Foreword

A bedouin once urinated in the Prophet’s Mosque, and people got up to punish him. The Prophet said, ‘Leave him alone, and throw a bucket of water over his urine. You are here to make things easy, not to make things difficult.’ HADITH OF AL-BUKHARI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH. 150 According to ‘A’ishah, the Prophet used to cobble his shoes, stitch his clothes and do the kind of housework that is done in all homes. He was a human being just like anybody else. He used to milk his goat and do sundry other chores himself. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI.