Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Busr Bazani (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that two Bedouins came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). One of them said: "Which people are the best?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Glad tidings and happiness are for the person whose life is long and whose deeds are good." The other asked: "Which deed is the best?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best deed is that when you depart from this world, your tongue is moist with the remembrance of Allah, the Exalted."

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say:“Allah the Exalted has said: O son of Adam! As long as you call upon Me and remain hopeful of Me, I will continue to forgive you, whatever your sins may be, and I will not mind. O son of Adam! If your sins reach up to the heights of the sky, then you seek forgiveness from Me, I will forgive you without caring. O son of Adam! If you come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth, and meet Me not associating anything with Me, I will grant you forgiveness as great as that.”

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) says: The Quraysh said to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Pray to your Lord that the mountain of Safa becomes gold, (if this happens) we will believe in you. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“(Really) will you do so?”They said: Yes. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed, Jibreel (peace be upon him) came and said: Your Lord sends you greetings, and also said: If you wish, the mountain of Safa will become gold for them, but after this miracle, whoever disbelieves, I will punish him with such a punishment as I have not given to anyone in the worlds; and if you wish, I will keep the door of repentance and mercy open for them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“(Alright, instead of this miracle) I want the door of repentance and mercy.”

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Those who narrate stories (preachers and sermon-givers) are of three types: ① The commander, ② The one who is commanded, and ③ The arrogant."

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Companions came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said:“O Messenger of Allah! By the Lord of the Ka‘bah, we have perished.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked:“How is that?”They said:“We fear hypocrisy and double-facedness.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“Do you not bear witness that Allah is the only true deity and that I am the Messenger of Allah?”They said:“Of course.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“That is not hypocrisy.”They repeated their statement, saying:“O Messenger of Allah! By the Lord of the Ka‘bah, we have perished.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked:“How is that?”They said:“We fear hypocrisy, hypocrisy.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“Do you not bear witness that Allah is the only true deity and that I am the Messenger of Allah?”They said:“Of course.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“That is not hypocrisy.”They repeated this a third time, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the same reply:“That is not hypocrisy.”They explained in detail, saying:“O Messenger of Allah! When we are with you, we are in a particular (religious) state, but when we leave your presence, the world and its people make us sorrowful and worried.”The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“If you were to remain in the same (Islamic) state after leaving me as you are in my gathering, then the angels would shake hands with you in the streets of Madinah.”

Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse: «ارْجِعْ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَاسْأَلْهُ مَا بَالُ النِّسْوَةِ اللَّاتِي قَطَّعْنَ أَيْدِيَهُنَّ إِنَّ رَبِّي بِكَيْدِهِنَّ عَلِيمٌ» "(Yusuf said:) Return to your king and ask him what is the case of the women who cut their hands. Surely, my Lord is All-Knowing of their plot." (12-Yusuf:50) Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If I were in his place, I would have accepted quickly and would not have sought an excuse."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) that some people from the tribe of Banu Udhrah came to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and accepted Islam. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Who will take care of them?" Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I will." They stayed with Talhah. One day, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sent out an army, and one of them joined it and was martyred. (After some time) the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sent out another army, and another one of them joined it and he too was martyred. Then (after some time) the third man died a natural death on his bed. Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I saw all three of them in Paradise in a dream. What I saw was that the one who died a natural death on his bed was ahead of the others, behind him was the one who was martyred second, and at the end was the one who was martyred first. I was greatly concerned about these ranks, so I came to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and related this dream. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Why are you surprised at this? The most virtuous among them is the believer who is granted a life in Islam, because he continues to say «سبحان الله، الحمدلله، لا اله الا الله» throughout his life."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A servant does not seek refuge from the Fire seven times in a day except that the Fire says: O my Lord! Your such-and-such servant has sought refuge with You from me, so grant him refuge. Likewise, when a person asks Allah for Paradise seven times in a day, Paradise says: O my Lord! Your such-and-such servant has asked You for me, so admit him into Paradise."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zubair bin Al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever likes that his record of deeds should please him, then he should seek forgiveness abundantly."

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us while we were sitting, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whenever I enter the morning, I seek forgiveness from Allah one hundred times."