In the Name
of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
Forty
Hadith Qudsi
Introduction
The following
is a collection of 40 Hadith Qudsi. But what is Hadith Qudsi and
how do they differ from other Hadith?
Hadith Qudsi
are the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of
Allah be upon him) as revealed to him by the Almighty Allah.
Hadith Qudsi (or Sacred Hadith) are so named because, unlike the
majority of Hadith which are Prophetic Hadith, their authority (Sanad)
is traced back not to the Prophet but to the Almighty.
Among the
many definitions given by the early scholars to Sacred Hadith is
that of as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani (died in 816 A.H.) in his
lexicon At-Tarifat where he says: "A Sacred Hadith is, as to
the meaning, from Allah the Almighty; as to the wording, it is
from the messenger of Allah (PBUH). It is that which Allah the
Almighty has communicated to His Prophet through revelation or in
dream, and he, peace be upon him, has communicated it in his own
words. Thus Qur'an is superior to it because, besides being
revealed, it is His wording."
Hadith
Collection
Hadith Qudsi
1:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: When Allah decreed
the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is
laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over my wrath. It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
2:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah Almighty has
said: The son of Adam denied Me and he had no right to do so. And
he reviled Me and he had no right to do so. As for his denying Me,
it is his saying: He will not remake me as He made me at
first (1) - and the initial creation [of him] is no easier for Me
than remaking him. As for his reviling Me, it is his saying: Assah
has taken to Himself a son, while I am the One, the Everlasting
Refuge. I begot not nor was I begotten, and there is none
comparable to Me.
(1) i.e.,
bring me back to life after death.
(2) It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by an-Nasa'i).
Hadith Qudsi
3:
On the
authority of Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhaniyy (may Allah be pleased
with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and
peace of Allah be upon him) led the Morning Prayer for us at al-Hudaybiyah
following rainfall during the night. When the Prophet (may the
blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) finished, he faced the
people and said to them: Do you know what your Lord has said? They
said: Allah and his Messenger know best. He said: This morning one
of my servants became a believer in Me and one a disbeliever. As
for him who said: We have been given rain by virtue of Allah and
His mercy, that one is a believer in Me, a disbeliever in the
stars (2); and as for him who said: We have been given rain by
such-and-such a star, that one is a disbeliever in Me, a believer
in the stars. (2) The pre-Islamic Arabs believed that rain was
brought about by the movement of stars. This Hadith
draws attention to the fact that whatever be the direct cause of
such natural phenomena as rain, it is Allah the Almighty who is
the Disposer of all things.
It is related
by al-Bukhari (also by Malik and an-Nasa'i).
Hadith Qudsi
4:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah said: Sons of
Adam inveigh against [the vicissitudes of] Time, and I am Time, in
My hand is the night and the day (1). (1) As the Almighty is the
Ordainer of all things, to inveigh aginst misfortunes that are
part of Time is tantamount to inveighing against Him.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim).
Hadith Qudsi
5:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (glorified and
exalted be He) said: I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need
of having an associate. Thus he who does an action for someone
else's sake as well as Mine will have that action renounced by Me
to him whom he associated with Me.
It was
related by Muslim (also by Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
6:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say: The first of
people against whom judgment will be pronounced on the Day of
Resurrection will be a man who died a martyr. He will be brought
and Allah will make known to him His favours and he will recognize
them. [ The Almighty] will say: And what did you do about them? He
will say: I fought for you until I died a martyr. He will say: You
have lied - you did but fight that it might be said [of you]: He
is courageous. And so it was said. Then he will be ordered to be
dragged along on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire.
[Another] will be a man who has studied [religious] knowledge and
has taught it and who used to recite the Quran. He will be brought
and Allah will make known to his His favours and he will recognize
them. [The Almighty] will say: And what did you do about them? He
will say: I studied [religious] knowledge and I taught it and I
recited the Quran for Your sake. He will say: You have lied - you
did but study [religious] knowledge that it might be said [of
you]: He is learned. And you recited the Quran that it might be
said [of you]: He is a reciter. And so it was said. Then he will
be ordered to be dragged along on his face until he is cast into
Hell-fire. [Another] will be a man whom Allah had made rich and to
whom He had given all kinds of wealth. He will be brought and
Allah will make known to his His favours and he will recognize
them. [The Almighty] will say: And what did you do about them? He
will say: I left no path [untrodden] in which You like money to be
spent without spending in it for Your sake. He will say: You have
lied - you did but do so that it might be said [of you]: He is
open-handed. And so it was said. Then he will be ordered to be
dragged along on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire.
It was
related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi and an-Nasa'i).
Hadith Qudsi
7:
On the
authority of Uqbah ibn Amir (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said: I heard the messenger of Allah (PBUH) say: Your Lord
delights at a shepherd who, on the peak of a mountain crag, gives
the call to prayer and prays. Then Allah (glorified and exalted be
He) say: Look at this servant of Mine, he gives the call to prayer
and performs the prayers; he is in awe of Me. I have forgiven My
servant [his sins] and have admitted him to Paradise.
It was
related by an-Nasa'i with a good chain of authorities.
Hadith Qudsi
8:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the
Prophet (PBUH), who said: A prayer performed by someone who has
not recited the Essence of the Quran (1) during it is deficient
(and he repeated the word three times), incomplete. Someone said
to Abu Hurayrah: [Even though] we are behind the imam? (2) He
said: Recite it to yourself, for I have heard the Prophet (may the
blessings and peace of Allah be up on him) say: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He), had said: I have divided prayer between Myself and
My servant into two halves, and My servant shall have what he has
asked for. When the servant says: Al-hamdu lillahi rabbi l-alamin
(3), Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says: My servant has praised
Me. And when he says: Arrahmani r-rahim (4), Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) says: My servant has extolled Me, and when he says:
Maliki yawmi d-din (5), Allah says: My servant has glorified Me -
and on one occasion He said: My servant has submitted to My power.
And when he says: Iyyaka na budu wa iyyaka
nasta in (6), He says: This is between Me and My servant, and My
servant shall have what he has asked for. And when he says: Ihdina
s-sirata l- mustaqim, siratal ladhina an amta alayhim
ghayril-maghdubi alayhim wa la d-dallin (7), He says: This is for
My servant, and My servant shall have what he has asked for.
(1) Surat al-Fatihah,
the first surah (chapter) of the Qur'an.
(2) i.e.
standing behind the imam (leader) listening to him reciting al-Fatihah.
(3)
"Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds."
(4) "The
Merciful, the Compassionate".
(5)
"Master of the Day of Judgment".
(6) "It
is You we worship and it is You we ask for help".
(7)
"Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom
You have bestowed favors, not of those against whom You are angry,
nor of those who are astray".
It was
related by Muslim (also by Malik, at-Tirmidhi, Abu-Dawud, an-Nasa'i
and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
9:
On the
authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the
Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says:
The fist of his actions for which a servant of Allah will be held
accountable on the Day of Resurrection will be his prayers. If
they are in order, then he will have prospered and succeeded: and
if they are wanting, then he will have failed and lost. If there
is something defective in his obligatory prayers, the Lord
(glorified and exalted be He) will say: See if My servant has any
supererogatory prayers with which may be completed that which was
defective in his obligatory prayers. Then the rest of his actions
will be judged in like fashion.
It was
related by at-Tirmidhi (also by Abu Dawud, an-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah
and Ahmad).
Hadith Qudsi
10:
On the
authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the
Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says:
Fasting is Mine and it I who give reward for it. [A man] gives up
his sexual passion, his food and his drink for my sake. Fasting is
like a shield, and he who fasts has two joys: a joy whin he breaks
his fast and a joy when he meets his Lord. The change in the
breath of the mouth of him who fasts is better in Allah's
estimation than the smell of musk.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim, Malik, at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i
and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
11:
On the
authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the
Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) said:
Spend (on charity), O son of Adam, and I shall spend on you.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim).
Hadith Qudsi
12:
On the
authority of Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace
of Allah be upon him) said: A man from among those who were before
you was called to account. Nothing in the way of good was found
for him except that he used to have dealings with people and,
being well-to-do, he would order his servants to let off the man
in straitened circumstances [from repaying his debt]. He (the
Prophet p.b.u.h) said that Allah said: We are worthier than you of
that (of being so generous). Let him off.
It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari and an-Nasa'i).
Hadith Qudsi
13:
On the
authority of Adiyy ibn Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said: I was with the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and
peace of Allah be upon him) and there came to him two men: one of
them was complaining of penury (being very poor), while the other
was complaining of brigandry (robbery). The Messenger of Allah
(may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: As for
brigandry, it will be but a short time before a caravan will [be
able to] go out of Mecca without a guard. As for penury, the Hour
(Day of Judgement) will not arrive before one of you takes his
charity around without finding anyone to accept it from him. Then
(1) one of you will surely stand before Allah, there being no
screed between Him and him, nor an interpreter to translate for
him. Then He will say to him: Did I not bring you wealth? And he
will say: Yes. Then He will say: Did I not send to you a
messenger? And he will say: Yes. And he will look to his right and
will see nothing but Hell-fire, then he will look to his left and
will see nothing but Hell-fire, so let each of you protect himself
against Hell-fire, be it with even half a date - and if he finds
it not, then with a kind word.
(1) i.e. at
the time of the Hour. It was related by al-Bukhari.
Hadith Qudsi
14:
On the
authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the
Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (glorified and exalted be He) has
supernumerary angels who rove about seeking out gatherings in
which Allah's name is being invoked: they sit with them and fold
their wings round each other, fillin that which is between them
and between the lowest heaven. When [the people in the gathering]
depart, [the angels] ascend and rise up to heaven. He (the Prophet
p.b.u.h.) said: Then Allah (mighty and sublime be He) asks them -
[though] He is most knowing about them: From where have you come?
And they say: We have come from some servants of Yours on Earth:
they were glorifying You (Subhana llah), exalting you (Allahu
akbar), witnessing that there is no god but You (La ilaha illa
llah), praising You (Al-Hamdu lillah), and asking [favours] of
You. He says: And what do they ask of Me? They say: They ask of
You Your Paradise. He says: And have they seen My Paradise? They
say: No, O Lord. He says: And how would it be were they to have
seen My Paradise! They say: And they ask protection of You. He
says: From what do they ask protection of Me? They say: From Your
Hell-fire, O Lord. He says: And have they seen My Hellfire? They
say: NO. He says: And how would it be were they to have seen My
Hell-fire: They say: And they ask for Your forgiveness. He (the
Prophet p.b.u.h) said: Then He says: I have forgiven them and I
have bestowed upon them what they have asked for,and I have
granted them sanctuary from that from which they asked protection.
He (the Prophet p.b.u.h) said: They say: O Lord, among then is
So-and-so, a much sinning servant, who was merely passing by and
sat down with them. He (the Prophet p.b.u.h) said: And He says:
And to him [too] I have given forgiveness: he who sits with such
people shall not suffer.
It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, at-Tirmidhi, and an-Nasa'i).
Hadith Qudsi
15:
On the
authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Prophet (PBUH) said: Allah the Almighty said:
I am as My
servant thinks I am (1). I am with him when he makes mention of
Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to
Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make
mention of him in an assemble better than it. And if he draws near
to Me an arm's length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And
if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.
(1) Another
possible rendering of the Arabic is: "I am as My servant
expects Me to be". The meaning is that forgiveness and
acceptance of repentance by the Almighty is subject to His servant
truly believing that He is forgiving and merciful. However, not to
accompany such belief with right action would be to mock the
Almighty.
It was
related by al-Buhkari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn-Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
16:
On the
authority of son of Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both),
from the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), among the sayings he related
from his Lord (glorified and exalted be He) is that He said: Allah
has written down the good deeds and the bad ones. Then He
explained it [by saying that] he who has intended a good deed and
has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good
deed, but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it
down with Himself as from ten good deeds to seven hundred times,
or many times over. But if he has intended a bad deed and has not
done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed,
but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down as
one bad deed.
It was
related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Hadith Qudsi
17:
On the
authority of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him)
from the Prophet (PBUH) is that among the sayings he relates from
his Lord (may He be glorified) is that He said: O My servants, I
have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden
amongst you, so do not oppress one another. O My servants, all of
you are astray except for those I have guided, so seek guidance of
Me and I shall guide you, O My servants, all of you are hungry
except for those I have fed, so seek food of Me and I shall feed
you. O My servants, all of you are naked except for those I have
clothed, so seek clothing of Me and I shall clothe you. O My
servants, you sin by night and by day, and I forgive all sins, so
seek forgiveness of Me and I shall forgive you. O My servants, you
will not attain harming Me so as to harm Me, and will not attain
benefiting Me so as to benefit Me. O My servants, were the first
of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you
to be as pious as the most pious heart of any one man of you, that
would not increase My kingdom in anything. O My servants, were the
first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of
you to be as wicked as the most wicked heart of any one man of
you, that would not decrease My kingdom in anything. O My
servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of
you and the jinn of you to rise up in one place and make a request
of Me, and were I to give everyone what he requested, that would
not decrease what I have, any more that a needle decreases the sea
if put into it. O My servants, it is but your deeds that I reckon
up for you and then recompense you for, so let him finds good
praise Allah and let him who finds other that blame no one but
himself.
It was
related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
18:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) will say on the Day of Resurrection: O son of Adam,
I fell ill and you visited Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how
should I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will
say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so had fallen ill and
you visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you
would have found Me with him? O son of Adam, I asked you for food
and you fed Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You
when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know
that My servant So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not?
Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found
that (the reward for doing so) with Me? O son of Adam, I asked you
to give Me to drink and you gave Me not to drink. He will say: O
Lord, how should I give You to drink whin You are the Lord of the
worlds? He will say: My servant So-and-so asked you to give him to
drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you given him to drink
you would have surely found that with Me.
It was
related by Muslim.
Hadith Qudsi
19:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) said: Pride is my cloak and greatness My robe, and
he who competes with Me in respect of either of them I shall cast
into Hell-fire. It was related by Abu Dawud (also by Ibn Majah and
Ahmad) with sound chains of authority. This Hadith
also appears in Muslim in another version.
Hadith Qudsi
20:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: The gates of
Paradise will be opened on Mondays and on Thursdays, and every
servant [of Allah] who associates nothing with Allah will be
forgiven, except for the man who has a grudge against his brother.
[About them] it will be said: Delay these two until they are
reconciled; delay these two until they are reconciled.
It was
related by Muslim (also by Malik and Abu Dawud).
Hadith Qudsi
21:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said that Allah the
Almighty said: There are three (1) whose adversary I shall be on
the Day of Resurrection: a man who has given his word by Me and
has broken it; a man who has sold a free man (2) and has consumed
the price; and a man who has hired a workman, has exacted his due
in full from him and has not given him his wage.
(1) i.e.
types of men.
(2) i.e. a
man who has made a slave of another and has sold him.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Ibn Majah and Ahmad ibn Hanbal).
Hadith Qudsi
22:
On the
authority of Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him), who said
that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Let not any one of you
belittle himself. They said: O Messenger of Allah, how can any one
of us belittle himself? He said: He finds a matter concerning
Allah about which he should say something, and he does not say
[it], so Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says to him on the Day
of Resurrection: What prevented you from saying something about
such-and-such and such-andsuch?
He say: [It
was] out of fear of people. Then He says: Rather it is I whom you
should more properly fear.
It was
related by Ibn Majah with a sound chain of authorities.
Hadith Qudsi
23:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah will say on
the Day of Resurrection: Where are those who love one another
through My glory? Today I shall give them shade in My shade, it
being a day when there is no shade but My shade.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Malik).
Hadith Qudsi
24:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: If Allah has loved a
servant [of His] He calls Gabriel (on whom be peace) and says: I
love So-andso, therefore love him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: So
Gabriel loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in heaven, saying:
Allah loves So-and-so, therefore love him. And the inhabitants of
heaven love him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: Then acceptance is
established for him on earth. And if Allah has abhorred a servant
[of His], He calls Gabriel and says: I abhor So-and-so, therefore
abhor him. So Gabriel abhors him. Then Gabriel calls out to the
inhabitants of heaven: Allah abhors So-and-so, therefore abhor
him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: So they abhor him, and abhorrence
is established for him on earth.
It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, Malik, and at-Tirmidhi).
Hadith Qudsi
25:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) said: Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to
Me, I shall be at war with him. My servant draws not near to Me
with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have
enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me
with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love
him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he
sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he
walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to
him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him
it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about
[seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I
hate hurting him.
It was
related by al-Bukhari.
Hadith Qudsi
26:
On the
authority of Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said
that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and sublime
be He) said: Truly of those devoted to Me the one I most favour is
a believer who is of meagre means and much given to prayer, who
has been particular in the worship of his Lord and has obeyed Him
inwardly (1), who was obscure among people and not pointed our,
and whose sustenance was just sufficient to provide for him yet he
bore this patiently. Then the Prophet (pbuh) rapped his hand and
said: Death will have come early to him, his mourners will have
been few, his estate scant.
(1) i.e. he
has not been ostentatious in his obedience.
It was
related by at-Tirmidhi (also by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Ibn Majah).
Its chain of authorities is sound.
Hadith Qudsi
27:
On the
authority of Masruq, who said: We asked Abdullah (i.e. Ibn Masud)
about this verse: And do not regard those who have been killed in
the cause of Allah as dead, rather are they alive with their Lord,
being provided for (Quran Chapter 3 Verse 169). He said: We asked
about that and the Prophet (pbuh) said: Their souls are in the
insides of green birds having lanterns suspended from the Throne,
roaming freely in Paradise where they please, then taking shelter
in those lanterns. So their Lord cast a glance at them (1) and
said: Do you wish for anything? They said: What shall we wish for
when we roam freely in Paradise where we please? And thus did He
do to them three times. When they say that they would not be
spared from being asked [again], they said: O Lord, we would like
for You to put back our souls into our bodies so that we might
fight for Your sake once again. And when He saw that they were not
in need of anything they were let be.
(1) i.e. at
those who had been killed in the cause of Allah.
It was
related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
28:
On the
authority of Jundub ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: There was
amongst those before you a man who had a wound. He was in [such]
anguish that he took a knife and made with it a cut in his hand,
and the blood did not cease to flow till he died.
Allah the
Almighty said: My servant has himself forestalled Me; I have
forbidden him Paradise.
It was
related by al-Bukhari.
Hadith Qudsi
29:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) says: My faithful servant's reward from Me, if I
have taken to Me his best friend from amongst the inhabitants of
the world and he has then borne it patiently for My sake, shall be
nothing less than Paradise.
It was
related by al-Bukhari.
Hadith Qudsi
30:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) said: If My servant likes to meet Me, I like to
meet him; and if he dislikes to meet Me, I dislike to meet him.
Prophetic explanation of this Sacred Hadith: He who likes to meet
Allah, Allah likes to meet him; and he who dislikes to meet Allah,
Allah dislikes to meet him. Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her)
said: O Prophet of Allah, is it because of the dislike of death,
for all of us dislike death?
The Prophet (pbuh)
said: It is not so, but rather it is that when the believer is
given news of Allah's mercy, His approval and His Paradise, he
likes to meet Allah and Allah likes to meet him; but when the
unbeliever is given news of Allah's punishment and His
displeasure, he dislikes to meet Allah and Allah dislikes to meet
him.
It was
related by al-Bukhari and Malik. The Prophetic version is related
by Muslim.
Hadith Qudsi
31:
On the
authority of Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that
the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) related:
A man said:
By Allah, Allah will not forgive So-and-so. At this Allah the
Almighty said: Who is he who swears by Me that I will not forgive
So-and-so? Verily I have forgiven So-and-so and have nullified
your [own good] deeds (1) (or as he said [it]).
(1) A similar
Hadith, which is given by Abu Dawud, indicates that the person
referred to was a goldly
man whose previous good deeds were brought to nought through
presuming to declare that Allah would not forgive someone's bad
deeds.
It was
related by Muslim.
Hadith Qudsi
32:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
A man sinned
greatly against himself, and when death came to him he charged his
sons, saying: When I have died, burn me, then crush me and scatter
[my ashes] into the sea, for, by Allah, if my Lord takes
possession of me, He will punish me in a manner in which He has
punished no one [else]. So they did that to him. Then He said to
the earth: Produce what you have taken-and there he was! And He
said to him: What induced you to do what you did? He said: Being
afraid of You, O my Lord (or he said: Being frightened of You) and
because of that He forgave him.
It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
33:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the
Prophet (PBUH), from among the things he reports from his Lord
(mighty and sublime be He), is that he said: A servant [of
Allah's] committed a sin and said: O Allah, forgive me my sin. And
He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a
sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and
punishes for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive
me my sin.
And He
(glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin
and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes
for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my
sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has
committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins
and punishes for sins. Do what you wish, for I have forgiven you.
It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari).
Hadith Qudsi
34:
On the
authority of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I
heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say: Allah the Almighty said:
O son of
Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive
you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam,
were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to
ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were
you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were
you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you
forgiveness nearly as great at it.
It was
related by at-Tirmidhi (also by Ahmad ibn Hanbal). Its chain of
authorities is sound.
Hadith Qudsi
35:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Our Lord (glorified
and exalted be He) descends each night to the earth's sky when
there remains the final third of the night, and He says: Who is
saying a prayer to Me that I may answer it? Who is asking
something of Me that I may give it him? Who is asking forgiveness
of Me that I may forgive him?
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim, Malik, at-Tirmidhi and Abu
Dawud).
In a version
by Muslim the Hadith ends with the words: And thus He continues
till [the light of] dawn shines.
Hadith Qudsi
36:
On the
authority of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet
(PBUH), who said: The believers will gather together on the Day of
Resurrection and will say: Should we not ask [someone] to
intercede for us with our Lord? So they will come to Adam and will
say: You are the Father of mankind; Allah created you with His
hand He made His angels bow down to you and He taught you the
names of everything, so intercede for us with you Lord so that He
may give us relief form this place where we are. And he will say:
I am not in a position [to do that] - and he will mention his
wrongdoing and will feel ashamed and will say: Go to Noah, for he
is the first messenger that Allah sent to the inhabitants of the
earth. So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a
position [to do that] - and he will mention his having requested
something of his Lord about which he had no [proper] knowledge (Quran
Chapter 11 Verses 45-46), and he will feel ashamed and will say:
Go to the Friend of the Merciful (Abraham). So they will come to
him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that]. Go to
Moses, a servant to whom Allah talked and to whom He gave the
Torah. So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a
position [to do that] - and he will mention the talking of a life
other that for a life (Quran Chapter 28 Verses 15-16), and he will
fell ashamed in the sight of his Lord and will say: Go to Jesus,
Allah's servant and messenger, Allah's word and spirit. So they
will come to him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do
that]. Go to Muhammad (may the blessings and peace of Allah be
upon him), a servant to whom Allah has forgiven all his
wrongdoing, past and future. So they will come to me and I shall
set forth to ask permission to come to my Lord, and permission
will be given, and when I shall see my Lord I shall prostrate
myself. He will leave me thus for such time as it pleases Him, and
then it will be said [to me]: Raise your head. Ask and it will be
granted. Speak and it will be heard. Intercede and your
intercession will be accepted. So I shall raise my head and praise
Him with a form of praise that He will teach me. Then I shall
intercede and HE will set me a limit [as to the number of people],
so I shall admit them into Paradise. Then I shall return to Him,
and when I shall see my Lord [I shall bow down] as before. Then I
shall intercede and He will set me a limit [as to the number of
people]. So I shall admit them into Paradise. Then I shall return
for a third time, then a fourth, and I shall say: There remains in
Hell-fire only those whom the Quran has confined and who must be
there for eternity. There shall come out of Hell-fire he who has
said: There is no god but Allah and who has in his heart goodness
weighing a barley-corn; then there shall come out of Hell-fire he
who has said: There is no god but Allah and who has in his heart
goodness weighing a grain of wheat; then there shall come out of
Hell-fire he who has said: There is no god but Allah and who has
in his heart goodness weighing an atom.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah).
Hadith Qudsi
37:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah said: I have
prepared for My righteous servants what no eye has seen and no ear
has heard, not has it occurred to human heart. Thus recite if you
wish (1): And no soul knows what joy for them (the inhabitants of
Paradise) has been kept hidden (Quran Chapter 32 Verse 17).
(1) The words
"Thus recite if you wish" are those of Abu Harayrah.
It was
related by al-Bukhari, Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah.
Hadith Qudsi
38:
On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of
Allah (PBUH) said: When Allah created Paradise and Hell-fire, He
sent Gabriel to Paradise, saying: Look at it and at what I have
prepared therein for its inhabitants. The Prophet (pbuh) said: So
he came to it and looked at it and at what Allah had prepared
therein for its inhabitants. The Prophet (pbuh) said: So he
returned to Him and said: By your glory, no one hears of it
without entering it. So He ordered that it be encompassed by forms
of hardship, and He said: Return to it and look at what I have
prepared therein for its inhabitants. The Prophet (pbuh) said: So
he returned to it and found that it was encompassed by forms of
hardship (1). Then he returned to Him and said: By Your glory, I
fear that no one will enter it. He said: Go to Hell-fire and look
at it and what I have prepared therein for its inhabitants, and he
fount that it was in layers, one above the other. Then he returned
to Him and said: By Your glory, no one who hears of it will enter
it. So He ordered that it be encompassed by lusts. Then He said:
Return to it. And he returned to it and said: By Your glory, I am
frightened that no one will escape from entering it.
(1) The
Arabic word used here is "makarih", the literal meaning
of which is "things that are disliked". In this context
it refers to forms of religious discipline that man usually finds
onerous.
It was
related by Tirmidhi, who said that it was a good and sound Hadith
(also by Abu Dawud and an-Nasa'i).
Hadith Qudsi
39:
On the
authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Paradise and
Hell-fire disputed together, and Hell-fire said: In me are the
mighty and the haughty. Paradise said: In me are the weak and the
poor. So Allah judged between them, [saying]: You are Paradise, My
mercy; through you I show mercy to those I wish. And you are
Hell-fire, My punishment; through you I punish those I wish, and
it is incumbent upon Me that each of you shall have its fill.
It was
related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari and at-Tirmidhi).
Hadith Qudsi
40:
On the
authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah will say
to the inhabitant of Paradise: O inhabitants of Paradise! They
will say: O our Lord, we present ourselves and are at Your
pleasure, and goodness rests in Your hands. Then He will say: Are
you contented? And they will say: And how should we not be
contented, O Lord, when You have given to us that which You have
given to no one else of Your creation? Then He will say: Would not
like Me to give you something better than that? And they will say:
O Lord and what thing is better than that? And He will say: I
shall cause My favour to descend upon you and thereafter shall
never be displeased with you.
It was
related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim and at-Tirmidhi).
