Hazrat Hasan (Raziallahu Ta'ala Anhu) says that once an old woman asked Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) to pray for her that ALLAH bless her with Heaven. The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said "No old women will enter Jannah (Heaven)". Learning about this, the old woman started crying. Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) asked the companions to tell her that one will not enter in Heaven as an aged women, but will enter in youth ( as young women).
(Shamail Tirmizi - Page 20)
In his tafseer of "Rabbul Aa'lameen" (ALLAH the lord of all that exists) , Imaam Razi (Rahmatulla) has narrated a story of Hazrat Zunn-noon Misri (Rahmatulla). Once he (Hazrat Zunn-noon) went to the river Nile to wash his clothes when he saw a big Bicchu (a poisonous littel animal) running towards the shore. When the Bicchu reached the water, up came a tortoise from inside the water and started floating. On seeing the tortoise the Bicchu jumped on its back. The tortoise took him on his back and swam acroos the river to the other side. Hazrat Zunn-noon says that when he saw this, he tied his cloth and entered into the water and started seeing them, what they are upto? till they reached the other side of the river.
On reaching the other side the Bicchu got down from the Tortoise back and climbed up the sand. I also came out of the river and followed the Bicchu, till we reached a big tree under whose shadow a boy was sleeping. I thought that this animal will stink(bite) this boy, while I was thinking otherwise , I saw a poisonous snake approaching the sleeping boy. But with still some distance for the snake to cover the Bicchu ran towards the snake and sat on its head and stunk(bit) the snake to death. The Bicchu returned to the shore again where the tortoise was waiting. It climbed on the back of the tortoise, who swam the animal back to the other side of the river. On seeing all this I literally said the following to myself
Hearing me the boy got up from his sleep, I narrated this story to him and it had such a big effect , that the boy stopped all the wrong doings in life and lived as pious Muslim thereafter for all his life.
In Persian some poet had said the above phrase in Arabic
This incident is narrated by Ibn Taghree Burwi Rahmatulla in "An-Nujuum Az-Zahira Page 35,36. He writes:
"When Umro bin A'as Raziallahu Ta'aala conquered Misr (Egypt), and
was made its governor. After some period, the month of Bowana (June) came.
At the beginning of the month a delegation of the "Qabti" tribe met the
governor (Umro bin A'as) and said that one habit of the river Nile is such
that if not fulfilled it (the Nile) stops flowing. The governor asked.
"What's that?".
They said: "After 12 nights of this month Bowana (June) has passed,
we grab a beautiful young boy, persuade his parents, decorate this young
boy with good clothes and jewelry and put him in the river Nile. After
that the river flows with full force"
The governor said: "In Islam such things do never happen. Islam has
destroyed all the illiterate customs and superstitions of the past and
is free of all such things. Hearing this the delegation left. But what
really happened was what the delegation had said. After 12 nights the river
Nile really stopped flowing as this culture was not followed by the tribe
and the river Nile dried out and the following three months Bowana (June),
Abeeb (July) and Masri (August) passed like that. Such was the state that
the tribes started moving to other places where they could find water.
The governor (Umro) after seeing this wrote the whole affair to the Caliph
Umar so as to seek his advise. The Caliph, Hazrat Umar replied to the governor:
"You did the right thing, and said the truth, that Islam demolishes all
the illiterate culture of the past. I am sending along a letter, which
you put it in the river Nile.
The governor opened the letter which said:
"From Umar, the worshipper of ALLAH to the river Nile,
After saying All praise be to ALLAH, if you (O Nile) flow by your
own will and power then stop flowing, But if ALLAH who is the most powerful
and the ALLAH of all that exists, if He by his power and will keeps you
flowing, then I (Umar) pray to the same ALLAH that He forces you to flow".
The governor Umro, says that I drown this letter into the Nile a day before the "day crishtians celebrate the alleged cruxification of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him)". The inhabitants of Misr (egypt) were all ready to leave the place by then since their lives were fully dependant on the Nile river for water. But on that day when they went to the river in the morning, they found that the river Nile was flowing to its full and in one night the level of water had reached much above the shore.
(Ibn Taghree Burwi Rahmatulla in "An-Nujuum Az-Zahira Page 35,36,
Ministry of Ashkafatul Irshad Al-Qaumi, Egypt)
Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) once sent Hazrat Ali (raziallu ta'aala) to Yemen. People there (in Yemen) used to capture lions by digging a big hole and leading the lion by various technique to trap in this hole.
Once it so happened that a lion fell inside the trap (the big hole on the ground). People around were watching the fun almost climbing over each other. Suddenly one of the men standing closer was about to fall in this hole, as he tried to save himself he caught the leg of another person , who in turn caught the leg of the third person. The third person caught hold of the fourth person. All the four men thus landed inside the hole. The lion was alive and tore apart all the four men to death. This caused a big fight amongst the relatives of the dead and there came the question of blood-money. Who will pay the the blood-money and who gets it was a big question and the fight almost lead to people pointing swords to each other.
Hazrat Ali (Raziallhu ta'aala) gave the following verdict:
"The one who dug the hole owes the blood-money. But the distribution should be such that the first person who landed in will get one-fourth of the blood money, the second person gets half the blood-money, the third gets two-third of the blood-money and the fourth gets the whole amount."
Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) when learned about it also asserted Hazrat Ali's verdict.
Allam Qurta'bi says that the reason for this verdict was beacause all four were victim of the person's act who dug this hole and that the person who dig the hole had to pay the blood-money. But while the first person who fell in the hole was the victim, he was also the means of killing the other three as well and hence two third will be given to the other victim and he gets only one third. The second person was the means to killing the third and the fourth and hence he gets half of the blood-money, the third was responsible for dragging the fourth so he gets two-third of the money and the fourth person gets the whole amount.
Tafseer Al-Qurt'abi (163/15)
