116 hadith found in ' Purity ' of Malik's Muwatta.

2.1.2
Yahya related to me fromMalik from Abu'zZinad from al-Araj from Abu
Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "When you do wudu, snuff water into your nose andblow it
out, and if you use stones to clean your private parts use an odd
number."
2.1.3
Yahya related to me fromIbn Shihab from Abu Idrisal-Khawlani from Abu
Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "The person doing wudu should snuff water up hisnose and
blow it out again."
2.1.4
Yahya said that he heard Malik say that there was no harm in washing
the mouth and cleaning the nose with only one handful of water.
2.1.5
Yahya related to me fromMalik that he had heard that Abd ar-Rahman ibn
Abi Bakr was visiting A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may AIIah bless
him and grant him peace, on the day that Sad ibn Abi Waqqas died,and
he asked for some water to do wudu. A'isha said to him, ''Abd
ar-Rahman! Perform yourwudu fully, for I heard the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, 'Woe to the heels in the
fire.' "
2.1.6
Yahya related to me fromMalik from Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Talhafrom
Uthman ibn Abd ar-Rahman that his father related to him thathe had
heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab used to wash what was beneath his waist
wrapper with water.


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Nasruddin Stories - Humble (retold by Nasruddin)

My beloveds, I remembera time long ago when I was still a Mulla. I
lived in a small town, just big enough for a real mosque, with a
beautifulmosaic wall. I remember one evening, we had finished our
prayers. Thestars were clear and bright, and seemed to fill the sky
solidly with lights. I stood at the window, gazing at the lights so
far away, each one bigger than our world, and so distant from us
across vast reaches of space. I thought of how we walkthis earth,
filled with ourown importance, when we are just specks of dust. If you
walk out to the cliffs outside the town, a walk of half an hour at
most, you look back and you can see the town, but the peopleare too
small to see, even at that meager distance. When I think ofthe
immensity of the universe, I am filled withawe and reverece for power
so great.
I was thinking such thoughts, looking out the window of the mosque,
and I realized I had fallen to my knees."I am nothing, nothing!"I
cried, amazed and awestruck.
There was a certain well-to-do man of the town, a kind man who wished
to be thought very devout. He cared more for what people thought of
him than for what he actually was. Hehappened to walk in and he saw
and heard what passed. My beloveds, I was a little shy at being caught
in such a moment, but he rushed down, looking around in the obvious
hope someone was there to see him. He knelt beside me, and with a
final hopeful glance at the door through which he had just come, he
cried,
"I am nothing! I am nothing!"
It appears that the man who sweeps, a poor manfrom the edge of the
village, had entered the side door with his broom to begin his night's
work. He had seen us, and being a man of true faith and honest
simplicity, his face showed that he entertained some of the same
thoughts that had been laid on me by the hand of Allah (wonderfulis
He). He dropped his broom and fell to his knees up there in a shadowed
corner, and said softly,
"I am nothing...I am nothing!"
The well-to-do man next to me nudged me with his elbow and said out of
the side of his mouth,
"Look who thinks he's nothing!"

Nasruddin Stories - God's Will (retold by Nasruddin)

When I was no longer needed as a Mulla in the village, I moved to
another region and found a convenient place outside a small town, on a
hill. The view was fine, and the hill was as thick with thorns and
burdock as a peace-loving soul could want.
I was very happy with the thorns, because they discouraged
agriculture.In fact, they discouragedjust about everything. No one
bothered me.
Eventually, however, my beloveds, this changed. After a certain time,
the townsfolk became curious. They wondered what I was doing up on
that hill, coming down only for a few groceries once in a while, or
maybe only to charge my cell phone. No, that was a different time.
Anyway, the people began to come up the hill, through the thorns,
until they had made a path. That made it easierfor me to get down to
the town, which was convenient. It also made it easier for them to get
up to me, which was notso convenient.
Somehow, the townsfolkcame to view my silence and seclusion as marks
of wisdom. And of course, whenever we admire something, we want to
possess it. I oncesaw a small knoll covered with wild blueberries
close by a pond. The blueberry plants turned red in the fall, and the
glorious color was reflected in the pond. A family from a nearby town
loved that blueberry field so much they decided to build a house
there. They brought in excavators and heavy equipment, and tore outa
large area on the top of the hill. The runoff washed away many of the
berries, and they piled building debris on a particularly beautiful
patch, so that by the time their house was finished, they
wonderedwhere their idyllic little scene had gone.
That was how I was afraid I would be. They would consider my seclusion
to be admirable, so they would troop up to share it with me, until
none of us was secluded any more. One day, something happened that let
me know I could preserve my seclusion in the long run.
A group came to me, much distressed.
"All our roosters have died!" they cried. "What are we to do? We won't
wake up on time in the morning, and we won't be able to raise broods
of chicks to grow more chickens. How will we live?"
Knowing the old saying that not a leaf turns except by the will of
Allah, I looked at them for a long time. Finally they demanded an
answer.
"God's will," I said.
"God's will?! Is that all you have to say? What good does that do us?"
and they stalked down the hill, very dissatisfied.However, my peace
didn't last for long. Up they came again with a fresh calamity.
"All our fires have gone out!" they cried. "What will we do?"
"I suppose it wouldn't help if I pointed out you have no roosters to
cookanyway?" It didn't help.
"What shall we do? We haven't a live coal in the village, and the next
village is far away."
I looked at them and shrugged. "God's will," I said.
"We thought you'd say that," they muttered, and stalked off down the
hill, very annoyed. They were back sooner than I thought they would
be.
"All our dogs have died!"they cried. "What other town is more
unfortunate than ours? First our roosters, then our fires, now our
dogs! Who will keep away wild animals, who will warn us of thieves?"
"Do you really have so many thieves?" I asked. They admitted nothing
had ever been stolen in the town.
"I have only one thing tosay, and I know you don't want to hear it," I said.
"We know...God's will. That's the last time we'll ever ask YOU for
advice,"they said, and stalked offdown the hill, very annoyed. I hoped
it was true.
But that very night, something occurred which I had been expecting. I
didn't know exactly what to expect, but I expected something. It was a
little too much to have roosters, fires and dogs all die, all at once
in the whole town. So I sat up and listened. Around midnight, when all
was quiet in the town below,I heard the sound of a large number of
armed men approaching. I crept to the top of the next hill for a
better view. It's a good thing I'm very stealthy, because their scout
creptto the top of the same hill, and we almost bumped into one
another. He gave a hand signal, and an army of several hundred men
with shields and spears, bows and arrows, and walkie talkies...no that
was another time. Anyway, this army poured up the hill and their
general gave the signal for silence. He stood listening carefully,
looking down at the town. After a little time he spoke.
"Well, men, we have hada good run of it, going from town to town,
pillaging and burning, and gathering such treasures as we found."
There was a quiet clatterof spears and shields and shuffling of feet.
"But it looks as if our luck has run out. Where is the smoke from the
fires? Where are the dogs barking? It's almostdaylight. Where are the
roosters crowing? This village is abandoned. Letus move on."
So they turned back down the hill, and went on their way. The next day
a few villagers came to see me.
"Have you thought of any solutions to our problems?" they asked,"or
are you going to say the same thing over and over?"
"You mean, God's will?" They nodded. "Oh, I still believe it's God's
will, but I have something to add. No matter how bad you think your
problemsare, they could always be worse. Be content with what befalls
you. It is truly sent from Heaven."
To this day, they don't believe me.

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What are the signs of Allaah’s love for His slave?

What are the signs of Allaah's love for His slave?.
Praise be to Allaah.
You have asked about a serious and weighty matter, which none attain
but very few of the righteous slaves of Allaah.
The love of Allaah is "the status for which the righteous compete and
strive… It is the nourishment of hearts and souls… the delight of the
eyes… It is the life of which one who is denied it is dead… the light
which the one wholoses it is in deep darkness… the healing of which
the one who is denied is sick… the joy which the one who is deprived
of it lives in distress and pain…
It is the spirit of faith and good deeds… by means of which one
maydraw closer to Allaah… which, when it is absent,one is like a body
in which there is no soul."
O Allaah, make us amongthose whom You love.
The love of Allaah has signs and causes which are like the key to the
door. These causes include the following:
1 –Following the guidance of the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him). Allaah says in His Holy Book (interpretation of
the meaning):
"Say (O Muhammad to mankind): If you (really) love Allaah, then follow
me (i.e. accept Islamic Monotheism, follow the Qur'aan and the
Sunnah), Allaah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allaah is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful"
[Aal 'Imraan 3:31]
2-5 – Being humble towards the believers and stern towards the
kaafirs, waging jihad forthe sake of Allaah, and not fearing anyone or
anything but Him. Allaah has mentioned these qualities in a single
verse, in which He says (interpretation of the meaning):
"O you who believe! Whoever from among you turns back from his
religion (Islam), Allaah will bring a people whom He will love and
they will love Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the
disbelievers, fightingin the way of Allaah, andnever fear of the blame
of the blamers"
[al-Maa'idah 5:54]
In this verse Allaah describes the attributes of those whom He loves,
the first of which is: humility and not being arrogant towards the
Muslims, and being sterntowards the kaafirs, and not humbling or
humiliating oneself before them. They (the ones whom Allaah
loves)strive for the sake of Allaah, against the Shaytaan, the
kuffaar, the hypocrites and the evildoers, and they striveagainst
their own selves (jihad al-nafs). They do not fear the blame of any
blamer, because so long as they are following the commandsof their
religion, he will not care about anyone who mocks him or blames him.
6 – Doing naafil (supererogatory) acts of worship. Allaah says –
according to a hadeeth qudsi – "My slave keeps drawing near to me by
means of supererogatory acts of worship until I love Him."
Supererogatory acts of worship include naafil prayers, charity,
'Umrah, Hajj and fasting.
8-12 – Loving, visiting one another, helping one another
(financially)and offering sincere advice to one another for the sake
of Allaah.
These attributes were mentioned in a single hadeeth in which the
Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) narrated that
his Lord said: "My love is guaranteed for two wholove one another for
My sake; My love is guaranteed for two whovisit one another for My
sake; My love is guaranteed for two whohelp one another (financially)
for My sake; My love is guaranteed to two who uphold ties with one
another for My sake."
Narrated by Ahmad, 4/236 and 5/236; al-Tanaasuh by Ibn Hibbaan, 3/338;
the two ahaadeeth were classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani in
Saheeh al-Targheeb wa'l-Tarheeb, 3019, 3020, 3021.
What is meant by "two who visit one another for My sake" is that they
only visit one another for the sake of Allaah, seeking thereby His
pleasure for their loving one another for His sake or cooperating in
worshipping Him.
From al-Muntaqa Sharh al-Muwatta', hadeeth 1779.
13 – Being tested. Calamities and disasters are a test for a person,
and this is a sign that Allaah loves him, because this is like
medicine: even though itis bitter, but still you offer the medicine,
despite its bitterness, to the one whom you love; and Allaah's is the
highest description. According to a saheeh hadeeth: "The greatest
reward comes from the greatest trial. When Allaah loves people, He
tests them, and whoeveraccepts it gains the pleasure of Allaah and
whoever complains earns His wrath.
Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 2396; Ibn Maajah, 4031; classed as saheeh by
Shaykh al-Albaani.
For calamities to befall the believer is better than punishments being
stored up for him in the Hereafter. How can it be otherwise when he is
raised in status and his bad deeds are erased thereby? The Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "When Allaah wills
good for His slave, He hastens his punishment in this world, and when
He wills bad for His slave,He withholds his sins until he comes with
them on the Day of Resurrection."
Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 2396; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani.
The scholars have explained that the one from whom calamities and
trials are withheld isthe hypocrite, for Allaah withholds [his
punishment] in this world, so as to bring himwith all his sins on the
Day of Resurrection.
O Allaah, make us amongthose whom You love.
If Allaah loves you, do not ask about the good that you will attain
and the virtue that you will acquire… it is sufficient for you to know
that youare beloved of Allaah. The great fruits of the love of Allaah
for His slave are as follows:
1 – People will love him and he will be accepted on earth, as it says
in thehadeeth narrated by al-Bukhaari (3209): "When Allaah loves a
slave, He says to Jibreel, 'I love so-and-so, so love him,' so Jibreel
loves himand then calls out to the people of heaven, 'Allaah loves
so-and-so, so love him,' and the people of heaven love him, and then
acceptance is placed in the Earth for him."
2 – What Allaah has mentioned in the hadeeth qudsi of the great
virtues of those whom He loves. It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah
said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) said: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall
be at war with him. My servant draws not near to Me with anything more
loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My
servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works sothat
I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he
hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes
and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask[something] of Me, I
would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would
surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I
hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates
death and I hate hurting him." Narrated by al-Bukhaari,6502.
This hadeeth qudsi includes a number of benefits of Allaah's love for His slave:
(i) "I am his hearing with which he hears" i.e., he
does not listen to anything but that which Allaah loves.
(ii) "his seeing with which he sees" i.e., he does not
see anything but that which Allaah loves.
(iii) "his hand withwhich he strikes" i.e., he does not do
anything with his hand but that which Allaah loves.
(iv) "and his foot with which he walks" i.e., he does not
go towards anything but that which Allaah loves.
(v) "Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely
give it to him" i.e., his du'aa's are heard and his requests are
granted.
(vi) "and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely
grant him it" i.e., he is protected byAllaah from all things…
We ask Allaah to help us to please Him.
And Allaah knows best.