Siraat al Mustaqeem

April Fools

*بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم*

*❌No APRIL Fool Day❌*

*Lying is an evil characteristic, which all religions and systems of ethics warn against and which man's innate common sense (fitrah) agrees that it is wrong.* Those who possess chivalry and sound reason also say this.

*Truthfulness is one of the pillars on which the moral survival of the world depends. It is the foundation of praiseworthy characteristics, the cornerstone of Prophethood, the result of taqwaa.*

According to sharee’ah, *lying is not permitted except in specific cases which do not lead to loss of rights, bloodshed or slander of people’s honour, etc.,* but which concern saving lives, reconciling between people, or creating love between husband and wife.

1⃣ *We Should Not Follow The Actions Of Disbelievers*

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: *He who copies any people is one of them.*

Hasan Sahih (Al-Albani)
Sunan Abi Dawud 4031
In-book : Book 34, Hadith 12
English translation : Book 33, Hadith 4020

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2⃣ *Lying Is Strictly Prohibited Even As A Joke Or To Make Someone Laugh Or Cheating*

🔆It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: *He who deceives is not of me (is not my follower).*

Sahih Muslim 102
In-book : Book 1, Hadith 190
USC-MSA web (English) : Book 1, Hadith 183  

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✨Abu Hurairah narrated:

"They said: 'O Messenger of Allah! You joke with us?' He said: *'Indeed I do not say except what is true.'"*

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1990
In-book : Book 27, Hadith 96
English translation : Vol. 4, Book 1, Hadith 1990

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🌀Bahz bin Hakim narrated from his father, from his grandfather that Prophet (ﷺ) said:

*"Woe to the one who talks about something to make the people laugh, in which he lies. Woe to him! Woe to him!"*

Hasan (Darussalam)
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2315
In-book : Book 36, Hadith 12
English translation : Vol. 4, Book 10, Hadith 2315

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💠Narrated Mu'awiyah ibn Jaydah al-Qushayri:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: *Woe to him who tells things, speaking falsely, to make people laugh thereby. Woe to him! Woe to him!.*

Hasan (Al-Albani)
Sunan Abi Dawud 4990
In-book : Book 43, Hadith 218
English translation : Book 42, Hadith 4972

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3⃣ *It's Not Permissible For A Believer To Trouble Or Frighten Another Believer*

Narrated AbdurRahman ibn Abu Layla:

The Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) told us that they were travelling with the Prophet (ﷺ). A man of them slept, and one of them went to the rope which he had with him. He took it, by which he was frightened. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: *It is not lawful for a Muslim that he frightens a Muslim.*

Sahih (Al-Albani)
Sunan Abi Dawud 5004
In-book : Book 43, Hadith 232
English translation : Book 42, Hadith 4986

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4⃣ *Lying To Children Is Not Permissible*

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amir:

My mother called me one day when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting in our house. She said: *Come here and I shall give you something.* The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her: What did you intend to give him? She replied: I intended to give him some dates. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: *If you were not to give him anything, a lie would be recorded against you.*

Hasan (Al-Albani)
Sunan Abi Dawud 4991
In-book : Book 43, Hadith 219
English translation : Book 42, Hadith 4973

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5⃣ *It's Not Permissible To Speak Everything Whatever You Hear Without Cross Checking It*

Shu’bah narrated to us, on authority of Abī Hurayrah, he said, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: *‘It is enough of a lie for a man to narrate everything he hears’.*

Sahih Muslim 5
In-book : Introduction, Narration 6

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6⃣ *Consequences Of Lying*

Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

*Truth leads one to Paradise and virtue leads one to Paradise and the person tells the truth until he is recorded as truthful,*

and

*lie leads to obscenity and obscenity leads to Hell, and the person tells a lie until he is recorded as a liar.*

Sahih Muslim 2607 a
In-book : Book 45, Hadith 134
USC-MSA web (English) : Book 32, Hadith 6307

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