54. The Book of Zuhd and Softening of Hearts

٥٤۔ كتاب الزهد والرقائق

54.9 The Prohibition Against Disclosing One's Own Sins

٥٤۔٩ باب النَّهْىِ عَنْ هَتْكِ الإِنْسَانِ، سِتْرَ نَفْسِهِ

All may be forgiven except for the ones who publicize their sins

(1883) bukhari:6069ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd from my cousin Ibn Shihāb > Ibn Shihāb > Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh > Abū Hurayrah

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “All of my Ummah will be pardoned except those who publicize their sins. Indeed, part of shamelessness is that a man commits a deed at night and then morning comes while Allah has concealed him. Yet he says, ‘O so-and-so, last night I did such-and-such,’ while his Lord had covered him during the night, and in the morning he reveals Allah’s covering from himself.”

(١٨٨٣) البخاري:٦٠٦٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَخِي ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: «كُلُّ أُمَّتِي مُعَافًى إِلاَّ الْمُجَاهِرِينَ، وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْمَجَانَةِ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ الرَّجُلُ بِاللَّيْلِ عَمَلاً ثُمَّ يُصْبِحَ وَقَدْ سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ فَيَقُولَ: يَا فُلاَنُ عَمِلْتُ الْبَارِحَةَ كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَقَدْ بَاتَ يَسْتُرُهُ رَبُّهُ، وَيُصْبِحُ يَكْشِفُ سِتْرَ اللَّهِ عَنْهُ».