Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives

كتاب البر والصلة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

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

Ibn 'Abbas narrated that

the Prophet said: Whoever takes in an orphan among the Muslims to raise, to feed him and give him drink, Allah admits him into Paradise without a doubt, unless he has done a sin for which he is not forgiven."

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

Jarir bin Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Whoever does not show mercy to the people, Allah will not show mercy to him."

Abu Hurairah narrated that Abul- Qasim said

"Mercy is not removed (from anyone) except from a wicked one."

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

Jarir bin 'Abdullah narrated

" I pledged to the Prophet to establish the Salat, give the Zakat, and to give sincere advice to every Muslim."

Chapter 22: What Has Been Related About Consoling The Brother

Anas said

:"When 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf arrived in Al-Madinah, the Messenger of Allah established a bond of brotherhood between him and sa'd bin Ar-Rabi. So he said to him: "Come here, I will divide my wealth and give you half, and I have two wives, I will divorce one of them, and when she completes her waiting period you may marry her." He said: " May Allah bless you in your family and your wealth. Show me where the market is." So they showed him where the market was and he did not return that day except with some cottage cheese and cooking fat which he had earned as a profit. The Messenger of Allah saw him after that, and he had traces of yellow on him. So he said to him: "What is this?" He said: "I married a woman from the Ansar." He said : " What dowry did you give her?" He said: " A date-stone(of gold) - ( one of the narrators) Humaid said: "Or he said: - gold equal to the weight of a date-stone." So he said: 'Have a banquet, even if with only a sheep."

Chapter 25: What Has Been Related About Hatred

Jabir narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Indeed Ash-Shaitan has despaired of getting those who perform Salat to worship him.But he is engaged in sowing hatred among them."

Chapter 30: What Has Been Related About Beating And Abusing The Servant

Abu Hurairah narrated that Abul-Qasim, the Prophet of Repentance, said

"If somebody slanders his slave (by accusing him of committing illegal sexual intercourse) and the slave is innocent from what he says, Allah will impose the punishment upon him on the Day of Resurrection, unless it is as he said about him."

Chapter 31: What Has Been Related About Pardoning The Servant

'Abdullah bin 'Umar narrated

"A man came to the Prophet and said: 'O Messenger of Allah! How many times should the servant be pardoned?' The Prophet was silent. Then he said: 'O Messenger of Allah! How many times should the servant be pardoned?' He said: ' Seventy times each day.'"

Chapter 32: What Has Been Related About Disciplining The Servant

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"When one of you beats his servant then he (should) remember Allah and, withhold your hands."

Chapter 4: What Has Been Related About Disobeying Parents

'Abdullah bin 'Amr narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "It is among the greatest of sins that a man should curse his parents." They said: "O Messenger of Allah! Does a man curse his parents?" He said: "Yes. He verbally abuses the father of a man, who in turn, verbally abuses his father, and he (retaliates and) curses his mother , so he curses his mother."

Chapter 11: What Has Been Related About The Love Of A Parent For His Child

'Umar bin 'Abdul-'Aziz said

'a righteous woman, Khawlah bint Hakim said: "The Messenger of Allah came out during the middle of the day, while holding one of the sons of his daughter in his arms. He was saying: 'You are what makes them stingy, cowardly and ignorant. And you are but Raihanillah

Chapter 12: What Has Been Related About Being Merciful With The Children

Abu Hurairah narrated

"Al-Aqra' bin Habis saw the prophet kissing Al-Hasan"- Ibn Abi 'Umar (one of the narrators) said:"Al-Hasan and Al-Husain." So he said: 'I have ten children and I do not kiss any one of them.' So the Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever shows no mercy, he will be shown no mercy."

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

Abu Bakr bin 'Ubaidullah bin Anas bin Malik narrated [from Anas] that

the Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever raises two girls then I and he will enter Paradise like these two." And he indicated with his two fingers.

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

Anas bin Malik narrated that

"An older man came to talk to the Prophet, and the people were hesitant to make room for him. The Prophet said: ;He is not one of us who does not have mercy on our young and does not respect our elders."

Amr bin Shu'aib narrated that his father, from his grandfather, who said that the Messenger of Allah said

'He is not one of us who does not have mercy upon our young, nor knows the honor of our elders."

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

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

:"The Muslim is the brother to the Muslim, he does not cheat him, lie to him, nor deceive him. All of the Muslim is unlawful to another Muslim: His Honor, his wealth, and his blood. At-taqwa is here. It is enough evil for a man that he belittle his brother Muslim."

Chapter 21: What Has Been Related About Shunning (The Muslim) Being Disliked

Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

:It is not lawful for the Muslim to shun his brother for more than three (days); they come fare to fare and this one turns away, and that one turns away. The best of them is the one who initiates the Salam."

Chapter 26: What Has Been Related About Rectifying Manners

Umm Kulthum bint 'Uqbah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"One who brings peace between people is not a liar, he says something good, or reports something good."

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

Aishah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Jibril – may the Salawat of Allah be upon him – continued to recommend me about (treating) the neighbors so (kindly and politely), that I thought he would order me to make them heirs.”

Chapter 30: What Has Been Related About Beating And Abusing The Servant

Abu Mas'ud [Al-Ansari] said

"I was beating a slave of mine and I heard someone behind me saying: 'Beware O Abu Mas'ud! Beware O Abu Mas'ud!' So I turned around and saw that it was the Messenger of Allah. He said: 'Allah has more power over you than you do over him." Abu Mas'ud said: "I have not beaten any slave of mine since then."