It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: The two sons of Mulaykah came, and both of them were from the Ansar. They said: "O Messenger of Allah! Our mother used to look after her husband and honour the guest, but in the Days of Ignorance she buried (her daughter) alive; so where is our mother (in what abode)?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your mother is in the Fire." So they both stood up, and this weighed very heavily upon them. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called them and they came back, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, my mother too is with your mother." Then a hypocrite from among the people said to me (Abdullah bin Mas'ud): "This one (the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)) could avail his mother nothing, just as the sons of Mulaykah could avail their mother nothing, even though we follow at his heels." Then a young man of the Ansar, and I never saw anyone who asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) more questions than him, said: "O Messenger of Allah! Are your parents also in the Fire?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have not asked my Lord any such request concerning them that He would grant me regarding them; and on that Day (the Day of Resurrection) I will indeed stand in the Praised Station." The narrator said: The hypocrite said to the young Ansari: "Ask him: What is the Praised Station?" He said: "O Messenger of Allah! What is the Praised Station?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On that Day Allah Almighty will descend upon His Kursi, and it (the Kursi) will creak because of Him just as a camel saddle creaks from its tightness; and its (the Kursi's) breadth is equal to the distance between the heavens and the earth. And you will be brought naked, barefoot and uncircumcised. The first to be clothed will be Ibrahim (peace be upon him). Allah Almighty will say: Clothe My Khalil (intimate friend) in two white sheets from the garments of Paradise. Then I will be clothed after him, and I will stand at the right of Allah Almighty in a station for which the first and the last will envy me; and a river will be made to flow for me from al-Kawthar to my Pond." The narrator said: The hypocrite began to say: "I have never heard the like of today (such a strange thing); rarely does a river flow except over clay or pebbles. Ask him: Over what will that river flow?" (He asked, and) he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Over a mud of musk and pebbles." The narrator said: The hypocrite began to say: "I have never heard the like of today; rarely does a river flow without having plants on it." (He asked, and) he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes (it will have plants)." He asked: "What will they be?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Branches of gold." The narrator said: The hypocrite began to say: "I have never heard the like of today; by Allah, no branch ever grows without having some fruit. Ask him: Will those branches have fruits?" (He asked, and) he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, pearls and jewels." The narrator said: The hypocrite began to say: "I have never heard the like of today; ask him about the drink of the Pond." So the Ansari said: "O Messenger of Allah! What will the drink of the Pond be like?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It will be whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. Whoever Allah Almighty gives a single drink from it will never be thirsty after it, and whoever He deprives of it will never have his thirst quenched after it." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it; and Uthman bin Umayr is Abu al-Yaqzan.

Usayr bin Jabir narrates that a companion of mine in Kufah said to me: "Would you like to see a (special) man?" I said: "Yes." He said: "This is his path," and by this he meant Uways al-Qarani. He said: "I think he will pass by here now." So we sat waiting for him. When he passed, we saw a man wearing a worn-out wrap (a threadbare sheet), with people following behind him. He would turn to the people and forbid them sternly, but they would not stop. We too went along with the people until he entered the mosque of Kufah, and we entered as well. He went to a pillar and prayed two rak'ahs, then turned his face towards us and said: "O people! What is the matter between me and you, that you follow at my heels in every street? I am a weak human being; I have some need of my own and I cannot fulfil it because of you. May Allah have mercy on you, do not do this; whoever has some business with me, let him come and meet me here (in the mosque)." The narrator said: Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) had (once) asked a delegation that came to him: "Has there come to you a man from Qaran whose circumstances are such and such?" That companion said to Uways: "The Commander of the Believers mentioned you favourably, but he had not told us this." Uways said: "That mention of his is not something by which I would seek to reach you." Uways took a firm pledge from that man that he would not tell this to anyone else. Then Uways said: "Three kinds of people attend this gathering: a believer with understanding, a believer who does not have deep understanding, and a hypocrite. Their likeness in this world is that of rain that comes down from the sky to the earth: when it falls on a green, lush and fruit-bearing tree, it increases the beauty of its leaves, its freshness and the sweetness of its fruit. And when it falls on a green, flourishing tree that has no fruit, it increases its freshness and the beauty of its leaves, and it comes to bear fruit and catches up with its sister. And when it falls on dry, broken stubble (brushwood), it breaks it to pieces and destroys it." Then he recited this verse: "And We send down of the Qur'an that which is healing and mercy for the believers, and it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss." [Surah al-Isra': 82] "No one sits with this Qur'an except that he rises from it either with some increase (in faith) or some decrease (in loss); so the decree of Allah is that it is healing and mercy for the believers and loss for the wrongdoers." (Then he supplicated:) 'Allahummarzuqni shahadatan tasbiqu kishratuha adhaha, wa amnuha faza'aha, tujibul-hayata war-rizq' (O Allah, grant me a martyrdom whose smile comes before its pain and whose security overcomes its fear, and which brings about (true) life and provision). After that he fell silent. Usayr said: My companion asked: "How did you find this man?" I said: "My desire for him has only increased, and I will not leave him now." So we stayed with him, and only a short time had passed when the order came from the Commander of the Believers, Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), for the dispatch of an army (for the Battle of Siffin). That man with the wrap (Uways) joined it, and we too went out with him. We travelled with him and camped with him until we reached the enemy. Ibn al-Mubarak said: Hammad bin Salamah narrated from al-Jurayri, from Abu Nadrah, from Usayr bin Jabir, that the caller of Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) called out: "O horsemen of Allah! Mount and receive glad tidings." Uways al-Qarani drew his sword, broke its scabbard and threw it away, then began calling out: "O people! Stand firm, stand firm, so that your faces may shine (with success); you will not turn back from here until you see Paradise." He kept saying this and advancing, when suddenly an arrow came and pierced his heart, and he grew cold right there (was martyred), as though he had died long ago. Hammad said: We buried him there in the earth. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, and they did not record it with this wording. Usayr bin Jabir is one of the Mukhadramun; he was born in the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and is one of the eminent companions of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took me along with him until he came to the Ka'bah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Sit down." I sat down beside the Ka'bah. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) climbed onto my shoulders and said to me: "Stand up." I began to stand up, but when he (peace and blessings be upon him) saw my weakness beneath his weight, he said to me: "Sit down." I went down and sat. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "O Ali! Climb onto my shoulders." So I climbed onto his (peace and blessings be upon him) shoulders, and then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up with me. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up with me, it seemed to me that if I wished I could touch the horizon of the sky. I climbed on top of the Ka'bah, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) moved aside. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Throw down their biggest idol, the idol of Quraysh." It was made of copper and was fixed to the ground with iron pegs. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Pull it out." And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), encouraging me, was saying: "Well done, well done! 'Truth has come and falsehood has vanished; indeed, falsehood is ever bound to vanish.' [Surah al-Isra': 81] " I kept trying to pull it out until I got control of it. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Throw it down." I threw it down and it broke. Then I jumped down from the top of the Ka'bah. After that, I and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set off running quickly, fearing that someone from Quraysh or others might see us. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Since then, until this day, no one has climbed up onto it (the place of that idol).

The like of this (previous hadith) is also narrated from Shababah bin Sawwar. The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin Asid Abu Sarihah al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him); he said that I heard Sayyiduna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) recite this verse: "And We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf." [Surah al-Isra': 97] Then Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: And the truthful and the one confirmed as truthful (peace and blessings be upon him) narrated to me: "On the Day of Resurrection the people will be gathered in three groups: one group eating, clothed and riding; the second group of those walking and running; and the third group whom the angels will be dragging on their faces." We (the Companions) said: "We have recognised these two (the first and the third), but who will these walking and running ones be?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty will send down such a calamity upon the mounts (animals) that no mount will remain, to the extent that a man will be willing to give even his beautiful, beloved garden in exchange for a swift she-camel with a saddle." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said: "The Qur'an was sent down all at once (from the Preserved Tablet) to the lowest heaven, then after that it was sent down (little by little) over a period of twenty years." And concerning the saying of Allah Almighty: "And they do not bring you any example except that We bring you the truth and a better explanation" [Surah al-Furqan: 33] , he said that what is meant is this verse: "And (it is) a Qur'an which We have divided so that you may recite it to the people at intervals, and We have sent it down in stages." [Surah al-Isra': 106] The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever memorises the first ten verses of Surah al-Kahf has been protected from the Dajjal (from his trial)." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it!

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Surah al-Kahf on the day of Jumu'ah (Friday), light will be made to shine for him for the period between the two Fridays." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said concerning the saying of Allah Almighty: "And he will be given to drink of festering water, which he will try to gulp down." [Surah Ibrahim: 16-17] "It (the water) will be brought near to him and he will loathe it; then when it is brought closer to him, it will roast his face and the skin of his scalp will fall off; then when he drinks it, it will cut his intestines to pieces until they come out of his rear." Allah Almighty says: "And they will be given boiling water to drink, which will cut their intestines to pieces." [Surah Muhammad: 15] And Allah Almighty says: "And if they call for relief, they will be relieved with water like molten copper, which roasts the faces. How wretched the drink!" [Surah al-Kahf: 29] The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said that Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated to me that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) met al-Khidr (peace be upon him), a bird came and put its beak into the water. Al-Khidr (peace be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him): Reflect on what this bird is saying. Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) asked: What is it saying? Al-Khidr (peace be upon him) said: This bird is saying that your knowledge and the knowledge of Musa, compared to the knowledge of Allah, is only as much as my beak has taken from this water." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), and they did not record it!