General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

كتاب الأدب

Chapter 131: Regarding honoring one's parents

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying

A son does not repay what he owes to his father unless he buys him and emancipates him if he finds him in slavery.

Bahz b. Hakim on his father's authority said that his grandfather said

Abu Dawud said: Aqra' means a snake whose hair of the head were removed on account of poison.

‘Abd Allah b. ‘Amr (b. al-As) reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying

A man’s reviling of his parents is one of the grave sins. He was asked : Messenger of Allah! How does a man revile his parents? He replied: He reviles the father of a man who then reviles his father, and he reviles a man’s mother and he reviles his.

Chapter 132: The virtue of one who takes care of an orphan

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone has a female child, and does not bury her alive, or slight her, or prefer his children (i.e. the male ones) to her, Allah will bring him into Paradise. Uthman did not mention "male children".

Chapter 133: One who takes care of an orphan

Sahl (b. Sa’d) reported the prophet (May peace be upon him) as saying; I and the one who takes the responsibility of an orphan will be in Paradise thus, and he joined his middle finger and forefinger.

Chapter 135: Regarding the rights of slaves

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib

The last words which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) spoke were: Prayer, prayer; fear Allah about those whom your right hands possess.

Abu Mas’ud al-Ansari said

when I was beating a servant of mine, I heard a voice behind me saying: know, Abu Mas’ud-Ibn al-Muthanna said: “twice”-that Allah has more power over you than you have over him. I turned round and saw that it was that it was the prophet (May peace be upon him). I said : Messenger of Allah! He is free for Allah’s sake. He said : If you had not done it, fire would have burned you or the fire would have touched you.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-A’mash in a similar way to same way to the same effect through a different chain of narrators.

Narrated Rafi' ibn Makith

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Treating those under one's authority will produce prosperity, but an evil nature produces evil fortune.

Chapter 119: When one man seeks the refuge of another

Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying

If anyone asks you refuge for Allah’s sake give him refuge; and if anyone asks you (for something) for Allah’s sake, give him. Sahl and Sulaiman said: if anyone calls you, respond to him. The Agreed version goes; if you do not afford to compensate him, pray Allah for him until you know that you have compensated him.

Chapter 121: When a man claims to belong to someone other than his master

Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet (May peace be upon him) as saying

if a man becomes the client of any people without the permission of his patrons (i.e. those who have freed him), on him will be the curse of Allah, of angels and of all people; no obligatory or supererogatory worship will be accepted from him.

Anas b. Malik reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying

If anyone pretends to be the son of a man other than his father, or attributes his freedom to people other than those who set him free, on him will be the curse of Allah that will continue till the day of resurrection.

Chapter 127: Regarding desires

Narrated AbudDarda'

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Your love for a thing causes blindness and deafness.

Chapter 132: The virtue of one who takes care of an orphan

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Suhail through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version has

“three sisters, or three daughter, or two daughter, or two sisters”.

Chapter 134: The rights of neighbors

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As

Mujahid said that Abdullah ibn Amr slaughtered a sheep and said: Have you presented a gift from it to my neighbour, the Jew, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Gabriel kept on commending the neighbour to me so that I thought he would make an heir?

Abu Hurairah said

A man came to the prophet (May peace be upon him) complaining against his neighbor. He said: go and have patience. He again came to him twice or thrice. He then said : Go and throw your property in the way. So he threw his property in the way and the people began to ask him and he would tell them about him. The people then began to curse him; may Allah do with him so and so! Then his neighbor came to him and said: Return, you will not see from me anything which you dislike.

Chapter 135: Regarding the rights of slaves

Abu Hurairah said

The transmitter Mu'ammal said: 'Isa narrated it to us from al-Fudial, that is, Ibn Ghazwan.

Chapter 119: When one man seeks the refuge of another

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone asks (you) for refuge for the sake of Allah, give him refuge; and if anyone asks you (for something) for the pleasure of Allah, give him. Ubaydullah said: If anyone asks you for the sake of Allah.

Chapter 120: Warding off waswasah

Abu Hurairah said; His companion came to him and said; Messenger of Allah! We have thoughts which we cannot dare talk about and we do not like that we have them or talk about them. He said

Have you experienced that? They replied: yes. He said : that is clear faith.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah! one of us has thoughts of such nature that he would rather be reduced to charcoal than speak about them. He said: Allah is Most Great, Allah is Most Great, Allah is Most Great. Praise be to Allah Who has reduced the guile of the devil to evil prompting. Ibn Qudamah said "reduced his matter" instead of "reduced his guile".

Ibn Qudamah said "reduced his matter" instead of "reduced his guile".