رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 1789
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Chapter 107
Chapter context: Undesirability of Praising a Person in his Presence
- باب كراهة المدح في الوجه لمن خيف عليه مفسدة من إعجاب ونحوه، وجوازه لمن أمن ذلك في حقه
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Original Arabic
وعن أبي بكر رضي الله عنه أن رجلا ذُكر عند النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، فأثنى عليه رجل خيرًا، فقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم : "ويحك! قطعت عنق صاحبك" يقوله مرارًا "وإن كان أحدكم مادحًا لا محالة، فليقل: أحسب كذا وكذا إن كان يرى أنه كذلك وحسيبه الله، ولا يزكي على الله أحدًا" ((متفق عليه)).
Translation
English translation
Abu Bakrah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
Mention of a man was made to the Prophet (ﷺ) and someone praised him whereupon he (ﷺ) said, "Woe be to you! You have broken the neck of your friend!" He repeated this several times and added, "If one of you has to praise his friend at all, he should say: 'I reckon him to be such and such and Allah knows him well', if you think him to be so-and-so, you will be accountable to Allah because no one can testify the purity of others against Allah." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
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This is Hadith 1789 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 18, The Book of the Prohibited actions, as in-book entry 279 under the chapter “Undesirability of Praising a Person in his Presence.”
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