Removing harm from the road

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Faith has sixty or seventy or some more branches." He mentioned one of the two numbers. "The highest of them is bearing witness that there is no god but Allah, and the easiest is removing a harmful thing from the road; and modesty too is a part of faith."

Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), guide me to a deed by doing which I will benefit." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Remove harmful things from the road of the Muslims."

Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Whoever visits a sick person, or spends on his family, or removes a harmful thing from the road, then one good deed is rewarded as ten."

Muhammad bin Yahya bin Habban said: A man went out with Sayyiduna Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Mu'adh would remove any harmful thing he saw on the road. When the man saw this, he began to remove from the road everything he passed by. So Sayyiduna Mu'adh asked him: "What led you to do this?" He said: "I saw you doing it." He replied: "You have certainly done right," or he said: "You have done a good thing. For whoever removes a harmful thing from the road, one good deed is written for him; and whoever has one good deed written for him will enter Paradise."

Qatadah said that Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: There was a tree on the people's road which was causing them harm, so a man removed it from the road. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I certainly saw him moving about in its shade in Paradise."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On a road there was a branch of a tree which caused people harm, so a man removed it, and because of this he was admitted to Paradise."

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The good and bad deeds of my Ummah were presented to me. Among their good deeds I saw the removal of a harmful thing from the road, and among their bad deeds I saw spitting in the mosque without covering it with earth."