…and upon receiving displeasing news
he (S) would say:
Al-Ĥamdu Lillāhi
`Alá Kulli Ĥālin.
)
كان صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا أتاه الأمر يسره قال:(209) الحَمْدُ للهِ
الَّذِي بِنِعْمَتِه
ِِ تَتِمُّ
الصَّالِحَات
وَإِذَا أَتَاهُ أَمْرٌ يَكْرَهُهُ قَالَ: "
ُ.
الحَمْدُ للهِ عَلَى كُلِّ
حَال.ٍ
101. Excellence of
sending prayers upon the Prophet
r
.101فضل
الصلاة على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
(210)
The Prophet r
said: ‘Whoever sends a prayer upon me
Allah sends ten upon him.’
(210)
قال صلى الله عليه وسلم: " من صلى علي صلاة صلى الله عليه بها عشرا ".
(211)
He r
also said: ‘Do not take my grave as a place of habitual ceremony. Send
prayers upon me
for verily your prayers reach me wherever you are.’
(211)
وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم: " لا تجعلوا قبري عيدا وصلوا علي
فإن صلاتكم
تبلغني حيث كنتم ".
(212)
He ralso said: ‘A miser is one whom when I am mentioned to him
fails to
send prayers upon me.’
(212)
وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم: " البخيل من ذكرت عنده فلم يصل علي ".
102. Excellence of
spreading the Islamic greeting
.102إفشاء
السلام
(213)
The Messenger of Allah r
said: ‘You shall not enter paradise until you believe
and you shall not
believe until you love one another. Shall I not inform you of something
if you were to act upon it
you will indeed achieve mutual love for one
another? Spread the greeting amongst yourselves.’
AAammar t
said: ‘Three characteristics
whoever combines them
has completed his
faith: to be just
to spread greetings to all people and to spend
(charitably) out of the little you have.’
‘AAabdullah Ibn AAamr t
reported that a man asked the Prophet r:
‘Which Islam is the best?’. He r
replied: Feed (the poor)
and greet those whom you know as well as those
whom you do not.’
103. Supplication
said upon hearing a rooster crow or the braying of an ass
.103دعاء
صياح الديك ونهيق الحمار
(216)
‘If you
hear the crow of a rooster
ask Allah for his bounty for it has
seen an angel and if you hear the braying of an ass
seek refuge in Allah
for it has seen a devil.
He r
said: ‘If anyone of you is impelled to praise his brother
then he
should say: ‘I deem so-and-so to be…and Allah is his reckoner…and
I don’t praise anyone
putting it (i.e. my praising) forward
in front
of Allah’s commendation
however I assume him so and so’…if he
knows that of him.’