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    Hasten To Do Good Deeds

    Hadith Five

    The Prophet's MHMD Recommendation
    To Hasten To Do Good Deeds
    Without Procrastination Nor Laziness,
    Before Involvement With Concerns
    And Unforeseeable Obstacles

    It is narrated from Abu Hurayra (ra) that the Prophet MHMD said:
    "Hasten to good deeds before
    seven [deadlines]! Are you waiting for poverty to make
    you oblivious? Or wealth to turn you into an
    oppressor? Or debilitating illness? Or hoary senility?
    Or sudden death? Or the Antichrist - a detestable
    wait! Or the Hour [of Resurrection]? Indeed, the Hour
    is hardest to bear and most bitter!"

    Al-Tirmidhi narrated it and declared it hasan,

    while al-Hakim declared its chain sahîh as stated in
    al-Mundhiri's Targhib and in Fayd al-Qadir.

     

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