Hadith on Friendship
22 sayings
Each saying is shown with the book and page it is taken from. The English rendering came with the collection, and the Centre cannot name who made it. The collection carries no grading. Where a saying matters for practice, check it with the alim.
Man follows the creed of his fellows, and thus you should see the friend of whom to be.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1229; Page No. 176 · permalink
Man follows the path of his friend's religion.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1230; Page No. 176 · permalink
Know people by knowing their friends, for men love the like of themselves.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1150; Page No. 164 · permalink
Do not keep company with the foolish.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 491; Page No. 71 · permalink
Making friends with your father's friend is a form of kindness.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1226; Page No. 176 · permalink
Make friends with each other and rectify yourselves. Whatever happens to a Muslim is a kind of atonement, even if he is afflicted with disaster or hurt by a thorn pricked into his foot.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1215; Page No. 174 · permalink
Make friends with your kinds but do not live in their neighborhood, for it causes grudge among you.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1216; Page No. 174 · permalink
Make greeting open, and bonds of friendship strengthen.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1217; Page No. 174 · permalink
God grants a good friend to the one for whom He wishes good.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 701; Page No. 101 · permalink
Friendship and enmity are both hereditary.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 657; Page No. 95 · permalink
A good companion is like unto a perfume-seller who might spare you any perfume, but the pleasant fragrance of his perfumes you (can surely) smell, and a bad companion is like unto a blacksmith whose flame of fire you might be able to escape but you surely suffer the bad smell of his working place.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 67; Page No. 17 · permalink
Keep company with good people, for if you do good, they will praise you, and if you do evil, they will not be hard on you.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1125; Page No. 161 · permalink
Keep company with people for (the sake of) their good manners, and keep distance with them for (evil) deeds.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1126; Page No. 161 · permalink
Keeping company is void with the one who avails you no worldly or otherworldly gain, and do not observe respect for the one who is not respectful to you, and there is no greatness for such a person.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1136; Page No. 162 · permalink
God will improve one's relation to people, if (s)he improves his/her relation to Him, will correct one's outward status, if (s)he corrects his/her inner self, and will give one sufficiency in the world, if (s)he works for the Hereafter.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 750; Page No. 107 · permalink
God will make everybody a company to those whom (s)he loves (in the Hereafter).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 757; Page No. 108 · permalink
Choose many friends, for your Lord is so modest and merciful that He hesitates to chastise His servant among his brothers (in faith) in the Day of Judgment.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 390; Page No. 60 · permalink
He who berates you, saves you (from his evil).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 869; Page No. 123 · permalink
Let your time-aged friendship continue, for God the Exalted loves this continuation.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1191; Page No. 171 · permalink
Loneliness is better than having a bad companion, and a good companion is better than loneliness.Uttering good words is better than silence, and silence is better than uttering bad words.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1198; Page No. 172 · permalink
Do not be a company but to believers, and do not share your meal save with the pious.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 464; Page No. 68 · permalink
Do not be a company to the one who does not regard you of equal status with him.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 465; Page No. 69 · permalink