Nawawī’s Arbaýīn

A Collection of Forty Traditions of the Prophet ﷺ

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Good Counsel - Hadith 7

عَنْ أَبِي رُقَيَّةَ تَمِيمِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ الدَّارِيِّ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ. قُلْنَا: لِمَنْ؟ قَالَ: لِلَّهِ، وَلِكِتَابِهِ، وَلِرَسُولِهِ، وَلِأَئِمَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَعَامَّتِهِمْ. رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ

Abū Ruqayyah Tamīm ibn Aws al-Dārī radiyAllāhu Anhu has narrated that RasūlAllāh ﷺ has said:

“Religion is good counsel.”

And we asked: “[Counsel] for whom?”

He replied: “[Counsel] for Allāh, for His Book, for His Messenger, for the leaders of Muslims, and their commonfolk.”

This ĥadīth is reported by Muslim. [1]

Notes:

[1] Şaĥīĥ Muslim 55.

References:

1. Nawawī’s Arbaýīn, Collection of Forty Traditions of the Prophet ﷺ, Hadith 7

[ English Translation ]

Mawlana Abu Hasan Ridawi,

Ridawi Press.