Benefits of sending 'Salam'
on the Seal of
Nubuwwah- Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
ALLAH, 'azza wa jalla, said: "ALLAH and HIS angels call down blessings on the
Prophet. O you who believe!
Call down blessings on him and ask for complete peace and safety for him." (Qur'an
33:56)
It is related that the Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him
peace, came out one day and joy could be seen in his face. He said, "Jibril,
peace be upon him, came to me and said, 'Are you not pleased, O Muhammad, that
none of your community blesses you but that I bless him ten times, and none of
your community prays for peace on you, but that I pray it for him ten times.'"
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "The people most
deserving of me are those who pray the most for blessing on me." The Prophet,
may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "If someone blesses me, the
angels bless him as long as he continues to bless me, so let him diminish that
or increase it." The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "It
is enough miserliness in a man that when I am mentioned in his presence, he does
not call down blessing on me.
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "Pray for blessing
for me a lot every Friday." He, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said,
"If anyone of my community says one prayer on me, ten good actions are written
down for him and ten bad actions are effaced from him."
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, "My intercession will be
available on the Day of Rising to anyone who says, after hearing the adhan, 'O
ALLAH! Lord of this perfect call and established prayer, give Muhammad 'al-wasila'
and superiority and raise him up to the praiseworthy station which You promised
him."
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "If someone blesses
me in a book, the angels do not cease to bless him as long as my name is in that
book."
Abu Sulayman ad-Darani said, "If someone wants to ask ALLAH for a need, he
should begin with the prayer on the Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him
peace, then ask ALLAH for his need, and then seal it with the prayer on the
Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace. ALLAH will accept the two
prayers, and is too generous to omit what is between the two."
It is related that the Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said,
"If someone blesses me 100 times on Friday, he will be forgiven the mistakes of
80 years."
Abu Hurayra, may ALLAH be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of
ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "The one who blesses me
has a light on the Sirat, and whoever is among the people of light on the Sirat
is not one of the people of the Fire."
The Prophet. may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "Whoever forgets the
prayer on me has missed the Path of the Garden." By "forgetting", he meant
omission. As the omitter misses the Path of the Garden, the one who blesses him
travels to the Garden.
It is related from''Abdur-Rahman ibn 'Awf, may ALLAH be pleased with him, that
the Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "Jibril
came to me, peace be upon him, and said, 'O Muhammad! No one blesses you but
that 70,000 angels bless him, and whomever the angels bless is among the people
of the Garden."
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, ""Those of you who
do the most prayers on me will have the most wives in the Garden."
It is related that the Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said,
"When someone blesses me greatly according to what is due me, ALLAH, 'azza wa
jalla, creates from that word an angel with one wing in the east and one wing in
the west with his feet resting in the lowest of the earth, and his neck bowed
under the Throne. ALLAH, 'azza wa jalla, says to him, 'Bless My slave as he
blessed My Prophet,' and he will continue to bless him until the Day of
Resurrection."
It is related that the Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said,
"People will come to the Water Basin on the Day of Resurrection whom I will only
recognise by the great amount that they asked for blessings for me."
It is related that the Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said,
"If someone blesses me once, ALLAH blesses him ten times; and if someone blesses
me ten times, ALLAH blesses him one hundred times; and if someone blesses me one
hundred times, ALLAH blesses one thousand times; and whoever blesses me one
hundred times, ALLAH will forbid his body to the Fire, strengthen him with a
firm word in the life of this world and in the Next in the questioning, and He
will admit him to the Garden. His prayers on me will come to him as a light on
the Day of Resurrection on the Sirat, visible at a distance of 500 years, and
ALLAH will give him a castle in the Garden for every prayer that he prayed for
me, whether there is little or a lot."
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "There is no slave
who prays for blessing for me but that the prayer issues quickly from his mouth,
and there is no land or sea nor east nor west but that it passes by them and
says, 'I am the prayer of such-and-such a person, which he prayed for the
Muhammad, the Chosen, the best of ALLAH's creation,' and there is nothing which
does not bless him. From that prayer a bird is created for him which has 70,000
wings, and on every wing are 70,000 feathers, and in every feather are 70,000
faces, and in every face are 70,000 mouths, and in every mouth are 70,000
tongues, and every tongue glorifies ALLAH ta'ala in 70,000 languages, and ALLAH
writes for him the reward of all of that."
It is related from 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, may ALLAH be pleased with him, that the
Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said, "If someone
asks for blessing on me 100 times on Friday, when the Day of Resurrection comes,
he will come with a light, and had that light been divided among all of
creation, it would have been enough for them."
It is mentioned in some traditions that written on the leg of the Throne is, "If
someone yearns for Me, I show mercy to him. If someone asks of Me, I give to
him. If someone draws near to Me by the prayer on Muhammad, I forgive him his
wrong actions, even if they were as much as the froth of the sea."
It is related that one of the Companions, may ALLAH be pleased with all of them,
said, "There is no gathering in which our master Muhammad, may ALLAH bless him
and grant him peace, is blessed but that a pleasant scent spreads from it until
it reaches the clouds of the sky and the angels say, 'This is a gathering in
which Muhammad, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, is blessed.'"
It is mentioned in some traditions that when a believing slave, male or female,
begins the prayer on Muhammad, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, the
doors of heaven are opened to him as well as its pavilions as far as the Throne.
Not an angel remains in the heavens who does not bless our master Muhammad and
ask for forgiveness for that slave, male or female as ALLAH wills.
The Prophet, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, said,, "If someone has a
pressing need, he should increase the prayer on me, for it removes cares, griefs
and sorrows, and it increases provision and fulfils needs."
It is related that one of the righteous said, "I had a neighbour who was scribe.
He died, and I saw him in a dream and I asked him, 'What has ALLAH done with
you?' He replied, 'He has forgive me.' I asked, 'For what reason?' He said,
'When I used to write the name of Muhammad, may ALLAH bless him and grant him
peace, in a book, I blessed him, so my Lord has covered me with what no eye has
seen nor ear has heard nor has occurred to a mortal heart.'"
It is reported from Anas that the Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and
grant him peace, said, "None of you believes until I am more beloved to him than
himself and what he possesses and his son and father and all people." In a
hadith, 'Umar said, "O Messenger of ALLAH, you are more beloved to me than
everything except my self which is between my sides." So he, blessing and peace
be upon him, said to him, "You will not be a believer until I am more beloved to
you than your self." So 'Umar said, "By He who revealed the Book to you, you are
more beloved to me than my self." So the Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him
and grant him peace, said, "Now, 'Umar, your iman is complete."
The Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, was asked,
"When will I be a believer (or in another variant, a sincere believer)?" He
answered, "When you love ALLAH." It was asked, "And when will I love ALLAH?" He
replied, "When you love His Messenger." It was said, "And when will I love His
Messenger?" He said, "When you follow his Path, apply his sunna, love with his
love and hate with his hate, and choose friends those he befriends and choose
enemies by his enmity. People differ in faith according to their difference in
love of me, and they differ in kufr according to their hate for me."
It was said to the Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace,
"We see believers who are humble and believers who are not humble. What is the
reason for that?" He replied, "The one who experiences sweetness in his faith is
humble, and the one does not experience it is not humble." It was asked, "By
what is it found, or obtained and gained?" He answered, "By sincere love for
ALLAH." It was asked, "And by what is love of ALLAH found or by what is it
gained?" He said, "By love of His Messenger. So seek the pleasure of ALLAH and
the pleasure of His Messenger through loving them."
The Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, was asked, "Who
are the family of Muhammad whom we are commanded to love, honour and show
reverence to?" He replied, "The people of purity and fidelity who believes in me
and are sincere." He was asked, "What are their signs?" He answered, "Preferring
love of me above every other beloved and being occupied inwardly remembering me
after remembering ALLAH." In another variant: "Their sign is constantly
remembering me and frequently asking for blessing upon me."
The Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace, was asked, "Who
is the one strongest in faith in you?" He answered, "The one who did not see me
and yet believed in me with yearning for me and sincere love for me. The sign of
that is that he would wish to give all he possesses to see me. (Another variant
has: "all the gold in the earth.") Such is the one who truly believes in me and
has sincere true love of me."
It was said to the Messenger of ALLAH, may ALLAH bless him and grant him peace,
"What do you think is that state of those who pray for blessing on you who are
not with you or who will come after you?" He said, "I hear the prayer of the
people of my love and I know them. The prayer of other than them is presented to
me."
ALLAHumma Salli ala Sayyidna wa mawlana wa habeebna Muhammadiyun wa ala aa'li
Sayyidna wa mawlana wa habeebna Muhammadi-m
beadadi kulli zarrati-m-miyata alfa alfe marra wa baarik wa sallim- (Durood-e-hazara)