ABU HURAYRA


PREFACE 11
ABU HURAYRA 23
HIS NAME AND GENEALOGY 23
HIS EARLY LIFE, BEING MUSLIM AND HIS COMPANIONSHIP WITH THE PROPHET 25
AT THE TIME OF THE PROPHET (S) 25
THE AGE OF THE FIRST TWO CALIPHS 30
AT THE AGE OF OTHMAN 31
AT THE AGE OF ALI 34
AT THE AGE OF MU'AWIYA 37
THE UMAYYADS' FAVORS 41
THANKING THE FAVORS OF THE UMAYYADS 43
QUANTITY OF HIS TRADITIONS 49
QUALITY OF HIS TRADITIONS 56
1. ALLAH CREATED ADAM LIKE HIS OWN IMAGE 56
NOTES 59
2. SEEING ALLAH IN THE DAY OF RESURRECTION IN DIFFERENT IMAGES 60
A WORD ABOUT SEEING ALLAH 62
3. HELL WON'T BE FULL UNTIL ALLAH PUTS HIS LEG IN IT 63
4. ALLAH DESCENDS TO THE LOWER HEAVEN EVERY NIGHT 64
5. SOLOMON BREAKS HIS FATHER DAVID'S VERDICT 65
NOTE 68
6 . SOLOMON GOES TO BED WITH A HUNDRED WOMEN IN ONE NIGHT 70
7 . MOSES SLAPS THE ANGEL OF DEATH 71
8. A ROCK RUNS AWAY WITH MOSES' CLOTHS 73
9 . PEOPLE RESORT TO THE PROPHETS HOPING THEIR INTERCESSION 75
10. DOUBT OF PROPHETS, CRITICISING LOT, PREFERRING YOUSUF TO MUHAMMAD IN PATIENCE 79
11. GOLD LOCUSTS FALLING DOWN OVER AYYOUB 84
12. CRITICIZING MOSES FOR BURNING THE VILLAGE OF ANTS 84
13 . THE PROPHET FORGETS TWO SECTIONS OF THE PRAYER 86
14 . PROPHET MUHAMMAD HURT, WHIPPED, ABUSED AND CURSED INNOCENT PEOPLE 90
15. SATAN COMES TO DISTURB THE PROPHET'S PRAYERS 97
16. THE PROPHET MISSES THE FAJR (DAWN) PRAYER 105
17 . A COW AND A WOLF SPEAK IN ELOQUENT ARABIC 111
18 . MAKING ABU BAKR EMIR OF HAJJ 112
19 . THE ANGELS TALK WITH OMAR 128
20 . THE HERITAGE OF THE PROPHET IS FOR CHARITY 129
21 . ABU TALIB REFUSES TO SAY SHAHADA 135
22 . THE PROPHET WARNS HIS TRIBE 136
23. THE ABYSSINIANS PLAY IN THE MOSQUE 137
24 . ABROGATION BEFORE THE TIME OF PERFORMANCE 137
25 . DOING A THING IN UNBELIEVABLE PERIOD 137
26 . A NATION WAS METAMORPHOSED INTO MICE 139
27 . THEY DENY HIS TRADITION, SO HE CHANGES HIS MIND 139
28 . TWO CONTRADICTORY TRADITIONS 140
29 . TWO NEWBORN BABIES TALKING ABOUT THE UNSEEN 141
30 . THE SATAN STEALS FOR HIS HUNGRY CHILDREN 142
31 . HIS MOTHER BECOMES A MUSLIM BY THE PROPHET'S PRAY 144
32 . THE SERVANT OF ABU HURAYRA 147
33 . AN IMAGINATIVE STORY ABOUT CHARITY 148
34 . ANOTHER FABLE ABOUT GOOD RESULTS OF FIDELITY 149
35 . A THIRD FABLE ABOUT GOOD RESULTS OF GRATEFULNESS 150
36 . A FOURTH IMAGINATIVE STORY ABOUT INJUSTICE 151
37. A FIFTH IMAGINATIVE ONE ABOUT MERCY 151
38. ANOTHER ONE LIKE THE PREVIOUS 152
39. ALLAH FORGIVES AN EXCESSIVE UNBELIEVER 152
40. ALLAH FORGIVES A SINFUL MAN FOR EVER 153
HIS MUSNAD IS LIKE HIS MURSAL 159
HIS PRETENSE OF ATTENDING SOME EVENTS 161
THE FOREMUSLIMS DENY HIS TRADITIONS 165
HIS PROTEST AGAINST HIS ACCUSERS 174
A LOOK AT HIS VIRTUES 183
HIS DROLLERIES 186
HIS DEATH AND HIS OFFSPRING 189
CONCLUSION 191