Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 31 of 122

1. Taking up man's soul by the Angle of Death is harder than a thousand strokes of sword.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1821; Page No. 257 · permalink

2. Talk less and be not enticed by Satan.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1822; Page No. 257 · permalink

3. The best business is a flawless bargain, and what man accomplishes with his own hand.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1850; Page No. 261 · permalink

4. The best business is the one which with man's own hand is done.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1851; Page No. 261 · permalink

5. The best charity aims at the death of poverty, a donator's hand is worthier than a beggar's, and charity should start at home.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1852; Page No. 261 · permalink

6. The best charity is coupled with generosity.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1853; Page No. 261 · permalink

7. The best charity is the one given with out any expectation: The giver's hand is better than the receiver's. Start giving alms with those who are more needful.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1854; Page No. 261 · permalink

8. The best companions in the sight of God are best to their friends, and the best neighbors to Him are best for their own neighbors.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1855; Page No. 261 · permalink

9. The best daily bread is daily sustenance in adequate.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1856; Page No. 261 · permalink

10. The best deed is a hungry man, to feed.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1857; Page No. 261 · permalink

11. The best deed is the fruitful, and the best guidance, the one followed.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1858; Page No. 261 · permalink

12. The best deed is to make your brother (in faith) happy or to pay his debts.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1859; Page No. 261&262 · permalink

13. The best deeds to God are ) feeding an indigent person, ) repaying his debts, and ) relieving him from distress.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1860; Page No. 262 · permalink

14. The greatest women in abundance are those with the least allowance.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2040; Page No. 286 · permalink

15. The best deeds to God, the Exalted, are setting prayers on time, being kind to parents, and struggling in the way of God.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1861; Page No. 262 · permalink

16. The best form of charity for a Muslim is to acquire (some sort of) knowledge and teach it to his (her) brothers in faith.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1862; Page No. 262 · permalink

17. The best form of charity is giving alms to a relative, though being one's enemy.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1863; Page No. 262 · permalink

18. The best form of charity is that of man's tongue.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1864; Page No. 262 · permalink

19. The best form of charity is to control one's tongue.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1865; Page No. 262 · permalink

20. The best form of charity is to give alms when you are healthy and indigent, hoping for wealth and fearing poverty, not to wait until your death approaches to say (in your last will) that for so and so this much and for so and so that much, (then to address your heir, saying) that such and such an amount of your wealth belongs to such and such a person.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1866; Page No. 262 · permalink

21. The best form of charity is to make it up between two persons.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1867; Page No. 262&263 · permalink

22. The best form of faith is the belief that God is with you wherever you are.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1868; Page No. 263 · permalink

23. The best form of faith is to like and dislike for the sake of God, to engage your tongue in the remembrance of God, to wish for others what you wish for yourself and to stop wishing for others what you do not wish for yourself, and to express good words or to keep silent.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1869; Page No. 263 · permalink

24. The best form of faith lies in having patience and being generous.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1870; Page No. 263 · permalink

25. The best form of litany is remembering God in privacy, and the best daily bread is sustenance in adequate.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1871; Page No. 263 · permalink

26. The best form of spoken charity is the oral intercession by which to release a captive, to prevent bloodshed, to direct kindness and goodness towards your brothers in faith, and to ward off evil from them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1872; Page No. 263 · permalink

27. The best form of worship is waiting for relief (the reappearance of the twelfth Shiite Imam).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1873; Page No. 263 · permalink

28. The best form of your faith is the most easy-going face of it.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1874; Page No. 263 · permalink

29. The best fragrance is that of musk.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1875; Page No. 264 · permalink

30. The best friends, the best scouts and the best armies amount to four, four hundreds and four thousands respectively.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1876; Page No. 264 · permalink

31. Shall I teach you some virtues by which the Exalted God makes you profit? -acquire knowledge, for it is a friend of a believer, forbearance being his canceller, wisdom his guide, action his guardian, moderateness his father, leniency his brother and patience, the commander of his army.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1742; Page No. 246 · permalink

32. Share your food with each other and be not divided among yourselves, for the food of one person is sufficient for two and that of two persons is enough for three. Share your food with each other and be not divided among yourselves, for blessing is a company to community.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1743; Page No. 246&247 · permalink

33. Share your guest in food, for (s)he may be shy to eat alone.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1744; Page No. 247 · permalink

34. Shooting is the best hobby for you.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1745; Page No. 247 · permalink

35. Should a bucket of the hellish drinks be poured on the world, it would putrefy people.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1746; Page No. 247 · permalink

36. The world and whatever it possesses are damnable, save that in which the most Powerful and Glorious God's consent is sought.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2205. · permalink

37. The worst of all people are those who do not offer what they are demanded in the name of God.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2223. · permalink

38. The worst of all people is a double-faced man who encounters a group of people with one face (i.e. external behavior) and another group with the other.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2224. · permalink

39. The worst of all people is he who hates others and is hated by them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2225. · permalink

40. The worst of all people is the one honored out of fear of his evil.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2226. · permalink

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