Hadeeth Cards
Da'wa cards that highlight great meanings from the noble prophetic hadiths in a simple style and attractive display that helps the Muslim to have a deeper understanding of his religion in an easy way
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Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "While a man was walking, dressed in fine clothes and admiring himself, with his hair well-combed and he was walking haughtily, suddenly Allah caused the earth to swallow him, and he continues to sink therein until the Day of Judgment.”
Narrated by Bukhari & Muslim
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) recounts that a man was walking arrogantly, wearing fine clothes and his hair well-combed, and all of a sudden Allah caused the earth to swallow him, and so he fell and disappeared deep inside it, and he keeps sinking therein until the Day of Judgment. Because of his arrogance, self-conceit, and self-admiration, the earth swallowed him. "He continues to sink therein” probably means that he is still alive in the real sense and will continue to be punished that way inside the earth. In other words, he gets tortured as living people do. Another possible meaning is that once he sunk into the earth, he died and yet he keeps sinking into it while being dead. Thus, this occurs to him in the Barzakh life, the interval between worldly life and the Hereafter, in a manner unknown to us. What matters is that this is his punishment .
Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) decided to embark on an expedition, so he said: "O group of Muhājirūn and Ansār, there are among you such people who have no property and no kinsfolk. So let each one of you take along with him two or three men, for none of us has a spare animal and we ride by turns." So I took two or three men with me and I rode my camel by turns with them.
Narrated by Abu Daoud
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his Companions (may Allah be pleased with him) that every two or three men should alternate riding one camel so that all of them would be equal. In other words, they would take turns in riding instead of having some of them ride while the others walk due to the shortage of camels.
Abu Mūsa (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Visit the sick, feed the hungry, and set free the captive."
Narrated by Bukhari
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) ordered Muslims to visit the sick and feed the hungry. He also ordered that if the disbelievers capture a Muslim person, it is incumbent upon the Muslims to set him free.
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever acquires knowledge which should be pursued for the sake of Allah for the sole purpose of securing worldly gains shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise on the Day of Judgment."
Narrated by Ibn Majah - Narrated by Abu Daoud - Narrated by Ahmad
This Hadīth points out that if a person seeks one of the spheres of knowledge that are usually pursued for the sake of Allah – and these are the Shar‘i sciences and the supporting disciplines of the Arabic language and such – and only aims at worldly gains, like money or prestige, by doing this, and he does not seek the pleasure of Allah and the Hereafter, then Allah, the Almighty, will punish him by depriving him of the smell of Paradise. This is because he pursues the worldly life by doing the very acts intended for the Hereafter. His deprivation of the smell of Paradise is an overstatement signifying that Paradise shall be strictly forbidden for him, since a person who is not allowed to smell something would surely not be permitted to get it. However, this is taken to mean that he does not deserve to enter Paradise. After all, a sinner's fate is left to be decided by Allah, the Almighty, if he dies as a believer.
Usāmah ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The son of the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) was brought to him while breathing his last. The eyes of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) overflowed with tears. Thereupon, Sa‘d said to him: "O Messenger of Allah, what is this!" He said: "This is mercy that Allah, the Exalted, has placed in the hearts of His slaves. Verily, Allah shows mercy to those of His slaves who are merciful."
Narrated by Bukhari & Muslim
Usāmah ibn Zayd, who was nicknamed "the beloved of the Messenger of Allah", reported that one of the daughters of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) sent a messenger to him to inform him that her son was dying and that she requested that he comes to her house. Her messenger conveyed this to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) who said to him: "Order her to be patient and seek Allah’s reward, for, indeed, what Allah takes belongs to Him, and what He gives belongs to Him, and everything with Him has a determined fixed term." The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the man whom his daughter had sent to order his daughter, the mother of that child, with these words: "What Allah takes belongs to him, and what He gives belongs to Him." This is a magnificent statement. If all things belong to Allah, then if He takes something from you, it is His own possession, and if He gives something to you, it is His own possession. So, how could you be discontent when He takes something from you that belongs to Him? For this reason, it is part of the Sunnah for a person to say when afflicted with a calamity: "Truly, to Allah we belong and, truly, to Him we shall return," which means: we are Allah’s possessions and He does with us as He wishes. Likewise, if He takes something we love from our hands, it belongs to Him. What He takes belongs to Him and what He gives belongs to Him. Even the thing which He gives to you does not belong to you; it belongs to Allah. That is why you may not act freely concerning what Allah has given to you except in the manner which He allowed you. And this is proof that our possession of what Allah gives us is limited and temporary. As to his statement: "and everything with Allah has its determined fixed term," if you are certain of this; that what Allah takes belongs to Him and what He gives belongs to Him, and that everything has its appointed time with Him, then you will be content with what you have. The last part of his statement means that it is not possible for a person to change what has already been written and bound to a certain time limit, neither by advancing nor delaying, as Allah says (what means): {For every nation is a term. When their time has come, then they will not remain behind an hour, nor will they precede (it)"} [Sūrat Yunus: 49]. So, if something is predestined and can neither be advanced nor delayed, there is no benefit in anguish and discontent, because even if you feel anguish or discontent, you will not change anything of what is predestined. Then, the messenger conveyed to the daughter of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) what he ordered him to tell her. However, she again requested his presence. So the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) along with a group of his Companions, went to her home. The boy was brought to him with his breath rattling in his chest. The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) wept and tears filled his eyes. Sa‘d ibn ‘Ubādah, the chief of the Khazraj Tribe, who was with him, said to him: "What is this?!" He thought that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) wept out of anguish and grief. So, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is mercy," meaning: I wept out of mercy for the child, not out of impatience with fate. Then he said: "Verily, Allah shows mercy only to His slaves who are merciful." This statement is proof of the permissibility of weeping out of mercy towards the afflicted person.
Abu Sa‘īd al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) say: "If any of you sees a vision he likes, it is from Allah. So, let him praise Allah for it, and let him recount it. If he sees something else that he dislikes, it is from the devil. So, let him seek refuge from its evil and mention it to no one, for it will not harm him."
Narrated by Bukhari
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) informed that a good and delightful vision during sleep is from Allah. He advised us to praise Allah for it and tell about it. However, if one sees what he dislikes and what is saddening, then it is from the devil. In this case, he should seek refuge with Allah from its evil without mentioning it to anyone, and it will not harm him as Allah has made what is mentioned a means of protection against the harm resulting from such a vision.
Salamah ibn al-Akwa‘ (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: A man ate with his left hand in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), whereupon he said: "Eat with your right hand." The man said: I cannot do that. Thereupon, he said: "May you not be able to do that." It was only arrogance that prevented him. He said: He could not raise it up to his mouth afterward.
Narrated by Muslim
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) saw a man eating with his left hand, so, he ordered him to eat with his right hand. The man lied and said, out of arrogance, that he could not do this. So, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated against him to be deprived of the ability to eat with his right hand. Allah fulfilled His Prophet's supplication and the man's right hand was paralyzed and he could not raise it to his mouth after that with any food or drink.
Jundub ibn ‘Abdullāh (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man said: 'By Allah, Allah will not forgive so-and-so.' Thereupon, Allah said: 'Who is that who swears that I will not forgive so-and-so? Indeed, I have forgiven him and rendered worthless your deeds.'" In a similar Hadīth reported by Abu Hurayrah: ''The sayer was a worshiper.'' Abu Hurayrah said: ''He said a word that ruined his life and Hereafter.’'
Narrated by Muslim
Warning against the dangers of the tongue, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) says that a man once swore that Allah would not forgive a sinner. It was as if he was passing a judgment that limits Allah's authority, believing in his credit and the sinner's disgrace. His conceit implies his rudeness toward Allah, a practice that subjected him to a miserable fate in life and the Hereafter.
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "One may utter a word thoughtlessly and, as a result of this, he will fall down into Hellfire for a distance greater than the distance between the east and the west."
Narrated by Bukhari & Muslim
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) informs us that there are people who do not think before they speak whether what they are about to say is good or evil. The result of this thoughtlessness is that this person, if he said something that displeases Allah, would expose himself to the punishment of Allah in the fire of Hell. He may speak a word that is so evil that it would cause him to fall into Hellfire farther than the distance between the east and the west.
