In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the
Compassionate
"And take that which the Messenger has brought
you"
(the Holy Quran)
Translation of Imam An-Nawawi's Book
This is the book of the Islamic scholar Yahia bin Sharaful-Deen
An-Nawawi ( ). The book is now known as "An-Nawawi's Forty
Hadiths". This is a popular small book in which the author gathered
forty two of the sayings of prophet Muhammed salla Allah u alihi
wa sallam.
You could either jump to the hadith using the numbers, or scroll
down.
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Introduction
Praise be to Allah,
Lord of the worlds. Eternal Guardian of the heavens and the earths,
Disposer of all created beings, Despatcher of Messengers (may the
blessings and peace of Allah be upon them all) who were sent to
those they have been entrusted to guide and to reveal the religious
laws to, with positive signs and clear-cut proofs. I praise Him for
His favours and ask Him to increase His grace and generosity. I
bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, He having no
associate, the One, the Subduer, the Generous, the Pardoner, and I
bear witness that our master Muhammed is His servant and His
messenger, His dear one and His beloved, the best of created
beings, who was honoured with the precious Quran, the enduring
miracle through the passing of the years, and with the sunnahs that
enlighten spiritual guides; our master Muhammed, singled out for
pithiness of speech and tolerance in religion may the blessings and
peace of Allah be upon him, upon the rest of the prophets and
messengers, and upon all their families and upon the rest of godly
persons.
To proceed: It has
been transmitted to us on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talib,
Abdullah bin Masud, Muadh bin Jabal, Abu Al-Darda, Ibn Omar, Ibn
Abbas, Anas bin Malik, Abu Hurairah and Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, may
Allah be pleased with them all, through many chains of authorities
and in various versions, that the messenger of Allah said:
"Whosoever memorises and preserves for my people forty hadith
relating to their religion, Allah will resurrect him on the Day of
Judgment in the company of jurists and religious scholars
".
In another version
it reads: "Allah will resurrect him as a jurist and religious
scholar ". In the version of Abu Al-Darda it reads: "On the Day of
Judgment I shall be an intercessor and a witness for him". In the
version of Ibn Masud it reads: "It will be said to him: Enter by
whichever of the doors of Paradise you wish ". In the version of
Ibn Omar it reads: " He will be written down in the company of the
religious scholars and will be resurrected in the company of the
martyrs ". Scholars of hadith are agreed that it is a weak hadith
despite its many lines of transmission.
The religious
scholars, may Allah be pleased with them, have composed innumerable
works in this field. The first one I knew of who did so was
Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak, followed by Ibn Aslam Al-Tusi, the godly
scholar, then Al-Hasan bin Sufiyan Al-Nasai, Abu Bakr Al-Ajurri,
Abu-Bakr Mubammad bin Ibrahim Al-Asfihani, Al-Daraqutni, Al-Hakim,
Abu Nuaim, Abu Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sulami, Abu Saeed Al-Malini, Abu
Uthman Al-Saboni, Abdullah bin Muhammed Al-Ansari, Abu Bakr
Al-Baihaqi, and countless others, both ancient and
modern.
I have asked Allah
Almightly for guidance in bringing together forty hadith in
emulation af those eminant religious leaders and guardians of
Islam. Religious scholars are agreed it is permissible to put into
practice a weak hadith if virtuous deeds are concerned; despite
this, I do not rely on this hadith but on his having said the [
following ] sound hadith: "Let him who was a witness among you
inform him who was absent", and on his having said : "May
Allah make radiant [the face of] someone who has heard what I have
said, has learnt it by heart and has transmitted it as he heard
it". Furthermore, there were some religious scholars who
brought together forty hadiths on the basic rules of religion, on
subsidiary matters, or on jihad, while others did so on asceticism,
on rules of conduct or on sermons. All these are godly aims-may
Allah be pleased with those who pursued them. I, however,
considered it best to bring together forty hadith more important
than all of these, being forty hadith which would incolporate all
of these, each hadith being one of the great precepts of religion,
described by religious scholars as being "the axis of Islam " or
"the half of Islam" or "the third of it ", or the like, and to make
it a rule that these forty hadith be [classified as] sound and that
the majority of them be in the sahihs of Al-Bukhari and Muslim. I
give them without the chains of authorities so as to make it easier
to memorise them and to make them of wider benefit if Allah
Almighty wills, and I append to them a section explaining abstruse
expressions.(Note here) every person wishing to attain the
Hereafter should know these hadith because of the important matters
they contain and the directions they give in respect of all forms
of obedience, this being obvious to anyone who has reflected upon
it. On Allah do I rely and depend and to Him do I entrust myself;
to Him be praise and grace, and with Him is success and immunity
[to errors].
On the authority of Omar bin Al-Khattab, who said : I heared the
messenger of Allah salla Allah u alihi wa sallam say :
"Actions are but by intention and every man shall
have but that which he intended. Thus he whose migration was for
Allah and His messenger, his migration was for Allah and His
messenger, and he whose migration was to achieve some worldly
benefit or to take some woman in marriage, his migration was for
that for which he migrated."
related by Bukhari and
Muslim
Also on the authority of Omar, who said
:
One day while we
were sitting with the messenger of Allah there appeared before us a
man whose clothes were exceedingly white and whose hair was
exceedingly black; no signs of journeying were to be seen on him
and none of us knew him. He walked up and sat down by the prophet.
Resting his knees against his and placing the palms of his hands on
his thighs, he said:"O Muhammed, tell me about Islam". The
messenger of Allah said: "Islam is to testify that there is no god
but Allah and Muhammed is the messenger of Allah, to perform the
prayers, to pay the zakat, to fast in Ramadhan, and to make the
pilgrimage to the House if you are able to do so." He said:"You
have spoken rightly", and we were amazed at him asking him and
saying that he had spoken rightly. He said: "Then tell me about
eman."He said:"It is to believe in Allah, His angels, His
books, His messengers, and the Last Day, and to believe in divine
destiny, both the good and the evil thereof." He said:"You have
spoken rightly". He said: " Then tell me about ehsan." He
said: "It is to worship Allah as though you are seeing Him, and
while you see Him not yet truly He sees you". He said: "Then tell
me about the Hour". He said: "The one questioned about it knows no
better than the questioner." He said: "Then tell me about its
signs." He said: "That the slave-girl will give birth to her
mistress and that you will see the barefooted, naked, destitute
herdsman competing in constructing lofty buildings." Then he took
himself off and I stayed for a time. Then he said: "O Omar, do you
know who the questioner was?" I said: "Allah and His messenger know
best". He said: "He was Jebreel (Gabriel), who came to you to teach
you your religion."
narrated by Muslim
On the authority of Ibn Omar, the son of Omar bin Al-Khattab, may
Allah be pleased with both, who said : I heared the messenger of
Allah say :
"Islam has been built on five [pillars]: testifying
that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammed is the messenger
of Allah, performing the prayers, paying the zakat, making the
pilgrimage to the House, and fasting in Ramadan."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Abdullah bin Masud, who said : the messenger of
Allah, and he is the truthful, the believed narrated to us :
"Verily the creation of each one of you is brought
together in his mother's belly for forty days in the form of seed,
then he is a clot of blood for a like period, then a morsel of
flesh for a like period, then there is sent to him the angel who
blows the breath of life into him and who is commanded about four
matters: to write down his means of livelihood, his life span, his
actions, and whether happy or unhappy. By Allah, other than Whom
there is no god, verily one of you behaves like the people of
Paradise until there is but an arm's length between him and it, and
that which has been written over takes him and so he behaves like
the people of Hell-fire and thus he enters it; and one of you
behaves like the people of Hell-fire until there is but an arm's
length between him and it, and that which has been written over
takes him and so he behaves like the people of Paradise and thus he
enters it."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Aishah, who said : The messenger of Allah
said:
"He who innovates something in this matter of ours
that is not of it will have it rejected."
narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
And in one version by Muslim it reads :
"He who does an act which our matter is not [in
agreement] with will have it rejected."
On the authority of Al-Numan bin Basheer, who said : I heared the
messenger of Allah say :
"That which is lawful is plain and that which is
unlawful is plain and between the two of them are doubtful matters
about which not many people know. Thus he who avoids doubtful
matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor, but
he who falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is
unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all
but grazing therein. Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly
Allah's sanctuary is His prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a
morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole and
which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. Truly it is the
heart."
narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Tamim Al-Dari that the prophet said:
"Religion is sincerity". We said: "To whom?" He
said: "To Allah and His Book, and His messenger, and to the leaders
of the Muslims and their common folk".
narrated by Muslim
Abdullah bin Omar narrated that the messenger of Allah said:
"I have been ordered to fight against people until
they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammed is
the messenger of Allah and until they perform the prayers and pay
the zakat, and if they do so they will have gained protection from
me for their lives and property, unless [they do acts that are
punishable] in accordance with Islam, and their reckoning will be
with Allah the Almighty."
related by Bukhari and Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : I heared the messenger
of Allah say :
"What I have forbidden to you, avoid; what I have
ordered you [to do], do as much of it as you can. It was only their
excessive questioning and their disagreeing with their prophets
that destroyed those who were before you."
related bu Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : the messenger of Allah
said :
"Allah the Almighty is good and accepts only that
which is good. Allah has commanded the faithful to do that which he
commanded the messengers, and the Almighty has said: "O ye
messengers ! Eat of the good things and do right". And Allah the
Almighty has said : "O ye who believe! Eat of the good things
wherewith We have provided you"
Then he mentioned [the case of] a man who, having journeyed far, is
dishevelled and dusty and who spreads out his hands to the sky
[saying] : "O Lord! O Lord!" - while his food is unlawful, his
drink unlawful, his clothing unlawful, and he is nourished
unlawfully, so how can he be answered !"
related by Muslim
On the authority of Al-Hasan bin Ali, the grandson of the messenger
of Allah, who said : I memorized from the messenger of Allah his
saying
:
"Leave that which
makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt."
narrated by Termithi and Nasaee, and Tirmithi said
it is true and fine hadith.
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : The messenger of Allah
said :
"Part of someone's being a good Muslim is his
leaving alone that which does not concern him."
fine hadith narrated by Termithi and others
On the authority of Anas bin Malik, the servant of the messenger of
Allah, that the prophet said :
"None of you [truely] believes until he wishes for
his brother what he wishes for himself."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
Abdullah bin Masud narrated that the messenger of Allah said :
"The blood of a Muslim may not be legally spilt
other than in one of three [instances] : the married person who
commits adultery; a life for a life; and one who forsakes his
religion and abandons the community."
it was related by Bukhari and Muslim
Abu Hurairah narrated that the messenger of Allah said :
"Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day
either speak good or keep silent, and let him who believes in Allah
and the Last Day be generous to his neighbour, and let him who
believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his guest."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : a man said to the
prophet
:
"Counsel me". He said : " Do not become angry".
The man repeated [his request] several times, and he said: "Do not
become angry ".
narrated by Bukhari
Abu Yaala Shaddad bin Aws said that the messenger of Allah said
:
"Verily Allah has prescribed proficiency in all
things. Thus, if you kill, kill well; and if you slaughter,
slaughter well. Let each one of you sharpen his blade and let him
spare suffering to the animal he slaughters."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Dhar Jundub bin Junadah, and Muadh bin
Jabal that the messenger of Allah said :
"Fear Allah wherever you are, and follow up a bad
deed with a good one and it will wipe it out, and behave well
towards people."
Tirmithi narrated the hadith and said it was fine,
and in another version, said ture and fine
On the authority of Abdullah bin Abbas, who said : One day I was
behind the prophet and he said to
me:
"Young man, I
shall teach you some words [of advice] : Be mindful of Allah, and
Allah will protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and you will find Him
in front of you. If you ask, ask of Allah; if you seek help, seek
help of Allah. Know that if the Nation were to gather together to
benefit you with anything, it would benefit you only with something
that Allah had already prescribed for you, and that if they gather
together to harm you with anything, they would harm you only with
something Allah had already prescribed for you. The pens have been
lifted and the pages have dried."
narrated by Termithi, who said it is true and fine
hadith
In a version other than that of Tirmithi it reads:
"..Be mindful of Allah, you will find Him before
you. Get to know Allah in prosperity and He will know you in
adversity. Know that what has passed you by was not going to befall
you; and that what has befallen you was not going to pass you by.
And know that victory comes with patience, relief with affliction,
and ease with hardship."
Uqbah bin Amre Al-Ansari narrated that the messenger of Allah said
:
"Among the words people obtained from the First
Prophecy are : If you feel no shame, then do as you wish."
It was related by Bukhari.
On authority of Sufian bin Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with him
said:
I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me something
about Islam which I can ask of no one but you". He said:" Say:'I
believe in Allah', and thereafter be upright."
related by Muslim.
Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansari narrated that :
A man asked the messenger of Allah :
"Do you think that if I perform the obligatory prayers, fast in
Ramadan, treat as lawful that which is lawful and treat as
forbidden that which is forbidden, and do nothing further, I shall
enter Paradise ?"
He said: "Yes."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Malik Al-Harith bin Asim Al-Ashari said
that the messenger of Allah said:
"Purity is half of faith. alhamdu-lillah
[Praise be to Allah] fills the scales, and subhana-Allah
[How far is Allah from every imperfection] and
alhamdu-lillah [Praise be to Allah] fill that which is
between heaven and earth. Prayer is light; charity is a proof;
patience is illumination; and the Quran is an argument for or
against you. Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul,
either freeing it or bringing about its ruin."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Dharr Al-Ghafari, of the prophet is that
among the sayings he relates from his Lord is that He
said:
"O My servants, I
have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden
amongst you, so do not oppress one
another.
O My servants, all
of you are astray except for those I have guided, so seek guidance
of Me and I shall guide you. O My servants, all of you are hungry
except for those I have fed, so seek food of Me and I shall feed
you. O My servants, all of you are naked except for those I have
clothed, so seek clothing of Me and I shall clothe you. O My
servants, you sin by night and by day, and I forgive all sins, so
seek forgiveness of Me and I shall forgive
you.
O My servants, you
will not attain harming Me so as to harm Me, and you will not
attain benefiting Me so as to benefit Me. O my servants, were the
first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of
you to become as pious as the most pious heart of any one man of
you, that would not increase My kingdom in anything. O My servants,
were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the
jinn of you to be as wicked as the most wicked heart of any one man
of you, that would not decrease My kingdom in anything. O My
servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of
you and the jinn of you to rise up in one place and make a request
of Me, and were I to give everyone what he requested, that would
not decrease what I have, any more than a needle decreases the sea
if put into
it.
O My servants, it
is but your deeds that I reckon up for you and then recompense you
for, so let him who finds good praise Allah, and let him who finds
other than that blame no one but
himself."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Dharr :
Some of the companions of the messenger of Allah
said :" O Messenger of Allah, the affluent have made of with the
rewards, they pray as we pray they fast as we fast, and they give
away in charity the superfluity of their wealth." He said:" Has not
Allah made things for you to give away in charity ? every tasbihah
is a charity, every takbirah is a charity, every tahmidah is a
charity, and every tahlilah is a charity, to enjoin a good action
is a charity, to forbid an evil action is a charity, and in the
sexual act of each of you there is a charity." They said: "O
Messenger of Allah, when one of us fulfils his sexual desire will
he have some reward for that?" He said: "Do you not think that were
he to act upon it unlawfully he would be sinning ? Likewise, if he
has acted upon it lawfully he will have a reward."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said: The messenger of Allah
said :
"Each person's every joint must perform a charity
every day the sun comes up : to act justly between two people is a
charity; to help a man with his mount, lifting him onto it or
hoistingd up his belongings onto it is a charity: a good word is a
charity, every step you take to prayers is a charity and removing a
harmful thing from the road is a charity."
related by Bukhari and Muslim.
On the authority of Al-Nawwas bin Samaan, that the prophet
said:
"Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is
that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding
out about."
related by Muslim.
And on the authority of Wabisa bin Mabad, may Allah be pleased with
him, who said:
I came to the messenger of Allah and he said: "You
have come to ask about righteousness ?" . I said:" Yes." He said:
"Consult your heart. Righteousness is that about which the soul
feels tranquil and the heart feels tranquil, and wrongdoing is that
which wavers in the soul and moves to and from in the breast even
though people again and again have given you their legal opinion
[in its favor]."
a good hadith transmetted from the Musnads of the
two Imams, Ahmed bin Hanbal and Al-Darimi, with a good chain of
authorities.
On the authority of Abu Najih Al-Erbadh bin Sariah, who said :
The messenger of Allah gave us a sermon by which our
hearts were filled with fear and tears came to our eyes. We said:
"O Messenger of Allah, it is as though this is a farewell sermon,
so councel us." He said: "I councel you to fear Allah and to give
absolute obedience even if a slave becomes your leader. Verily he
among you who lives [long] will see great controversy, so you must
keep to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the rightly-guided Khalifahs
- cling to them stubbornly. Beware of newly invented matters, for
every invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is a
going astray, and every going astray is in Hell-fire."
related by Abu Dawud and Al-Tirmithi, who said that
it was a fine and true Hadith.
On the authority of Muadh bin Jabal, who said:
I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me of an act
which will take me into Paradise and will keep me away from Hell
fire." He said: "You have asked me about a major matter, yet it is
easy for him for whom Allah Almighty makes it easy. You should
worship Allah, associating nothing with Him, you should perform the
prayers, you should pay the zakat, you should fast in Ramadan, and
you should make the pilgrimage to the House." Then he said:" Shall
I not show you the gates of goodness ? Fasting [which] is a shield,
charity [which] extigueshes sin as water extebgueshes fire; and the
praying of a man in the deapth of night." Then he recited
:
"Who forsake
their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of
that We have bestowed on them. No soul knoweth what is kept hid for
them of joy, as a reward for what they used to do". (quran,
verse)
Then he said: "
Shall I not tell you of the peak of the matter, its pillar, and its
topmost part?" I said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "The
peak of the matter is Islam; the pillar is prayer; and its topmost
part is jihad." Then he said: "Shall I not tell you of the
controling of all that ?" I said:"Yes, O Messenger of Allah", and
he took hold of his tongue and said: "Restrain this." I said: "O
Prophet of Allah, will what we say be held against us ?" He said:
"May your mother be bereaved of you, Muadh ! Is there anything that
topples people on their faces - or he said on their noses into
Hell-fire other than the jests of their tongues ?"
related by Al-Tirmithi, who said it was a fine and
true hadlth.
On the authority of Jurthum bin Nashir that the messenger of Allah
said :
"Allah the Almighty has laid down religious duties,
so do not neglict them. He has set boundaries, so do not over step
them. He has prohibited some things, so do not violate them; about
some things He was silent-out of compassion for you, not
forgetfulness, so seek not after them."
a fine hadith related by Al-Daraqutni and
others.
On the authority of Sahl bin Saad Al-Saedi, who said :
A man came to the prophet and said: "O Messenger of
Allah, direct me to an act which, if I do it, [will cause] Allah to
love me and people to love me." He said: "Renounce the world and
Allah will love you, and renounce what people possess and people
will love you."
a fine Hadith related by Ibn Majah and others with
good chains of authorities.
On the authority of Saad bin Malik Al-Khudari, that the messenger
of Allah said :
"There should be neither harming nor reciprocating
harm."
a fine hadith related by Ibn Majah, Al-Daraqutni and
others
On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah said:
"Were people to be given in accordance with their
claim, men would claim the fortunes and lives of [other] people,
but the onus of proof is on the claimant, and the taking of an oath
is incumbent upon him who denies."
a fine hadith related by Al-Baihaqi and
others
On the authority of Abu Saeed Al-Khurdari, who said: I heard the
messenger of Allah say:
"Whosoever of you sees an evil action, let him
change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then with
his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart;
and that is the weakest of faith."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said : the messenger of Allah
said :
"Do not envy one another; do not inflate prices one
to another; do not hate one another; do not turn away from one
another; and do not undercut one another, but be you, O servants of
Allah, brothers. A muslim is the brother of a muslim: he neither
oppresses him nor does he fail him, he neither lies to him nor does
he hold him in contempt. Piety is right here-and he pointed to his
breast three times. It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother
muslim in contempt. The whole of a muslim for another muslim is
inviolable: his blood, his property, and his honor."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Hurairah that the Prophet said:
"Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a believer,
Allah will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of
Judgment. Whosoever alleviates [the lot of] a needy person, Allah
will alleviate [his lot] in this world and the next. Whosoever
shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and the next.
Allah will aid a servant [of His] so long as the servant aids his
brother. Whosoever follows a path to seek knowledge therein, Allah
will make easy for him a path to Paradise. No people gather
together in one of the houses of Allah, reciting the Book of Allah
and studying it among themselves, without tranquility descending
upon them, mercy enveloping them, the angels surrounding them, and
Allah making mention of them amongst those who are with Him.
Whosoever is slowed down by his actions will not be hastened
forward by his lineage."
related by Muslim in these words.
On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the messenger of Allah, among
the sayings he relates from his Lord is :
"Allah has written down the good deeds and the bad
ones." Then he explained it [by saying that] :" He who has intended
a good deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself
as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and has done it,
Allah writes it down with Himself as from ten good deeds to seven
hundred times, or many times over. But if he has intended a bad
deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a
full good deed, but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah
writes it down as one bad deed."
related by Bukhari and Muslim in their two
salihs
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said: the messenger of Allah
said:
Allah the Almighty has said: "Who soever shows
enmity to a friend of Mine, I shall be at war with him. My servant
does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the
religious duties I have imposed upon him, and My servant continues
to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love
him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his
seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his
foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would
surely give it to him and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would
surely grant him it."
related by Bukhari.
On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the messenger of Allah said:
"Allah has pardoned for me my people for [their]
mistakes and [their] forgetfulness and for what they have done
under duress."
a fine hadith related by Ibn Majah,Al-Baihqi, and
others.
On the authority of Abdullah bin Omar, who said: The messenger of
Allah took me by the shoulder and
said:
"Be in the world as though you were a stranger
or a
wayfarer."
The son of Omar used to
say:
"At evening do not expect [to
live till] morning, and at morning do not expect [to live till]
evening. Take from your health for your illness and from your life
for your death."
related by Bukhari
On the authority of Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-Aas, who
said : The messenger of Allah, said:
"None of you [truely] believes until his inclination
is accordance with what I have brought."
a fine and true hadith which we have transmitted
from the book of Hujjah with a sound chain of authorities.
On the authority of Anas, who said: I heard the messenger of Allah
say:
Allah the Almighty has said: "O son of Adam, so long
as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you
have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to
reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of
Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with
sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me,
ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as
great as its."
related by Al-Tirmithi, who said that it was a good
and sound Hadith.
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