When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to Madinah, (the tribe of) Juhainah came to him and said: You have settled amongst us; write it in a document for us so that we may come to you and you may grant safety for us. So he wrote a document for them and they became Muslims. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us on an expedition in Rajab, and we were less than one hundred men. He ordered us to raid a clan of Banu Kinanah who lived beside Juhainah, so we attacked them and they were great in number. We sought refuge with Juhainah and they give us protection, but they said: Why are you fighting in the sacred month? He said: We are only fighting those who expelled us from the sacred land in the sacred month. And we said to one another. What do you think? Some of us said: We will go to the Prophet (ﷺ) of Allah and tell him. And some people said: No; rather we will stay here. I and some people who were with me said: No, rather we will go to the caravan of Quraish and intercept it. So we set out to capture the caravan. The way the booty was given at that time was that whoever took something, it was his. So we went towards the caravan, and our companions went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and told him what had happened. He got up angrily, and his face turned red and he said: "You went away from me together and came back separately? Those who came before you were destroyed because of division. I shall certainly send as the commander over you a man who is not the best of you but he is the most patient in bearing hunger and thirst." And he sent to us as our commander "Abdullah bin Jahsh al-Asadi, and he was the first commander appointed in Islam.
It was narrated that Nafiʼ bin "Utbah bin Abi Waqqas said. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"You will fight in Arabia and Allah will grant you victory over it, then you will fight Persia and Allah will grant you victory over it, then you will fight Byzantium and Allah will grant you victory over it. Then you will fight the Dajjal and Allah will grant you victory over him." Jabir said: The Dajjal will not emerge until the Byzantines are conquered.
It was narrated from Nafi" bin "Utbah bin Abi Waqqas that he heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say:
“You will fight in Arabia and Allah will grant you victory over it, then you will fight Persia and Allah will grant you victory over it, then you will fight Byzantium and Allah will grant you victory over it. Then you will fight the Dajjal and Allah will grant you victory over him."
Some people who owned farmland at the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to rent out their farmland in return for what grew on the edges of streams and whatever grew by means of water around the wells. They came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and disputed concerning some of that, so the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade them to rent out the land like that and he said: "Rent it out for gold and silver."
It was narrated that Zaid Abu Ayyash said: Sa"d was asked about selling wheat for thin husked barley. He disliked it and said:
I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) being asked about selling fresh dates for dried dates and he said: "Does it shrink when it is dried?" They said: Yes. He said: "Then no."
It was narrated fromʻAmir bin Sa"d, from his father, who attributed it to the Prophet (ﷺ) :
“The Muslim who causes the greatest offence against the Muslims is the one who asks about something that was not forbidden, then it became forbidden for the people because of his asking"
It was narrated from "Amir bin Sa"d, that his father said:
I fell sick in Makkah during the year of the conquest and was so sick that I almost died. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit me whilst I was sick. I said: O Messenger of Allah, I have a great deal of wealth and no one will inherit from me except my daughter, Can I give two thirds of my wealth in charity? - on one occasion Sufyan said: Can I give all of my wealth in charity? - He said: “No." I said: Can I give two thirds of my wealth in charity? He said: “No." I said: Half? He said: “No." I said: One third? He said: "One third, and one third is a lot. If you leave your heirs independent of means, that is better than leaving them dependent and asking of people. You will never spend anything (on their maintenance) but you will be rewarded for it, even the morsel that you list to your wife"s mouth." I said: O Messenger of Allah, will I be left behind (in Makkah) and lose the virtue of my migration (Hijrah)? He said. “If you are left behind after me but you do good deeds, seeking thereby the Countenance of Allah, you will rise thereby in status. Perhaps you will be left behind so that some people may be benefited through you and others may be harmed through you. O Allah, complete the migration of my Companions and do not cause them to turn back on their heels. The one who is truly unfortunate is Sa"d bin Khawlah.” He (the Prophet (ﷺ)) felt sorry for him because he died in Makkah.
It was narrated from ‘Abdul-Malik, who heard it from Jabir bin Samurah:
The people of Koofah complained to ‘Umar about Sa"d and said: He does not pray properly. He said: The Bedouin? By Allah, I strive hard to make my prayer with them as much like the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as I can. In Zuhr and ‘Asr I make the first two rak"ahs long and I make the last two short, I heard ‘Umar say: That is what I thought of you, O Abu Ishaq.
It was narrated from Malik bin Aws: I heard "Umar say to ‘Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Awf, Talhah, az-Zubair and Sa"d:
I adjure you by Allah, by whose power heaven and earth exist - on one occasion he said: by Whose leave heaven and earth exist - do you know that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "We [Prophets(ﷺ)) are not to be inherited from; what we leave behind is charity”? They said: By Allah, yes.
It was narrated that Abu "Ayyash said: Sa"d was asked about selling thin-husked barley for (ordinary) barley or something like that and he said:
The Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about selling dried dates for fresh dates and he said: “Does the fresh date shrink when it is dried?” They said: Yes. He said: "Then no.”
It was narrated that Abu "Uthman an-Nahdi said: I heard Sa"d say: My ears heard and my heart understood from Muhammad (ﷺ) that:
“Whoever claims to belong to someone who is not his father, knowing that he is not his father, Paradise will be forbidden to him." I met Abu Bakrah and told it to him, and he said: my ears also heard and my heart understood from Muhammad (ﷺ).
It was narrated that Sa’eed bin al-Musayyah said:I asked Sa"d bin Abi Waqqas about tiyarah and he rebuked me and said: Who told you about that? I did not like to tell him who told me. He said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
“There is no "adwa [contagion, transmission of infectious disease without the permission of Allah], no tiyarah [superstitious belief in bird omens] and no ham [refers to a Jahili Arab tradition described variously as: a worm which infests the grave of a murder victim until he is avenged; an owl, or the bones of a dead person turned into a bird that could fly]. If there were any (omen), it would be in a woman, a horse or a house. And if you hear of the plague in a land, do not go there, and if it is in the land where you are, do not flee from it.”
Sa"d said: O Messenger of Allah, which of the people are most severely tested? He said: “The Prophets (ﷺ), then the next best, then the next best. And a person will be tested according to the level of his religious commitment. If his religious commitment is solid, he will be tested accordingly - and on one occasion he said: his test will be more severe - and if there is some weakness in his religious commitment, he will be tested accordingly - and on one occasion he said: according to his level of religious commitment -. And trials will never disappear from (the life of) a person until he walks on the earth with not even one sin on him."
On the day of Badr my brother ‘Umair was killed and I killed Sa"eed bin al-’As and took his sword, which was called Dhul-Kateefah, and brought it to the Prophet (ﷺ) of Allah . He said: "Go and put it with the seized booty.”I went back, feeling distress such as no one knows except Allah because of the killing of my brother and the taking of my booty. It was not long before Soorat al-Anfal was revealed and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: “Go and take your sword."
The people of Koofah complained about Sa"d to ʻUmar, and said: He does not pray properly, "Umar mentioned that to him and he said: The way the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prayed is how I lead them in prayer; I make it longer in the first two (rak"ahs) and shorter in the last two. He said: That is what i thought of you, O Abu Ishaq.
Abu ‘Abdullah al-Qarraz said: I heard Sa"d bin Malik say:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “Whoever wishes for major calamity for- or wills ill towards - the people of Madinah, Allah will cause him to melt as salt dissolves in water."
a Bedouin came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: Teach me some words to say. He said: "Say: "There is no God but Allah alone, with no partner or associate: Allah is most great, much praise be to Allah, glory be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds, there is no power and no strength except with Allah, the Almighty Most Wise." five times." He said: This is for my
Lord, what is there for me? He said: "Say: "O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, grant me provision, guide me and pardon me."
My father told me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Will one of you be incapable of earning one thousand hasanahs in one day?" One of the people who were sitting with him said: Who is able to do that? He said: “He says tasbeeh one hundred times, and it will be recorded as one thousand hasanahs (good deeds) or it will erase one thousand sayyi"ahs (bad deeds]."