Book 32: KITAB AL-BIRR WA'S-SALAT-I-WA'L-ADAB
(The book of virtue, good manners and joining of the ties of relationship)
Chapter
- Politeness towards parents and their right to it
- The preference of benevolent treatment to parents over
voluntary prayers, etc.
- Kindness towards the friends of one's father and mother
- Joining the tie of, relationship and prohibition to
break it
- Forbiddance of nursing mutual jealousy mutual hatred and
mutual hostility
- It is forbidden for a Muslim to have estranged relations
with the other Muslim beyond three days without
any reason of Shari'ah
- Forbiddance of suspicion, fault-finding, and bidding
against the other, (for raising the price)
- It is forbidden to pwpbuate atrocity upon a Muslim,
to humiliate him, to insult him, and inviolable is his
blood, honour and wealth
- It is forbidden to nurse rancour
- Merit of love for the sake of Allah
- Merit of visiting the sick
- Whenever a believer falls sick or is stricken with
grief or something tike it, there is a reward for him even
if it is pricking of a thorn
- It is forbidden to commit oppression
- Help your brother whether he is an oppressor or an
oppressed one
- There should be mutual fellow-feeling and love and the
will to help each other amongst the believers
- It is forbidden to indulge in abusing
- The meritq of forgiveness and humility
- The prohibition of backbiting
- Tidings for one whose faults Allah concealed in this
world: He will also conceal his faults in the hereafter
- According of benevolent treatment to one from whom
one expects transgression
- Merit of benevolent treatment
- It is forbidden to curse the beasts
- He upon whom Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) invoked curse whereas he in fact did not
deserve it, it would be a source of reward and mercy for him
- The condemnation of one who plays a double game and
the prohibition of this behaviour
- Forbiddance of telling a lie and the cases in which
telling of lie is permissible
- Serious prohibition of tale-carrying
- The evil of a lie and the goodiess of truth and its
merit
- The merit of self control at the time of anger
- It is the very nature of man that he loses control
- It is forbidden to strike at the face
- Grim warning to one who torments people without any
valid justification
- He who goes in the mosque or in the bazar or a place
of gathering like it with a weapon should see that
the spearhead does not harm anyone
- The prohibition of pointing a weapon towards a Muslim
- The merit of removing of anything troublesome from the
path
- Forbiddance of tormenting the cat or the animals like
that which do not harm
- The prohibition of pride and vanity
- It is forbidden to become frustrated in regard to the
mercy of Allah
- The merits of the weak and downtrodden people
- It is forbidden to use the expression: "The people are
undone".
- Benevolent treatment towards the neighbour
- Excellence of meeting one with a cheerful countenance
- The merit of recommendation which involves nothing
unlawful
- The merit of good company and avoidance from evil
company
- The merit of according benevolent treatment to daughters
- The merit of one who resigns himself to the will of God
calmly at the time of the death of one's son
- When Allah loves a servant, his fellow-servants also
begin to love him
- Souls are troops collected together
- A person would be along with him whom he loves
- When a pious person is praised that is glad tidings
for him