25/168. Chapter:
Mishkat al-Masabih 4830 — Manners
Do Not Disclose Your Own Defects
Mishkat al-Masabih : 4830
Mishkat al-MasabihHadith Number 4830
وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: " كُلُّ أُمَّتِي مُعَافًى إِلَّا الْمُجَاهِرُونَ وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْمَجَانَةِ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ الرَّجُلُ عَمَلًا بِاللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ يُصْبِحَ وَقَدْ سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ. فَيَقُولَ: يَا فُلَانُ عَمِلْتُ الْبَارِحَةَ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَقَدْ بَاتَ يَسْتُرُهُ رَبُّهُ وَيُصْبِحُ يَكْشِفُ سِتْرَ اللَّهِ عَنْهُ ". مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ وَذكر فِي حَدِيث أبي هُرَيْرَة: «من كَانَ يُؤمن بِاللَّه» فِي «بَاب الضِّيَافَة»
AbuHurayrah Narrated from:
Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "All of my ummah are safe but not those who publicise their (defects and) sins." (He meant that not all sinners of his ummah will undergo severe punishment but they will endure harsh chastisement who commit sin and then speak about it) "surely, it is very shameful (and bold) for a man to perpetrate sin in the night and, after Allah has concealed it for him (and not punished him promptly in the night for it), to go on telling someone in the morning that he had committed a certain (sin) during the previous night. His Lord concealed it morning, he begins to disclose what Allah's concealed (of his sins)."¹
Reference : Mishkat al-Masabih 4830In-book reference : Book 25, Hadith 203
Translation source
- Compiler:
- Al-Khatib at-Tabrizi
- Translator:
- James Robson
- Publisher:
- Darussalam Publication
