Shahr bin Hawshab, via Abd al-Rahman bin Ghanm, from Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him)

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led the people on a night march during the expedition of Tabuk. When morning came, he led the people in the Fajr prayer. I said: O Messenger of Allah! Tell me of a deed that will admit me into Paradise, and I will not ask you about anything besides it. He said: "Bakh bakh (excellent, excellent)! You have asked about something great, and it is easy for the one for whom Allah intends good." Then he said: "Believe in Allah and the Last Day, establish the prayer, and worship Allah alone, who has no partner, until you die in that state."
Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If you wish, O Mu'adh, I will tell you of the head of this matter, its pillar and the peak of its hump? It is jihad in the path of Allah. I have only been commanded to fight the people until they bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah, who has no partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, and they establish the prayer and pay the zakah. When they do that, they have protected their wealth and their blood from me, except by its right, and their reckoning rests with Allah, the Mighty and Majestic."
Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose hand my soul is, no face has grown pale, and no foot has become dusty, in any deed through which the ranks of Paradise are sought, after the obligatory prayer, like jihad in the path of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic."

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! Which deed is the best? The narrator said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) put out his tongue and then placed his finger on it. Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (We belong to Allah and to Him we return), and said: O Messenger of Allah! Will we be taken to account for everything we say, and will it be written against us? The narrator said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) struck the shoulder of Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) several times and said: "May your mother lose you, O son of Umm Mu'adh! Does anything throw people on their faces into the Fire of Hell except the harvests of their tongues?"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Nothing makes a servant's scale heavier than an animal on which he spends in the path of Allah, or on which (someone) is mounted in the path of Allah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The people of Paradise will enter Paradise hairless, beardless (youths), with kohl-darkened eyes, aged thirty-three years."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever, on finishing the Fajr prayer and before speaking, says these words ten times: 'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahul-mulku wa lahul-hamd, biyadihil-khayr, wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir' (There is no god worthy of worship except Allah, alone, without partner; His is the dominion and His is the praise; in His hand is good, and He has power over all things), is given seven (rewards) in return for them: ten good deeds are written for him, ten sins are erased from him, he is raised ten ranks, they are for him equal to freeing ten souls, they are for him a protection from the devil and a safeguard from every harm, and no sin overtakes him that day except associating partners with Allah. And whoever says them on finishing the Maghrib prayer is given one third of that."

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! I am a man who loves beauty, and I love to be praised (as though he feared for himself on account of some evil). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "What prevents you from loving to live praiseworthy and to die missed (mourned)? I was only sent to perfect the beauties of character."

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: "Whoever seeks knowledge in order to show off with it before the scholars, or to argue with it with fools in gatherings, will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise."