Authentication – Hadith Answers

Did Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) have a cat named Muezza?

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Is there any authentic/sound narration supporting that Nabi’s (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) favourite cat was named Muezza/Mu’izza?

Ninety nine snakes in the grave of the disbeliever

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How sound is the Hadith in Ibn Hibban reported by Abu Sa’id Khudri (radiyallahu ‘anhu) regarding ninety nine (99) snakes in grave of a disbeliever?

An unreliable virtue of walking with a cane

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Is this narration reliable?

Virtue of walking with an ‘Asa (cane)

“Walking with a stick is from humility. For each step, a person gets a thousand good deeds, and raising him a thousand levels.”

Reciting Quran, praising Allah, sending salutations and seeking forgiveness

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Is this narration suitable to quote?

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: من قرأ القرآن وحمد الرب، وصلى على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، واستغفر ربه فقد طلب الخير مكانه

Humans and Jinn would be unable to lift an iron hammer from Jahannam

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How sound is the Hadith in Mustadrak Hakim (8773) that if one iron hammer from hell is kept on earth whole humans and jinn together will not be able to lift it?

Whomsoever loves the Masjid, Allah will love and protect him

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Is the following virtue of loving the masjid narrated in Al-Mu’jamul-Awsat suitable to quote?

Man alifal masjid alifahullah

The Hadith, ‘None of you [truly] believes until his desires are subservient to that which I have brought’

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What is the reference for this Hadith?

Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,

“None of you [truly] believes until his desires are subservient to that which I have brought.”

Praise for those youth who adopt certain traits of older people

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Is this narration reliable?

خير شبابكم من تشبه بكهولكم، وشر كهولكم من تشبه بشبابكم

The repentance of a youngster

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Is this narration reliable:

توبة شاب واحد أحب إلى الله تعالى من توبة ألف شيخ

Another version of the narration stating that a hypocrite will be unable to memorise certain Surahs

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Is this Hadith authentic?

Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “A hypocrite will not be able to memorise the following Surahs: Bara-ah, Yasin, Dukhan, and ‘Amma Yata sa-alun.”

The reward on ‘Eidul Fitr for the one who completes the duties of the month of Ramadan

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I heard various scholars in our country citing a narration during the ‘Eidul Fitr sermon. The Hadith roughly states our Most Gracious Master, Allah Ta’ala, asking the angels what the reward is for the worker who completed his work. The angels reply that the worker should be fully paid. Then Our Master says that His servants, male and female, have fulfilled the obligation upon them and gone out for invocations and He swears by His honour, beauty, nobility, majesty and high status that He would most certainly respond to them. Then Our Master tells His servants to go back as He has forgiven them and replaced their evil deeds with good.

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Sneezing after narrating a Hadith

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Kindly provide the authenticity and purport of the following Hadith:

من حدث حديثا فعطس فهو حق

A narration attributed to ‘Ali (radiyallahu ‘anhu) regarding the gaze

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Is this suitable to quote:

لَیْسَ فِی الْبَدَنِ‌ شَیءٌ اَقَلَّ شٌكراً مِنَ الْعَیْنِ فَلا تُعطوها سٌؤلَها فَتَشْغَلكُم عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللهِ‌ عَزَّ وَجَل

There is no [limb] in the body which shows less gratitude than the eye, so do not give it what it asks for, as it will occupy you from remembering Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla