Evidence from Qur'an and Sunnah
Sports:
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“A
strong believer is better and dearer to Allah than a weak one.”
(Reported by Muslim)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“So
shoot and ride, but your shooting is dearer to me than your riding.” (Reported by At-Tirmidhi)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
Allah
said: “And make ready against them all you can of power., then he (the
prophet) said: Hearken! power consists in archery, power consists in
archery, power consists in archery.”
(Reported
by Muslim)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Everything with which a man amuses himself is vain except three
(things):
a man's training of his horse, his playing with his wife, and his shooting
with his bow and arrow.”
(Reported by Abu Dawud)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Wager is allowed only in shooting arrows or racing camels, or hoof
(i. e. horse, ass, and mule).” (Reported by
At-Tirmidhi)
Salamah
Ibn Al-Akwa` (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“The Prophet passed by some
persons of the tribe of Aslam practicing archery (i.e. the throwing of
arrows) Allah's Messenger said: O offspring of Ishmael! Practice archery
(i.e. arrow throwing) as
your father was a great archer
(i.e. arrow-thrower).
I am with (on the side of)
the sons of so and so. Hearing
that, one of the two teams stopped throwing. Allah's Messenger asked them:
Why are you not throwing?
They replied: O Allah's Messenger!
How shall we throw when you are with the opposite team? He said:
Throw, for I am with you all.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari)
`Ali Ibn
Rukanah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“Rukanah wrestled with the Prophet
(peace be upon him)
and the Prophet (peace be upon
him) threw him on the ground.”
(Reported
by At-Tirmidhi)
Good manners toward sleeping:
Abu
Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“The Messenger of Allah
(peace be upon him)
considered it to be a disapproved
act to sleep immediately before the Evening prayer or indulge in
conversation after it.” (Reported by
Al-Bukhari)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“If
you go to bed perform the ablution for prayer, and then lie down on your
right side.” (Reported by Al-Bukhari
and Muslim)
The
Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) used to say this supplication when he
went to bed at night:
“With
Your Name, O Allah, I expire and return to life.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
On
waking up, he used to say:
“All
praise belongs to Allah Who has resorted us back to life after causing us to
die. Towards Him shall we return.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Upon
going to bed, he would lie down on his right side and say:
“O Allah! I have submitted myself to You. I have turned my face to You,
entrusted my affairs to You and committed my back to You out of desire and
fear of You (expecting Your
reward and fearing Your punishment).
There is no resort and no deliverer from (hardships) except You. I affirm my
faith in Your Book which You have revealed and in Your Prophet whom You have
sent.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Ya`ish
Ibn Tikhfah Al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) nattated:
“While I was lying in the mosque on my stomach, a man began to shake me with
his foot and then said: This is a method of lying which Allah hates. I
looked and saw that he was the Messenger of Allah
(peace be upon him).” (Reported by Abu Dawud)
The
Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said to Fatimah and `Ali (may Allah
be pleased with both of them) when they asked him for a servant to help them
in the housework:
“Shall
I teach you a thing which is better than what you have asked me? When you go
to bed, say: Allahu Akbar thirty-four times, and Subhan Allah thirty-three
times, and Al-Hamdu Lillah thirty-three times for that is better for you
both than a servant.” (Reported by Muslim)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Whoever gets up at night and says: La Ilaha Illa Allah Wahdahu La Sharika
Lahu, Lahu Al-Mulk, Wa Lahu Al-Hamd Wa Huwa `Ala Kulli Shay’in Qadir.
Al-Hamdu Lillahi Wa Subhanallahi Wa La Ilaha Illallah Wal-Lahu Akbar Wa La
Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah.
(None has the right to be
worshipped but Allah. He is the Only One and has no partners . For Him is
the Kingdom and all the praises are due for Him. He is Omnipotent. All the
praises are for Allah. All the glories are for Allah. And none has the right
to be worshipped but Allah, And Allah is the Greatest and there is neither
Might nor Power except with Allah), and then says:
Allahumma, Ighfir Li (O Allah!
Forgive me), or invokes (Allah), he will be responded to.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari)
Ibn
`Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“The
Prophet slept till midnight or nearly so and woke up rubbing his face and
recited the last ten verses from Surah Al-`Imran. The Prophet, then, went
towards a leather skin and performed ablution in the most perfect way and
then stood for the prayer.”
(Reported
by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Proper manners toward illness:
Invocation
and Ruqyah
(Divine speech recited as a means of incantation):
`A’ishah
(may Allah be pleased with her) narrated that whenever the Prophet (peace be
upon him) paid a visit to a patient or a patient is brought to him, he would
invoke Allah saying:
“O Allah! The Rabb (the Deity
Who created everything) of
mankind! Remove this disease and cure (him or her)! You are the Great Curer.
There is no cure but through You, which leaves behind no disease.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
`Uthman
Ibn Abi Al-`As (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“I complained to the Messenger of
Allah (peace be upon him) about a pain I had in my body.” The Messenger of
Allah (peace be upon him) said, “Place your hand where you feel pain and
say: Bismillah
(In the Name of Allah)
three times; and then repeat seven times: I seek refuge with Allah and with
His Power from the evil that afflicts me and that which I beware
(to take place in the future)
(i.e. grief and fear).” (Reported
by Muslim)
Abu
Sa`id Al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that Jibril
(Gabriel) came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said:
“O
Muhammad (peace be upon him)! Do you feel sick?” He (peace be upon him)
said: Yes.
Jibril supplicated thus (i.e., he
performed Ruqyah): Bismillahi
Arqika, Min Kulli Shay’in Yu’dhika, Min Sharri Kulli Nafsin Aw `Ayni
Hasidin, Allahu Yashfika, Bismillahi Arqika.
[With the Name of Allah. I recite
over you (to cleanse you) from all that troubles you, and from every harmful
Nafs (a person or a soul), and from the evil of the eyes of an envier. Allah
will cure you; and with the Name of Allah, I recite over you].” (Reported by Muslim)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“There
is no harm in the Ruqyah which does not smack of polytheism.”
(Reported by Muslim)
`Abdullah
Ibn Mas`ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“I
heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) saying:
Spells, charms, and love-potions are polytheism.”
(Reported
by Abu Dawud)
`Abdullah
Ibn Mas`ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“The
Prophet (peace be upon him) disliked ten things: Yellow coloring, meaning
Khaluq (a kind of perfume), dyeing grey hair, trailing the lower garment,
wearing a gold signet-ring, a woman decking herself before people who are
not within the prohibited degrees, throwing dice, using spells except with
the Mu`awwidhatayn (Surah Al-Falaq and Surah An-Nas), wearing amulets,
withdrawing the penis before the semen is discharged, in the case of a woman
who is a wife or not a wife (a female slave), and having intercourse with a
woman who is suckling a child; but he did not declare this to be
prohibited.”
(Reported by Abu Dawud)
Taking medicine:
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Allah
has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for
every disease, so treat yourselves medically, but use nothing unlawful.”
(Reported by Abu Dawud)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“There
is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its
treatment.” (Reported by
Al-Bukhari)
Jabir
(may Allah be pleased with him) narrated:
“The
Prophet (peace be upon him) sent a physician to Ubayy Ibn Ka`b and he cut
his vein and then cauterized it.”
(Reported
by Muslim)
Isolating
the ill persons:
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Do not put a patient with a healthy person
(as a precaution).”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“If
plague breaks out in a land, do not enter it, and if it appears in land in
which you happen to be, do not leave it.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Visiting
the ill person:
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Visit the sick, feed the hungry, and
(arrange for the)
release of the captive.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari)
Whenever
the Prophet (peace be upon him) visited an ailing person, he would say:
“No harm,
(it will be a) purification
(from sins),
if Allah wills.”
(Reported by Al-Bukhari)
The
Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“None
of you should die but with a good thought about Allah, the Exalted and
Almighty.” (Reported by Muslim)
