Best Hadith Sayings

#1. Saying of the Prophet
Death
Die before your death.

Idries Shah

#2. Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation.

Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi

#3. A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.

Hamza Yusuf

#4. Saying of the Prophet
Objects
It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Idries Shah

#5. Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

Idries Shah

#6. Saying of the Prophet
Desire
Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Idries Shah

#7. Mohammed had Sex with a Dead Woman Volume 13 Kanz Al-Ummal (the treasure of deeds) By Ali Bin Husam Ad-Din Al-Mufqi Al-Hindi, Published by Mu'assasa Ar-Risala. Beirut 1989. Pages 609-610 Hadith Numbers 37609-37611 Shirazi

Gary Cass

#8. Saying of the Prophet
Tasks
Whoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Idries Shah

#9. Saying of the Prophet
Practice
Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Idries Shah

#10. Saying of the Prophet
Humility
Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Idries Shah

#11. The best person is the one who benefits all human beings.

Anonymous

#12. Saying of the Prophet
Struggle
The holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

Idries Shah

#13. But even the most accurate ones are the word of Muhammad , not the word of Allah. We must not equate the hadith to the Quran.

Nabeel Qureshi

#14. Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Idries Shah

#15. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#16. When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

Anonymous

#17. The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic.

Joshua Cohen

#18. Saying of the Prophet
THE PEOPLE
It is the people who are God's family.
(Muhammad the Prophet)

Idries Shah

#19. Saying of the Prophet
Obligation to Learn
The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Idries Shah

#20. Saying of the Prophet
Truth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Idries Shah

#21. Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.

Rumi

#22. Saying of the Prophet
Accusations
Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Idries Shah

#23. Teaching:
One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.
Saying of the Prophet

Idries Shah

#24. Without the isnad, the hadith was considered worthless. Muslims put less stock into sirah literature than hadith specifically because sirah does not record isnad.

Nabeel Qureshi

#25. Isnad: The chain of transmission for a particular hadith Sahih Sittah: The six books of hadith that Sunni Muslims consider most authentic

Nabeel Qureshi

#26. Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.
(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)

Anonymous

#27. Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave

Anonymous

#28. The strongest man is the one who, when he gets angry and his face reddens and his hackles rise, is able to defeat his anger.
(Reported by Imaam Ahmad, 5/367, and classified as hasan in Saheeh al-Jaami', 3859)

Anonymous

#29. If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, go to them immediately, even if you must crawl over ice, because indeed amongst them is the Caliph, Al Mahdi. Then from the direction of the East will emerge black flags. FROM THE HADITH

Charles H. Dyer

#30. Like the pioneering Muslim scientists, Al Bukhari insisted on an empirical, organized method in the science of fiqh and hadith

Firas Alkhateeb

#31. Saying of the Prophet
Some behaviour
I am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.

Idries Shah

#32. Saying of the Prophet
Food
Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Idries Shah

#33. Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move an unwilling person who is like an ass carrying a load of books.

Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi

#34. Although the word Jihad standing by itself means "struggle," what Westerners need to focus on when reading the Hadith regarding Mohammed's Jihad is similar to the focus needed when reading Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolph Hitler.

Walid Shoebat