Whoever performs Hajj without engaging in rafath (sexual relations or obscene speech) or sinning will return like the day his mother gave birth to him Shall I inform you of the gravest of the major sins? When a man loves his brother, he should tell him that he loves him The major sins are associating partners with Allah, undutifulness to parents, murder, and intentional false oath We pledged allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) to listen and obey at times of hardship and ease, energy and reluctance, and to endure if prejudice is held against us No prayer should be offered in the presence of food or when he is resisting the need to relieve himself of the two filths If you say to your companion 'listen' on Friday while the Imām is delivering the sermon, you have thus engaged in idle talk The one who looks after a widow or a needy person is like one who performs Jihad in the cause of Allah, or one who regularly observes voluntary prayer at night and fasting during the day Five are acts of Fitrah (natural disposition): circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, trimming the mustache, clipping the nails, and plucking the armpit hair By the One in Whose Hand Muhammad's soul is, there is nobody of this Ummah (community), whether they be Jewish or Christian, who hears of me and then dies without believing in what I was sent with except that he will be among the people of Hellfire Trim the mustaches and let the beards grow If anyone performs ablution like this ablution of mine and offers two Rak'ahs during which he does not think of anything else, Allah will forgive his past sins May the curse of Allah be upon the Jews and the Christians, for they took the graves of their prophets as places of worship “Avoid the seven destructive sins O Allah, do not make my grave an idol that is worshiped The greater the tribulation, the greater the reward. When Allah loves people, He tests them. So whoever who is content, for him is content; and whoever is discontent, for him is discontent I am the One Who is most free from want of partners. So, he who does something for the sake of someone else beside Me, I discard him and his polytheism.' I stand acquitted before Allah that I should take anyone of you as an intimate friend, for Allah has taken me as an intimate friend just as he took Abraham as an intimate friend Do not turn your houses like graves, and do not take my grave a place for celebration, and invoke (Allah's) blessings upon me, for your invoking of Allah's blessings upon me will reach me wherever you may be Verily, Allah gets jealous and the believer gets jealous. The jealousy of Allah is when the believer commits what He has made unlawful for him 'Whoever swears by other than Allah has disbelieved or associated partners with Allah.' The most burdensome prayers for the hypocrites are the ‘Ishā’ and Fajr prayers. If they were to know the virtue of them, they would come to them, even if they had to crawl Among the most wicked people are those who will be alive when the Hour comes, and those who take the graves as places of worship The thing that I fear most for you is minor Shirk (polytheism).' They said: 'What is minor Shirk, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'It is Riyā’ Don't they forbid what Allah allows, so you forbid it? Don't they allow what Allah forbids, so you allow it? I said: Yes. He said: That is how you worship them You will come to a people of the Scripture. When you reach them, invite them to testify that none is worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah When the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the 'Nushrah' (counteracting magic by magic), he said: It is an act of the devil Do not exaggerate in praising me as the Christians exaggerated in praising the son of Mary, for I am only His slave. So, call me the slave of Allah and His Messenger The happiest of people to receive my intercession on the Day of Judgment is the one who says, 'there is no god but Allah' sincerely from his heart or his soul Whoever is prevented from doing something because of his belief in bad omens has thus committed polytheism. They said: What is the expiation of that? He said: It is to say: "O Allah, there is no good except Your good, nor omen except Your omen, and there is no god but You certainly admit him into Paradise, regardless of the deeds which he has done Whoever meets Allah without associating partners with Him will enter Paradise, and whoever meets Him while associating partners with Him will enter Hellfire Whoever dies while invoking besides Allah another equal will enter Hellfire Ruined are the extremists Allah's statement: {And said: Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwā‘ or Yaghūth and Ya‘ūq and Nasr} [Sūrat Nūh: 23]. Ibn ‘Abbās said: These are names of some pious men of the people of Nūh (Noah) Whoever gives me a guarantee to safeguard what is between his jaws and what is between his legs, I will guarantee him Paradise There shall be rulers in charge of you, and you will approve and disapprove. So anyone who approves (their good deeds) shall be absolved, and anyone who forbids (their bad deeds) shall be safe, except for those who are content and comply Allah does not accept the prayer of any of you who is in the state of Hadath (minor ritual impurity) until he performs ablution If a person falls ill or travels, he shall be credited with whatever good deeds he used to perform while being at home and in good health The best dhikr is lā ilāha illa Allah (there is no god but Allah), and the best supplication is Alhamdulillah (praise be to Allah) Paradise is nearer to one of you than his shoelaces, and so is Hellfire The tooth-stick purifies the mouth and pleases the Lord The five (daily) prayers, Friday prayer to the next Friday prayer, and Ramadan to the next Ramadan are expiation of the sins committed between them, so long as major sins are avoided Convey from me even if one verse, and narrate from the Children of Israel, and there is no sin in doing that. And whoever intentionally tells a lie about me, let him occupy his seat in Hellfire No fatigue, disease, sorrow, sadness, harm, or distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were a prick of a thorn, but Allah will expiate some of his sins thereby Hellfire is surrounded by lusts, and Paradise is surrounded by adversities A Muslim owes another Muslim five rights: returning the greeting of peace, visiting the sick, following the funeral processions, accepting invitations, and saying tashmīt (yarhamuk Allah) (may Allah show mercy to you) to the person who sneezes May Allah have mercy on a man who is lenient when he sells, when he buys, and when he asks for repayment of the debt There was a man who used to give loans to people. He would say to his servant: ‘When you come to an insolvent person, overlook his debt; perhaps Allah would overlook our sins.’ The one who maintains ties of kinship is not the one who recompenses the good done to him by his relatives; rather, he is the one who keeps good relations with those relatives who severs the bond of kinship with him Whoever gives respite to an insolvent person or remits part of his debt, Allah will shade him on the Day of Judgment in the shade of His Throne, on a day when there will be no shade but His shade Whoever goes out to seek knowledge is in the cause of Allah until he returns Whoever fasts Ramadan, out of faith and in pursuit of reward, his past sins will be forgiven Whoever performs Qiyām (night prayer) in the Night of Decree, out of faith and in pursuit of reward, his past sins will be forgiven If Allah wills good for someone, He makes him suffer from afflictions Leave me as I leave you. Verily, what destroyed those before you was their asking questions and their disagreement with their prophets When two Muslims meet to fight each other with their swords, both the killer and the killed are doomed to Hellfire Religion is sincerity Verily, the lawful is clear, and the unlawful is clear Verily, Allah has enjoined kindness in all things Allah has written down the good deeds and the bad ones. Then, He explained that: He who intends a good deed and does not do it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed; and if he intends it and does it, Allah writes it down with Himself as ten good deeds to seven hundred times, or many times over. Yet, if he intends a bad deed and does not do it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed. But, if he intends it and does it, Allah writes it down as one bad deed Indeed, Allah does not look at your appearance and wealth, but He looks at your hearts and deeds.” Verily, the reward of deeds depends on the intentions, and each person will be rewarded according to what he intended Islam is to testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, to establish prayer, to pay Zakah, to fast Ramadan, and to perform Hajj to the House if you are able to find a way thereto Do not get angry There should be no harm or reciprocal harm. Whoever causes harm, Allah harms him, and whoever makes things difficult, Allah makes things difficult for him If only you rely upon Allah the way you should, He will provide for you as He provides for birds: They set out hungry in the morning and return with full bellies in the evening Avoid what I have forbidden you from; and do as much as you can, of what I have ordered you. Indeed, those before you were ruined because of their excessive questioning and disagreeing with their prophets Whoever introduces into this matter of ours (Islam) something that does not belong to it shall have it rejected O My slaves, I have made oppression forbidden for Myself, and I have made it forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one another O boy, I shall teach you some words: Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and you will find Him before you. If you ask, ask Allah; if you seek help, seek help from Allah A servant committed a sin and said: 'O Allah, forgive my sin Those who act justly will be with Allah on pulpits of light at the right Hand of the Most Compassionate, Exalted be He, and both His Hands are right He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of goodness Everyone of my Ummah will enter Paradise except those who refuse Jibrīl kept enjoining me regarding the good treatment of the neighbor to the extent that I thought he would inherit him Incantations, amulets, and love-potions are Shirk (polytheism) Do you know what backbiting is?" They said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "It is to say of your brother what he dislikes O Allah, treat harshly those who have any charge over my Ummah and treat them harshly, and treat gently those who have any charge over my Ummah and treat them gently Some people dispose of Allah's property wrongfully. For them will be Hellfire on the Day of Judgment Beware of false thought, for false thought is the most untruth speech There is no one whom Allah puts in a position of authority, and he dies on the day he dies while cheating those under his authority except that Allah will forbid Paradise for him All human beings are sinners, and the best of the sinners are the frequent repenters Every act of goodness is charity Do not belittle any good deed, even if it be meeting your brother with a cheerful face The strong man is not the one who can overpower others; rather, the strong man is the one who controls himself when he is angry Whoever imitates a people is one of them Whoever guides to a good deed will get the same reward as the doer of that deed I asked the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him): "Which sin is the gravest in the sight of Allah?" He said: "To set an equal to Allah while He created you Do not curse the dead, for they have reached the result of what they have done It is unlawful for a Muslim to desert his fellow Muslim for more than three nights. As they meet, both of them turn their backs on each other. But the best of them is the one who starts by greeting the other The one who severs the ties of kinship will not enter Paradise A scandalmonger will not enter Paradise Whoever loves to have his sustenance expanded and his term of life prolonged should maintain his kinship ties Whoever causes harm will be harmed by Allah, and whoever causes hardship will be put in hardship by Allah The nearest a slave to his Lord is while he is prostrating, so increase supplication Whoever performs the Fajr prayer is under the protection of Allah Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent Whoever does not show mercy to people, Allah Almighty does not show mercy to him The most hated person in the sight of Allah is the most quarrelsome person The most beloved speech to Allah are four: subhān Allah (glory be Allah), al-hamdulillāh (praise be to Allah), la ilāha illa Allah (there is no god but Allah), and Allāhu akbar (Allah is the Most Great), and it does not matter which one of them you start with The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the foremost deed that leads people to Paradise, and he replied: "Fear of Allah and good character Modesty is part of faith Supplication is worship Adhere to truthfulness, for truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise There are two words that are light on the tongue, heavy on the scale, and dear to the Most Merciful Nothing is more honorable in the sight of Allah Almighty than supplication Charity does not diminish wealth, and Allah does not increase a servant, on account of his forgiveness, except in honor, and no one humbles himself seeking the pleasure of Allah except that Allah will elevate him Whoever protects the honor of his brother in his absence, Allah will protect his face from the Fire on the Day of Judgment Whoever says ‘subhān Allah wa bihamdih (glory be to Allah, and praise be to Him)’ one hundred times a day, his sins will be erased, even if they were as much as the foam of the sea Whoever says ten times When Allah intends good for someone, He grants him the understanding of the religion Verily, Allah loves the servant who is pious, free of wants, and inconspicuous You will see your Lord as you see this moon, you will not have any difficulty in seeing Him The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) would not refuse a gift of perfume The most perfect believer in terms of his faith is the one who has the most excellent manners, and the best of you are those who are best to their womenfolk The world is but an enjoyment and the best of worldly enjoyments is a righteous woman Verily, lenience is not found in anything but it adorns it, and it is not removed from anything but it makes it defective Allah is pleased with one who eats some food and praises Him for it, or drinks some drink and praises Him for it Verily, a believer can attain, by his good manners, the rank of one who fasts and prays often Verily, the best of you are those who have the best manners Allah said: 'O son of Adam, spend, and I will spend on you.' Verily, Allah gives respite to the oppressor, but when He seizes him, He does not release him I am not leaving behind a more harmful trial for men than women Make matters easy and do not make them difficult, and give people glad tidings and do not drive them away Keep on reciting this Qur'an, for by the One in Whose Hand my soul is, the Qur'an slips away from memory faster than camels escaping their tying ropes The best of you are those who learn the Qur’an and teach it Whoever alights somewhere and then says: '‘A‘ūdhu bi kalimātillāh at-tāmmāti min sharri ma khalaq (I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created)', nothing will harm him until he leaves that place Shall I not send you with the same instructions as the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) sent me with? Do not leave any statue without blotting it out or any raised grave without leveling it None of you truly believes until I become dearer to him than his father, his children, and all people He is not one of us who seeks bad omens or has it done for him, or who practices soothsaying or has it done for him, or who practices sorcery or has it done for him Whoever goes to a soothsayer and asks him about something and believes him, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights Whoever acquires a branch of the knowledge of astrology acquires a branch of magic, of which he acquires more as long as he continues to do so The worthiest stipulations to be fulfilled are those which make sexual intercourse lawful for you The gravest major sins are: associating partners with Allah in worship, feeling secure from Allah's plan, despairing of Allah's mercy, and losing hope in relief coming from Allah The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was the best of people in terms of morals The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to celebrate Allah’s oneness with these words after every prayer Do not turn your houses into graves. Indeed, Satan runs away from the house in which Surat al-Baqarah is recited To say 'subhān Allah wa al-hamdulillāh wa lā ilāha illa Allah wa Allāhu akbar (Glory be to Allah, praise be to Allah, there is no god but Allah, and Allah is the Most Great)' is more beloved to me than everything upon which the sun rises There are no days in which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than on these days," referring to the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah Whoever abandons the ‘Asr prayer, his deeds will be rendered worthless Whoever performs ablution perfectly, his sins will come out from his body, to the extent that it will come out from under his nails Whoever recites the last two verses of Sūrat al-Baqarah at a night, they will suffice him Whoever recites a letter from the Book of Allah will be credited with a good deed for it, and a good deed is multiplied tenfold If a man spends something on his family, seeking reward from Allah for it, it will be recorded for him as charity Faith has over seventy branches - or over sixty branches - the most excellent of which is the declaration that 'lā ilāha illa Allah (there is no god but Allah)', and the lowest of which is the removal of what is harmful from the way There should not remain any necklace of string or any other kind of necklace around the necks of camels without being cut Whoever is attached to something will be entrusted to that thing Whoever says 'lā ilāha illa Allah (there is no god but Allah)' and disbelieves in everything worshiped besides Allah, his property and blood becomes inviolable, and his reckoning will be with Allah Indeed, the Prophet's character was the Qur’an Those who are merciful are shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to the inhabitants of earth and the One in the heaven will be merciful to you Allah Almighty will say to the one receiving the least torment in Hellfire: 'If everything on earth was yours, would you ransom yourself with it?' He will say: 'Yes The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to remember Allah at all times The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade qaza‘ (shaving part of one's head and leaving other parts unshaven) That is a word pertaining to the truth which a jinn snatches and whispers into his friend's ears as a hen does. Then, they mix it with more than a hundred lies We were with ‘Umar, and he said: "We were forbidden from the affectation Beware of (smearing yourselves with) urine, because it is the main cause of punishment in the grave There is no one who bears witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger, sincerely from his heart, except that Allah will make him forbidden to Hellfire Our Lord, Glorified and Exalted, descends every night to the lowest heaven when the last third of the night remains Do not sit on graves, and do not pray towards them Those are a people who, when a righteous slave or a righteous man from among them dies, they build a place of worship I have been commanded to prostrate on seven bones The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to say between the two prostrations: "Allahumma ighfir li warhamni wa ‘āfeni wahdeni warzuqni (O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, grant me safety, guide me, and provide for me) Allahumma anta as-salām wa minka as-salām, tabārakta yadha al-jalāl wa al-ikrām Pray while standing; if you cannot, then while sitting; and if you cannot, then while lying on your side Do you hear the Adhān?" He replied in the affirmative. Thereupon, he said: "Then respond to it When one of you joins the prayer and finds the Imām in a certain position, he should do what the Imām is doing The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) taught us the sermon of need There is no marriage except with a guardian O boy, mention Allah's name, eat with your right hand, and eat from what is nearer to you If anyone of you eats, let him eat with his right hand, and if he drinks, let him drink with his right hand, for indeed the devil eats with his left hand and drinks with his left hand Whoever gives up obedience and isolates from the community and dies has died a death like that of jāhiliyyah (the pre-Islamic era of ignorance) If someone comes to you seeking to undermine your solidarity or disrupt your unity when you have agreed on one man, kill him Whoever kills a mu‘āhad (a non-Muslim who is granted the pledge of protection by the Muslims) shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance can be smelt at a distance of forty years The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who gives a bribe and the one who receives a bribe to influence a judgment Islam is built on five Whoever of you sees something evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able, then with his tongue; and if he is not able, then with his heart, and that is the weakest of faith He who does good in Islam will not be punished for what he did during jāhiliyyah, and he who commits evil in Islam will be punished for the previous and later deeds Do you think that if I perform the obligatory payers, fast Ramadan, treat the lawful as lawful, and treat the unlawful as unlawful, Purity is half of faith, al-hamdulillāh (praise be to Allah) fills the Scale, and subhān Allah wa al-hamdulillāh (glory and praise be to Allah) fills what is between the heavens and the earth Lo! Soon a Hadīth from me will be conveyed to a man, while he is reclining on his couch, and he says: ‘Between us and you is Allah’s Book Beware of negnot washing your heels properly, for not doing so can lead to them being burnt in the Hellfire! So, perform your ablution thoroughly Allah's right upon His servants is that they should worship Him and associate no partners with Him. And the right of the servants upon Allah is that He should not punish whoever associates no partners with Him Whoever dies while not associating anything with Allah will enter Paradise, and whoever dies while associating anything with Allah will enter Hellfire tell me something about Islam regarding which I can ask none but you. He (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Say: I believe in Allah, then remain steadfast Indeed, Allah will distinguish a man from my Ummah before all of creation on the Day of Judgment When Allah created Paradise and Hellfire, He sent Jibrīl (Gabriel) (peace be upon him) Allah decreed the destinies of the creatures fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth I advise you to fear Allah and to hear and obey, even if an Abyssinian slave. You will see after me great discord. So, hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided Caliphs When the Muezzin (the caller to prayer) says, 'Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar Whoever forgets a prayer should perform it as soon as he remembers it; there is no expiation for it except that What stands between a man and polytheism and disbelief is the abandonment of the prayers The covenant between us and them is prayer; so, whoever abandons it has disbelieved Allah Almighty said: 'I have divided prayer between Myself and My servant into two halves, and My servant shall have what he has asked for The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) used to observe I‘tikāf [spiritual retirement in the mosque] during each Ramadan for ten days. The year in which he died, he observed I‘tikāf for twenty days. O ‘Abbās, O uncle of the Messenger of Allah, ask Allah for safety in this life and the Hereafter Indeed, Allah Almighty forbids you to swear by your forefathers that a woman was found killed in one of the expeditions of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), and so the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) denounced killing women and boys I went to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) and asked: 'We live in the land of the People of the Book; can we eat in their plates?" forbade vowing and said: "Indeed, it does not bring any good; rather it is only a means to extract something from the miser