03-31-2006, 07:37 PM
Praise be to Allah and prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed Ibn Abdullah
While looking around my community, I observed many relations that are quickly eroding. Of them, a very important and essential relation that Allah Stressed through hadeeth of the Messenger on the necessity to maintain it under any conditions. It is the right of a neighbor.
Narrated under the authority of Abdullah Ibn Amr arrived to his house and found that his household members slaughtered a lamb. He asked them, did you send a piece as a present to our Jewish neighbor? I heard the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam say: Jebreel kept to advice me to adopt a kind attitude with the neighbor till I thought that he was going to make the neighbor eligible for inheritance” (Reported by Termdhi)
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Narrated under the authority of Aaesha may Allah Be Pleased with her that the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam said: Jebreel kept to advice me to adopt a kind attitude with the neighbor till I thought that he was going to make the neighbor eligible for inheritance” (Reported by Bukhari)
Narrated under the authority of Abu Shuraih that the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam said: Wallahi (in the Name of Allah) one will not be a believer, Wallahi (in the Name of Allah) one will not be a believer, Wallahi (in the Name of Allah) one will not be a believer, they asked and who O Messenger of Allah. He replied one whose neighbour shall not be secure against his evil” (reported by Bukhari)
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Narrated under the authority of Abi Horaira that the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam used to say O Muslim women, a female neighbor should not despise her female neighbour even if she gave her as present the bottom end of a lamb’s foot” (reported by Bukhari)
Through the previously mentioned hadeeth, we can easily detect the importance to maintain a kind relation with our neighbor. Special emphasis is laid on many aspects of such relation. Look at the first hadeeth by Abdullah who because of the Messenger’s hadeeth of how Jebreel kept making sure that we treat our neighbours nicely thought the Jebreel was going to include neighbors with those next of kin who are eligible for inheritance, due to this Abudllah wanted to make sure that his household members sent a present to their Jewish neighbor.
How many of us nowadays do observe these hadeeth? How many of us nowadays sit even once a week next to the phone and make phone calls to the neighbors just following this sunnah? How many of us tries to help neighbors in cases of illness, or other? How many of us tries his/her best not to be source of evil to the neighbor? Brothers and sisters evil here does not necessarily mean physical harm, but raising the TV volume is enough, not taking the neighbor in consideration while cleaning is enough, not taking the neighbor in consideration while making any house maintained that involves noise in enough.
Brothers and sisters, let us all start observing this Sunnah, initiate it and you will find a remarkable feedback. At least be the initiator in the name of Allah, you will receive the reward for it and for each one who remembers and follows Insh aAllah. Let us revive this Sunnah through which a neighbor was really closer than some of the relatives. Through this, the kind of relationships of our Ummah will be restored Insh a Allah.