Chapters On Zuhd
كتاب الزهد عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
Chapter 1: Health And Free Time Are Two Favors Squandered By Many Of The People
"Two favors that many of the people squander are health and free time."
Chapter 2: Whoever Guards Most Against The Unlawful, Then He Is The Most Worshiping Among The People
"Who will take these statements from me, so that he may act upon them, or teach one who will act upon them?" So Abu Hurairah said: "I said: 'I shall O Messenger of Allah!' So he (s.a.w) took my hand and enumerated five (things), he said: "Be on guard against the unlawful and you shall be the most worshiping among the people, be satisfied with what Allah has alloted for you and you shall be the richest of the people, be kind to your neighbor and you shall be a believer, love for the people what you love for yourself and you shall be a Muslim. And do not laugh too much, for indeed increased laughter kills the heart."
Chapter 3: What Has Been Related About Racing To Act (To Do Works)
"Race to do works against seven. Are you waiting but for overwhelming poverty, or distracting richness, or debilitating illness, or babbling senility, or sudden death, or the Dajjal, so that hidden evil is what is awaited, or the Hour? The Hour is more calamitous and more bitter." (Daif)
Chapter 4: What Has Been Related About Remembering Death
"Increase in remembrance of the severer of pleasures." Meaning death.
Chapter 5: What Has Been Related About The Grave's Horror And That It Is The First Stage Of The Hereafter
When 'Uthman would stop at a grave he would cry until his beard was soaked (in tears). It was said to him: 'The Paradise and the Fire were mentioned and you did not cry, yet you cry because of this?' So he said: 'Indeed the Messenger of Allah said: "Indeed the grave is the first stage among the stages of the Hereafter. So if one is saved from it, then what comes after it is easier than it. And if one is not saved from it, then what comes after it is worse than it." And the Messenger of Allah said: "I have not seen any sight except that the grave is more horrible than it."
Chapter 6: Whoever Loves To Meet Allah, Allah Loves To Meet Him
"Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him. Whoever is averse to meeting Allah, Allah is averse to meeting him."
Chapter 7: What Has Been Related About The Prophet (s.a.w) Warning His People
"When this Ayah was revealed: And warn your near kindred....(26:214), the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:"O Safiyyah bint 'Abdul-Muttalib! O Fatimah bint Muhammed! O Banu 'Abdul-Muttalib! I have no authority on your behalf over Allah for anything. Ask me for whatever you want of my wealth."
Chapter 8: What Has Been Related About The Virtue Of Crying Out Of Fear Of Allah, Most High
"A man who cries out of fearing Allah, will not be put into the Fire until milk returns to the udder; and dust raised in the cause of Allah and the smoke of Jahannam will not be gathered together."[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abu Raihanah and Ibn 'Abbas. [He said:] This Hadith is [Hasan] Sahih. Muhammad bin 'Abdur-Rahman is the Mawla of the family of Talbah, and he is from Al-Madinah, and trustworthy. Shu'bah and Sufyan Ath-Thawri reported from him.
Chapter 9: What Has Been Related About The Prophet (s.a.w) Saying: "If You Knew What I Know Then You Would Laugh Little"
"Indeed I see what you do not see, and I hear what you do not hear. The Heavens moan, and they have the right to moan. There is no spot, the size of four fingers in them, except that there is an angel placing his forehead in it, prostrating to Allah. By Allah! If you knew what I know, then you would laugh little and you would cry much. And you would not taste the pleasures of your women in the beds, and you would go out beseeching Allah. And I wish that I was but a felled tree." [Abu 'Eisa said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Aishah, Abu Hurairah, Ibn 'Abbas, and Anas. [He said:] This Hadith is Hasan Gharib. It has been related through routes other than this, that Abu Dharr said: "I wish that I was a felled tree." And it has been related from Abu Dharr in Mawquf form.
"If you knew what I know, then you would laugh little and you would cry much."
Chapter 10: What Has Been Related About One Who Says Something To Make People Laugh
"Indeed a man may utter a statement that he does not see any harm in, but for which he will fall seventy autumns in the Fire."
"Woe to the one who talks about something to make the people laugh, in which he lies. Woe to him! Woe to him!"
Chapter 11: Among The Excellence Of A Person's Islam Is His Leaving What Does Not Concern Him
"Glad tidings of Paradise." To which the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:"You do not know. Perhaps he spoke of what did not concern him or he was greedy with that which would not decrease him."
"Indeed among the excellence of a person's Islam is that he leaves what does not concern him."
"Surely, of the excellence of a person's Islam is that he leaves what does not concern him."
Chapter 12: What Has Been Related About Speaking Little
"I heard Bilal bin Al-Harith Al Muzani, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) saying: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) saying:"Indeed one of you says a statement pleasing to Allah, not realizing that you have achieved what you have achieved. Then for it, Allah writes for him His pleasure until the Day of Meeting Him. And one of you says a statement angering Allah, not realizing that you have achieved what you have achieved. Then for it, Allah writes for him His anger until the Day of Meeting with Him."
Chapter 13: What Has Been Related About The Insignificance Of The World To Allah, The Mighty And Sublime
"If the world to Allah was equal to a mosquito's wing, then He would not allow the disbeliever to have a sip of water from it."
"I was with the caravan of those who stopped with the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) at a dead lamb. The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: 'Do you think that this was insignificant to its owners when they threw it away?' They said:'Yes! It is because of its insignificance that they threw it away O Messenger of Allah!' He said: 'The world is more insignificant to Allah than this to its owners.'"
Chapter 14: The Hadith: "Indeed The World Is Cursed"
"Lo! Indeed the world is cursed. What is in it is cursed, except for remembrance of Allah, what is conducive to that, the knowledgeable person and the learning person."