Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1865
Arabic hadith text
وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " اتَّقُوا الظُّلْمَ فَإِنَّ الظُّلْمَ ظُلُمَاتٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَاتَّقُوا الشُّحَّ فَإِنَّ الشُّحَّ أَهْلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ: حَمَلَهُمْ عَلَى أَنْ سَفَكُوا دِمَاءَهُمْ وَاسْتَحَلُّوا مَحَارِمهمْ ". رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Translation
Jabir said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Beware of injustice, for injustice will be darknesses on the Day of Resurrection. Beware of covetousness, for covetousness destroyed those before you: it drove them to shed one another’s blood and to make their forbidden things lawful.’ Muslim transmitted it.
Translation notes
The Arabic repeats the root ẓ-l-m in ‘injustice’ and ‘darknesses’; the metaphor is retained in the plural.