Gardens of the Righteous — Page 140
140. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS 241. Fulfil the covenant of Allah when you make one (16. 92). 242. O ye who believe, fulfil your pledges (5. 2). 243. O ye who believe, why do you say that which you do not? Most odious is it in the sight of Allah that you should say that which you do not (61. 3-4). 692. This hadith is the same as No. 201. 693. Abdullah ibn Amr ibn 'As relates that the Holy Prophet said:. There are four qualities which, if they are found in a person, prove him a thorough hypocrite. If a person has one of them, he has one quality of hypocrisy until he gets rid of it. These are: when he is entrusted with something he embezzles, when he talks he lies, when he promises he breaks his promise and when he contends he reviles (Bokhari and Muslim). 694. Jabir relates: The Holy Prophet said to me: When the revenues of. Bahrain are received, I shall give you thus, and thus and thus. But he died before the revenues were received. When they were received Abu Bakr caused it to be announced: Anyone to whom the Holy Prophet had made a promise or owed anything should come forward. So I went to him and said to him: The. Holy Prophet had said to me thus and thus. He took a double handful out of the money and gave it to me. I counted it and found it was five hundred dirhems. He said to me: Take twice as much more (Bokhari and Muslim). 87. . On Safeguarding a Good Practice. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 244. Allah would not withdraw a favour that He has conferred upon a people, until they change their own attitude towards Him (13. 12). 245. Be not like the woman who having made strong yarn breaks it into pieces (16. 93). 246. Let them not be like those who were given the Book before them and the term of Allah's favour was prolonged for them, so that their hearts were hardened (57. 17). 247. But they did not observe it duly (57. 28). 695. This hadith is the same as No. 155.