الادب المفرد
Al-Adab al-Mufrad
كتاب صلة الرحمBook of Maintaining Ties of Kinship
بَابُ فَضْلِ مَنْ يَصِلُ ذَا الرَّحِمِ الظَّالِمَChapter: Virtue of Maintaining Ties with a Wrongdoing Relative
Hadith 69
حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْسَجَةَ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ قَالَ: جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ، عَلِّمْنِي عَمَلاً يُدْخِلُنِي الْجَنَّةَ، قَالَ: ”لَئِنْ كُنْتَ أَقَصَرْتَ الْخُطْبَةَ لَقَدْ أَعْرَضْتَ الْمَسْأَلَةَ، أَعْتِقِ النَّسَمَةَ، وَفُكَّ الرَّقَبَةَ“، قَالَ: أَوَ لَيْسَتَا وَاحِدًا؟ قَالَ: ”لاَ، عِتْقُ النَّسَمَةِ أَنْ تَعْتِقَ النَّسَمَةَ، وَفَكُّ الرَّقَبَةِ أَنْ تُعِينَ عَلَى الرَّقَبَةِ، وَالْمَنِيحَةُ الرَّغُوبُ، وَالْفَيْءُ عَلَى ذِي الرَّحِمِ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تُطِقْ ذَلِكَ، فَأْمُرْ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ، وَانْهَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تُطِقْ ذَلِكَ، فَكُفَّ لِسَانَكَ إِلاَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ.“
Narrated from Sayyiduna Bara’ bin ‘Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) that a Bedouin came and said: O Messenger of Allah! Teach me a deed that will admit me to Paradise. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Although you have asked briefly, your question is meaningful, that is, you have encompassed a lengthy matter in it.” (Then the Prophet, peace be upon him, said:) “Free a soul, ransom a neck.” He said: Are these two not the same? The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “No, freeing a soul is that you set a slave free, and ransoming a neck is that you assist in the freedom of a slave.” (Then he said:) “Give someone a milch animal which is desirable, show kindness and compassion to a relative, and if you are not able to do this, then enjoin good and forbid evil, and if you are not able to do this, then restrain your tongue except for speaking good.”
