It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah will say: 'O Adam!' He will say: 'Here I am, ready to serve You, and all good is in Your hands.' Allah will say: 'Send forth the contingent of the Fire.'" Then the narrator mentioned the hadith in brief, without mentioning the revelation of the verses and so on. Imam Bukhari narrated it through the chain of Umar bin Hafs from his father from al-A'mash, and Imam Muslim through the chain of Abu Bakr bin Abi Shaybah from Waki'.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Beware of the supplications of the oppressed against (the oppressor), for they rise up to the heaven like sparks (fly)." Imam Muslim used Asim bin Kulayb as evidence, and there is agreement on using all the other narrators of this hadith as evidence, but the two of them (Imam Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I will be the leader of all people on the Day of Resurrection, and this is no boast (rather, it is a statement of fact). On the Day of Resurrection there will be no one who is not under my banner, hoping for relief from distress. With me will be the Banner of Praise (Liwa' al-Hamd). I will walk and the people will walk with me until I come to the gate of Paradise and ask for it to be opened. It will be asked: 'Who is this?' I will say: 'Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).' It will be said: 'Welcome to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).' Then when I see my Lord, I will fall down in prostration before Him and behold Him." This is a great hadith concerning the Attributes (of Allah) and the vision of Allah; it is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

Abdullah bin Fayruz al-Daylami says: I entered upon Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) in one of his orchards in Ta'if called al-Waht. He was walking alongside a young man of Quraysh, holding his hand, and this young man was accused of drinking wine. I said to Abdullah bin Amr: "Some things have reached me from you which you narrate from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): that whoever drinks wine once, his repentance is not accepted for forty mornings" - (on hearing this) the young man snatched his hand from Abdullah's hand and turned his back and left - "and that the wretched one is he who was written wretched in his mother's womb, and that whoever leaves his house intending nothing but to pray in Bayt al-Maqdis will come out of his sins as on the day his mother gave birth to him." Abdullah bin Amr said (on hearing this): "O Allah! I do not make it lawful for anyone to attribute to me what I did not say. (The actual matter is that) I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Whoever drinks a draught of wine, his repentance will not be accepted for forty mornings; then if he repents, Allah will forgive him. If he drinks again, his repentance will not be accepted for forty mornings - the narrator says: I do not remember whether it was the third or the fourth time that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: - if he still does not desist, then it is a right upon Allah that He will make him drink from radghat al-khabal (the pus and blood of the people of Hell) on the Day of Resurrection.'" He further said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Indeed, Allah Almighty created His creation in darkness, then cast upon them of His light; so whoever was touched by some of that light on that day was guided, and whoever it missed went astray.' That is why I say: the Pen has dried (after writing destiny) in accordance with the knowledge of Allah. And I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Sulayman bin Dawud (peace be upon them both) asked his Lord for three things. Allah granted him two, and we hope that He granted him the third as well. He asked Allah for a judgement (the ability to judge) that would accord with Allah's judgement, and Allah granted it to him. He asked for a kingdom that would not befit anyone after him, and Allah granted him that as well. And he supplicated that whoever leaves his house intending nothing but to pray in this mosque (Bayt al-Maqdis) would come out of his sins as on the day his mother gave birth to him; so we hope that Allah granted him this (third supplication) as well.'" Imam al-Awza'i says: Rabi'ah bin Yazid narrated this hadith to me between al-Miqsillat and al-Bab al-Saghir (places in Damascus). This is a sahih (authentic) hadith which the imams have narrated, and (the two Shaykhs) used all of these narrators as evidence, yet still did not record it, and I know of no hidden defect ('illah) in it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Qatadah al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) - who was a Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) - he says: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Allah Almighty created Adam, then created (all) the creation from his back, then said: 'These are for Paradise and I do not care (about anyone), and these are for Hell and I do not care (about anyone).'" Someone said: "O Messenger of Allah! Then why do we do (good) deeds?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In accordance with destiny (that is, what has been decreed is what will become manifest)." This is a sahih (authentic) hadith; there is agreement on using all of its narrators up to the Companion as evidence. Abd al-Rahman bin Qatadah is a Companion from Banu Salimah. The two of them used as evidence (the narration of) Zuhayr bin Amr from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), while he has no narrator other than Abu Uthman al-Nahdi; likewise, Imam Bukhari used as evidence the hadith of Abu Sa'id bin al-Mu'alla, who has no narrator other than Hafs bin Asim.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Allah Almighty makes every maker and what he makes."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Allah is the Creator of every craftsman and his craft." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two of them did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hakim bin Hizam (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah! The incantations (ruqyah) with which we seek healing and the medicines with which we treat ourselves, can they avert anything of the decree of Allah?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They (the medicine and the supplication) are themselves part of the decree of Allah." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it. Imam Muslim, in his discussion of the mistakes Ma'mar made in Basrah, said that Ma'mar narrated it twice, once through the chain of al-Zuhri from Ibn Abi Khizamah from his father. Imam al-Hakim says: In my view this is not a defect, because Salih bin Abi al-Akhdar corroborated Ma'mar bin Rashid; and although Salih is from the third tier of al-Zuhri's students, narrators like him can be cited as supporting evidence.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hakim bin Hizam (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah! The incantations with which we seek healing and the medicines with which we treat ourselves, can they avert anything of the decree of Allah?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They too are part of the decree of Allah."

Sayyiduna Abu Burdah came to Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) and said: "O mother! Tell me something you heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." She said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Birds (taken as omens) fly only according to the decree of Allah," and he (peace and blessings be upon him) liked a good omen. The two Shaykhs used all the narrators of this hadith as evidence except Yusuf bin Abi Burdah, and in my view they did not leave him out due to any criticism or weakness, but rather due to the scarcity of his narrations, for his hadiths are very rare.