1. The Book of Faith

١۔ كتاب الإيمان

1.14 Clarifying the number of branches of faith, the best and the least of them, the virtue of modesty (Al-Haya') and the fact that it is part of faith

١۔١٤ باب بَيَانِ عَدَدِ شُعَبِ الْإِيمَانِ وَأَفْضَلِهَا وَأَدْنَاهَا وَفَضِيلَةِ الْحَيَاءِ وَكَوْنِهِ مِنْ الْإِيمَانِ

(21) bukhari:9ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad > Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī > Sulaymān b. Bilāl > ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Abū Ṣāliḥ > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Faith (Belief) consists of more than sixty branches (i.e. parts). And Haya (This term "Haya" covers a large number of concepts which are to be taken together; amongst them are self respect, modesty, bashfulness, and scruple, etc.) is a part of faith."  

(٢١) البخاري:٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ بِلاَلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ الإِيمَانُ بِضْعٌ وَسِتُّونَ شُعْبَةً وَالْحَيَاءُ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الإِيمَانِ  

(22) bukhari:24ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf > Mālik b. Anas > Ibn Shihāb > Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh from his father

that once Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by an Ansari (man) who was admonishing his brother regarding Haya'. On that Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Leave him as Haya' is a part of faith." (See Hadith 9)  

(٢٢) البخاري:٢٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ قَالَ؛ أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ؛ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ؛ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ؛ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَرَّ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ وَهُوَ يَعِظُ أَخَاهُ فِي الْحَيَاءِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «دَعْهُ، فَإِنَّ الْحَيَاءَ مِنَ الإِيمَانِ۔»  

Modesty and shyness bring about nothing except goodness

(23) bukhari:6117Ādam > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Abū al-Sawwār al-ʿAdawī > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn

the Prophet ﷺ said, "Ḥayāʾ (modesty) brings about nothing except good."

Thereupon Bushayr b. Kaʿb said: It is written in ˹my˺ wisdom ˹notes˺ that Ḥayāʾ leads to solemnity; Ḥayāʾ leads to tranquility. ʿImrān said to him: I am narrating to you the saying of Messenger of Allah ﷺ and you are speaking about your ˹notes on˺ paper (wisdom book)?  

(٢٣) البخاري:٦١١٧حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ؛ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ؛ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ؛ عَنْ أَبِي السَّوَّارِ الْعَدَوِيِّ قَالَ؛ سَمِعْتُ عِمْرَانَ بْنَ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «الْحَيَاءُ لاَ يَأْتِي إِلاَّ بِخَيْرٍ۔»

فَقَالَ بُشَيْرُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ: مَكْتُوبٌ فِي الْحِكْمَةِ، إِنَّ مِنَ الْحَيَاءِ وَقَارًا، وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْحَيَاءِ سَكِينَةً۔ فَقَالَ لَهُ عِمْرَانُ: أُحَدِّثُكَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَتُحَدِّثُنِي عَنْ صَحِيفَتِكَ؟