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
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
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
" Do not cut off (mutual relations)."
Chapter 8: The Prohibition Of Forsaking Someone For More Than Three Days For No Legitimate Reason
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
" 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
There should be no estranged relations beyond three days.
Chapter 9: The Prohibition Of Suspicion, Spying, Competition, Artificial Inflation Of Prices, And So On
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
" 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
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."
Leave them and put them off until they are turned to reconciliation.
Chapter 13: The Virtue Of Visiting The Sick
Verily, when a Muslim visits his brother in Islam he is supposed to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise until he returns.
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 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.