Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih 1874

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Mishkat al-Masabih 1874
Arabic hadith text

وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «شَرُّ مَا فِي الرَّجُلِ شُحٌّ هَالِعٌ وَجُبْنٌ خَالِعٌ» . رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ

Translation

Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him, said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘The worst things in a man are consuming covetousness and ruinous cowardice.’ Abu Dawud transmitted it.

Translation notes

  • The Arabic uses emphatic descriptors: halūʿ for intense, anxious greed and khāliʿ for cowardice that breaks restraint; the rendering follows the English witness’s interpretation.