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Selections from An-Nawawi’s |
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Forty Hadith |
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13th century |
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Tr. Ezzeddin Ibrahim, Denys Johnson-Davies |
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The blood of a Muslim may not be legally spilt
other than in one of three instances: |
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The married person who commits adultery |
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A life for a life |
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And One who forsakes his religion and abandons
the community. |
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Hadith 14 |
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Part of someone’s being a good Muslim is leaving
alone that which does not concern him. |
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Hadith 12 |
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None of you truly believes until he wishes for
his brother what he wishes for himself. |
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Hadith 12 |
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Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day
either speak good or keep silent, |
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and let him who believes in Allah and the Last
Day be generous to his neighbour, |
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and let him who believes in Allah and the Last
Day be generous to his guest. |
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Hadith 15 |
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A man said to the Prophet (may the blessings and
peace of Allah be upon him): |
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Counsel Me. |
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He said:
Do not become angry. |
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The man repeated his request several times, |
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and he said: Do not become angry. |
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Hadith 16 |
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Fear Allah wherever you are, |
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And follow up a bad deed with a good one and it
will wipe it out, |
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And behave well towards people. |
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Hadith 18 |
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Allah has pardoned for me my people for their
mistakes |
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and their forgetfulness and for what they have
done under duress. |
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Hadith 18 |
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A man asked the Messenger (may the blessings and
peace of Allah be upon him): |
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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, |
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I shall enter Paradise? |
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He said: Yes. |
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Hadith 22 |
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Purity is half of faith. |
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Alhamdu lillah fills the scales and Subhana llah
and Alhamdu lillah fill that which is between heaven and earth. |
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Prayer is light; charity is a proof; patience is
illumination; |
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and the Qur’an is an argument for or against
you. |
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Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his
soul, |
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either freeing it or bringing about its ruin. |
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Hadith 22 |
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The Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and
peace of Allah be upon him) took me by the shoulder and said: |
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Be in the world as though you were a stranger or
a wayfarer. |
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At evening do not expect to live till morning,
and at morning do not expect to live till evening. |
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Take from your health for your illness and from
your life for your death. |
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Hadith 40 |
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I have been ordered to fight against people
until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the
Messenger of Allah and until they perform the Zakat, |
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And if they do so they will have gained
protection from me for their lives and property, |
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Unless they do acts that are punishable in
accordance with Islam |
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And their reckoning will be with Allah the
Almighty. |
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Hadith 8 |
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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, |
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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. |
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But if he has intended a bad deed and has not
done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed, |
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but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah
writes it down as one bad deed. |
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Hadith 37 |
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Infidels (Non-Believers, Rejecters) |
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Notes