Hadeeth 29 : That which Enters One into Paradise
Abu Musa
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Hadeeth 29 : That which Enters One into Paradise
عن معاذ بن جبل رضي الله عنه ، قال : قلت : يا رسول الله ! أخبرني بعمل يدخلني الجنه ويباعدني عن النار ، قال : ( لقد سألت عن عظيم ، وإنه ليسير على من يسره الله عليه : تعبد الله لا تشرك به شيئاَ ، وتقيم الصلاة ، وتؤتي الزكاة ، وتصوم رمضان ، وتحج البيت ) ثم قال : ( ألا أدلك على أبواب الخير ؟: الصوم جنة ، والصدقة تطفىء الخطيئة كما يطفىء الماء النار ، وصلاة الرجل في جوف الليل ) ثم تلا : { تتجافى جنوبهم عن المضاجع } حتى بلغ { يعملون } [ 32 سورة السجدة / الأيتان : 16 و 17 ] ثم قال : ( ألا أخبرك برأس الأمر وعموده وذروة سنامه ؟ ) قلت : بلى يا رسول الله ، قال : ( رأس الأمر الإسلام ، وعموده الصلاة ، وذروة سنامه الجهاد ) ثم قال : ( ألا أخبرك بملا ذلك كله ؟ ) فقلت : بلى يا رسول الله ! فأخذ بلسانه وقال : ( كف عليك هذا )، قلت : يا نبي الله وإنما لمؤاخذون بما نتكلم به ؟ فقال : ( ثكلتك أمك وهل يكب الناس في النار على وجوههم –أو قال : (على مناخرهم )- إلا حصائد ألسنتهم ؟!). |
On the authority of Mu'aadh bin Jabal (radiAllaahu anhu) who said :
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I said : O Messenger of Allaah, tell me of an act which will take me into Paradise and will keep me away from the Hell Fire. He said : You have asked me about a great matter, yet it is easy for him for whom Allaah makes it easy : Worship Allaah, without associating any partners with Him; establish the Prayer; pay the Zakaah; fast in Ramadaan; and make the Pilgrimage to the House. Then he said : Shall I not guide you towards the Means of Goodness ? Fasting is a shield; charity wipes away sin as water extinguishes fire; and the Praying of a man in the depths of the Night. Then he recited :"[Those] who forsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend (charity in Allaah's Cause) out of what We have bestowed on them. No person knows what is kept hidden for them of joy as a reward for what they used to do." [Soorah as-Sajdah, 16-17] Then he said : Shall I not inform you of the head of the matter, its pillar and its peak ? I said : Yes, O Messenger of Allaah. He said : The head of the matter is Islaam, its pillar is the Prayer and its peak is jihaad. Then he said : Shall I not tell you of the foundation of all of that ? I said : Yes, O Mesenger of Allaah. So he took hold of his tongue and said : Restrain this. I said : O Prophet of Allaah, will we be taken to account for what we say with it ? He said : May your mother be bereaved of you, O Mu'aadh ! Is there anything that throws people into the Hell Fire upon their faces - or : on their noses - except the harvests of their tongues ? |
It was related by at-Tirmidhee, who said it was a good and sound hadeeth.
Lesson:
- That seeking Paradise and seeking to be saved from the Fire is a matter of great importance and seriousness, and this concern should have the correct priority in our lives
- That this hadeeth confirms that if one fulfils the requirements of all the five pillars of Islaam then one is guaranteed Paradise
- That the first pillar incorporates abiding by all the compulsory acts and avoiding all that which is forbidden
- That living Islaam is easy when Allaah makes it so
- That the five pillars constitute the indivisible whole that is Islaam; therefore denying any one of them is Kufr that bars us from Paradise
- That fasting, giving in charity and praying Tahajjud lead to goodness in this world and the next
- That fasting protects us from sins, develops in us piety, thus acting as a shield against the Fire and evil in this world
- That giving in charity wipes out our sins
- That praying Tahajjud develops us spiritually and makes our islaam stronger and more sincere
- That the head of our affair in life is living Islaam
- That the Prayer is the central pillar that holds up our Islaam, and without which there is no Islaam in our lives
- That the peak of Islaam is Jihaad in the Way of Allaah, and this is the highest form of Worship
- That one must use ones tongue with extreme caution, as wrongful use of speech will be held against us on the Day of Judgement and can land us in Hell Fire
- The Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) did not mean the words "May your mother be bereaved of you" as a literal supplication, but it was a custom of the arabs
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There are seven whom Allah will shade in His Shade on the Day when there
is no shade except His Shade: a just ruler; a youth who grew up in the
worship of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic; a man whose heart is attached
to the mosques; two men who love each other for Allah's sake, meeting
for that and parting upon that; a man who is called by a woman of beauty
and position [for illegal intercourse], but he says: 'I fear Allah', a
man who gives in charity and hides it, such that his left hand does not
know what his right hand gives in charity; and a man who remembered
Allah in private and so his
eyes shed tears.' Narrated by Abu Hurairah & collected in Sahih al-Bukhari (english trans.) vol.1, p.356, no.629 & Sahih Muslim (english trans.) vol.2, p.493, no.2248 |