Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Paradise is closer to you than the strap of your sandal, and the same is the case with Hell."

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best of people are those of my generation, then those who come after them, then those who come after them, then those who come after them. After that, there will come a people whose testimony will precede their oath and whose oath will precede their testimony."

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says that I have recited seventy surahs after hearing them from the blessed mouth of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and Sayyiduna Zaid bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) was among the scribes of revelation who had sheep.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever is faced with a need and begins to present it before people, he deserves that his matter not be made easy. And whoever presents it before Allah, Allah will grant him immediate provision or a delayed death."

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that once I was clinging to the covering of the Ka'bah when three men came. One of them was a Qurayshi and two were from the tribe of Thaqif who were his sons-in-law, or one was from Thaqif and two were Qurayshi. Their bellies were large with fat but their hearts had very little understanding. They began to talk quietly among themselves, which I could not hear. Then one of them said: What do you think, does Allah hear our conversations? The second said: I think that when we speak loudly, He hears us, and when we do not raise our voices, He does not hear us. The third said: If He can hear something, then He can hear everything. I mentioned this to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so Allah revealed this verse: «﴿وَمَا كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَتِرُونَ أَنْ يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَمْعُكُمْ وَلَا أَبْصَارُكُمْ وَلَا جُلُودُكُمْ . . . . . وَذَلِكُمْ ظَنُّكُمُ الَّذِي ظَنَنْتُمْ بِرَبِّكُمْ أَرْدَاكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ﴾» [فصلت: 22-23] "And you conceal things so that your ears, eyes, and skins may not bear witness against you... This is your lowly assumption about your Lord, and you have become among the losers."

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

Abu Amr Shaibani says that the one who lived in this house narrated this hadith to us, meaning Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), that once I asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Which deed is most beloved to Allah? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Prayer at its appointed time."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to say the takbeer every time he bowed, rose, stood, and sat, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, also used to do the same.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, used to say the takbeer every time they bowed, rose, stood, and sat.