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{{Quote|Tabari I 267|And Allah taught Adam all the names as follows: He taught him the name of everything, down to fart and little fart.}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|7|69|508}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle was presented a bowl of milk and a bowl of wine on the night he was taken on a journey (Al-Mi'raj).}}

==Angel Gabriel said hello==

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|8|74|270}}|Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet said to her, "Gabriel sends Salam (greetings) to you." She replied, "Wa 'alaihi-s-Salam Wa Rahmatu-l-lah." (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on him).}}

==Dye your hair because Jews and Christians don't==

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|7|72|786}}|Narrated Abu Huraira :

The Prophet said, "Jews and Christians do not dye their hair so you should do the opposite of what they do.}}

==Izar dragging causes endless descent==

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|7|72|681}}|Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|8|74|250}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "The young should greet the old, the passer by should greet the sitting one, and the small group of persons should greet the large group of persons. "}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|8|74|261}}|Narrated Anas:

Whenever Allah's Apostle greeted somebody, he used to greet him three times, and if he spoke a sentence, he used to repeat it thrice.}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|9|83|38}}|Narrated Anas:

A man peeped into one of the dwelling places of the Prophet. The Prophet got up and aimed a sharp-edged arrow head (or wooden stick) at him to poke him stealthily. }}

Allah has ninety-nine Names, i.e., one hundred minus one, and whoever believes in their meanings and acts accordingly, will enter Paradise; and Allah is Witr (one) and loves 'the Witr' (i.e., odd numbers). }}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|6|60|253}} |Narrated Abu Huraira:<BR>Allah's Apostle said, "On the Day of Resurrection, a huge fat man will come who will not weigh, the weight of the wing of a mosquito in Allah's Sight." and then the Prophet added, 'We shall not give them any weight on the Day of Resurrection'}}

{{Quote|[{{Bukhari-url-only|8|76|559}}t Sahih Bukhari 8:76:559t] |Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd:<BR>Allah's Apostle said, "In Paradise there is a tree so big that in its shade a rider may travel for one hundred years without being able to cross it."}}

Note: Considering the average speed of a galloping horse can be around 30 miles/hour and the Islamic year has 355 days, this means the tree is 25,560,000 miles wide (25.5 million miles). This is about half the distance from the planet Earth to Mars.

{{Quote|{{Muwatta|2|4|16|}}|Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Umara from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim that the mother of the son of Ibrahim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf questioned Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, "'''I am a woman who wears a long skirt and''' (sometimes) '''I walk in dirty places'''." Umm Salama replied, "'''The Messenger of Allah''', may Allah bless him and grant him peace, '''said''', ''''What follows (i.e. clean places) purifies it.'''' "}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|7|62|159}}| Narrated 'Uqba bin 'Amir:<BR>

When he finished, I walked with him and asked, "What about the bone and the animal dung?" He said, '''"They are of the food of Jinns. The delegate of Jinns of (the city of) Nasibin came to me--and how nice those Jinns were--and asked me for the remains of the human food.''' I invoked Allah for them that they would never pass by a bone or animal dung but find food on them."}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|5|59|595}}|Narrated 'Amr bin Salama:

The people used to offer the prayer with the Prophet with their waist-sheets tied round their necks because of the shortness of the sheets and the women were ordered not to lift their heads till the men had sat straight. }}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|54|497}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:  

Allah's Apostle said, "When the month of Ramadan comes, the gates of Paradise are opened and the gates of the (Hell) Fire are closed, and the devils are chained."}}  

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|54|536}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:  

Allah's Apostle said, "A prostitute was forgiven by Allah, because, passing by a panting dog near a well and seeing that the dog was about to die of thirst, she took off her shoe, and tying it with her head-cover she drew out some water for it. So, Allah forgave her because of that."}}  

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Narrated Abu Musa: Thy Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, "A time will come upon the people when a person will wander about with gold as Zakat and will not find anybody to accept it, and '''one man will be seen followed by forty women''' to be their guardian because of scarcity of men and great number of women".}}

{{Quote|Hadith translated by FFI forum member|Narrated by Abi Hurairah that the prophet PBUH said: If one of you got engaged in intercourse, they shouldn't look at the genital for that inherits blindness, and not talk too much for that inherits [[w:Aphonia|aphonia]] (lack of the ability to talk).}}

{{Quote|[{{Bukhari-url-only|4|52|74}}i Sahih Bukhari 4:52:74i]|Narrated Abu Huraira:

A Muslim Shia [http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/mutah/en/chap7.php website] notes: "Maybe this is another reason why 'Umar the Khalifa never went on jihad: somebody had to stay behind and organize the cucumber distribution."

{{quote|{{Bukhari|7|72|709}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:<BR>

The Prophet had forbidden: (A) the Mulamasa and Munabadha (bargains), (B) the offering of two prayers, one after the morning compulsory prayer till the sun rises, and the others, after the 'Asr prayer till the sun sets '''(C) He also forbade that one should sit wearing one garment, nothing of which covers his private parts (D) and prevent them from exposure to the sky;''' (E) he also forbade Ishtimal-as-Samma'.}}

{{quote|1=[http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/129446 Islam Q&A - Fatwa No. 129446]|2=The scholars of the Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas said:  

that he heard the Prophet saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection."}}

{{Quote|{{Abudawud|15|2829}} |Narrated Umm Kurz:

I heard the Prophet (may peace be upon him) say: Let the birds stay in their roosts. She said: I also heard him say: Two sheep are to be sacrificed for a boy and one for a girl, but it does you no harm whether they are male or female.}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|7|71|590}}|The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy.}}

{{Quote|Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal. vol. 6, p. 269; Sunan Ibn Majah, p. 626; Ibn Qutbah, Tawil Mukhtalafi 'l-Hadith (Cairo: Maktaba al-Kulliyat al-Azhariyya. 1966) p. 310; As-Suyuti, ad-Durru 'l-Manthur, vol. 2, p. 13 |'Aisha: "The verse of the stoning and of suckling an adult ten times were revealed, and they were (written) on a paper and kept under my bed.  When the messenger of Allah expired and we were preoccupied with his death, a goat entered and ate away the paper."}}

Once Allah's Apostle; offered the morning prayer and then faced the people and said, "While a man was driving a cow, he suddenly rode over it and beat it. The cow said, "We have not been created for this, but we have been created for sloughing." On that the people said astonishingly, "Glorified be Allah! A cow speaks!" The Prophet said, "I believe this, and Abu Bakr and 'Umar too, believe it, although neither of them was present there. While a person was amongst his sheep, a wolf attacked and took one of the sheep. The man chased the wolf till he saved it from the wolf, where upon the wolf said, 'You have saved it from me; but who will guard it on the day of the wild beasts when there will be no shepherd to guard them except me (because of riots and afflictions)? ' " The people said surprisingly, "Glorified be Allah! A wolf speaks!" The Prophet said, "But I believe this, and Abu Bakr and 'Umar too, believe this, although neither of them was present there."}}

{{Quote|{{bukhari|4|52|105}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:  

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|54|524}}|The Prophet said, "A group of Israelites were lost. Nobody knows what they did. But I do not see them except that they were cursed and changed into rats, for if you put the milk of a she-camel in front of a rat, it will not drink it, but if the milk of a sheep is put in front of it, it will drink it." I told this to Ka'b who asked me, "Did you hear it from the Prophet ?" I said, "Yes." Ka'b asked me the same question several times.; I said to Ka'b. "Do I read the Torah? (i.e. I tell you this from the Prophet.)"}}

{{Quote|{{bukhari|1|11|662}}|Narrated Anas:  

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|54|491}}|Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "During your sleep, Satan knots three knots at the back of the head of each of you, and he breathes the following words at each knot, 'The night is, long, so keep on sleeping,' If that person wakes up and celebrates the praises of Allah, then one knot is undone, and when he performs ablution the second knot is undone, and when he prays, all the knots are undone, and he gets up in the morning lively and gay, otherwise he gets up dull and gloomy. "}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|2|21|245}}|Narrated 'Abdullah : A person was mentioned before the Prophet (p.b.u.h) and he was told that he had kept on sleeping till morning and had not got up for the prayer. The Prophet said, "Satan urinated in his ears."}}

{{Quote|{{Muslim|2|462}}|Abu Huraira reported: The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said. When any one of you awakes up from sleep and performs ablution, he must clean his nose three times, for the devil spends the night in the interior of his nose.}}

The Prophet offered a prayer, and (after finishing) he said, "Satan came in front of me trying persistently to divert my attention from the prayer, but Allah gave me the strength to over-power him."}}  

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|54|506}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:  

The Prophet said, "When any human being is born. Satan touches him at both sides of the body with his two fingers, except Jesus, the son of Mary, whom Satan tried to touch but failed, for he touched the placenta-cover instead."}}  

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|54|509}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:  

Whenever the Prophet went to answer the call of nature, he used to say, "Allah-umma inni a'udhu bika minal khubuthi wal khaba'ith i.e. O Allah, I seek Refuge with You from all offensive and wicked things (evil deeds and evil spirits)."}}  

{{Quote|Sunan Ibn Maja, Zuhd (Book of Abstinence) 39|Abu Umama narrated: "The Messenger of God said, 'Everyone that God admits into paradise will be married to 72 wives; two of them are houris and seventy of his inheritance of the [female] dwellers of hell. All of them will have libidinous sex organs and '''he will have an ever-erect penis'''.' "}}

{{Quote|Al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Qur'an, p. 351|"Each time we sleep with a Houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [i.e. Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and '''all will have appetizing vaginas'''."}}

[[Safiyah]] bint Huyay was a woman that Muhammad captured and married, after killing her husband.

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|52|318}}|Narrated Anas bin Malik: '''We were in the company of the Prophet while returning from 'Usfan, and Allah's Apostle was riding his she−camel keeping Safiya bint Huyay riding behind him. His she−camel slipped and both of them fell down.''' Abu Talha jumped from his camel and said, "O Allah's Apostle! May Allah sacrifice me for you." The Prophet said, "Take care of the lady." So, Abu Talha covered his face with a garment and went to Safiya and covered her with it, and then he set right the condition of their shecamel so that both of them rode, and we were encircling Allah's Apostle like a cover. When we approached Medina, the Prophet said, "We are returning with repentance and worshipping and praising our Lord." He kept on saying this till he entered Medina.}}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|1|4|215}}| Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:

Once the Prophet, while passing through one of the grave-yards of Medina or Mecca heard the voices of '''two persons who were being tortured in their graves'''. The Prophet said, "These two persons are being tortured not for a major sin (to avoid)." The Prophet then added, "Yes! (they are being tortured for a major sin). Indeed, '''one of them never saved himself from being soiled with his urine''' while the other used to go about with calumnies (to make enmity between friends). The Prophet then asked for a green leaf of a date-palm tree, broke it into two pieces and put one on each grave. On being asked why he had done so, he replied, "I hope that their torture might be lessened, till these get dried." }}

{{Quote|{{Bukhari|1|4|215}}|  Narrated Abu Aiyub Al-Ansari:

{{Quote|{{Muslim|28|5612}}  |  Buraida reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.}}

{{Quote|sirat ibn hisham 166| When the prophet came out of his mothers vagina,  the light covered the east and the west which reached all the way to Sham (Syria today) }}

{{Quote| {{Bukhari|8|79|706}}|Narrated Abu Huraira:  

The Prophet said, "If somebody manumits a Muslim slave, Allah will save from the Fire every part of his body for freeing the corresponding parts of the slave's body, even his private parts will be saved from the Fire) because of freeing the slave's private parts."}}

The sin of raising your head before the imam is so great, your face will transform into a donkey.

{{Quote| {{Bukhari|1|11|660}}|  Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Isn't he who raises his head before the Imam afraid that Allah may transform his head into that of a donkey or his figure (face) into that of a donkey?" }}

{{Quote|{{Abudawud|1|22}}|Narrated Amr ibn al-'As: