Book 0
The Book of Miscellany
كتاب المقدمات
This opening section gathers the foundations of a sincere life with Allah, beginning with intention, repentance, patience, truthfulness, and reliance, then moving outward into how a believer treats others. Its chapters cover enjoining good and forbidding evil, fulfilling trusts, kindness to parents, neighbors, the weak, and the poor, love for Allah's sake, and the balance of fear and hope. It closes with simplicity, contentment, humility, good character, and the duties of those given authority. Read together, these themes set the tone for everything that follows: that the heart's state and one's daily conduct cannot be separated.
1Sincerity and Significance of Intentions and all Actions, Apparent and Hidden12 hadith2Repentance12 hadith3Patience and Perseverance29 hadith4Truthfulness6 hadith5Watchfulness9 hadith6Piety5 hadith7Firm Belief and Perfect Reliance on Allah11 hadith8Uprightness and Steadfastness2 hadith10Hastening to do Good Deeds8 hadith11The Struggle (in the Cause of Allah)17 hadith12Urging towards increasing Good Actions in later part of Life5 hadith13Numerous ways of doing Good25 hadith14Moderation in Worship11 hadith15Righteous Conduct on a Regular Basis3 hadith16Observing the Sunnah and the manners of its obedience12 hadith17Obedience to the command of Allah is an obligatory duty1 hadith18Prohibition of heresies in religion2 hadith19Heretics doing desirable or undesirable deeds2 hadith20Calling to right guidance and forbidding depravity4 hadith21Assistance towards righteousness and piety4 hadith22Giving Counsel3 hadith23Enjoining Good and forbidding Evil14 hadith24Chastisement for one who enjoins good and forbids evil but acts otherwise1 hadith25Discharging the Trusts4 hadith26Unlawfulness of Oppression and Restoring Others Rights19 hadith27Reverence towards the Sanctity of the Muslims18 hadith28Covering Faults of the Muslims4 hadith29Fulfillment of the needs of the Muslims2 hadith30Intercession2 hadith31Making Peace among People4 hadith32Superiority of Poor, Weak and unrenowned Muslims8 hadith33Benevolent Treatment towards Orphans, Girls, the Weak, the Poor and the Humble Persons13 hadith34Recommendations with regard to Women8 hadith35Husband's rights concerning his Wife8 hadith36Sustentation of the Members of the Family8 hadith37Spending favorite things for Allah's sake1 hadith38Urging one's kith and kin to Obey Allah and refrain from evils5 hadith39Rights of Neighbors9 hadith40Kind Treatment towards Parents and establishment of the ties of Blood Relationship24 hadith41Prohibition of Disobeying Parents and severance of Relations5 hadith42Excellence in doing Good to the Friends of Parents and other Relatives5 hadith43Showing reverence to the Family of Allah's Messenger (pbuh)2 hadith44Revering the Scholars and Elders, Preferring them to others and raising their Status12 hadith45Visiting the Pious Persons, loving them and adoption of their company15 hadith46Excellence and Etiquette of Sincere love for the sake of Allah11 hadith47Signs of Allah's love for His slaves and the efforts for its Achievement3 hadith48Warning against persecution of the Pious, the Weak and the Indigent1 hadith49Making Judgment of people keeping in view their evident actions and leaving their hidden Actions to Allah (swt)6 hadith50Fear (of Allah)16 hadith51Hope in Allah's Mercy28 hadith52Excellence of Good Hopes3 hadith53Combining Hope and Fear (of Allah)3 hadith54Excellence of Weeping out of Fear from Allah (swt)10 hadith55Excellence of Leading an Ascetic Life, and Virtues of Simple Life34 hadith56Excellence of Simple Living and being Content with Little31 hadith57Contentment and Self-esteem and avoidance of unnecessary begging of People16 hadith58Permissibility of Assistance without Greed1 hadith59Encouraging Livelihood by (working with) Hands and Abstaining from Begging5 hadith60Excellence of Generosity and Spending in a Good cause with Reliance on Allah19 hadith61Prohibition of Miserliness1 hadith62Selflessness and Sympathy5 hadith63Competition in matters of the Hereafter2 hadith64Excellence of a Grateful Rich Man3 hadith65Remembrance of Death and Restraint of Wishes7 hadith66Desirability of visiting the Graves for men, and that they should say4 hadith67Abomination of longing for Death3 hadith68Leading an Abstemious Life and refraining from the Doubtful9 hadith69Desirability of Seclusion at times of corruption committed by the people of the World5 hadith71Modesty and Courtesy towards the Believers10 hadith72Condemnation of Pride and Self-Conceit9 hadith73Good Conduct11 hadith74Clemency, Tolerance and Gentleness11 hadith75Forgiveness of the Ignorant5 hadith76Endurance of Afflictions1 hadith77Indignation against the Transgression of Divine Laws4 hadith78Obligation of Rulers to show Kindness to their Subjects6 hadith79The Just Ruler4 hadith80Obligation of Obedience to the Ruler in what is Lawful and Prohibition of Obeying them in what is Unlawful11 hadith81Undesirability of Aspiring for Office4 hadith82Appointment of Pious Governors, Advisors and Judges2 hadith83Prohibition on Appointing an Aspirant Person to Public1 hadith