Riyad al-Salihin - Al-Nawawi - (1/86)

Riyad al-SalihinAl-Nawawi

—“And hasten toward forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whose breadth is that of the heavens and the earth, prepared for the God-fearing.” [Āl ʿImrān 3:133]

As for the hadiths:

88 – The first: ʿAbū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Hasten to perform deeds before tribulations come like fragments of the pitch-black night, (1) when a man may awake as a believer and reach nightfall as a disbeliever, or reach nightfall as a believer and awake as a disbeliever, selling his religion for some worldly gain.” Related by Muslim. (2)

89 – The second: ʿAbū Surwah—pronounced with either a kasrah or a fatḥah on the sīn—ʿUqbah ibn al-Ḥārith (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “I prayed the ʿAṣr prayer behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in Madinah. When he had given the salām, he rose quickly, stepping over the necks of the people, and went straight into one of the apartments of his wives. The congregation was startled by his haste. He soon returned, and seeing that they were surprised, he said, ‘I remembered some tibr we still had, and I disliked that it should detain me, so I ordered that it be distributed.’” Recorded by al-Bukhārī.

In another version of the report he said, “I had left in the house some tibr that had been set aside for charity, and I disliked spending the night with it in my possession.”

Tibr refers to pieces of gold or silver.

90 – The third: Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) related: “A man said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Day of Uḥud, ‘Messenger of Allah, if I am killed, where will I be?’ He replied, ‘In Paradise.’ The man then threw away the dates that were in his hand and fought on until…"

(1) That is: a segment of the dark night—an hour of darkness followed by another hour equally dark. (2) I say: this exact wording is not found in Muslim; it is al-Tirmidhi who records it verbatim in the chapter “Trials,” and he declared it sound. Muslim reports a similar wording in the Book of “Faith.” On the basis of both versions I affirmed the reading “fitanan” (trials). The hadith is also cited in Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah, no. 758. —N. In the previous edition the text read: “Hasten to do righteous deeds, for there will be trials…,” but we could not locate that wording in any primary source. We have therefore adopted the version found in Sahih Muslim, as in al-Mundhiri’s Mukhtasar Sahih Muslim, no. 2038, and in Sahih Sunan al-Tirmidhi (chain abbreviated), no. 1786, while leaving Shaykh Nasir’s comment unchanged.

تعالى : ﴿ وَسَارِعُوا إِلَىٰ مَغْفِرَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَجَنَّةٍ عَرْضُهَا السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ أُعِدَّتْ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴾ [ آل عمران : ١٣٣ ] . وأما الأحاديث : ٨٨ - فَالْأَوَّلُ : عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه أن رسول الله ﷺ قال : « بَادِرُوا بِالْأَعْمَالِ فِتَنًا كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ الْمُظْلِمِ (١) ، يُصْبِحُ الرَّجُلُ مُؤْمِنًا وَيُمْسِي كَافِرًا ، وَيُمْسِي مُؤْمِنًا وَيُصْبِحُ كَافِرًا ، يَبِيعُ دِينَهُ بِعَرَضٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا » رواه مسلم (٢) . ٨٩ - الثَّانِي : عن أبي سُرْوَة - بكسر السين المهملة وفتحها - عقبة بن الحارث رضي الله عنه قال : صَلَّيْتُ وَرَاءَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ الْعَصْرَ ، فَسَلَّمَ ثُمَّ قَامَ مُسْرِعًا فَتَخَطَّى رِقَابَ النَّاسِ إِلَى بَعْضِ حُجَرِ نِسَائِهِ ، فَفَزِعَ النَّاسُ مِنْ سُرْعَتِهِ ، فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَأَى أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ عَجِبُوا مِنْ سُرْعَتِهِ قَالَ : « ذَكَرْتُ شَيْئًا مِنْ تِبْرٍ عِنْدَنَا فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ يَحْبِسَنِي فَأَمَرْتُ بِقِسْمَتِهِ » رواه البخاري . وفي رواية له « كُنْتُ خَلَّفْتُ فِي الْبَيْتِ تِبْرًا مِنَ الصَّدَقَةِ فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أُبَيِّتَهُ » . « التِّبْرُ » قِطَعُ ذَهَبٍ ، أَوْ فِضَّةٍ . ٩٠ - الثَّالِثُ : عن جابر رضي الله عنه قال : قال رجل للنبي ﷺ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ : أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ قُتِلْتُ فَأَيْنَ أَنَا ؟ قَالَ : « فِي الْجَنَّةِ » فَأَلْقَى تَمَرَاتٍ كُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ ، ثُمَّ قَاتَلَ حَتَّى

(١) أي : طائفة من الليل المظلم ، أي : ذهبت ساعة منه مظلمة عقبتها ساعة مظلمة مثل ذلك . (٢) قلت : اللفظ ليس له ، وإنما للترمذي في « الفتن » بالحرف الواحد ، وصححه . ولفظ مسلم نحوه في « الإيمان » ومنهما صححت لفظ « فتنا » والحديث مخرج في سلسلة الأحاديث « الصحيحة » (٧٥٨) . - ن - كان في الطبعة السابقة « بادروا بالأعمال الصالحة فستكون فتناً . . . » ولم نجدها في أي من الأصول ، ولذلك اعتمدنا ما في « صحيح مسلم » كما في « مختصر صحيح مسلم للمنذري » رقم ٢٠٣٨ ، وما في « صحيح سنن الترمذي - باختصار السند - » رقم ١٧٨٦ ، وتركنا تعليق الشيخ ناصر كما هو .