205curated hadith rotate here, mostly from Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, each from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or the Sunan collections with its reference cited.

Hadith for · taqwa

Follow a bad deed with a good one

Monday, April 2, 1990

Transliteration

Ittaqi-llaha haythuma kunt, wa atbi'i-s-sayyi'ata-l-hasanata tamhuha, wa khaliqi-n-nasa bi-khuluqin hasan.

Translation

Fear Allah wherever you are. Follow a bad deed with a good one and it will erase it. Deal with people in the best of manners.

Narrated by Abu Dharr and Mu'adh ibn Jabal·Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1987 (hasan)·Nawawi's Forty · #18

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