Khadimat al-Mustafa

'I never smelled any ambergris or musk, or anything sweeter than the fragrance of the Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam), and I never touched anything, neither brocade nor silk, softer to touch than the Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam)' (Bukhari, Muslim)

'Anas said: "I never smelled any musk or perfume sweeter than the fragrance of the sweat of the Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam)."' (Tirmidhi)

'...Then I looked at him, and he was like the full moon, and his scent was like strong musk.' (al-Khatib, Abu Nu'aym)

'The Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) came to our house and slept the siesta with us, and began to perspire. My mother - Umm Sulaym bint Milhan - brought a perfume-bottle and began to decanter sweat into it. The Prophet woke up and said: "O Umm Sulaym, what are you doing?" She said: "We use your sweat as perfume, and it is the finest of perfumes." (Muslim)

Abu Ya'la and Tabarani narrated the Hadith concerning the story of the man who asked for the Prophet's (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) help preparing his daughter for her wedding when he had nothing. The Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) called for a vessel, collected some of his sweat therein, and said: 'Shake this, and let her use it as perfume.' When she put in on, everyone in the city smelled the scent of the perfume, and the family became known as 'the house of the fragrant ones'. (Fath al-Bari, Abu Ya'la)

'Whenever I used to shake the Messenger of Allah's (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) hand, or touch his skin with mine, I would be aware of his touch on my hand afterwards: the scent was more fragrant than musk.' (Tabarani, Bayhaqi).

'The palm of the Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) was softer than silk, and it was as though he had the hand of a perfume-seller, whether he wore perfume or not. When he shook hands with someone, that person would remark the fragrance for the rest of the day. If he patted a child's head, that child would be distinct from the other children by the fragrance. (Abu Nu'aym, Bayhaqi)

'When the Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) passed down any of Madina's streets, the people would notice the fragrant scent there, and would say: 'The Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) has been this way.' (Abu Ya'la, al-Bazzar)

'One of the attributes of the Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) was that no one would walk down a street, after he (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) walked down it, without knowing that he had been that way, by the fragrance of his sweat and his sweet scent. Another is that he would never pass by a stone except that it would prostate before him.' (al-Darimi, Bayhaqi, Abu Nu'aym)

'The Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) was once given a pitcher of water. He drank from it, and then spat into the pitcher, then into the well, and a scent rose from it like the fragrance of musk.' (Musnad)

Det er anbefalet når man hører det første vidnesbyrd (shahāda) at sige: »Allāhs velsignelser være på dig, Oh Allāhs Sendebud« (Sallā Llāhu 'alayka yā RasūlaLlāhi), og ved det andet: »Må mine øjne frydes ved (synet af) dig, Oh Allāhs Sendebud« (Qarrat 'aynī bika yā RasūlaLlāhi). Dernæst siges: »Oh Allāh forsyn mig fortsat med syn og hørelse« (Allāhumma matti'nī bis-sam'i wal-basri), efter placeringen af begge tommelfingernegle på ens øjne, for så vil han (Allāhs fred og velsignelser være med ham) sandelig være ens guide til Haven (al-Janna), som det er nævnt i Kanz al-'Ibād igennem Quhustānī. Og lignende findes i al-Fatāwā al-Sūfiyya, mens det i al-Firdaws er berettet at, »Enhver der kysser sine tommelfingernegle når han hører 'Jeg bevidner at Muhammad er Allāhs Sendebud', i kaldet til bøn, så vil jeg være hans guide og vil lade ham træde ind i Paradisets rækker« (Ibn 'Ābidīn, Radd al-Muhtār, bāb al-adhān; (Imam Ibn 'Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, Maktaba Hanafiyya (Pakistan) bind 2, s. 84).

Hver gang han [Abū Bakr] hørte den der kalder til bøn sige: »Jeg bevidner at Muhammad er Allāhs Sendebud,« plejede han at gentage dette og så kysse det øverste af sine tommelfingre og tørre dem over sine øjne. Profeten (Allāhs fred og velsignelser være med ham) sagde: »Den der end gør som min nære ven gjorde, for ham vil min forbøn finde sted« (al-Daylamī, al-Firdaws, i variende ordlyd).

"This blessed place [the house of the Prophet] is opened, and all men enter it to derive blessing from it (mutabarrikin bihi), on every Monday of the month of Rabi` al-Awwal; for on that day and in that month was born the Prophet."

Each year on the 12th of Rabi` al-Awwal, after the salat al-Maghrib, the four qadis of Makka (representing the Four Schools) and large groups of people including the fuqaha' (scholars) and fudala' (notables) of Makkah, shaykhs, zawiya teachers and their students, ru'asa' (magistrates), and muta'ammamin (scholars) leave the mosque and set out collectively for a visit to the birthplace of the Prophet, shouting out dhikr and tahlil. The houses on the route are illuminated with numerous lanterns and large candles, and a great many people are out and about. They all wear special clothes and they take their children with them. Having reached the birthplace, inside a special sermon for the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet is delivered, mentioning the miracles (karamat) that took place on that occasion. Hereafter the du'a for the Sultan (i.e. the Caliph), the Amir of Makka, and the Shafi'i qadi is performed and all pray humbly. Shortly before the salat al-`Isha', the whole party returns from the birthplace of the Prophet to the Great Mosque, which is almost overcrowded, and all sit down in rows at the foot of the Maqam Ibrahim. In the mosque, a preacher first mentions the tahmid and the tahlil, and once again the du`a' for the Sultan, the Amîr, and the Shafi'i qadi is performed. After this the call for the Salat al-'Isha is made. After the salat, the crowd breaks up.

Harmala said,

“I heard al-Shāfi‘ī say: ‘Innovation is two types (al-bid‘atu bid‘atān): approved innovation (bid‘a mahmūda) and disapproved innovation (bid‘a madhmūma). Whatever conforms to the Sunna is approved (mahmūd) and whatever opposes it is abominable (madhmūm).’ He used as his proof the statement of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb about the [congregational] supererogatory night prayers in the month of Ramadān: “What a fine innovation this is!”

Shaykh al-Islam, Imam Nawawi said,

Al-Bid‘a in the Law is the innovating of what did not exist in the time of the Messenger of Allāh and is divided into “excellent” and “bad” (wahya munqasimatun ilā hasana wa qabīha). The Shaykh, the Imām on whose foremost leadership, greatness, standing, and brilliance in all kinds of Islamic sciences there is consensus, Abū Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Abd al-Salām – Allāh have mercy on him and be well-pleased with him! – said toward the end of his book, al-Qawā‘id [al-Kubrā]:

“Innovation is divided into ‘obligatory’ (wājiba), ‘forbidden’ (muharrama), ‘recommended’ (mandūba), ‘offensive’ (makrūha), and ‘indifferent’ (mubāha). The way [to discriminate] in this is that the innovation be examined in the light of the regulations of the Law (qawā‘id al-sharī‘a). If it falls under the regulations of obligatoriness (ījāb) then it is obligatory; under the regulations of prohibitiveness (tahrīm) then it is prohibited; recommendability, then recommended; offensiveness, then offensive; indifference, then indifferent.” (Al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmā’ wa l-Lughāt (3:20-22))

The sky was deeply hurt by the sharp irony,
when earth said: "Madina is located on me

"The Night of the Prophet's (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) birth is a magnificent, noble, blessed and holy night, a night of bliss for the Believers, pure, radiant with lights and of immeasurable price." (Dhikr Mawlid Rasulullah salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam wa Rida'atih, side 19)

"The Prophet's (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) uncle al-'Abbas (radi Allahu 'anhu) composed poetry praising the birth of the Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam), in which are found the following lines:

`When you were born, the earth was shining, and the firmament barely contained your light, and we can pierce through, thanks to that radiance and light and path of guidance.'" (Dhikr Mawlid Rasulullah salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam wa Rida'atih, side 30)

"Fa-t'adhim al-Mawlid wa t-ikhadhuhu mawsiman qad yaf 'alahu ba'ad an-naasi wa yakunu lahu fihi ajra `adhim lihusni qasdihi t'adhimihi li-Rasulillahi salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallama"

"To celebrate and to honor the birth of the Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and to take it as an honored season, as some of the people are doing, is good and in it there is a great reward, because of their good intentions in honoring the Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam)."(Majma' Fatawi Ibn Taymiyya (the Collected Fatwas) bind 23, side 163)

"Listening to a good voice celebrating the birthday of the Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) or celebrating any of the holy days in our history gives peace to the heart, and gives the listener light from the Prophet (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) to his heart, and he will drink more from the Muhammadan spring ('ayn al-Muhammadiyya)." (Madarij al-Salikin)

"Wa ja'ala liman fariha bi mawlidihi hijaban min al-Nari wasitra,
Wa man anfaqa fi mawludihi dirhaman kana al-Mustafa sallaLlahu 'alayhi wa sallama lahu shafi'an wa mushaffa'a"

"And whosoever rejoices at his (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) birth
This rejoicing by him will turn the Fire away

And whosoever spends even a dirham on the occasion of his mawlid
The Chosen one (salla Llahu 'alayhi wa sallam) will intercede on his behalf and his intercession will be accepted" (mawlad al-Urus, side 9)

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