Riyāḍ uṣ-Ṣāliḥīn · Chapter 279 of 372
Prohibition of Arrogance and Oppression
The Book of the Prohibited Actions – Chapter 279 : Ahadith 1589 – 1590
Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (d. 676 AH)
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Allah, the Exalted says:
فَلَا تُزَكُّوٓاْ أَنفُسَكُمۡۖ هُوَ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱتَّقَىٰٓ
“So ascribe not purity to yourselves. He knows best him who fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him [i.e., those who are Al-Muttaqun (the pious)].”
[An-Najm 53:32]
إِنَّمَا ٱلسَّبِيلُ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ يَظۡلِمُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ وَيَبۡغُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ بِغَيۡرِ ٱلۡحَقِّۚ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٞ
“The way (of blame) is only against those who oppress men and wrongly rebel in the earth without justification; for such there will be a painful torment.”
[Ash-Shūrā 42:42]
1589 `Iyad bin Himar (radiyallahu anhu) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Verily, Allah has revealed to me that you should adopt humility. So that no one may wrong another and no one may be disdainful and haughty towards another.”[Muslim].
1590 Abu Hurairah (radiyallahu anhu) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When a person says: `People have been ruined, he is the one to be ruined the most.”’[Muslim]
In another version: “He himself is the most ruined among them.”