idle gossip—“he said, she said”—persistent questioning, and the squandering of wealth.” Agreed upon.

His words “manʿan” (to withhold) mean refusing to give what one is obliged to pay; “hāt” (give me) refers to demanding what is not rightfully his. “Waʾd al-banāt” (burying girls alive) means interring them while they are still alive. “Qīla wa qāla” (idle gossip) is to repeat everything one hears—“It was said such-and-such, So-and-so said such-and-such”—without knowing or even assuming its authenticity. It is enough falsehood for a person to relate everything he hears.

“Iḍāʿat al-māl” (wasting wealth) is to squander it or spend it in ways not permitted for worldly or religious benefit, or to fail to safeguard it when that is possible. “Kathrat al-suʾāl” (excessive questioning) is to pester others with requests for things one does not need.

In this chapter there are other hadiths cited in the previous section, such as: “Keep ties with those who cut you off,” and, “Whoever severs ties with me, Allah will sever ties with him.”

Explanation
All these hadiths show that cutting off kinship ties and being undutiful to one’s parents are forbidden. Similar reports have already been mentioned. An additional wording is the hadith of ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with both of them) in which the Prophet ﷺ said, “Among the major sins is for a man to abuse his parents,” meaning to revile or curse them, as appears in another narration: “Allah curses the one who curses his parents.” They asked, “Messenger of Allah, how could a man possibly abuse his own parents?” because such a thing is astonishing and far-fetched.