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Sahih Muslim 2553a

I asked the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) about virtue and vice. He said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what rankles in your heart and that you disapprove that people…

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حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمِ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ النَّوَّاسِ بْنِ سَمْعَانَ الأَنْصَارِيِّ

قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنِ الْبِرِّ وَالإِثْمِ فَقَالَ: «الْبِرُّ حُسْنُ الْخُلُقِ وَالإِثْمُ مَا حَاكَ فِي صَدْرِكَ وَكَرِهْتَ أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ عَلَيْهِ النَّاسُ»

I asked the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) about virtue and vice. He said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what rankles in your heart and that you disapprove that people should come to know of it.

আমর আন নাকিদ ও ইবনুল মুসান্না (রহঃ) ..... কতাদাহ্ (রহঃ) এর এ সানাদে অনুরূপ হাদীস বর্ণনা করেছেন।

عمرو ناقد ، یزیدبن ہارون ، ہمام ، ابن مثنی ، سالم بن نوح ، عمربن عامر ، قتادہ اس سند کے ساتھ حضرت قتادہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے روایت نقل کی گئی ہے ۔

{…} Bize Amru'n-Nâkıd rivayet etti. (Dediki) Bize Yezîdü'bnü Harun rivayet eyledi. (Dediki) Bize Hemmam haber vefdi. H. Bize İbnu'l-Müsenna da rivayet etti. (Dediki) Bize Ömerü'bnü Âmir rivayet etti. Her iki râvi Katade'den bu isnadla rivayette bulunmuşlardır

Sahih Muslim 2553a, Book 45, The Book of Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of Kinship, Hadith 16. 1 min read

What it means

The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about righteousness and sinfulness so he said: The greatest aspect of righteousness is adopting good morals with Allah through piety and with people through the endurance of harm, avoidance of anger, having a cheerful face, speaking good words, maintaining ties, obedience, kindness, charity, kind treatment, and good companionship. As for sinfulness, it refers to suspicious matters that move and waver within the soul, the breast does not feel at ease with, the heart feels doubtful about and fearful of its being a sin, and one is not willing to show it to the elite, or the best and the most perfect among people given its ugliness.

This is because the soul has a natural inclination to show people its good aspects, so when it hates making some of its acts known to people, then this is a sin that is devoid of goodness.

What it teaches

  • Encouraging the act of adopting noble morals because good morals are among the greatest aspects of righteousness.
  • The believer does not feel confused about the truth and falsehood; rather, he knows the truth through the light in his heart and turns away from falsehood and disapproves of it.
  • Anxiety and uneasiness of the heart along with disliking the idea of making it known to people are among the signs of sinfulness.
  • As-Sindi said: This applies to suspicious matters when people are not aware of the right choice. Otherwise, what is enjoined in the Shariah, without the existence of a relevant proof, falls under righteousness, and what is prohibited falls under sinfulness, and there is no need to refer to the heart and its tranquility in both cases.
  • The Hadīth addresses those who possess a sound natural disposition, not those with reversed hearts that do not recognize what is good or reject what is evil except what is engraved therein of their whims.
  • At-Tībi said: It was said that righteousness in the Hadīth was interpreted in various ways. He interpreted it in one position as what the soul and the heart feel at ease about. In another position, he interpreted it as faith, and in a different position as what brings you close to Allah, and here as good morals, and he defined good morals as the endurance of harm, the avoidance of anger, having a cheerful face, and speaking good words, which are all close in meaning.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Muslim back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam MuslimCompiler, died 261 AH
  2. 2Muhammad ibn HatimTold me, Fourth generation, died 235 AH
  3. 3Abd ar-Rahman ibn MahdiTold us, Third generation, died 198 AH
  4. 4Muawiyah ibn SalihFrom, Third generation, died 152 AH
  5. 5Abd ar-Rahman ibn JubayrFrom, Successor, died 118 AH
  6. 6Jubayr ibn NufayrFrom, Companion, died 75 AH
  7. 7An-Nawwas ibn SamanFrom, Companion, died 41 AH

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