Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives

كتاب البر والصلة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

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."

Abu Sa'eed narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

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

Chapter 36: What Has Been Related About Various Kinds Of Ma'ruf (Good Deeds)

Abu Dharr narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Your smiling in the face of your brother is charity, commanding good and forbidding evil is charity, your giving directions to a man lost in the land is charity for you. Your seeing for a man with bad sight is a charity for you, your removal of a rock, a thorn or a bone from the road is charity for you. Your pouring what remains from your bucket into the bucket of your brother is charity for you."

Chapter 37: What Has Been Related About Minhah (Giving A Gift)

Al-Bara bin Azib narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Whoever gives someone some milk or silver, or guides him through a strait, then he will have the reward similar to freeing a slave."

Chapter 38: What Has Been Related About Removing Harm From The Road

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"When a man was walking on the road, he found a thorny branch and removed it. Allah appreciated his action by forgiving him."

Chapter 39: What Has Been Related About Sittings Are To Be Held In Trust

Jabir bin Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"When a man narrates a narration, then he looks around, then it is a trust."

Chapter 40: What Has Been Related About Generosity

Asma bint Abi Bakr said

" O the Messenger of Allah! I have nothing except what was given to me by (my husband) Az-Zubair, shall I give it (in charity)?'" It was said: "Do not hold (your wealth) so that Allah will hold against you."

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet said

"Generosity is close to Allah, close to Paradise, close to the people and far from the Fire. Stinginess is far from Allah, far from Paradise, far from the people and close to the Fire. The ignorant generous person, is more beloved to Allah than the worshiping stingy person."

Chapter 41: What Has Been Related About Stinginess

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

"Two traits are not combined in a believer: Stinginess and bad manners."

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

"The swindler, the stingy person, and the Mannan shall not enter Paradise."

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"The believer is naively noble and the stingy person is deceitfully treacherous."

Chapter 42: What Has Been Related About Spending On The Family

Abu Mas'ud Al-Ansari narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"A man's spending on his family is charity."

Thawban narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah." Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: " He began with the dependants." Then he said: "And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him."

Chapter 43: What Has Been Related About Hospitality And What Is The Limit Of Hospitality

Abu Shuraih Al-'Adawf said

"My eyes saw the Messenger of Allah, and my ears heard him speaking when he was speaking and he said: 'Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, then let him honor his guest with his reward.' They said: 'What is the reward?' He said: ' A day and a night.' He said: 'And hospitality is for three days, whatever is beyond that is charity. And whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, then let him say what is good or keep silent."

Abu Shuraih Al-Kabi narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

:"Hospitality is for three days, and his reward is a day and a night, and whatever is spent on him after that is charity. And it is not lawful for him (the guest) to stay so long as to cause him harm."

Chapter 44: What Has Been Related About Looking After The Widow And The Orphan

Safwan bin Sulaim narrated that the Prophet said

"The one who looks after a widow and a poor person is like the Mujahid in the cause of Allah, or like the one who fasts all the day and stands (in prayer) all the night."

Chapter 45: What Has Been Related About A Smiling And Cheerful Face

Jabir bin Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Every good is charity. Indeed among the good is to meet your brother with a smiling face, and to pour what is left in your bucket into the vessel of your brother."

Chapter 46: What Has Been Related About Truthfulness And Falsehood

Abdullah bin Mas'ud narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"Abide by truthfulness. For indeed truthfulness leads to righteousness. And indeed righteousness leads to Paradise. A man continues telling the truth and trying hard to tell the truth until he is recorded with Allah as a truthful person. Refrain from falsehood. For indeed falsehood leads to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Fire. A slave (of Allah) continues lying and trying hard to lie, until he is recorded with Allah as a liar."

Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah said

"When the slave (of Allah) lies, the angel goes a mile away from him because of the stench of what he has done."Yahya said: "(I asked) 'Abdur-Rahim bin Harun if he approved of it,and he said 'Yes'."

Aishah narrated

"There was no behavior more hated to the Messenger of Allah than lying. A man would lie in narrating something in the presence of the Prophet, and he would not be content until he knew that he had repented."