40 Hadith #54: Brotherhood and Piety

Read by our brother Abu Arwa Ali

Summary

• The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said “Do not envy one another; do not inflate prices one to another; do not hate one another; do not turn away from one another; and do not undercut one another, but be you, O servants of Allāh, brothers” [Muslim]

Hadith 35

• From Abū Hurayrah (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu) who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wasallam) said, “Do not envy one another; do not inflate prices one to another; do not hate one another; do not turn away from one another; and do not undercut one another, but be you, O servants of Allāh, brothers. A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim: he neither oppresses him nor does he fail him, he neither lies to him nor does he hold him in contempt. Piety (taqwā) is right here – and he pointed to his breast three times. It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother muslim in contempt. The whole of a Muslim for another Muslim is inviolable: his blood, his property, and his honor.” [Related by Muslim]
• The explanation of this hadith is split into 4 part

Part 1: The first 5 statement of the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ)

• When The Prophet (ﷺ) said “Do not envy one another”
  • What is “hasad” (envy)? 
  • Shaikh ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah explained it as when a person hates to see the blessing of Allah upon others, what does this result in?
  • It occurs in worldly matters and religious matters
  • It usually is accompanied by a wish for the blessing of theirs to cease
  • It does not matter whether the envier wants that blessing or not
  • What about if a person sees someone else have a blessing, and he wishes that he also had that blessing, but he does not hate that the other person having had that blessing, then is this envy? Is this permissible?
  • What if a person has envy within his heart, but he does not show it upon his face?
  • What should a person do if he is envious?
  • Brotherhood is from the foundations of the religion
  • An envier is an enemy to the blessings of Allah
• “Do not inflate prices one to another”
  • What does this mean? Why is it done?
  • How does it occur?
  • Why did the Prophet ﷺ prohibit this?
• “Do not hate one another”
  • Hating one another brings about splitting
  • Innovation is from amongst those things that bring about hatred, this is included within this hadith
• “Do not turn away from one another”
  • Generally the Muslim does not boy-cut another Muslim
  • What about association with the people of Innovation 
  • What do we mean when we say the people of Innovation?
• “And do not undercut one another”
  • What does this mean?
  • What are some examples?
  • Islamic rulings business transactions
    • What is “the period of choice?”
    • Considerations of location
    • Considerations of time
    • What is “the period of rukun”?
  • Shaykh Al-Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy upon him) mentions 3 reasons why this is forbidden:
    • 1. It may lead a Muslim into feeling duped by his brother
    • 2. It may bring regret into the heart of the customer or businessman for going into transaction with his fellow brother
    • 3. The customer may claim that there is a defect in the item or falsely introduce one