An-Nawawi,s Forty Hadiths




 

 
 

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

"And take that which the Messenger has brought you"


(the Holy Quran)

Translation of Imam An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths

 
  This is the book of the Islamic scholar Yahia bin Sharaful-Deen
An-Nawawi ( ). 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 .


 

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 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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