Muslim 6517

Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of Kinship

Muslim 6517Sahih

Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of Kinshipكتاب البر والصلة والآداب

Nawwas b. Sam'an reported:I stayed with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) for one year. What obstructed me to migrate was (nothing) but (persistent) inquiries from him (about Islam). (It was a common observation) that when anyone of us migrated (to Medina) he ceased to ask (too many questions) from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). So I asked him about virtue and vice. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what rankles in your mind and that you disapprove of its being known to the people