Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 112 of 122

1. He who looks at a believer with a look that scares him, Allah, most High, will scare him on the Day when no shade will avail except His Shade.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 150, no. 13; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 398 · permalink

2. He who saddens a believer then bestows him the whole world will not have done enough to discharge his sin, and nor will he be rewarded for the gift.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 68, p. 72, no. 40; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 398 · permalink

3. Verily haste has ruined people, and if instead people proceeded with caution no one would be ruined.

   al-Mahasin, v. 1, p. 340, no. 697; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 398 · permalink

4. Deliberateness is from Allah whereas haste is from Satan.

   al-Mahasin, v. 1, p. 340, no. 698; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 398 · permalink

5. Verily Allah loves the good that is embarked upon immediately.

   al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 142, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 399 · permalink

6. Any man who buys food and hoards it for forty days waiting for its demand to rise among the Muslims and then sells it, even if he were to donate its value in charity, it would not atone for what he did.

   Amali al-Tusi, p. 676, no. 1427; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 407 · permalink

7. O Abu Dharr, intend to perform good actions even if you do not actually manage to perform them, so that you are not included amongst the negligent

   Makarim al- Akhlaq, v. 2, p. 378, no. 2661; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 632 · permalink

8. A believer's dream is one among the forty-six units of prophethood.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 39; Page No. 14 · permalink

9. A believer's intention is better than his deed, while a hypocrite's deed is better than his intention, and everybody acts upon his own intention. When a believer does an action, a (sort of) light passes through his heart.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 40; Page No. 14 · permalink

10. A believer's intention is more significant than his deeds.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 41; Page No. 14 · permalink

11. A believer's promise is a binding commitment.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 42; Page No. 14 · permalink

12. A believer's promise is a debt, and a binding commitment.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 43; Page No. 14 · permalink

13. A believer's promise is a must (he should not miss).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 44; Page No. 14 · permalink

14. A believer's sickness is the atonement of his sins.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 45; Page No. 15 · permalink

15. A boaster has three traits: flattering in (people's) presence, backbiting in (people') absence, and clapping in people's calamities.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 46, Page No. 15 · permalink

16. A bondservant should be fed and dressed properly and be not burdened with intolerable tasks.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 47, Page No. 15 · permalink

17. A child is a flower of Paradise.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 48; Page No. 15 · permalink

18. A child is the fruit of one's heart, and thereby the source of fear, miserliness and grief.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 49; Page No. 15 · permalink

19. A counselor is people's trust. He is allowed to give a counsel or keep silent, but if he gives a counsel, it should be such that he himself would follow, were he to take a counsel.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 50; Page No. 15 · permalink

20. A counselor is people's trust. He is allowed to give a counsel or keep silent.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 51; Page No. 15 · permalink

21. A covert prayer equals seventy overt ones.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 52; Page No. 15 · permalink

22. A coward trader a loser remains, but a courageous one gains.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 53; Page No. 15 · permalink

23. A creature who loses his power of sight but keeps patient and is satisfied with the divine will, will surely be allowed to Paradise.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 54; Page No. 15&16 · permalink

24. A creditor will be in chains in his grave, and nothing can make him free but paying his debts.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 55; Page No. 16 · permalink

25. A curb of fire will be put on the mouth of whoever conceals his knowledge when asked to offer it.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 56; Page No. 16 · permalink

26. Whoever keeps his temper while being able to reveal it, will be overflowed with faith and security.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3044. · permalink

27. A day will come to pass when people would belie the truthful and approve of the liars and would regard the honest treacherous and the treacherous honest, when men will bear witness without being required and will swear without being asked to, and when the most fortunate people would be ignoble, sons of the ignoble, who would be bereft of the belief in God and His prophet.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 57, Page No. 16 · permalink

28. A Dirham earned in usury is worse for a man in the sight of God than committing adultery thirty six times.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 58; Page No. 16 · permalink

29. A fast person will be worshipping God from early morning till night, if (s)he does not backbite people, but his fast will be ruined as soon as (s)he begins to do so.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 59, Page No. 16 · permalink

30. A fast person's praying will surely be granted.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 60, Page No. 16 · permalink

31. (61) A fast person's silence is praising God, his sleep is an act of worship, his praying is granted, and his deeds are (rewarded) twice.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 61, Page No. 16&17 · permalink

32. A fast person's sleep is an act of worship, his silence is praising God, his deeds are (rewarded) twice, his prayers are granted, and his sins are forgiven.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 62, Page No. 17 · permalink

33. A father's praying for his child is like unto a prophet's for his nation.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 63; Page No. 17 · permalink

34. A fertile woman is more favorite to the Exalted God than a (barren) beautiful one. Verily, I will pride myself on the multitude of my nation in the Day of Judgment.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 64, Page No. 17 · permalink

35. A generous man's food is cure, and a miser's is disease for sure.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 65; Page No. 17 · permalink

36. Any house which is not visited by guests is not visited by angels either.

    Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 412 · permalink

37. Verily Allah gives succour to this community only as a result of [the presence of] the weak among them, their supplication, their prayer and their sincerity

    al-Durr al-Manthur, v. 2, p. 724; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 67 · permalink

38. Truly right now you live the day of action with no accounting therein, and very soon you will live the day of accounting with no action therein

    A`alam al-Din, no. 345; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 68 · permalink

39. Take account of your selves before you are held to account, and evaluate them before you are held for evaluation, and prepare yourselves for the Greatest Exposure

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 70, p. 73, no. 26; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 69 · permalink

40. The first thing that man will be asked about is our love, the people of the Household (ahl al-bayt).

    Uyoun Akhbar al-Reza (AS), v. 2, p. 62, no. 258; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 70 · permalink

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