Riyāḍ uṣ-Ṣāliḥīn · Chapter 77 of 372
Indignation against the Transgression of Divine Laws
The Book of Miscellany – Chapter 77 : Ahadith 649 – 652
Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (d. 676 AH)
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Allah, the Exalted says:
وَمَن يُعَظِّمۡ حُرُمَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ فَهُوَ خَيۡرٞ لَّهُۥ عِندَ رَبِّهِۦ
“And whoever honours the sacred things of Allah, then that is better for him with his Rubb…”
[Al-Ḥajj 22:30]
إِن تَنصُرُواْ ٱللَّهَ يَنصُرۡكُمۡ وَيُثَبِّتۡ أَقۡدَامَكُمۡ
“If you help (in the Cause of) Allah, He will help you, and make your foothold firm.”
[Muḥammad 47:7]
649 Abu Mas`ud `Uqbah bin `Amr Al-Badri (radiyallahu anhu) reported: A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: “I join the morning Salat late because of so-and-so who leads it and prolongs it.” (Abu Mas`ud said): I have never seen the Prophet ﷺ so angry while giving a speech as he was on that day. He ﷺ said, “Some of you create hatred among the people against faith. Whoever leads Salat (the prayer), should make it brief because the congregation includes old men and youngsters and those who have some urgent work to do.”[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
650 `Aishah (radiyallahu anhu) reported: Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned once from a journey, and saw a curtain which I had hung along a platform with some pictures on it. The colour of his face changed. He tore it up and said, “O `Aishah, the most tormented people on the Day of Resurrection are those who contend with Allah in terms of creation.”[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
651 `Aishah (radiyallahu anhu) reported: The Quraish were much worried about the case of a Makhzumiyah woman who had committed theft and wondered who should intercede for her with Messenger of Allah ﷺ (so that she would not get punished for her crime). Some said Usamah bin Zaid (radiyallahu anhu) was his beloved and so he may dare do so. So Usamah(radiyallahu anhu) spoke to him about that matter and the Prophet ﷺ said to him, “Do you intercede when one of the legal punishments ordained by Allah has been voilated?” Then he got up and addressed the people saying, “The people before you were ruined because when a noble person amongst them committed theft, they would leave him, but if a weak person amongst them committed theft, they would execute the legal punishment on him. By Allah, were Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad, to commit the theft, I would have cut off her hand.”[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
652 Anas (radiyallahu anhu) reported: The Prophet ﷺ noticed spittle in the mosque in the direction of the Qiblah. The signs of disgust were perceived on his face. Then, he stood up and scraped it away with his own hand and said, “When you stand in Salat, you hold communion with your Rubb and He is between you and the Qiblah. Let no one therefore cast out his spittle in that direction, but only to his left or under his foot.” Then he caught hold a corner of his sheet, spat into it and folded it up and said, “Or he should do like this.”[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].