Abu Huraira reported that a person came to Allah, 's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Who among the
people is most deserving of a fine treatment from my hand?
He said: Your mother. He again said: Then who (is the next
one)? He said: Again it is your mother (who deserves the
best treatment from you). He said: Then who (is the next
one)? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Again, it is your
mother. He (again) said: Then who? Thereupon he said: Then
it is your father. In the hadith transmitted on the
authority of Qutalba, there is no mention of the word" the
people".
Abu Huraira reported that a person said: Allah's
Messenger, who amongst the people is most deserving of my
good treatment? He said: Your mother, again your mother,
again your mother, then your father, then your nearest
relatives according to the order (of nearness).
Abu Huraira reported: A person came to Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him). The rest of the hadith is the
same as transmitted by jarir but with this addition: By
your father, you would get the information.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn
Shubruma with the same chain of transmitters and the
hadith transmitted on the authority of Wuhaib there is a
slight variation of wording. Same is the case with the
hadith transmitted on the authority of Muhammad b. Talha
(and the words are):" Who amongst the people deserves the
best treatment from me".
Abdullah b. 'Anir reported that a person came to
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and sought
permission (to participate) in Jihad, whereupon he (the
Holy Prophet) said: Are your parents living? He said: Yes.
Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: You should put in
your best efforts (in their) service.
Yazid b. Abu Habib reported that Na'im, the freed slave
of Umm Salama, reported to him that 'Abdullah b. 'Amr b.
'As said: There came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) a person and said: I owe allegiance to you for
migration and Jihad seeking reward only from Allah. He
(the Holy Prophet) said: Is one from amongst your parents
living? He said: Yes, of course, both are living. He
further asked: Do you want to seek reward from Allah? He
said: Yes. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Go back to your parents and accord them
benevolent treatment.
Chapter 2: THE PREFERENCE OF BENEVOLENT TREATMENT
TO PARENTS OVER VOLUNTARY PRAYERS, ETC.
Abu Huraira reported that Juraij was one who was
devoted to (prayer) in the temple. His mother came to him.
Humaid said that Abu Rafi' demonstrated before us like the
demonstration made by abu Huraira to whom Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) had demonstrated as his
mother called him placing her palms upon the eyebrows and
lifting her head for calling him and said: Juraij, it is
your mother, so talk to her. She found him at that time
absorbed in prayer, so he said (to himself): O Lord, my
mother (is calling me) (whereas I am absorbed) in my
prayer. He opted for prayer. She (his mother) went back,
then came again for the second time and said: O Juraij, it
is your mother (calling you), so talk to me. He said: O
Allah. there is my mother also and my prayer, and he opted
for prayer. She said: O Allah, this Juraij is my son. I
pray to talk to him but he refuses to talk to me. O Allah,
don't bring death to him unless he has seen the
prostitutes, and had she invoked the curse upon him (from
the heart of her heart) he would have been involved in
some turmoil. There was a shepherd living near by his
temple (the temple where Juraij was engaged in prayer). It
so happened that a woman of that village came there and
that shepherd committed fornication with her and she
became pregnant and gave birth to a child. It was said to
her: Whose child is this? She said: He is the child of one
who is living in this temple. So there came persons with
hatchets and spades. They called Juraij. He was absorbed
in prayer and he did not talk to them and they were about
to demolish that temple that he saw them and then came to
them and they said: Ask her (this woman) what she says. He
smiled and then touched the head of the child and said:
Who is your father? He (the child) said: My father is the
shepherd of the sheep, and when they heard this, they
said: We are prepared to rebuild with gold and silver what
we have demolished from your temple. He said: No, rebuild
it with clay as it had been before. He then went up (to
his room and absorbed himself in prayer).
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: None spoke in the cradle but only three
(persons), Christ son of Mary, the second one the
companion of Juraij. Juraij had got constructed a temple
and confined himself in that. His mother came to him as he
was busy in prayer and she said: Juraij. He said: My Lord,
my mother (is calling me while I am engaged in) my prayer.
He continued with the prayer. She returned and she came on
the next day and he was busy in prayer, and she said:
Juraij. And he said: My Lord, my mother (is calling me
while I am engaged) in prayer, and he continued with the
prayer and she went back, and then on the next day she
again came and he was busy in prayer and she said: Juraij.
And he said: My Lord, my mother (is calling me while I am
engaged in my prayer, and he continued with the prayer,
and she said: My Lord, don't give him death unless he has
seen the fate of the prostitutes. The story of Juraij and
that of his meditation and prayer gained currency amongst
Bani Isra'il. There was a prostitute who had been a beauty
incarnate. She said (to the people): If you like I can
allure him to evil. She presented herself to him but he
paid no heed (to her). She came to a shepherd who lived
near the temple and she offered herself to him and he had
a sexual intercourse with her and so she became pregnant
arid when she gave birth to a child she said: This is from
Juraij. So they came and asked him to get down and
demolished the temple and began to beat him. He said: What
is the matter? They said: You have committed fornication
with this prostitute and she has given birth to a child
from your loins. He said: Where is the child? They brought
him (the child) and he said: just leave me so that I
should observe prayer. And he observed prayer and when he
finished, he came to the child. He struck his stomach and
said: O boy, who is your father? lie said: He is such
shepherd. So they turned towards Juraij, kissed him and
touched him (for seeking blessing) and said: We are
prepared to construct your temple with gold. He said. No,
just rebuild it with mud as it had been, and they did
that. Then there was a babe who was sucking his mother
that a person dressed in fine garment came riding upon a
beast. His mother said: O Allah, make my child like this
one. He (the babe) left sucking and began to see towards
him, and said: O Allah, don't make me like him. He then
returned to the chest and began to suck the milk of his
mother. He (Abu Huraira) said: I perceived as if I am
seeing Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as he is
explaining the scene of his sucking milk with his
forefinger in his mouth and sucking that. He (Abu Huraira)
further reported Allah's Apostle (may be peace upon him)
as saying: There happened to pass by him a girl who was
being beaten and they were saying: You have committed
adultery and you have committed theft and she was saying:
Allah is enough for me and He is my good Protector, and
his mother said: O Allah, don't make my child like her and
he left sucking the milk, and looked towards her and said:
O Allah, make me like her, and there was a talk between
them. She said: O with shaven head, a good-looking person
happened to pass by and I said: O Allah, make my child
like him, and you said: O Allah, don't make me like him,
and they passed by a girl while they were beating her and
saying: You committed fornication and you committed theft,
and I said: O Allah, don't make my child like her, and you
said: O Allah, make me like her. Thereupon he said: That
person was a tyrant, and I said: O Allah, don't make me
like him, and they were saying about her: You committed
fornication whereas in fact she had not committed that and
they were saying: You have committed theft whereas she had
not committed theft, so I said: O Allah, make me like her.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Let him be humbled into dust; let him be
humbled into dust. It was said: Allah's Messenger, who is
he? He said: He who sees either of his parents during
their old age or he sees both of them, but he does not
enter Paradise.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Let him be humbled, let him be
humbled. It was said: Allah's Messenger, who is he? He
said. He who finds his parents in old age, either one or
both of them, and does not enter Paradise.
Ibn Dinar reported that a desert Arab met Abdullah b. 'Umar
on the way to Mecca. 'Abdullah greeted him and mounted him
upon the donkey on which he had been riding and gave him
the turban that he had on his head. Ibn Dinar (further)
reported: We said to him ('Abdullah b. 'Umar): May Allah
do good to you, these are desert Arabs and they are
satisfied even with meagre (things). Thereupon Abdullah
said: His father was loved dearly by 'Umar b. Khattib and
I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The finest act of goodness on the part of a son is
to treat kindly the loved ones of his father.
'Abdullah b. Umar reported Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) as saying: The finest act of goodness is that
a person should treat kindly the loved ones of his father.
Abdullah b. Dinar reported that when 'Abdullah b. 'Umar
set out to Mecea, 'he kept a donkey with him which he used
as a diversion from the tedium of journey on the camel's
back and had a turban which he tied round his head. One
day, as he was riding the donkey a desert Arab happened to
pass by him. He ('Abdullah b. 'Umar) said: Arn't you so
and so? He said: Yes He gave him his donkey and said: Ride
it, and tie the turban round your head. Some of his
companions said: May Allah pardon you, you gave to this
desert Arab the donkey on which you enjoyed ride for
diversion and the turban which you tied round your. head.
Thereupon he said: Verily I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: The finest act of goodness
is the kind treatment of a person to the loved ones of his
father after his death and the father of this person was a
friend of 'Umar.
Nawwas b. Sim'an al-Ansiri reported: I asked Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) about virtue and vice.
He said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what
rankles in your heart and that you disapprove that people
should come to know of it.
Nawwis b. Sim'in reported: I stayed with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) for one year. What
obstructed me to migrate was (nothing) but (persistent)
inquiries from him (about Islam). (It was a common
observation) that when anyone of us migrated (to Medina)
he ceased to ask (too many questions) from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him). So I asked him about
virtue and vice. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is
what rankles in your mind and that you disapprove of its
being known to the people.
Chapter 4: JOINING THE TIE OF RELATIONSHIP AND
PROHIBITION TO BREAK IT
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: Verily Allah created the universe and
when He had finished that, ties of relationship came
forward and said This is the place for him who seeks
refuge from severing (of blood-relationship). He said:
Yes. Are you not satisfied that I should keep relationship
with one who joins your ties of relationship and sever it
with one who severs your (ties of relationship)? They (the
ties of blood) said: Certainly so. Thereupon He said:
Well, that is how things are for you. Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) then said: Recite if you like:"
But if you turn away you are sure to make mischief in the
land and cut off the ties of kinship. Those it is whom
Allah has cursed, so He has made them deaf and blinded
their eyes. Do they not reflect on the Qur'an? Or, are
there locks on their hearts?".
'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The tie of kinship is suspended to the
Throne and says: He who unites me Allah would unite him
and he who severed me Allah would sever him.
Jubair b. Mut'im reported on the authority of his
father that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: The severer would not enter Paradise. Ibn Umar said
that Sufyan (explained it as): One who severs the tie of
kinship would not enter Paradise.
Jubair b. Mutlim reported that his father narrated to
him that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
The severer of the tie of kinship would not get into
Paradise.
Anas b. Malik reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: He who is desirous that his
means of sustenance should be expanded for him or his age
may be lengthened, should join the tie of relationship.
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: He who likes that his sustenance
should be expanded and his age may be lengthened should
join the tie of kinship.
Abu Huraira reported that a person said: Allah's
Messenger, I have relatives with whom I try, to have close
relationship, but they sever (this relation). I treat them
well, but they treat me ill. I am sweet to them but they
are harsh towards me. Upon this he (the Holy Prophet)
said: If it is so as you say, then you in fact throw hot
ashes (upon their faces) and there would always remain
with you on behalf of Allah (an Angel to support you) who
would keep you dominant over them so long as you adhere to
this (path of righteousness).
Chapter 5: FORBIDDANCE OF NURSING MUTUAL
JEALOUSY, MUTUAL HATRED AND MUTUAL HOSTILITY
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Neither nurse mutual hatred, nor
jealousy, nor enmity, and become as fellow. brothers and
servants of Allah. It is not lawful fora Muslim that he
should keep his relations estranged with his brother
beyond three days.
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying like this. This hadith has been
narrated through another chain of transmitters.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri
with the same chain of transmitters with the addition of
Ibn Uyaina (and the words are):" Do not cut off (mutual
relations)."
This hadith has been narrated through another chain of
transmitters and the hadith transmitted on the authority
of Abd al-Razziq (the words are):" Neither nurse grudge
nor sever (the ties of kinship), nor nurse enmity."
Anas reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Nurse no grudge, nurse no aversion and do not
sever ties of kinship and live like fellow-brothers as
servants of Allah. This hadith has been narrated on the
authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters
but with this addition:" As Allah has commanded you."
Chapter 6: IT IS FORBIDDEN FOR A MUSLIM TO HAVE
ESTRANGED RELATIONS WITH THE OTHER MUSLIM BEYOND THREE DAYS
WITHOUT ANY REASON OF SHARI'AH
Abu Ayyub Ansiri reported Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: It is not permissible for a Muslim
to have estranged relations with his brother beyond three
nights, the one turning one way and the other turning the
other way when they meet; the better of the two is one who
is the first to give a greeting.
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of
Zuhri with a slight variation of wording (and the words
are):" The one turning away and the other turning away
when they meet and one avoids the other and the other also
avoids him."
'Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: It is not permissible for a
Muslim to have estranged relations with his brother beyond
three days.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Avoid suspicion, for suspicion is the
gravest lie in talk and do not be inquisitive about one
another and do not spy upon one another and do not feel
envy with the other, and nurse no malice, and nurse no
aversion and hostility against one another. And be
fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Don't have estranged relations (with
the others) and don't nurse enmity and don't enter into a
transaction when the other (has already entered) and be
fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying. Don't nurse malice against one
another, don't nurse aversion against one another and
don't be inquisitive about one another and don't outbid
one another (with a view to raising the price) and be
fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of
A'mash with the same chain of transmit ters (and the words
are):" Don't sever relations of kinship, don't bear enmity
against one another, don't bear aversion against one
another and don't feel envy against the other and live as
fellow-brothers as Allah has commanded you.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Don't bear aversion against one
another and don't be jealous of one another and be
servants of Allah.
Chapter 8: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO PERPETRATE ATROCITY
UPON A MUSLIM, TO HUMILIATE HIM, TO INSULT HIM, AND
INVIOLABLE IS HIS BLOOD, HONOUR AND WEALTH
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Don't nurse grudge and don't bid him
out for raising the price and don't nurse aversion or
enmity and don't enter into a transaction when the others
have entered into that transaction and be as
fellow-brothers and servants of Allah. A Muslim is the
brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor
humiliates him nor looks down upon him. The piety is here,
(and while saying so) he pointed towards his chest thrice.
It is a serious evil for a Muslim that he should look down
upon his brother Muslim. All things of a Muslim are
inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth
and his honour.
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of
Abu Huraira with some addition (and it is this):" Verily
Allah does not look to your bodies nor to your faces but
He looks to your hearts," and he pointed towards the heart
with his fingers.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upqn him) as saying: Verily Allah does not look to your
faces and your wealth but He looks to your heart and to
your deeds.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The gates of Paradise are not opened
but on two days, Monday and Thursday. and then every
servant (of Allah) is granted pardon who does not
associate anything with Allah except the person in whose
(heart) there is rancour against his brother. And it would
be said: Look towards both of them until there is
reconciliation; look toward both of them until there is
reconciliation; look towards both of them until there is
reconciliation. This hadith has been narrated on the
authority of Suhail who narrated it on the authority of
his father with the chain of transmitters of MaIik, but
with this variation of wording:, (Those would not be
granted pardon) who bycott each other."
Abu Huraira reported it as a marfu' hadith (and the
words are): The deeds are presented on every Thursday and
Friday and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious. grants pardon
to every person who does not associate anything with Allah
except the person in whose (heart) there is rancour
against his brother. It would be said: Put both of them
off until they are reconciled.
Abu Huraim reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying The deeds of people would be presented
every week on two days, viz. Monday and Thursday, and
every believing servant would be granted pardon except the
one in whose (heart) there is rancour against his brother
and it would he said: Leave them and put them off until
they are turned to reconciliation.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Verily. Allah would say on the Day of
Resurrection: Where are those who have mutual love for My
Glory's sake? Today I shall shelter them in My shadow when
there is no other shadow but the shadow of Mine.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: A person visited his brother in another
town and Allah deputed an Angel to wait for him on his way
and when he came to him he said: Where do you intend to
go? He said: I intend to go to my brother in this town. He
said: Have you done any favour to him (the repayment of
which you intend to get)? He said: No, excepting this that
I love Mm for the sake of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.
Thereupon he said: I am a meesenger to you from, Allah:
(to inform you) that Allah loves you as you love him (for
His sake) This hadith has been narrated on the authority
of Hammid b. Salama with the same of transmitters.
Abu Rabi' reported directly from Allah's Apostle (may
peace upon him) as saying: The one who visits the sick is
in fact like one who is in the fruit garden of Paradise so
long as he does not return.
Thauban, the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him), reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: He who visits the sick continues
to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise until he
returns.
Thauban reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Verily, when a Muslim visits his brother
in Islam he is supposed to remain in the fruit garden of
Paradise until he returns.
Thauban, the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him), reported Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: He who visits the sick is supposed
to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise. It was said:
Allah's Messenger, what is this Khurfat-ul-jannah? He
said: It is a place abounding in fruits.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Verily, Allah, the Exalted and
Glorious, would say on the Day of Resurrection: O son of
Adam, I was sick but you did not visit Me. He would say: O
my Lord; how could I visit Thee whereas Thou art the Lord
of the worlds? Thereupon He would say: Didn't you know
that such and such servant of Mine was sick but you did
not visit him and were you not aware of this that if you
had visited him, you would have found Me by him? O son of
Adam, I asked food from you but you did not feed Me. He
would say: My Lord, how could I feed Thee whereas Thou art
the Lord of the worlds? He said: Didn't you know that such
and such servant of Mine asked food from you but you did
not feed him, and were you not aware that if you had fed
him you would have found him by My side? (The Lord would
again say: ) O son of Adam, I asked drink from you but you
did not provide Me. He would say: My Lord, how could I
provide Thee whereas Thou art the Lord of the worlds?
Thereupon He would say: Such and such of servant of Mine
asked you for a drink but you did not provide him, and had
you provided him drink you would have found him near Me.
Chapter 12: WHENEVER A BELIEVER FALLS SICK OR IS
STRICKEN WITH GRIEF OR SOMETHING LIKE IT, THERE IS A REWARD
FOR HIM EVEN IF IT IS PRICKING OF A THORN
'A'isha reported, I did not see anyone else being
afflicted with more severe illness than Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him). In the narration transmitted by 'Uthman
there is a slight variation of wording.
'Abdullah reported: I visited Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as he was running high temperature. I
touched his body with my bard and said to him: Allah's
Messenger, you are running high temperature, whereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Yes, it is
so. I comparatively have a more severe fever than any one
of you. I said: Is it because there is a double reward in
store for you? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: Yes, it is so. And Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) again said: When a Muslim falls ill,
his compensation is that his minor sins are obliterated
just as leaves tall (in autumn). In the hadith transmitted
on the authority of Zubair there is (no mention of these
words):" I touched his body with my hands."
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of
jarir and the hadith transmitted on the authority of Abu
Mu'awiya there is an addition of these words: He said:
Yes, by Him in Whose Hand is my life, there is no Muslim
upon the earth." The rest of the hadith is the same.
Aswad reported that some young men from the Quraish
visited 'A'isha as she was in Mina and they were laughing.
She said: What makes you laugh? They said: Such and such
person stumbled against the rope of the tent and he was
about to break his neck or lose his eyes. She said: Don't
laugh for I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: If a Muslim runs a thorn or (gets into
trouble) severe than this, there is assured for him (a
higher) rank and his sins are obliterated.
'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: A believer does not receive (the trouble)
of running a thorn or more than that but Allah elevates
him in rank or effaces his sins because of tbat.
'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: A believer does not undergo (the trouble)
of running a thorn or more than that when Allah effaces
his sins.
'A'isha said: No trouble comes to a believer even if it
is the pricking of a thorn that it becomes (the means)
whereby his sins are effaced or his sins are obliterated.
Yazid says: He does not know which word 'Urwa said
(whether he said Qussa or Kuffira).
'A'isha reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: There is nothing (in the form of
trouble) that comes to a believer even if it is the
pricking of a thorn that there is decreed for him by Allah
good or his sins are obliterated.
Abu Sa'id and abu Huraira reported that they heard
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Never
a believer is stricken with discomfort, hardship or
illness, grief or even with mental worry that his sins are
not expiated for him.
Abu Huraira reported that when this verse was
revealed:" Whoever does evil will be requited for it", and
when this was conveyed to the Muslims they were greatly
perturbed. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Be moderate and stand firm in trouble that
falls to the lot of a Muslim (as that) is an expiation for
him; even stumbling on the path or the prickin of a thorn
(are an expiation for him). Muslim said that 'Umar b. Abd
al-Rahman Muhaisin was from amongst the people of Mecca.
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) visited Umm Sa'ib or Umm Musayyib and
said: Umm Sa'ib or Umm Musayyib. why is it that you are
shivering? She said:" It is fever and may it not be
blessed by Allah, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said:
Don't curse fever for it expiates the sir of the posterity
of Adam just as furnace removes the alloy of iron.
'Ata' b. Abi Rabih said: Ibn Abbas said to me: May I
show you a woman of Paradise? I said: Yes. He said: Here
is this dark-complexioned woman. She came to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: I am suffering
from falling sickness and I become naked; supplicate Allah
for me, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Show
endurance as you can do and there would be Paradise for
you and, if you desire, I supplicate Allah that He may
cure you. She said: I am prepared to show endurance (but
the unbearable trouble is) that I become naked, so
supplicate Allah that He should not let me become naked,
so he supplicated for her.
Abu Dharr reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said:
My servants, I have made oppression unlawful for Me and
unlawful for you, so do not commit oppression against one
another. My servants, all of you are liable to err except
one whom I guide on the right path, so seek right guidance
from Me so that I should direct you to the right path. O
My servants, all of you are hungry (needy) except one whom
I feed, so beg food from Me, so that I may give that to
you. O My servants, all of you are naked (need clothes)
except one whom I provide garments, so beg clothes from
Me, so that I should clothe you. O My servants, you commit
error night and day and I am there to pardon your sins, so
beg pardon from Me so that I should grant you pardon. O My
servants, you can neither do Me any harm nor can you do Me
any good. O My servants, even if the first amongst you and
the last amongst you and even the whole of human race of
yours, and that of jinns even, become (equal in)
God-conscious like the heart of a single person amongst
you, nothing would add to My Power. O My servants, even if
the first amongst you and the last amongst you and the
whole human race of yours and that of the Jinns too in
unison become the most wicked (all beating) like the heart
of a single person, it would cause no loss to My Power. O
My servants, even if the first amongst you and the last
amongst you and the whole human race of yours and that of
jinns also all stand in one plain ground and you ask Me
and I confer upon every person what he asks for, it would
not. in any way, cause any loss to Me (even less) than
that which is caused to the ocean by dipping the needle in
it. My servants, these for you I shall reward you for
thern, so he who deeds of yours which I am recording finds
good should praise Allah and he who does not find that
should not blame anyone but his ownself. Sa'id said that
when Abu Idris Khaulini narrated this hadith he knelt upon
his knees.
Abu Dharr reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying that he reported it from his Lord, the
Exalted and Glorious: Verily I have made oppression
unlawful for Me and for My servants too, so do not commit
oppression. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: Be on your guardagainst
committing oppression, for oppression is a darkness on the
Day of Resurrection, and be on your guard against
pettimindedness for pettimindedness destroyed those who
were before you, as it incited them to shed blood and make
lawful what was unlawful for them.
Salim reported on the authority of his father that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: A Muslim
is the brother of a fellow-Muslim. He should neither
commit oppression upon him nor ruin him, and he who meets
the need of a brot'ier, Allah would meet big needs, and he
who relieved a Muslim from hardship Allah would relieve
him from the hardships to which he would be put on the Day
of Resurrection, and he who did not expose (the follies of
a Muslim) Allah would conceal his follies on the Day of
Resurrection.
Abu Huraira. reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Do you know who is poor? They (the
Companions of the Holy Prophet) said: A poor man amongst
us is one who has neither dirham with him nor wealth. He
(the Holy Prophet) said: The poor of my Umma would be he
who would come on the Day of Resurrecton with prayers and
fasts and Zakat but (he would find himself bankrupt on
that day as he would have exhausted his funds of virtues)
since he hurled abuses upon others, brought calumny
against others and unlawfully consumed the wealth of
others and shed the blood of others and beat others, and
his virtues would be credited to the account of one (who
suffered at his hand). And if his good deeds fall short to
clear the account, then his sins would be entered in (his
account) and he would be thrown in the Hell-Fire.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The claimants would get their claims
on the Day of Ressurection so much so that the hornless
sheep would get its claim from the horned sheep.
Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, grants
respite to the oppessor. But when He lays Hand upon him,
He does not then let him off. Re (the Holy Prophet) then
recited this verse:" Such is the chastisement of thy Lord
when He chastises the towns (inhabited by) wrongdoing
persons. Surely, His punishment is painful, severe" (xi.
103).
Chapter 14: HELP YOUR BROTHER WHETHER IIE IS AN
OPPRESSOR OR AN OPPRESSED ONE
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that two young men, one from
the Muhajirin (emigrants) and the other one from the Angr
(helpers) fell into dispute and the Muhajir called his
fellow Muhajirin, and the Ansari (the helper) called the
Ansar (for help). In the meanwhile, Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) came there and said: What is this, the
proclamation of the days of jahiliya (ignorance)? They
said: Allah's Messenger, there is nothing serious. The two
young men fell into dispute and the one struck at the back
of the other. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Well,
a person should help his brother whether he is an
oppressor or an oppressed. If he is the oppressor he
should prevent him from doing it, for that is his help;
and if he is the oppressed he should be helped (against
oppression).
Jabir b. Abdullah reported: We were along with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) in an expedition that a
person from amongst the emigrants struck at the back of a
person from the Ansir. The Ansiri said: O Ansar! And the
Muhijir said: O Emigrants! Thereupon Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) said: What are these proclamations
of the Days of Ignorance? They said: Allah's Messenger, a
person from the emigrants struck at the back of an Ansari,
whereupon he said: It is something disgusting. 'Abdullah
b. Ubayy heard it and said: They have indeed done it. By
Allah, when we would return to Medina the respectable
amongst them (the Ansar) would turn away the mean (the
emigrants). Thereupon 'Umar said: Permit me so that I
should strike the neck of this hypocrite. But he (the Holy
Prophet) said: Leave him, the people may not say that
Muhammad kills his companions.
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that a person from the
emigrants struck the back of an Ansari. He came to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) and asked for
compensation. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) said: Leave it. for it is something disgusting. Ibn
Mansur said that in the narration transmitted on the
authority of Amr (these words are also found):" I heard
Jabir."
Chapter 15: THERE SHOULD BE MUTUAL FELLOW-FEELING
AND LOVE AND THE WILL TO HELP EACH OTHER AMONGST THE
BELIEVERS
Nu'man b. Bashir reported Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: The similitude of believers in
regard to mutual love, affection, fellow-feeling is that
of one body; when any limb of it aches, the whole body
aches, because of sleeplessness and fever.
Nu'man b. Bashir reported Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: The believers are like one person;
if his head aches, the whole body aches with fever and
sleeplessness.
Nu'man b. Bashir reported that Muslims are like one
body of a person; if the eye is sore, the whole body
aches, and if the head aches, the whole body aches.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: When two persons indulge in hurling
(abuses) upon one another, it would be the first one who
would be the sinner so long as the oppressed does not
transgress the limits.
Chapter 17: THE MERITS OF FORGIVENESS AND
HUMILITY
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Charity does not in any way decrease
the wealth and the servant who forgives Allah adds to his
respect, and the one who shows humility Allah elevates him
in the estimation (of the people).
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Do you know what is backbiting? They
(the Companions) said: Allah and His Messenger know best.
Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Backbiting implies
your talking about your brother in a manner which he does
not like. It was said to him: What is your opinion about
this that if I actually find (that failing) in my brother
which I made a mention of? He said: If (that failing) is
actually found (in him) what you assert, you in fact
backbited him, and if that is not in him it is a slander.
Chapter 19: TIDINGS FOR ONE WHOSE FAULTS ALLAH
CONCEALED IN THIS WORLD; HE WILL ALSO CONCEAL HIS FAULTS IN
THE HEREAFTER
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The servant (whose fault) Allah conceals
in this world, Allah would also conceal (his faults) on
the Day of Resurrection.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The servant (who conceals) the faults of
others in this world, Allah would conceal his faults on
the Day of Resurrection.
Chapter 20: ACCORDING OF BENEVOLENT TREATMENT TO
ONE FROM WHOM ONE EXPECTS TRANSGRESSION
A'isha reported that a person sought permission from
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) to see him. He
said: Grant him permission. (and also added: ) He is a bad
son of his tribe or he is a bad person of his tribe. When
he came in he used kind words for him. 'A'isha reported
that she said: Allah's Messenger, you said about him what
you had to say and then you treated him with kindness. He
said: A'isha, verily in the eye of Allah, worst amongst
the person in rank on the Day of Resurrection is one whom
the people abandon or desert out of the fear of indecency.
Jarir b. 'Abdullah reported Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) as saying: He who is deprived of tenderly
feelings is in fact deprived of good and he who is
deprived of tenderly feelings is in fact deprived of good.
'A'isha, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him), reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: 'A'isha, verily Allah is kind and He loves
kindness and confers upon kindness which he does not
confer upon severity and does not confer upon anything
else besides it (kindness).
'A'isha, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him), reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as
saying: Kindness is not to be found in anything but that
it adds to its beauty and it is not withdrawn from
anything but it makes it defective.
This hadith has been reported by Miqdam b. Shuraih b.
Hani with the same chain of transmitters but with this
addition:" 'A'isha mounted upon a wild camel and she began
to make that go round and round. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: You should show
kindness, and then he made a mention of this hadith.
'Imran b. Husain reported: We were with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) in some of his journeys
and there was a woman from the Ansar riding a she-camel
that it shied and she invoked curse upon that. Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) heard it and said:
Unload that and set it free for it is accursed. 'Imran
said: I still perceive that (dromedary) walking amongst
people and none taking any notice of that.
'Imran reported: I perceive as if I am looking towards
that dromedary, and in the hadith transmitted on the
authority of Thaqafi (the words are):" Unload it and make
its back bare for it is accursed."
Abu Burza al-Aslami reported that a slave-girl was
riding a dromedary and there was also the luggage of
people upon it. that she suddenly saw Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him). The way of the mountain was narrow and
she said (to that dromedary): Go ahead (but that dromedary
did not move). She (that slave-girl), out of anger, said:
O Allah, let that (dromedary) be damned. Thereupon Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Let the dromedary on
which the curse has been invoked not proceed with us.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of
Sulaiman Taimi with the same chain of transmitters but
with a variation of words (and that is):" By Allah, let
that accompany us not which has been damned, or he said
like it."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: It does not seem proper for Siddiq
that he should be an invoker of curse. This hadith has
been narrated on the authority of Abu Kuraib with the same
chain of transmitters.
Zaid b. Aslam reported that 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan
sent some domestic goods for decoration to Umm Darda' on
his own behalf, and when it was night 'Abd al-Malik got up
and called for the servant. It seemed as if he (the
servant) was late (in responding to his call), so he ('Abd
al-Malik) invoked curse upon him, and when it was morning
Umm Darda' said to him: I heard you cursing your servant
during the night when you called him, and she said: I
heard Abu Darda' as saying that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: The invoker of curse would
neither be intercessor nor witness on the Day of
Resurrection.
Umm Darda' reported on the authority of Abu Darda' as
saying: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The invoker of curse would neither be witness
nor intercessor on the Day of Resurrection.
Abu Huraira reported it was said to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him): Invoke curse upon the
polytheists, whereupon he said: I have not been sent as
the invoker of curse, but" I have been sent as mercy."
Chapter 23: HE UPON WHOM ALLAH'S APOSTLE (MAY
PEACE BE UPON HIM) INVOKED CURSE WHEREAS HE IN FACT DID NOT
DESERVE IT, IT WOULD BE A SOURCE OF REWARD AND MERCY FOR HIM
A'isha reported that two persons visited Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and both of them talked
about a thing, of which I am not aware, but that annoyed
him and he invoked curse upon both of them and hurled
malediction, and when they went out I said: Allah's
Messenger, the good would reach everyone but it would not
reach these two. He said: Why so? I said: Because you have
invoked curse and hurled malediction upon both of them. He
said: Don't you know that I have made condition with my
Lord saying thus: O Allah, I am a human being and that for
a Muslim upon whom I invoke curse or hurl malediction make
it a source of purity and reward.
This hadith has been reported on the authority of
A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and the hadith
transmitted on the authority of 'Isa (the words are):" He
had a private meeting with them and hurled malediction
upon them and cursed them and sent them out."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: O Allah, I am a human being and for
any person amongst Muslims upon whom I hurl malediction or
invoke curse or give him whipping make it a source of
purity and mercy.
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of
A'mash and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of
'Isa the words are: Make it a source of reward, and in the
hadith transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira (the
words are):" Make it a source of mercy."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: O Allah, I make a covenant with Thee
against which Thou wouldst never go. I am a human being
and thus for a Muslim whom I give any harm or whom I scold
or upon whom I invoke curse or whom I beat, make this a
source of blessing, purification and nearness to Thee on
the Day of Resurrection.
Salim, the freed slave of Nasriyyin, said: I heard Abu
Huraira as saying that he heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: O Allah, Muhammad is a human
being. I lose my temper just as human beings lose temper,
and I have held a covenant with Thee which Thou wouldst
not break: For a believer whom I give any trouble or
invoke curse or beat, make that an expiation (of his sins
and a source of) his nearness to Thee on the Day of
Resurrection.
Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: O Allah, for any
believing servant whom I curse make that as a source of
nearness to Thee on the Day of Resurrection.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: I have held covenant with Thee which
Thou wouldst not break, so for any believer whom I curse
or beat, make that an expiation on the Day of
Resurrection.
Jabir b. Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: I am a human being and I have made
this term with my Lord, the Exalted and Glorious: For any
servant amongst Muslims whom I curse or scold, make that a
source of purity and reward. This hadith has been narrated
on the authority of Ibn Juraij with the same chain of
transmitters.
Anas b. Malik reported that there was an orphan girl
with Umm Sulaim (who was the mother of Anas). Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) saw that orphan girl and
said: O, it is you; you have grown young. May you not
advance in years! That slave-girl returned to Umm Sulaim
weeping. Umm Sulaim said: O daughter, what is the matter
with you? She said: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) has invoked curse upon me that I should not grow in
age and thus I would never grow in age, or she said, in my
(length) of life. Umm Sulaim went out wrapping her
head-dress hurriedly until she met Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him). He said to her: Umm Sulaim, what is
the matter with you? She said: Allah's Apostle, you
invoked curse upon my orphan girl. He said: Umm Sulaim,
what is that? She said: She (the orphan girl) states you
have cursed her saying that she might not grow in age or
grow in life. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
smiled and then said: Umm Sulaim, don't you know that I
have made this term with my Lord. And the term with my
Lord is that I said to Him: 1 am a human being and I am
pleased just as a human being is pleased and I lose temper
just as a human being loses temper, so for any person from
amongst my Ummah whom I curse and he in no way deserves
it, let that, O Lord, be made a source of purification and
purity and nearness to (Allah) on the Day of Resurrection.
Ibn Abbas reported: I was playing with children that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) happened to pass
by (us). I hid myself behind the door. He (the Holy
Prophet) came and he patted upon my shoulders and said: Go
and call Mu'awiya. I returned and said: He is busy in
taking food. He again asked me to go and call Mu'swiya to
him. I went (and came back) and said that he was busy in
taking food, whereupon he said: May Allah not fill his
belly! Ibn Muthanna, said: I asked Umm Umayya what he
meant by the word Hatani. He said: It means" he patted my
shoulders".
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The worst amongst the people is the
double-faced one; he comes to some people with one face
and to others with the other face.
Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: The worst amongst
people is one with the double face. He comes to some
people with one face and to others with the other face.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: You will find the worst amongst the
people one having double face. He comes to some people
with one face and to the others with the other face.
Chapter 25: FORBIDDANCE OF TELLING A LIE AND THE
CASES IN WHICH TELLING OF LIE IS PERMISSIBLE
Humaid b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf reported that his
mother Umm Kulthum daughter of 'Uqba b. Abu Mu'ait, and
she was one amongst the first emigrants who pledged
allegiance to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him), as
saying that she heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: A liar is not one who tries to bring
reconciliation amongst people and speaks good (in order to
avert dispute), or he conveys good. Ibn Shihab said he did
not hear that exemption was granted in anything what the
people speak as lie but in three cases: in battle, for
bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration
of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration
of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form
in order to bring reconciliation between them).
'Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported that Muhammad (may peace
be upon him) said: Should I inform you that slandering,
that is in fact a tale-carrying which creates dissension
amongst people, (and) he (further) said: The person tells
the truth until he is recorded as truthful, and lie tells
a lie until lie is recorded as a liar.
Chapter 27: THE EVIL OF A LIE AND THE GOODNESS OF
TRUTH AND ITS MERIT
'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Truth leads one to Paradise and virtue
leads one to Paradise and the person tells the truth until
he is recorded as truthful, and lie leads to obscenity and
obscenity leads to Hell, and the person tells a lie until
he is recorded as a liar.
'Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: Telling of truth is a virtue
and virtue leads to Paradise and the servant who
endeavours to tell the truth is recorded as truthful, and
lie is obscenity and obscenity leads to Hell-Fire, and the
servant who endeavours to tell a lie is recorded as a
liar. Ibn Abu Shaiba reported this from Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him).
'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: It is obligatory for you to tell the
truth, for truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to
Paradise, and the man who continues to speak the truth and
endeavours to tell the truth is eventually recorded as
truthful with Allah, and beware of telling of a lie for
telling of a lie leads to obscenity and obscenity leads to
Hell-Fire, and the person who keeps telling lies and
endeavours to tell a lie is recorded as a liar with Allah.
This hadith has been reported on the authority of
A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and no mention
is made in the hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Isa
(of these words):" He who endeavours to tell the truth and
endeavours to tell a lie," and in the hadith transmitted
on the authority of Mushir (the words are):" Until Allah
records it".
Chapter 28: THE MERIT OF SELF-CONTROL AT THE TIME
OF ANGER
Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: Whom do you count as" Raqub"
amongst you? They (his Companions) said: One who has no
children (the children are born unto him but they do not
survive). Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: He is not
a Raqub but Raqub is one who does not find his child as
the forerunner (in Paradise). He then said: Whom do you
count as a wrestler amongst you? We said: He who wrestles
with persons. He said: No, it is not he but one who
controls himself when in a fit of rage.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The strong-man is not one who
wrestles well but the strong man is one who controls
himself when he is in a fit of rage.
Abu Huraira reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: One is not strong because of
one's wrestling skillfully. They said: Allah's Messenger,
then who is strong? He said: He who controls his anger
when he is in a fit of rage.
Sulaiman b. Surad reported that two persons abused each
other in the presence of Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) and the eyes of one of them became red as embers
and the veins of his neck were swollen. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I know of a
wording, if he were to utter that, his fit of rage (would
be no more and that wording is): I seek refuge with Allah
from Satan the accursed. The person said: Do you find any
madness in me? Ibn al-'Ala' said: Do you see it? And he
made no mention of the person.
Sulaiman b. Surad reported that two persons abused each
other in the presence of Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) and one of them fell into a rage and his face
became red. Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) saw
him and said: I know of a wording; if he were to utter
that, he would get out (of the fit of anger) (and the
wording is): I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the
accursed. Thereupon, a person went to him who had heard
that from Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said
to him: Do you know what Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said? He (the Holy Prophet) said: I know of a
wording; if he were to say that, (the fit) would be no
more (and the words are): I seek refuge with Allah from
Satan, the accursed. And the person said to him: Do you
find me mad?
Anas reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: When Allah fashioned Adam in Paradise, He left
him as He liked him to leave. Then Iblis roamed round him
to see what actually that was and when he found him hollow
from within, he recognised that he had been created with a
disposition that he would not have control over himself.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: When any one of you fights with his
brother he should avoid striking at the face.
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of
Abu Huraira and in the hadith transmitted on the authority
of Ibn Hatim Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) is
reported to have said: When any one of you fights with his
brother, he should avoid his face for Allah created Adam
in His own image.
'Urwa reported on the authority of his father that
Hisham b. Hakim b. Hizam happened to pass by some people
in Syria who had been made to stand in the sun and
olive-oil was being poured upon their heads. He said: What
is this? It was said: They are being punished for (not
paying) the Kharaj (the government revenue). Thereupon he
said: Allah would punish those who torment people in this
world (without any genuine reason).
Hisham reported on the authority of his father that
Hisham b. Hakim b. Hizam happened to pass by people, the
farmers of Syria, who had been made to stand in the sun.
He said: What is the matter with them? They said: They
have been detained for Jizya. Thereupon Hisham said: I
bear testimony to the fact that I heard Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah would torment
those who torment people in the world.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of
Hisham with the same chain of transmitters and he made
this addition of Jarir that (Hisham b. Hakim) went to
Umair b. Sa'd who was then ruler in Palestine and he
narrated to him this hadith and he (submitting before the
words of the Prophet) commanded that they should be let
off and so they were let off.
'Urwa b. Zubair reported that Hisham b. Hakim found a
person (the ruler of Hims) who had been detaining some
Nabateans in connection with the dues of Jizya. He said:
What is this? I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Allah would torment those persons who
torment people in the world.
Chapter 32: HE WHO GOES IN THE MOSQUE OR IN THE
BAZAR OR A PLACE OF GATHERING LIKE IT WITH A WEAPON SHOULD
SEE THAT THE SPEARHEAD DOES NOT HARM ANYONE
'Amr heard Jabir as saying: A person happened to come
to the mosque with an arrow; thereupon Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) said to him: Take hold of its
pointed head.
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that a person happened to
come to the mosque with arrows and their iron-ends were
exposed, so he was commanded that he should grasp the
pointed heads so that these might not do any harm to a
Muslim.
Jabir reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) commanded a person who had been distributing
arrows freely in the mosque that he should not move about
in the mosque but by catching hold of their iron-heads.
Ibn Rumh narrated this with a slight variation of wording.
Abd Musa reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: When any one of you happens to go to a
meeting or the bazar with an arrow in his hand he must
grasp its pointed head; then (he again said): He must
grasp its pointed head. Abu Musa said: By Allah, we did
not court death until some of us had flung arrows upon the
faces of one another.
Abu Musa reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) assaying: He who amongst you moves in the mosque or
in the bazar and there is an arrow with him he should take
hold of its iron-head in his palm, so that none amongst
the Muslims should receive any injury from it, or he said,
should catch its iron-head.
Chapter 33: THE PROHIBITION OF POINTING A WEAPON
TOWARDS A MUSLIM
Abu Huraira reported: Abu'l-Qasim (the kunya of Allah's
Messenger, may peace be upon him), said: He who pointed a
weapon towards his brother the angels invoke curse upon
him even if he is his real brother so long as he does not
abandon it (the pointing of weapon towards one's brother
Muslim).
Abu Huraira reported a hadith from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) ; (one of them was this) that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: None
amongst you should point a weapon towards his brother, for
he does not know that Satan might cause the weapon (to
slip) from his hand and (he may injure anyone) and thus he
may fall into Hell-Fire.
Chapter 34: THE MERIT OF REMOVING OF ANYTHING
TROUBLESOME FROM THE PATH
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: While a person was going along the
path he found a thorny branch upon it. He pushed it to a
side and Allah approved (this action) of his and (as a
mark of appreciation) granted him pardon.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: A person while walking along the path
saw the branches of a tree lying there. He said: By Allah,
I shall remove these from this so that these may not do
harm to the Muslims, and he was admitted to Paradise.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying that he saw a person enjoying himself
in Paradise because of the tree that he cut from the path
which was a source of inconvenience to the people.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying that there was a tree which caused
inconvenience to the Muslims; a person came there and cut
that (tree) (and thus entered ) Paradise).
Abu Barza reported: I said: Allah's Messenger, teach me
something so that I may derive benefit from it. He said:
Remove the troublesome thing from the paths of the
Muslims.
Abu Barza reported that he said to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him): Allah's Messenger, I do not know
whether I would survive after you, so confer upon me
something by which Allah should benefit me. Thereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Do this
and that and remove the troublesome things from the paths.
Chapter 35: FORBIDDANCE OF TORMENTING THE CAT OR
THE ANIMALS LIKE THAT WHICH DO NOT HARM
Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: A woman was tormented because of a cat
which she had confined until it died and she had to get
into Hell. She did not allow it either to eat or drink as
it was confined, nor did she free it so that it might eat
the insects of the earth.
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Ibn
'Umar through another chain of transmitters. And Ibn 'Umar
reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: A woman was tormented because of a cat which she
had tied and thus allowed it neither to eat or drink nor
set it free so that it might eat the insects of the earth.
Abu Huraira reported from Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) A hadith out of which one was this that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: A woman
got into Hell-Fire because of a cat whom she had tied, and
thus it could not eat, and she did not let it free so that
it could devour the insects of the earth, until it died.
Abu Sa'id Khudri and Abu Huraira reported Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah, the
Exalted and Glorious, said: Glory is His lower garment and
Majesty is His cloak and (Allah says, ) He who contends
with Me in regard to them I shall torment him.
Chapter 37: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO BECOME FRUSTRATED
IN REGARD TO THE MERCY OF ALLAH
Jundub reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) stated that a person said: Allah would not
forgive such and such (person). Thereupon Allah the
Exalted and Glorious, said: Who is he who adjures about Me
that I would not grant pardon to so and so; I have granted
pardon to so and so and blotted out his deeds (who took an
oath that I would not grant pardon to him).
Chapter 38: THE MERITS OF THE WEAK AND
DOWNTRODDEN PEOPLE
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace he
upon him) as saying: Many a person with disheveled hair
and covered with dust is turned away from the doors
(whereas he is held in such a high esteem by Allah) that
if he were to adjure in the name of Allah (about anything)
Allah would fulfil that.
Chapter 39: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO USE THE
EXPRESSION:" THE PEOPLE ARE UNDONE"
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: When a person says that people are
ruined he is himself ruined. Abu Ishaq said: I do not know
whether he said" ahlakahum or ahlakuhum.
'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Gabriel impressed upon me (kind treatment)
towards the neighbour (so much) that I thought as if he
would confer upon him the (right) of inheritance.
Ibn Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Gabriel impressed upon me (the kind
treatment) towards the neighbour (so much) that I thought
as if he would soon confer upon him the (right) of
inheritance.
Abu Dharr reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Abu Dharr, when you prepare the broth, add
water to that and give that (as a present) to your
neighbour.
Abu Dharr reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) commanded me thus: Whenever you prepare a broth, add
water to it, and have in your mind the members of the
household of your neighbours and then give them out of
this with courtesy.
Chapter 41: EXCELLENCE OF MEETING ONE WITH A
CREERFUL COUNTENANCE
Abu Dharr reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) said to me: Don't consider anything insignificant out
of good things even if it is that you meet your brother
with a cheerful countenance.
Chapter 42: THE MERIT OF RECOMMENDATION WHICH
INVOLVES NOTHING UNLAWFUL
Abu Musa reported that when any needy (person) came to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) with a need he
commanded him to his Companions, saying: Make a
recommendation for him, and you would get the reward.
Allah, however, gives the verdict through the tongue of
His Apostle what He likes most.
Chapter 43: THE MERIT OF GOOD COMPANY AND
AVOIDANCE FROM EVIL COMPANY
Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The similitude of good company and that of
bad company is that of the owner of musk and of the one
(iron-smith) blowing bellows, and the owner of musk would
either offer you free of charge or you would buy it from
him or you would. smell its pleasant odour, and so far as
one who blows the. bellows is concerned, he would either
burn your clothes or you shall have to smell its repugnant
smell.
Chapter 44: THE MERIT OF ACCORDING BENEVOLENT
TREATMENT TO DAUGHTERS
'A'isha, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him), said: A woman came to me along with her two
daughters. She asked me for (charity) but she found
nothing with me except one date, so I gave her that. She
accepted it and then divided it between her two daughters
and herself ate nothing out of that. She then got up and
went out, and so did her two daughters. (In the meanwhile)
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) visited me and I
narrated to him her story. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him) said: He who is involved (in the
responsibility) of (bringing up) daughters, and he accords
benevolent treatment towards them, there would be
protection for him against Hell-Fire.
'A'isha reported: A poor woman came to me along with
her daughters. I gave her three dates. She gave a date to
each of them and then she took up one date and brought
that to her mouth in order to eat that, but her daughters
expressed desire to eat it. She then divided the date that
she intended to eat between them. This (kind) treatment of
her impressed me and I mentioned that which she did to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). Thereupon he
said: Verily Allah has assured Paradise for her, because
of (this act) of her, or He has rescued her from
Hell-Fire.
Malik reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: He, who brought up two girls properly till
they grew up, he and I would come (together) (very
closely) on the Day of Resurrection, and he interlaced his
fingers (for explaining the point of nearness between him
and that person).
Chapter 45: THE MERIT OF ONE WHO RESIGNS HIMSELF
TO THE WILL OF GOD CALMLY AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF ONE'S
SON
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Anyone amongst the Muslims, three of whose
children die, and he resigns himself calmly to the will of
God, Fire will not touch him but for the fulfilment of the
oath.
This hadith has been reported by Zuhri on the authority
of Malik, and in the hadith transmitted on the authority
of Sufyan (the words are):" He would enter into Fire,
except for the fulfilment of the oath."
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said to a woman of the Ansar: In case anyone
amongst you sees the sad demise of three children of
(hers) and she resigns herself to the will of God hoping
to get reward, she would be admitted to Paradise. A woman
from amongst them said: Allah's Messenger, even if they
(the children who die) are two. Thereupon, he (the Holy
Prophet, ) said: Even if they are two.
Abu Sa'id Khudri reported that a woman came to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's
Messenger, men receive your instructions; kindly allocate
at your convenience a day for us also, on which we would
come to you and you would teach us what Allah has taught
you. He said: You assemble on such and such a day. They
assembled and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
came to them and taught them what Allah had taught him and
he then said: No woman amongst you who sends her three
children as her forerunners (in the Hereafter) but they
would serve him as a protection against Hell-Fire. A woman
said: What about two and two and two? Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Even if they are
two and two and two.
Abu Hassan reported: I said to Abu Huraira that my two
children had died. Would you narrate to me anything from
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) a hadith which
would soothe our hearts in our bereavements? He said: Yes.
Small children are the fowls of Paradise. If one of them
meets his father (or he said his parents) he would take
hold of his cloth, or he said with his hand as I take hold
of the hem of your cloth (with my hand). And he (the
child) would not take off (his hand) from it until Allah
causes his father to enter Paradise. This hadith has been
narrated on the authority of Tamim with the same chain of
transmitters. And he is reported to have said: Did you
hear from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
anything which may soothe our heart in our bereavements?
He said: Yes.
Abu Huraira reported that a woman came to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) with her child and said:
Allah's Apostle, invoke Allah's blessing upon him for I
have already buried three. He said: You have buried three!
She said: Yes. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: You
have, indeed, safeguarded yourself against the torment of
Hell with a strong safeguard. 'Umar has made a mention of
his father, whereas others have not made a mention of his
father.
Abu Huraira reported that a woman came to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) with her child and said:
Allah's Messenger, he is ailing, and I am afraid (that he
may die), as I have already buried three. Thereupon he
said: It (their sad demise) would be a protection against
Hell-Fire for you. Zuhair has not mentioned the kunya of
Abu Ghiyath; he has mentioned his name.
Chapter 46: WHEN ALLAH LOVES A SERVANT, HIS
FELLOW-SERVANTS ALSO BEGIN TO LOVE HIM
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: When Allah loves a servant, He calls
Gabriel and says: Verily, I so and so; you should also
love him, and then Gabriel begins to love him. Then he
makes an announcement in the heaven saying: Allah loves so
and so and you also love him, and then the inhabitants of
the Heaven (the Angels) also begin to love him and then
there is conferred honour upon him in the earth; and when
Allah is angry with any servant He calls Gabriel and says:
I am angry with such and such and you also become angry
with him, and then Gabriel also becomes angry and then
makes an announcement amongst the inhabitants of heaven:
Verily Allah is angry with so-and so, so you also become
angry with him, and thus they also become angry with him.
Then he becomes the object of wrath on the earth also.
This hadith has been reported on the authority of
Suhail with the same chain of transmitters except with
this variation that in the hadith transmitted on the
authority of 'Ali' b. Musayyib, there is no mention of
(the word)" Anger".
Suhail b. Abi Salih, reported: We were in Arafa that
there happened to pass Umar b. Abd al-'Aziz and he was the
Amir of Hajj. People stood up in order to catch a glimpse
of him. I said to my father: Father, I think that Allah
loves Umar b. Abd al- 'Aziz. He said: How is it? I said:
It is because of the love in people's heart for him.
Thereupon he said: By One Who created your father, I heard
Abu Huraira narrating from Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) a hadith like one transmitted on the authority
of Suhail.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) Saying: Souls are troops collected together and
those who familiarised with each other (in the heaven from
where these come) would have affinity, with one another
(in the world) and those amongst them who opposed each
other (in the Heaven) would also be divergent (in the
world).
Abu Huraira narrated directly from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) that he said: People are like
mines of gold and silver; those who were excellent in
Jahiliya (during the days of ignorance) are excellent In
Islam, when they have, an understanding, and the souls are
troops collected together and those who had a mutual
familiarity amongst themselves in the store of prenatal
existence would have affinity amongst them, (in this world
also) and those who opposed one of them, would be at
variance with one another.
Chapter 48: A PERSON WOULD BE ALONG WITH HIM WHOM
HE LOVES
Anas b. Malik reported that a desert Arab said to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him): When would be
the Last Hour? Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: What preparation have you made for that? Thereupon
he said: The love of Allah and of His Messenger (that is
my preparation for the Last Hour) (for the Day of
Resurrection). Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: You
would be along with one whom you love.
Anas reported that a person said to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him): When would be the Last Hour? He
(the Holy Prophet) said: What preparation have you made
for that? And he gave no details, but said: I love Allah
and His Messenger. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said:
You would be along with one whom you love. Anas b. Malik
reported through another chain of transmitters that a
desert Arab came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon,
him), the rest of the hadith is the same but with this
variation that he said: I have not made much preparations
which merit appreciation for myself.
Anas b. Malik reported that a person came to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said to Allah's
Messenger: When would be the Last Hour? Thereupon he (the
Holy Prophet) said: What preparation have you made for the
Last Hour? He said: The love of Allah and of His Messenger
(is my only preparation). Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet)
said: You would be along with one whom you love. Anas
said: Nothing pleased us more after accepting Islam than
the words of Allah's Apostle: You would be along with one
whom you love. And Anas said. I love Allah and His
Messenger and Abu Bakr and Umar, and I hope that I would
be along with them although I have not acted like them.
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) this hadith through another chain of
transmitters but he did not make mention of the words of
Anas: I love, and what follows subsequently.
Anas b. Malik reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) and I were coming out of the mosque that we met
a person on the threshold of the mosque and he said to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him): When would be
the Last Hour? Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: What preparation have you made for that? The man
became silent and then said: Allah's Messenger, I have
made no significant preparation with prayer and fasting
and charity but I, however, love Allah and His Messenger.
Thereupon (the Holy Prophet) said: You would be along with
one whom you love.
'Abdullah reported that a person came to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him): What is your opinion
about the person who loves the people but his (acts or
deeds are not identical to theirs)? Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: A person would be
along with one whom he loves.
Abu Dharr reported: It was said to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him): What is your opinion about the
person who has done good deeds and the people praise him?
He said: It is glad tidings for a believer (which he has
received in this mortal world).
This hadith has been narrated through another chain of
transmitters also and the one transmitted on the authority
of Shu'ba (the words are):" People love him." In the
hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Abd-us-Samad (the
words are):" People praise him as stated by Hammad."