It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that when Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) hastened to his Lord (at Mount Tur), al-Samiri set about gathering whatever he could of the ornaments of the Children of Israel, melted them down and made a calf out of them. Then he threw into its belly that handful of earth (which he had taken from the footprint of the angel), and all at once it became a calf that made a lowing sound. Then al-Samiri said to them: "This is your god and the god of Musa." At this, Sayyiduna Harun (peace be upon him) said to them: "O my people, did your Lord not make you a good promise?" Then, when Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) returned to the Children of Israel and saw that al-Samiri had led them astray, he seized his brother by the head, whereupon Harun (peace be upon him) said what he said. Then Musa (peace be upon him) asked al-Samiri: "What is your case?" Al-Samiri said: "I took a handful from the footprint of the messenger (Jibril, peace be upon him) and threw it (into the frame of the calf), and thus did my soul entice me." The narrator said: Then Musa (peace be upon him) went to the calf, filed it down with files into fragments on the bank of a river and let it be carried away. Whoever among the worshippers of that calf drank of that water, his face turned yellow like gold. They asked Musa (peace be upon him): "What is our repentance?" He said: "Kill one another." So they took up knives, and a man began to kill his father and his brother, not caring whom he was killing, until seventy thousand of them were killed. Then Allah Almighty revealed to Musa (peace be upon him): "Command them to hold back their hands, for I have forgiven those who were killed and accepted the repentance of those who remain." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on Musa (peace be upon him). Seeing with one's own eyes is not like hearing news. His Lord informed him that his people had fallen into trial after he left them, and he did not throw down the Tablets (at that time); but when he saw them for himself, he threw down the Tablets (in the intensity of his emotion)." And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on Musa (peace be upon him). Had he not been hasty, more events from his story would have been related." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said: Allah Almighty created Adam (peace be upon him) from the surface of the whole earth (adim al-ard), and that is why he was named Adam. Ibrahim bin Nafi' says: I heard Sa'id bin Jubayr say: I asked Ibn Abbas, and he told me: Allah created Adam, and he forgot, and that is why he was named insan (human being, from nisyan, forgetting). Then Allah Almighty said: "And We had already made a covenant with Adam before, but he forgot, and We did not find in him firm resolve" [Surah Ta Ha: 115] . This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when Adam (peace be upon him) ate from the tree from which he had been forbidden, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: "What led you to disobey Me?" He said: "O my Lord, Hawwa made it attractive to me." Allah said: "Then I have given her the penalty that she will bear the hardship of pregnancy and of childbirth, and I have given her the hardship of bleeding twice a month." When Hawwa heard this, she cried out, and Allah said to her: "This wailing has been made (binding) upon you and upon your daughters." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.