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29th Hadith Of The
Forty 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. |