بَابُ حِفْظِ اللِّسَانِ وَفَضْلِ الصَّمْتِ

2. ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī and Saʿduwayh narrated to us on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, on the authority of Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, on the authority of ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, on the authority of ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, on the authority of al-Qāsim, on the authority of Abū Umāma – may Allah be pleased with him – who said: ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir – may Allah be pleased with him – said: "I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, what is salvation?' He said: 'Control your tongue, let your house be sufficient for you, and weep over your sin.'"^[1]​

3. ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī narrated to us: My father narrated to me on the authority of Abū Ḥāzim al-Madanī, on the authority of Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī – may Allah be pleased with him – who said: The Messenger of Allah – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – said: "Whoever guarantees for me what is between his two jawbones and his two legs, I will guarantee for him Paradise."^[2]​

4. Abū Muslim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūnus narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs narrated to us: my father and my uncle informed me on the authority of my grandfather, on the authority of Abū Hurayra – may Allah be pleased with him – who said: The Messenger of Allah – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – was asked about that which most leads people to Paradise, and he said: "Fear of Allah and good character." And he was asked about that which most leads people to the Fire, and he said: "The two hollows: the mouth and the private parts."^[3]​

5. Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʿAsqalānī narrated to us: ʿAmr ibn Abī Salama narrated to us on the authority of Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAbd Allāh, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī, on the authority of Sulaymān ibn Ḥabīb: Aswad ibn Aṣram al-Muḥāribī – may Allah be pleased with him – narrated to me saying: I said, 'Advise me, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: "Do you control your hand?" He said: I said, 'What do I control if I do not control my hand?' He said: "Do you control your tongue?" He said: 'What do I control if I do not control my tongue?' He said: "Then do not extend your hand except toward good, and do not say with your tongue what is proper."^[4]​

6. Abū Khaythama and Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Jarīr narrated to us on the authority of al-Aʿmash, on the authority of al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtayba and Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, on the authority of Maymūn ibn Abī Shabīb, on the authority of Muʿādh ibn Jabal – may Allah be pleased with him – who said: I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, shall we be held accountable for what we say?' He said: "May your mother be bereaved of you, O son of Jabal! Is there anything that casts people face-first into the Fire except the harvests of their tongues?" Ḥabīb said regarding this hadith: 'Do you say anything except that it is either for you or against you.'^[5]​

7. Ḥamza ibn al-ʿAbbās narrated to me: ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān informed us: ʿAbd Allāh informed us: Maʿmar informed us on the authority of al-Zuhrī, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Māʿiz, on the authority of Sufyān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī, who said: I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, tell me something to which I may hold fast.' He said: "Say: My Lord is Allah, then remain steadfast." He said: I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, what is the thing you fear most for me?' So he took hold of his tongue and then said: "This."^[6]​

12. ʿImrān ibn Mūsā – meaning al-Qazzāz – narrated to me: Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated to us on the authority of Abū ʾl-Ṣahbāʾ, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, on the authority of Abū Saʿīd – I think he raised it [to the Prophet] – who said: "When the son of Adam wakes in the morning, all of his limbs humble themselves before the tongue, saying: 'Fear Allah concerning us, for if you remain upright, we remain upright; and if you become crooked, we become crooked.'"^[8]​

Or al-ʾAʿwar al-Shannī, where he says:^[13]​

67. Aḥmad ibn Jamīl narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us, saying: ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us: Ṭalḥa al-Yāmī narrated to me, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwsaja narrated to me on the authority of al-Barāʾ – may Allah be pleased with him – who said: A bedouin came to the Prophet – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – and said: “Direct me to a deed that will admit me to Paradise.” He said: “Feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong. If you cannot manage that, then restrain your tongue except from good.”^[14]​

68. Khalaf ibn Hishām narrated to us: Hammād ibn Zayd narrated to us on the authority of Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abū Murāwiḥ al-Laythī, on the authority of Abū Dharr – may Allah be pleased with him – that the Messenger of Allah – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – said: “Restrain your evil from people, for indeed it is a charity from you upon yourself.”^[15]​