Zaid bin Arqam reported: We set out on a journey along with Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) in which we faced many hardships. 'Abdullah bin Ubayy said to his friends: Do not give what you have in your possession to those who are with Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) until they desert him. Zubair said: That is the reciting of that person who recited as min haulahu (from around him) and the other reciting is man haulahu (who are around him). And in this case when we would return to Madinah the honourable would drive out the meaner therefrom (lxiv. 8). I came to Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and informed him about that and he sent someone to 'Abdullah bin Ubayy and he asked him whether he had said that or not. He took an oath to the fact that he had not done that and told that it was Zaid who had stated a lie to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) . Zaid said: I was much perturbed because of this until this verse was revealed attesting my truth: "When the hypocrites come" (lxiii. 1). Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) then called them in order to seek forgiveness for them, but they turned away their heads as if they were hooks of wood fixed in the wall (lxiii. 4), and they were in fact apparently good-looking persons.

Jabir reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to the grave of 'Abdullah bin Ubayy, brought him out from that, placed him on his knee and put his saliva in his mouth and shrouded him in his own shirt and Allah knows best.

Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to the grave of 'Abdullah bin Ubayy as he was placed in that. The rest of the hadith is the same.

Ibn 'Umar reported that when 'Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Salul died, his son 'Abdullah bin 'Abdullah (b. Ubayy) came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and begged him that he should give him his shirt which he would use as a coffin for his father, he gave him that. He then begged that he should conduct funeral prayer for him. Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had hardly got up to observe the prayer for him that 'Umar stood up and caught hold of the garment of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and said: Allah's Messenger, are you going to conduct prayer for this man, whereas Allah has forbidden you to offer prayer for him? Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Allah has given me an option as He has said: "You may beg pardon for them or you may not beg pardon for them, and even if you beg pardon for them, seventy times" (ix. 80), and I am going to make an addition to the seventy. He was a hypocrite and Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) offered prayer for him and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed this verse: "Do not offer prayer for any one of them at all and do not stand upon their graves for (offering prayer over them)" (ix. 84).

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah with the same chain of transmitters but with this addition: "He then abandoned offering (funeral) prayer for them."

Ibn Mas'ud reported that there gathered near the House three persons amongst whom two were Quraishi and one was a Thaqafi or two were Thaqafis and one was a Quraishi. They lacked understanding but wore more flesh. One of them said: Do you think that Allah hears as we speak? The other one said: He does hear when we speak loudly and He does not hear when we speak in undertones, and still the other one said: If He listens when we speak loudly, He also listens when we speak in undertones. It was on this occasion that this verse was revealed: "You did not conceal yourselves lest your ears, your eyes and your skins would stand witness against you" (xli. 22).

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.

Zaid bin Thabit reported that Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) set out for Uhud. Some of those persons who were with them came back. The Companions of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) were divided in two groups. One group said: We would kill them, and the other one said: No, this should not be done, and it was on this occasion that this verse was revealed: "Why should you, then, be two parties in relation to hypocrites?" (iv. 88).

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'bah with the same chain of transmitters.

Abu Sa'id Khudri reported that during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) the hypocrites behaved in this way that when Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) set out for a battle, they kept themselves behind, and they became happy that they had managed to sit in the house contrary to (the act of) Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , and when Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (may peace he upon him) came back, they put forward excuses and took oath and wished that people should laud them for the deeds which they had not done. It was on this occasion that this verse was revealed: "Think not that those who exult in what they have done, and love to be praised for what they have not done-think not them to be safe from the chastisement; and for them is a painful chastisement" (iii. 18).