Narrated Masruq:
We were with `Abdullah and he said, "When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw the refusal of the people to accept Islam
he said, "O Allah! Send (famine) years on them for (seven years) like the seven years (of famine
during the time) of (Prophet) Joseph." So famine overtook them for one year and destroyed every kind
of life to such an extent that the people started eating hides, carcasses and rotten dead animals.
Whenever one of them looked towards the sky, he would (imagine himself to) see smoke because of
hunger. So Abu Sufyan went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Muhammad! You order people to obey Allah
and to keep good relations with kith and kin. No doubt the people of your tribe are dying, so please
pray to Allah for them." So Allah revealed: "Then watch you For the day that The sky will bring forth
a kind Of smoke Plainly visible ... Verily! You will return (to disbelief) On the day when We shall
seize You with a mighty grasp. (44.10-16) Ibn Mas`ud added, "Al-Batsha (i.e. grasp) happened in the
battle of Badr and no doubt smoke, Al-Batsha, Al-Lizam, and the verse of Surat Ar-Rum have all
passed .
Narrated Abu Huraira;:
Whenever the Prophet (p.b.u.h) lifted his head from the bowing in the last rak`a he used to say: "O
Allah! Save `Aiyash bin Abi Rabi`a. O Allah! Save Salama bin Hisham. O Allah! Save Walid bin
Wal…
Narrated Masruq:
One day I went to Ibn Mas`ud who said, "When Quraish delayed in embracing Islam, the Prophet (ﷺ) I
invoked Allah to curse them, so they were afflicted with a (famine) year because of which many of
them…
Masruq reported: We were sitting in the company of Abdullah and he was lying on the bed that a person came and said: Abd Abd al-Rabmin, a story-teller at the gates of Kinda says that the verse (of the Qur'an) which deals…
Masruq reported that there came to Abdullah a person and said: I have left behind in the mosque a man who explains the Qur'an according to his personal discretion and he explained this verse:" So wait for the day when th…
Ibn ‘Umar said : The prophet (ﷺ) passed by Ibn Sa’Id along with some of his companions. ‘Umar b. al-Kattab was among them. He was playing with boys near the fortress of Banu Maghalah. He was near the age of puberty (i.e.…
It was narrated from Ibn 'Umar, that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) passed by Ibn Sayyad with a group of his Companions – among them `Umar bin Al-Khattab – while he was playing with two boys at the fort of Banu Maghalah,…