[{"num": 1, "day": 1, "slug": "actions-by-intentions", "name": "Actions are by intentions", "epithet": "The hadith of sincerity", "narrator": "'Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 1; Muslim 1907", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Every deed is weighed by the intention behind it. Sincerity (ikhlas) is the soul of worship.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 2, "day": 2, "slug": "hadith-of-jibril", "name": "Islam, Iman, and Ihsan", "epithet": "The hadith of Jibril", "narrator": "'Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra)", "source": "Muslim 8", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["aqeedah"], "theme": "An angel teaches the religion in three layers: what you do, what you believe, how you do both.", "fiqh_sensitive": false, "note": "Already built as a lesson in ../new-muslim/. Reuse / cross-link rather than rebuild.", "crossref": "/new-muslims/the-hadith-of-jibril"}, {"num": 3, "day": 3, "slug": "pillars-of-islam", "name": "Islam is built on five", "epithet": "The foundations of the deen", "narrator": "Ibn 'Umar (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 8; Muslim 16", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["aqeedah", "usul"], "theme": "The five pillars as the structure the believer's life is built on.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 4, "day": 4, "slug": "stages-of-creation-and-decree", "name": "Your creation and your decree", "epithet": "The hadith of qadar", "narrator": "Ibn Mas'ud (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 3208; Muslim 2643", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["aqeedah"], "theme": "The stages of creation in the womb and the writing of the decree. Belief in qadar, and hope at the end.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 5, "day": 5, "slug": "rejecting-innovation", "name": "Whoever invents in our affair", "epithet": "Worship as it was taught", "narrator": "'A'ishah (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 2697; Muslim 1718", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["usul", "aqeedah"], "theme": "Worship is received, not invented. The principle behind following the Sunnah.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 6, "day": 6, "slug": "the-doubtful-matters", "name": "The clear and the doubtful", "epithet": "Guarding the heart", "narrator": "an-Nu'man ibn Bashir (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 52; Muslim 1599", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["tazkiyah"], "theme": "Leaving the doubtful to protect your faith and honour. The heart as the king of the body.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Frame as scrupulousness (wara') and protecting the heart, not as a fiqh ruling on what is halal/haram. Keep the spotlight on 'the heart is a morsel of flesh' close."}, {"num": 7, "day": 7, "slug": "religion-is-sincerity", "name": "The religion is sincerity", "epithet": "Naseehah to all", "narrator": "Tamim ad-Dari (ra)", "source": "Muslim 55", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["akhlaq", "aqeedah"], "theme": "Naseehah: sincere goodwill toward Allah, His Book, His Messenger, and the believers.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 8, "day": 8, "slug": "the-sanctity-of-the-believer", "name": "The testimony that protects", "epithet": "The weight of the shahada", "narrator": "Ibn 'Umar (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 25; Muslim 22", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["aqeedah"], "theme": "What the testimony of faith establishes, and that judgement of the heart belongs to Allah.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Frame around the sanctity established by the shahada and that reckoning is Allah's. Do NOT extend into the fiqh/politics of fighting or apostasy; defer those to qualified scholars."}, {"num": 9, "day": 9, "slug": "do-what-you-can", "name": "What I command, do what you can", "epithet": "A merciful religion", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 7288; Muslim 1337", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["usul", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Avoid what is forbidden, and do of the commanded what you are able. Religion is within your capacity.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 10, "day": 10, "slug": "allah-is-good", "name": "Allah is Good and accepts only good", "epithet": "Pure to the Pure", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "Muslim 1015", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["tazkiyah", "aqeedah"], "theme": "Allah is at-Tayyib and accepts only what is pure. The raised hands and the answered du'a.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 11, "day": 11, "slug": "leave-what-makes-you-doubt", "name": "Leave what makes you doubt", "epithet": "The peace of certainty", "narrator": "al-Hasan ibn 'Ali (ra)", "source": "at-Tirmidhi 2518; an-Nasa'i", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["tazkiyah"], "theme": "Truthfulness brings rest to the heart; doubt brings unease. Choose the path that leaves no disquiet.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 12, "day": 12, "slug": "what-does-not-concern-you", "name": "Leaving what does not concern you", "epithet": "The beauty of a person's Islam", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "at-Tirmidhi 2317", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["akhlaq", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Part of the excellence of a believer's faith is to leave alone what is of no benefit to them.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 13, "day": 13, "slug": "love-for-your-brother", "name": "Love for your brother", "epithet": "The test of true faith", "narrator": "Anas ibn Malik (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 13; Muslim 45", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["iman", "akhlaq"], "theme": "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 14, "day": 14, "slug": "the-sanctity-of-life", "name": "The sanctity of a believer's life", "epithet": "How heavy a soul is", "narrator": "Ibn Mas'ud (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 6878; Muslim 1676", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["aqeedah"], "theme": "How serious the taking of a life is in Islam, and the sanctity Allah placed on the believer.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Present the sanctity-of-life principle and reverence for what Allah made sacred. Do NOT teach the three legal exceptions as rulings; note they belong to the courts and qualified scholars, and keep the page on the creed of sanctity."}, {"num": 15, "day": 15, "slug": "speak-good-or-be-silent", "name": "Speak good, or be silent", "epithet": "Faith and the tongue", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 6018; Muslim 47", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["akhlaq"], "theme": "Belief in Allah and the Last Day expressed through the tongue, the neighbour, and the guest.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 16, "day": 16, "slug": "do-not-get-angry", "name": "Do not get angry", "epithet": "The strength of restraint", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 6116", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["akhlaq", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "A man asked for advice again and again; each time the answer was: do not become angry.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 17, "day": 17, "slug": "excellence-in-all-things", "name": "Allah has prescribed excellence", "epithet": "Ihsan in everything", "narrator": "Abu Ya'la Shaddad ibn Aws (ra)", "source": "Muslim 1955", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["akhlaq", "ihsan"], "theme": "Allah has written excellence (ihsan) upon all things, down to how you treat even an animal.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 18, "day": 18, "slug": "fear-allah-wherever-you-are", "name": "Fear Allah wherever you are", "epithet": "Taqwa and good character", "narrator": "Abu Dharr and Mu'adh (ra)", "source": "at-Tirmidhi 1987", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["tazkiyah", "akhlaq"], "theme": "Be conscious of Allah wherever you are, follow a wrong with a good deed, and meet people with good character.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 19, "day": 19, "slug": "be-mindful-of-allah", "name": "Be mindful of Allah", "epithet": "He will be before you", "narrator": "Ibn 'Abbas (ra)", "source": "at-Tirmidhi 2516", "grade": "hasan sahih", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Guard Allah's limits and He will guard you. The pen has dried; trust and reliance on Him alone.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 20, "day": 20, "slug": "modesty", "name": "If you feel no shame", "epithet": "The mark of haya", "narrator": "Abu Mas'ud al-Badri (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 3483", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["akhlaq", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Modesty (haya) as the conscience of faith, a word from the earliest prophethood.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 21, "day": 21, "slug": "i-believe-then-be-steadfast", "name": "Say 'I believe,' then be steadfast", "epithet": "Istiqamah", "narrator": "Sufyan ibn 'Abdullah (ra)", "source": "Muslim 38", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "One sentence that holds the whole religion: declare faith, then walk straight upon it.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 22, "day": 22, "slug": "the-road-to-paradise", "name": "The road to Paradise", "epithet": "Enough to be saved", "narrator": "Jabir (ra)", "source": "Muslim 15", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["usul", "aqeedah"], "theme": "Perform the obligations, keep away from the forbidden, and Paradise is yours.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 23, "day": 23, "slug": "half-of-faith", "name": "Purity is half of faith", "epithet": "The scales of the believer", "narrator": "Abu Malik al-Ash'ari (ra)", "source": "Muslim 223", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["tazkiyah"], "theme": "Praise fills the scales, dhikr fills the space between heaven and earth, and the soul is freed or ruined.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Lead with the spiritual meaning (the heart purified by dhikr and gratitude), not the fiqh of wudu/taharah. 'Tuhur' here opens onto the inner life of the believer."}, {"num": 24, "day": 24, "slug": "prohibition-of-oppression", "name": "O My servants", "epithet": "The hadith of mercy (qudsi)", "narrator": "Abu Dharr (ra)", "source": "Muslim 2577", "grade": "sahih (hadith qudsi)", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tawhid"], "theme": "Allah forbade injustice to Himself; our deeds are counted and returned; seek only from Him.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 25, "day": 25, "slug": "competing-in-good", "name": "The wealthy took the rewards", "epithet": "Charity within everyone's reach", "narrator": "Abu Dharr (ra)", "source": "Muslim 1006", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["tazkiyah", "akhlaq"], "theme": "Every glorification, every good word, is a charity. No one is too poor to give.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 26, "day": 26, "slug": "every-joint-a-charity", "name": "Every joint owes a charity", "epithet": "A body in gratitude", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 2989; Muslim 1009", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["tazkiyah", "akhlaq"], "theme": "Every small good (a fair word, removing harm, a step to prayer) is a charity owed in thanks for the body.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 27, "day": 27, "slug": "righteousness-and-sin", "name": "Righteousness and sin", "epithet": "What the heart already knows", "narrator": "an-Nawwas ibn Sam'an and Wabisah (ra)", "source": "Muslim 2553; Ahmad", "grade": "sahih / hasan", "focus": ["akhlaq", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Righteousness is good character; sin is what wavers in the chest and you would hate others to see.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 28, "day": 28, "slug": "hold-to-the-sunnah", "name": "Hold fast to the Sunnah", "epithet": "A farewell counsel", "narrator": "al-'Irbad ibn Sariyah (ra)", "source": "Abu Dawud 4607; at-Tirmidhi 2676", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["usul", "aqeedah"], "theme": "A parting admonition: taqwa, obedience, and clinging to the Sunnah and the rightly-guided way.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 29, "day": 29, "slug": "the-deed-that-leads-to-paradise", "name": "The deed that leads to Paradise", "epithet": "And the rein over it all", "narrator": "Mu'adh ibn Jabal (ra)", "source": "at-Tirmidhi 2616", "grade": "hasan sahih", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Worship Allah alone, keep the pillars, and then: hold the tongue, for it casts people into the Fire.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 30, "day": 30, "slug": "the-limits-of-allah", "name": "The limits of Allah", "epithet": "A mercy in every boundary", "narrator": "Abu Tha'labah al-Khushani (ra)", "source": "ad-Daraqutni; al-Bayhaqi", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Allah set obligations, limits, and silences, all out of mercy. Receive them with gratitude, not prying.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Frame as reverence for Allah's wisdom and contentment with His boundaries (taqwa), not a catalogue of specific hudud or rulings."}, {"num": 31, "day": 31, "slug": "renounce-the-world", "name": "Renounce, and be loved", "epithet": "The freedom of zuhd", "narrator": "Sahl ibn Sa'd (ra)", "source": "Ibn Majah 4102", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["tazkiyah"], "theme": "Detach from the world and Allah will love you; detach from what people hold and they will love you.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 32, "day": 32, "slug": "do-no-harm", "name": "No harm, and no harming back", "epithet": "The rule of mercy between people", "narrator": "Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (ra)", "source": "Ibn Majah 2341; ad-Daraqutni", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["akhlaq"], "theme": "Cause no harm, and answer no harm with harm. A whole ethic of how a believer touches others' lives.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Present the universal moral principle (do no harm) and its place in the heart. Do NOT walk through the fiqh maxims (qawa'id) derived from it; that is a juristic discipline. Keep it ethical and devotional."}, {"num": 33, "day": 33, "slug": "the-burden-of-proof", "name": "The claim and the proof", "epithet": "On truthfulness and justice", "narrator": "Ibn 'Abbas (ra)", "source": "al-Bayhaqi; (part in al-Bukhari & Muslim)", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["akhlaq"], "theme": "Were claims simply granted, people would claim anything. The dignity of truth and fair dealing.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Draw out the character lesson, truthfulness, fairness, not making false claims. Do NOT teach the law of evidence or judicial procedure (usul al-qada); note that belongs to scholars of fiqh."}, {"num": 34, "day": 34, "slug": "changing-what-is-wrong", "name": "Changing what is wrong", "epithet": "And the weakest faith", "narrator": "Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (ra)", "source": "Muslim 49", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Whoever sees a wrong should change it; and to hate it in the heart is the least of faith.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Anchor on the heart's duty (hating wrong, not normalising it) and wisdom/gentleness. Do NOT issue rulings on when/how to act publicly; defer the conditions and the fiqh of hisbah to qualified scholars."}, {"num": 35, "day": 35, "slug": "do-not-envy-one-another", "name": "Be servants of Allah, as brothers", "epithet": "The sacredness of a Muslim", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "Muslim 2564", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["akhlaq", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Do not envy, hate, or turn from one another. A Muslim's blood, wealth, and honour are sacred.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 36, "day": 36, "slug": "relieving-the-distressed", "name": "Whoever relieves a believer", "epithet": "The gatherings of mercy", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "Muslim 2699", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["akhlaq", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Relieve another's hardship and Allah relieves yours; the path of knowledge, and the gatherings of dhikr.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 37, "day": 37, "slug": "good-and-bad-deeds", "name": "How Allah records deeds", "epithet": "The arithmetic of mercy", "narrator": "Ibn 'Abbas (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 6491; Muslim 131", "grade": "sahih (agreed upon)", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "An intended good is written; a done good multiplied; an intended evil left undone is still a full good.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 38, "day": 38, "slug": "the-friends-of-allah", "name": "The friends of Allah", "epithet": "Drawing near (qudsi)", "narrator": "Abu Hurayrah (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 6502", "grade": "sahih (hadith qudsi)", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Nearness to Allah through the obligations, then the voluntary, until He loves the servant.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 39, "day": 39, "slug": "error-forgetfulness-coercion", "name": "Pardoned: error and forgetfulness", "epithet": "The mercy that lifts blame", "narrator": "Ibn 'Abbas (ra)", "source": "Ibn Majah 2045; al-Bayhaqi", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "Allah has pardoned this ummah for honest mistakes, forgetfulness, and what they are forced to do.", "fiqh_sensitive": true, "handling": "Keep to the creed of Allah's mercy and the lifting of blame. Do NOT derive the fiqh of liability/validity that jurists build on this hadith."}, {"num": 40, "day": 40, "slug": "a-stranger-in-this-world", "name": "Be a stranger in this world", "epithet": "A traveller's heart", "narrator": "Ibn 'Umar (ra)", "source": "al-Bukhari 6416", "grade": "sahih", "focus": ["tazkiyah"], "theme": "Live as a stranger or a wayfarer; in the evening do not expect the morning. The shortness of the road.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 41, "day": 41, "slug": "until-desires-follow-the-revelation", "name": "Until desire follows what was revealed", "epithet": "The surrender of the self", "narrator": "'Abdullah ibn 'Amr (ra)", "source": "in an-Nawawi's al-Hujjah", "grade": "hasan sahih (per an-Nawawi)", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "None of you truly believes until his desire submits to what the Messenger ﷺ brought.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}, {"num": 42, "day": 42, "slug": "the-vastness-of-forgiveness", "name": "The vastness of forgiveness", "epithet": "O son of Adam (qudsi)", "narrator": "Anas ibn Malik (ra)", "source": "at-Tirmidhi 3540", "grade": "hasan", "focus": ["aqeedah", "tazkiyah"], "theme": "However great your sins, Allah's forgiveness is greater; come to Him with tawhid and He meets you with pardon.", "fiqh_sensitive": false}]