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This
is the book of the Islamic scholar Yahia bin
Sharaful-Deen An-Nawawi (R). The book is now known
as "An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths". This is a
popular small book in which the author gathered
forty two of the sayings of prophet Muhammed salla
Allah u alihi wa sallam. You could either jump
to the hadith using the numbers, or scroll down.
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Introduction
Praise
be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Eternal Guardian of
the heavens and the earths, Disposer of all created
beings, Despatcher of Messengers (may the blessings
and peace of Allah be upon them all) who were sent
to those they have been entrusted to guide and to
reveal the religious laws to, with positive signs
and clear-cut proofs. I praise Him for His favours
and ask Him to increase His grace and generosity. I
bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone,
He having no associate, the One, the Subduer, the
Generous, the Pardoner, and I bear witness that our
master Muhammed is His servant and His messenger,
His dear one and His beloved, the best of created
beings, who was honoured with the precious Quran,
the enduring miracle through the passing of the
years, and with the sunnahs that enlighten spiritual
guides; our master Muhammed, singled out for
pithiness of speech and tolerance in religion may
the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, upon
the rest of the prophets and messengers, and upon
all their families and upon the rest of godly
persons. To proceed: It has been transmitted to us
on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talib, Abdullah bin
Masud, Muadh bin Jabal, Abu Al-Darda, Ibn Omar, Ibn
Abbas, Anas bin Malik, Abu Hurairah and Abu Saeed
Al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with them all,
through many chains of authorities and in various
versions, that the messenger of Allah said:
"Whosoever memorises and preserves for my
people forty hadith relating to their religion,
Allah will resurrect him on the Day of Judgment in
the company of jurists and religious scholars
". In another version it reads: "Allah
will resurrect him as a jurist and religious scholar
". In the version of Abu Al-Darda it reads:
"On the Day of Judgment I shall be an
intercessor and a witness for him". In the
version of Ibn Masud it reads: "It will be said
to him: Enter by whichever of the doors of Paradise
you wish ". In the version of Ibn Omar it
reads: " He will be written down in the company
of the religious scholars and will be resurrected in
the company of the martyrs ". Scholars of
hadith are agreed that it is a weak hadith despite
its many lines of transmission. The religious
scholars, may Allah be pleased with them, have
composed innumerable works in this field. The first
one I knew of who did so was Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak,
followed by Ibn Aslam Al-Tusi, the godly scholar,
then Al-Hasan bin Sufiyan Al-Nasai, Abu Bakr Al-Ajurri,
Abu-Bakr Mubammad bin Ibrahim Al-Asfihani, Al-Daraqutni,
Al-Hakim, Abu Nuaim, Abu Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sulami,
Abu Saeed Al-Malini, Abu Uthman Al-Saboni, Abdullah
bin Muhammed Al-Ansari, Abu Bakr Al-Baihaqi, and
countless others, both ancient and modern. I have
asked Allah Almightly for guidance in bringing
together forty hadith in emulation af those eminant
religious leaders and guardians of Islam. Religious
scholars are agreed it is permissible to put into
practice a weak hadith if virtuous deeds are
concerned; despite this, I do not rely on this
hadith but on his having said the [ following ]
sound hadith: "Let him who was a witness
among you inform him who was absent", and
on his having said : "May Allah make radiant
[the face of] someone who has heard what I have
said, has learnt it by heart and has transmitted it
as he heard it". Furthermore, there were
some religious scholars who brought together forty
hadiths on the basic rules of religion, on
subsidiary matters, or on jihad, while others did so
on asceticism, on rules of conduct or on sermons.
All these are godly aims-may Allah be pleased with
those who pursued them. I, however, considered it
best to bring together forty hadith more important
than all of these, being forty hadith which would
incolporate all of these, each hadith being one of
the great precepts of religion, described by
religious scholars as being "the axis of Islam
" or "the half of Islam" or "the
third of it ", or the like, and to make it a
rule that these forty hadith be [classified as]
sound and that the majority of them be in the sahihs
of Al-Bukhari and Muslim. I give them without the
chains of authorities so as to make it easier to
memorise them and to make them of wider benefit if
Allah Almighty wills, and I append to them a section
explaining abstruse expressions.(Note here) every
person wishing to attain the Hereafter should know
these hadith because of the important matters they
contain and the directions they give in respect of
all forms of obedience, this being obvious to anyone
who has reflected upon it. On Allah do I rely and
depend and to Him do I entrust myself; to Him be
praise and grace, and with Him is success and
immunity [to errors].
Hadith
# 1
On the authority of Omar bin Al-Khattab, who said :
I heared the messenger of Allah salla Allah u
alihi wa sallam say :
"Actions are but by intention and every man
shall have but that which he intended. Thus he whose
migration was for Allah and His messenger, his
migration was for Allah and His messenger, and he
whose migration was to achieve some worldly benefit
or to take some woman in marriage, his migration was
for that for which he migrated." related by
Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 2
Also on the authority of Omar, who said : One day
while we were sitting with the messenger of Allah
there appeared before us a man whose clothes were
exceedingly white and whose hair was exceedingly
black; no signs of journeying were to be seen on him
and none of us knew him. He walked up and sat down
by the prophet. Resting his knees against his and
placing the palms of his hands on his thighs, he
said:"O Muhammed, tell me about Islam".
The messenger of Allah said: "Islam is to
testify that there is no god but Allah and Muhammed
is the messenger of Allah, to perform the prayers,
to pay the zakat, to fast in Ramadhan, and to make
the pilgrimage to the House if you are able to do
so." He said:"You have spoken
rightly", and we were amazed at him asking him
and saying that he had spoken rightly. He said:
"Then tell me about eman."He
said:"It is to believe in Allah, His angels,
His books, His messengers, and the Last Day, and to
believe in divine destiny, both the good and the
evil thereof." He said:"You have spoken
rightly". He said: " Then tell me about ehsan."
He said: "It is to worship Allah as though you
are seeing Him, and while you see Him not yet truly
He sees you". He said: "Then tell me about
the Hour". He said: "The one questioned
about it knows no better than the questioner."
He said: "Then tell me about its signs."
He said: "That the slave-girl will give birth
to her mistress and that you will see the
barefooted, naked, destitute herdsman competing in
constructing lofty buildings." Then he took
himself off and I stayed for a time. Then he said:
"O Omar, do you know who the questioner
was?" I said: "Allah and His messenger
know best". He said: "He was Jebreel
(Gabriel), who came to you to teach you your
religion."
p narrated by Muslim
Hadith
# 3
On the authority of Ibn Omar, the son of Omar bin
Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with both, who said
: I heared the messenger of Allah say :
"Islam has been built on five [pillars]:
testifying that there is no god but Allah and that
Muhammed is the messenger of Allah, performing the
prayers, paying the zakat, making the pilgrimage to
the House, and fasting in Ramadan."
p related by Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 4
On the authority of Abdullah bin Masud, who said :
the messenger of Allah, and he is the truthful, the
believed narrated to us :
p "Verily the creation of each one of you is
brought together in his mother's belly for forty
days in the form of seed, then he is a clot of blood
for a like period, then a morsel of flesh for a like
period, then there is sent to him the angel who
blows the breath of life into him and who is
commanded about four matters: to write down his
means of livelihood, his life span, his actions, and
whether happy or unhappy. By Allah, other than Whom
there is no god, verily one of you behaves like the
people of Paradise until there is but an arm's
length between him and it, and that which has been
written over takes him and so he behaves like the
people of Hell-fire and thus he enters it; and one
of you behaves like the people of Hell-fire until
there is but an arm's length between him and it, and
that which has been written over takes him and so he
behaves like the people of Paradise and thus he
enters it."
p related by Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 5
On the authority of Aishah, who said : The messenger
of Allah said:
p "He who innovates something in this matter of
ours that is not of it will have it rejected."
p narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
And in one version by Muslim it reads :
p "He who does an act which our matter is not
[in agreement] with will have it rejected."
Hadith
# 6
On the authority of Al-Numan bin Basheer, who said :
I heared the messenger of Allah say :
"That which is lawful is plain and that which
is unlawful is plain and between the two of them are
doubtful matters about which not many people know.
Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself
in regard to his religion and his honor, but he who
falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is
unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a
sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly every king
has a sanctuary, and truly Allah's sanctuary is His
prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of
flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole
and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased.
Truly it is the heart."
p narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 7
On the authority of Tamim Al-Dari that the prophet
said:
p "Religion is sincerity". We said:
"To whom?" He said: "To Allah and His
Book, and His messenger, and to the leaders of the
Muslims and their common folk".
p narrated by Muslim
Hadith
# 8
Abdullah bin Omar narrated that the messenger of
Allah said:
p "I have been ordered to fight against people
until they testify that there is no god but Allah
and that Muhammed is the messenger of Allah and
until they perform the prayers and pay the zakat,
and if they do so they will have gained protection
from me for their lives and property, unless [they
do acts that are punishable] in accordance with
Islam, and their reckoning will be with Allah the
Almighty."
related by Bukhari and Muslim.
Hadith
# 9
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : I
heared the messenger of Allah say :
"What I have forbidden to you, avoid; what I
have ordered you [to do], do as much of it as you
can. It was only their excessive questioning and
their disagreeing with their prophets that destroyed
those who were before you."
p related bu Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 10
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : the
messenger of Allah said :
p "Allah the Almighty is good and accepts only
that which is good. Allah has commanded the faithful
to do that which he commanded the messengers, and
the Almighty has said: "O ye messengers ! Eat
of the good things and do right". And Allah the
Almighty has said : "O ye who believe! Eat of
the good things wherewith We have provided you"
Then he mentioned [the case of] a man who, having
journeyed far, is dishevelled and dusty and who
spreads out his hands to the sky [saying] : "O
Lord! O Lord!" - while his food is unlawful,
his drink unlawful, his clothing unlawful, and he is
nourished unlawfully, so how can he be answered
!"
p related by Muslim
Hadith
# 11
On the authority of Al-Hasan bin Ali, the grandson
of the messenger of Allah, who said : I memorized
from the messenger of Allah his saying : "Leave
that which makes you doubt for that which does not
make you doubt."
p narrated by Termithi and Nasaee, and Tirmithi said
it is true and fine hadith.
Hadith
# 12
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : The
messenger of Allah said :
"Part of someone's being a good Muslim is his
leaving alone that which does not concern him."
p fine hadith narrated by Termithi and others
Hadith
# 13
On the authority of Anas bin Malik, the servant of
the messenger of Allah, that the prophet said :
"None of you [truely] believes until he wishes
for his brother what he wishes for himself."
p related by Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 14
Abdullah bin Masud narrated that the messenger of
Allah said :
"The blood of a Muslim may not be legally spilt
other than in one of three [instances] : the married
person who commits adultery; a life for a life; and
one who forsakes his religion and abandons the
community."
p it was related by Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 15
Abu Hurairah narrated that the messenger of Allah
said :
"Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day
either speak good or keep silent, and let him who
believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to
his neighbour, and let him who believes in Allah and
the Last Day be generous to his guest."
p related by Bukhari and Muslim
Hadith
# 16
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : a man
said to the prophet : "Counsel me". He
said : " Do not become angry". The man
repeated [his request] several times, and he said:
"Do not become angry ".
p narrated by Bukhari
Hadith
# 17
Abu Yaala Shaddad bin Aws said that the messenger of
Allah said :
"Verily Allah has prescribed proficiency in all
things. Thus, if you kill, kill well; and if you
slaughter, slaughter well. Let each one of you
sharpen his blade and let him spare suffering to the
animal he slaughters."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 18
On the authority of Abu Dhar Jundub bin Junadah, and
Muadh bin Jabal that the messenger of Allah said :
"Fear Allah wherever you are, and follow up a
bad deed with a good one and it will wipe it out,
and behave well towards people."
p Tirmithi narrated the hadith and said it was fine,
and in another version, said ture and fine
Hadith
# 19
On the authority of Abdullah bin Abbas, who said :
One day I was behind the prophet and he said to me:
"Young man, I shall teach you some words [of
advice] : Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will
protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and you will find
Him in front of you. If you ask, ask of Allah; if
you seek help, seek help of Allah. Know that if the
Nation were to gather together to benefit you with
anything, it would benefit you only with something
that Allah had already prescribed for you, and that
if they gather together to harm you with anything,
they would harm you only with something Allah had
already prescribed for you. The pens have been
lifted and the pages have dried."
p narrated by Termithi, who said it is true and fine
hadith
In a version other than that of Tirmithi it reads:
p "..Be mindful of Allah, you will find Him
before you. Get to know Allah in prosperity and He
will know you in adversity. Know that what has
passed you by was not going to befall you; and that
what has befallen you was not going to pass you by.
And know that victory comes with patience, relief
with affliction, and ease with hardship."
Hadith
# 20
Uqbah bin Amre Al-Ansari narrated that the messenger
of Allah said :
p "Among the words people obtained from the
First Prophecy are : If you feel no shame, then do
as you wish."
p It was related by Bukhari.
Hadith
# 21
On authority of Sufian bin Abdullah, may Allah be
pleased with him said:
p I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me
something about Islam which I can ask of no one but
you". He said:" Say:'I believe in Allah',
and thereafter be upright."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 21
Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansari narrated that :
p A man asked the messenger of Allah :
"Do you think that if I perform the obligatory
prayers, fast in Ramadan, treat as lawful that which
is lawful and treat as forbidden that which is
forbidden, and do nothing further, I shall enter
Paradise ?"
He said: "Yes."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 22
On the authority of Abu Malik Al-Harith bin Asim Al-Ashari
said that the messenger of Allah said:
"Purity is half of faith. alhamdu-lillah
[Praise be to Allah] fills the scales, and subhana-Allah
[How far is Allah from every imperfection] and alhamdu-lillah
[Praise be to Allah] fill that which is between
heaven and earth. Prayer is light; charity is a
proof; patience is illumination; and the Quran is an
argument for or against you. Everyone starts his day
and is a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or
bringing about its ruin."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 23
On the authority of Abu Dharr Al-Ghafari, of the
prophet is that among the sayings he relates from
his Lord is that He said:p "O My servants, I
have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made
it forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one
another. O My servants, all of you are astray except
for those I have guided, so seek guidance of Me and
I shall guide you. O My servants, all of you are
hungry except for those I have fed, so seek food of
Me and I shall feed you. O My servants, all of you
are naked except for those I have clothed, so seek
clothing of Me and I shall clothe you. O My
servants, you sin by night and by day, and I forgive
all sins, so seek forgiveness of Me and I shall
forgive you. O My servants, you will not attain
harming Me so as to harm Me, and you will not attain
benefiting Me so as to benefit Me. O my servants,
were the first of you and the last of you, the human
of you and the jinn of you to become as pious as the
most pious heart of any one man of you, that would
not increase My kingdom in anything. O My servants,
were the first of you and the last of you, the human
of you and the jinn of you to be as wicked as the
most wicked heart of any one man of you, that would
not decrease My kingdom in anything. O My servants,
were the first of you and the last of you, the human
of you and the jinn of you to rise up in one place
and make a request of Me, and were I to give
everyone what he requested, that would not decrease
what I have, any more than a needle decreases the
sea if put into it. O My servants, it is but your
deeds that I reckon up for you and then recompense
you for, so let him who finds good praise Allah, and
let him who finds other than that blame no one but
himself."p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 24
On the authority of Abu Dharr :
p Some of the companions of the messenger of Allah
said :" O Messenger of Allah, the affluent have
made of with the rewards, they pray as we pray they
fast as we fast, and they give away in charity the
superfluity of their wealth." He said:"
Has not Allah made things for you to give away in
charity ? every tasbihah is a charity, every
takbirah is a charity, every tahmidah is a charity,
and every tahlilah is a charity, to enjoin a good
action is a charity, to forbid an evil action is a
charity, and in the sexual act of each of you there
is a charity." They said: "O Messenger of
Allah, when one of us fulfils his sexual desire will
he have some reward for that?" He said:
"Do you not think that were he to act upon it
unlawfully he would be sinning ? Likewise, if he has
acted upon it lawfully he will have a reward."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 25
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said: The
messenger of Allah said :
p "Each person's every joint must perform a
charity every day the sun comes up : to act justly
between two people is a charity; to help a man with
his mount, lifting him onto it or hoistingd up his
belongings onto it is a charity: a good word is a
charity, every step you take to prayers is a charity
and removing a harmful thing from the road is a
charity."
p related by Bukhari and Muslim.
Hadith
# 26
On the authority of Al-Nawwas bin Samaan, that the
prophet said:
p "Righteousness is good morality, and
wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and
which you dislike people finding out about."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 27
And on the authority of Wabisa bin Mabad, may Allah
be pleased with him, who said:
p I came to the messenger of Allah and he said:
"You have come to ask about righteousness
?" . I said:" Yes." He said:
"Consult your heart. Righteousness is that
about which the soul feels tranquil and the heart
feels tranquil, and wrongdoing is that which wavers
in the soul and moves to and from in the breast even
though people again and again have given you their
legal opinion [in its favor]."
p a good hadith transmetted from the Musnads of the
two Imams, Ahmed bin Hanbal and Al-Darimi, with a
good chain of authorities.
Hadith
# 28
On the authority of Abu Najih Al-Erbadh bin Sariah,
who said :
p The messenger of Allah gave us a sermon by which
our hearts were filled with fear and tears came to
our eyes. We said: "O Messenger of Allah, it is
as though this is a farewell sermon, so councel
us." He said: "I councel you to fear Allah
and to give absolute obedience even if a slave
becomes your leader. Verily he among you who lives
[long] will see great controversy, so you must keep
to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the rightly-guided
Khalifahs - cling to them stubbornly. Beware of
newly invented matters, for every invented matter is
an innovation and every innovation is a going
astray, and every going astray is in
Hell-fire."
p related by Abu Dawud and Al-Tirmithi, who said
that it was a fine and true Hadith.
Hadith
# 29
On the authority of Muadh bin Jabal, who said:
p I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me of an
act which will take me into Paradise and will keep
me away from Hell fire." He said: "You
have asked me about a major matter, yet it is easy
for him for whom Allah Almighty makes it easy. You
should worship Allah, associating nothing with Him,
you should perform the prayers, you should pay the
zakat, you should fast in Ramadan, and you should
make the pilgrimage to the House." Then he
said:" Shall I not show you the gates of
goodness ? Fasting [which] is a shield, charity
[which] extigueshes sin as water extebgueshes fire;
and the praying of a man in the deapth of
night." Then he recited : "Who
forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear
and hope, and spend of that We have bestowed on
them. No soul knoweth what is kept hid for them of
joy, as a reward for what they used to do".
(quran, verse) Then he said: " Shall I not
tell you of the peak of the matter, its pillar, and
its topmost part?" I said: "Yes, O
Messenger of Allah." He said: "The peak of
the matter is Islam; the pillar is prayer; and its
topmost part is jihad." Then he said:
"Shall I not tell you of the controling of all
that ?" I said:"Yes, O Messenger of
Allah", and he took hold of his tongue and
said: "Restrain this." I said: "O
Prophet of Allah, will what we say be held against
us ?" He said: "May your mother be
bereaved of you, Muadh ! Is there anything that
topples people on their faces - or he said on their
noses into Hell-fire other than the jests of their
tongues ?"
p related by Al-Tirmithi, who said it was a fine and
true hadlth.
Hadith
# 30
On the authority of Jurthum bin Nashir that the
messenger of Allah said :
p "Allah the Almighty has laid down religious
duties, so do not neglict them. He has set
boundaries, so do not over step them. He has
prohibited some things, so do not violate them;
about some things He was silent-out of compassion
for you, not forgetfulness, so seek not after
them."
p a fine hadith related by Al-Daraqutni and others.
Hadith
# 31
On the authority of Sahl bin Saad Al-Saedi, who said
:
p A man came to the prophet and said: "O
Messenger of Allah, direct me to an act which, if I
do it, [will cause] Allah to love me and people to
love me." He said: "Renounce the world and
Allah will love you, and renounce what people
possess and people will love you."
p a fine Hadith related by Ibn Majah and others with
good chains of authorities.
Hadith
# 32
On the authority of Saad bin Malik Al-Khudari, that
the messenger of Allah said :
p "There should be neither harming nor
reciprocating harm."
p a fine hadith related by Ibn Majah, Al-Daraqutni
and others
Hadith
# 33
On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of
Allah said:
p "Were people to be given in accordance with
their claim, men would claim the fortunes and lives
of [other] people, but the onus of proof is on the
claimant, and the taking of an oath is incumbent
upon him who denies."
p a fine hadith related by Al-Baihaqi and others
Hadith
# 34
On the authority of Abu Saeed Al-Khurdari, who said:
I heard the messenger of Allah say:
p "Whosoever of you sees an evil action, let
him change it with his hand; and if he is not able
to do so, then with his tongue; and if he is not
able to do so, then with his heart; and that is the
weakest of faith."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 35
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : the
messenger of Allah said :
p "Do not envy one another; do not inflate
prices one to another; do not hate one another; do
not turn away from one another; and do not undercut
one another, but be you, O servants of Allah,
brothers. A muslim is the brother of a muslim: he
neither oppresses him nor does he fail him, he
neither lies to him nor does he hold him in
contempt. Piety is right here-and he pointed to his
breast three times. It is evil enough for a man to
hold his brother muslim in contempt. The whole of a
muslim for another muslim is inviolable: his blood,
his property, and his honor."
p related by Muslim.
Hadith
# 36
On the authority of Abu Hurairah that the Prophet
said:
p "Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a
believer, Allah will remove from him one of the
griefs of the Day of Judgment. Whosoever alleviates
[the lot of] a needy person, Allah will alleviate
[his lot] in this world and the next. Whosoever
shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this
world and the next. Allah will aid a servant [of
His] so long as the servant aids his brother.
Whosoever follows a path to seek knowledge therein,
Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise. No
people gather together in one of the houses of
Allah, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it
among themselves, without tranquility descending
upon them, mercy enveloping them, the angels
surrounding them, and Allah making mention of them
amongst those who are with Him. Whosoever is slowed
down by his actions will not be hastened forward by
his lineage."
p related by Muslim in these words.
Hadith
# 37
On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the messenger of
Allah, among the sayings he relates from his Lord is
:
p "Allah has written down the good deeds and
the bad ones." Then he explained it [by saying
that] :" He who has intended a good deed and
has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself
as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and
has done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as
from ten good deeds to seven hundred times, or many
times over. But if he has intended a bad deed and
has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself
as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and
has done it, Allah writes it down as one bad
deed."
p related by Bukhari and Muslim in their two salihs
Hadith
# 38
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said: the
messenger of Allah said:
p Allah the Almighty has said: "Who soever
shows enmity to a friend of Mine, I shall be at war
with him. My servant does not draw near to Me with
anything more loved by Me than the religious duties
I have imposed upon him, and My servant continues to
draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I
shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing
with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees,
his hand with which he strikes, and his foot with
which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I
would surely give it to him and were he to ask Me
for refuge, I would surely grant him it."
p related by Bukhari.
Hadith
# 39
On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the messenger of
Allah said:
p "Allah has pardoned for me my people for
[their] mistakes and [their] forgetfulness and for
what they have done under duress."
p a fine hadith related by Ibn Majah,Al-Baihqi, and
others.
Hadith
# 40
On the authority of Abdullah bin Omar, who said: The
messenger of Allah took me by the shoulder and said:
"Be in the world as though you were a stranger
or a wayfarer."p The son of Omar used to say:
"At evening do not expect [to live till]
morning, and at morning do not expect [to live till]
evening. Take from your health for your illness and
from your life for your death."
p related by Bukhari
Hadith
# 41
On the authority of Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Amr
bin Al-Aas, who said : The messenger of Allah, said:
p "None of you [truely] believes until his
inclination is accordance with what I have
brought."
p a fine and true hadith which we have transmitted
from the book of Hujjah with a sound chain of
authorities.
Hadith
# 42
On the authority of Anas, who said: I heard the
messenger of Allah say:
p Allah the Almighty has said: "O son of Adam,
so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall
forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not
mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the
clouds of the sky and were you then to ask
forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of
Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as
great as the earth and were you then to face Me,
ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you
forgiveness nearly as great as its."
related by Al-Tirmithi, who said that it was a good
and sound Hadith.
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