Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives

كتاب البر والصلة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Chapter 34: What Has Been Related About Accepting Gifts And Reciprocating For Them

Aishah narrated

"The Prophet would accept gifts and he would give something in return."

Chapter 5: What Has Been Related About Honoring The Father's Friends

Ibn 'Umar narrated that

the Prophet said: "Among the most dutiful of deeds is that a man nurture relations with the people his father was friends with."

Chapter 6: About Being Dutiful To The Maternal Aunt

(Another chain) From Abu Bakr bin Hafs, from the Prophet (ﷺ), and it is similar, but he did not mention "from Ibn `Umar" in it. This is more correct than the Hadith of Abu Mu'awiyah, and Abu Bakr bin Hafs is Ibn 'Umar bin Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (narrators in the chain of this Hadith.)

Chapter 7: What Has Been Related About Supplicating For One's Parents

Abu Harairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Three supplications are accepted , there is no doubt in them (about them being accepted): The supplication of the oppressed, the supplication of the traveler, and the supplication of his father against his son."

Chapter 8: What Has Been Related About Parent's Rights

Abu Hurairah narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "A son could not do enough for his father, unless he found him as a slave and purchased him to set him free."

Chapter 13: What Has Been Related About Spending on Daughters And Sisters

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "There is no one who has three daughters, or three sisters, and he treats them well, except that he enters paradise."

Aishah narrated that the

Messenger of Allah said:"Whoever is tried with something from daughters, and he is patient with them, they will be a barrier from the Fire for him."

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever has three daughters, or three sisters, or two daughters, or two sisters and he keeps good company with them and fears Allah regarding them, then Paradise is for him.

Chapter 14: What Has Been Related About Being Merciful With The Orphan And Raising Him

Sahl bin Sa'd narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: " I and the sponsor of an orphan shall be in Paradise like these two."And he indicaed with his fingers, meaning his index and his middle finger

Chapter 16: What Has Been Related About Being Merciful With People

Abdullah bin 'Amr narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"The merciful are shown mercy by Ar-Rahman. Be merciful on the earth, and you will be shown mercy from Who is above the heavens. The womb is named after Ar-Rahman, so whoever connects it, Allah connects him, and whoever severs it, Allah severs him."

Chapter 18: What Has Been Related About The Muslim's Compassion For the Muslim

Abu Musa Al-Ash'arf narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

:The believer is to the believer like parts of a building, each one of them supporting the other."

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

:"Indeed (each) one of you is the reflection of his brother. So if he sees something harmful in him, then let him remove it from him."

Chapter 23: What Has Been Related About Backbiting

Abu Hurairah narrated that it was said

" O Messenger of Allah! What is backbiting?" He said : " Mentioning your brother with that which he does not like." He said " What if what I said about him is so?" He said: "If what you said about him is so, then you have backbitten him, and if it is not as you said, then you have slandered him."

Chapter 24: What Has Been Related About Envy

Anas narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Do not cut off one another, nor desert one another, nor hate one another, nor envy one another. Be you , O worshippers o Allah, brothers. It is not lawful for the Muslim to shun his brother for more than three(days)."

Salim narrated from his father who said that the Messenger of Allah said

"There is to be no envy except for two: A man to whom Allah grants wealth and he spends from it during the hours of the night and the hours of the day. And a man to whom Allah grants (memorization of) the Quran so he stands with it (in prayer) during the hours of the night and the hours of the day."

Chapter 27: What Has Been Related About Deception And Cheating

Abu Bakr As-Siddiq narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Cursed are those who harm a believer, or plot to do so."

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

Abu Bakr As-Siddiq narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"The one who treats his slaves badly will not enter paradise."

Chapter 35: What Has Been Related About Being Grateful To The One Who Was Kind To You

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Whoever is not grateful to the people, he is not grateful to Allah."

Chapter 6: About Being Dutiful To The Maternal Aunt

(Another chain) From Ibn 'Umar

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! I have been afflicted by a tremendous sin. Is there any repentance forme?" He said: "Do you have your mother?" The man said: "No." He said: "Do you have any maternal aunts?" The man said: "Yes." He said:"Then be dutiful to them."

Chapter 13: What Has Been Related About Spending on Daughters And Sisters

Aishah said

"A woman came to me with two daughters. She was asking (for food) but I did not have anything with me except a date. So I gave it to her and she divided it between her two daughters without eating any of it herself. Then she got up to leave, and the Prophet entered, and I informed him about her. So the Prophet said: " Whoever is tested something from these daughters (and he/she passes the test), they will be a screen for them from the Fire."