Textual Studies of the Hadith - National Open University of Nigeria

ISL222 TEXTUAL STUDIES OF THE HADITH
3.0 MAIN CONTENT
3.1 Hadiths Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten
3.1.1 Hadith Seven: Text, Translation, Translation,
Commentary and Lesson
ُعِباﱠسلا ُثيِد َحْلا
ُنيﱢدلا ) : َلاَق َمﱠلَسَو ِهْيَلَع ُﷲ ىﱠلَص ﱠيِبﱠنلا ﱠنَأ ،ُهْنَع
ُﷲ َيِضَر يراﱠدلا ِ ِسْوَأ ِنْب ٍميِمَت َةﱠيَقُر يِبَأ ْنَع
: مقر]
ملسم هاور ( ْمِھِتﱠماَعَو َنيِمِلْسُمْلا ِةَمِئَلأَو ،ِهِلوُسَرِلَو ،ِهِباَتِكِلَو ،ِ : لاق ؟ ْنَمِل : اَنْلُق . ُةَحيِصﱠنلا
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Translation
Hadith Seven
From Abu Ruqayyah Tamīm ibn Aws ad-Dāri, who said: The Prophet
Said’: Religion is good advice. We said: ‘Whose (advise)?’ and He
answered: That of God and His Book and His Apostle, and Imams of the
Muslims and generality of them" Muslim relates it.
Commentary
Nasīhah is an Arabic word which means ‘advise’ or ‘counsel’. This
hadith gives the definition of religion generally as an advice or counsel,
to this extent, Islam as a religion can be defined as an advice. Further
elaboration on this definition shows that mankind must have an
unshakeable belief in Allah as the one and only God is worthy of
worship. Similarly, the advice given on His holy Book: the Qur’an is
that Muslims should believe in it as the divine guidance from Allah
which every Muslim is under obligation to follow. In the same vein, the
family of the murdered man may forgive the murderer by taking a blood
price. An apostate shall however be given three days within which to
repent and come back to the fold of Islam otherwise he shall be due for
execution.
Lessons
The following lessons are derivable from the above hadith:
1. It teaches that religion is an advice.
2. Some articles of faith such as belief in the existence and oneness
of Allah, His books and the Prophethood and Messengership of
Muhammad (PBOH) are stressed for man to adopt.
3. We also learn that leaders' instructions must be obeyed as far as
they are within the injunctions of Allah.
4. It also counsels us to be kind to the generality of Muslims.
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