Het neusje van de zalm onder de hadiths
Hier volgt een selectie van sahih, oftewel authentieke, hadiths die episodes uit het leven van Mohammed vertellen. De islam beschouwt hem als de grootste mens die ooit heeft geleefd, en hij was het daar niet mee oneens: hij noemde zichzelf de meester van de kinderen van Adam en voegde er bescheiden aan toe dat hij niet opschepte (Sahih Muslim 2278; Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3615).
De hadiths leggen ook zijn leringen vast, en de goeroe van de islam liet niets aan het toeval over, zelfs niet de meest intieme zaken. Hoe moet je je afvegen nadat je je behoefte hebt gedaan? Met stenen, minstens drie, en nooit met de rechterhand (Sahih Muslim 262). In een oneven aantal (Sahih al-Bukhari 162). Nooit met bot of mest, want dat is voedsel voor de djinn (Sahih al-Bukhari 3860). De polytheïsten van zijn tijd hadden het al opgemerkt:
“Jullie Apostel leert jullie over alles, zelfs over uitwerpselen.”— Opmerking tegen Salman al-Farsi, die antwoordde: “Ja” (Sahih Muslim 262)
Het werd tijd. Met slechts 86 miljard neuronen had de mensheid zo’n ingewikkelde procedure nooit zelf kunnen bedenken. Moslims noemen het tijdperk vóór de islam de Jahiliyya, het Tijdperk van Onwetendheid. Nu weten we waarvan.
Jezus sprak alleen over de latrine om te zeggen dat wat daar terechtkomt niemand onrein maakt: wat een mens onrein maakt, komt uit zijn hart (Marcus 7:18-23). Daarna ging hij weer verder met het prediken van naastenliefde. Met alle respect voor de Zoon van God: er is meer in het leven dan liefde. Zes eeuwen later brachten Allah en zijn Boodschapper het gesprek terug naar praktische zaken. Mohammed blijft verreweg de meest pragmatische profeet die de God van Abraham ooit heeft gezonden.
Pas deze hadiths toe en je leven kan zomaar veranderen: Mohammed was een geduchte lifecoach. Maar verwacht geen spiritualiteit. Je vindt er nuchtere instructies en dreigementen, de specialiteit van het huis. Ook hier is het contrast met Jezus totaal. Zou Mohammed de Antichrist kunnen zijn? Hij zou een overtuigende kandidaat zijn. Volgens de eerste brief van Johannes “loochent” de antichrist “de Vader en de Zoon” (1 Johannes 2:22), en Allah “verwekt niet en is niet verwekt” (Koran 112:3). In de 8e eeuw noemde Johannes van Damascus de islam al “een voorloper van de Antichrist”.
Het origineel van elke hadith is na te gaan op sunnah.com.
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Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah
While we were praying (Jumua Khutba & prayer) with the Prophet (p.b.u.h), some camels loaded with food, arrived (from Sham). The people diverted their attention towards the camels (and left the mosque), and only twelve persons remained with the Prophet. So this verse was revealed: "But when they see Some bargain or some amusement, They disperse headlong to it, And leave you standing." (S62,V11)
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Narrated Anas bin Malik
“Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) never proceeded (for the prayer) on the Day of `Id-ul-Fitr unless he had eaten some dates. Anas also narrated: The Prophet (ﷺ) used to eat odd number of dates.”
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Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah
“On the Day of `Id the Prophet (ﷺ) used to return (after offering the `Id prayer) through a way different from that by which he went.”
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Narrated Anas bin Malik
In the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (p.b.u.h) the people were afflicted with a (famine) year. While the Prophet was delivering the Khutba (sermon) on the pulpit on a Friday, a Bedouin stood up and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! The livestock are dying and the families (offspring) are hungry: please pray to Allah to bless us with rain." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) raised both his hands towards the sky and at that time there was not a trace of cloud in they sky. Then the clouds started gathering like mountains. Before he got down from the pulpit I saw rainwater trickling down his beard. It rained that day, the next day, the third day, the fourth day and till the next Friday, when the same Bedouin or some other person stood up (during the Friday Khutba) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! The houses have collapsed and the livestock are drowned. Please invoke Allah for us." So Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) raised both his hands and said, "O Allah! Around us and not on us." Whichever side the Prophet (ﷺ) directed his hand, the clouds dispersed from there till a hole (in the clouds) was formed over Medina. The valley of Qanat remained flowing (with water) for one month and none, came from outside who didn't talk about the abundant rain.
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Narrated `Aisha
In the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (p.b.u.h) the sun eclipsed, so he (Muhammad) led the people in prayer, and stood up and performed a long Qiyam, then bowed for a long while. He stood up again and performed a long Qiyam but this time the period of standing was shorter than the first. He bowed again for a long time but shorter than the first one, then he prostrated and prolonged the prostration. He did the same in the second rak`a as he did in the first and then finished the prayer; by then the sun (eclipse) had cleared. He delivered the Khutba (sermon) and after praising and glorifying Allah he said, "The sun and the moon are two signs against the signs of Allah; they do not eclipse on the death or life of anyone. So when you see the eclipse, remember Allah and say Takbir, pray and give Sadaqa." The Prophet then said, "O followers of Muhammad! By Allah! There is none who has more ghaira (selfrespect) than Allah as He has forbidden that His slaves, male or female commit adultery (illegal sexual intercourse). O followers of Muhammad! By Allah! If you knew that which I know you would laugh little and weep much.
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Narrated `Abdullah
A person was mentioned before the Prophet (p.b.u.h) and he was told that he had kept on sleeping till morning and had not got up for the prayer. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Satan urinated in his ears."
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Narrated Abu Huraira
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "When the call for prayer is made, Satan takes to his heels passing wind (he farts) so that he may not hear the Adhan and when the call is finished he comes back, and when the Iqama is pronounced, Satan again takes to his heels, and when the Iqama is finished he comes back again and tries to interfere with the person and his thoughts and say, "Remember this and that (which he has not thought of before the prayer)", till the praying person forgets how much he has prayed. If anyone of you does not remember whether he has offered three or four rak`at then he should perform two prostrations of Sahu while sitting.
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Narrated Um Salama
The Prophet (ﷺ) vowed to keep aloof from his wives for a period of one month, and after the completion of 29 days he went either in the morning or in the afternoon to his wives. Someone said to him "You vowed that you would not go to your wives for one month." He replied, "The month is of 29 days."
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Narrated `Aisha
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "An army will invade the Ka`ba and when the invaders reach Al-Baida', all the ground will sink and swallow the whole army." I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! How will they sink into the ground while amongst them will be their markets (the people who worked in business and not invaders) and the people not belonging to them?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "all of those people will sink but they will be resurrected and judged according to their intentions."
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Narrated Abu Huraira
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The congregational prayer of anyone amongst you is more than twenty five (or twenty seven) times in reward than his prayer in the market or in his house, for if he performs ablution completely and then goes to the mosque with the sole intention of performing the prayer, and nothing urges him to proceed to the mosque except the prayer, then, on every step which he takes towards the mosque, he will be raised one degree or one of his sins will be forgiven. The angels will keep on asking Allah's forgiveness and blessings for everyone of you so long as he keeps sitting at his praying place. The angels will say, 'O Allah, bless him! O Allah, be merciful to him!' as long as he does not do Hadath (fart) or a thing which gives trouble to the other." The Prophet (ﷺ) further said, "One is regarded in prayer so long as one is waiting for the prayer."
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Narrated `Aisha
Hind, the mother of Mu'awiya said to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), "Abu Sufyan (her husband) is a miser. Am I allowed to take from his money secretly?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said to her, "You and your sons may take what is sufficient reasonably and fairly."
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Narrated Zaid bin Khalid and Abu Huraira
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "O Unais! Go to the wife of this (man) and if she confesses (that she has committed illegal sexual intercourse), then stone her to death."
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Narrated Hudhaifa
“I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) coming (or the Prophet (ﷺ) came) to the dumps of some people and urinated there while standing.”
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Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah
“A man amongst us declared that his slave would be freed after his death. The Prophet (ﷺ) called for that slave and sold him. The slave died the same year.”
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Narrated `Abdur-Rahman bin Abu Bakr
We were one-hundred and thirty persons accompanying the Prophet (ﷺ) who asked us whether anyone of us had food. There was a man who had about a Sa of wheat which was mixed with water then. A very tall pagan came driving sheep. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, "Will you sell us (a sheep) or give it as a present?" He said, "I will sell you (a sheep)." The Prophet (ﷺ) bought a sheep and it was slaughtered. The Prophet ordered that its liver and other Abdominal organs be roasted. By Allah, the Prophet (ﷺ) gave every person of the one-hundred-and-thirty a piece of that; he gave all those of them who were present; and kept the shares of those who were absent. The Prophet (ﷺ) then put its meat in two huge basins and all of them ate to their fill, and even then more food was left in the two basins which were carried on the camel (or said something like it).
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Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr
That Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "There are forty virtuous deeds and the best of them is the Maniha of a shegoat, and anyone who does one of these virtuous deeds hoping for Allah's reward with firm confidence that he will get it, then Allah will make him enter Paradise because of Hassan (a subnarrator) said, "We tried to count those good deeds below the Maniha; we mentioned replying to the sneezer, removing harmful things from the road, etc., but we failed to count even fifteen."
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Narrated Anas
It was said to the Prophet (ﷺ) "Would that you see `Abdullah bin Ubai." So, the Prophet (ﷺ) went to him, riding a donkey, and the Muslims accompanied him, walking on salty barren land. When the Prophet (ﷺ) reached `Abdullah bin Ubai, the latter said, "Keep away from me! By Allah, the bad smell of your donkey has harmed me." On that an Ansari man said (to `Abdullah), "By Allah! The smell of the donkey of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) is better than your smell." On that a man from `Abdullah's tribe got angry for `Abdullah's sake, and the two men abused each other which caused the friends of the two men to get angry, and the two groups started fighting with sticks, shoes and hands. We were informed that the following Divine Verse was revealed (in this concern):-- "And if two groups of Believers fall to fighting then, make peace between them." (49.9)
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Narrated Aisha
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If somebody innovates something which is not in harmony with the principles of our religion, that thing is rejected."
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Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews until some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O `Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.'"
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Narrated `Ikrima
`Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn `Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'Don't punish (anybody) with Allah's Punishment.' No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "
