Muhammad

Prophet of Islam

Medieval influential 117 sayings

Sayings by Muhammad

If a fly falls into one of your containers [of food or drink], immerse it completely before removing it, for one of its wings carries disease and the other carries the cure.

7th century AD — Hadith on hygiene and health
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

7th century AD — Hadith on the spread of Islam
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A woman may be married for four reasons: her wealth, her lineage, her beauty, and her religion. So marry the religious woman, lest your hands be rubbed in dirt!

7th century AD — Advice on marriage
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

If the Khosrau is destroyed, no Khosrau will follow, if Caesar is ruined, no Caesar will follow. Their treasures will be divided in Allah's cause.

c. 628 CE — Hadith, indicating the conquest of the Byzantine and Sassanid empires.
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Heraclius' city, Constantinople, will be conquered.

c. 620s-630s CE — Hadith, a prophecy of the conquest of Constantinople.
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All the sins of the first armed forces who set off to conquer the capital of Byzantine would be forgiven.

c. 620s-630s CE — Hadith, providing incentive for military conquest.
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Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.

c. 627 CE (approximate for this Sura) — Quran 33:50, a revelation regarding what is lawful for the Prophet.
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except with their wives and slave girls, for these are lawful to them.

c. 610-622 CE (Meccan Sura) — Quran 23:5-6, regarding lawful sexual relations.
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You would have got more reward if you had given her (i.e. the slave-girl) to one of your maternal uncles.

c. 620s-630s CE — Hadith (Sahih Bukhari), commenting on a woman freeing a slave girl.
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If a slave marries without the permission of his master, his marriage is null and void.

c. 620s-630s CE — Hadith (Abu Dawud, #1814), concerning the rights of slave owners.
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O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women). They asked, 'Why is it so, O Allah's Messenger?' He replied, 'You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.'

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih al-Bukhari 304, addressing women at an Eid prayer.
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A nation with a woman as a ruler will never succeed.

c. 628 CE — Sahih al-Bukhari 7099, in response to the news that the Persians had crowned a daughter of Khosrau a…
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If a man calls his wife to his bed, and she refuses him, and he passes the night angry with her, the angels will curse her till morning.

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih al-Bukhari 3237, regarding marital duties.
Controversial Confirmed

No woman should fast (Nawafil) except with the permission of her husband if he is present.

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih al-Bukhari 5195, regarding women's voluntary fasting.
Controversial Unverifiable

If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle.

c. 628 CE — Hadith (Sahih Muslim), said to the Jews of Khaybar.
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Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war, do not embezzle the spoils, do not break your pledge, and do not mutilate (the dead) bodies; do not kill the children.

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih Muslim 1731a,b, instructions for warfare.
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Those whose pubic hair had grown were killed, and those whose pubic hair had not yet grown were let go.

c. 627 CE — Sunan Ibn Majah 2541, criteria for killing during the Day of Quraidhah.
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The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih Muslim 2922, an eschatological prophecy.
Controversial Confirmed

Whoever frees a Muslim slave, Allah will save all the parts of his body from the (Hell) Fire as he has freed the body-parts of the slave.

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 46, Number 694, encouraging freeing slaves.
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I have been made victorious with awe (by Allah) by terrorizing my enemies.

c. 620s-630s CE — Sahih Bukhari 2977, describing one of the five things given to him.
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