It is narrated from Abu Sadiq; he said that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Soon you will be pressured to revile me, so revile me; but if you are pressured to declare disassociation (bara'ah) from me, then do not declare disassociation from me, for I am upon Islam. So let one of you stretch out his neck (to be killed), may his mother be bereaved of him, for after Islam he has neither this world nor the Hereafter." Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) recited this verse: "Except one who is compelled while his heart is at rest with faith." [Surah al-Nahl: 106] The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Tawus; he said: Hujr bin Qays al-Madari was among those especially devoted to the service of the Commander of the Believers, Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). One day Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "O Hujr! After me you will be made to stand up and ordered to curse me; then curse me, but do not declare disassociation from me." Tawus said: Then I saw that Ahmad bin Ibrahim, the representative of the caliph of the Umayyads, made Hujr al-Madari stand in the congregational mosque and set a guard over him, that he would either curse Ali or be killed. So Hujr said: "Listen! The Amir Ahmad bin Ibrahim has ordered me to curse Ali, so curse him (the one who gave the order); may Allah curse him." Tawus said: "Allah had blinded their (the oppressors') hearts, so that none of them could understand what Hujr had actually said."

It is narrated from Masruq; he said: I recited this verse in the presence of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "Indeed, Ibrahim was an ummah (a nation), devoutly obedient." [Surah al-Nahl: 120] Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Indeed, Mu'adh (bin Jabal) was an ummah, devoutly obedient." The narrator said: The people repeated the verse to him, and he repeated his statement. Then he said: "Do you know what an ummah is? The ummah is the one who teaches people good, and the qanit (devoutly obedient) is the one who obeys Allah and His Messenger." 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 Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: On the day of Uhud, sixty-four (64) men of the Ansar and six (6) of the Muhajirun were martyred, and the idolaters mutilated their bodies (cutting off limbs); and among these martyrs was Sayyiduna Hamzah (may Allah be pleased with him). At this the Ansar said: "If one day we gain such a hold over them, we will certainly do worse to them than this." Then, when the day of the Conquest of Makkah came, Allah Almighty revealed this verse: "And if you punish, then punish with the like of that with which you were harmed; but if you are patient, it is certainly better for those who are patient." [Surah al-Nahl: 126] On this occasion a man said: "After today there will be no Quraysh (that is, they will be hunted down and killed)." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Hold back your hands from all the people except four (that is, pardon them)." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Zirr bin Hubaysh; he said: I was in a gathering in which Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) was present, and I said: "When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was taken on the Night Journey, he entered al-Masjid al-Aqsa." Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "O bald one! How did you learn this? I recognise your face but I do not know your name; what is your name?" I told him: "I am Zirr bin Hubaysh al-Asadi." He asked again: "How did you learn that he (peace and blessings be upon him) entered the mosque?" I said: "From the Qur'an." Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Whoever holds fast to the Qur'an succeeds." I recited this verse: "Glory be to the One Who took His servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed." [Surah al-Isra': 1] Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Do you think that he (peace and blessings be upon him) entered it?" I said: "Yes." He said: "By Allah! He (peace and blessings be upon him) did not enter it; and had he (peace and blessings be upon him) entered it, prayer in it would have been made obligatory upon you." Then he further said: "And he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not leave the back of al-Buraq until he (peace and blessings be upon him) had seen Paradise and Hell and all the promises of the Hereafter." I asked: "O Abu Abdullah! What is al-Buraq?" He said: "It is a mount larger than a donkey and smaller than a mule, and its stride reaches as far as its sight." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Ibn Buraydah narrates from his father, Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him); he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When we reached Bayt al-Maqdis, Jibril (peace be upon him) pointed with his finger and pierced the rock with it, and tied al-Buraq to it." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it; and Abu Tumaylah and al-Zubayr are both from Marw and are trustworthy (thiqah) narrators.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "Whenever Sayyiduna Nuh (peace be upon him) ate any food or wore any garment, he would praise Allah; that is why he was called a very grateful servant ('abdan shakura')." 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 Tawus; he said: I was with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), and with us was a man from the Qadariyyah (the sect that denies divine decree). I said: "Some people say that there is no divine decree." Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) asked: "Is any of them (the Qadariyyah) among these people?" I said: "If there were, what would you do?" He said: "If one of them were here, I would seize him by the head and then recite this verse to him: 'And We decreed for the Children of Israel in the Scripture: You will surely cause corruption in the land twice, and you will surely become greatly arrogant.' [Surah al-Isra': 4] " 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 Abu Wa'il; he said that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used often to recite this verse in this way: "Indeed, this Qur'an guides to that which is most upright and gives good tidings to the believers" (and he would read «yubashshiru» light, without doubling, that is «yabshuru»). Uthman (the narrator) said: And this is the reading of Hamzah. The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man said: "O Messenger of Allah! I have much wealth and a family and children. What is required of me, what I should do or how I should spend?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Pay the obligatory zakah, for it will purify you; treat your relatives kindly; and recognise the right of the one who asks, of the neighbour and of the poor." He said: "O Messenger of Allah! Make it less for me." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then give the relatives, the poor and the travellers their right, and do not squander wastefully." He said: "O Messenger of Allah! If I pay the zakah to the envoy sent by the Messenger of Allah, have I then paid it to Allah and His Messenger?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes; when you have paid it to his (the Messenger's) envoy, you have paid it, and you will have its reward, and whoever alters it (from its due), the sin of it will be upon him." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), and they did not record it.