"And take that which the
Messenger has brought you"
(the Holy
Quran)
Translation of Imam An-Nawawi's Book
Introduction
Praise be to Allah,
Lord of the worlds. Eternal Guardian of the heavens and the earths, Disposer of
all created beings, Despatcher of Messengers (may the blessings and peace of
Allah be upon them all) who were sent to those they have been entrusted to guide
and to reveal the religious laws to, with positive signs and clear-cut proofs. I
praise Him for His favours and ask Him to increase His grace and generosity. I
bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, He having no associate, the
One, the Subduer, the Generous, the Pardoner, and I bear witness that our master
Muhammed is His servant and His messenger, His dear one and His beloved, the
best of created beings, who was honoured with the precious Quran, the enduring
miracle through the passing of the years, and with the sunnahs that enlighten
spiritual guides; our master Muhammed, singled out for pithiness of speech and
tolerance in religion may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, upon the
rest of the prophets and messengers, and upon all their families and upon the
rest of godly persons.
To proceed: It has been
transmitted to us on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talib, Abdullah bin Masud,
Muadh bin Jabal, Abu Al-Darda, Ibn Omar, Ibn Abbas, Anas bin Malik, Abu Hurairah
and Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with them all, through many chains
of authorities and in various versions, that the messenger of Allah said:
"Whosoever memorises and preserves for my people forty hadith relating to
their religion, Allah will resurrect him on the Day of Judgment in the company
of jurists and religious scholars ".
In another version it reads:
"Allah will resurrect him as a jurist and religious scholar ". In the
version of Abu Al-Darda it reads: "On the Day of Judgment I shall be an
intercessor and a witness for him". In the version of Ibn Masud it reads:
"It will be said to him: Enter by whichever of the doors of Paradise you
wish ". In the version of Ibn Omar it reads: " He will be written down
in the company of the religious scholars and will be resurrected in the company
of the martyrs ". Scholars of hadith are agreed that it is a weak hadith
despite its many lines of transmission.
The religious scholars, may Allah
be pleased with them, have composed innumerable works in this field. The first
one I knew of who did so was Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak, followed by Ibn Aslam Al-Tusi,
the godly scholar, then Al-Hasan bin Sufiyan Al-Nasai, Abu Bakr Al-Ajurri, Abu-Bakr
Mubammad bin Ibrahim Al-Asfihani, Al-Daraqutni, Al-Hakim, Abu Nuaim, Abu Abd Al-Rahman
Al-Sulami, Abu Saeed Al-Malini, Abu Uthman Al-Saboni, Abdullah bin Muhammed Al-Ansari,
Abu Bakr Al-Baihaqi, and countless others, both ancient and modern.
I have asked Allah Almightly for
guidance in bringing together forty hadith in emulation af those eminant
religious leaders and guardians of Islam. Religious scholars are agreed it is
permissible to put into practice a weak hadith if virtuous deeds are concerned;
despite this, I do not rely on this hadith but on his having said the [
following ] sound hadith: "Let him who was a witness among you inform
him who was absent", and on his having said : "May Allah make
radiant [the face of] someone who has heard what I have said, has learnt it by
heart and has transmitted it as he heard it". Furthermore, there were
some religious scholars who brought together forty hadiths on the basic rules of
religion, on subsidiary matters, or on jihad, while others did so on asceticism,
on rules of conduct or on sermons. All these are godly aims-may Allah be pleased
with those who pursued them. I, however, considered it best to bring together
forty hadith more important than all of these, being forty hadith which would
incolporate all of these, each hadith being one of the great precepts of
religion, described by religious scholars as being "the axis of Islam
" or "the half of Islam" or "the third of it ", or the
like, and to make it a rule that these forty hadith be [classified as] sound and
that the majority of them be in the sahihs of Al-Bukhari and Muslim. I give them
without the chains of authorities so as to make it easier to memorise them and
to make them of wider benefit if Allah Almighty wills, and I append to them a
section explaining abstruse expressions.(Note here) every person wishing to
attain the Hereafter should know these hadith because of the important matters
they contain and the directions they give in respect of all forms of obedience,
this being obvious to anyone who has reflected upon it. On Allah do I rely and
depend and to Him do I entrust myself; to Him be praise and grace, and with Him
is success and immunity [to errors].
On the authority of Omar bin Al-Khattab, who said : I heared the messenger of
Allah salla Allah u alihi wa sallam say :
"Actions are but by intention and every man shall have but that which he
intended. Thus he whose migration was for Allah and His messenger, his migration
was for Allah and His messenger, and he whose migration was to achieve some
worldly benefit or to take some woman in marriage, his migration was for that
for which he migrated."
related by Bukhari
and Muslim
One day while we were sitting with
the messenger of Allah there appeared before us a man whose clothes were
exceedingly white and whose hair was exceedingly black; no signs of journeying
were to be seen on him and none of us knew him. He walked up and sat down by the
prophet. Resting his knees against his and placing the palms of his hands on his
thighs, he said:"O Muhammed, tell me about Islam". The messenger of
Allah said: "Islam is to testify that there is no god but Allah and
Muhammed is the messenger of Allah, to perform the prayers, to pay the zakat, to
fast in Ramadhan, and to make the pilgrimage to the House if you are able to do
so." He said:"You have spoken rightly", and we were amazed at him
asking him and saying that he had spoken rightly. He said: "Then tell me
about eman."He said:"It is to believe in Allah, His angels, His
books, His messengers, and the Last Day, and to believe in divine destiny, both
the good and the evil thereof." He said:"You have spoken
rightly". He said: " Then tell me about ehsan." He said:
"It is to worship Allah as though you are seeing Him, and while you see Him
not yet truly He sees you". He said: "Then tell me about the
Hour". He said: "The one questioned about it knows no better than the
questioner." He said: "Then tell me about its signs." He said:
"That the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress and that you will see
the barefooted, naked, destitute herdsman competing in constructing lofty
buildings." Then he took himself off and I stayed for a time. Then he said:
"O Omar, do you know who the questioner was?" I said: "Allah and
His messenger know best". He said: "He was Jebreel (Gabriel), who came
to you to teach you your religion." "Leave that which makes you
doubt for that which does not make you doubt." "Counsel me". He said :
" Do not become angry". The man repeated [his request] several times,
and he said: "Do not become angry ". "Young man, I shall teach you
some words [of advice] : Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. Be
mindful of Allah, and you will find Him in front of you. If you ask, ask of
Allah; if you seek help, seek help of Allah. Know that if the Nation were to
gather together to benefit you with anything, it would benefit you only with
something that Allah had already prescribed for you, and that if they gather
together to harm you with anything, they would harm you only with something
Allah had already prescribed for you. The pens have been lifted and the pages
have dried." "O My servants, I have
forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden amongst you, so do
not oppress one another.
O My servants, all of you are
astray except for those I have guided, so seek guidance of Me and I shall guide
you. O My servants, all of you are hungry except for those I have fed, so seek
food of Me and I shall feed you. O My servants, all of you are naked except for
those I have clothed, so seek clothing of Me and I shall clothe you. O My
servants, you sin by night and by day, and I forgive all sins, so seek
forgiveness of Me and I shall forgive you.
O My servants, you will not attain
harming Me so as to harm Me, and you will not attain benefiting Me so as to
benefit Me. O my servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human
of you and the jinn of you to become as pious as the most pious heart of any one
man of you, that would not increase My kingdom in anything. O My servants, were
the first of you and the last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you to be
as wicked as the most wicked heart of any one man of you, that would not
decrease My kingdom in anything. O My servants, were the first of you and the
last of you, the human of you and the jinn of you to rise up in one place and
make a request of Me, and were I to give everyone what he requested, that would
not decrease what I have, any more than a needle decreases the sea if put into
it.
O My servants, it is but your
deeds that I reckon up for you and then recompense you for, so let him who finds
good praise Allah, and let him who finds other than that blame no one but
himself."
related by Muslim. "Who forsake
their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of that We have
bestowed on them. No soul knoweth what is kept hid for them of joy, as a reward
for what they used to do". (quran,
verse)
Then he said: " Shall I not
tell you of the peak of the matter, its pillar, and its topmost part?" I
said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "The peak of the
matter is Islam; the pillar is prayer; and its topmost part is jihad." Then
he said: "Shall I not tell you of the controling of all that ?" I
said:"Yes, O Messenger of Allah", and he took hold of his tongue and
said: "Restrain this." I said: "O Prophet of Allah, will what we
say be held against us ?" He said: "May your mother be bereaved of
you, Muadh ! Is there anything that topples people on their faces - or he said
on their noses into Hell-fire other than the jests of their tongues ?"
"Be in the world as though
you were a stranger or a wayfarer."
The son of Omar used to say:
"At evening do not expect [to
live till] morning, and at morning do not expect [to live till] evening. Take
from your health for your illness and from your life for your death."
Also on the authority of Omar,
who said :
narrated by Muslim
On the authority of Ibn Omar,
the son of Omar bin Al-Khattab,
may Allah be pleased with both, who said : I heared the messenger of Allah say :
"Islam has been built on five [pillars]: testifying that there is no god
but Allah and that Muhammed is the messenger of Allah, performing the prayers,
paying the zakat, making the pilgrimage to the House, and fasting in
Ramadan."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Abdullah
bin Masud, who said : the
messenger of Allah, and he is the truthful, the believed narrated to us :
"Verily the creation of each one of you is brought together in his mother's
belly for forty days in the form of seed, then he is a clot of blood for a like
period, then a morsel of flesh for a like period, then there is sent to him the
angel who blows the breath of life into him and who is commanded about four
matters: to write down his means of livelihood, his life span, his actions, and
whether happy or unhappy. By Allah, other than Whom there is no god, verily one
of you behaves like the people of Paradise until there is but an arm's length
between him and it, and that which has been written over takes him and so he
behaves like the people of Hell-fire and thus he enters it; and one of you
behaves like the people of Hell-fire until there is but an arm's length between
him and it, and that which has been written over takes him and so he behaves
like the people of Paradise and thus he enters it."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Aishah,
who said : The messenger of Allah said:
"He who innovates something in this matter of ours that is not of it will
have it rejected."
narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
And in one version by Muslim it reads :
"He who does an act which our matter is not [in agreement] with will have
it rejected."
On the authority of Al-Numan
bin Basheer, who said : I heared the messenger of Allah say :
"That which is lawful is plain and that which is unlawful is plain and
between the two of them are doubtful matters about which not many people know.
Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and
his honor, but he who falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is
unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing
therein. Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah's sanctuary is His
prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be
whole, all the body is whole and which, if it be diseased, all of it is
diseased. Truly it is the heart."
narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Tamim Al-Dari
that the prophet said:
"Religion is sincerity". We said: "To whom?" He said:
"To Allah and His Book, and His messenger, and to the leaders of the
Muslims and their common folk".
narrated by Muslim
Abdullah bin Omar narrated
that the messenger of Allah said:
"I have been ordered to fight against people until they testify that there
is no god but Allah and that Muhammed is the messenger of Allah and until they
perform the prayers and pay the zakat, and if they do so they will have gained
protection from me for their lives and property, unless [they do acts that are
punishable] in accordance with Islam, and their reckoning will be with Allah the
Almighty."
related by Bukhari and Muslim.
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said : I heared the messenger of Allah say :
"What I have forbidden to you, avoid; what I have ordered you [to do], do
as much of it as you can. It was only their excessive questioning and their
disagreeing with their prophets that destroyed those who were before you."
related bu Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said : the messenger of Allah said :
"Allah the Almighty is good and accepts only that which is good. Allah has
commanded the faithful to do that which he commanded the messengers, and the
Almighty has said: "O ye messengers ! Eat of the good things and do
right". And Allah the Almighty has said : "O ye who believe! Eat of
the good things wherewith We have provided you"
Then he mentioned [the case of] a man who, having journeyed far, is dishevelled
and dusty and who spreads out his hands to the sky [saying] : "O Lord! O
Lord!" - while his food is unlawful, his drink unlawful, his clothing
unlawful, and he is nourished unlawfully, so how can he be answered !"
related by Muslim
On the authority of Al-Hasan
bin Ali, the grandson of the messenger of Allah, who said : I memorized from the
messenger of Allah his saying :
narrated by Termithi and Nasaee, and Tirmithi said it is true and fine hadith.
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said : The messenger of Allah said :
"Part of someone's being a good Muslim is his leaving alone that which does
not concern him."
fine hadith narrated by Termithi and others
On the authority of Anas bin Malik, the servant of the messenger of Allah, that
the prophet said :
"None of you [truely] believes until he wishes for his brother what he
wishes for himself."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
Abdullah bin Masud narrated
that the messenger of Allah said :
"The blood of a Muslim may not be legally spilt other than in one of three
[instances] : the married person who commits adultery; a life for a life; and
one who forsakes his religion and abandons the community."
it was related by Bukhari and Muslim
Abu Hurairah narrated that the
messenger of Allah said :
"Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep
silent, and let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his
neighbour, and let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his
guest."
related by Bukhari and Muslim
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said : a man said to the prophet :
narrated by Bukhari
Abu Yaala Shaddad bin Aws said
that the messenger of Allah said :
"Verily Allah has prescribed proficiency in all things. Thus, if you kill,
kill well; and if you slaughter, slaughter well. Let each one of you sharpen his
blade and let him spare suffering to the animal he slaughters."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Dhar
Jundub bin Junadah, and Muadh bin Jabal that the messenger of Allah said :
"Fear Allah wherever you are, and follow up a bad deed with a good one and
it will wipe it out, and behave well towards people."
Tirmithi narrated the hadith and said it was fine, and in another version, said
ture and fine
On the authority of Abdullah
bin Abbas, who said : One day I was behind the prophet and he said to me:
narrated by Termithi, who said it is true and fine hadith
In a version other than that of Tirmithi it reads:
"..Be mindful of Allah, you will find Him before you. Get to know Allah in
prosperity and He will know you in adversity. Know that what has passed you by
was not going to befall you; and that what has befallen you was not going to
pass you by. And know that victory comes with patience, relief with affliction,
and ease with hardship."
Uqbah bin Amre Al-Ansari
narrated that the messenger of Allah said :
"Among the words people obtained from the First Prophecy are : If you feel
no shame, then do as you wish."
It was related by Bukhari.
On authority of Sufian bin
Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with him said:
I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me something about Islam which I can
ask of no one but you". He said:" Say:'I believe in Allah', and
thereafter be upright."
related by Muslim.
Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansari
narrated that :
A man asked the messenger of Allah :
"Do you think that if I perform the obligatory prayers, fast in Ramadan,
treat as lawful that which is lawful and treat as forbidden that which is
forbidden, and do nothing further, I shall enter Paradise ?"
He said: "Yes."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Malik
Al-Harith bin Asim Al-Ashari
said that the messenger of Allah said:
"Purity is half of faith. alhamdu-lillah [Praise be to Allah] fills
the scales, and subhana-Allah [How far is Allah from every imperfection]
and alhamdu-lillah [Praise be to Allah] fill that which is between heaven
and earth. Prayer is light; charity is a proof; patience is illumination; and
the Quran is an argument for or against you. Everyone starts his day and is a
vendor of his soul, either freeing it or bringing about its ruin."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu Dharr
Al-Ghafari, of the prophet is that among the sayings he relates from his Lord is
that He said:
On the authority of Abu Dharr
:
Some of the companions of the
messenger of Allah said :" O Messenger of Allah, the affluent have made of
with the rewards, they pray as we pray they fast as we fast, and they give away
in charity the superfluity of their wealth." He said:" Has not Allah
made things for you to give away in charity ? every tasbihah is a charity, every
takbirah is a charity, every tahmidah is a charity, and every tahlilah is a
charity, to enjoin a good action is a charity, to forbid an evil action is a
charity, and in the sexual act of each of you there is a charity." They
said: "O Messenger of Allah, when one of us fulfils his sexual desire will
he have some reward for that?" He said: "Do you not think that were he
to act upon it unlawfully he would be sinning ? Likewise, if he has acted upon
it lawfully he will have a reward."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said: The messenger of Allah said :
"Each person's every joint must perform a charity every day the sun comes
up : to act justly between two people is a charity; to help a man with his
mount, lifting him onto it or hoistingd up his belongings onto it is a charity:
a good word is a charity, every step you take to prayers is a charity and
removing a harmful thing from the road is a charity."
related by Bukhari and Muslim.
On the authority of Al-Nawwas
bin Samaan, that the prophet said:
"Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in
your soul and which you dislike people finding out about."
related by Muslim.
And on the authority of Wabisa
bin Mabad, may Allah be pleased with him, who said:
I came to the messenger of Allah and he said: "You have come to ask about
righteousness ?" . I said:" Yes." He said: "Consult your
heart. Righteousness is that about which the soul feels tranquil and the heart
feels tranquil, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in the soul and moves to and
from in the breast even though people again and again have given you their legal
opinion [in its favor]."
a good hadith transmetted from the Musnads of the two Imams, Ahmed bin Hanbal
and Al-Darimi, with a good chain of authorities.
On the authority of Abu Najih
Al-Erbadh bin Sariah, who said :
The messenger of Allah gave us a sermon by which our hearts were filled with
fear and tears came to our eyes. We said: "O Messenger of Allah, it is as
though this is a farewell sermon, so councel us." He said: "I councel
you to fear Allah and to give absolute obedience even if a slave becomes your
leader. Verily he among you who lives [long] will see great controversy, so you
must keep to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the rightly-guided Khalifahs - cling
to them stubbornly. Beware of newly invented matters, for every invented matter
is an innovation and every innovation is a going astray, and every going astray
is in Hell-fire."
related by Abu Dawud and Al-Tirmithi, who said that it was a fine and true
Hadith.
On the authority of Muadh bin
Jabal, who said:
I said: "O Messenger of
Allah, tell me of an act which will take me into Paradise and will keep me away
from Hell fire." He said: "You have asked me about a major matter, yet
it is easy for him for whom Allah Almighty makes it easy. You should worship
Allah, associating nothing with Him, you should perform the prayers, you should
pay the zakat, you should fast in Ramadan, and you should make the pilgrimage to
the House." Then he said:" Shall I not show you the gates of goodness
? Fasting [which] is a shield, charity [which] extigueshes sin as water
extebgueshes fire; and the praying of a man in the deapth of night." Then
he recited :
related by Al-Tirmithi, who said it was a fine and true hadlth.
On the authority of Jurthum
bin Nashir that the messenger of Allah said :
"Allah the Almighty has laid down religious duties, so do not neglict them.
He has set boundaries, so do not over step them. He has prohibited some things,
so do not violate them; about some things He was silent-out of compassion for
you, not forgetfulness, so seek not after them."
a fine hadith related by Al-Daraqutni and others.
On the authority of Sahl bin Saad Al-Saedi, who said :
A man came to the prophet and said: "O Messenger of Allah, direct me to an
act which, if I do it, [will cause] Allah to love me and people to love
me." He said: "Renounce the world and Allah will love you, and
renounce what people possess and people will love you."
a fine Hadith related by Ibn Majah and others with good chains of authorities.
On the authority of Saad bin
Malik Al-Khudari, that the messenger of Allah said :
"There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm."
a fine hadith related by Ibn Majah, Al-Daraqutni and others
On the authority of Ibn Abbas
that the Messenger of Allah said:
"Were people to be given in accordance with their claim, men would claim
the fortunes and lives of [other] people, but the onus of proof is on the
claimant, and the taking of an oath is incumbent upon him who denies."
a fine hadith related by Al-Baihaqi and others
On the authority of Abu Saeed
Al-Khurdari, who said: I heard the messenger of Allah say:
"Whosoever of you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand; and
if he is not able to do so, then with his tongue; and if he is not able to do
so, then with his heart; and that is the weakest of faith."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said : the messenger of Allah said :
"Do not envy one another; do not inflate prices one to another; do not hate
one another; do not turn away from one another; and do not undercut one another,
but be you, O servants of Allah, brothers. A muslim is the brother of a muslim:
he neither oppresses him nor does he fail him, he neither lies to him nor does
he hold him in contempt. Piety is right here-and he pointed to his breast three
times. It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother muslim in contempt. The
whole of a muslim for another muslim is inviolable: his blood, his property, and
his honor."
related by Muslim.
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah that the Prophet said:
"Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a believer, Allah will remove from
him one of the griefs of the Day of Judgment. Whosoever alleviates [the lot of]
a needy person, Allah will alleviate [his lot] in this world and the next.
Whosoever shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and the next.
Allah will aid a servant [of His] so long as the servant aids his brother.
Whosoever follows a path to seek knowledge therein, Allah will make easy for him
a path to Paradise. No people gather together in one of the houses of Allah,
reciting the Book of Allah and studying it among themselves, without tranquility
descending upon them, mercy enveloping them, the angels surrounding them, and
Allah making mention of them amongst those who are with Him. Whosoever is slowed
down by his actions will not be hastened forward by his lineage."
related by Muslim in these words.
On the authority of Ibn Abbas
that the messenger of Allah, among the sayings he relates from his Lord is :
"Allah has written down the good deeds and the bad ones." Then he
explained it [by saying that] :" He who has intended a good deed and has
not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed, but if he
has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as from ten
good deeds to seven hundred times, or many times over. But if he has intended a
bad deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good
deed, but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down as one bad
deed."
related by Bukhari and Muslim in their two salihs
On the authority of Abu
Hurairah, who said: the messenger of Allah said:
Allah the Almighty has said: "Who soever shows enmity to a friend of Mine,
I shall be at war with him. My servant does not draw near to Me with anything
more loved by Me than the religious duties I have imposed upon him, and My
servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall
love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with
which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his foot with which he walks.
Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him and were he to
ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it."
related by Bukhari.
On the authority of Ibn Abbas
that the messenger of Allah said:
"Allah has pardoned for me my people for [their] mistakes and [their]
forgetfulness and for what they have done under duress."
a fine hadith related by Ibn Majah,Al-Baihqi, and others.
On the authority of Abdullah
bin Omar, who said: The messenger of Allah took me by the shoulder and said:
related by Bukhari
On the authority of Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-Aas, who said : The
messenger of Allah, said:
"None of you [truely] believes until his inclination is accordance with
what I have brought."
a fine and true hadith which we have transmitted from the book of Hujjah with a
sound chain of authorities.
On the authority of Anas, who
said: I heard the messenger of Allah say:
Allah the Almighty has said: "O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me
and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind.
O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then
to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come
to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me,
ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as
its."
related by Al-Tirmithi, who said that it was a good and sound Hadith.