Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"No supplication is more readily responded to, than the supplication made for someone who is absent."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Al-Fuhsh is not present in anything but it mars it, and Al-Haya' is not present in anything but it beautifies it."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Every good is charity. Indeed among the good is to meet your brother with a smiling face, and to pour what is left in your bucket into the vessel of your brother."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"Abide by truthfulness. For indeed truthfulness leads to righteousness. And indeed righteousness leads to Paradise. A man continues telling the truth and trying hard to tell the truth until he is recorded with Allah as a truthful person. Refrain from...

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"When the slave (of Allah) lies, the angel goes a mile away from him because of the stench of what he has done."Yahya said: "(I asked) 'Abdur-Rahim bin Harun if he approved of it,and he said 'Yes'."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"There was no behavior more hated to the Messenger of Allah than lying. A man would lie in narrating something in the presence of the Prophet, and he would not be content until he knew that he had repented."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"The believer is naively noble and the stingy person is deceitfully treacherous."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"A man's spending on his family is charity."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his...

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

"My eyes saw the Messenger of Allah, and my ears heard him speaking when he was speaking and he said: 'Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, then let him honor his guest with his reward.' They said: 'What...