لَقَدْ مَنَّ ٱللَّهُ عَلَى ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًۭا مِّنْ أَنفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَإِن كَانُوا۟ مِن قَبْلُ لَفِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍ
Laqad mannal laahu 'alal mu'mineena iz ba'asa feehim Rasoolam min anfusihim yatloo 'alaihim Aayaatihee wa yuzakkeehim wa yu'allimu humul Kitaaba wal Hikmata wa in kaanoo min qablu lafee dalaalim mubeen
Certainly did Allah confer [great] favor upon the believers when He sent among them a Messenger from themselves, reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom, although they had been before in manifest error.
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Truly God was gracious to the believers when He sent to them a messenger from among their own that is to say an Arab like them not an angel or a non-Arab so that they can understand what he says and feel honoured thereby to recite to them His verses the Qur’ān and to purify them to cleanse them of sins and to teach them the Book the Qur’ān wisdom the Sunna though in is softened in place of inna that is innahum ‘though they…’ before that is before he was sent they were in clear error.
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We think that the Verse: 'Among the Believers are men who have been true to their covenant with
Allah.' was revealed in favor of Anas bin An-Nadir.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited me while I was sick. He said: Be glad, Umm al-Ala' for Allah removes the sins of a Muslim for his illness as fire removes the dross of gold and silver.
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon us. We placed
a
velvet cloth of ours beneath him and sprinkled water on it.* He sat
on it, and Allah sent down Revelation to him in our house. We offered
him butter and dates, and he (ﷺ) liked butter.”
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was using the tooth-stick, when two men, one older than the other, were with him. A revelation came to him about the merit of using the tooth-stick. He was asked to show proper respect and give it to the elder of the two.
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) urinated, he performed ablution and sprinkled water on private parts of the body.
Abu Dawud said: A group of scholars agreed with Sufyan upon this chain of narrators. Some have mentioned the name of Sufyan b. al-Hakam, and others al-Hakam b. Sufyan.
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