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"And is there anything that topples people into the Fire upon their faces except the harvests of their tongues?"

وَهَلْ يَكُبُّ النَّاسَ فِي النَّارِ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ أَوْ عَلَى مَنَاخِرِهِمْ إِلاَّ حَصَائِدُ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ

Narrated from Muʿādh ibn Jabal. Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 2616 (Kitāb al-Īmān); graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī.

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In The Tongue

Muʿādh ibn Jabal asked the Prophet ﷺ what would save him, and the answer came to rest here:

Ḥaṣā'id — harvests. A harvest is not a seed. It is the gathered yield of a whole season of planting, brought in at the end and weighed all at once. That is the valley and the twigs once more, and it is why a sin so light can carry a warning so heavy.

And then there is the hadith that ought to frighten any man confident that his worship covers him:

"And is there anything that topples people into the Fire upon their faces except the harvests of their tongues
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