Dars e Ahadith-Kissing

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

Kissing hand and feet

A man came to  Prophet (ﷺ ) and told him that he had taken a vow that should Allah (swt)  grant Rasoolullah (ﷺ ) victory over Makka, he would go to Kaaba and kiss its threshold.  The   Prophet  (ﷺ ) instructed him: GO AND KISS THE FEET OF YOUR MOTHER. Your vow will be complete.’ (Allama Aynee – Umdat al Qari, sharah al-Bukhari).

When Imam Bukhari came to Nishapur, the city of Imam Muslim’s residence, he (Imam Muslim) came out to see him. It is reported in almost in every book of  the biography of Imams that Imam Muslim kissed the forehead of Imam Bukhari and then requested his permission to kiss his feet in these words- O Teacher of teachers, Master of Hadith scholars and  Doctor of Ahadith Authenticity, ALLOW ME TO KISS YOUR FEET.”( ad-Dhahabi in  Siyar Alam an-Nubala (vol. 12, p. 432, 436); Nawawi in ‘Tahdhib al-Asma wal-Lughat’ (vol. 1, p. 88); and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Muqaddima Fath al-Bari (p. 488).

Imam Muqri quoted Burayda (ra) as reported in his Book ‘Taqbil al-Yad’ (p. 64 # 5) that once a Bedouin came to Prophet (ﷺ ). He said: I have embraced Islam but I want more so that my faith should be strengthened. Then the Prophet(ﷺ ) allowed him and a tree came to the Bedouin on his call and the tree said: O’ Prophet of Allah(ﷺ ). (There is a long tradition that follows it).The Bedouin saw all of these signs and said O’ Prophet of Allah (ﷺ )! Allow me to kiss your blessed forehead and blessed feat).  The Prophet (ﷺ ) gave permission to the Bedouin. Then he requested for falling in prostration. The Prophet (ﷺ ) did not allow him. (Qadi Iyad inash-Shifaa’, 1:299) Ibn Hajar Asqalani in Fath al-Bari (vol. 11, p. 57).

It is narrated that in the battle of Hunain, Abu Sufyaan (ra) was with Prophet Mohammad  (ﷺ ).   Hadhrat Abbas (ra) submitted,  “O’Prophet of Allah (ﷺ ), this is your cousin, Abu Sufyaan (ra), please be happy with him.” Prophet  (ﷺ ) accepted the intercession of Abbas (ra) and said, “I am pleased with him. May Allah (swt) forgive all the enmity he showed against us.” Thereafter, Prophet (ﷺ ) turned to Abbas (ra) and said, “Verily he is our brother.”    Abbas (ra) said “I kissed his (Prophet’s – ﷺ ) blessed FOOT while he was seated on his camel.” (Hakim reported this Hadith in his Mustadrak, under chapter ‘Virtues of Abu Sufayaan (ra)’.

“Touching them both (the Black Stone and al-Rukn al-Yamani) is an expiation for sins.” (al-Haakim (1/664))

Suhayb  (ra) was the freed slave of Abbas  (ra) He states: I saw Ali  (ra) kissing the HANDS and FEET of Abbas  (ra) and he would keep saying this: O my Uncle! be pleased with me. Imam Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (p. 339 # 976).

“The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended.  (Bukhari – Book #1, Hadith #1).

Ibn Umar (ra) considered the Khawarij and the heretics as the worst beings in creation (meaning worst than Satan and his subordinate Shayateen), and he said : ‘They went to verses which were revealed about the disbelievers (the pagans of Makka) and applied them to the Believers  (Bukhari – Chapter Khawarijeen). 

Umm Aban, daughter of al-Wazi ibn Zari narrated that her grandfather Zari al-Abdi, who was a member of the delegation of Abd al-Qays, said: “When we came to Medina, we raced to be first to dismount and kiss the HAND AND FOOT of Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ ). But al-Mundhir al-Ashajj waited until he came to the bundle of his clothes. He put on his two garments and then he went to the Prophet (ﷺ ).(Abu Dawud vol. 4, p. 357 # 5225), Bayhaqi (7:102), Tabarani al-Mujam al-Kabir (vol. 5, p. 275 # 5313)

Narrated Safwan bin Assal (ra) Once, two Jews came to Prophet (ﷺ ) and asked him a question. The Prophet (ﷺ ) answered them. Thereafter, they kissed the HANDS AND FEET of the Prophet (ﷺ ) and told him that they bear testimony that he is Nabi. (Nasai in as-Sunan (vol. 7, p. 111 # 4078)

Narrated by Ummul Momineen Aisha (raا) who said: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ ) entered her home, she stood up to welcome him and kissed his blessed hand. (Abu Dawood). 

Imam al-Ghazzali (ra) states that Haddrat Abu Ubaida bin Jarrah (ra) kissed the hand of Hadrat Umar Farouk  (ra). ( Keemya-e-Sa’adat and Awaariful Mu’aarif ).

Ibn Kathir, the Famous student of  Ibn Taymiyya writes a Hadith in the exegesis of verse 101, Sura Al-Maida that Prophet (ﷺ ) got annoyed over something: “Then Umar (ra) stood up and kissed the blessed feet of the Prophet (ﷺ ) and said: O’Messenger of Allah (ﷺ ), we are pleased with Allah (swt) being Sustainer, you being the Prophet (ﷺ ), Islam being the Deen and the Holy Quran being the Guide. Forgive us.  Allah (swt) would further be pleased with you. So Umar (ra) kept on saying it till the Prophet (ﷺ ) became pleased.”

When I want to talk to Allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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