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- I leave with you two things; as long as you hold fast
to them both, you will never be misguided the Kitab (Book) of Allah and Sunnat
of His Rasool (Messenger). (Muwatta)
- He has tasted the sweetness of faith who is pleased with
Allah as Rabb, with Islam as Deen and with Muhammad (sallal laahu alaihi
wasallam) as Rasool (Messenger). (Sahih Muslim)
- Blessed is he who is guided to Islam, and whose livelihood
is just sufficient and who is contented therewith. (Tirmidhi)
- Everyone of my followers will enter Jannat (Paradise)
except he who refused. He (the Rasool of Allah) was asked: And who has refused
(truth)? He said: Whosoever obeys me shall enter Jannat (Paradise) and whoever
disobeys me has refused. (Sahih Bukhari)
- The Pleasure of the Rabb is in the pleasure of the father,
and the displeasure of the Rabb is in the displeasure of the father. (Tirmidhi)
- A man asked: O Rasool of Allah (sallal laahu alaihi
wasallam): What are the rights of the parents over their children? He replied:
They are your Jannat (Paradise) and your Jahannam (Hell). (Ibn-Majah)
- No father can give a better gift to his son than good
manners. (Tirmidhi)
- Let no believing man hate a believing woman. If he hates
one trait of her character, he should be pleased with another that is within
her. (Sahih Muslim)
- Whichever female dies while her husband was pleased with
her, will enter Jannat (Paradise). (Tirmidhi)
- The most perfect of the believers in faith is he who is
the best of them in conduct, and the best of you are those who are the best to
their wives. (Tirmidhi)
- If a young man shows honour to an old man on account of
his age, Allah will create for him in his old age someone who will show him
honour. (Tirmidhi)
- You will see the believers in their mutual kindness,
displaying love and sympathy just like one body. When a limb complains, the
whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever. (Agreed)
- You shall not enter Jannat until you believe; and you
will not believe until you love one another. Shall I not guide you a thing? When
you will do it, you will love one another. Spread (Salaam) among you. (Sahih
Muslim)
- Be not happy over (the sorrows of) your brother, lest
Allah shows mercy to the latter and tries you. (Tirmidhi)
- The duties of a Muslim towards another Muslim are five:
to return his greeting, to visit the sick, to follow the bier of a dead man, to
accept his invitation, and to respond to one's sneezes. (Agreed)
- Eat together and be not separate, because blessings is
only with the united body. (Ibn-Majah)
- If a Muslim is afficted with any trouble, continuous
pain, anxiety, sorrow, harm, disaster, and even a thorn which he is pierced with
- Allah expiates his minor sins thereof. (Agreed)
- Allah is not kind to one who is not kind to men. (Agreed)
- He who is devoid of kindness is devoid of good. (Sahih
Muslim)
- Be careful of (narrating) traditions from me except what
you know. Whoso imputes falsehood to me intentionally, let him then seek his
abode in the fire. (Tirmidhi)
- When a man dies, all his actions are cut off from him
except three: ever recuring charity; or knowledge from which benefit it derived;
or virtuous son praying for him. (Sahih Muslim)
- Whoso interprets the Quran according to his opinion, let
him seek his abode in the fire. And in a naration: Whoso interprets the Quran
without knowledge, let him seek his abode in the fire. (Tirmidhi)
- Whoever guides towards good, will have a reward of one
who acts up to it. (Hadith)
- The dearest to me among you is he who is the best of you
in conduct. (Sahih Bukhari)
- Whoso gives up falsehood which is void, there is built
for him a mansion in the corner of Jannat; and whoso gives up dispute while he
has right (to it), there is built for him a mansion in the middle of Jannat; and
whoso makes his conduct good, there is built for him a mansion in its loftiest
part. (Tirmidhi)
- One (on the Day of Judgement, before Allah) will not be
able to move away until he has accounted for his:
- Life, how it was spent,
- Knowledge, to what use it was put,
- Wealth, how it was acquired and spent,
- Body, how it was utilised? (Hadith)
- Avoid the seven deadly sins. The Companions asked: What
are they, O Rasool of Allah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam)? The Rasool of Allah
(sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) replied:
- Attributing partner to Allah,
- Magic,
- Murder,
- Usury,
- Misappropriating that which belongs to orphans,
- Turning the back on the day of Jihad,
- Levelling charges against chaste and innocent women.
(Hadith)
- An honest and trustworthy merchant shall be with the Ambiya (Prophets) and the Martyrs and the pious men. (Hadith)
- Hazrat Abu Huraira (radi Allahu anhu) said: O Rasool of
Allah! (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) I offer myself. Rasoollulah (sallal laahu
alaihi wasallam) caught his hand and enumerated five advices: a. Avoid what is
unlawful, and you will be praying more than others,
- Be satisfied with what Allah has allotted to you, and you
will never feel any lack,
- Be good to your neighbours, and you will attain the
position of a Mu'min (Faithful),
- Choose for others what you choose for yourself, and you
will be a perfect Muslim,
- Do not laugh too much, for laughter deadens the heart.
(Hadith)
- Be responsible for six things, and I shall be responsible
for your entry into Jannat:
- Speak always the truth,
- Fulfil all your promises,
- Return any article given to you in trust in its proper
condition,
- Guard the secret places of your body,
- Keep your eyes down,
- Hold off your hands (from tyranny and wrong doing).
(Hadith)
- Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) forbade blood
sports, like the Bedouins. (Hadith)
- Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said:
- To gaze at a strange (ghair mahram) woman is the Zina
(adultery) of the eyes,
- To listen to passion-stirring words is Zina of the ears,
- To converse with a strange women (and derive pleasure therefrom) is Zina of the tongue,
- To touch a strange women is Zina of the hands,
- To walk towards her is Zina of the feet,
- The heart desires and craves; the sexual organs then
either testify to these or deny them. (Sahih Muslim)
- Allah Ta'ala will not cast a merciful glance towards the
person that commits sodomy or anal sex with his wife. (Mishkaat)
- (Part of) the beauty of a man's Islam is to leave what
does not concern him. (Tirmidhi)
- Don't be moved by anger. He (the man seeking advise) then
repeated (i.e. his request) several times, but Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi
wasallam) said: Don't be moved by anger. (Sahih Bukhari)
- Surely (for you) every Tasbih is an act of charity, every
Takbir is an act of charity, every Tahmid is an act of charity, the commanding
of right actions is an act of charity, and your sexual intercourse (with you
wives) is an act of charity. They asked, (in surprise), O Rasool of Allah
(sallal laahu alaihi wasallam)! Can it be that anyone of us fulfils his passion,
and be rewarded for it? Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said: Do you
see, if you got it (i.e. sexual satisfaction) through unlawful means, would
there be sin in it? In the same manner, there is reward for him who performs it
lawfully. (Sahih Muslim)
- Whosoever among you sees an undersirable thing, he should
change it with his hand. But, if he cannot, he should do it (i.e. change it)
with his tongue. If he is not able to do that even, he should do it with his
heart, and that is the weakest of faith. (Sahih Muslim)
- Whoso kills a sparrow for nothing, it will cry loud to
Allah on the Day of Resurrection, saying, O my Rabb! Such-and-such a man killed
me for nothing: he never killed me for any good. (Nisaai)
- Every good word is charity. (Hadith)
- Almsgiving extinguishes the Wrath of Allah. (Tirmidhi)
- That a man give a dirham in alms during his lifetime, is
better for him than that he should give a hundred dirhams at his death. (Abu
Dawud)
- Cleanliness is one-half of faith. (Sahih Muslim)
- To be alone is better that (to have) a bad companion; and
a good companion is better than being alone; and dictating the good is better
that keeping silence; and silence is better than dictating evil. (Baihaqi;
Mishkaat Shareef)
- Whoso curses a thing when it does not deserve it, - makes
the curse to return upon him. (Abu Dawud)
- All sins are pardoned of a Martyr except (his) debts.
(Sahih Muslim)
- I said: O Rasool of Allah! (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam)
I have so much hair upon my head, should I then comb it? The Rasool of Allah
(sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said: Yes, and also do it justice! (Nisaai)
- Deliberation is of Allah, and haste is of Satan.
(Tirmidhi)
- The most hateful of (all) lawful thing, in the sight of
Allah, is divorce. (Abu Dawud)
- The women who seeks divorce from her husband, without
being forced (to it due to unjust treatment), shall not smell the fragrance of Jannat. (Tirmidhi)
- I never saw anyone smile more than the Prophet.
(Tirmidhi)
- No present or gift of a parent, out of all the gifts and
presents to a child, is superior to a good education. (Tirmidhi)
- The best part of faith is to say, There is no Allah but
Allah, and the least of it is to remove all injurious things from the (public)
road. (Sahih Bukhari)
- Faith is a restraint against all unjust violence, let no Mu'min commit violence. (Abu Dawud)
- Whoso brings up three daughters or three sisters, or two
sisters or two daughters, and gives them a good education, and treats them well,
and gives them in marriage, for him is Jannat. (Abu Dawud)
- Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and free the captive.
(Sahih Bukhari)
- There are four qualities which being (found) in any make
him a complete hypocrite; and whoever has one of these, has one hypocritical
quality until he avoids it: perfidy when trusted, lying when speaking, leaving
in the lurch when convenanting, and wickedness when quarrelling. (Sahih Bukhari)
- Every deen has a distinctive virtue, and the distinctive
virtue of Islam is modesty. (Malik)
- Whoso walks in a path seeking knowledge therein, Allah
will thereby make easy for him the path of Jannah. (Sahih Muslim)
- Whoso goes forth in search of knowledge, engages himself
in the cause of Allah until he returns (home). (Tirmidhi)
- When the Rasool of Allah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam)
sent me as a Governor of Yemen, he said: Beware of leading a luxurious life for
verily the servants of (Allah) never lead a luxurious life. (Ahmad)
- When a servant (of Allah) tells a lie, (his) Angel goes
away from him to the distance of a mile, because of the internal commotions of
what it brings. (Tirmidhi)
- When there are three men, let not two egage in a private
discourse without the third, for that may grieve him. (Sahih Bukhari)
- A woman is married for four qualifications: for her
wealth, for her birth, for her beauty, and for Deen; but you look out for Deeni
women; and if you do it for any other consideration, your hands will be rubbed
in dirt! (Sahih Bukhari)
- Allah is not merciful to him who is not merciful to men.
(Sahih Bukhari)
- Whoso shows (a way) to good, shall have a reward like
that of the man who does it himself. (Sahih Muslim)
- Eat and give alms and cloth yourselves without being
extravagant or vain. (Sahih Bukhari)
- In his journeys, Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi
wasallam) would remain in the rear, taking care of the weak, and seating them
behind him, and he would also pray for them. (Abu Dawud)
- A Mu'min does not eliminate, nor curse, nor is he a doer
of filthy actions, nor is he an impudent fellow. (Tirmidhi)
- He is not a Mu'min who eats his fill while his neighbour
lies hungry by his side. (Baihaqi)
- Seize five opportunities before the five (calamities):
your youth before weakness in old age; your health before your sickness;
richness before poverty; your leisure before business; your life before death.
(Tirmidhi)
- The worst of feasts are the marriage feasts in which the
rich are invited and the poor left out. (Sahih Bukhari)
- Send presents to one another, for verily presents take
away the grudge of the heart; and let no neighbour despise the present of his
neighbour, be it ever so little. (Tirmidhi)
- Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) loved an
action which could be performed regularly, although it was little. (Nisaai)
- Whoso causes (others) to hear (of his virtues) Allah will
disgrace him thereby; and whoso shows (himself) off, Allah will humiliate
thereby. (Sahih Bukhari)
- Whoso holds fast to my example during the corruption of
my people, he shall have the reward of hundred Martyrs. (Baihaqi)
- He who spends in the Cause of Allah will have his reward
seven hundred times. (Tirmidhi)
- Avoid all things doubtful for those that are not
doubtful, verily truth brings quiet, and falsehood doubt. (Tirmidhi)
- Moderation in expenses is half livelihood, and the love
of men is half wisdom, and good questioning is half knowledge. (Baihaqi)
- There are two traits which are never found together in a
hypocrite: good conduct and the understanding of Deen. (Tirmidhi)
- There is a trial for every people, and the trial for my
people is wealth. (Tirmidhi)
- The world is a provision, and the best provision of the
world is a virtuous woman. (Sahih Muslim)
- I have left behind me no more greater trial for men than
woman. (Nisaai)
- No man is alone with a strange woman, but Satan is the
third among them. (Tirmidhi)
- I asked the Rasool (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) with
regard to a sudden glance cast on a woman. He said: Turn away your glance.
(Sahih Muslim)
- My companions are like stars, whosoever (from among them)
you (choose to) follow, you will be guided. (Mishkaat)
- All actions depend upon its intention. (Sahih Bukhari;
Sahih Muslim)
- Offering prayer in congregation carries twenty-seven
times greater reward that offering it alone. (Sahih Muslim)
- I am the last of prophets and there will be none after
me. (Sahih Bukhari; Sahih Muslim)
- When someone makes his Wudhu at home and walks to the
mosque with the intention of discharging an obligation to Allah, then each
(alternate) step cancels a sin while the other one adds to his virtues. (Sahih
Muslim)
- Narrate the virtues of the dead and refrain from
revealing their sins. (Abu Dawud)
- Remember often the terminator of pleasures (i.e. death).
(Tirmidhi)
- When your good deeds make you happy and your bad deeds
make you sad, you have Imaan. (Ahmad)
- Allah loves the pious rich man who (in spite of his piety
and wealth) is obscure and unknown to fame. (Muslim)
- For every community there is a special trial and the
special trial for my community is wealth. Tirmidhi)
- 95. A Muslim is he from the mischief of whose tongue and hand
the Muslims are safe and a Momin (faithful Believer) is he on whose account
people do not feel a threat to their life and property. (Tirmidhi)
- Among the Muslims more perfect in faith is he whose
manners are better. (Abu Dawood)
- Do not make your house as graveyards. Satan runs away
from the house in which Surah Baqara is recited. (Sahih Muslim)
- No man should see the private parts of another man, nor a
woman should see the private parts of another woman. (Imam Muslim)
- Give presents to one another and you will intensify
mutual affection. (Tabarani)
- From among my followers there will be some people who
will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of
alcohol and the use of musical instruments as lawful. (Bukhari)
- By Him in Whose Hands my life is, none of you will have
faith till he loves me more that his father and his children. (Bukhari)
- Anyone who has wealth on which he has not paid Zakaat
will, on the Day of Rising, find his wealth made to resemble a white-headed
serpent with a sac of venom in each cheek which will seek him out until it has
him in its power (control), saying, "I am the wealth that you had hidden away."
(Al-Muwatta)
- There are three people who will not enter Paradise: one
who is addicted to wine, one who breaks ties of relationship, and one who
believes in magic. (Miskhat al-Masabih)
- If Allah puts anyone in the position of authority over
the affairs of the Muslims, and he secludes himself (from them), not fulfilling
their needs, wants, and poverty, Allah will keep Himself away from him, not
fulfilling his need, want and poverty. (Abu Dawud)
- If a young man shows honour to an old man on account of
his age, Allah will create for him in his old age someone who will show him
honour. (Tirmidhi)
- My companions are like stars, whosoever (from among
them) you (choose to) follow, you will be guided. (Mishkaat)
- Whoso gives up falsehood which is void, there is built
for him a mansion in the corner of Jannat; and whoso gives up dispute while he
has right (to it), there is built for him a mansion in the middle of Jannat; and
whoso makes his conduct good, there is built for him a mansion in its loftiest
part. (Tirmidhi)
- Go steady in loving your friend, for he may one day
become your enemy. Go steady in hating your enemy, for he may become your friend
one day. (Ihya 'Ulum al-Din)
- If anyone eats in a bowl and then he licks it up, the
bowl begs forgiveness for him. (Ibn Majah)
- The dead man in his grave is like one shipwrecked,
completely dependent for everything. He waits for a prayer from a son or brother
or relative. (Ihya 'Ulum al-Din)
- The most fearful thing that I fear regarding my people
(Ummah) is the act (of homosexuality) committed by Lut's People. (Ibn Majah)
- The most excellent man is he who works hard in the way
of Allah with his life and property. (Bukhari)
- The key to Paradise is Salaah and the key to Salaah is
Tahaarah (Cleanliness). (Miskhat)
- Beware of suspicion, for suspicion may be based on false
information, do not spy on one another, do not disclose other's hidden defects.
(Bukhari)
- He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should honour
his guest. (Bukhari)
- A person's best treasures are a tongue always engaged in
the remembrance of Allah, an ever-grateful heart and a believing wife who helps
him in his Imaan. (al-Tirmidhi)
- Let "La ilaha illallah" be the first words your children
utter and instruct them to say the same at the time of their death. (al-Baihaqi)
- The (example of the) value of this world in comparison
to (that of) the Hereafter is as if you dip a finger in the ocean and then pull
it out. So see how much water sticks to it. (Muslim)
- A time will come when the conversation of people in the
mosque will centre around worldly affairs. You must not sit with such people,
for Allah has nothing to do with them. (al-Baihaqi)
- If I were to choose amongst the people of the earth
someone as my bosom friend, I would have chosen the son of Abu Quhafa (Abu Bakr)
as my friend, but Allah has taken your companion as a friend. (Sahih Muslim)
- A believer does not undergo (the trouble) of running a
thorn or more than when Allah effaces his sins. (Sahih Muslim)
- When the dead body is placed in the grave, he listens to
the sound of the shoes (as his friends and relatives return after burying him).
(Sahih Muslim)
- When people awake from the graves, I will be the first
to awake, I will be the leader of all. When they are presented in front of
Allah, I will be their representative. When they become tired, I will be their
intercessor..." (Miskhat)
- May Allah be kind to a man of gentle dealings when he
sells, when he purchases and when he gives decisions. (Bukhari)
- If the habitual drunkard dies, he meets Allah like one
who worships idols. (Ibn Majah)
- Allah curses one who looks (with lust) and who is looked
upon. (Baihaqi)
- A time will come over man when the patient of them in
his religion will be like one who holds burning coal in his hand. (Tirmidhi)
- All your deeds are presented to me on Thursday. I thank
Allah for your good deeds whereas for your bad deeds I seek forgiveness for you
from Allah. (Hadith narrated by Hazrat Anas bin Malik - radi Allahu anhu)
- Do not rejoice over the distress of a brother Muslim for
Allah may relieve his distress and place you in his position. (Tirmidhi)
- The best (way) of saying Salaam is shaking hands.
(Tirmidhi)
- Be careful of your duty to Allah and be fair and just to
your children. (Bukhari)
- Removing from the road that which is harmful is charity.
(Bukhari)
- Secret Alms extinguish the anger of the Lord. (Tirmidhi)
- To one who often seeks His forgiveness, Allah, Great and
Glorious is He, grants relief from all troubles, a way out of all distress, and
sustenance beyond his expectations. (al-Nasai)
- Allah will have no regard, on the Day of Resurrection,
for that servant of His who does not straighten his spine between bowing and
making prostration. (Ahmad)
- In the latter days, there will be members of my
Community who come to the Mosques and sit there in circles. Their talk will be
of this world and their love of it. Do not sit in their company, for Allah has
no need of them. (al-Hakim)
- When you see a servant endowed with sincere devotion in
this world and little talk, seek nearness to him as he cannot be free from
wisdom. (Baihaqi)
- Son of Adam, to give away what you have extra is better
for you and to withhold it is worse for you., but you are not blamed for having
a sufficiency. Give first to those who are dependent on you.(Muslim)
- If anyone performs the pilgrimage for Allah's sake
without talking immodestly or acting wickedly, he will return (free from sin) as
on the day his mother bore him.(Bukhari)
- When you are sought in marriage by one whom you are
pleased with for his religion and for his character, get yourself married to
him. If you do not do it, there will be distress in the world and wide spread dissension.(Tirmizi)
- Fasting is a protection for you, so when you are
fasting, do not behave obscenely of foolishly, and if any one argues with you or
abuses you, say, "I am fasting, I am fasting." (Al-Muwatta)
- Whoever observes the fast during the month of Ramadaan
out of sincere faith, and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past
sins will be forgiven. (Bukhari)
- Whoever watches the night in prayer in Ramadaan with
trust and expectancy will be forgiven all his previous wrong actions.
(Al-Muwatta)
- He who observed the fast of Ramadaan and then followed
it with six (fasts) of Shawaal, it would be as if he fasted perpetually. (Sahih
Muslim)
- I have been ordered to prostrate on seven bodily parts
and not to fold back the hair or clothing: the forehead, the nose, the hands,
the knees and the feet. (Sahih Muslim)
- Beware of suspicion. Suspicion is the most untrue
speech. Do not spy and do not eavesdrop. Do not compete with each other and do
not envy each other and do not hate each other and do not shun each other. Be
slaves of Allah, brothers. (Muwatta)
- Differ from the polytheists: let your beards (grow) and
trim your moustache. (Muslim)
- Do not drink in gold and silver utensils, and do not
wear clothes of silk or Dibaj, for these things are for them (unbelievers) in
this world and for you in the Hereafter. (Bukhari)
- Allah has cursed the lady who artificially lengthens
(her or someone else's) hair, and the one who gets her hair lengthened and the
one who tattoos (herself or someone else), and the one who gets herself
tattooed. (Bukhari)
- Whoso makes pilgrimage and then visits my grave after my
death is like one who visited me in my life time. (Baihaqi)
- The callers to prayer will have the longest necks of all
people on the Day of Resurrection. (Muslim)
- Iman has more than seventy or eighty grades - the
highest of which is to attest that there is no god except Allah, and the lowest
of which is to remove from a path something that might cause harm to others.
Modesty, too, is a grade of Iman. (Bukhari)
- Those who leave a gathering after having made no mention
of Allah leave it like the corpse of a donkey and suffer remorse. (Abu Dawud)
- When a person dies, his actions come to an end except in
respect to three things that he leaves behind: a continuous charity, beneficial
knowledge that helps others, and righteous children who pray for him. (Muslim)
- Every nation is subjected to a trial, and the trial of
my followers will be wealth. (Tirmidhi)
- On the Day of Qiyamah there will be a group of people
around the Fountain of Kauther whom I will recognise as those who used to read
the Durood Shareef in abundance. (Shifa Shareef)
- He who speaks good about Abu Bakr, his religion is well
established; he who speaks good about Umar, his religious path has been well
grounded. He who speaks good about Uthman is enlightened with the Noor of
Almighty Allah, and he who speaks good about Ali holds on to a bond that never
breaks. They who speak well of my Sahaba (Companions) are truly Mu'mins. (Shawaa'hidul
Haqq)
- A person who is overwhelmed by anxiety and worry should
increase the reading of the Durood Shareef. Durood Shareef eradicates anxiety,
worry and distress. It also increase sustenance and satisfies the needs. (Nuzhatun
Naazireen)
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