Sunan Ibn Majah 4199
Protecting (one's) deeds (by fearing their non-acceptance)
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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ رَبٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ كَالْوِعَاءِ إِذَا طَابَ أَسْفَلُهُ طَابَ أَعْلاَهُ وَإِذَا فَسَدَ أَسْفَلُهُ فَسَدَ أَعْلاَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUthmān b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿImrān al-Dimashqī
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- Abū ʿAbd Rab
- Muʿāwiyah b. Abū Sufyān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘Deeds are like vessels. If the lower part is good then the upper part will be good, and if the lower part is bad then the upper part will be bad.’”
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| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |