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2407. Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī narrated (that the Prophet ﷺ) said: "When the son of Ādam wakes up in the morning, all of his body parts bow to the tongue and say: 'Fear Allāh regarding us, we are only part of you. If you are straight we are straight, and if you are crooked we are crooked.'" (Hasan)
Hannād narrated to us (he said): "Abū Usāmah narrated to us, from Usāmah bin Zaid" and it is similar, but he did not narrate it in Marfū' form. And this is more authentic than the narration of Muḥammad bin Mūsā (no. 2407).
[Abū 'Eisā said:] We do not know of this Hadīth except through the narration of Ḥammād bin Zaid. And, it has been reported by others from him, and they did not narrate it in Marfū' form.
Sāliḥ bin 'Abdullāh narrated to us (he said): Ḥammād bin Zaid narrated to us, from Abū Aṣ-Ṣaḥbā', from Sa'eed bin Jubair, from Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī – and he said: "I think it was from the Prophet ﷺ" – and he mentioned similarly.
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Commentary
It is an undeniable truth that, of all the apparent parts of a man's body, it is the tongue that is more closely connected with his wrongdoings and acts of sin. As such all the parts of the human body remind it every day with all the humility and submissiveness at their command that all their affairs — their success, their prosperity and their good or bad end — are inalienably linked
to it. They, therefore, entreat it to have compassion on them and keep within the boundaries set by Allāh since any wrongdoing on the part of the tongue could spell doom and ruination for them all.
