Book 32: KITAB AL-BIRR WA'S-SALAT-I-WA'L-ADAB
(The book of virtue, good manners and joining of the ties of relationship)
Chapter
- Politeness towards parents and their right
to it
- The preference of benevolent treatment to
parents over voluntary prayers, etc.
- Kindness towards the friends of one's father
and mother
- Joining the tie of, relationship and prohibition
to break it
- Forbiddance of nursing mutual jealousy mutual
hatred and mutual hostility
- It is forbidden for a Muslim to have estranged
relations with the other Muslim beyond three days without any reason of Shari'ah
- Forbiddance of suspicion, fault-finding,
and bidding against the other, (for raising the price)
- It is forbidden to pwpbuate atrocity upon
a Muslim, to humiliate him, to insult him, and inviolable is his blood, honour
and wealth
- It is forbidden to nurse rancour
- Merit of love for the sake of Allah
- Merit of visiting the sick
- Whenever a believer falls sick or is stricken
with grief or something tike it, there is a reward for him even if it is pricking
of a thorn
- It is forbidden to commit oppression
- Help your brother whether he is an oppressor
or an oppressed one
- There should be mutual fellow-feeling and
love and the will to help each other amongst the believers
- It is forbidden to indulge in abusing
- The meritq of forgiveness and humility
- The prohibition of backbiting
- Tidings for one whose faults Allah concealed
in this world: He will also conceal his faults in the hereafter
- According of benevolent treatment to one
from whom one expects transgression
- Merit of benevolent treatment
- It is forbidden to curse the beasts
- He upon whom Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) invoked curse whereas he in fact did not deserve it, it would be
a source of reward and mercy for him
- The condemnation of one who plays a double
game and the prohibition of this behaviour
- Forbiddance of telling a lie and the cases
in which telling of lie is permissible
- Serious prohibition of tale-carrying
- The evil of a lie and the goodiess of truth
and its merit
- The merit of self control at the time of
anger
- It is the very nature of man that he loses
control
- It is forbidden to strike at the face
- Grim warning to one who torments people without
any valid justification
- He who goes in the mosque or in the bazar
or a place of gathering like it with a weapon should see that the spearhead
does not harm anyone
- The prohibition of pointing a weapon towards
a Muslim
- The merit of removing of anything troublesome
from the path
- Forbiddance of tormenting the cat or the
animals like that which do not harm
- The prohibition of pride and vanity
- It is forbidden to become frustrated in regard
to the mercy of Allah
- The merits of the weak and downtrodden people
- It is forbidden to use the expression: "The
people are undone".
- Benevolent treatment towards the neighbour
- Excellence of meeting one with a cheerful
countenance
- The merit of recommendation which involves
nothing unlawful
- The merit of good company and avoidance from
evil company
- The merit of according benevolent treatment
to daughters
- The merit of one who resigns himself to the
will of God calmly at the time of the death of one's son
- When Allah loves a servant, his fellow-servants
also begin to love him
- Souls are troops collected together
- A person would be along with him whom he
loves
- When a pious person is praised that is glad
tidings for him