1. The Book of Faith

١۔ كتاب الإيمان

1.40 The major sins and the most serious of them

١۔٤٠ باب بَيَانِ الْكَبَائِرِ وَأَكْبَرِهَا

(54) bukhari:2654Musaddad > Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal > al-Jurayrī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Bakrah from his father

The Prophet ﷺ said thrice, "Should I inform you out the greatest of the great sins?" They said, "Yes, O Messenger of Allah ﷺ!" He said, "To join others in worship with Allah and to be undutiful to one's parents." The Prophet ﷺ then sat up after he had been reclining (on a pillow) and said, "And I warn you against giving a false witness, and he kept on saying that warning till we thought he would not stop. (See Hadith No. 7, Vol. 8)  

(٥٤) البخاري:٢٦٥٤حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ حَدَّثَنَا الْجُرَيْرِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَلاَ أُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِأَكْبَرِ الْكَبَائِرِ ثَلاَثًا قَالُوا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ الإِشْرَاكُ بِاللَّهِ وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَجَلَسَ وَكَانَ مُتَّكِئًا فَقَالَ أَلاَ وَقَوْلُ الزُّورِ قَالَ فَمَا زَالَ يُكَرِّرُهَا حَتَّى قُلْنَا لَيْتَهُ سَكَتَ  

وَقَالَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا الْجُرَيْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ
(55) bukhari:2653ʿAbdullāh b. Munīr > Wahbb. Jarīr And ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ibrāhīm > Shuʿbah > ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Bakr b. Anas > Anas

The Prophet ﷺ was asked about the great sins He said, "They are:-- (1 ) To join others in worship with Allah, (2) To be undutiful to one's parents. (3) To kill a person (which Allah has forbidden to kill) (i.e. to commit the crime of murdering). (4) And to give a false witness."  

(٥٥) البخاري:٢٦٥٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُنِيرٍ سَمِعَ وَهْبَ بْنَ جَرِيرٍ وَعَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ

سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنِ الْكَبَائِرِ قَالَ الإِشْرَاكُ بِاللَّهِ وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَقَتْلُ النَّفْسِ وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ  

تَابَعَهُ غُنْدَرٌ وَأَبُو عَامِرٍ وَبَهْزٌ وَعَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ
(56) bukhari:2766ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbdullāh > Sulaymān b. Bilāl > Thawr b. Zayd al-Madanī > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Avoid the seven great destructive sins." The people enquire, "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! What are they? "He said, "To join others in worship along with Allah, to practice sorcery, to kill the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause, (according to Islamic law), to eat up Riba (usury), to eat up an orphan's wealth, to give back to the enemy and fleeing from the battlefield at the time of fighting, and to accuse, chaste women, who never even think of anything touching chastity and are good believers.  

(٥٦) البخاري:٢٧٦٦حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ بِلاَلٍ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الْمَدَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ اجْتَنِبُوا السَّبْعَ الْمُوبِقَاتِ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا هُنَّ قَالَ الشِّرْكُ بِاللَّهِ وَالسِّحْرُ وَقَتْلُ النَّفْسِ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلاَّ بِالْحَقِّ وَأَكْلُ الرِّبَا وَأَكْلُ مَالِ الْيَتِيمِ وَالتَّوَلِّي يَوْمَ الزَّحْفِ وَقَذْفُ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ الْغَافِلاَتِ  

(57) bukhari:5973Aḥmad b. Yūnus > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd from his father > Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said. "It is one of the greatest sins that a man should curse his parents." It was asked (by the people), "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! How does a man curse his parents?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "'The man abuses the father of another man and the latter abuses the father of the former and abuses his mother."  

(٥٧) البخاري:٥٩٧٣حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ مِنْ أَكْبَرِ الْكَبَائِرِ أَنْ يَلْعَنَ الرَّجُلُ وَالِدَيْهِ قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَكَيْفَ يَلْعَنُ الرَّجُلُ وَالِدَيْهِ قَالَ يَسُبُّ الرَّجُلُ أَبَا الرَّجُلِ فَيَسُبُّ أَبَاهُ وَيَسُبُّ أَمَّهُ