- 1 Parents
- 1 Honouring Parents: The Words of Allah Almighty: “We have instructed man to honour his parents” (29:8)
- 2 Dutifulness to One’s Mother
- 3 Dutifulness to One’s Father
- 4 Dutifulness to Parents, even if they are unjust
- 5 Gentle words to Parents
- 6 Repaying Parents
- 7 Disobedience to Parents
- 8 “Allah curses whoever curses his parents”
- 9 Being Dutiful to Parents as long as that does not entail disobedience to Allah
- 10 The One who Fails his Parents will not enter the Garden
- 11 Allah prolongs the life of someone who is dutiful towards his parents
- 12 One does not ask forgiveness for his father if he is an idolater
- 13 Dutifulness towards a parent who is an idolater
- 14 A person should not revile his parents
- 15 The punishment for disobeying parents
- 16 Making Parents weep
- 17 The Supplication of Parents
- 18 Offering Islam to a Christian mother
- 19 Dutifulness towards Parents after their Death
- 20 The Dutifulness of someone who maintains what his father loved
- 21 Do not cut off someone with whom your father maintained ties
- 22 Love is inherited
- 23 A man should not call his father by his name nor sit down before him nor walk in front of him
- 24 Can a man call his father by his kunya?
- 2 Ties of Kinship
- 25 The Duty of maintaining ties of kinship
- 26 Maintaining ties of kinship
- 27 The excellence of maintaining ties of kinship
- 28 Maintaining ties of kinship will prolong life
- 29 Allah loves the one who maintains ties of kinship
- 30 Being dutiful to the closest relative and then the next closest
- 31 Mercy will not descend on people when there is someone among them who severs ties of kinship
- 32 The wrong action of someone who severs ties of kinship
- 33 The punishment of someone who cuts off ties of kinship in this world
- 34 The one who maintains ties of kinship is not the one who reciprocates
- 35 The excellence of someone who maintains relations with relatives who are unjust
- 36 Those who maintained ties of kinship in the Jahiliyya and then became Muslim
- 37 Maintaining ties of kinship with the idolater and giving gifts
- 38 Learn your lineages so that you can maintain ties of kinship
- 3 Mawlas
- 4 Looking after girls
- 5 Looking after children
- 45 A child is a source of both honour and cowardice
- 46 Carrying a child on one’s shoulders
- 47 A child is a source of joy
- 48 A person who makes supplication that his friend will have a lot of money and many children
- 49 Mothers are merciful
- 50 Kissing Children
- 51 The parent teaching adab and his duty towards his child
- 52 The dutifulness of a father to his child
- 53 Someone who does not show mercy will not be shown mercy
- 54 Mercy consists of a hundred parts
- 6 Neighbours
- 55 The recommendation to be kind to neighbours
- 56 The neighbour’s due
- 57 Begin with the neighbour
- 58 You give to the neighbour whose door is the nearest to you
- 59 The nearest and then next nearest neighbour
- 60 The person who shuts his door against his neighbour
- 61 A person should not eat his fill without seeing to his neighbour
- 62 When there is a lot of stew, it is divided between the neighbours
- 63 The best neighbour
- 64 The righteous neighbour
- 65 The bad neighbour
- 66 A person should not injure his neighbour
- 67 A woman should not disdain anything which her female neighbour gives her, even if it is only the hooves of a sheep
- 68 The neighbour’s complaint
- 69 Someone who harms his neighbour until he forces him to leave
- 70 A Jewish neighbour
- 7 Generosity and Orphans
- 71 Generosity
- 72 Kindness to both the pious and the deviant
- 73 The excellence of someone who provides for an orphan
- 74 The excellence of someone who provides for his orphan
- 75 The excellence of someone who provides for an orphan in the company of his parents
- 76 The best house is a house in which orphans are well treated
- 77 Be like a merciful father to orphans
- 78 The excellence of a woman who perseveres with her child and does not re- marry
- 79 Disciplining an orphan
- 8 Children Dying
- 9 Being a master
- 10 Responsibility
- 11 Correctness
- 12 Dealing with people cheerfully
- 13 Consultation
- 121 Playing and joking which is not permitted
- 122 The person who guides to good
- 123 Excusing and pardoning people
- 124 Cheerfulness towards people
- 125 Smiling
- 126 Laughter
- 127 When he faced someone, he faced him completely, and when he turned away, he turned away completely
- 128 Someone who is consulted is in a position of trust
- 129 Consultation
- 130 The wrong action of someone who gives his brother misguided advice
- 14 Dealings with people and good character
- 131 Love between people
- 132 Friendship
- 133 Joking
- 134 Joking with a child
- 135 Good character
- 136 The generosity of the self
- 137 Avarice
- 138 Good character when people have understanding
- 139 Miserliness
- 140 Sound property for a sound man
- 141 The person who is secure in his property
- 142 Cheerfulness
- 143 What is necessary in helping someone in distress
- 144 The person who makes supplication to Allah to make his character good
- 15 Cursing and Defamation
- 145 The believer is not a defamer
- 146 Someone who curses
- 147 The person who curses his slave and then frees him
- 148 Cursing one another with the curse of Allah, with the anger of Allah, and with the Fire
- 149 Cursing an unbeliever
- 150 Slander
- 151 Someone who hears about an indecency and then spreads it about
- 152 The fault-finder
- 16 Praising People
- 17 Visiting and Guests
- 18 The Elderly
- 19 Children
- 20 Mercy
- 21 Social Behaviour
- 179 Relating good things between people
- 180 A liar is not behaving correctly
- 181 Someone who is patient when people injure him
- 182 Enduring injury
- 183 Improving a state of friendship
- 184 When you lie to a man and he believes you
- 185 Do not make a promise to your brother and then break it
- 186 Attacking Lineage
- 187 A man’s love for his people
- 22 Separation
- 23 Advice
- 24 Defamation
- 198 Defamation
- 199 Giving water
- 200 When two people revile one another, the responsibility for what they say rests on the first to speak
- 201 Those who revile one another are two shaytans who accuse one another and deny one another
- 202 Reviling a Muslim is deviant behaviour
- 203 Someone who does not say things directly to people
- 204 When someone calls someone else a hypocrite without meaning it literally
- 205 Someone says calls his brother an unbeliever
- 206 The gloating of enemies
- 25 Extravagance in Building
- 26 Compassion
- 27 Attending to this world
- 28 Injustice
- 29 Illness and visiting those who are ill
- 226 The expiation of someone who is ill
- 227 Visiting Someone Ill During The Night
- 228 A patient is credited with the deeds that he used to do when healthy
- 229 Is it a complaint when a sick person says, “I am in pain”?
- 230 Visiting someone who has fainted
- 231 Visiting children who are ill
- 232 Chapter
- 233 Visiting Bedouins
- 234 Visiting the sick
- 235 Someone who visits a sick person making supplication that he will get well
- 236 The excellence of visiting someone who is ill
- 237 The hadith about the person who is ill and the person who visits him
- 238 Someone who prays in the presence of a sick person
- 239 Visiting a mushrik
- 240 What to say to someone who is ill
- 241 What the sick person answers
- 242 Visiting someone who is a deviant (fasiq)
- 243 Women visiting a man who is ill
- 244 Someone who dislikes for visitors to look at other things in his house
- 245 Visiting someone with eye trouble
- 246 Where does should a person sit when he visits a sick person?
- 30 General Behaviour
- 247 What a man does in his house
- 248 When a man has love for his brother he should tell him
- 249 When someone has love for a person, he should not quarrel with him not ask about him
- 250 The intellect is located in the heart
- 251 Pride
- 252 Someone who takes revenge for injustice
- 253 Mutual help in scarcity and famine
- 254 Trials
- 255 Someone who feeds one of his brothers for Allah
- 256 The Alliance of the Jahiliyya
- 257 Brotherhood
- 258 There is no alliance in Islam
- 259 Someone seeking the blessing of the rain when it first begins to fall
- 260 Sheep are a blessing
- 261 Camels are a cause of pride in their owners
- 262 A man going back to live as a Bedouin
- 263 Someone who lives in villages
- 264 Going out to water-courses
- 265 Someone who wants to conceal secrets and to sit with a group of people and recognise their qualities
- 266 Deliberation in Affairs
- 267 Deliberation in Affairs
- 268 Tyrannical Behaviour
- 269 Accepting gifts
- 270 Someone who does not accept a gift when there is hatred towards people
- 271 Modesty
- 31 Supplication
- 272 What to say in the morning
- 273 Someone who uses other supplications
- 274 Sincere supplication
- 275 Be firm in supplication, for Allah cannot be forced
- 276 Raising the hands in supplication
- 277 The best way of asking for forgiveness
- 278 The supplication for someone when he is absent
- 279 Chapter
- 280 The prayer on the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace
- 281 Someone who hears the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, mentioned in his presence and does not bless him
- 282 A man’s supplication for someone who has wronged him
- 283 Someone who makes supplication for a long life
- 284 Someone say says, “A person is given an answer as long as he does not seek to hasten it”
- 285 Someone who seeks refuge in Allah from laziness
- 286 Allah is angry with the person who does not ask Allah
- 287 Supplication in the battle ranks in the Cause of Allah
- 288 The supplications of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace
- 289 Supplication in heavy rain and ordinary rain
- 290 Supplication for death
- 291 The supplications of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace
- 292 Supplication in affliction
- 293 Supplication in the Istikhara
- 294 When one is in fear of the ruler
- 295 The reward and wage stored up for a person who makes supplication
- 296 The excellence of supplication
- 297 Supplication when the breeze blows
- 298 Do not curse the wind
- 299 Supplication during lightning
- 300 When one hears a thunder-clap
- 301 He who asks Allah for security
- 302 It is Makrooh to request involvement in trial
- 303 He who requests refuge from severe trial
- 304 Repeating others words when angry
- 305 Chapter
- 306 Backbiting And Allah’s words “And backbite not one another”
- 307 Backbiting the Dead
- 308 He who strokes the head of a boy with his father and invokes blessings on him
- 32 Guests and Spending
- 309 Intimate relations of Muslims with one another
- 310 Serving the guest oneself
- 311 Sumptuous meal for the guest
- 312 Hospitality is for three days
- 313 Should not stay so long that the host gets tired
- 314 If the guest stays on till morning
- 315 If he receives no hospitality
- 316 A man serving his guest himself
- 317 Someone who brings his guest food and then stands up to pray
- 318 A man spending on his family
- 319 There is a reward for everything, even the morsel given to a wife
- 320 Supplication in the last third of the night
- 33 Speech
- 321 Someone’s words, “So-and-so with the curly black hair” or someone “tall” or “short” when he intends to describe him and does not mean to slander him
- 322 Someone who does not see any harm in a historical story
- 323 Someone who shields a Muslim
- 324 Someone saying, “People are destroyed”
- 325 Do not call a hypocrite “master (sayyid)”
- 326 What someone says when he is praised
- 327 One should not say about something he does not know, “Allah knows it”
- 328 The rainbow
- 329 The Milky Way
- 330 Someone who dislikes for it to be said, “O Allah, place me in the Abiding Abode of Your mercy”
- 331 Do not curse time
- 332 A man should not look sharply at his brother when he turns away
- 333 Someone saying to someone else, “Bother you”
- 334 Building
- 335 A man saying, No, by your father”
- 336 When a person seeks something, he should ask for something small and not praise the person
- 337 Someone’s words, “May the one who hates you not have good!”
- 338 Someone should not say, “Allah and so-and-so”
- 339 Someone saying, “What Allah wills and you will”
- 340 Singing and Play
- 341 Guidance and good behaviour
- 342 When news comes to you from someone you do not furnish with travel provisions
- 343 Wishing which is disliked
- 344 Do not call the grape “kurm”
- 345 Someone saying, “Bother you”
- 346 Someone saying, “O person!”
- 347 Someone saying, “I am lazy”
- 348 Someone who seeks refuge from laziness
- 349 Someone’s words, “May my self be your ransom!”
- 350 A man saying, “May my father and mother be my ransom”
- 351 A man saying, “My son” to someone whose father did not become Muslim
- 352 Someone should not say, “khabuthat nafsi” * (an expression meaning “I am overcome with nausea”)
- 34 Names
- 353 The kunya Abu’l-Hakam
- 354 The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, liked good names
- 355 Swiftness in walking
- 356 The names which Allah Almighty loves the most
- 357 Changing one name to another
- 358 The name which Allah Almighty hates the most
- 359 Someone who calls another person using the diminutive of his name
- 360 Calling someone by the name he loves the most
- 361 Changing the name ‘Asiya (meaning “rebellious”)
- 362 Surm (meaning “separation”)
- 363 Ghurab (meaning “crow”)
- 364 Shihab (meaning “flame”)
- 365 Al-‘As (meaning “rebel”)
- 366 Someone who calls his companion and shortens or leaves out part of his name
- 367 Zahm (meaning “crowd”)
- 368 Barra (meaning “pious”)
- 369 Aflah (meaning “most successful”)
- 370 Rabah (meaning “profit”)
- 371 The Names of the Prophets
- 372 Hazn (meaning “rough”)
- 35 Kunyas
- 373 The Prophet’s name and kunya, may Allah bless him and grant him peace
- 374 Can one use a kunya for an idolater?
- 375 A kunya for a child
- 376 Having a kunya before having a child
- 377 Kunyas for women
- 378 Someone who gives a man of kunya because of something he is doing or with one of their names
- 379 How does a person walk with the great men and people of superiority
- 380 Chapter
- 36 Poetry
- 37 Words
- 38 General Behaviour
- 395 Deliberation in things
- 396 Someone who guides down an alley or on a path
- 397 Someone who misguides a blind person
- 398 Tyranny (baghy)
- 399 The punishment for outrage
- 400 Noble descent
- 401 The arwah (spirits) are a massed army
- 402 A man saying, “Glory be to Allah!” when he is amazed
- 403 Wiping the ground with the hand
- 404 Slings
- 405 Do not curse the wind
- 39 Omens
- 406 Someone’s words, “We have been given rain by the rising of such-and-such and such-and-such (a star)”
- 407 What someone says when he sees clouds
- 408 The bad omen (tayyâra )
- 409 The excellence of someone who does not take note of omens
- 410 Bad omens taken from the jinn
- 411 Good Omens
- 412 Seeing blessing in a good name
- 413 Bad luck in horses
- 40 Sneezing and Yawning
- 414 The Sneeze
- 415 What to say when you sneeze
- 416 Wishing mercy on the sneezer
- 417 When you hear a sneeze, you should say, “Praise be to Allah”
- 418 How to wish for mercy on a person when you hear a sneeze
- 419 When someone does not praise Allah, do not wish mercy on him
- 420 What should someone who sneezes say first?
- 421 Someone who says, “May Allah have mercy on you if you praised Allah”
- 422 Do not say, “Ab”
- 423 When someone sneezes several times
- 424 When a Jew sneezes
- 425 How a man wishes mercy on a woman when she sneezes
- 426 Yawning
- 427 Someone who says, “At your service (Labbayk)” when he answers
- 428 A man standing up for his brother
- 429 A man standing up for someone sitting down
- 430 When someone yawns, he should put his hand over his mouth
- 41 Gestures
- 431 Should anyone delouse someone else’s head
- 432 Shaking the head and biting the lip when surprised
- 433 A man striking his hand on his thigh when he is amazed or for some other reason
- 434 When a man strikes his brother’s thigh and does not intend anything bad by it
- 435 The person who dislikes people sitting and rising for him
- 436 Chapter
- 437 What a man says when his foot goes to sleep
- 42 Greetings
- 438 Chapter
- 439 Shaking hands with children
- 440 Shaking Hands
- 441 A woman stroking a child’s head
- 443 A man kissing his daughter
- 444 Kissing the hand
- 445 Kissing the Foot
- 446 A man rising out of respect for another man
- 447 Giving the greeting first
- 448 Giving the greeting to people
- 449 The person who greets first
- 450 The excellence of the greeting
- 451 Peace (as-Salam) is one of the Name so Allah
- 452 It is a duty for one Muslim to greet another Muslim when he meets him
- 453 Someone walking greets the person sitting down
- 454 The person riding greets the person sitting
- 455 Does the person walking greet the person riding?
- 456 A small group greets the large group
- 457 The young person greets the old
- 458 The end of the greeting
- 459 The person who greets by a gesture
- 460 Make it heard when you greet
- 461 Someone who goes out, greets and is greeted
- 462 The greeting when someone comes to a gathering
- 463 The greeting when someone leaves a gathering
- 464 The duty of someone who gives the greeting when he stands up
- 465 The person who oils his hand for the handshake
- 466 Greeting those you know and those you do not know
- 467 Chapter
- 468 Do not greet a deviant person
- 469 Not greeting a man wearing khaluq-perfume and those in rebellion (against Allah)
- 470 Greeting the Amir
- 471 Greeting someone asleep
- 472 May Allah preserve you
- 473 Welcome
- 474 How to return the greeting
- 475 Someone who does not return the greeting
- 476 Someone who is miserly with the greeting
- 477 The Greeting to Children
- 478 Women greeting men
- 479 Greeting women
- 480 Someone who dislikes to greet a particular person
- 43 Asking permission to enter
- 481 How was the Ayat of Veiling revealed?
- 482 Three times of nakedness
- 483 A man eating with his wife
- 484 When someone enters a house which is uninhabited
- 485 Those you own as slaves should ask your permission to enter”(24:56)
- 486 The words of Allah, “Once your children have reached puberty”(24:57)
- 487 Someone asking permission to come in to visit his mother
- 488 Asking permission to enter where one’s father is
- 489 Asking permission to go in to one’s father and one’s child
- 490 Asking a sister’s permission to enter
- 491 Asking your brother for permission to enter
- 492 Asking permission three times
- 493 Asking permission to enter is not a greeting
- 494 When someone looks without permission, his eye is gouged out
- 495 Asking permission without looking
- 496 When a man greets another man in his room
- 497 A man’s invitation is his permission
- 498 How does someone stand at a door
- 499 When someone asks permission to enter, he says, “When shall I leave? Where shall I sit?”
- 500 Knocking on a door
- 501 When someone enters without having asked permission
- 502 When someone says, “Can I come in?” and does not give a greeting
- 503 How to ask permission to enter
- 504 The one who says, “Who is it?” and is answered, “Me”
- 505 When someone asks permission, he is told, “Enter with peace”
- 506 Looking into houses
- 507 The excellence of someone who enters his house saying “Peace”
- 508 When someone does not mention Allah when he enters his house, shaytan spends the night in it
- 509 What one is not given permission for
- 510 Asking permission in shops in the market
- 511 How to ask permission from Persians
- 44 The People of the Book
- 512 When a dhimmi writes and gives the greeting, he is answered
- 513 Do not initiate the salam with dhimmis
- 514 A person greeting a dhimmi with a gesture
- 515 How to answer dhimmis
- 516 The greeting to the gathering which includes both Muslims and idolaters
- 517 How does one write to the People of the Book?
- 518 When the People of the Book say, “Poison be upon you”
- 519 The People of the Book are forced to the narrowest part of the road
- 520 How to make supplication for a dhimmi
- 521 When someone greets a Christian whom he does not recognise
- 522 When someone says, “So-and-so sends you his greetings”
- 45 Letters and greetings
- 523 Answering a letter
- 524 Letters to women and their reply
- 525 How to write the beginning of a letter
- 526 Following on from that”
- 527 Beginning letters with “In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, Most Merciful”
- 528 The one who is put first in a letter
- 529 How are you this morning?
- 530 Someone who writes at the end of a letter, “Peace be upon and the mercy of Allah” and writes so-and-so, son of so-and-so on the 20th of the month
- 531 How are you?
- 532 How to answer when someone asks you, “How are you this morning?”
- 46 Gatherings
- 533 The best gathering is the most expansive one
- 534 Facing qibla
- 535 When someone stands up and then returns to his place
- 536 Sitting in the road
- 537 Making room in a gathering
- 538 A man sitting at the edge of a gathering
- 539 Do not separate two people
- 540 Stepping over people to move towards the leader of a gathering
- 541 The noblest of people for a person is his companion
- 542 Can a man put his foot in front of someone he is sitting with
- 543 When someone in a group of people spits
- 544 Gatherings on roads
- 545 Someone who sits dangling his feet in a well with his legs uncovered
- 546 When a man rises to give place for someone in a gathering, that person should not sit in it
- 47 Behaviour with people
- 547 The Trust
- 548 When he turned, he turned completely
- 549 When a man is sent to another man for some reason and he does not tell him what it is
- 550 Should you say, “Where have you come from?”
- 551 Someone who listens to people’s conversation when they dislike for him to do that
- 552 Sitting on an elevated seat
- 553 When someone sees people conversing secretly, he should not enter where they are
- 554 Two should not converse to the exclusion of a third
- 555 When there are four people
- 556 When someone sits without someone else, he should ask his permission to leave
- 557 Do not sit in the edge of the sunlight
- 48 Sitting and lying down
- 558 Sitting wrapped up in a garment
- 559 Someone who has a cushion thrown to him
- 560 Squatting
- 561 Sitting cross-legged
- 562 Wrapping oneself up
- 563 Someone who kneels
- 564 Lying down
- 565 Lying on one’s face
- 566 Only give or take things with the right hand
- 567 Where you should place your sandals when you sit down
- 568 Shaytan comes with a stick or something to chase a person out of bed
- 569 Someone who spends the night on a roof without any covering
- 570 Should you let your feet dangle while you are sitting?
- 571 What to say when you go out for something
- 572 Can a man put his feet out in front of his companions and can he lie down in their presence?
- 49 Mornings and evenings
- 50 Sleeping and going to bed
- 575 What to say when you go to bed
- 576 The excellence of making supplication when going to sleep
- 577 Placing one’s hand under his cheek
- 578 Chapter
- 579 When someone gets up from his bed and then goes back to it, he should dust it
- 580 What to say when you wake up in the night
- 581 Someone who goes to sleep with grease on his hand
- 582 Putting lamps out
- 583 A fire should not be left burning in the house when people go to sleep
- 584 Seeing the Blessing of Rain
- 585 Hanging up a whip in the room
- 586 Locking the door at night
- 587 Bringing children inside when evening falls
- 51 Animals
- 52 Midday Naps
- 53 Circumcision
- 595 Circumcision
- 596 Female circumcision
- 597 Supplication during circumcision
- 598 Diversion during circumcision
- 599 The dhimmi ‘s invitation
- 600 Circumcising slavegirls
- 601 Circumcision of an older person
- 602 An invitation when a child is born
- 603 Rubbing a child’s gums
- 604 Supplication at birth
- 605 The person who praises Allah when he is born if he is well-formed and is not concerned whether it is a boy or a girl
- 606 Shaving pubic hair
- 607 The time for cutting the nails and hair
- 54 Betting and similar pastimes
- 608 Betting
- 609 Betting a cock
- 610 Someone who says to his companion, “Come, I’ll make a bet with you”
- 611 Betting a pigeon
- 612 Doing the camel-chant for women’s camels
- 613 Singing
- 614 The person who does not greet backgammon players
- 615 The wrong action of someone who plays backgammon
- 616 Manners and removing those who play backgammon and the people of trivial pursuits (ahl al-batil)
- 617 A believer is not harmed by the same stone twice
- 618 Someone who shoots at night
- 55 Various
- 619 When Allah wants to take the soul of one of His slaves in some land, he gives him a reason for going there
- 620 The person who blows his nose in his garment
- 621 Whispering
- 622 Opinion
- 623 The slavegirl and wife shaving the husband
- 624 Plucking the armpits
- 625 Good contract
- 626 Recognition
- 627 Children playing with nuts
- 628 Sacrificing pigeons
- 629 Someone who has a need is the person most entitled to go out for it
- 630 When someone spits when he is with people
- 631 When a man speaks to people, he does not turn to one particular person
- 56 Aspects of Behaviour
- 57 Anger
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