While we were with Allah's Apostle in a cave, Surat ''Wal Mursalat'' was revealed to him and we received it directly from his mouth as soon as he had received the revelation. Suddenly a snake came out and Allah's Apostle said, ''Get at it and kill it!'' We ran to kill it but it outstripped us. Allah's Apostle said, ''It has escaped your evil, as you too, have escaped its.''

Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me when the people! of Yamama had been killed (i.e., a number of the Prophet's Companions who fought against Musailama). (I went to him) and found Umar bin Al-Khattab sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said (to me), ''Umar has come to me and said: ''Casualties were heavy among the Qurra' of the! Qur'an (i.e. those who knew the Quran by heart) on the day of the Battle of Yalmama, and I am afraid that more heavy casualties may take place among the Qurra' on other battlefields, whereby a large part of the Qur'an may be lost. Therefore I suggest, you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur'an be collected.'' I said to Umar, ''How can you do something which Allah's Apostle did not do?'' Umar said, ''By Allah, that is a good project. ''Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till Allah opened my chest for it and I began to realize the good in the idea which Umar had realized.'' Then Abu Bakr said (to me). You are a wise young man and we do not have any suspicion about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah's Apostle. So you should search for (the fragmentary scripts of) the Qur'an and collect it in one book).'' By Allah If they had ordered me to shift one of the mountains, it would not have been heavier for me than this ordering me to collect the Qur'an. Then I said to Abu Bakr, ''How will you do something which Allah's Apostle did not do?'' Abu Bakr replied, ''By Allah, it is a good project.'' Abu Bakr kept on urging me to accept his idea until Allah opened my chest for what He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and Umar. So I started looking for the Qur'an and collecting it from (what was written on) palmed stalks, thin white stones and also from the men who knew it by heart, till I found the last Verse of Surat At-Tauba (Repentance) with Abi Khuzaima Al-Ansari, and I did not find it with anybody other than him. The Verse is: Verily there has come unto you an Apostle (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty..(till the end of Surat-Baraa' (At-Tauba) (9.128-129) Then the complete manuscripts (copy) of the Qur'an remained with Abu Bakr till he died, then with Umar till the end of his life, and then with Hafsa, the daughter of Umar.

I asked Mujahid regarding the prostration in Surat Sad. He said, ''I asked Ibn Abbas, What evidence makes you prostrate?' He said, ''Don't you recite:–'And among his progeny, David and Solomon..(6.84). Those are they whom Allah had guided. So follow their guidance.' (6.90) So David was the one of those prophets whom Prophet (Muhammad) was ordered to follow. David prostrated, so Allah's Apostle (Muhammad) performed this prostration too.'

The Prophet said, ''Angels keep on descending from and ascending to the Heaven in turn, some at night and some by daytime, and all of them assemble together at the time of the Fajr and Asr prayers. Then those who have stayed with you over-night, ascent unto Allah Who asks them, and He knows the answer better than they, ''How have you left My slaves?'' They reply, ''We have left them praying as we found them praying.'' If anyone of you says ''Amin'' (during the Prayer at the end of the recitation of Surat-al-Faitiha), and the angels in Heaven say the same, and the two sayings coincide, all his past sins will be forgiven.''

While we were sitting with the Prophet Surat Al-Jumu'a was revealed to him, and when the Verse, ''And He (Allah) has sent him (Muhammad) also to other (Muslims)…..' (62.3) was recited by the Prophet, I said, ''Who are they, O Allah's Apostle?'' The Prophet did not reply till I repeated my question thrice. At that time, Salman Al-Farisi was with us. So Allah's Apostle put his hand on Salman, saying, ''If Faith were at (the place of) Ath-Thuraiya (pleiades, the highest star), even then (some men or man from these people (i.e. Salman's folk) would attain it.''

While I was praying, Allah's Apostle passed me and called me, but I did not go to him until I had finished the prayer. Then I went to him, and he said, ''What prevented you from coming to me? Didn't Allah say:– ''O you who believe! Answer the call of Allah (by obeying Him) and His Apostle when He calls you?'' He then said, ''I will inform you of the greatest Sura in the Qur'an before I leave (the mosque).'' When Allah's Apostle got ready to leave (the mosque), I reminded him. He said, ''It is: Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.' (i.e. Surat-al-Fatiha) As-sab'a Al-Mathani (the seven repeatedly recited Verses).''

When the Verse:– And warn your tribe of near kindred.' (26.214) was revealed. Allah's Apostle went out, and when he had ascended As-Safa mountain, he shouted, ''O Sabahah!'' The people said, ''Who is that?'' ''Then they gathered around him, whereupon he said, ''Do you see? If I inform you that cavalrymen are proceeding up the side of this mountain, will you believe me?'' They said, ''We have never heard you telling a lie.'' Then he said, ''I am a plain warner to you of a coming severe punishment.'' Abu Lahab said, ''May you perish! You gathered us only for this reason? '' Then Abu Lahab went away. So the ''Surat:–ul–LAHAB'' Perish the hands of Abu Lahab!' (111.1) was revealed.

Whenever Ibn Umar recited the Qur'an, he would not speak to anyone till he had finished his recitation. Once I held the Qur'an and he recited Surat-al-Baqara from his memory and then stopped at a certain Verse and said, ''Do you know in what connection this Verse was revealed? '' I replied, ''No.'' He said, ''It was revealed in such-and-such connection.'' Ibn Umar then resumed his recitation. Nafi added regarding the Verse:–''So go to your tilth when or how you will'' Ibn Umar said, ''It means one should approach his wife in ..''

I heard Al-Hajjaj saying on the pulpit, ''The Sura in which Al-Baqara (the cow) is mentioned and the Sura in which the family of Imran is mentioned and the Sura in which the women (An-Nisa) is mentioned.'' I mentioned this to Ibrahim, and he said, Abdur-Rahman bin Yazid told me, I was with Ibn Masud, when he did the Rami of the Jamrat-ul-Aqaba. He went down the middle of the valley, and when he came near the tree (which was near the Jamra) he stood opposite to it and threw seven small pebbles and said: Allahu-Akbar' on throwing every pebble.' Then he said, By Him, except Whom none has the right to be worshipped, here (at this place) stood the one on whom Surat-al-Baqra was revealed (i.e. Allah's Apostle).' ''

A man heard another man reciting (Surat-Al-Ikhlas) Say He is Allah, (the) One.' (112. 1) repeatedly. The next morning he came to Allah's Apostle and informed him about it as if he thought that it was not enough to recite. On that Allah's Apostle said, ''By Him in Whose Hand my life is, this Surah is equal to one-third of the Qur'an!'' Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: My brother, Qatada bin An-Nau'man said, ''A man performed the night prayer late at night in the lifetime of the Prophet and he read: Say: He is Allah, (the) One,' (112.1) and read nothing besides that. The next morning a man went to the Prophet ,~ and told him about that . (The Prophet replied the same as (in Hadith 532) above.)

The companions of Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) came to Abu Darda', (and before they arrived at his home), he looked for them and found them. Then he asked them,: Who among you can recite (Qur'an) as Abdullah recites it?'' They replied, ''All of us.'' He asked, ''Who among you knows it by heart?'' They pointed at Alqama. Then he asked Alqama. ''How did you hear Abdullah bin Mas'ud reciting Surat Al-Lail (The Night)?'' Alqama recited: By the male and the female.' Abu Ad-Darda said, ''I testify that I heard me Prophet reciting it likewise, but these people want me to recite it:– And by Him Who created male and female.' but by Allah, I will not follow them.''

Hilal bin Umaiya accused his wife before the Prophet of committing illegal sexual intercourse with Sharik bin Sahma.' The Prophet said, ''Produce a proof, or else you would get the legal punishment (by being lashed) on your back.'' Hilal said, ''O Allah's Apostle! If anyone of us saw another man over his wife, would he go to search for a proof.'' The Prophet went on saying, ''Produce a proof or else you would get the legal punishment (by being lashed) on your back.'' The Prophet then mentioned the narration of Lian (as in the Holy Book). (Surat-al-Nur: 24)

Sa'id bin Al-Musaiyab, Alqama bin Waqqas and Ubaidullah bin Abdullah regarding the narrating of the forged statement against Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, when the slanderers said what they said and Allah revealed her innocence. Aisha said, ''But by Allah, I did not think that Allah, (to confirm my innocence), would reveal Divine Inspiration which would be recited, for I consider myself too unimportant to be talked about by Allah through Divine Inspiration revealed for recitation, but I hoped that Allah's Apostle might have a dream in which Allah would reveal my innocence. So Allah revealed:– Verily! Those who spread the slander are a gang among you…' (The ten Verses in Surat-an-Nur) (24.11-20)

(One night) I stayed overnight in the house of my aunt Maimuna, and said to myself, ''I will watch the prayer of Allah's Apostle '' My aunt placed a cushion for Allah's Apostle and he slept on it in its length-wise direction and (woke-up) rubbing the traces of sleep off his face and then he recited the last ten Verses of Surat-al-Imran till he finished it. Then he went to a hanging water skin and took it, performed the ablution and then stood up to offer the prayer. I got up and did the same as he had done, and stood beside him. He put his hand on my head and held me by the ear and twisted it. He offered two Rakat, then two Rakat, then two Rakat, then two Rakat, then two Rakat, then two Rakat, and finally the Witr (i.e. one Rak'a) prayer.

The Prophet said, ''If somebody recited the last two Verses of Surat Al-Baqara at night, that will be sufficient for him.'' Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah 's Apostle ordered me to guard the Zakat revenue of Ramadan. Then somebody came to me and started stealing of the foodstuff. I caught him and said, ''I will take you to Allah's Apostle!'' Then Abu Huraira described the whole narration and said:) That person said (to me), ''(Please don't take me to Allah's Apostle and I will tell you a few words by which Allah will benefit you.) When you go to your bed, recite Ayat-al-Kursi, (2.255) for then there will be a guard from Allah who will protect you all night long, and Satan will not be able to come near you till dawn.'' (When the Prophet heard the story) he said (to me), ''He (who came to you at night) told you the truth although he is a liar; and it was Satan.''