Al-Adab Al-Mufrad: By Imam Bukhari (RA)

8/8/2019 Al-Adab Al-Mufrad: By Imam Bukhari (RA)

1/182

Al-Adab Al-Mufrad by Imam Muhammad Ibn Ismail Al-Bukhari (RA): Translation by Ustadha Aisha Bewley

http://www.central-mosque.com/ Page 1 of182

Table of Contents

1: Parents .................................................................................................................................................................... 21

1. Honouring Parents: The Words of Allah Almighty: "We have instructed man to honour his parents." (29:8) . 21

2. Dutifulness to One's Mother .............................................................................................................................. 21

3. Dutifulness to One's Father ................................................................................................................................ 21

4. Dutifulness to Parents, even if they are unjust .................................................................................................. 21

5. Gentle words to Parents ..................................................................................................................................... 22

6. Repaying Parents ................................................................................................................................................ 22

7. Disobedience to Parents ..................................................................................................................................... 22

8. "Allah curses whoever curses his parents" ......................................................................................................... 23

9. Being Dutiful to Parents as long as that does not entail disobedience to Allah................................................. 23

10. The One who Fails his Parents will not enter the Garden ................................................................................ 23

11. Allah prolongs the life of someone who is dutiful towards his parents ........................................................... 23

12. One does not ask forgiveness for his father if he is an idolater ....................................................................... 24

13. Dutifulness towards a parent who is an idolater.............................................................................................. 24

14. A person should not revile his parents ............................................................................................................. 24

15. The punishment for disobeying parents ........................................................................................................... 25

16. Making Parents weep ....................................................................................................................................... 25

17. The Supplication of Parents .............................................................................................................................. 25

18. Offering Islam to a Christian mother ................................................................................................................ 26

19. Dutifulness towards Parents after their Death................................................................................................. 26

20. The Dutifulness of someone who maintains what his father loved ................................................................. 26

21. Do not cut off someone with whom your father maintained ties ................................................................... 26

22. Love is inherited ............................................................................................................................................... 27

23. A man should not call his father by his name nor sit down before him nor walk in front of him ................... 27

24. Can a man call his father by his kunya? ............................................................................................................ 27

2. Ties of Kinship ......................................................................................................................................................... 27

25. The Duty of maintaining ties of kinship ............................................................................................................ 27

26. Maintaining ties of kinship ............................................................................................................................... 27

27. The excellence of maintaining ties of kinship ................................................................................................... 28

28. Maintaining ties of kinship will prolong life ..................................................................................................... 28

29. Allah loves the one who maintains ties of kinship ........................................................................................... 29

30. Being dutiful to the closest relative and then the next closest ........................................................................ 29


2/182



31. Mercy will not descend on people when there is someone among them who severs ties of kinship............. 29

32. The wrong action of someone who severs ties of kinship ............................................................................... 29

33. The punishment of someone who cuts off ties of kinship in this world .......................................................... 30

34. The one who maintains ties of kinship is not the one who reciprocates ......................................................... 30

35. The excellence of someone who maintains relations with relatives who are unjust ...................................... 30

36. Those who maintained ties of kinship in theJahiliyya and then became Muslim ........................................... 30

37. Maintaining ties of kinship with the idolater and giving gifts .......................................................................... 30

38. Learn your lineages so that you can maintain ties of kinship .......................................................................... 30

3. Mawlas .................................................................................................................................................................... 31

39. Can a mawla say, "I am from so-and-so"? ........................................................................................................ 31

40. The mawla of a people is one of them ............................................................................................................. 31

4. Looking after girls ................................................................................................................................................... 31

41. Someone who looks after three or two daughters .......................................................................................... 31

42. Someone who looks after three sisters ............................................................................................................ 32

43. The excellence of someone who looks after his daughter after she has been sent back home...................... 32

44. Disliking for someone to hope for the death of daughters .............................................................................. 32

5. Looking after children ............................................................................................................................................. 32

45. A child is a source of both honour and cowardice ........................................................................................... 32

46. Carrying a child on one's shoulders .................................................................................................................. 32

47. A child is a source of joy ................................................................................................................................... 32

48. A person who makes supplication that his friend will have a lot of money and many children ...................... 33

49. Mothers are merciful ........................................................................................................................................ 33

50. Kissing Children ................................................................................................................................................. 33

51. The parent teaching adab and his duty towards his child ................................................................................ 34

52. The dutifulness of a father to his child ............................................................................................................. 34

53. Someone who does not show mercy will not be shown mercy ....................................................................... 34

54. Mercy consists of a hundred parts ................................................................................................................... 34

6. Neighbours ............................................................................................................................................................. 35

55. The recommendation to be kind to neighbours ............................................................................................... 35

56. The neighbour's due ......................................................................................................................................... 35

57. Begin with the neighbour ................................................................................................................................. 35

58. You give to the neighbour whose door is the nearest to you .......................................................................... 35

59. The nearest and then next nearest neighbour ................................................................................................. 35

60. The person who shuts his door against his neighbour ..................................................................................... 36

61. A person should not eat his fill without seeing to his neighbour ..................................................................... 36


3/182



62. When there is a lot of stew, it is divided between the neighbours ................................................................. 36

63. The best neighbour ........................................................................................................................................... 36

64. The righteous neighbour .................................................................................................................................. 36

65. The bad neighbour ............................................................................................................................................ 36

66. A person should not injure his neighbour ........................................................................................................ 37

67. A woman should not disdain anything which her female neighbour gives her, even if it is only the hooves of

a sheep .................................................................................................................................................................... 37

68. The neighbour's complaint ............................................................................................................................... 37

69. Someone who harms his neighbour until he forces him to leave .................................................................... 38

70. A Jewish neighbour ........................................................................................................................................... 38

7. Generosity and Orphans ......................................................................................................................................... 38

71. Generosity ........................................................................................................................................................ 38

72. Kindness to both the pious and the deviant ..................................................................................................... 38

73. The excellence of someone who provides for an orphan ................................................................................ 39

74. The excellence of someone who provides for his orphan ................................................................................ 39

75. The excellence of someone who provides for an orphan in the company of his parents ............................... 39

76. The best house is a house in which orphans are well treated ......................................................................... 39

77. Be like a merciful father to orphans ................................................................................................................. 39

78. The excellence of a woman who perseveres with her child and does not re-marry ....................................... 40

79. Disciplining an orphan ...................................................................................................................................... 40

8. Children Dying......................................................................................................................................................... 40

80. The excellence of someone whose child has died............................................................................................ 40

81. Someone whose miscarried child dies ............................................................................................................. 41

9. Being a master ........................................................................................................................................................ 41

82. Being a good master ......................................................................................................................................... 41

83. Being a bad owner ............................................................................................................................................ 42

84. Selling a slave among the Bedouins ................................................................................................................. 42

85. Forgiving a slave ............................................................................................................................................... 42

86. When a slave steals .......................................................................................................................................... 42

87. A slave who commits wrong actions ................................................................................................................ 43

88. Someone who finishes something for his slave, fearing people's bad opinion ............................................... 43

89. Someone who counts things for his slave fearing people's opinion ................................................................ 43

90. Disciplining the servant .................................................................................................................................... 43

91. Do not say, "May Allah make your face ugly" .................................................................................................. 4392. Avoid striking the face ...................................................................................................................................... 43


4/182



93. Someone who slaps his slave should free him even though he is under no obligation to do so ..................... 44

94. The qisas (retaliation) of the slave ................................................................................................................... 44

95. "Clothe them from the clothes you yourself wear." ........................................................................................ 45

96. Insulting slaves .................................................................................................................................................. 45

97. Should a person help his slave? ........................................................................................................................ 45

98. Do not burden a slave with work which he is incapable of doing .................................................................... 45

99. A man's maintenance of his slave and servant is sadaqa ................................................................................ 46

100. When someone dislikes eating with his slave ................................................................................................ 46

101. A slave should eat from what his master eats ................................................................................................ 46

102. Does a man's servant sit with him when he eats? ......................................................................................... 46

103. When a slave advises his master .................................................................................................................... 47

104. The slave is a guardian .................................................................................................................................... 47

105. The person who wished he were a slave ........................................................................................................ 47

106. Do not say "'abd" (my slave) .......................................................................................................................... 47

107. Does one say "my master (sayyidi)"? ............................................................................................................. 48

10. Responsibility ........................................................................................................................................................ 48

108. A man is the shepherd of his family ............................................................................................................... 48

109. A woman is a shepherd .................................................................................................................................. 48

110. Someone for whom a favour is done and he repays the favour .................................................................... 48

111. Someone who cannot repay someone should make supplication for him .................................................... 49

112. The one who does not thank people .............................................................................................................. 49

113. A man's maintenance of his brother .............................................................................................................. 49

11. Correctness ........................................................................................................................................................... 49

114. The people of correctness in this world are the people of correctness in the Next World ........................... 49

115. Every correct action is sadaqa........................................................................................................................ 50

116. Removing harmful things................................................................................................................................ 50

117. Correct Words................................................................................................................................................. 50

118. Going out to a vegetable garden and carrying things in a sack on one's shoulder to one's family ............... 51

119. Going out to an estate .................................................................................................................................... 51

12. Dealing with people cheerfully ............................................................................................................................. 51

120. A Muslim is the mirror of his brother ............................................................................................................. 51

121. Playing and joking which is not permitted ..................................................................................................... 52

122. The person who guides to good ..................................................................................................................... 52

123. Excusing and pardoning people ...................................................................................................................... 52

124. Cheerfulness towards people ......................................................................................................................... 52


5/182



125. Smiling ............................................................................................................................................................ 53

126. Laughter .......................................................................................................................................................... 53

127. When he faced someone, he faced him completely, and when he turned away, he turned away completely

................................................................................................................................................................................ 53

13. Consulation ........................................................................................................................................................... 54

128. Someone who is consulted is in a position of trust ........................................................................................ 54

129. Consultation.................................................................................................................................................... 54

130. The wrong action of someone who gives his brother misguided advice ....................................................... 54

14. Dealings with people and good character ............................................................................................................ 54

131. Love between people ..................................................................................................................................... 54

132. Friendship ....................................................................................................................................................... 54

133. Joking .............................................................................................................................................................. 55

134. Joking with a child........................................................................................................................................... 55

135. Good character ............................................................................................................................................... 55

136. The generosity of the self ............................................................................................................................... 56

137. Avarice ............................................................................................................................................................ 56

138. Good character when people have understanding ........................................................................................ 57

139. Miserliness ...................................................................................................................................................... 58

140. Sound property for a sound man ................................................................................................................... 58

141. The person who is secure in his property....................................................................................................... 59

142. Cheerfulness ................................................................................................................................................... 59

143. What is necessary in helping someone in distress ......................................................................................... 59

144. The person who makes supplication to Allah to make his character good .................................................... 60

15. Cursing and Defamation ....................................................................................................................................... 60

245. The believer is not a defamer ......................................................................................................................... 60

246. Someone who curses ...................................................................................................................................... 60

247. The person who curses his slave and then frees him ..................................................................................... 61

248. Cursing one another with the curse of Allah, with the anger of Allah, and with the Fire .............................. 61

249. Cursing an unbeliever ..................................................................................................................................... 61

250. Slander ............................................................................................................................................................ 61

251. Someone who hears about an indecency and then spreads it about ............................................................ 61

252. The fault-finder ............................................................................................................................................... 61

16. Praising People ..................................................................................................................................................... 62

153. What has come about praising people ........................................................................................................... 62154. Someone who praises his companion when he feels safe about him*.......................................................... 62


6/182



155. Throwing dust in the faces of those who praise people ................................................................................ 63

156. The person who praises in poetry .................................................................................................................. 63

157. Giving to a poet when you fear his evil .......................................................................................................... 63

17. Visiting and Guests ............................................................................................................................................... 64

158. Do not honour your guest in a way which will be burdensome for him ........................................................ 64

159. Visiting ............................................................................................................................................................ 64

160. Someone who visits people and eats with them............................................................................................ 64

161. The Excellence of Visiting ............................................................................................................................... 64

162. When a man loves people and cannot join them ........................................................................................... 64

18. The Elderly ............................................................................................................................................................ 65

163. The excellence of the older person ................................................................................................................ 65

164. Respect for the Old ......................................................................................................................................... 65

165. The old person should be the first to speak and ask ...................................................................................... 65

166. When an older person does not speak, can the youngest speak then?......................................................... 65

167. Making the old leaders ................................................................................................................................... 66

19. Children................................................................................................................................................................. 66

168. Fruits are given to the youngest of children ................................................................................................... 66

169. Mercy towards children .................................................................................................................................. 66

170. Embracing children ......................................................................................................................................... 66

171. A man kissing a small girl ................................................................................................................................ 66

172. Stroking a child's head .................................................................................................................................... 67

173. A man saying, "My son" to a child .................................................................................................................. 67

20. Mercy .................................................................................................................................................................... 67

174. The Most Merciful of those in the earth ........................................................................................................ 67

175. Mercy towards the family ............................................................................................................................... 68

176. Mercy to animals ............................................................................................................................................ 68

177. Taking an egg from a small bird ...................................................................................................................... 68

178. Birds in cages .................................................................................................................................................. 68

21. Social Behaviour ................................................................................................................................................... 69

179. Relating good things between people ............................................................................................................ 69

180. A liar is not behaving correctly ....................................................................................................................... 69

181. Someone who is patient when people injure him .......................................................................................... 69

182. Enduring injury ............................................................................................................................................... 69

183. Improving a state of friendship ...................................................................................................................... 69

184. When you lie to a man and he believes you ................................................................................................... 70


7/182



185. Do not make a promise to your brother and then break it ............................................................................ 70

186. Attacking Lineage............................................................................................................................................ 70

187. A man's love for his people ............................................................................................................................ 70

22. Separation ............................................................................................................................................................. 70

188. Separating oneself from people ..................................................................................................................... 70

189. Separating oneself from Muslims ................................................................................................................... 71

190. A person who cuts himself off from his brother for a year ............................................................................ 71

191. Those who refuse to speak to one another.................................................................................................... 72

192. Generosity ...................................................................................................................................................... 72

193. The salam makes up for shunning .................................................................................................................. 72

23. Advice ................................................................................................................................................................... 73

194. Separating young people ................................................................................................................................ 73

195. Someone giving advice to his brother when he has not been asked for advice ............................................ 73

196. The person who dislikes bad .......................................................................................................................... 73

197. What was mentioned about tricks and deception ......................................................................................... 73

24. Defamation ........................................................................................................................................................... 73

198. Defamation ..................................................................................................................................................... 73

199. Giving water .................................................................................................................................................... 73

200. When two people revile one another, the responsibility for what they say rests on the first to speak ....... 74

201. Those who revile one another are two shaytans who accuse one another and deny one another .............. 74

202. Reviling a Muslim is deviant behaviour .......................................................................................................... 74

203. Someone who does not say things directly to people ................................................................................... 75

204. When someone calls someone else a hypocrite without meaning it literally................................................ 75

205. Someone says calls his brother an unbeliever ............................................................................................... 75

206. The gloating of enemies ................................................................................................................................. 76

25. Extravagance in Building ....................................................................................................................................... 76

207. Extravagance in Property ................................................................................................................................ 76

208. Those who squander ...................................................................................................................................... 76

209. Improving Houses ........................................................................................................................................... 76

210. Building expenses ........................................................................................................................................... 76

211. A man working with his workers .................................................................................................................... 76

212. Making buildings tall ....................................................................................................................................... 77

213. The person who builds ................................................................................................................................... 77

214. A spacious dwelling ........................................................................................................................................ 77

215. A person who has upper rooms ..................................................................................................................... 77


8/182



216. Painting buildings ........................................................................................................................................... 78

26. Compassion .......................................................................................................................................................... 78

217. Compassion .................................................................................................................................................... 78

218. Compassion in livelihood ................................................................................................................................ 79

219. What a slave is given for compassion ............................................................................................................. 79

220. Calming ........................................................................................................................................................... 79

221. Harshness ....................................................................................................................................................... 79

27. Attending to this world ......................................................................................................................................... 79

222. Putting Property in Order ............................................................................................................................... 80

223. The supplication of the one who is wronged ................................................................................................. 80

224. Asking Allah for provision because of His words, "Provide for us and You are Best of Providers."............... 80

28. Injustice................................................................................................................................................................. 80

225. Injustice is Darkness ....................................................................................................................................... 80

29. Illness and visiting those who are ill ..................................................................................................................... 82

226. The expiation of someone who is ill ............................................................................................................... 82

229. Is it a complaint when a sick person says, "I am in pain"? ............................................................................. 82

230. Visiting someone who has fainted ................................................................................................................. 83

231. Visiting children who are ill ............................................................................................................................ 83

232. Chapter ........................................................................................................................................................... 83

233. Visiting Bedouins ............................................................................................................................................ 83

234. Visiting the sick ............................................................................................................................................... 83

235. Someone who visits a sick person making supplication that he will get well ................................................ 84

236. The excellence of visiting someone who is ill ................................................................................................. 84

237. The hadith about the person who is ill and the person who visits him ......................................................... 85

238. Someone who prays in the presence of a sick person ................................................................................... 85

239. Visiting a mushrik ........................................................................................................................................... 85

240. What to say to someone who is ill.................................................................................................................. 85

241. What the sick person answers ........................................................................................................................ 86

242. Visiting someone who is a deviant (fasiq) ...................................................................................................... 86

243. Women visiting a man who is ill ..................................................................................................................... 86

244. Someone who dislikes for visitors to look at other things in his house ......................................................... 86

245. Visiting someone with eye trouble ................................................................................................................. 86

246. Where does should a person sit when he visits a sick person?...................................................................... 86

30.General Behaviour ................................................................................................................................................. 87

247. What a man does in his house ........................................................................................................................ 87


9/182



248. When a man has love for his brother he should tell him ............................................................................... 87

249. When someone has love for a person, he should not quarrel with him not ask about him .......................... 87

250. The intellect is located in the heart ................................................................................................................ 88

251. Pride ................................................................................................................................................................ 88

252. Someone who takes revenge for injustice ..................................................................................................... 89

253. Mutual help in scarcity and famine ................................................................................................................ 89

254. Trials ............................................................................................................................................................... 90

255. Someone who feeds one of his brothers for Allah ......................................................................................... 90

256. The Alliance of theJahiliyya ........................................................................................................................... 90

257. Brotherhood ................................................................................................................................................... 90

258. There is no alliance in Islam ............................................................................................................................ 91

259. Someone seeking the blessing of the rain when it first begins to fall ............................................................ 91

260. Sheep are a blessing ....................................................................................................................................... 91

261. Camels are a cause of pride in their owners .................................................................................................. 91

262. A man going back to live as a Bedouin ........................................................................................................... 92

263. Someone who lives in villages ........................................................................................................................ 92

264. Going out to water-courses ............................................................................................................................ 92

265. Someone who wants to conceal secrets and to sit with a group of people and recognise their qualities .... 92

266. Deliberation in Affairs ..................................................................................................................................... 92

267. Deliberation in Affairs ..................................................................................................................................... 93

268. Tyrannical Behaviour ...................................................................................................................................... 93

269. Accepting gifts ................................................................................................................................................ 94

270. Someone who does not accept a gift when there is hatred towards people ................................................ 94

271. Modesty .......................................................................................................................................................... 94

31. Supplication .......................................................................................................................................................... 95

272. What to say in the morning ............................................................................................................................ 95

273. Someone who uses other supplications ......................................................................................................... 95

274. Sincere supplication ........................................................................................................................................ 95

275. Be firm in supplication, for Allah cannot be forced ........................................................................................ 96

276. Raising the hands in supplication ................................................................................................................... 96

277. The best way of asking for forgiveness .......................................................................................................... 97

278. The supplication for someone when he is absent .......................................................................................... 97

279. Chapter ........................................................................................................................................................... 98

280. The prayer on the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ......................................................... 99


10/182



281. Someone who hears the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, mentioned in his presence

and does not bless him ........................................................................................................................................... 99

282. A man's supplication for someone who has wronged him .......................................................................... 100

284. Someone say says, "A person is given an answer as long as he does not seek to hasten it" ....................... 101

285. Someone who seeks refuge in Allah from laziness....................................................................................... 101

286. Allah is angry with the person who does not ask Allah ................................................................................ 101

287. Supplication in the battle ranks in the Cause of Allah .................................................................................. 101

288. The supplications of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ............................................. 101

289. Supplication in heavy rain and ordinary rain ................................................................................................ 104

290. Supplication for death .................................................................................................................................. 104

291. The supplications of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ............................................. 104

292. Supplication in affliction ............................................................................................................................... 105

293. Supplication in the Istikhara......................................................................................................................... 106

294. When one is in fear of the ruler ................................................................................................................... 106

295. The reward and wage stored up for a person who makes supplication ...................................................... 107

296. The excellence of supplication ..................................................................................................................... 107

32. Guests and Spending .......................................................................................................................................... 108

316. A man serving his guest himself ................................................................................................................... 108

317. Someone who brings his guest food and then stands up to pray ................................................................ 108

318. A man spending on his family ....................................................................................................................... 108

319. There is a reward for everything, even the morsel given to a wife .............................................................. 109

320. Supplication in the last third of the night ..................................................................................................... 109

33. Speech ................................................................................................................................................................ 109

321. Someone's words, "So-and-so with the curly black hair" or someone "tall" or "short" when he intends to

describe him and does not mean to slander him ................................................................................................. 109

322. Someone who does not see any harm in a historical story .......................................................................... 110

323. Someone who shields a Muslim ................................................................................................................... 110

324. Someone saying, "People are destroyed." ................................................................................................... 110

325. Do not call a hypocrite "master (sayyid)" ..................................................................................................... 110

326. What someone says when he is praised ...................................................................................................... 110

327. One should not say about something he does not know, "Allah knows it" ................................................. 111

328. The rainbow .................................................................................................................................................. 111

329. The Milky Way .............................................................................................................................................. 111

330. Someone who dislikes for it to be said, "O Allah, place me in the Abiding Abode of Your mercy" ............. 111

331. Do not curse time ......................................................................................................................................... 111


11/182



332. A man should not look sharply at his brother when he turns away ............................................................ 111

333. Someone saying to someone else, "Bother you" ......................................................................................... 111

334. Building ......................................................................................................................................................... 112

335. A man saying, No, by your father" ................................................................................................................ 112

336. When a person seeks something, he should ask for something small and not praise the person .............. 113

337. Someone's words, "May the one who hates you not have good!" .............................................................. 113

338. Someone should not say, "Allah and so-and-so" ......................................................................................... 113

339. Someone saying, "What Allah wills and you will" ........................................................................................ 113

340. Singing and Play ............................................................................................................................................ 113

341. Guidance and good behaviour ..................................................................................................................... 114

342. When news comes to you from someone you do not furnish with travel provisions ................................. 114

343. Wishing which is disliked .............................................................................................................................. 114

344. Do not call the grape "kurm" ........................................................................................................................ 114

345. Someone saying, "Bother you" ..................................................................................................................... 115

346. Someone saying, "O person!" ....................................................................................................................... 115

347. Someone saying, "I am lazy" ......................................................................................................................... 115

348. Someone who seeks refuge from laziness ................................................................................................... 115

349. Someone's words, "May my self be your ransom!" ..................................................................................... 115

350. A man saying, "May my father and mother be my ransom" ........................................................................ 116

351. A man saying, "My son" to someone whose father did not become Muslim .............................................. 116

352. Someone should not say, "khabuthat nafsi"* (an expression meaning "I am overcome with nausea") ..... 116

34. Names ................................................................................................................................................................. 116

353. The kunya Abu'l-Hakam ................................................................................................................................ 116

354. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, liked good names ................................................ 117

355. Swiftness in walking ...................................................................................................................................... 117

356. The names which Allah Almighty loves the most ......................................................................................... 117

357. Changing one name to another .................................................................................................................... 117

358. The name which Allah Almighty hates the most .......................................................................................... 117

359. Someone who calls another person using the diminutive of his name ....................................................... 118

360. Calling someone by the name he loves the most ......................................................................................... 118

361. Changing the name 'Asiya (meaning "rebellious") ....................................................................................... 118

362. Surm (meaning "separation") ....................................................................................................................... 118

363. Ghurab (meaning "crow")............................................................................................................................. 118

364. Shihab (meaning "flame")............................................................................................................................. 119

365. Al-'As (meaning "rebel") ............................................................................................................................... 119


12/182



366. Someone who calls his companion and shortens or leaves out part of his name ....................................... 119

367. Zahm (meaning "crowd") ............................................................................................................................. 119

368. Barra (meaning "pious") ............................................................................................................................... 119

369. Aflah (meaning "most successful") ............................................................................................................... 120

370. Rabah (meaning "profit") ............................................................................................................................. 120

371. The Names of the Prophets .......................................................................................................................... 120

372. Hazn (meaning "rough") ............................................................................................................................... 120

36. Kunyas ................................................................................................................................................................. 121

373. The Prophet's name and kunya, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ................................................ 121

374. Can one use a kunya for an idolater? ........................................................................................................... 121

375. A kunya for a child ........................................................................................................................................ 121

376. Having a kunya before having a child ........................................................................................................... 121

377. Kunyas for women ........................................................................................................................................ 121

378. Someone who gives a man of kunya because of something he is doing or with one of their names ......... 122

379. How does a person walk with the great men and people of superiority ..................................................... 122

380. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 122

36. Poetry ................................................................................................................................................................. 122

381. There is some wisdom in poetry .................................................................................................................. 122

382. The good in poetry is like the good in words while some of it is bad .......................................................... 123

383. Someone who recites poetry ........................................................................................................................ 123

384. Someone who dislikes for someone to be dominated by poetry ................................................................ 123

385. Someone saying, "There is magic in eloquence" .......................................................................................... 124

386. Poetry which is disliked ................................................................................................................................ 124

37. Words ................................................................................................................................................................. 124

387. Too Many Words .......................................................................................................................................... 124

388. Wishing ......................................................................................................................................................... 124

389. When someone says, "It is a sea" about a man, thing or horse ................................................................... 125

390. Beating someone for grammatical mistakes ................................................................................................ 125

391. Someone describing something by saying, "It is nothing," meaning that it is not true ............................... 125

392. Indirect Allusion ............................................................................................................................................ 125

393. Divulging secrets ........................................................................................................................................... 125

394. Mockery ........................................................................................................................................................ 126

38. General Behaviour .............................................................................................................................................. 126

395. Deliberation in things ................................................................................................................................... 126

396. Someone who guides down an alley or on a path ....................................................................................... 126


13/182



397. Someone who misguides a blind person ...................................................................................................... 126

398. Tyranny (baghy) ............................................................................................................................................ 126

399. The punishment for outrage......................................................................................................................... 126

400. Noble descent ............................................................................................................................................... 127

401. The arwah (spirits) are a massed army ........................................................................................................ 127

402. A man saying, "Glory be to Allah!" when he is amazed ............................................................................... 127

403. Wiping the ground with the hand ................................................................................................................ 128

404. Slings ............................................................................................................................................................. 128

405. Do not curse the wind .................................................................................................................................. 128

39. Omens ................................................................................................................................................................. 128

406. Someone's words, "We have been given rain by the rising of such-and-such and such-and-such (a star)" 128

407. What someone says when he sees clouds ................................................................................................... 128

408. The bad omen (tayyra) ............................................................................................................................... 129

409. The excellence of someone who does not take note of omens ................................................................... 129

410. Bad omens taken from the jinn .................................................................................................................... 129

411. Good Omens ................................................................................................................................................. 129

412. Seeing blessing in a good name .................................................................................................................... 129

413. Bad luck in horses ......................................................................................................................................... 129

40. Sneezing and Yawning ........................................................................................................................................ 130

414. The Sneeze .................................................................................................................................................... 130

415. What to say when you sneeze ...................................................................................................................... 130

416. Wishing mercy on the sneezer ..................................................................................................................... 130

417. When you hear a sneeze, you should say, "Praise be to Allah" ................................................................... 131

418. How to wish for mercy on a person when you hear a sneeze ..................................................................... 131

419. When someone does not praise Allah, do not wish mercy on him .............................................................. 131

420. What should someone who sneezes say first? ............................................................................................. 132

421. Someone who says, "May Allah have mercy on you if you praised Allah." ................................................. 132

422. Do not say, "Ab" ........................................................................................................................................... 132

423. When someone sneezes several times......................................................................................................... 132

424. When a Jew sneezes ..................................................................................................................................... 132

425. How a man wishes mercy on a woman when she sneezes .......................................................................... 132

426. Yawning ........................................................................................................................................................ 133

427. Someone who says, "At your service (Labbayk)" when he answers ............................................................ 133

429. A man standing up for someone sitting down ............................................................................................. 133

430. When someone yawns, he should put his hand over his mouth ................................................................. 133


14/182



41. Gestures .............................................................................................................................................................. 134

431. Should anyone delouse someone else's head .............................................................................................. 134

432. Shaking the head and biting the lip when surprised .................................................................................... 134

433. A man striking his hand on his thigh when he is amazed or for some other reason ................................... 134

434. When a man strikes his brother's thigh and does not intend anything bad by it ........................................ 135

435. The person who dislikes people sitting and rising for him ........................................................................... 136

436. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 136

437. What a man says when his foot goes to sleep ............................................................................................. 136

42. Greetings ............................................................................................................................................................ 137

438. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 137

439. Shaking hands with children ......................................................................................................................... 137

440. Shaking Hands ............................................................................................................................................... 137

441. A woman stroking a child's head .................................................................................................................. 137

443. A man kissing his daughter ........................................................................................................................... 138

444. Kissing the hand ............................................................................................................................................ 138

445. Kissing the Foot ............................................................................................................................................. 138

446. A man rising out of respect for another man ............................................................................................... 138

447. Giving the greeting first ................................................................................................................................ 138

448. Giving the greeting to people ....................................................................................................................... 139

449. The person who greets first .......................................................................................................................... 139

450. The excellence of the greeting ..................................................................................................................... 139

451. Peace (as-Salam) is one of the Name so Allah ............................................................................................. 140

452. It is a duty for one Muslim to greet another Muslim when he meets him .................................................. 140

453. Someone walking greets the person sitting down ....................................................................................... 140

454. The person riding greets the person sitting ................................................................................................. 140

455. Does the person walking greet the person riding? ...................................................................................... 141

456. A small group greets the large group ........................................................................................................... 141

457. The young person greets the old .................................................................................................................. 141

458. The end of the greeting ................................................................................................................................ 141

459. The person who greets by a gesture ............................................................................................................ 141

460. Make it heard when you greet ..................................................................................................................... 141

461. Someone who goes out, greets and is greeted ............................................................................................ 141

462. The greeting when someone comes to a gathering ..................................................................................... 142

463. The greeting when someone leaves a gathering .......................................................................................... 142

464. The duty of someone who gives the greeting when he stands up ............................................................... 142


15/182



465. The person who oils his hand for the handshake ......................................................................................... 142

466. Greeting those you know and those you do not know ................................................................................ 142

467. Chapter ......................................................................................................................................................... 142

468. Do not greet a deviant person ...................................................................................................................... 143

469. Not greeting a man wearing khaluq-perfume and those in rebellion (against Allah) .................................. 143

470. Greeting the Amir ......................................................................................................................................... 143

471. Greeting someone asleep ............................................................................................................................. 144

472. May Allah preserve you ................................................................................................................................ 144

473. Welcome ....................................................................................................................................................... 145

474. How to return the greeting .......................................................................................................................... 145

475. Someone who does not return the greeting ................................................................................................ 145

476. Someone who is miserly with the greeting .................................................................................................. 146

477. The Greeting to Children .............................................................................................................................. 146

478. Women greeting men ................................................................................................................................... 146

479. Greeting women ........................................................................................................................................... 146

480. Someone who dislikes to greet a particular person ..................................................................................... 146

43. Asking permission to enter ................................................................................................................................. 147

481. How was the Ayat of Veiling revealed? ........................................................................................................ 147

482. Three times of nakedness ............................................................................................................................. 147

483. A man eating with his wife ........................................................................................................................... 147

484. When someone enters a house which is uninhabited ................................................................................. 147

485. "Those you own as slaves should ask your permission to enter" (24:56) .................................................... 148

486. The words of Allah, "Once your children have reached puberty" (24:57) ................................................... 148

487. Someone asking permission to come in to visit his mother ......................................................................... 148

488. Asking permission to enter where one's father is ........................................................................................ 148

489. Asking permission to go in to one's father and one's child .......................................................................... 148

490. Asking a sister's permission to enter ............................................................................................................ 148

491. Asking your brother for permission to enter ................................................................................................ 149

492. Asking permission three times ..................................................................................................................... 149

493. Asking permission to enter is not a greeting ................................................................................................ 149

494. When someone looks without permission, his eye is gouged out ............................................................... 149

495. Asking permission without looking............................................................................................................... 149

496. When a man greets another man in his room.............................................................................................. 149

497. A man's invitation is his permission ............................................................................................................. 150

498. How does someone stand at a door ............................................................................................................. 150


16/182



499. When someone asks permission to enter, he says, "When shall I leave? Where shall I sit?" ..................... 150

500. Knocking on a door ....................................................................................................................................... 151

501. When someone enters without having asked permission ........................................................................... 151

502. When someone says, "Can I come in?" and does not give a greeting ......................................................... 151

503. How to ask permission to enter ................................................................................................................... 151

504. The one who says, "Who is it?" and is answered, "Me"............................................................................... 151

505. When someone asks permission, he is told, "Enter with peace" ................................................................. 152

506. Looking into houses ...................................................................................................................................... 152

507. The excellence of someone who enters his house saying "Peace" .............................................................. 152

508. When someone does not mention Allah when he enters his house, shaytan spends the night in it .......... 152

509. What one is not given permission for .......................................................................................................... 153

510. Asking permission in shops in the market .................................................................................................... 153

511. How to ask permission from Persians .......................................................................................................... 153

44. The People of the Book ...................................................................................................................................... 153

512. When a dhimmiwrites and gives the greeting, he is answered ................................................................... 153

513. A person greeting a dhimmiwith a gesture ................................................................................................. 153

515. How to answer dhimmis............................................................................................................................... 154

516. The greeting to the gathering which includes both Muslims and idolaters ................................................. 154

517. How does one write to the People of the Book? ......................................................................................... 154

518. When the People of the Book say, "Poison be upon you" ........................................................................... 154

519. The People of the Book are forced to the narrowest part of the road ........................................................ 154

520. How to make supplication for a dhimmi...................................................................................................... 154

521. When

Documents

Al-Adab Al-Mufrad: By Imam Bukhari (RA)