Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives

كتاب البر والصلة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Chapter 4: What Has Been Related About Disobeying Parents

'Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Bakrah narrated from his father who said

" The messenger of Allah said: 'Shall I not tell you of the biggest of the major sins?' they said : 'Of course! O Messenger of Allah!' He said: 'To join partners with Allah, and disobeying one's parents.'"He said : " He sat up, and he had been reclining. He said: 'And false testimony, or false speech.' And the Messenger of Allah would not stop saying it until we said (to ourselves): 'I wish that he would stop.'"

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Chapter 1: What Has Been Related About Being Dutiful To Parents.

Bahz bin Hakim narrated from his father, from his grandfather who said

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah! Who most deserves(my) reverence?' He said: 'Your mother.'" He said: "I said: 'Then who?' He said: 'Your mother.'"He said: "I said: 'Then who?' He said: 'Your mother.'"He said: "I said: 'Then who?' He said: 'Then your father, then the nearest relatives, then the nearest relatives.'"

Chapter 3: What Has Been About The Virtue Of Pleasing One's Parents

Abdullah bin Amr narrated that

the Prophet said: "The Lord's pleasure is in the parent's pleasure, and the Lord's anger is in the parent's anger."(Hasan).

Abu 'Abdur-Rahman As-Sulami narrated from Abu Ad Darda'.

He said that a man came and said : "I have a wife whom my mother has ordered me to divorce." So Abu Ad-Darda said: " I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: 'The father is the middle gate to Paradise. So if you wish, then neglect that door, or protect it.'"

Chapter 2: Also About That

Ibn Mas'ud said

"I asked the Messenger of Allah: 'O Messenger of Allah! Which is the most virtuous of deeds?' He said: 'Salat during its appropriate time.' I said: 'Then what, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'Being dutiful to one's parents.' I said: 'Then what, O Messenger of Allah?' He said: 'Jihad in the cause of Allah.'Then the messenger of Allah was silent, and if I had asked him more, he would have told me more.'"

Chapter 6: About Being Dutiful To The Maternal Aunt

Al-Bara' bin Azib narrated that

the Prophet said: "The maternal aunt holds the same status as the mother."

Chapter 9: What Has Been Related About Severing the Ties Of Kinship

Abu Salamah said

" Abu[Ar-Raddad] Al-Laithi complained(of an illness). So 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf visited him. He said: 'The best of you, and the most apt to maintain good relations, as far as I know, is Abu Muhammad('Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf). So 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf' said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah saying : "Allah, Most Blessed and Most High, said: 'I am Allah, and I am Ar-Rahman. I created the Rahim(womb), and named it after My Name. So whoever keeps good relations with it, I keep good relation with him, and whoever severs it, I am finished with him.'"

Chapter 10: What Has Been Related About Connecting The Ties Of Kinship

'Abdullah bin Amr narrated that

the Prophet said: "Merely maintaining the ties of kinship is not adequate. But connecting the ties of kinship is when his ties to the womb are severed and he connects it."

Muhammad bin Jubair bin Mut'im narrated from his father, that

the Messenger of Allah said: "The one who severs ties will not enter Paradise." Ibn Abi 'Umar said: "Sufyan said: 'Meaning: Ties of the womb."

Chapter 15: What Has Been Related About Being Merciful With Boys

Ibn Abbas narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

" He is not one of us who does not have mercy upon our young, respect our elders, and command good and forbid evil."

Chapter 17: (What Has Been Related) About An-Nasihah

Abu Hurairah narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "The religion is An-Nasihah" three times. They said: "O Messenger of Allah! For Whom?" He said : "To Allah , His books, the A'immah of the Muslims, and their average people."

Chapter 19: What Has Been Related About Covering(The Faults) Of The Muslims

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

:"Whoever relieves a Muslim of a burden from the burdens of the world, Allah will relieve him of a burden from the burdens on the Day of Judgement. And whoever helps ease a difficulty in the world, Allah will grant him ease from a difficulty in the world and in the Hereafter. And whoever covers (the faults of) a Muslim, Allah will cover (his faults) for him in the world and the Hereafter. And Allah is engaged in helping the worshipper as long as the worshipper is engaged in helping his brother."

Chapter 20: What Has Been Related About Defending (The Honor Of) The Muslim

Abu Ad-Darda narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Whoever protects his brother's honor, Allah protects his face from the Fire on the Day of Resurrection."

Chapter 26: What Has Been Related About Rectifying Manners

Asma bint Yazid narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"it is not lawful to lie except in three cases: Something the man tells his wife to please her, to lie during war, and to lie in order to bring peace between the people."

Chapter 27: What Has Been Related About Deception And Cheating

Abu Sirmah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Whoever causes harm, Allah harms him, and whoever is harsh, Allah will be harsh with him."

Chapter 28: What Has Been Related About The Rights Of Neighbors

Mujahid narrated

"Abdullah bin Amr had a sheep slaughtered for his family, so when he came he said: 'Have you given some to our neighbor, the Jew? Have you given some to our neighbor, the Jew? I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: 'Jibril continued to advise me about (treating) the neighbors so (kindly and politely), that I thought he would order me (from Allah) to make them heirs."

Abdullah bin Amr narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"The companion who is the best to Allah is the one who is best to his companion. And the neighbor that is the best to Allah is the one that is best to his neighbor."

Chapter 29: What Has Been Related About Treating The Servant Well

Abu Dharr narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Allah has made some of your brothers as slaves under your care. So whoever has his brother under his care, then let him feed him from his food, and let him clothe him from his clothes. And do not give him a duty that he cannot bear, and if you give him a duty he cannot bear, then assist him with it."

Chapter 33: What Has Been Related About Disciplining The Son

Jabir bin Sumurah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"That a man should discipline his son is better for him than to have given a Sa' in charity."