Hadith Qudsi 21: On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the
Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said that Allah the Almighty said: There are three (1)
whose adversary I shall be on the Day of Resurrection: a man who has given his
word by Me and has broken it; a man who has sold a free man (2) and has consumed
the price; and a man who has hired a workman, has exacted his due in full from
him and has not given him his wage. (1) i.e. types of men. (2) i.e. a man who
has made a slave of another and has sold him. It was related by al-Bukhari (also
by Ibn Majah and Ahmad ibn Hanbal). Hadith Qudsi 22: On the authority of Abu
Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)
said: Let not any one of you belittle himself. They said: O Messenger of Allah,
how can any one of us belittle himself? He said: He finds a matter concerning
Allah about which he should say something, and he does not say [it], so Allah
(mighty and sublime be He) says to him on the Day of Resurrection: What
prevented you from saying something about such-and-such and such-and-such? He
say: [It was] out of fear of people. Then He says: Rather it is I whom you
should more properly fear. It was related by Ibn Majah with a sound chain of
authorities. Hadith Qudsi 23: On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be
pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah will
say on the Day of Resurrection: Where are those who love one another through My
glory? Today I shall give them shade in My shade, it being a day when there is
no shade but My shade. It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Malik). Hadith
Qudsi 24: On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: If Allah has loved a servant [of
His] He calls Gabriel (on whom be peace) and says: I love So-and-so, therefore
love him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: So Gabriel loves him. Then he (Gabriel)
calls out in heaven, saying: Allah loves So-and-so, therefore love him. And the
inhabitants of heaven love him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: Then acceptance is
established for him on earth. And if Allah has abhorred a servant [of His], He
calls Gabriel and says: I abhor So-and-so, therefore abhor him. So Gabriel
abhors him. Then Gabriel calls out to the inhabitants of heaven: Allah abhors
So-and-so, therefore abhor him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: So they abhor him,
and abhorrence is established for him on earth. It was related by Muslim (also
by al-Bukhari, Malik, and at-Tirmidhi). Hadith Qudsi 25: On the authority of Abu
Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)
said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) said: Whosoever shows enmity to someone
devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him. My servant draws not near to Me with
anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him,
and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I
shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing
with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he
walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were
he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about
anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant:
he hates death and I hate hurting him. It was related by al-Bukhari. Hadith
Qudsi 26: On the authority of Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He)
said: Truly of those devoted to Me the one I most favour is a believer who is of
meagre means and much given to prayer, who has been particular in the worship of
his Lord and has obeyed Him inwardly (1), who was obscure among people and not
pointed our, and whose sustenance was just sufficient to provide for him yet he
bore this patiently. Then the Prophet (pbuh) rapped his hand and said: Death
will have come early to him, his mourners will have been few, his estate scant.
(1) i.e. he has not been ostentatious in his obedience. It was related by at-Tirmidhi
(also by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Ibn Majah). Its chain of authorities is sound.
Hadith Qudsi 27: On the authority of Masruq, who said: We asked Abdullah (i.e.
Ibn Masud) about this verse: And do not regard those who have been killed in the
cause of Allah as dead, rather are they alive with their Lord, being provided
for (Quran Chapter 3 Verse 169). He said: We asked about that and the Prophet (pbuh)
said: Their souls are in the insides of green birds having lanterns suspended
from the Throne, roaming freely in Paradise where they please, then taking
shelter in those lanterns. So their Lord cast a glance at them (1) and said: Do
you wish for anything? They said: What shall we wish for when we roam freely in
Paradise where we please? And thus did He do to them three times. When they say
that they would not be spared from being asked [again], they said: O Lord, we
would like for You to put back our souls into our bodies so that we might fight
for Your sake once again. And when He saw that they were not in need of anything
they were let be. (1) i.e. at those who had been killed in the cause of Allah.
It was related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah). Hadith
Qudsi 28: On the authority of Jundub ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with
him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: There was amongst those
before you a man who had a wound. He was in [such] nguish that he took a knife
and made with it a cut in his hand, and the blood did not cease to flow till he
died. Allah the Almighty said: My servant has himself forestalled Me; I have
forbidden him Paradise. It was related by al-Bukhari. Hadith Qudsi 29: On the
authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the
Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says: My
faithful servant's reward from Me, if I have taken to Me his best friend from
amongst the inhabitants of the world and he has then borne it patiently for My
sake, shall be nothing less than Paradise. It was related by al-Bukhari. Hadith
Qudsi 30: On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He)
said: If My servant likes to meet Me, I like to meet him; and if he dislikes to
meet Me, I dislike to meet him. Prophetic explanation of this Sacred Hadith: He
who likes to meet Allah, Allah likes to meet him; and he who dislikes to meet
Allah, Allah dislikes to meet him. Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said:
O Prophet of Allah, is it because of the dislike of death, for all of us dislike
death? The Prophet (pbuh) said: It is not so, but rather it is that when the
believer is given news of Allah's mercy, His approval and His Paradise, he likes
to meet Allah and Allah likes to meet him; but when the unbeliever is given news
of Allah's punishment and His displeasure, he dislikes to meet Allah and Allah
dislikes to meet him. It was related by al-Bukhari and Malik. The Prophetic
version is related by Muslim.