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

كتاب البر والصلة والآداب

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

'A'isha reported

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: There is nothing (in the form of trouble) that comes to a believer even if it is the pricking of a thorn that there is decreed for him by Allah good or his sins are obliterated.

Chapter 15: The Prohibition Of Oppression

Abu Dharr reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said

Sa'id said that when Abu Idris Khaulini narrated this hadith he knelt upon his knees.

Ibu 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Oppression is the darkness on the Day of Resurrection.

Chapter 21: Glad Tidings That Whomever Allah Conceals In This World He Will Conceal Him In The Hereafter

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

The servant (who conceals) the faults of others in this world, Allah would conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.

Chapter 24: The Prohibition Of Cursing Animals Etc.

'Imran b. Husain reported

We were with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in some of his journeys and there was a woman from the Ansar riding a she-camel that it shied and she invoked curse upon that. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) heard it and said: Unload that and set it free for it is accursed. 'Imran said: I still perceive that (dromedary) walking amongst people and none taking any notice of that.

Zaid b. Aslam reported that 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan sent some domestic goods for decoration to Umm Darda' on his own behalf, and when it was night 'Abd al-Malik got up and called for the servant. It seemed as if he (the servant) was late (in responding to his call), so he ('Abd al-Malik) invoked curse upon him, and when it was morning Umm Darda' said to him

I heard you cursing your servant during the night when you called him, and she said: I heard Abu Darda' as saying that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: The invoker of curse would neither be intercessor nor witness on the Day of Resurrection.

Chapter 25: Whomever Is Cursed, Reviled Or Prayed Against By The Prophet (SAW) When He Does Not Deserve That, It Will Be Purification, Reward And Mercy For Him

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn Abbas with a slight variation of wording.

Chapter 26: Criticism Of The One Who Is Two-Faced, And The Prohibition Of Doing That

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

You will find the worst amongst the people one having double face. He comes to some people with one face and to the others with the other face.

Chapter 27: The Prohibition Of Lying, And What Is Permitted Thereof

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Shihab with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

Chapter 28: The Prohibition Of Malicious Gossip (Namimah)

'Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported that Muhammad (ﷺ) said

Should I inform you that slandering, that is in fact a tale-carrying which creates dissension amongst people, (and) he (further) said: The person tells the truth until he is recorded as truthful, and lie tells a lie until lie is recorded as a liar.

Chapter 29: The Abhorrence Of Lying, And The Goodness And Virtue Of Honesty

'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

It is obligatory for you to tell the truth, for truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to Paradise, and the man who continues to speak the truth and endeavours to tell the truth is eventually recorded as truthful with Allah, and beware of telling of a lie for telling of a lie leads to obscenity and obscenity leads to Hell-Fire, and the person who keeps telling lies and endeavours to tell a lie is recorded as a liar with Allah.

Chapter 30: The Virtue Of One Who Controls Himself At Times Of Anger, And What Takes Away Anger

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of transmitters.

Sulaiman b. Surad reported that two persons abused each other in the presence of Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and the eyes of one of them became red as embers and the veins of his neck were swollen. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

I know of a wording, if he were to utter that, his fit of rage (would be no more and that wording is): I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the accursed. The person said: Do you find any madness in me? Ibn al-'Ala' said: Do you see it? And he made no mention of the person.

This hadith has been reported on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters.

Chapter 33: Stern Warning To One Who Torments People Unlawfully

'Urwa reported on the authority of his father that Hisham b. Hakim b. Hizam happened to pass by some people in Syria who had been made to stand in the sun and olive-oil was being poured upon their heads. He said

What is this? It was said: They are being punished for (not paying) the Kharaj (the government revenue). Thereupon he said: Allah would punish those who torment people in this world (without any genuine reason).

Chapter 24: The Prohibition Of Cursing Animals Etc.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Kuraib with the same chain of transmitters.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zaid b. Aslam with the same chain of transmitters.

Abu Huraira reported it was said to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)

Invoke curse upon the polytheists, whereupon he said: I have not been sent as the invoker of curse, but I have been sent as mercy."

Chapter 25: Whomever Is Cursed, Reviled Or Prayed Against By The Prophet (SAW) When He Does Not Deserve That, It Will Be Purification, Reward And Mercy For Him

This hadith has been reported on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and the hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Isa (the words are)

" He had a private meeting with them and hurled malediction upon them and cursed them and sent them out."

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of A'mash and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Isa the words are

Make it a source of reward, and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira (the words are):" Make it a source of mercy."