Hadith in the Character Category
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Anas b. Malik (Radiyallaahu `anhu) reported Allah’s Messenger (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“Neither nurse mutual hatred, nor jealousy, nor enmity, and become as fellow brothers and servants of Allah. It is not lawful for a Muslim that he should keep his relations estranged with his brother beyond three days.”
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Abu Hurairah (Radiyallaahu `anhu) reported Allah’s Messenger (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“The servant speaks words that he does not understand its repercussions but he sinks down in Hell-Fire farther than the distance between the east and the west.”
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Narrated Jarir bin ‘Abdullah (Radiyallaahu `anhu) reported The Prophet (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“He who is not merciful to others, will not be treated mercifully.”
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Salim reported on the authority of his father (Radiyallaahu `anhum) that Allah’s Messenger (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“A Muslim is the brother of a fellow-Muslim. He should neither commit oppression upon him nor ruin him, and he who meets the need of a brother, Allah would meet big needs, and he who relieved a Muslim from hardship Allah would relieve him from the hardships to which he would be put on the Day of Resurrection, and he who did not expose (the follies of a Muslim) Allah would conceal his …
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Abu Hurairah (Radiyallaahu `anhu) reported Allah’s last Messenger (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“Do you know what is backbiting?”
They (the Companions) said:
“Allah and His Messenger know best.”
Thereupon he (the Prophet) said:
“Backbiting implies your talking about your brother in a manner which he does not like.”
It was said to him:
“What is your opinion about this that if I actually find (that failing) in my brother which I made a mention of?”
He said:
“If (that failing) is actually found (in him) what you assert, you in fact backbited him, …
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Abu Hurairah (Radiyallaahu `anhu) reported Allah’s Apostle (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“The servant (who conceals) the faults of others in this world, Allah would conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.”
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Nu’man b. Bashir reported that the Last Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said:
“The similitude of believers in regard to mutual love, affection, fellow-feeling is that of one body; when any limb of it aches, the whole body aches, because of sleeplessness and fever.”
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Muadh ibn Jabal (Radiyallaahu `anhu) said, “The last advice the Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) gave me when I put my foot in the stirrup was that he said,
“Make your character good for the people, Muadh ibn Jabal!””
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Anas ibn Malik (Radiyallaahu `anhu) the last Prophet of God (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said,
“If a young man honours an older person on account of his age, Allah appoints someone to show reverence to him in his old age”



