. He then asks whether they have taken the fruit of his heart (This is said by some to mean either children or grandchildren, and a…Mishkat al-Masabih 1661HasanAbu Musa said he heard God’s messenger say, “If anyone dies and the mourner gets up and says, ‘Alas for the mountain! Alas for the chief!’ and such like, God will put two angels in charge of him who will beat him on the breast and ask him whether he was like…Mishkat al-Masabih 1808SahihAbu Musa al-Ashari reported God’s messenger as saying that every Muslim must give sadaqa.
He was asked how this could apply to one who had nothing and replied that he should work with his hands, gaining benefit for himself thereby, and give sadaqa.
He was…Mishkat al-Masabih 1860Abu Musa al-Ashari reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The faithful Muslim storekeeper who gives what he is commanded completely and in full with a good will, and delivers it to the one to whom he was told to give it, is one of the two* who give…Mishkat al-Masabih 2020SahihAbu Musa al-Ashari reported God’s messenger as saying, “A believer who recites the Qur’an is like a citron whose fragrance is sweet and whose taste is sweet, a believer who does not recite the Qur’an is like a date which has no fragrance but has a sweet…Mishkat al-Masabih 2091SahihAbu Musa al-Ashari reported God’s messenger as saying, “Keep refreshing your knowledge of the Qur’an, for I swear by Him in whose hand my soul is that it is more liable to escape than camels which are tethered.”
(Bukhari and Muslim.)Mishkat al-Masabih 2164SahihAbu Musa reported God’s messenger as saying, “He who remembers his Lord and he who does not are like the living and the dead.”Mishkat al-Masabih 2203SahihOnce when we accompanied God’s messenger on a journey and the people began to say aloud, “God is most great”, he said, “Restrain yourselves, people; you are not supplicating one who is deaf or absent, but are supplicating One who hears, sees and is with you.…Mishkat al-Masabih 2229SahihAbu Musa reported God’s messenger as saying, “God stretches out His hand at night that those who have done evil during the day may repent and stretches out His hand in the day-time that those who have done evil during the night may repent, until the sun rises…