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Sahih Muslim 3000a

A person praised another person in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), whereupon he said: Woe be to thee, you have broken the neck of your friend, you have broken…

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Sahihgraded sahih
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ، عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

قَالَ مَدَحَ رَجُلٌ رَجُلاً عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (قَالَ) فَقَالَ: «وَيْحَكَ قَطَعْتَ عُنُقَ صَاحِبِكَ قَطَعْتَ عُنُقَ صَاحِبِكَ». مِرَارًا «إِذَا كَانَ أَحَدُكُمْ مَادِحًا صَاحِبَهُ لَا مَحَالَةَ فَلْيَقُلْ أَحْسِبُ فُلَانًا وَاللَّهُ حَسِيبُهُ وَلَا أُزَكِّي عَلَى اللَّهِ أَحَدًا أَحْسِبُهُ إِنْ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ ذَاكَ كَذَا وَكَذَا»

A person praised another person in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), whereupon he said: Woe be to thee, you have broken the neck of your friend, you have broken the neck of your friend-he said this twice. If one of you has to praise his friend at all, he should say: I think (him to be) so and Allah knows it well and I do not know the secret of the heart and Allah knows the destined end, and I cannot testify his purity against Allah but (he appears) to be so and so.

ইয়াহইয়া ইবনু ইয়াহইয়া ও আবদ ইবনু হুমায়দ (রহঃ) ..... ইবনু উমার (রাযিঃ) থেকে এ সূত্রে পূর্বোক্ত হাদীসের অনুরূপ বর্ণিত হয়েছে।

حماد بن زید اور ابن جریج دونوں نے عمرو بن دینار کے واسطے سے حضرت ابن عمر رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے ، انھوں نے نبی کریم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے ابن عینیہ کی ( گزشتہ ) حدیث کے مانند روایت بیان کی ۔

{…} Bize Yahya b. Yahya ile Ebû'r-Rabî'Ez-Zehrânî, Hammâd b. Zeyd'den rivayet ettiler. H. Bize Abd b. Humeyd de rivayet etti. (Dediki): Bize Muhammed b. Bekir haber verdi. (Dediki): Bize İbni Cüreyc haber verdi. (Hammâd ile İbni Cüreyc) hep birden Amr b. Dinar'dan, o da İbni Ömer (Radiyallahu anhüma)'dan, o da Nebi (Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem)'den naklen İbni Uyeyne hadisi gibi rivayette bulunmuşlardır

Sahih Muslim 3000a, Book 55, The Book of Zuhd and Softening of Hearts, Hadith 83. 1 min read

What it means

The Hadīth carries some instructions from the blessed Sunnah. The Muslim should avoid exaggeration when praising others, as pride and conceit are one of the Satan's gateways. Praising and commending people excessively may make the praised one overwhelmed with delusion and arrogance and he becomes ruined. Therefore, a Muslim should be moderate when praising and lauding others, and leave the realities of people to Allah, the Exalted, Who is fully aware of secrets of the souls.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Muslim back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam MuslimCompiler, died 261 AH
  2. 2Yahya ibn Yahya an-NaysaburiTold us, Fourth generation, died 226 AH
  3. 3Yazid ibn ZurayTold us, Third generation, died 182 AH
  4. 4Khalid al-HadhdhaFrom, Successor, died 141 AH
  5. 5Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi BakrahFrom, Successor, died 96 AH
  6. 6Nufay ibn al-HarithFrom, Companion, died 50 AH

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