completing ablution despite hardship (1), taking many steps on the way to the mosques, and waiting for one prayer after another—this is the true ribāṭ (2).” Related by Muslim.
134 – Sixteenth: Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever performs the two cool prayers will enter Paradise.” Agreed upon.
“Al-bardān” are the dawn (fajr) and afternoon (ʿaṣr) prayers.
135 – Seventeenth: From the same Companion: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “If a servant falls ill or sets out on a journey, he is credited with whatever good deeds he used to do while healthy and resident.” Related by al-Bukhārī.
136 – Eighteenth: Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Every act of kindness is a charity.” Related by al-Bukhārī; Muslim narrated it as well through the chain of Ḥudhayfah.
137 – Nineteenth: From the same Companion: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “No Muslim plants a tree except that whatever is eaten from it counts for him as charity, whatever is stolen from it counts for him as charity, and nothing is diminished from it without that being recorded for him as charity.” Related by Muslim.
In another wording of his: “Whenever a Muslim plants a tree and a human, animal, or bird eats from it, that is charity for him until the Day of Resurrection.”
And in yet another of his narrations: “A Muslim does not plant a tree or sow a crop from which a human, an animal, or anything at all eats without its being recorded for him as charity.”
138 – Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim also transmitted this ḥadīth from the Companion Anas (may Allah be pleased with him). The verb “yarzuʾuhu” means “diminishes it.”
139 – Twentieth: From the same Companion: Banū Salimah wanted to move closer to the mosque. When that reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ he said to them, “It has reached me that you wish to move close to…"