It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the noble one, son of the noble one, grandson of the noble one and great-grandson of the noble one is Yusuf bin Ya'qub bin Ishaq bin Ibrahim, the Friend of the Most Merciful (peace be upon them). And had I remained in prison as long as Yusuf (peace be upon him) remained, and then the summoner came to me, I would have accepted at once; whereas when the king's messenger came to him, he said (instead of accepting release): 'Return to your lord (the king) and ask him: What is the case of the women who cut their hands? Indeed, my Lord is fully aware of their scheme' [Surah Yusuf: 50] ." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this full wording; rather, in the narration of al-Zuhri from Sa'id and Abu Ubayd, they recorded only these words: "Had I remained in prison as long as Yusuf (peace be upon him) remained."

Musa bin Ulayy bin Rabah narrates from his father that he said: A man sought permission to enter upon Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and said (to the doorkeeper): "Seek permission for the son of the best of people." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Give permission to this son of the best of people to come in." When he entered, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him: "Who are you?" He replied: "I am so-and-so, son of so-and-so, son of so-and-so." He began counting his forefathers from among the nobles of the Days of Ignorance. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Are you Yusuf bin Ya'qub bin Ishaq bin Ibrahim?" He said: "No." He said: "He (Sayyiduna Yusuf, peace be upon him) is the son of the best of people, whereas you are the son of the worst of people; you are counting out to me the names of the people of Hell." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it; and Ulayy bin Rabah is one of the senior Tabi'in.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me: "O enemy of Allah and enemy of Islam! You have embezzled the wealth of Allah." I said: "I am neither the enemy of Allah nor the enemy of Islam; rather, I am the enemy of whoever is hostile to them both. And I have not embezzled anything from the wealth of Allah; rather, these are the prices of my camels and shares that accumulated." Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) repeated the same words to me, and I repeated the same reply. He fined me twelve thousand. Then I stood in the morning prayer and supplicated: 'Allahumma ighfir li-amir al-mu'minin' (O Allah, forgive the Commander of the Believers). Some time after this incident, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) again offered me a post, but I refused. He asked: "Why do you refuse, when Sayyiduna Yusuf (peace be upon him) himself asked for a post, and he was far better than you?" I replied: "Indeed, Sayyiduna Yusuf (peace be upon him) was a prophet, son of a prophet, son of a prophet, son of a prophet, while I am the son of Umaymah, and I fear three things and two (that is, five)." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Can you not simply say five?" I said: "No." He asked: "Tell me what they are." I said: "I fear that I might say something without knowledge, give a fatwa without knowledge, that my back be flogged, that my honour be reviled, and that my wealth be taken from me by beating." The chain of 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 Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Prophet of Allah Sayyiduna Ya'qub (peace be upon him) had a brother in Islam (a brother taken for the sake of Allah's pleasure). One day he asked: 'O Ya'qub! What has taken away your sight? And what has bent your back?' Sayyiduna Ya'qub (peace be upon him) said: 'Weeping over Yusuf has taken away my sight, and grief for my son Binyamin has bent my back.' At this Jibril (peace be upon him) came to him and said: 'O Ya'qub! Indeed, Allah sends you His greeting of peace and says: Are you not ashamed to complain about Me to others?' On hearing this, Sayyiduna Ya'qub (peace be upon him) said: 'I only complain of my anguish and my grief to Allah' [Surah Yusuf: 86] . Jibril (peace be upon him) said: 'O Ya'qub! I know what you are complaining of.' Then Sayyiduna Ya'qub (peace be upon him) supplicated: 'O my Lord! Will You not have mercy on this old man? You have taken my sight and bent my back, so return my sweet flower (my son) to me so that I may smell him once before death; then do with me as You will.' So Jibril (peace be upon him) came again and said: 'Indeed, Allah sends you His greeting of peace and says: Receive glad tidings and let your heart rejoice. By My might, even if the two of them had died, I would have brought them back to life for you. So prepare food for the poor, for the most beloved of My servants to Me are the prophets and the poor. And do you know why I took away your sight, bent your back, and why the brothers of Yusuf did to him what they did? (It happened because) you slaughtered a goat, and an orphan poor man came to you who was fasting, and you did not feed him anything from it.'" (The narrator said:) After this it became the practice of Sayyiduna Ya'qub (peace be upon him) that whenever he wanted to eat his morning meal, he would order a caller, who would announce: "Listen! Whoever among the poor wants to eat, let him come and eat with Ya'qub." And when he was fasting, he would order a caller, who would announce: "Listen! Whoever among the poor is fasting, let him come and break his fast with Ya'qub." Imam al-Hakim said: In my record of hearing, in my own handwriting, it is written thus: "Hafs bin Umar bin al-Zubayr", and I think the name al-Zubayr is an error by the narrator, because this is in fact "Hafs bin Umar bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah al-Ansari", the nephew of Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him). If that is so, then this hadith is sahih (authentic)! And Imam Abu Ya'qub Ishaq bin Ibrahim al-Hanzali also narrated this hadith in his Tafsir as a mursal report.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sayyiduna Ya'qub (peace be upon him) had a brother in Islam," and then the narrator mentioned the whole hadith with a meaning similar to the (previous) hadith.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): (Urwah bin al-Zubayr said:) I asked her about this saying of Allah Almighty: "Until, when the messengers despaired and thought that they had been lied to" [Surah Yusuf: 110] . I said: "Surely they had despaired, (thinking) that they had been denied" (and I read "kudhibu" lightly, without doubling the letter). She said: "I seek refuge in Allah! How could the messengers think such a thing of their Lord? Rather, these were the followers of the messengers: when help was delayed for them and the trial became severe upon them, the messengers thought that their followers had denied them." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), and they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, your Lord Almighty says: If My servants obeyed Me, I would give them rain to drink by night and make the sun rise upon them by day, and I would not make them hear the sound of thunder." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), regarding this saying of Allah Almighty: "Allah erases what He wills" [Surah al-Ra'd: 39] , that he said: "(This erasing) is from one of two books. They are two books: from one of them Allah erases what He wills and keeps (what He wills). And 'With Him is the Mother of the Book' means that the original Book is with Him." Imam Muslim used Hammad as evidence and Imam Bukhari used Ikrimah as evidence, and this is gharib (unusual) and sahih (authentic) as a hadith of Sulayman al-Taymi, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: "Caution against destiny is of no benefit, but Allah Almighty erases through supplication whatever He wills of destiny." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), regarding this saying of Allah Almighty: "Have they not seen that We come to the land, reducing it from its borders?" [Surah al-Ra'd: 41] , that he said: "It refers to the death of the land's scholars and jurists." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.