40 Hadith an-Nawawi #29

أبواب الخير

Means of Goodness

Narrated by Muadh bin Jabal رضي الله عنه
Hasan Sahih At-Tirmidhi
Arabic
عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: "أَلَا أَدُلُّك عَلَى أَبْوَابِ الْخَيْرِ؟" "الصَّوْمُ جُنَّةٌ،" "وَالصَّدَقَةُ تُطْفِئُ الْخَطِيئَةَ كَمَا يُطْفِئُ الْمَاءُ النَّارَ" "ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَلَا أُخْبِرُك بِمَلَاكِ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ؟" "فَأَخَذَ بِلِسَانِهِ وَقَالَ: كُفَّ عَلَيْك هَذَا." رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَقَالَ: حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ.
Pronunciation
'An Mu'ādhibni Jabalin raḍiya-llāhu 'anhu qāl: "Alā adulluka 'alā abwābil-khayr?" "Aṣ-ṣawmu junnah," "waṣ-ṣadaqatu tuṭfi'ul-khaṭī'ata kamā yuṭfi'ul-mā'un-nār" "thumma qāl: alā ukhbiruka bi-milāki dhālika kullih?" "fa'akhadha bi-lisānihī wa qāl: kuffa 'alayka hādhā." Rawāhut-Tirmidhiyyu wa qāl: ḥadīthun ḥasanun ṣaḥīḥ.
English
On the authority of Muadh bin Jabal (RA) who said: "Shall I not guide you to the gates of goodness?" "Fasting is a shield," "and charity extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire." "Then he said: Shall I not tell you the foundation of all that?" "So he took hold of his tongue and said: Restrain this." Related by at-Tirmidhi, who said it is a Hasan Sahih Hadith.