It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that when Imam Hussain (may Allah be pleased with him) was born, his mother Hazrat Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) wanted to perform his ‘aqiqah with two rams. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Do not perform his ‘aqiqah yet, rather shave his head and give silver in charity equal to the weight of his hair in the way of Allah. Then, upon the birth of Hazrat Hussain (may Allah be pleased with him), Hazrat Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) did the same (and the ‘aqiqah was performed by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) himself).

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi' (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade men from tying their hair in knots while performing prayer.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that once I was part of an army. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to me:“Go and call Maimunah to me.”I submitted: O Messenger of Allah! I am included in the army. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) repeated his statement, and I again presented my excuse. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:“Do you not like what I like?”I said: Why not, O Messenger of Allah! The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:“Go and call her to me.”So I went and called her.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that when Hazrat Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) gave birth to Hazrat Husain bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them), I saw that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) himself gave the call to prayer (adhan) in his ear.

Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) visited all his noble wives in a single day, and after being with each one, he performed ghusl (ritual bath). Someone asked: O Messenger of Allah! If you had performed ghusl only once (would there have been any harm)? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied that this method is more pure, excellent, and clean.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that once the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to me:“O Abu Rafi’! Kill all the dogs found in Madinah.”He says that I saw some women of the Ansar in Jannat al-Baqi’ with some trees, and those women also had dogs with them. They said:“O Abu Rafi’! The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has sent our men for jihad. After Allah, only these dogs protect us, and by Allah, no one dares to come near us. Even when any one of us women stands up, these dogs become a barrier between her and the people. Therefore, mention this matter to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).”So, I mentioned this matter to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:“Abu Rafi’! Kill them; Allah Himself will protect the women.”

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi' (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) heard the voice of the muezzin, he would repeat the same phrases that he was saying, but when he reached «حي على الصلوة» and «حي على الفلاح» , the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would say «لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله» .

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sacrificed two beautiful and castrated rams and said:“One of them is on behalf of every person who bears witness to the oneness of Allah and to the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the other is on behalf of myself and my family.”The narrator says that in this way the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sufficed us.

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

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Rafi’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that after performing the Asr prayer, sometimes the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would go to the people of Banu Abd al-Ashhal and converse with them, and would return from there at the time of Maghrib. One day, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was returning quickly for the Maghrib prayer and passed by Jannat al-Baqi’, where the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said twice:“Woe to you.”(Since I was accompanying the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)), this weighed heavily on my mind and I fell behind, thinking that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) meant me. Seeing this, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:“What happened to you? Keep walking.”I submitted:“O Messenger of Allah! Have I committed any sin?”The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:“What do you mean?”I submitted that you said «تف» to me (twice). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:“No, in fact, I said that at the grave of such-and-such a man, whom I had sent to such-and-such a tribe to collect zakat. He committed a breach of trust and hid a sheet, and now he is being made to wear a sheet of fire in the same way.”