2) Selected 500 Hadith from Sahih Bukhari & Muslim - The Message

Sahih Bukhari & Sahih MuslimAllaah! All perfect praise be to Allaah who has the powerto do everything."One day, when the mother was tidying up the house in themorning, she came across a few papers containing somenarrations of the Prophet . She remembered her belovedhusband and said sadly and painfully while wiping thetears off her cheeks: "May Allaah have mercy on you,Muhammad’s father. You were a man who used to fearAllaah. You dreamed for a long time that your sonMuhammad would be a religious scholar! I promise youthat I will do my best to achieve your dear wish, Allaahwilling." Then she called her son kindly, and Muhammadhurried to her obediently. Then, she said to him:"It is time for you, my son to seek religious knowledge andbenefit yourself and the people around you. Tomorrow Iwill send you to a small school where you can memorizethe Quran, learn Prophetic narrations and study the Arabiclanguage to become an honourable scholar like yourfather, Ismaa'eel.The young boy, Muhammad, said cleverly: "Mother! Wasmy father an eminent scholar?"The mother replied: "Yes, my son." Mohammad, then saidpolitely: "I promise you, Mother, that I will follow hisfootsteps seriously and exert all my efforts."The city of Bukhaaraa (now in Islamic Uzbekistan) waslocated at that time in one of the greatest countriesPage 169