1. The Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- said: "Whoever says: there is no god but Allah enters Paradise."
Tabarani narrated it from Abu Dharr in the Kabir (7:55), Ibn Hibban in
his Sahih (31), al-Hakim in his Mustadrak (4:251), al-Mundhiri in al-Targhib
(2:422), al-Haythami in Majma` al-zawa'id (1:18), Ibn `Adi (7:2639), Abu
Nu`aym in the Hilya (7:174), and al-Bazzar from `Umar.
2. The Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- said: "Whoever says there is no god but Allah enters Paradise
even if he commits adultery and even if he steals (i.e. even if he commits
great sins)." (Nasa'i, Tabarani and others from Abu al-Darda' - sahih)
3. The Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- said: "Whoever witnesses that there is no god but Allah and
that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger, Allah forbids the Fire from touching
him." Narrated by Bukhari and Muslim from `Ubada ibn al-Samit.
Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari, book of
riqaq ch. 14 (1989 ed. 11:324) says that the hadiths of "Allah forbids
the Fire from touching him" are even more explicit than those of "Allah
will enter him into Paradise" in establishing that the one who declares
Allah's oneness is saved even if he does not heed the orders and the prohibitions.
4. The Companions were talking about
Malik ibn Dukhshum, and they wished that the Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- would curse him so that he should die or meet some calamity.
The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "Does Malik ibn Dukhshum
not testify to the fact that there is no god but Allah and that I am the
Messenger of Allah?" They said: "Yes, he no doubt says this but it is not
in his heart." The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- replied: "No-one
ever witnesses that there is no god but Allah and that I am Allah's Messenger
and then enters the Fire nor is consumed by it." Anas said: "This hadith
impressed me so much that I ordered my son to write it down and he did."
Muslim narrates it.
5. The Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- said that Allah will save a man of his community the record
of whose sins fills 99 books, each book extending as far as the eye can
see. Against all this will be weighed the one good deed that he has, which
is his witnessing that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His
Messenger, and it will outweigh all the rest. The Prophet -- Allah bless
and greet him -- then said: "Nothing is of any weight with Allah's Name."
[The hadith begins: innallaha sayukhallisu
rajulan min ummati...] Narrated from `Abd Allah ibn `Amr ibn al-`As by
Ahmad, Tirmidhi (Iman 17 - hasan gharib), al-Hakim, and Bayhaqi in Shu`ab
al-iman.
6. Bukhari narrates in his Sahih
(Volume 9, Book 93, Number 601): Ma`bad ibn Hilal al-`Anazi relates: Some
of us from Basra gathered and went to Anas bin Malik in company with Thabit
al-Bunani so that he might ask Anas about the Hadith of Intercession on
our behalf. Anas was in his palace, and our arrival coincided with his
late morning (Duha) prayer. We asked permission to enter and he admitted
us, sitting on his bed. We said to Thabit, "Do not ask him about anything
else first but the Hadith of Intercession." He said, "O Abu Hamza! Here
are your brethren from Basra coming to ask you about the Hadith of Intercession."
Anas then said:
The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet
him -- talked to us saying: On the Day of Resurrection the people will
surge one group after another like waves, and then they will come to Adam
and say: "Please intercede for us with your Lord." He will say: "I am not
fit for this. You should go to Ibrahim as he is the Intimate Friend (khalil)
of the Beneficent." They will go to Ibrahim and he will say: "I am not
fit for this, but you should go to Moses as he is the one to whom Allah
spoke directly." So they will go to Musa and he will say: "I am not fit
for this, but you should go to `Isa as he is a soul created (directly)
by Allah, and His Word (Be!)." They will go to `Isa and he will say: "I
am not fit for this, but you should go to Muhammad."
They will come to me and I will say:
"I can do it." Then I will ask for my Lord's permission and it will be
given; then He will inspire me to praise Him with such praises as I cannot
fathom. So I will praise Him with those praises and will fall down prostrate
before Him. Then it will be said: "O Muhammad, raise your head and speak,
for you will be heard; ask, for your will be granted your request; intercede,
for your intercession will be accepted." I will say: "O Lord, my Community!
My Community!" And then it will be said: "Go and take out of the Fire all
those who have in their hearts faith the weight of a barley grain."
I will go and do so and return to
praise Him with the same praises, and fall down prostrate before Him. Then
it will be said: "O Muhammad, raise your head and speak, for you will be
heard; ask, for your will be granted your request; intercede, for your
intercession will be accepted." I will say: "O Lord, my Community! My Community!"
And then it will be said: "Go and take out of the Fire all those who have
in their hearts faith the like of a small ant or a mustard-seed."
I will go and do so and return to
praise Him with the same praises, and fall down prostrate before Him. Then
it will be said: "O Muhammad, raise your head and speak, for you will be
heard; ask, for you will be granted your request; intercede, for your intercession
will be accepted." I will say: "O Lord, my Community! My Community!" And
then it will be said: "Go and take out of the Fire all those who have in
their hearts the smallest iota of faith." I will go and do so.
When we left Anas, I said to some
of my companions: "Let us pass by al-Hasan (al-Basri) who is hiding himself
in the house of Abu Khalifa and request him to recount to us what Anas
ibn Malik has just told us." So we went to him and we greeted him and he
admitted us. We said to him: "O Abu Sa`id! We came to you from your brother
Anas ibn Malik and he related to us a Hadith about the intercession the
like of which I have never heard." He said: "What is that?" We told him
of the Hadith and at the end we said: "He stopped at this point." He said:
"What then?" We said: "He did not add anything after that." He said: "Anas
related the Hadith to me twenty years ago when he was a young fellow. I
don't know whether he forgot or if he did not like to let you depend overly
on what he might have said." We said, "O Abu Sa`id! Do tell us." He smiled
and said: "Man was created hasty. I only mentioned it because I was going
to inform you of it. Anas told me the same as he told you and said that
the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- added:
I will then return for a fourth time
and praise Him similarly and prostrate before Him the same as before. And
then it will be said: "O Muhammad, raise your head and speak, for you will
be heard; ask, for your will be granted your request; intercede, for your
intercession will be accepted." I will then say: "O Lord, allow me to intercede
for whoever said: la ilaha illallah." Then Allah will say:
By My Power,
by My Majesty,
by My Supremacy,
and by My Greatness,
I shall take out of the fire whoever
said: la ilaha illallah.
7. This is confirmed by another well-known
hadith whereby the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "My intercession
is for those people of my Community who commit major sins." Narrated by
Tirmidhi, Qiyama 11; Abu Dawud, Sunna 31; Ibn Maja, Zuhd 37; and Ahmad
3:213.
8. Adhana fi al-nasi anna man shahida
an la ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika lahu mukhlisan dakhala al-janna.
"It was proclaimed among the people that whoever witnesses that there is
no god except Allah, alone, without partner, enters Paradise." Narrated
by Ibn `Adi on the authority of `Umar.
8a. Man shahida an la ilaha illallah
dakhala al-janna. "Whoever witnesses that there is no god but Allah alone
enters Paradise." al-Bazzar narrates it from `Umar.
9. Bashshir al-nasa annahu man qala
la ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lahu wajabat lahu al-janna. "Announce
to the people the tidings that whoever says: No god except Allah alone,
without partner, Paradise is guaranteed for him." Narrated by al-Nasa'i
from Sahl ibn Hunayf and Zayd ibn Khalid al-Jahni.
10. `Uthman ibn `Affan said: I heard
Allah's Messenger say: "Verily, I know a phrase which no servant utters
truthfully from his heart except the Fire is made unlawful for him." `Umar
ibn al-Khattab said: "I shall tell you what that phrase is. It is the kalima
of sincerity with which Allah has empowered Muhammad and his Companions,
the kalima of fear of Allah which Allah's Prophet enjoined upon his uncle
Abu Talib on his deathbed: the witnessing that there is no god but Allah."
Ahmad related it in his Musnad (1:63 #449).
11. Sa`id ibn al-Musayyib relates:
When the death of Abu Talib approached, Allah's Apostle came to him and
said: "Say: la ilaha illallah, a word with which I will be able to negotiate
or argue (uhajju) for you in Allah's presence." Narrated by Bukhari in
his Sahih (Volume 8, Book 78, Number 672). Muslim also narrates it in his
Sahih.
12. Mafatih al-janna shahadatu an
la ilaha illallah. "The keys to Paradise are the witnessing that there
is no god but Allah." Ahmad related it from Mu`adh and Haythami said in
Majma` al-zawa'id: "The men in its chain has been declared trustworthy
(thiqa) although there is interruption in the transmission." It is confirmed
by the next hadith.
12a. Li kulli shay'in miftahun wa
miftahu al-jannati shahadatu an la ilaha illallah. "Everything has its
key, and the key to Paradise is the witnessing that there is no god but
Allah." Narrated by Tabarani from Mu`qal ibn Yasar. Wahb confirmed its
authenticity as related in one of the chapter-titles in Bukhari's Sahih.
13. Ibn `Abbas narrated in his Commentary
that the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said concerning the meaning
of the verse: hal jaza'u al-ihsani illa al-ihsan - "Is the reward of goodness
anything other than goodness?" (55:60): "Allah says: Can there be any other
reward than Paradise in the Hereafter for one whom I blessed in his worldly
life with the recitation of the kalima of la ilaha illallah?" `Ikrima and
al-Hasan also said that the reward of la ilaha illallah cannot be anything
but Paradise.
14. "If anyone comes on the Day of
Resurrection who has said la ilaha illallah sincerely with the intention
to win Allah's pleasure, Allah will make Hellfire forbidden for him." Narrated
by Bukhari, vol. 8 p.288 #431.
Tirmidhi comments on the preceding
hadith: "It is narrated from al-Zuhri that he was asked about the Prophet's
saying whereby "Whoever says la ilaha illallah enters Paradise" and he
said: "This was only in the beginning of Islam, before the revelation of
obligations and the orders and prohibitions." The hafiz Abu Bakr ibn al-`Arabi
(d. 543) comments on this in `Aridat al-ahwadhi (10:105): "There is no
justification for Ibn Shihab's (al-Zuhri) explanation." This is confirmed
by the hadith of `Utban ibn Malik. Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari, Riqaq ch.
14 (1989 ed. 11:324) mentions that the opinion of al-Zuhri and of Sa`id
ibn al-Musayyib that the hadith "Whoever says la ilaha illallah applied
only in the beginning of Islam was incorrect since the hadith of Abu al-Darda'
and Abu Dharr whereby the Muslim enters Paradise "even if he commits adultery
or steals" and the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- mentioned this
precisely to contradict the logic of those who say that great sins will
prevent entry into Paradise.
15. Lan yuwafiya `abdun yawma al-qiyamati
yaqulu la ilaha illallah yabtaghi biha wajh Allah illa harrama Allahu `alayhi
al-nar. "No servant is true to his word on the Day of Resurrection, saying:
No god but Allah in order to seek Allah's good pleasure, except Allah will
make the Fire unlawful for him." Narrated by Ahmad and Bukhari from `Utban
ibn Malik.
16. "The best of my sayings and of
the sayings of all Prophets before me is: There is no god but Allah alone,
without partner, to Him belong all sovereignty and glory, and He has power
over all things." Narrated by Tirmidhi from `Amr ibn Shu`ayb, from his
father, from his grandfather (hasan gharib).
17. Afdalu al-a`mali al-imanu billahi
wahdah, thumma al-jihad, thumma hujjatun mabrura, tufdilu sa'ir al-a`mali
kama bayna matla` al-shamsi ila maghribiha. "The best deed is belief in
Allah alone, then fighting in the way of Allah, then pilgrimage that is
accepted: these outweigh all deeds the distance of East to West." Narrated
by Ahmad from Ma`iz with a sound chain.
18. Alaysa yashhadu an la ilaha illallah
wa anni rasulullah? Qalu innahu yaqulu dhalika wa ma huwa fi qalbihi. Qala
la yashhadu ahadun an la ilaha illallah wa anni rasulullah fa yadkhulu
al-nara aw tut`imuhu. Qala anas fa a`jabani hadha al-hadith fa qultu li
ibni uktubhu fa katabahu. It is narrated on the authority of `Utban ibn
Malik that he came to Madina and said: Something was wrong with my eyesight,
so I said to the Prophet: "It is my ardent desire that you should grace
my house with your presence and pray there so that I should take the spot
where you prayed as a place of worship." (Another version also in Muslim
has: I sent for the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- the message:
"Come and lay for me a place for worship [khutta li masjidan]." Imam Nawawi
said: It means: "Mark for me a spot that I can take as a place for worship
by obtaining blessing from your having been there [mutabarrikan bi atharika].")
So the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- came there, with those of
the Companions whom Allah wished. He entered (my home) and performed prayer.
Then the Companions began to talk among themselves about Malik ibn Dukhshum,
and they wished that the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- would
curse him so that he should die or meet some calamity. After the Prophet
-- Allah bless and greet him -- finished praying he said: "Does Malik ibn
Dukhshum not testify to the fact that there is no god but Allah and that
I am the Messenger of Allah?" They said: "Yes, he no doubt says this but
it is not in his heart." The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- replied:
"No-one ever witnesses that there is no god but Allah and that I am Allah's
Messenger and then enters the Fire or consumes it." Anas said: "This hadith
impressed me so much that I ordered my son to write it down and he did."
Narrated by Muslim. Imam Nawawi says about: "In this hadith is evidence
for obtaining blessings through the relics of saints (al-tabarruk bi athar
al-salihin)."
19. Al-imanu bid`un wa sab`una baban
fa adnaha imatat al-adha `an al-tariq wa arfa`uha qawlu la ilaha illallah.
"Belief is seventy and some branches. Its lowest branch is the removal
of harm from the road while its highest is to say: There is no god but
Allah." Narrated by Muslim, Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, and Ahmad.
20. Man kana akhir kalamihi la ilaha
illallah dakhala al-janna. "Whoever breathes his last with the words: la
ilaha illallah, enters Paradise." Narrated from Mu`adh by Ahmad, Abu Dawud,
and al-Hakim.
Imam Nawawi in his book al-Tarkhis
fi al-ikram bi al-qiyam li dhawi al-fadl wa al-maziyya min ahl al-Islam
(p. 84) said:
The hadith master Abu al-Baqa' told
us: Hafiz Abu Muhammad informed us: Abu Tahir al-Silafi informed us: Abu
`Ali al-Burdani said: I heard Hannad ibn Ibrahim al-Nasafi saying: I heard
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Qattan saying: I heard Abu `Abd Allah
`Umar ibn Ahmad Ibn Ishaq al-`Attar saying: I heard Abu `Abd Allah Muhammad
ibn Muslim ibn Warah al-Razi saying: I and Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Idris
al-Razi were present with Abu Zur`a al-Razi at the time of his death, so
I said to Abu Hatim: "Come, let us remind him to say the shahada." Abu
Hatim said, "I would be ashamed before Abu Zur`a to remind him of the shahada;
but come, let us recall the hadith, perhaps when he hears it he will say
it." I started and said:
Muhammad ibn Bashshar told us:
Abu `Asim al-Nabil told us:
from `Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja`far -
then I got confused about the hadith
as if I never heard it or read it.
So Abu Hatim started and said:
Muhammad ibn Bashshar told us:
Abu `Asim al-Nabil told us:
from `Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja`far -
then he too got confused as if he
never read it or heard it before.
Then Abu Zur`a, may Allah be pleased
with him, spoke and said:
Muhammad ibn Bashshar told us:
Abu `Asim al-Nabil told us:
Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja`far told us:
from Salih ibn Abi `Urayb:
from Kathir ibn Murrah:
from Mu`adh ibn Jabal, may Allah
be pleased with him, he said:
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and give him peace, said: "Whoever speaks as his last words:
la ilaha illallah" - then Abu Zur`a's spirit came out with the letter ha'
(the last letter of the word Allah) before he could say "he will enter
Paradise." That was in the year 262.
21. Man mata wa huwa ya`lamu annahu
la ilaha illallah dakhala al-janna. "Whoever dies knowing full well that
there is no god but Allah, enters Paradise." Narrated by Muslim and Ahmad
from `Uthman.22. Idhhab bi na`layya hatayni fa man laqita min wara'a hadha
al-ha'it yashhadu an la ilaha illallah mustayqinan biha qalbahu fa bashshirhu
bi al-janna. The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said to Abu Hurayra:
"Go with these two sandals of mine and whoever you meet behind this wall
that witnesses that there is no god except Allah with certitude in his
heart, give him glad tidings that he will enter Paradise." Narrated by
Muslim from Abu Hurayra. The latter then met `Umar, who prevented him from
announcing this to the people and the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet
him -- agreed with him on the grounds that they would then rely upon it
to the exclusion of everything else. The prevention of this news from reaching
the ears of the ignorant is confirmed by the hadith of Mu`adh and that
of `Ubada ibn al-Samit through al-Sunabihi, both narrated by Muslim in
the same chapter (Book of iman ch. 10).
23. Man shahida an la ilaha illallah
wa anna Muhammadan rasulullah harrama Allahu `alayhi al-nar. `Abd al-Rahman
ibn Usayla al-Sunabihi said: When I entered upon `Ubada ibn al-Samit at
the time of his death I burst into tears so he said: "Why are you crying?
By Allah, if I were asked to testify I would testify for you, and if I
were given intercession I would intercede for you, and if it were in my
power I would certainly help you! By Allah, I never heard a hadith from
Allah's Messenger in which there was benefit for you except I narrated
it to you, all but one: and I shall narrate it to you now since I am about
to breathe my last. I heard Allah's Messenger say: "Whoever witnesses that
there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger, Allah
forbids the Fire from touching him." Muslim and Tirmidhi narrated it. Qadi
`Iyad said: "In this hadith is the proof for the permissibility of keeping
certain types of knowledge away from the common people due to the inability
of their minds to understand it correctly, as long as it does not concern
an obligation of religion or stipulations for punishment." Nawawi, Sharh
Sahih Muslim (Iman Ch. 10 #47).
24. Ya Mu`adh ibn Jabal ma min ahadin
yashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa anni rasulullah sidqan min qalbihi illa
harramahu allahu `ala al-nar. Qala ya rasulallah afala ukhbiru al-nasa
fayastabshiru? Qala idhan yattakilu. The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet
him -- said: "O Mu`adh ibn Jabal! No one witnesses that there is no god
but Allah and that I am Allah's Messenger truthfully from his heart except
Allah has made him unlawful for the Fire." Mu`adh said: "O Messenger of
Allah, shall I not tell the people so that they will be glad?" He replied:
"If you do, they will rely on it (and leave everything else)." Narrated
by Muslim, Ahmad and Bayhaqi from Anas. Muslim says: "Mu`adh narrated it
at the time of his death to avoid sinning (by keeping it to himself)."
25. As`adu al-nasi bi shafa`ati yawma
al-qiyama man qala La ilaha illallah khalisan mukhlisan min qalbihi. Abu
Hurayra inquired from the Prophet: "O Messenger of Allah, who will be the
most fortunate of people to receive your intercession on the Day of Resurrection?"
The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- replied: "O Abu Hurayra, I
knew, because of your love of what I say, that no one other than you would
ask me of this hadith. The most fortunate of people to receive my intercession
on the Day of Resurrection are those who said: la ilaha illallah purely
and sincerely from the heart." Narrated by Bukhari from Abu Hurayra.
26. Usama ibn Zayd killed an idolater
in battle after the latter had said: "There is no god but Allah" (la ilaha
illallah). When news of this reached Allah's Messenger he condemned Usama
in the strongest terms and he said to him: "How can you kill him after
he said La ilaha illallah?" He replied: "But he said it with the sword
hanging over his head-" The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said
again: "How can you kill him after he said La ilaha illallah?" He replied:
"O Messenger of Allah, he said it in dissimulation (taqiyyatan)." The Prophet
-- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "Did you split his heart open (to
see)?" and he did not cease to reprove him until Usama wished that he had
not entered Islam until after he had killed that man so that he might have
been forgiven all his past sins through belief. Narrated by Bukhari, Muslim,
Ahmad, Tayalisi, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, al-`Adni, Abu `Awana, al-Tahawi, al-Hakim,
and Bayhaqi.
27. Al-Miqdad said: I asked, "O Messenger
of Allah, suppose I and one of the idolaters battled and he cut off my
hand, then I was positioned to strike him and he said: la ilaha illallah!
Do I kill him or spare him?" He said: "Spare him." I said: "Even if he
cut off my hand?" He said: "Even so." I asked him again two or three times
whereupon he said: "If you kill him after he says la ilaha illallah then
you are like him before he said it, and he is like you before you killed
him." Narrated by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, Shafi`i in his Musnad, and
Bayhaqi in the Shu`ab.
28. Innallaha la yu`adhdhibu min
`ibadihi illa al-marid wa al-mutamarrid `ala Allah wa aba an yaqula la
ilaha illallah. The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "Allah
does not punish, of his servants, except the rebel against Allah who refuses
to say: there is no god but Allah." Ibn Majah narrated it.
29. afdalu al-dhikri la ilaha illallah.
The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "The best remembrance
of Allah is to say: There is no god but Allah." Tirmidhi (hasan), Nasa'i,
Ibn Majah, Ibn Hibban, Bayhaqi in Shu`ab al-iman, from Jabir ibn `Abd Allah.
30. Al-tasbih nusfu al-mizan, wa
al-hamdu lillah tamla'uhu, wa LA ILAHA ILLALLAH laysa laha duna Allahi
hijabun hatta tukhlisu ilayh. The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him
-- said: "Saying subhan allah (glory to Allah) is half the balance and
saying al-hamdu lillah (all praise belongs to Allah) fills it, and there
is no veil between la ilaha illallah and Allah Himself (i.e. it is not
even weighed in the Balance), it reaches Him directly." Narrated by Tirmidhi
from `Abd Allah ibn `Umar. Suyuti in al-Jami` al-saghir said it is sound
(sahih).
31. Kunna `inda al-nabiyyi sallallahu
`alayhi wa sallam fa qala hal fikum gharib? ya`ni ahl al-kitab qulna la
ya rasulallah fa amara bi ghalqi al-abwabi wa qala irfa`u aydikum wa qulu
la ilaha illallah! farafa`na aydina sa`atan thumma qala al-hamdu lillah!
allahumma innaka ba`athtani bi hadhihi al-kalimai wa wa`adtani `alayha
al-jannata wa anta la tukhlifu al-mi`ad! thumma qala abshiru fa innallaha
qad ghafara lakum. Ya`la ibn Shaddad relates that his father Shaddad ibn
Aws told him as `Ubada ibn al-Samit was present and confirmed it: "We were
sitting with Allah's Messenger and he asked if there was any stranger -
the narrator said: i.e. People of the Book - in the gathering. We said
that there was none. He said: Shut the door, raise up your hands and say:
"There is no god but Allah." We raised our hands and recited the kalima
tayyiba for some time. He then exclaimed: "al-hamdu lillah! O Allah, You
have sent me with this word and have ordered me to teach it and have promised
me Paradise for it, and You do not take back Your promise. Be glad, for
Allah has forgiven you!" The chain of this hadith is fair (hasan). Narrated
from Ya`la ibn Shaddad's father and `Ubada ibn al-Samit by Ahmad, Nasa'i,
Tabarani, al-Hakim, al-Mundhiri in al-Targhib, and others. Al-Haythami
said in Majma` al-zawa'id: "The sub-narrators in its chain are trustworthy."
32. `Abd Allah ibn Salam relates:
As we were travelling with Allah's Messenger he heard the people asking:
"Which action is the best, O Allah's Messenger?" He said: "Belief in Allah,
fighting in Allah's way, and pilgrimage that is accepted." After this he
heard a call coming from a valley saying: "I bear witness that there is
no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah" whereupon
he said: "And I bear witness to the same, and I bear witness that no one
bears witness to the same except he clears himself of shirk (associating
a partner to Allah)." Ahmad and Tabarani in al-Awsat relate it with a sound
chain, as stated by Haythami in Majma` al-zawa'id.
33. The Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- came out and heard the adhan. When he heard the mu'adhdhin
say: la ilaha illallah, he said: khala`a al-andad, which means: "He (the
speaker) has disowned (the existence of) partners (to Allah)." Ibn Abi
al-Dunya narrated it, and Suyuti cites it in his commentary of verse 2:18
in al-Durr al-manthur.
34. Yakhruju min al-nari man qala
la ilaha illallah wa kana fi qalbihi min al-khayri ma yazinu sha`ira, thumma
yakhruju min al-nari man qala la ilaha illallah wa kana fi qalbihi min
al-khayri ma yazinu badhra, thumman yakhruju min al-nari man qala la ilaha
illallah wa kana fi qalbihi min al-khayri ma yazinu dharra. "There will
come out of the Fire whoever said: There is no god but Allah, and there
is in his heart a bead's worth of goodness; then there will come out of
the Fire whoever said: There is no god but Allah, and there is in his heart
a grain's worth of goodness; then there will come out of the Fire whoever
said: There is no god but Allah, and there is in his heart an atom's worth
of goodness." Related by Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad, Tirmidhi (hasan sahih),
Bayhaqi, Nasa'i, Tabarani, Ibn Majah, and Ibn Khuzayma from Anas.
35. Mu`adh ibn Jabal said that the
last he spoke with the Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- he asked
him: "What action is most beloved to Allah?" And the Prophet -- Allah bless
and greet him -- replied: "That you die with your tongue still moist with
the mention (dhikr) of Allah." Related by Tabarani and al-Bazzar (hasan).
Note that hadith #29 stipulates that the best dhikr is La ilaha illallah.
36. Ala unabbi'ukum bi khayri a`malikum
wa azkaha `inda malikikum wa arfa`iha fi darajatikum wa khayrin lakum min
infaqi al-dhahabi wa al-waraqi wa khayrin lakum min an talqu `aduwwakum
fa tadribu a`naqahum wa yadribu a`naqakum qalu bala qala dhikrullah. The
Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "Shall I tell you something
that is the best of all deeds, constitutes the best act of piety in the
eyes of your Lord, will elevate your status in the hereafter, and carries
more virtue than the spending of gold and silver or taking part in jihad
and slaying and being slain in the path of Allah? It is the dhikr or remembrance
and mention of Allah." Narrated from Abu al-Darda' by Ahmad, Tirmidhi,
Ibn Majah, Ibn Abi al-Dunya, al-Hakim (sahih), al-Dhahabi (who confirmed
al-Hakim), and others.
37. Ma `amila adamiyyun `amalan anja
lahu min `adhabi al-qabri min dhikrillah. The Prophet -- Allah bless and
greet him -- said: "A human being cannot do anything that is more effective
in saving him from the punishment of the grave than the dhikr or remembrance
of Allah." Narrated from Mu`adh ibn Jabal by Ahmad. Haythami said in Majma`
al-zawa'id that the sub-narrators in its chain of transmission are the
men of sound hadith, although the Tabi`i link is missing; however, Tabarani
narrated it through a second chain which is entirely sound (sahih). Also
narrated with the word al-`abd (Allah's servant) instead of adamiyyun (a
human being) by Malik in his Muwatta', Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, al-Hakim (sahih),
and al-Dhahabi (who confirmed al-Hakim).
38. Anas reports that the Prophet
-- Allah bless and greet him -- was once asked the same question as Mu`adh
in hadith #35, and he replied: "Knowledge of Allah." It was then asked:
"And which action adds to this in merit?" He repeated: "Knowledge of Allah."
They said: "We ask about actions and you answer concerning knowledge?"
The Prophet -- Allah bless and greet him -- said: "A few actions are greatly
useful as long as there is knowledge; while a lot of actions are useless
if there is ignorance." Anas said: "He spoke of this at length." Ibn `Abd
al-Barr reports it in Fadl al-`ilm with a weak chain. See also Ithaf al-sadat
al-muttaqin (1:85), Suyuti's al-Durr al-manthur (2:221), and al-Mundhiri's
al-Tarhib wa al-Targhib (3:525).
This hadith is confirmed by hadith
#37 and by the first phrase of hadith #17 whereby "the best deed is belief
in Allah alone." The hadith is further confirmed by our decisive knowledge
that the purpose of creation is knowledge of Allah, as indicated by Ibn
`Abbas's explanation of the verse wa ma khalaqna al-jinna wa al-insa illa
li ya`budun "I did not create the jinn and humankind except to worship
(= know) Me" (51:56) and the verse fa`lam annahu la ilaha illallah "Know
that there is no god except Allah" (47:19).
39. Wal-ladhi nafsi bi yadihi law
ji'a bi al-samawati wa al-ardi wa man fihinna wa ma baynahunna fa wudi`na
fi kaffati al-mizani wa wudi`at shahadatu an la ilaha illallahu fi al-kaffati
al-ukhra la rajahat bihinna. "By Him in Whose hand is my soul, if the heavens
and the earth and all that are in them and everything that is in between
were brought and placed in one pan of the Balance, and the witnessing that
there is no god but Allah were placed in the other, the latter would outweigh
the former." Related by Tabarani and by Suyuti in al-Durr al-manthur. Haythami
in Majma` al-zawa'id stated that the sub-narrators in its chain are trustworthy,
but that the Tabi`i link is missing.
40. After the passing of the Prophet
-- Allah bless and greet him -- from this world Abu Bakr said to the Companions:
"I asked Allah's Messenger what basic thing was necessary for salvation
and he replied that whoever accepts the Word which I brought and which
I offered to my uncle Abu Talib and which he rejected: this Word constitutes
salvation for him." Related by Ahmad (1:6), Tabarani in al-Awsat, Tayalisi
in his Musnad, Ibn Sa`d in his Tabaqat (2/2:84-85), Abu Ya`la, Ibn Abi
Shayba, Bayhaqi in Shu`ab al-iman (1:107-108 #92-93) and al-Bazzar. See
above, hadiths #10-11. This hadith is sound although in Ahmad the link
between al-Zuhri and Abu Bakr and `Uthman is not named other than "a man
from the trustworthy people among the Ansar," while Bayhaqi's and Tayalisi's
narration from al-Zuhri is from Sa`id ibn al-Musayyib from `Abd Allah ibn
`Amr ibn al-`As.
Blessings and peace on the Prophet,
his Family, and his Companions.
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