The Book of Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of Kinship

كتاب البر والصلة والآداب

Chapter 3: The Disgrace Of One Whose Parents, One Or Both Of Them, Reach Old Age During His Lifetime, And He Does Not Enter Paradise

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Let him be humbled, let him be humbled. It was said: Allah's Messenger, who is he? He said. He who finds his parents in old age, either one or both of them, and does not enter Paradise.

Chapter 5: Meaning Of Righteousness And Sin

Nawwas b. Sam'an reported

I stayed with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) for one year. What obstructed me to migrate was (nothing) but (persistent) inquiries from him (about Islam). (It was a common observation) that when anyone of us migrated (to Medina) he ceased to ask (too many questions) from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). So I asked him about virtue and vice. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what rankles in your mind and that you disapprove of its being known to the people.

Chapter 7: The Prohibition Of Mutual Jealousy And Hatred, And Turning Away From One Another

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters with the addition of Ibn Uyaina (and the words are)

" Do not cut off (mutual relations)."

Chapter 8: The Prohibition Of Forsaking Someone For More Than Three Days For No Legitimate Reason

'Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

It is not permissible for a Muslim to have estranged relations with his brother beyond three days.

Chapter 13: The Virtue Of Visiting The Sick

Thauban, the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

He who visits the sick continues to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise until he returns.

Chapter 4: The Virtue Of Maintaining Ties With The Friends Of One's Father And Mother, Etc.

Abdullah b. Dinar reported that when 'Abdullah b. 'Umar set out to Mecea, 'he kept a donkey with him which he used as a diversion from the tedium of journey on the camel's back and had a turban which he tied round his head. One day, as he was riding the donkey a desert Arab happened to pass by him. He ('Abdullah b. 'Umar) said

Arn't you so and so? He said: Yes He gave him his donkey and said: Ride it, and tie the turban round your head. Some of his companions said: May Allah pardon you, you gave to this desert Arab the donkey on which you enjoyed ride for diversion and the turban which you tied round your. head. Thereupon he said: Verily I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The finest act of goodness is the kind treatment of a person to the loved ones of his father after his death and the father of this person was a friend of 'Umar.

Chapter 5: Meaning Of Righteousness And Sin

Nawwas b. Sam'an al-Ansari reported

I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about virtue and vice. He said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what rankles in your heart and that you disapprove that people should come to know of it.

Chapter 6: Upholding Ties Of Kinship, And The Prohibition Of Severing Them

'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The tie of kinship is suspended to the Throne and says: He who unites me Allah would unite him and he who severed me Allah would sever him.

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

He who likes that his sustenance should be expanded and his age may be lengthened should join the tie of kinship.

Chapter 7: The Prohibition Of Mutual Jealousy And Hatred, And Turning Away From One Another

Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying like this. This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters.

This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters and the hadith transmitted on the authority of Abd al-Razziq (the words are)

" Neither nurse grudge nor sever (the ties of kinship), nor nurse enmity."

Chapter 8: The Prohibition Of Forsaking Someone For More Than Three Days For No Legitimate Reason

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

There should be no estranged relations beyond three days.

Chapter 9: The Prohibition Of Suspicion, Spying, Competition, Artificial Inflation Of Prices, And So On

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Don't have estranged relations (with the others) and don't nurse enmity and don't enter into a transaction when the other (has already entered) and be fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.

Chapter 10: The Prohibition Of Wronging, Forsaking, Or Despising A Muslim And The Inviolability Of His Blood, Honor And Wealth

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira with some addition (and it is this)

" Verily Allah does not look to your bodies nor to your faces but He looks to your hearts," and he pointed towards the heart with his fingers.

Chapter 11: The Prohibition Of Holding Grudges

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The gates of Paradise are not opened but on two days, Monday and Thursday. and then every servant (of Allah) is granted pardon who does not associate anything with Allah except the person in whose (heart) there is rancour against his brother. And it would be said: Look towards both of them until there is reconciliation; look toward both of them until there is reconciliation; look towards both of them until there is reconciliation. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Suhail who narrated it on the authority of his father with the chain of transmitters of MaIik, but with this variation of wording:, (Those would not be granted pardon) who bycott each other."

Abu Huraim reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying The deeds of people would be presented every week on two days, viz. Monday and Thursday, and every believing servant would be granted pardon except the one in whose (heart) there is rancour against his brother and it would he said

Leave them and put them off until they are turned to reconciliation.

Chapter 13: The Virtue Of Visiting The Sick

Thauban reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying

Verily, when a Muslim visits his brother in Islam he is supposed to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise until he returns.

Thauban, the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

He who visits the sick is supposed to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise. It was said: Allah's Messenger, what is this Khurfat-ul-jannah? He said: It is a place abounding in fruits.

Chapter 14: The Reward Of The Believer For Whatever Befalls Him Of Sickness, Grief And The Like, Even A Thorn That Pricks Him

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'mash through other chains of transmitters.

'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

A believer does not receive (the trouble) of running a thorn or more than that but Allah elevates him in rank or effaces his sins because of that.