110curated 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.

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The world is cursed, except…

Monday, March 3, 2014

Transliteration

Ad-dunya mal'unah, mal'unun ma fiha, illa dhikra-llahi wa ma walah, wa 'aliman aw muta'alliman.

Translation

The world is cursed, and what is in it is cursed, except for remembrance of Allah and what brings one closer to Him, and a teacher or a student.

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah·Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2322 (hasan)

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