Emulating the Actions of the Prophet
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn
Narrated Ibn ʿUmar (radī Allāhu ʿanhu), “The Prophet (ﷺ) wore a gold ring and then the people followed him and wore gold rings too. Then the Prophet said, ‘I had this golden ring made for myself.’ He then threw it away and said, ‘I shall never put it on.’ Thereupon the people also threw their rings away.”


Narrated Ibn ʿUmar (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhu), “The Prophet (ﷺ) wore a gold ring and then the people followed him and wore gold rings too. Then the Prophet said, ‘I had this golden ring made for myself.’ He then threw it away and said, ‘I shall never put it on.’ Thereupon the people also threw their rings away.”
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (may Allāh have mercy upon him) says in his explanation of the aforementioned ḥadīth (to the right) “This means, ‘following him in his actions.’ The scholars of uṣūl al-fiqh have divided the actions of the Messenger (ﷺ) into different categories:
- His Human Nature
- Customary Actions
- The Worship of the Messenger
- The Indistinguishable Actions
- Clarifying the Meaning of Allāh’s Statement
- The Inadvertent Actions
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