Between Prayers / PART TWO — THE ORDINARY SINS
The Tongue
Your good deeds are not safe from your conversation. Every exchange creates a creditor.
What this chapter turns on
- "Do you know what backbiting is?" They said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "It is your mentioning of your brother …Narrated from Abū Hurayrah. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2589 (Kitāb al-Birr wa'ṣ-Ṣilah).
- "And is there anything that topples people into the Fire upon their faces except the harvests of their tongues?"Narrated from Muʿādh ibn Jabal. Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 2616 (Kitāb al-Īmān); graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī.
- "Do you know who the bankrupt one is?" They said: "The bankrupt among us is one with no money and no property." He ﷺ said: "The ba…Narrated from Abū Hurayrah. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2581 (Kitāb al-Birr).
- "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him speak good or remain silent."Narrated from Abū Hurayrah. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6018 (Kitāb al-Adab); also Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (muttafaq ʿalayh).
