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Sahih Muslim 35b

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Faith has over seventy branches or over sixty branches, the most excellent of which is the declaration that there is no god but Allah, and…

Abu Hurayrahnarrated it
Sahihgraded sahih
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حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الإِيمَانُ بِضْعٌ وَسَبْعُونَ أَوْ بِضْعٌ وَسِتُّونَ شُعْبَةً فَأَفْضَلُهَا قَوْلُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَدْنَاهَا إِمَاطَةُ الأَذَى عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ وَالْحَيَاءُ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الإِيمَانِ»

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Faith has over seventy branches or over sixty branches, the most excellent of which is the declaration that there is no god but Allah, and the humblest of which is the, removal of what is injurious from the path: and modesty is the branch of faith.

یحییٰ بن سعید نے کہا : میں نے سفیان ثوری ، شعبہ ، مالک اور ابن عیینہ سے ایسے آدمی کے بارے میں پوچھا جو حدیث میں پور ی طرح قابل اعتماد ( ثقہ ) نہ ہو ، پھر کوئی آدمی آئے اور مجھ سے اس کے بارے میں سوال کرے؟ تو ان سب نے کہا : اس کے بارے میں بتا دو کہ وہ پوری طرح قابل اعتماد نہیں ہے

Bize Amr b. Ali Ebû Hafs dahi rivâyet etti. ki: «Yahya b. Saîd'i şunu söylerken işittim: Süfyan-ı Sevrî ile Şu'be'ye, Mâlik'e ve İbn üyeyne'ye sordum: Bir kimse hadîsde mevsuk olmaz da, birisi onun hakkında bana sual sorarsa ne yapmalıyım? dedim. «Onun mevsuk olmadığım haber ver!» dediler

Sahih Muslim 35b, Book 1, The Book of Faith, Hadith 60. 1 min read

What it means

Faith is not one aspect or one part. Rather, it consists of many branches, more than sixty or seventy. The best of these, however, is one single statement: "There is no god but Allah." And the simplest of them is removing anything harmful to passersby, be it a stone, a thorn, or anything else. And modesty is a branch of faith. So righteous deeds are part of faith, as held by Ahl As-Sunnah Wa al-Jamā‘ah and proven true by the Shar‘i proofs, including this Hadīth.

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. 2Zuhayr ibn HarbTold us, Fourth generation, died 234 AH
  3. 3Jarir ibn Abd al-HamidTold us, Third generation, died 187 AH
  4. 4Suhayl ibn Abi SalihFrom, Successor, died 138 AH
  5. 5Abdullah ibn DinarFrom, Successor, died 127 AH
  6. 6Abu Salih as-SammanFrom, Successor, died 101 AH
  7. 7Abu HurayrahFrom, Companion, died 57 AH

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