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Table of Contents
1: Parents .................................................................................................................................................................... 21
1. Honouring Parents: The Words of Allah Almighty: "We have instructed man to honour his parents." (29:8) . 21
2. Dutifulness to One's Mother .............................................................................................................................. 21
3. Dutifulness to One's Father ................................................................................................................................ 21
4. Dutifulness to Parents, even if they are unjust .................................................................................................. 21
5. Gentle words to Parents ..................................................................................................................................... 22
6. Repaying Parents ................................................................................................................................................ 22
7. Disobedience to Parents ..................................................................................................................................... 22
8. "Allah curses whoever curses his parents" ......................................................................................................... 23
9. Being Dutiful to Parents as long as that does not entail disobedience to Allah................................................. 23
10. The One who Fails his Parents will not enter the Garden ................................................................................ 23
11. Allah prolongs the life of someone who is dutiful towards his parents ........................................................... 23
12. One does not ask forgiveness for his father if he is an idolater ....................................................................... 24
13. Dutifulness towards a parent who is an idolater.............................................................................................. 24
14. A person should not revile his parents ............................................................................................................. 24
15. The punishment for disobeying parents ........................................................................................................... 25
16. Making Parents weep ....................................................................................................................................... 25
17. The Supplication of Parents .............................................................................................................................. 25
18. Offering Islam to a Christian mother ................................................................................................................ 26
19. Dutifulness towards Parents after their Death................................................................................................. 26
20. The Dutifulness of someone who maintains what his father loved ................................................................. 26
21. Do not cut off someone with whom your father maintained ties ................................................................... 26
22. Love is inherited ............................................................................................................................................... 27
23. A man should not call his father by his name nor sit down before him nor walk in front of him ................... 27
24. Can a man call his father by his kunya? ............................................................................................................ 27
2. Ties of Kinship ......................................................................................................................................................... 27
25. The Duty of maintaining ties of kinship ............................................................................................................ 27
26. Maintaining ties of kinship ............................................................................................................................... 27
27. The excellence of maintaining ties of kinship ................................................................................................... 28
28. Maintaining ties of kinship will prolong life ..................................................................................................... 28
29. Allah loves the one who maintains ties of kinship ........................................................................................... 29
30. Being dutiful to the closest relative and then the next closest ........................................................................ 29
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31. Mercy will not descend on people when there is someone among them who severs ties of kinship............. 29
32. The wrong action of someone who severs ties of kinship ............................................................................... 29
33. The punishment of someone who cuts off ties of kinship in this world .......................................................... 30
34. The one who maintains ties of kinship is not the one who reciprocates ......................................................... 30
35. The excellence of someone who maintains relations with relatives who are unjust ...................................... 30
36. Those who maintained ties of kinship in the Jahiliyya and then became Muslim ........................................... 30
37. Maintaining ties of kinship with the idolater and giving gifts .......................................................................... 30
38. Learn your lineages so that you can maintain ties of kinship .......................................................................... 30
3. Mawlas .................................................................................................................................................................... 31
39. Can a mawla say, "I am from so-and-so"? ........................................................................................................ 31
40. The mawla of a people is one of them ............................................................................................................. 31
4. Looking after girls ................................................................................................................................................... 31
41. Someone who looks after three or two daughters .......................................................................................... 31
42. Someone who looks after three sisters ............................................................................................................ 32
43. The excellence of someone who looks after his daughter after she has been sent back home ...................... 32
44. Disliking for someone to hope for the death of daughters .............................................................................. 32
5. Looking after children ............................................................................................................................................. 32
45. A child is a source of both honour and cowardice ........................................................................................... 32
46. Carrying a child on one's shoulders .................................................................................................................. 32
47. A child is a source of joy ................................................................................................................................... 32
48. A person who makes supplication that his friend will have a lot of money and many children ...................... 33
49. Mothers are merciful ........................................................................................................................................ 33
50. Kissing Children ................................................................................................................................................. 33
51. The parent teaching adab and his duty towards his child ................................................................................ 34
52. The dutifulness of a father to his child ............................................................................................................. 34
53. Someone who does not show mercy will not be shown mercy ....................................................................... 34
54. Mercy consists of a hundred parts ................................................................................................................... 34
6. Neighbours ............................................................................................................................................................. 35
55. The recommendation to be kind to neighbours ............................................................................................... 35
56. The neighbour's due ......................................................................................................................................... 35
57. Begin with the neighbour ................................................................................................................................. 35
58. You give to the neighbour whose door is the nearest to you .......................................................................... 35
59. The nearest and then next nearest neighbour ................................................................................................. 35
60. The person who shuts his door against his neighbour ..................................................................................... 36
61. A person should not eat his fill without seeing to his neighbour ..................................................................... 36
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62. When there is a lot of stew, it is divided between the neighbours ................................................................. 36
63. The best neighbour ........................................................................................................................................... 36
64. The righteous neighbour .................................................................................................................................. 36
65. The bad neighbour ............................................................................................................................................ 36
66. A person should not injure his neighbour ........................................................................................................ 37
67. A woman should not disdain anything which her female neighbour gives her, even if it is only the hooves of
a sheep .................................................................................................................................................................... 37
68. The neighbour's complaint ............................................................................................................................... 37
69. Someone who harms his neighbour until he forces him to leave .................................................................... 38
70. A Jewish neighbour ........................................................................................................................................... 38
7. Generosity and Orphans ......................................................................................................................................... 38
71. Generosity ........................................................................................................................................................ 38
72. Kindness to both the pious and the deviant ..................................................................................................... 38
73. The excellence of someone who provides for an orphan ................................................................................ 39
74. The excellence of someone who provides for his orphan ................................................................................ 39
75. The excellence of someone who provides for an orphan in the company of his parents ............................... 39
76. The best house is a house in which orphans are well treated ......................................................................... 39
77. Be like a merciful father to orphans ................................................................................................................. 39
78. The excellence of a woman who perseveres with her child and does not re-marry ....................................... 40
79. Disciplining an orphan ...................................................................................................................................... 40
8. Children Dying......................................................................................................................................................... 40
80. The excellence of someone whose child has died ............................................................................................ 40
81. Someone whose miscarried child dies ............................................................................................................. 41
9. Being a master ........................................................................................................................................................ 41
82. Being a good master ......................................................................................................................................... 41
83. Being a bad owner ............................................................................................................................................ 42
84. Selling a slave among the Bedouins ................................................................................................................. 42
85. Forgiving a slave ............................................................................................................................................... 42
86. When a slave steals .......................................................................................................................................... 42
87. A slave who commits wrong actions ................................................................................................................ 43
88. Someone who finishes something for his slave, fearing people's bad opinion ............................................... 43
89. Someone who counts things for his slave fearing people's opinion ................................................................ 43
90. Disciplining the servant .................................................................................................................................... 43
91. Do not say, "May Allah make your face ugly" .................................................................................................. 43
92. Avoid striking the face ...................................................................................................................................... 43
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93. Someone who slaps his slave should free him even though he is under no obligation to do so ..................... 44
94. The qisas (retaliation) of the slave ................................................................................................................... 44
95. "Clothe them from the clothes you yourself wear." ........................................................................................ 45
96. Insulting slaves .................................................................................................................................................. 45
97. Should a person help his slave? ........................................................................................................................ 45
98. Do not burden a slave with work which he is incapable of doing .................................................................... 45
99. A man's maintenance of his slave and servant is sadaqa ................................................................................ 46
100. When someone dislikes eating with his slave ................................................................................................ 46
101. A slave should eat from what his master eats ................................................................................................ 46
102. Does a man's servant sit with him when he eats? ......................................................................................... 46
103. When a slave advises his master .................................................................................................................... 47
104. The slave is a guardian .................................................................................................................................... 47
105. The person who wished he were a slave ........................................................................................................ 47
106. Do not say "'abdî" (my slave) .......................................................................................................................... 47
107. Does one say "my master (sayyidi)"? ............................................................................................................. 48
10. Responsibility ........................................................................................................................................................ 48
108. A man is the shepherd of his family ............................................................................................................... 48
109. A woman is a shepherd .................................................................................................................................. 48
110. Someone for whom a favour is done and he repays the favour .................................................................... 48
111. Someone who cannot repay someone should make supplication for him .................................................... 49
112. The one who does not thank people .............................................................................................................. 49
113. A man's maintenance of his brother .............................................................................................................. 49
11. Correctness ........................................................................................................................................................... 49
114. The people of correctness in this world are the people of correctness in the Next World ........................... 49
115. Every correct action is sadaqa ........................................................................................................................ 50
116. Removing harmful things................................................................................................................................ 50
117. Correct Words................................................................................................................................................. 50
118. Going out to a vegetable garden and carrying things in a sack on one's shoulder to one's family ............... 51
119. Going out to an estate .................................................................................................................................... 51
12. Dealing with people cheerfully ............................................................................................................................. 51
120. A Muslim is the mirror of his brother ............................................................................................................. 51
121. Playing and joking which is not permitted ..................................................................................................... 52
122. The person who guides to good ..................................................................................................................... 52
123. Excusing and pardoning people ...................................................................................................................... 52
124. Cheerfulness towards people ......................................................................................................................... 52
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125. Smiling ............................................................................................................................................................ 53
126. Laughter .......................................................................................................................................................... 53
127. When he faced someone, he faced him completely, and when he turned away, he turned away completely
................................................................................................................................................................................ 53
13. Consulation ........................................................................................................................................................... 54
128. Someone who is consulted is in a position of trust ........................................................................................ 54
129. Consultation.................................................................................................................................................... 54
130. The wrong action of someone who gives his brother misguided advice ....................................................... 54
14. Dealings with people and good character ............................................................................................................ 54
131. Love between people ..................................................................................................................................... 54
132. Friendship ....................................................................................................................................................... 54
133. Joking .............................................................................................................................................................. 55
134. Joking with a child........................................................................................................................................... 55
135. Good character ............................................................................................................................................... 55
136. The generosity of the self ............................................................................................................................... 56
137. Avarice ............................................................................................................................................................ 56
138. Good character when people have understanding ........................................................................................ 57
139. Miserliness ...................................................................................................................................................... 58
140. Sound property for a sound man ................................................................................................................... 58
141. The person who is secure in his property ....................................................................................................... 59
142. Cheerfulness ................................................................................................................................................... 59
143. What is necessary in helping someone in distress ......................................................................................... 59
144. The person who makes supplication to Allah to make his character good .................................................... 60
15. Cursing and Defamation ....................................................................................................................................... 60
245. The believer is not a defamer ......................................................................................................................... 60
246. Someone who curses ...................................................................................................................................... 60
247. The person who curses his slave and then frees him ..................................................................................... 61
248. Cursing one another with the curse of Allah, with the anger of Allah, and with the Fire .............................. 61
249. Cursing an unbeliever ..................................................................................................................................... 61
250. Slander ............................................................................................................................................................ 61
251. Someone who hears about an indecency and then spreads it about ............................................................ 61
252. The fault-finder ............................................................................................................................................... 61
16. Praising People ..................................................................................................................................................... 62
153. What has come about praising people ........................................................................................................... 62
154. Someone who praises his companion when he feels safe about him*.......................................................... 62
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155. Throwing dust in the faces of those who praise people ................................................................................ 63
156. The person who praises in poetry .................................................................................................................. 63
157. Giving to a poet when you fear his evil .......................................................................................................... 63
17. Visiting and Guests ............................................................................................................................................... 64
158. Do not honour your guest in a way which will be burdensome for him ........................................................ 64
159. Visiting ............................................................................................................................................................ 64
160. Someone who visits people and eats with them ............................................................................................ 64
161. The Excellence of Visiting ............................................................................................................................... 64
162. When a man loves people and cannot join them ........................................................................................... 64
18. The Elderly ............................................................................................................................................................ 65
163. The excellence of the older person ................................................................................................................ 65
164. Respect for the Old ......................................................................................................................................... 65
165. The old person should be the first to speak and ask ...................................................................................... 65
166. When an older person does not speak, can the youngest speak then?......................................................... 65
167. Making the old leaders ................................................................................................................................... 66
19. Children................................................................................................................................................................. 66
168. Fruits are given to the youngest of children ................................................................................................... 66
169. Mercy towards children .................................................................................................................................. 66
170. Embracing children ......................................................................................................................................... 66
171. A man kissing a small girl ................................................................................................................................ 66
172. Stroking a child's head .................................................................................................................................... 67
173. A man saying, "My son" to a child .................................................................................................................. 67
20. Mercy .................................................................................................................................................................... 67
174. The Most Merciful of those in the earth ........................................................................................................ 67
175. Mercy towards the family ............................................................................................................................... 68
176. Mercy to animals ............................................................................................................................................ 68
177. Taking an egg from a small bird ...................................................................................................................... 68
178. Birds in cages .................................................................................................................................................. 68
21. Social Behaviour ................................................................................................................................................... 69
179. Relating good things between people ............................................................................................................ 69
180. A liar is not behaving correctly ....................................................................................................................... 69
181. Someone who is patient when people injure him .......................................................................................... 69
182. Enduring injury ............................................................................................................................................... 69
183. Improving a state of friendship ...................................................................................................................... 69
184. When you lie to a man and he believes you ................................................................................................... 70
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185. Do not make a promise to your brother and then break it ............................................................................ 70
186. Attacking Lineage............................................................................................................................................ 70
187. A man's love for his people ............................................................................................................................ 70
22. Separation ............................................................................................................................................................. 70
188. Separating oneself from people ..................................................................................................................... 70
189. Separating oneself from Muslims ................................................................................................................... 71
190. A person who cuts himself off from his brother for a year ............................................................................ 71
191. Those who refuse to speak to one another.................................................................................................... 72
192. Generosity ...................................................................................................................................................... 72
193. The salam makes up for shunning .................................................................................................................. 72
23. Advice ................................................................................................................................................................... 73
194. Separating young people ................................................................................................................................ 73
195. Someone giving advice to his brother when he has not been asked for advice ............................................ 73
196. The person who dislikes bad .......................................................................................................................... 73
197. What was mentioned about tricks and deception ......................................................................................... 73
24. Defamation ........................................................................................................................................................... 73
198. Defamation ..................................................................................................................................................... 73
199. Giving water .................................................................................................................................................... 73
200. When two people revile one another, the responsibility for what they say rests on the first to speak ....... 74
201. Those who revile one another are two shaytans who accuse one another and deny one another .............. 74
202. Reviling a Muslim is deviant behaviour .......................................................................................................... 74
203. Someone who does not say things directly to people ................................................................................... 75
204. When someone calls someone else a hypocrite without meaning it literally................................................ 75
205. Someone says calls his brother an unbeliever ............................................................................................... 75
206. The gloating of enemies ................................................................................................................................. 76
25. Extravagance in Building ....................................................................................................................................... 76
207. Extravagance in Property ................................................................................................................................ 76
208. Those who squander ...................................................................................................................................... 76
209. Improving Houses ........................................................................................................................................... 76
210. Building expenses ........................................................................................................................................... 76
211. A man working with his workers .................................................................................................................... 76
212. Making buildings tall ....................................................................................................................................... 77
213. The person who builds ................................................................................................................................... 77
214. A spacious dwelling ........................................................................................................................................ 77
215. A person who has upper rooms ..................................................................................................................... 77
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216. Painting buildings ........................................................................................................................................... 78
26. Compassion .......................................................................................................................................................... 78
217. Compassion .................................................................................................................................................... 78
218. Compassion in livelihood ................................................................................................................................ 79
219. What a slave is given for compassion ............................................................................................................. 79
220. Calming ........................................................................................................................................................... 79
221. Harshness ....................................................................................................................................................... 79
27. Attending to this world ......................................................................................................................................... 79
222. Putting Property in Order ............................................................................................................................... 80
223. The supplication of the one who is wronged ................................................................................................. 80
224. Asking Allah for provision because of His words, "Provide for us and You are Best of Providers." ............... 80
28. Injustice................................................................................................................................................................. 80
225. Injustice is Darkness ....................................................................................................................................... 80
29. Illness and visiting those who are ill ..................................................................................................................... 82
226. The expiation of someone who is ill ............................................................................................................... 82
229. Is it a complaint when a sick person says, "I am in pain"? ............................................................................. 82
230. Visiting someone who has fainted ................................................................................................................. 83
231. Visiting children who are ill ............................................................................................................................ 83
232. Chapter ........................................................................................................................................................... 83
233. Visiting Bedouins ............................................................................................................................................ 83
234. Visiting the sick ............................................................................................................................................... 83
235. Someone who visits a sick person making supplication that he will get well ................................................ 84
236. The excellence of visiting someone who is ill ................................................................................................. 84
237. The hadith about the person who is ill and the person who visits him ......................................................... 85
238. Someone who prays in the presence of a sick person ................................................................................... 85
239. Visiting a mushrik ........................................................................................................................................... 85
240. What to say to someone who is ill.................................................................................................................. 85
241. What the sick person answers ........................................................................................................................ 86
242. Visiting someone who is a deviant (fasiq) ...................................................................................................... 86
243. Women visiting a man who is ill ..................................................................................................................... 86
244. Someone who dislikes for visitors to look at other things in his house ......................................................... 86
245. Visiting someone with eye trouble ................................................................................................................. 86
246. Where does should a person sit when he visits a sick person?...................................................................... 86
30.General Behaviour ................................................................................................................................................. 87
247. What a man does in his house ........................................................................................................................ 87
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248. When a man has love for his brother he should tell him ............................................................................... 87
249. When someone has love for a person, he should not quarrel with him not ask about him .......................... 87
250. The intellect is located in the heart ................................................................................................................ 88
251. Pride ................................................................................................................................................................ 88
252. Someone who takes revenge for injustice ..................................................................................................... 89
253. Mutual help in scarcity and famine ................................................................................................................ 89
254. Trials ............................................................................................................................................................... 90
255. Someone who feeds one of his brothers for Allah ......................................................................................... 90
256. The Alliance of the Jahiliyya ........................................................................................................................... 90
257. Brotherhood ................................................................................................................................................... 90
258. There is no alliance in Islam ............................................................................................................................ 91
259. Someone seeking the blessing of the rain when it first begins to fall ............................................................ 91
260. Sheep are a blessing ....................................................................................................................................... 91
261. Camels are a cause of pride in their owners .................................................................................................. 91
262. A man going back to live as a Bedouin ........................................................................................................... 92
263. Someone who lives in villages ........................................................................................................................ 92
264. Going out to water-courses ............................................................................................................................ 92
265. Someone who wants to conceal secrets and to sit with a group of people and recognise their qualities .... 92
266. Deliberation in Affairs ..................................................................................................................................... 92
267. Deliberation in Affairs ..................................................................................................................................... 93
268. Tyrannical Behaviour ...................................................................................................................................... 93
269. Accepting gifts ................................................................................................................................................ 94
270. Someone who does not accept a gift when there is hatred towards people ................................................ 94
271. Modesty .......................................................................................................................................................... 94
31. Supplication .......................................................................................................................................................... 95
272. What to say in the morning ............................................................................................................................ 95
273. Someone who uses other supplications ......................................................................................................... 95
274. Sincere supplication ........................................................................................................................................ 95
275. Be firm in supplication, for Allah cannot be forced ........................................................................................ 96
276. Raising the hands in supplication ................................................................................................................... 96
277. The best way of asking for forgiveness .......................................................................................................... 97
278. The supplication for someone when he is absent .......................................................................................... 97
279. Chapter ........................................................................................................................................................... 98
280. The prayer on the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ......................................................... 99
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281. Someone who hears the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, mentioned in his presence
and does not bless him ........................................................................................................................................... 99
282. A man's supplication for someone who has wronged him .......................................................................... 100
284. Someone say says, "A person is given an answer as long as he does not seek to hasten it" ....................... 101
285. Someone who seeks refuge in Allah from laziness....................................................................................... 101
286. Allah is angry with the person who does not ask Allah ................................................................................ 101
287. Supplication in the battle ranks in the Cause of Allah .................................................................................. 101
288. The supplications of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ............................................. 101
289. Supplication in heavy rain and ordinary rain ................................................................................................ 104
290. Supplication for death .................................................................................................................................. 104
291. The supplications of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ............................................. 104
292. Supplication in affliction ............................................................................................................................... 105
293. Supplication in the Istikhara ......................................................................................................................... 106
294. When one is in fear of the ruler ................................................................................................................... 106
295. The reward and wage stored up for a person who makes supplication ...................................................... 107
296. The excellence of supplication ..................................................................................................................... 107
32. Guests and Spending .......................................................................................................................................... 108
316. A man serving his guest himself ................................................................................................................... 108
317. Someone who brings his guest food and then stands up to pray ................................................................ 108
318. A man spending on his family ....................................................................................................................... 108
319. There is a reward for everything, even the morsel given to a wife .............................................................. 109
320. Supplication in the last third of the night ..................................................................................................... 109
33. Speech ................................................................................................................................................................ 109
321. Someone's words, "So-and-so with the curly black hair" or someone "tall" or "short" when he intends to
describe him and does not mean to slander him ................................................................................................. 109
322. Someone who does not see any harm in a historical story .......................................................................... 110
323. Someone who shields a Muslim ................................................................................................................... 110
324. Someone saying, "People are destroyed." ................................................................................................... 110
325. Do not call a hypocrite "master (sayyid)" ..................................................................................................... 110
326. What someone says when he is praised ...................................................................................................... 110
327. One should not say about something he does not know, "Allah knows it" ................................................. 111
328. The rainbow .................................................................................................................................................. 111
329. The Milky Way .............................................................................................................................................. 111
330. Someone who dislikes for it to be said, "O Allah, place me in the Abiding Abode of Your mercy" ............. 111
331. Do not curse time ......................................................................................................................................... 111
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332. A man should not look sharply at his brother when he turns away ............................................................ 111
333. Someone saying to someone else, "Bother you" ......................................................................................... 111
334. Building ......................................................................................................................................................... 112
335. A man saying, No, by your father" ................................................................................................................ 112
336. When a person seeks something, he should ask for something small and not praise the person .............. 113
337. Someone's words, "May the one who hates you not have good!" .............................................................. 113
338. Someone should not say, "Allah and so-and-so" ......................................................................................... 113
339. Someone saying, "What Allah wills and you will" ........................................................................................ 113
340. Singing and Play ............................................................................................................................................ 113
341. Guidance and good behaviour ..................................................................................................................... 114
342. When news comes to you from someone you do not furnish with travel provisions ................................. 114
343. Wishing which is disliked .............................................................................................................................. 114
344. Do not call the grape "kurm" ........................................................................................................................ 114
345. Someone saying, "Bother you" ..................................................................................................................... 115
346. Someone saying, "O person!" ....................................................................................................................... 115
347. Someone saying, "I am lazy" ......................................................................................................................... 115
348. Someone who seeks refuge from laziness ................................................................................................... 115
349. Someone's words, "May my self be your ransom!" ..................................................................................... 115
350. A man saying, "May my father and mother be my ransom" ........................................................................ 116
351. A man saying, "My son" to someone whose father did not become Muslim .............................................. 116
352. Someone should not say, "khabuthat nafsi"* (an expression meaning "I am overcome with nausea") ..... 116
34. Names ................................................................................................................................................................. 116
353. The kunya Abu'l-Hakam ................................................................................................................................ 116
354. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, liked good names ................................................ 117
355. Swiftness in walking ...................................................................................................................................... 117
356. The names which Allah Almighty loves the most ......................................................................................... 117
357. Changing one name to another .................................................................................................................... 117
358. The name which Allah Almighty hates the most .......................................................................................... 117
359. Someone who calls another person using the diminutive of his name ....................................................... 118
360. Calling someone by the name he loves the most ......................................................................................... 118
361. Changing the name 'Asiya (meaning "rebellious") ....................................................................................... 118
362. Surm (meaning "separation") ....................................................................................................................... 118
363. Ghurab (meaning "crow")............................................................................................................................. 118
364. Shihab (meaning "flame")............................................................................................................................. 119
365. Al-'As (meaning "rebel") ............................................................................................................................... 119
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366. Someone who calls his companion and shortens or leaves out part of his name ....................................... 119
367. Zahm (meaning "crowd") ............................................................................................................................. 119
368. Barra (meaning "pious") ............................................................................................................................... 119
369. Aflah (meaning "most successful") ............................................................................................................... 120
370. Rabah (meaning "profit") ............................................................................................................................. 120
371. The Names of the Prophets .......................................................................................................................... 120
372. Hazn (meaning "rough") ............................................................................................................................... 120
36. Kunyas ................................................................................................................................................................. 121
373. The Prophet's name and kunya, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ................................................ 121
374. Can one use a kunya for an idolater? ........................................................................................................... 121
375. A kunya for a child ........................................................................................................................................ 121
376. Having a kunya before having a child ........................................................................................................... 121
377. Kunyas for women ........................................................................................................................................ 121
378. Someone who gives a man of kunya because of something he is doing or with one of their names ......... 122
379. How does a person walk with the great men and people of superiority ..................................................... 122
380. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 122
36. Poetry ................................................................................................................................................................. 122
381. There is some wisdom in poetry .................................................................................................................. 122
382. The good in poetry is like the good in words while some of it is bad .......................................................... 123
383. Someone who recites poetry ........................................................................................................................ 123
384. Someone who dislikes for someone to be dominated by poetry ................................................................ 123
385. Someone saying, "There is magic in eloquence" .......................................................................................... 124
386. Poetry which is disliked ................................................................................................................................ 124
37. Words ................................................................................................................................................................. 124
387. Too Many Words .......................................................................................................................................... 124
388. Wishing ......................................................................................................................................................... 124
389. When someone says, "It is a sea" about a man, thing or horse ................................................................... 125
390. Beating someone for grammatical mistakes ................................................................................................ 125
391. Someone describing something by saying, "It is nothing," meaning that it is not true ............................... 125
392. Indirect Allusion ............................................................................................................................................ 125
393. Divulging secrets ........................................................................................................................................... 125
394. Mockery ........................................................................................................................................................ 126
38. General Behaviour .............................................................................................................................................. 126
395. Deliberation in things ................................................................................................................................... 126
396. Someone who guides down an alley or on a path ....................................................................................... 126
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397. Someone who misguides a blind person ...................................................................................................... 126
398. Tyranny (baghy) ............................................................................................................................................ 126
399. The punishment for outrage......................................................................................................................... 126
400. Noble descent ............................................................................................................................................... 127
401. The arwah (spirits) are a massed army ........................................................................................................ 127
402. A man saying, "Glory be to Allah!" when he is amazed ............................................................................... 127
403. Wiping the ground with the hand ................................................................................................................ 128
404. Slings ............................................................................................................................................................. 128
405. Do not curse the wind .................................................................................................................................. 128
39. Omens ................................................................................................................................................................. 128
406. Someone's words, "We have been given rain by the rising of such-and-such and such-and-such (a star)" 128
407. What someone says when he sees clouds ................................................................................................... 128
408. The bad omen (tayyâra) ............................................................................................................................... 129
409. The excellence of someone who does not take note of omens ................................................................... 129
410. Bad omens taken from the jinn .................................................................................................................... 129
411. Good Omens ................................................................................................................................................. 129
412. Seeing blessing in a good name .................................................................................................................... 129
413. Bad luck in horses ......................................................................................................................................... 129
40. Sneezing and Yawning ........................................................................................................................................ 130
414. The Sneeze .................................................................................................................................................... 130
415. What to say when you sneeze ...................................................................................................................... 130
416. Wishing mercy on the sneezer ..................................................................................................................... 130
417. When you hear a sneeze, you should say, "Praise be to Allah" ................................................................... 131
418. How to wish for mercy on a person when you hear a sneeze ..................................................................... 131
419. When someone does not praise Allah, do not wish mercy on him .............................................................. 131
420. What should someone who sneezes say first? ............................................................................................. 132
421. Someone who says, "May Allah have mercy on you if you praised Allah." ................................................. 132
422. Do not say, "Ab" ........................................................................................................................................... 132
423. When someone sneezes several times......................................................................................................... 132
424. When a Jew sneezes ..................................................................................................................................... 132
425. How a man wishes mercy on a woman when she sneezes .......................................................................... 132
426. Yawning ........................................................................................................................................................ 133
427. Someone who says, "At your service (Labbayk)" when he answers ............................................................ 133
429. A man standing up for someone sitting down ............................................................................................. 133
430. When someone yawns, he should put his hand over his mouth ................................................................. 133
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41. Gestures .............................................................................................................................................................. 134
431. Should anyone delouse someone else's head .............................................................................................. 134
432. Shaking the head and biting the lip when surprised .................................................................................... 134
433. A man striking his hand on his thigh when he is amazed or for some other reason ................................... 134
434. When a man strikes his brother's thigh and does not intend anything bad by it ........................................ 135
435. The person who dislikes people sitting and rising for him ........................................................................... 136
436. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 136
437. What a man says when his foot goes to sleep ............................................................................................. 136
42. Greetings ............................................................................................................................................................ 137
438. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 137
439. Shaking hands with children ......................................................................................................................... 137
440. Shaking Hands ............................................................................................................................................... 137
441. A woman stroking a child's head .................................................................................................................. 137
443. A man kissing his daughter ........................................................................................................................... 138
444. Kissing the hand ............................................................................................................................................ 138
445. Kissing the Foot ............................................................................................................................................. 138
446. A man rising out of respect for another man ............................................................................................... 138
447. Giving the greeting first ................................................................................................................................ 138
448. Giving the greeting to people ....................................................................................................................... 139
449. The person who greets first .......................................................................................................................... 139
450. The excellence of the greeting ..................................................................................................................... 139
451. Peace (as-Salam) is one of the Name so Allah ............................................................................................. 140
452. It is a duty for one Muslim to greet another Muslim when he meets him .................................................. 140
453. Someone walking greets the person sitting down ....................................................................................... 140
454. The person riding greets the person sitting ................................................................................................. 140
455. Does the person walking greet the person riding? ...................................................................................... 141
456. A small group greets the large group ........................................................................................................... 141
457. The young person greets the old .................................................................................................................. 141
458. The end of the greeting ................................................................................................................................ 141
459. The person who greets by a gesture ............................................................................................................ 141
460. Make it heard when you greet ..................................................................................................................... 141
461. Someone who goes out, greets and is greeted ............................................................................................ 141
462. The greeting when someone comes to a gathering ..................................................................................... 142
463. The greeting when someone leaves a gathering .......................................................................................... 142
464. The duty of someone who gives the greeting when he stands up ............................................................... 142
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465. The person who oils his hand for the handshake ......................................................................................... 142
466. Greeting those you know and those you do not know ................................................................................ 142
467. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 142
468. Do not greet a deviant person ...................................................................................................................... 143
469. Not greeting a man wearing khaluq-perfume and those in rebellion (against Allah) .................................. 143
470. Greeting the Amir ......................................................................................................................................... 143
471. Greeting someone asleep ............................................................................................................................. 144
472. May Allah preserve you ................................................................................................................................ 144
473. Welcome ....................................................................................................................................................... 145
474. How to return the greeting .......................................................................................................................... 145
475. Someone who does not return the greeting ................................................................................................ 145
476. Someone who is miserly with the greeting .................................................................................................. 146
477. The Greeting to Children .............................................................................................................................. 146
478. Women greeting men ................................................................................................................................... 146
479. Greeting women ........................................................................................................................................... 146
480. Someone who dislikes to greet a particular person ..................................................................................... 146
43. Asking permission to enter ................................................................................................................................. 147
481. How was the Ayat of Veiling revealed? ........................................................................................................ 147
482. Three times of nakedness ............................................................................................................................. 147
483. A man eating with his wife ........................................................................................................................... 147
484. When someone enters a house which is uninhabited ................................................................................. 147
485. "Those you own as slaves should ask your permission to enter" (24:56) .................................................... 148
486. The words of Allah, "Once your children have reached puberty" (24:57) ................................................... 148
487. Someone asking permission to come in to visit his mother ......................................................................... 148
488. Asking permission to enter where one's father is ........................................................................................ 148
489. Asking permission to go in to one's father and one's child .......................................................................... 148
490. Asking a sister's permission to enter ............................................................................................................ 148
491. Asking your brother for permission to enter ................................................................................................ 149
492. Asking permission three times ..................................................................................................................... 149
493. Asking permission to enter is not a greeting ................................................................................................ 149
494. When someone looks without permission, his eye is gouged out ............................................................... 149
495. Asking permission without looking............................................................................................................... 149
496. When a man greets another man in his room.............................................................................................. 149
497. A man's invitation is his permission ............................................................................................................. 150
498. How does someone stand at a door ............................................................................................................. 150
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499. When someone asks permission to enter, he says, "When shall I leave? Where shall I sit?" ..................... 150
500. Knocking on a door ....................................................................................................................................... 151
501. When someone enters without having asked permission ........................................................................... 151
502. When someone says, "Can I come in?" and does not give a greeting ......................................................... 151
503. How to ask permission to enter ................................................................................................................... 151
504. The one who says, "Who is it?" and is answered, "Me"............................................................................... 151
505. When someone asks permission, he is told, "Enter with peace" ................................................................. 152
506. Looking into houses ...................................................................................................................................... 152
507. The excellence of someone who enters his house saying "Peace" .............................................................. 152
508. When someone does not mention Allah when he enters his house, shaytan spends the night in it .......... 152
509. What one is not given permission for .......................................................................................................... 153
510. Asking permission in shops in the market .................................................................................................... 153
511. How to ask permission from Persians .......................................................................................................... 153
44. The People of the Book ...................................................................................................................................... 153
512. When a dhimmi writes and gives the greeting, he is answered ...........................