People asked the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) : Can we perform ablution out of the well of Buda'ah, which is a well into which menstrual clothes, dead dogs and stinking things were thrown?
He replied : Water is pure and is not defiled by anything.
Sahih (authentic) Muslim, book 20, Number 4651: It has been narrated on the authority of Masruq Who said:
We asked 'Abdullah about the Qur'anic verse: "Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they are alive, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord." (iii. 169).
He said: We asked the meaning of the verse (from the Holy Prophet) who said:
The souls, of the martyrs live in the bodies of green birds who have their nests in chandeliers hung from the throne of the Almighty. They eat the fruits of Paradise from wherever they like and then nestle in these chandeliers.
Once their Lord cast a glance at them and said: Do ye want anything? They said: What more shall we desire? We eat the fruit of Paradise from wherever we like. Their Lord asked them the same question thrice. When they saw that they will continue to be asked and not left (without answering the question). they said: O Lord, we wish that Thou mayest return our souls to our bodies so that we may be slain in Thy way once again.
When He (Allah) saw that they had no need, they were left (to their joy in heaven).
A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse the Prophet (pbuh) and disparage him. He forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to slander the Prophet and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there.
When the morning came, the Prophet (pbuh) was informed about it. He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up.
He sat before the Prophet (pbuh) and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.
Thereupon the Prophet (pbuh) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.
Narrated Abu Huraira, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said,
People of Banu Isra'il used to take a bath naked, and they looked at the private parts of one another.
Prophet Moses (peace be upon him), however, took a bath alone (in privacy) and they said (tauntingly)By Allah, nothing prohibits Moses to take a bath along with us, but sacrotal hernia.
He (Moses) once went for a bath and placed his clothes on a stone and the stone run away with his clothes. Moses ran after it saying:O stone, my clothes!
O stone, my clothes!
People of Banu Isra'il had the chance to see the private parts of Moses, and they said:By Allah! Moses does not suffer from any ailment.
The stone then stopped, till Moses had been seen by them, and he then took hold of his clothes and started to beat the stone.
Abu Huraira said:By Allah, there are the marks of six or seven strokes made by Moses on the stone!
Abu Sa`id Khudri reported: We were going with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). As we reached the place (known as) Arj there met (us) a poet who had been reciting poetry. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Catch the satan or detain the satan, for filling the belly of a man with pus is better than stuffing his brain with poetry.
Buraida reported on the authority of his father that the Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.
