مجموعات الحديث

Actions are by intentions

The first hadith of Sahih al-Bukhari, and the one the scholars put at the front of almost every collection.

Sahih al-Bukhari 1; Sahih Muslim 1907 (Nawawi's Forty, no. 1)

Islam is built upon five

The shahadah, the prayer, the zakat, the Hajj and the fast of Ramadan.

Sahih al-Bukhari 8; Sahih Muslim 16 (Nawawi's Forty, no. 3)

None of you believes until he loves for his brother

A short line that is harder to act on than it is to agree with.

Sahih al-Bukhari 13; Sahih Muslim 45 (Nawawi's Forty, no. 13)

Speak good, or stay silent

Three things in one narration: the tongue, the neighbour and the guest.

Sahih al-Bukhari 6018; Sahih Muslim 47 (Nawawi's Forty, no. 15)

The strong one is not the wrestler

A redefinition of strength, given in one sentence.

Sahih al-Bukhari 6114; Sahih Muslim 2609

Allah does not look at your forms

What is and is not being weighed.

Sahih Muslim 2564

Leave what makes you doubt

A rule for deciding, when you cannot decide.

Jami at-Tirmidhi 2518; Sunan an-Nasai 5711 (Nawawi's Forty, no. 11)

The merciful are shown mercy

Mercy to those on the earth, and mercy from the One above the heaven.

Jami at-Tirmidhi 1924; Sunan Abi Dawud 4941