Hadith 6 - Protecting the Heart

Sharh Arba'een an Nawawî

Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadeeth

Hadeeth 6

On the authority of an-Nu’man ibn Basheer (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say, “That which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful is clear, and between the two of them are doubtful matters about which many people do not know. Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honour, but he who falls into doubtful matters [eventually] falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah’s sanctuary is His prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh, which, if it be whole, all the body is whole, and which, if it is diseased, all of [the body] is diseased. Truly, it is the heart.”

Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.

Source: Arba'een an Nawawî

to be continued . . . .

Hadith 5 - Rejection of Evil Deeds and Innovations

Sharh Arba'een an Nawawî

Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadeeth

Hadeeth 5

On the authority of the mother of the faithful, Aaishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “He who innovates something in this matter of ours [i.e., Islam] that is not of it will have it rejected [by Allah].”

Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.

In one version by Muslim it reads: “He who does an act which we have not commanded, will have it rejected [by Allah].”

Source: Arba'een an Nawawî

to be continued . . . .

Hadith 4 - Deeds are by Their Final Actions

Sharh Arba'een an Nawawî

Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadeeth

Hadeeth 4

On the authority of Abdullah ibn Masood (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and he is the truthful, the believed, narrated to us, “Verily the creation of each one of you is brought together in his mother’s womb for forty days in the form of a nutfah (a drop), then he becomes an alaqah (clot of blood) for a like period, then a mudghah (morsel of flesh) for a like period, then there is sent to him the angel who blows his soul into him and who is commanded with four matters: to write down his rizq (sustenance), his life span, his actions, and whether he will be happy or unhappy (i.e., whether or not he will enter Paradise).

By the One, other than Whom there is no deity, verily one of you performs the actions of the people of Paradise until there is but an arms length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him, and so he acts with the actions of the people of the Hellfire and thus enters it; and verily one of you performs the actions of the people of the Hellfire, until there is but an arms length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him and so he acts with the actions of the people of Paradise and thus he enters it.”

It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.

Source: Arba'een an Nawawî

to be continued . . . .