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Narrated Abu Qilabah: A man whom the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم made the following verse read informed me, or he was informed by a man whom a man made the following verse read through a man whom the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم made the following verse read: For, that day His chastisement will be such as none (else) can be inflicted (la yu'adhdhabu) Abu Dawud said: Asim, al-Amash, Talhah bin Musarrif, Abu Jafar Yazid bin al-Qa'qa', Shaibah bin Nassah, Nafi bin Abdur-Rahman, Abdullah bin Kathir al-Dari, Abu Amr bin al-'Ala, Hamzat al-Zayyat, Abdur-Rahman al-Araj, Qatadah, al-Hasan al-Basri, Mujahid, Hamid al=Araj, Abdullah bin Abbas and Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Bakr recited: For, that day His chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict (la ya'adhdhibu), and His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind (wa la yathiqu), except the verse mentioned in this tradition from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. It has een read yu'adhdhabu with short vowel a in passive voice.
Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم related a tradition in which he mentioned the words Jibril and Mikal and he pronounced them Jibra'ila wa Mika'ila. Abu Dawud said: Khalaf said: I did not put the pen aside from writing letters (huruf) for forty years: nothing tired me (or made me incapable of writing), even Jibril and Mika'il did not tire me.
Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم mentioned the name of the one who will sound the trumpet (sahib as-sur) and said: On his right will be Jibra'il and on his left will be Mika'il.
Narrated Ibn al-Musayyab: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman used to read maliki yawmid-din (master of the Day of Judgment) . The first to read maliki yawmid-din was Marwan. Abu Dawud said: This is sounder that the tradition which transmitted by al-Zuhri from Anas, and al-Zuhri from Salim, from his father (Ibn Umar).
Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Muminin: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to recite: In the name of Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds; most Gracious, most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment, breaking its recitation into verses, one after another. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad (b. Hanbal) say: The early reading is: Maliki yawmi'l-din.
Narrated Abu Dharr: I was sitting behind the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who was riding a donkey while the sun was setting. He asked: Do you know where this sets ? I replied: Allah and his Messenger know best. He said: It sets in a spring of warm water (Hamiyah).
Narrated Ibn al-Asqa: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came to them in the swelling place of immigrants and a man asked him: Which is the greatest verse of the Quran ? The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم replied: Allah, there is no god but He - the Living, the Self-Subsisting Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep.
Narrated Shariq: Ibn Masud said read the verse: Now come, thou (haita laka). Then Shariq said: We read it, hi'tu laka (I am prepared for thee). Ibn Masud said: I read it as I have been taught ; it is dearer to me.
Narrated Shariq: Abdullah (bin Masud) was told that the people had read this verse: She said: Now come, thou (hita laka). He said: I read it as I have been taught ; it is dearer to me. It goes wa qalat haita laka (She said: Now come thou).
Narrated Abu Saeed Al Khudri: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Allah, the Exalted, said to the children of Israel: . . . but enter the gate with humility, in posture and in words, and you will be forgiven your faults (tughfar lakum) .
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Hisham bin Saad with a different chain of narrators in a similar way.
Narrated Aishah: The revelation came down to Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and he recited to is: A surah which We have sent down and which We have ordained (faradnaha) Abu Dawud said: The letter ra (r) is the word faradnaha has short vowel a (with out doubling of consonant r), and then he reached the verses after this verse.
Adl bin Hatim said: A speaker gave sermon before the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He said: he who obeys Allah and his Prophet will follow the right course, and he who disobeys them. He (The prophet) said: get up; he said: go away, a bad speaker you are.
Abu al-Malih reported on the authority of a man: I was riding on a mount behind the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. It stumbled. Thereupon I said: May the devil perish! He said: do not say; may the devil perish! For you say that, he will swell so much so that he will be like a house, and say: by my power. But say: in the name of Allah; for when you say that, he will diminish so much so that he will be like a fly.
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When you hear. . . . (Musa's version has): When a man says people have perished, he is the one who has suffered that fate most. Abu Dawud said: Malik said: If he says that out of sadness for the decadence of religion which he sees among the people, I do not think there is any harm in that. If he says that out of self-conceit and servility of the people, it is an abominable act which has been prohibited.