Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Love your beloved moderately, perhaps he becomes hated to you someday. And hate whom you hate moderately, perhaps he becomes your beloved someday."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Whoever has a mustard seed's weight of pride (arrogance) in his heart, shall not be admitted into Paradise. And whoever has a mustard seed's weight of faith in his heart, shall not be admitted into the Fire."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"They said: 'O Messenger of Allah! You joke with us?' He said: 'Indeed I do not say except what is true.'" (Hasan)'

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"A man sought a mount from the Messenger of Allah who said: 'Indeed, I will let you ride on a she-camel's child.' So he said: 'O Messenger of Allah! What can ashe-camel's child do?' So the Messenger of Allah said:...

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"O possessor of two ears!" Mahmud said: "Abu Usamah said: 'He only meant it as a joke.'"

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Whoever avoids lying while he is doing so falsely, a house will be built for him on the skirts of Paradise. Whoever avoids arguing while he is in the right, a house will be built for him in its midst....

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"There shall be upon dunes of musk- I think he said: On the Day of Judgment- a slave who fulfills Allah's right and the right of his patron (master), a man who leads a people (in prayer)) and they are...

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"The Messenger of Allah said to me: 'Have Taqwa of Allah wherever you are, and follow an evil deed with a good one to wipe it out, and treat the people with good behavior."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Beware of Zann (suspicion), for indeed Zann is the falsest of speech."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

" The Messenger of Allah used to mingle with us such that he said to my younger brother: 'O Abu 'Umair! What did the Nughair do?'"