باب: : بيان مكارم الأخلاق ومعاليها التي من كان متخلقا بها كان من أهل المروءة التي هي شرط في قبول الشهادة على طريق الاختصار
A brief account of noble and lofty character traits, whoever adopts them is among the people of honour (muruah), which is a condition for accepting testimony
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Talhah bin Kariz al-Khuza'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty is Generous; He loves noble character and dislikes what is base."
This is mursal.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20780
Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty is Noble; He loves nobility and good character, and dislikes what is base."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20781
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have been sent to perfect good character."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20782
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The one most perfect in faith is he whose character is good."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20783
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) neither spoke obscenely nor deliberately tried to speak so; rather, he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: "The best of you is the one whose character is good."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20784
Sayyiduna Nawwas bin Sam'an al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about righteousness and sin, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Righteousness is good character, and sin is what wavers in your heart and you dislike that people should come to know of it."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20785
Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was more modest than even a virgin girl. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked something, we would recognise it from his face.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20786
Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first thing that people found from the words of prophethood is this: When you feel no shame, do whatever you wish."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20787
Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I never saw him (peace and blessings be upon him) strike a servant, nor anyone else, except in jihad in the path of Allah; nor did he (peace and blessings be upon him) take revenge for himself on anyone, except for the sake of Allah: when it was for Allah, he would take revenge. When there were two matters, he would choose the easier, provided it was not a sin; when it was a sin, he would be the farthest from it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20788
Sulayman bin Yasar narrates from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: I never saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) laughing with his mouth wide open so that his uvula could be seen. He (peace and blessings be upon him) would only smile.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20789
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) shook hands with someone, or a man shook hands with him (peace and blessings be upon him), he would not withdraw his hand until the man withdrew his own; when he turned his face toward someone, he would not turn his face away until the man turned his face away; and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not sit in a gathering with his legs stretched out.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20790
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not speak obscenely, nor deliberately use such speech, nor did he engage in cursing and abuse. When he had to reproach someone, he would say: 'Ma lahu tariba jabinuh' (May his forehead be covered in dust! What is the matter with him?)
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20791
Zayd bin Aslam (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Abd al-Malik bin Marwan would send for Umm al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with her), and she would spend the night with his wives, and he would ask her about matters. He said: One night he got up and called his servant; she was slow, so he cursed her. She said: Do not curse, for Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) told me that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Those who curse will not be witnesses or intercessors on the Day of Resurrection."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20792
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not fitting for a siddiq (a truthful person) to be one who curses."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20793
Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer is not one who taunts and curses, nor is he obscene or foul-mouthed."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20794
Jarir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good as well."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20795
Al-Miqdam bin Shurayh narrates from his father, from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) was riding a camel and was striking it, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Aishah! Hold fast to gentleness. Whatever has gentleness in it becomes beautiful, and whatever thing gentleness is removed from becomes defective."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20796
Amrah bint Abd al-Rahman narrates from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Aishah! Allah Almighty is Gentle and loves gentleness. He gives for gentleness what He does not give for harshness, and what He does not give for anything else."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20797
Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever is given gentleness has been given a share of goodness. And whoever is deprived of his share of gentleness has been deprived of his share of goodness as well." And he said: "The heaviest thing in the scale of the believer is good character, and Allah Almighty dislikes foul speech and obscene talk."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20798
Sayyiduna Abu Tha'labah al-Khushani (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The most beloved of you to me and the closest of you to me are those who are best in character, and the most hateful of you to me and the farthest from me are those of bad character, who talk at length with their mouths stretched wide and speak with exaggeration."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20799
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates a marfu' hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you about the worst people of this Ummah?" Then he said: "Those who talk with their mouths stretched wide and exaggerate their speech. Shall I not inform you of the best of them?" Then he said: "They are those who possess the best character."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20800
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Good conduct, a good bearing and moderation are one part of the twenty-five parts of prophethood."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20801
Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) mentioned the story of the delegation of Abd al-Qays, and said: Ashajj of Abd al-Qays was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to him): "You have two qualities which Allah and His Messenger greatly love: forbearance and deliberateness."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20802
Mus'ab bin Sa'd narrates from his father, Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him); al-A'mash (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I know it only as being from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Moderation is better in every matter, except in the matter of the Hereafter."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20803
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty dislikes every "ill-tempered person who struts arrogantly and clamours in the marketplaces. A corpse by night (i.e. one who is always asleep), a donkey by day (busy with his worldly work), knowledgeable about this world and ignorant of the Hereafter": these too are disliked by Allah Almighty.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20804
Sayyiduna Harithah bin Wahb (may Allah be pleased with him) said that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Shall I not tell you about the people of Paradise?" Then he said: "Every weak person who is looked down upon; if he were to swear by Allah, Allah would fulfil his oath." And he said: "The people of Hell are every ill-tempered, arrogant one who struts proudly."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20805
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever is gentle-natured and easy-going, Allah has made that servant forbidden to the Fire."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20806
Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first thing my Lord forbade me and took a covenant from me about, after the worship of idols and the drinking of wine, was quarrelling with people."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20807
Iyas bin Mu'awiyah bin Qurrah al-Muzani (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: We were with Umar bin Abd al-Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him), and modesty was mentioned in his presence, so the people said: "Modesty is part of the religion." Umar bin Abd al-Aziz said: "Rather, it is the whole of the religion." Iyas (may Allah have mercy on him) said: My father narrated to me from my grandfather Qurrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: We were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and modesty was mentioned in his (peace and blessings be upon him) presence, so they said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Is modesty part of the religion?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Rather, it is the whole of the religion." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Modesty is chastity; and inability is inability of the tongue, not of the heart; and action is part of faith. These bring increase in the Hereafter and decrease in this world, and what they add in the Hereafter is greater than what they add in this world."
Iyas bin Mu'awiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Umar bin Abd al-Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him) ordered me, so I dictated it to him; then he wrote it down in his own hand. Then he led us in the Zuhr and Asr prayers while it (the writing) was in his sleeve, and he was greatly pleased with it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20808
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer is simple-hearted and noble, while the wicked person is deceitful and base."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20809
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man's nobility is his religion, his muru'ah (honourable conduct) is his intellect, and his lineage is his character."
This is known through Muslim bin Khalid al-Zanji, and it has been narrated from Abu Hurayrah through two other weak routes.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20810
Ziyad bin Hudayr (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) saying: A man's lineage is his religion, his muru'ah (honourable conduct) is his character, and his root is his intellect.
This mawquf report has a sahih (authentic) chain.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20811
Al-Rabi' bin Sulayman (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) saying: Muru'ah (honourable conduct) has four pillars: good character, generosity, humility and devoutness in worship.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20812
Habib al-Tamimi narrates that Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked a man from Abd al-Qays: "What do you count as muru'ah (honourable conduct)?" He said: "We count it as (having) a trade and chastity."
(b) It is narrated from Abu Sawwar that Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked: What is muru'ah? He said: Chastity in religion and putting one's livelihood in order.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20813
Muhammad bin Ya'qub al-Farisi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I read in some books that Yazid bin Mu'awiyah asked al-Ahnaf bin Qays (may Allah have mercy on him) about muru'ah (honourable conduct), and al-Ahnaf (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It means piety and forbearance. Then, after a short while, he recited this verse: "When a handsome man does not do handsome deeds, there is no good in his beauty, nor in the young man's character, except piety." Yazid said: "Excellent, O Abu Bahr! It has matched the sea." Al-Ahnaf (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Why did you not say: the meaning has matched the explanation?"
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20814
Al-Asma'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Salm bin Qutaybah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This world means well-being, youth means health, and muru'ah (honourable conduct) means al-sabr 'ala al-rijal, 'bearing patiently with men'." I asked: What does al-sabr 'ala al-rijal mean? He said: Treating them gently.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20815
Sufyan bin Husayn (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I said to Iyas bin Mu'awiyah (may Allah have mercy on him): What is muru'ah (honourable conduct)? He said: In your own town, or wherever you are known, it is piety; and in a place where you are not known, it is clothing.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الشهادات / 20816