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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5133
A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Musa from the prophet (May peace be upon him) through a different chain of narrators

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5134
Narrated al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami: Some of the children of al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami said: Al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami was the governor of the Prophet (ﷺ) at al-Bahrayn, and when he wrote to him he began with his won name

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5135
Ibn al-Ala said :Al-Ala b. al-Hadrami wrote to the prophet (May peace be upon him), and he began with his name

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5136
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) wrote a letter to Heraclius: ""From Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, to Hiraql (Heraclius), Chief of the Byzantines. Peace be to those who follow the guidance."" Ibn Yahya reported on the authority of Ibn Abbas that AbuSufyan said to him: We then came to see Hiraql (Heraclius) who seated us before him. He then called for the letter from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Its contents were: ""In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, from Muhammad the Messenger of Allah, to Hiraql, chief of Byzantines. Peace be to those who follow the guidance. To proceed

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5137
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying:A son does not repay what he owes to his father unless he buys him and emancipates him if he finds him in slavery

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5138
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: A woman was my wife and I loved her, but Umar hated her. He said to me: Divorce her, but I refused. Umar then went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and mentioned that to him. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Divorce her

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5139
Bahz b. Hakim on his father's authority said that his grandfather said:I said: Messenger of Allah! to whom should I show kindness? He replied: Your mother, next your mother, next your mother, and then comes your father, and then your relatives in order of relationship. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If a man asks his slave whom he freed for giving him property which is surplus with him and he refuses to give it to him, the surplus property which he refused to give will be called on the Day of resurrection as a large bald snake. Abu Dawud said: Aqra' means a snake whose hair of the head were removed on account of poison

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5140
Kulaib b. Manfa'ah said that his grandfather told then he went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said:Messenger of Allah! to whom should I show kindness? He said: Your mother, your sister, your brother and the slave whom you set free and who is your relative, a due binding (on you), and a tie of relationship which should be joined

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5141
‘Abd Allah b. ‘Amr (b. al-As) reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying:A man’s reviling of his parents is one of the grave sins. He was asked : Messenger of Allah! How does a man revile his parents? He replied: He reviles the father of a man who then reviles his father, and he reviles a man’s mother and he reviles his

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5142
Narrated AbuUsayd Malik ibn Rabi'ah as-Sa'idi: While we were with the Messenger of Allah! (ﷺ) a man of Banu Salmah came to Him and said: Messenger of Allah is there any kindness left that I can do to my parents after their death? He replied: Yes, you can invoke blessings on them, forgiveness for them, carry out their final instructions after their death, join ties of relationship which are dependent on them, and honour their friends

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5143
Ibn ‘Umar reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying:One of the finest acts of kindness is for a man to treat his father’s friends in a kindly way after he has departed

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5144
Narrated AbutTufayl: I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) distributing flesh at Ji'irranah, and I was a boy in those days bearing the bone of the camel, and when a woman who came forward approach the Prophet (ﷺ), he spread out his cloak for her, and she sat on it. I asked: Who is she? The people said: She is his foster-mother

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5145
Narrated Umar ibn as-Sa'ib: One day when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting, his foster-father came forward. He spread out of a part of his garment and he sit on it. Then his mother came forward to him and he spread out the other side of his garment and she sat on it. Again , his foster-brother came forward. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood for him and seated him before himself

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5146
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone has a female child, and does not bury her alive, or slight her, or prefer his children (i.e. the male ones) to her, Allah will bring him into Paradise. Uthman did not mention ""male children

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5147
Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone cares for three daughters, disciplines them, marries them, and does good to them, he will go to Paradise

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5148
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Suhail through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version has :“three sisters, or three daughter, or two daughter, or two sisters”

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5149
Narrated Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja'i': The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I and a woman whose cheeks have become black shall on the Day of Resurrection be like these two (pointing to the middle and forefinger), i.e. a woman of rank and beauty who has been bereft of her husband and devotes herself to her fatherless children till they go their separate ways or die

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5150
Sahl (b. Sa’d) reported the prophet (May peace be upon him) as saying; I and the one who takes the responsibility of an orphan will be in Paradise thus, and he joined his middle finger and forefinger

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5151
‘A’ishah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying:Gabriel kept on commending the neighbor to me so that I thought he would make him an heir

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5152
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: Mujahid said that Abdullah ibn Amr slaughtered a sheep and said: Have you presented a gift from it to my neighbour, the Jew, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Gabriel kept on commending the neighbour to me so that I thought he would make an heir?

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5153
Abu Hurairah said :A man came to the prophet (May peace be upon him) complaining against his neighbor. He said: go and have patience. He again came to him twice or thrice. He then said : Go and throw your property in the way. So he threw his property in the way and the people began to ask him and he would tell them about him. The people then began to curse him; may Allah do with him so and so! Then his neighbor came to him and said: Return, you will not see from me anything which you dislike

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5154
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying:He who believes in Allah and in the last day should honour his guest; he who believes in Allah and in the last day should not harm his neighbor; he who believes in Allah and in the last day should speak good or keep silence

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5155
‘A’ishah said:I asked : apostle of Allah! I have two neighbors. With which of them should I begin? He replied: Begin with the one whose door is nearer to you. Abu Dawud said: Shu’bah said this tradition : Talhah is a man of the Quraish

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5156
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: The last words which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) spoke were: Prayer, prayer; fear Allah about those whom your right hands possess

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5157
Ma’rur b. Suwaid said :I saw Abu Dharr at Rabadhah. He was wearing a thick cloak, and his slave also wore a similar one. He said : the people said: Abu Dharr! (it would be better) if you could take the cloak which your slave wore, and you combined that with, and it would be a pair of garments (hullah) and you would clothe him with another garment. He said: Abu Dharr said : I abused a man whose mother was a non-Arab and I reviled him for his mother. He complained against me to the apostle of allah (May peace be upon him). He said: Abu Dharr! You are a man who has a characteristic of pre-Islamic days. He said: they are your brethren; Allah has given you superiority over them; sell those who do not please you and do not punish Allah’s creatures

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5158
Ma’rur b. Suwaid said :We called on Abu Dharr at al-Rabadhah. He wore a cloak and his slave also wore a similar one. We said; Abu Dharr! If you took the cloak of your slave and combined it with your cloak, so that it could be a part of garments (hullah) and clothed him in another garment, (it would be better). He said; I heard the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) say; They are your brethren. Allah has put them under your authority; so he who has his brother under his authority must feed him from what he eats and clothe him with what he wears, and not impose on him work which is too much for him, but if he does so, he must help him. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Numair transmitted it from al-A'mash in a similar way

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5159
Abu Mas’ud al-Ansari said:when I was beating a servant of mine, I heard a voice behind me saying: know, Abu Mas’ud-Ibn al-Muthanna said: “twice”-that Allah has more power over you than you have over him. I turned round and saw that it was that it was the prophet (May peace be upon him). I said : Messenger of Allah! He is free for Allah’s sake. He said : If you had not done it, fire would have burned you or the fire would have touched you

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5160
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-A’mash in a similar way to same way to the same effect through a different chain of narrators

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5161
Narrated AbuDharr: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Feed those of your slaves who please you from what you eat and clothe them with what you clothe yourselves, but sell those who do not please you and do not punish Allah's creatures

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Sunan Abi Dawud
#5162
Narrated Rafi' ibn Makith: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Treating those under one's authority will produce prosperity, but an evil nature produces evil fortune

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