What Has Been Related About Good Character
Darussalam · Volume 4
25. Chapters On Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺJami at-Tirmidhi Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 2003 · Volume 5 · Page 3
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2003. Abū Ad-Dardā' narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Nothing is placed on the Scale that is heavier than good character. Indeed the person with good character will have attained the rank of the person of fasting and prayer." (Hasan) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb from this route.
٢٠٠٣ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا قَبِيصَةُ بْنُ اللَّيْثِ الْكُوفِيُّ ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ ، عَنْ أُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ يُوضَعُ فِي الْمِيزَانِ أَثْقَلُ مِنْ حُسْنِ الْخُلُقِ،» وَإِنَّ صَاحِبَ حُسْنِ الْخُلُقِ لَيَبْلُغُ بِهِ دَرَجَةَ صَاحِبِ الصَّوْمِ وَالصَّلَاةِ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ.
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Another narration specifies that prayer here means the nightly optional prayer and fasting refers to optional fasts. The Hadīth thus signifies that a man of good moral conduct shall match those in rank who pray in the middle of the night and most often fast in the day.