Narrated Muawiyah: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: If you search for the faults of the people, you will corrupt them, or will nearly corrupt them. Abud Darda said: These are the words which Muawiyah himself from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, and Allah benefited him by them.
Read More..Narrated Miqdam ibn Madikarib ; Abu Umamah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When a ruler seeks to make imputations against the people, he corrupts them.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Masud: Zayd ibn Wahb said: A man was brought to Ibn Masud. He was told: This is so and so, and wine was dropping from his beard. Abdullah thereupon said: We have been prohibited to seek out (faults). If anything becomes manifest to us, we shall seize it.
Read More..Narrated Uqbah ibn Amir: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who sees something which should be kept hidden and conceals it will be like one who has brought to life a girl buried alive.
Read More..Narrated Uqbah ibn Amir: AbulHaytham quoted Dukhayn, the scribe of Uqbah ibn Amir, saying: We had some neighbours who used to drink wine. I for them, but they did not stop. I then said to Uqbah ibn Amir: These neighbours of ours drink wine, and I tried to prevent them but they did not stop, and I am going to call the police about them. He said: Leave them. I again came to Uqbah ibn Amir and said: Our neighbours have refused to refrain from drinking wine, and I am going to call the police for them. He said: Woe to thee! Leave them alone. I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: he then mentioned the tradition to the same effect as recorded above on the authority of the narrator Muslim. Abu Dawud said: In this version Hashim bin al-Qasim said on the authority of Laith: Do not do it, but preach them and threaten them.
Read More..Abdullah bin Umar reported the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: A Muslim is a Muslim’s brother: he does not wrong him or abandon him. If anyone cares for his brother’s need, Allah will care for his need ; if anyone removes a Muslim’s anxiety, Allah will remove from him, on account of it, one of the anxieties of the Day of resurrection ; and if anyone conceals a Muslim’s fault, Allah will conceal his fault on the Day of resurrection.
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