Partial Translation of Sahih Muslim, Book 25:

On Salutations And Greetings (Kitab As-Salam)


Book 25, Number 5375:

Narrated AbuTalhah:

While We were sitting in front of the house and talking amongst ourselves, Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) happened to come there. He stood by us and said: What about you and your meetings on the path? Avoid these meetings on the paths. We said: We were sitting here without (any intention of doing harm to the passers-by); we are sitting to discuss matters and to hold conversation amongst ourselves. Thereupon he said: If there is no help (for you but to sit on these paths), then give the paths their rights and these are lowering of the gaze, exchanging of greetings and good conversation.


Book 25, Number 5388:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Some people from amongst the Jews said to Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) AbulQasim, as-Samu Alaykum, whereupon he said: Wa Alaykum. Aisha was enraged and asked him (Allah's Apostle) whether he had not heard what they had said. He said, I did hear and I retorted to them (and the curse that I invoked upon them would receive response from (Allah), but (the curse that they invoked upon us) would not be responded.


Book 25, Number 5389:

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.


Book 25, Number 5393:

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:

The Messenger of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said to me: The sign that you have been permitted to come in is that the curtain is raised or that you hear me speaking quietly until I forbid you.


Book 25, Number 5399:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: Behold, no person should spend the night with a married woman, but only in case he is married to her or he is her Mahram.


Book 25, Number 5403:

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

Some persons from Banu Hisham entered the house of Asma' daughter of Umays when AbuBakr also entered (and she was at that time his wife). He (AbuBakr) saw it and disapproved of it and he made a mention of that to Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) and said: I did not see but good only (in my wife).

Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: Verily Allah has made her immune from all this. Then Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) stood on the pulpit and said: After this day no man should enter the house of another person in his absence, but only when he is accompanied by one person or two persons.


Book 25, Number 5404:

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

When Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) was in the company of one of his wives a person happened to pass by them. He called him and when he came, he said to him: O! so and so, she was my such and such wife. Thereupon he said, Allah's Messenger, if I were to doubt at all, I would have entertained no doubt about you at least. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: Verily Satan circulates in the body like blood.


Book 25, Number 5413:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) said: None amongst you should make his brother stand on Friday (during the congregational prayer) and then occupy his place, but he should only say to him (Accommodate me).


Book 25, Number 5414:

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: When anyone amongst you stands up, and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of AbuAwanah, the words are: "He who stands in his place and (goes away) and then comes back to it, he has the greatest right (to occupy that).


Book 25, Number 5416:

Narrated Aisha:

A eunuch used to come to the wives of Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) and they did not find anything objectionable in his visit considering him to be a male without any sexual desire.

Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) one day came as he was sitting with some of his wives and he was busy in describing the bodily characteristics of a lady and saying: As she comes in front four folds appear on her front side and as she turns her back eight folds appear on the back side.

Thereupon Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) said: I see that he knows these things; do not, therefore, allow him to enter. She (Aisha) said: Then they began to observe veil from him.


Book 25, Number 5424:

Narrated Aisha:

When Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) fell ill, Gabriel used to recite these verses: "In the name of Allah, He may cure you from all kinds of illness and safeguard you from the evil of a jealous one when he feels jealous and from the evil influence of eye.


Book 25, Number 5425:

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:

Gabriel came to Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) and said: Muhammad, have you fallen ill? Thereupon he said: Yes. He (Gabriel) said: "In the name of Allah I exorcise you from everything and safeguard you from every evil that may harm you and from the eye of a jealous one. Allah would cure you and I invoke the name of Allah for you."


Book 25, Number 5427:

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: The influence of an evil eyes is a fact; if anything would precede the destiny it would be the influence of an evil eye, and when you are asked to take bath (as a cure) from the influence of an evil eye, you should take bath.


Book 25, Number 5448:

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

In connection with incantation Anas reported that he had been granted sanction (to use incantation as a remedy) for the sting of the scorpion and for curing small pustules and dispelling the influence of an evil eye.


Book 25, Number 5451:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) granted sanction to the family of Hazm for incantation (in mitigating the effect of the poison of) the snake, and, he said to Asma' daughter of Umays: What is this that I see the children of my brother lean? Are they not fed properly? She said: No, but they fall under the influence of an evil eye. He said: Use incantation she recited (the words of incantation before him), whereupon he (by approving them) said: Yes, use this incantation for them.


Book 25, Number 5452:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) granted a special sanction for incantation in case of the snake poison to a tribe of Amr.

AbuzZubayr said: I heard Jabir ibn Abdullah as saying that the scorpion stung one of us as we were sitting with Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him). A person said: Allah's Messenger, I use incantation (for curing the effect of sting), whereupon he said: He who is competent amongst you to benefit his brother should do so.


Book 25, Number 5457:

Narrated Awf ibn Malik Ashja:

We practised incantation in the pre-Islamic days and we said: Allah's Messenger, what is your opinion about it? He said: Let me know your incantation and said: There is no harm in the incantation which does not smack of polytheism.


Book 25, Number 5462:

Narrated Uthman ibn Abul'As ath-Thaqafi:

Uthman made a complaint of pain to Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) which he felt in his body at the time he had become Muslim. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: Place your hand at the place where you feel pain in your body and say Bismillah (in the name of Allah) three times, and seven times: I seek refuge with Allah and with His Power from the evil that I find and that I fear.


Book 25, Number 5463:

Narrated Uthman ibn Abul'As:

Uthman came to Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) and said: Allah's Messenger, the Satan intervenes between me and my prayer and my reciting of the Qur'an and he confounds me. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: That is (the doing of the Satan) who is known as Khinzab, and when you perceive its effect, seek refuge with Allah from it and spit three times to your left. I did that and Allah dispelled that from me.


Book 25, Number 5466:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: There is a remedy for every malady, and when the remedy is applied to the disease it is cured with the permission of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.


Book 25, Number 5469:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Umm Salamah sought permission from Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) for getting herself cupped. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) asked AbuTaybah to cup her.

He (Jabir) said: I think he (AbuTaybah) was her foster brother or a young boy before entering upon the adolescent period.


Book 25, Number 5470:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) sent a physician to Ubayy ibn Ka'b. He cut the vein and then cauterised it.


Book 25, Number 5473:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Sa'd ibn Mu'adh received a wound of the arrow in his vein. Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) cauterised it with a rod and it was swollen, so the Messenger of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) did it for the second time.


Book 25, Number 5514:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: There is no transitive disease, no ill omen, no ghoul.


Book 25, Number 5531:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: If bad luck were to be in anything, it is found in the land, in the servant and in the horse.


Book 25, Number 5540:

Narrated Safiyyah:

Safiyyah reported from some of the wives of Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) that Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who visits a diviner (Arraf) and asks him about anything, his prayers extending to forty nights will not be accepted.


Book 25, Number 5541:

Narrated Ash-Sharid:

There was in the delegation of Thaqif a leper. Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) sent a message to him: We have accepted your allegiance, so you may go.


Book 25, Number 5542:

Narrated Aisha:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) commanded the killing of a snake having stripes over it, for it affects eyesight and miscarries pregnancy.


Book 25, Number 5555:

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) commanded a Muhrim (one who is in the state of pilgrimage) to kill the snake at Mina.


Book 25, Number 5562:

Narrated Sa'd ibn AbuWaqqas:

Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) commanded the killing of geckos, and he called them little noxious creatures.


Book 25, Number 5564:

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who killed a gecko with the first stroke for him is such and such a reward, and he who killed it with a second stroke for him is such and such reward less than the first one, and he who killed it with the third stroke for him is such and such a reward less than the second one.


Book 25, Number 5573:

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: A woman was punished because of a cat. She had neither provided her with food nor drink, nor set her free so that she might eat the insects of the earth.


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