Introduction

Knowledge of al hadith is essential in an effort to understand Islam. They contain rules and regulations, when implemented, would give cause to a better understanding of everyday life. This is applicable, to the individual of a society and also to the society as a whole. The messages within the alhadith are for the benefit of both, individual and society.

The Quran was revealed to the Last Messenger Muhammad(peace be upon him) through the angel Gabriel.

The alhadith show us the diversities a single person can have, and the ways these diversities may be used to produce an optimal performance, where the performance is exemplary for future generations. This was one of the main tasks of the Last Messenger (peace be upon him), to guide humanity on the right path. Muhammad (peace be upon him) was a son, a husband, a father, an advisor, a warrior, a leader, a judge and most important of all, he was the Seal of the Prophets - the last messenger of Allah. A man with such a character and such a vast field of responsibility is indeed deserving of biographical study, and

through the ages, biographical researches have been carried out. The collection of alhadith is the result of these researchers. The study of alhadith is a science itself.

1. Islam is based on five things: the testimony that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is His servant and messenger, the observance of the prayer, the payment of Zakat, the pilgrimage, and the fast during Ramadan.(Bukhari, Muslim).

2. The Muslim is he from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe,and the Emigrant is he who abandons what God has prohibited.(Bukhari).

3. None of you believes till I am dearer to him than his father, his child and all mankind.(Bukhari, Muslim).

4. He who is not trustworthy has no Faith, and he who does not keep his Covenant has no religion.(Baihaqi).

5. What is Faith? When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer. What is Sin? When a thing disturbs (the peace of) your heart, give it up. (Ahmad).

6. The major sins are associating other objects of worship with God,

disobedience to parents, murder, and deliberate perjury. (Bukhari, Muslim).

7. There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. (Bukhari).

8. Avoid the seven noxious things.

(1) Associating anything with God,

(2) magic,

(3) killing one whom God has declared inviolate without a just cause,

(4) devouring usury,

(5) consuming the property of an orphan,

(6) running back from the battlefield and,

(7) slandering chaste women who are believers but indiscreet.(Bukhari, Muslim).

9. Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses. (Bukhari, Muslim).

10. When a man dies no further reward is recorded for his actions, with three exceptions: Sadqa which continues to be supplied, or knowledge from which benefit continues to be reaped, or the prayers of a good son to his dead father. (Muslim.

11. If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise. (Muslim).

12. He who goes out in search of knowledge is in God's path till he returns.(Tirmidhi, Darimi).

13. The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim. (Ibn Majah, Baihaqi).

14. The one who would have the worst position in God's sight on the Day of Resurrection would be a learned man who did not profit from his learning.(Darimi).

(DUA)

15. A man is granted supplication provided he does not ask for anything sinful or for breaking ties of relationship. (Muslim).

16. You have two characters which God likes; gentleness and deliberation. (Muslim).

17.Nothing but supplication averts the decree, and nothing but righteousness increases life.(Tirmidhi).

18.People will not sit remembering God without the angels surrounding them, mercy covering them, peace descending on them.(Muslim).

19.He who remembers his Lord and he who does not are like the living and dead.(Bukhari, Muslim).

20.Hadhrat Jaabir (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "The distinguishing factor between kufr and Imaan is the

deliberate neglect of Salaat."(Muslim).(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).

21.He who does a good deed will have ten times the amount of blessings, and I [God] shall give more, but he who does an evil deed will have an equivalent reward of evil, or I shall grant forgiveness. If anyone draws the length of a span near Me, I shall draw the length of a cubit near him, and if anyone draws the length of a cubit near Me, I shall draw the length of a fathom near him. If anyone comes to Me walking I shall come to him at a run, and if anyone meets me with sins of the size of the earth, but has not associated anythingwith Me, I shall meet him a similar amount of forgiveness.(Muslim).

22.Hadhrat Jaabir (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Salaat is the key to Jannat."

(Darami).