Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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HORSES - ...from the Hadith Abu Qatada(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) of Allah said: " The best of horses is black with a white forehead and having a white upper lip, next to that a black horse with a white forehead and white legs. If it is not black, it is a bay(ie.reddish brown colour- approaching chestnut) horse with these marks." (Tirmizi) Abu Wahab Juhami(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) of Allah said: " You should get a bay horse with white forehead and white fore and hind legs, or red horse with white forhead and white legs, or black horse with white forehead and legs." (Abu Dawood, Nisaai) Ibn Abbaas(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) of Allah said: " The fortune of horses is in it's redness." (Tirmizi, Abu Dawood) Abu Wahab al-Joshami(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) of Allah said: " Tie up horses and pass your hand over their forelocks and their humps, and adorn them with belts, and odorn them not with odd belts." (Abu Dawood, Nisaai) Utbah bin Abdus Sulami(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) of Allah said: " Don't cut short the forelocks of horses, nor of their tails, because the tails keep off the flies, and regarding manes, they keep them warm, and blessings are interwoven with the hairs of their foreheads." ( Abu Dawood) Uqbah bin Âmir(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the messenger of Allâh (Azza wa jall) said: "Everything with which a man plays is unlawful except his shooting with arrows, and his training his horse, and his sporting with his wife; and verily these are of the truths." (Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood,Ibn Majah) Anas bin Malik(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Prophet (Sallallâhu alaihi wasallam) said, "There is blessing in the forelocks of horses(meant for Jihad)." (Ahmad, Bukhari) Ibn 'Umar(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) of Allah said: "There will be great benefit(good) in the forelock of horses(for Jihad) until the Day of Judgment." (Muslim, Bukhari) Urwah Al-Bariqi(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Prophet(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: "Great good is attached to the forelock of horses(for Jihad) until the Day of Judgment, by which both reward(in the Hereafter) and booty(in this world) are gained." (Bukhari) Abu Hurairah(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that the Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) of Allah said: " Whoso keeps a horse confined in the way of Allah(for Jihaad) out of belief in Allah and belief in His covenant, then verilt it's surfeit, it;s drops, it's dung and it's urine will be in his balance(of deeds) on the Resurrection Day." (Bukhari) Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said, " Horses are kept for one of three purposes; for some people they are a source of reward, for some others they are a means of shelter and for some others they are a source of sins. The one for whom they are a source of reward, is he who keeps a horse for Allah's Cause (i.e. Jihad) tying it with a long tether on a meadow or in a garden with the result that whatever it eats from the area of the meadow or the garden where it is tied will be counted as good deeds for his benefit, and if it should break its rope and jump over one or two hillocks then all its dung and its foot marks will be written as good deeds for him; and if it passes by a river and drinks water from it even though he had no intention of watering it, even then he will get the reward for its drinking. As for the man for whom horses are a source of sins, he is the one who keeps a horse for the sake of pride and pretense and showing enmity for Muslims: such a horse will be a source of sins for him." (Bukhari)