Nawawī’s Arbaýīn

A Collection of Forty Traditions of the Prophet ﷺ

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To Enter Paradise - Hadith 22

عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا: أَنَّ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم فَقَالَ: أَرَأَيْت إذَا صَلَّيْت الْمَكْتُوبَاتِ، وَصُمْت رَمَضَانَ، وَأَحْلَلْت الْحَلَالَ، وَحَرَّمْت الْحَرَامَ، وَلَمْ أَزِدْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا؛ أَأَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ قَالَ: نَعَمْ . رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ

Narrated by Abū Ábdullāh Jābir ibn Ábdullāh al-Anşārī radiyAllāhu Anhu that a man asked RasūlAllāh ﷺ: If I regularly pray the [five] obligatory prayers, fast in the month of Ramađān, accept the permissible as permissible and deem the forbidden as forbidden, and do nothing more [than this]; will I enter Jannah?

[The Prophet ﷺ] said: Yes.

Reported by Muslim. [1]

[Imām Nawawī’s note:] The meaning of “deem the forbidden as forbidden” is “if I abstain from committing acts that are forbidden”; also the meaning of “accept the permissible” means “If I do it with the belief that it is permitted to do so”.

Notes:

[1] Muslim 15.

References:

1. Nawawī’s Arbaýīn, Collection of Forty Traditions of the Prophet ﷺ, Hadith 22

[ English Translation ]

Mawlana Abu Hasan Ridawi,

Ridawi Press.