Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2616

Translation

I was with the Prophet ﷺ on a journey, and one morning I found myself close to him while we were traveling. I said, "O Messenger of Allah, inform me of a deed that will admit me into Paradise and keep me far from the Fire." He said: "You have asked me about a great matter, yet it is easy for one for whom Allah makes it easy: (1) you worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him, (2) you establish prayer, (3) you give zakah, (4) you fast Ramadan, and (5) you perform Hajj to the House." Then he said: "Shall I not direct you to the gates of goodness? (1) Fasting is a shield, (2) charity extinguishes sin just as water extinguishes fire, and (3) a man's prayer in the depths of the night." He said: Then he recited, "Their sides draw away from their beds," until he reached, "what they used to do." Then he said: "Shall I not inform you of the head of the whole matter, its pillar, and the peak of its hump?" I said, "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "The head of the matter is Islam, its pillar is prayer, and the peak of its hump is jihad." Then he said: "Shall I not inform you of what holds all of that together?" I said, "Yes, O Prophet of Allah." He said: He took hold of his tongue and said: "Restrain this for yourself." I said, "O Prophet of Allah, will we really be taken to account for what we speak?" He said: "May your mother lose you, O Muadh! Does anything throw people into the Fire on their faces" or "on their noses except the harvests of their tongues?"

Notes

• Abu Isa said: This is a hasan sahih hadith.

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ. [السجدة 16-17]

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن صحيح

  machine translationThis is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2841
• al-Tirmidhi

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2841
• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن صحيح

  machine translationA good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2841

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 29عَن معَاذ بن جبل قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي سفر فَأَصْبَحت يَوْمًا قَرِيبا مِنْهُ وَنحن نسير فَقلت يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ يُدْخِلُنِي الْجَنَّةَ وَيُبَاعِدنِي عَن النَّار قَالَ لقد س
• Arba'in Nawawi 29لَقَدْ سَأَلْت عَنْ عَظِيمٍ، وَإِنَّهُ لَيَسِيرٌ عَلَى مَنْ يَسَّرَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ: تَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِهِ شَيْئًا، وَتُقِيمُ الصَّلَاةَ، وَتُؤْتِي الزَّكَاةَ، وَتَصُومُ رَمَضَانَ، وَتَحُجُّ الْبَيْتَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَلَا أَد
• Riyadhus Shalihin 1522: قلت يا رسول الله: أخبرني بعمل يدخلني الجنة، ويباعدني من النار؟ قال: "لقد سألت عن عظيم، وإنه ليسير على من يسره الله تعالى عليه: تعبد الله لا تشرك به شيئًا، وتقيم الصلاة، وتؤتي الزكاة، وتصوم رمضان وتحج البيت إن استطعت إليه سبيلا ثم قال: ألا
• Sunan Ibnu Majah 3973كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي سَفَرٍ فَأَصْبَحْتُ يَوْمًا قَرِيبًا مِنْهُ وَنَحْنُ نَسِيرُ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ يُدْخِلُنِي الْجَنَّةَ وَيُبَاعِدُنِي مِنَ النَّارِ قَالَ لَقَدْ سَأَلْتَ عَظِيمًا وَإِنَّهُ لَيَسِي

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 2230Sunan Ibn Majah 1639Sahih Ibn Hibban 3416al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2552al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3240al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3241

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿādh b. Jabal

   well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AH
   مُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   أَبِي وَائِلٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٍثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Muʿādh al-Ṣanʿānī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 181 AH, or before 190 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الصَّنْعَانِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Abī ʿUmar

   Truthful (ṣadūq); he compiled a Musnad and was a close companion of Ibn ʿUyaynah; but Abū Ḥātim said: He had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 243 AH, also said: 244 AH
   ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَصدوق ، صنف المسند ، وكان لازم ابن عيينة ، لكن قال أبو حاتم : كانت فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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