Ibn Abbas
أبو العباس عبد الله بن عباس بن عبد المطلب
Companion, died 65 AH in Taif. Named in the chains of 3,020 narrations of the library, 590 in Bukhari, 182 in Muslim, 364 in Abu Dawud.
3,020narrations name him
16collections
65 AHhe died, in Taif
Narrations he is named in
Bukhari590Muslim182Abu Dawud364Tirmidhi284Nasa'i401Ibn Majah319Muwatta40Ahmad45Darimi206Riyad as-Salihin63Bulugh al-Maram117Al-Adab Al-Mufrad78Shama'il29Mishkat297Nawawi's Forty4Forty Qudsi1
Mishkat al-Masabih, page 4 of 10
Mishkat al-Masabih 1510Staying for a short time and making little noise when visiting an invalid is part of the sunna. He reported God’s messenger as saying, when their clamour and disagreement became excessive, “Get up and leave me.”(This was during the Prophet’s last illness, the…Mishkat al-Masabih 1512DaifIbn Abbas said the Prophet once visited a man and asked him what he would like. When he replied that he would like some wheaten bread the Prophet said, “Let anyone who has any wheaten bread send it to his brother,” adding, “When any of you has an invalid who…Mishkat al-Masabih 1514Ibn Abbas reported God’s messenger as saying, “Dying abroad is treated as martyrdom.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1556at Thy service; praise and grace are Thine, and the dominion; Thou hast no partner. See Book XI, chap. ii)
(Bukharl and Muslim.)Mishkat al-Masabih 1557SahihIbn Abbas reported God’s messenger as saying, “Wear your white garments, for they are among your best garments, and shroud your dead in them. Among the best types of collyrium you use is antimony (ithmid) for it makes the hair sprout and clears the…Mishkat al-Masabih 1561DaifIbn Abbas said God’s messenger commanded that those killed at Uhud should be stripped of iron and skins and buried in their clothing without having the blood washed off.Mishkat al-Masabih 1576SahihGod’s messenger came upon a grave where an interment had taken place at night and asked when this person had been buried. On being told that he had been buried the previous night, he asked why they had not informed him. They told him that they had conducted…Mishkat al-Masabih 1578SahihKuraib the client of Ibn Abbas told that a son of Abdallah Ibn Abbas died in Qudaid or Usfan and he asked him to go out and see how many people had gathered for the funeral. Going out and finding that people had gathered for the funeral, he told him. Ibn…Mishkat al-Masabih 1590SahihIbn Abbas said the Prophet recited Fatihat al-Kitab at funerals.Mishkat al-Masabih 1610SahihA piece of red stuff was put in God’s messenger’s grave.Mishkat al-Masabih 1617SahihIbn Abbas reported God’s messenger as saying, “The niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others.”
Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Nasai and Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Ahmad transmitted it from Jarir ibn Abdallah.Mishkat al-Masabih 1620DaifIbn Abbas said God’s messenger was lowered gently into the grave head first.
Shafii transmitted it.Mishkat al-Masabih 1621DaifHe told that the Prophet entered a grave during the night, and when a lamp was lit for him he faced the qibla and said, “God have mercy on you if you were devoted to supplication with tears (The Arabic is awwah which cannot easily be translated by one word.…Mishkat al-Masabih 1650Ibn Abbas reported God’s messenger as saying, “If any member of my people has two children who die before him, God will cause him to enter paradise on their account.” Aishah asked, “Does it apply to a member of your people who has one child who dies before…Mishkat al-Masabih 1663When God’s messenger’s daughter Zainab died and the women wept, Umar began to strike them with his whip, but God’s messenger pushed him back saying, “Gently, Umar” He then said, “Beware of the devil’s clamour,” and added, “Whatever comes from the eye and from…Mishkat al-Masabih 1680HasanWhen God’s messenger passed by some graves in Medina he turned his face towards them and said, “Peace be upon you, inhabitants of the graves. God forgive us and you. You have gone before us and we are coming after.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1687SahihThe Prophet said: when he sent Muadh to the Yemen,
“You will come to folk who are people of a book, so invite them to testify that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is God’s messenger. If they obey that, tell them God has made obligatory for them five…Mishkat al-Masabih 1696Ibn Abbas told how, when this verse was revealed, “And those who hoard gold and silver…”* the Muslims were grieved about it and Umar told them he would dispel their care. He therefore went and told God’s Prophet that his companions were grieved by this verse…Mishkat al-Masabih 1703HasanAl-Abbas asked God’s messenger about paying his sadaqa in advance before it became due, and he gave him permission to do that.Mishkat al-Masabih 1732Sahih“At the end of Ramadan bring forth the sadaqa relating to your fast. God’s messenger prescribed this sadaqa as a sa of dried dates or barley, or half a sa of wheat payable by every free¬man or slave, male or female, young or old.”
Abu Dawud and Nasai…Mishkat al-Masabih 1733SahihHe said that God’s messenger prescribed the zakat relating to the breaking of the fast as a purification of the fasting from empty and obscene talk and as food for the poor.Mishkat al-Masabih 1794The Prophet asked some people whether they would like him to tell them who was in the worst position, and when they replied that they would, he said,
“The one who is asked for something in God’s name and does not give it in His name.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1832DaifIbn Abbas said he heard God’s messenger say,
“Any Muslim who gives a Muslim a garment to wear will be in God’s safe keeping as long as a shred of it remains on him.”Mishkat al-Masabih 1852SahihIbn Abbas reported God’s messenger as saying,
“I shall tell you who is the best of men; he is a man who holds his horse’s rein in God’s path.
I shall tell you who comes next to him; he is a man who retires with some few goats which he possesses and pays what…Mishkat al-Masabih 1876When the month of Ramadan began God’s messenger set every prisoner free and gave to every beggar.Mishkat al-Masabih 1888Ibn Abbas told a desert Arab coming to the Prophet and saying he had seen the new moon, i.e. the new moon of Ramadan. He asked him whether he testified that there is no god but God and he replied that he did. He then asked if he testified that Muhammad is…Mishkat al-Masabih 1912SahihThe Prophet had himself cupped when he was wearing the ihram and also when he was fasting.Mishkat al-Masabih 1933SahihIbn Abbas said God’s messenger left Medina to go to Mecca and fasted till he reached Usfan. He then called for water, and raising it aloft so that the people might see it, he broke his fast and did not resume it till he reached Mecca, and that was in Ramadan.…Mishkat al-Masabih 1949Sahih“I never saw the Prophet singling out any day’s fast and considering it more excellent than another, except this day, the day of Ashura,* and this month, meaning the month of Ramadan.”
*The 10th of Muharram.Mishkat al-Masabih 1950SahihHe said that when God’s messenger fasted on the day of Ashura and commanded that it should be observed as a fast, he was told it was a day held in honour by Jews and Christians, and said, “If I am spared till next year I shall fast on the ninth.”