SAYINGS OF THE HOLY PROPHET ﷺ ABOUT RIBA (INTEREST) - Part 1

- Rasool Allah ﷺ said, "Abstain from the seven disasters!" The people asked him, "What are they, O Messenger of Allah?" He replied:
"1. To ascribe partners to Allah,
2. to practice sorcery,
3. to unjustly kill one who Allah has declared inviolable,
4. to take Riba (interest, usury),
5. to exploit the property of an orphan,
6. to escape from the battlefield,
7. and to slander a chaste woman."
(Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Muslim)

- Rasool Allah ﷺ said, "This night I saw two men who came to me and brought me to a sacred land. We walked until we reached a river of blood, wherein a man was standing, and another man was standing on the bank of the river with some stones before him. Then the man who was standing in the river came forward, and when he intended to come out of the river, the other man threw a stone at his mouth, and turned him back to the place where he was earlier - thus he began to do the same with him whenever he tried to come out of the river by throwing a stone at him and turning him back. I asked him, "What is that which I have just seen going on?" He replied, "He is the one who used to take Riba (interest or usury)."

From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi Rehmatullah Elaih