It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that we used to participate in battles with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and there were no women with us. Once we said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! Should we not get ourselves castrated? The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade us from doing so. Later, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) permitted us, for a specific period, to marry women in exchange for garments. Then he recited this verse: «﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تُحَرِّمُوا طَيِّبَاتِ مَا أَحَلَّ اللّٰهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَعْتَدُوا إِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُعْتَدِينَ﴾» [المائدة: 87] “O you who believe! Do not make unlawful the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, and do not transgress. Indeed, Allah does not like transgressors.”

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that once, at night, we stayed late talking at the house of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When we came in the morning, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Last night, various noble Prophets (peace be upon them) were presented before me along with their nations. So, a Prophet passed by and only three men were with him, another Prophet passed by and he had a small group with him, another Prophet passed by and he had a group with him, and there was a Prophet with whom there was not even a single person. Then Musa (peace be upon him) passed by me, and with him was a very large number of the Children of Israel. Seeing this, I was amazed and I asked: 'Who are these people?' I was told that these are your brother Musa and the people of the Children of Israel with him. I asked: 'Then where is my Ummah?' I was told: 'Look to your right.' I looked to my right and saw a mound filled with faces of people. Then I was told: 'Look to your left.' I looked to my left and saw the horizon filled with faces of people. Then I was told: 'Are you pleased?' I said: 'O Lord! I am pleased, I am happy.' Then I was told: 'With these people, there will also be seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning.'"

Upon hearing this, Sayyiduna 'Ukasha bin Mihsan Asadi (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Pray to Allah that He includes me among them." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Allah! Include him among them." Then another man stood up and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Pray to Allah that He includes me among them." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "'Ukasha has preceded you."

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a snake in the plain of Mina and ordered it to be killed.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that once he was picking miswak sticks from the Arak tree, and his shins were thin; when the wind blew, he would stagger, and people began to laugh at this. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked, "Why are you laughing?" The people said, "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! At the thinness of his shins." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, these two shins will be heavier on the scale of deeds than Mount Uhud."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that I heard a man reciting Surah Al-Ahqaf; he was reciting it in a different manner. Another man was reciting it in another way, which was different from his companion, and I was reciting it in a third way, different from the way both of them were reciting. We went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him about it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) became angry, the color of his blessed face changed, and he said: "Do not differ, for those before you were destroyed because of their differences." Zur says that there was a man sitting with them, he said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commands you that each of you should recite the Qur'an as he has been taught, for it was only differences that destroyed those before you. Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I do not know whether this was something the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) specifically stated to them or if it was his own opinion.

The previous hadith is also narrated through another chain of transmission.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that one of the people of Suffah passed away, and people found two dinars in his sheet. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "These are two coals of Hell."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed the women and said: "Whoever among you has three children who have died, Allah will admit her to Paradise." The oldest woman among them spoke up and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Will the one who has lost two children also enter Paradise?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The one with two (children) will also enter Paradise."