الحديث 37

الحديث 37

روى عن: Ibn ‘Abbās (RA) · Bukhari & Muslim

النص العربي

إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَتَبَ الحَسَنَاتِ وَالسَّيِّئَاتِ ثُمَّ بَيَّنَ ذَلِكَ: فَمَنْ هَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ لَهُ عِنْدَهُ حَسَنَةً كَامِلَةً، فَإِنْ هَمَّ بِهَا فَعَمِلَهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ لَهُ عِنْدَهُ عَشْرَ حَسَنَاتٍ إِلَى سَبْعِ مِئَةِ ضِعْفٍ إِلَى أَضْعَافٍ كَثِيرَةٍ. وَمَنْ هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ لَهُ عِنْدَهُ حَسَنَةً كَامِلَةً، فَإِنْ هَمَّ بِهَا فَعَمِلَهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ سَيِّئَةً وَاحِدَةً.

الترجمة الإنجليزية

Allah has written down good and bad deeds: whoever intends a good deed but does not do it, Allah writes it as one full good deed; if he does it, Allah writes it as ten to seven hundred and beyond. Whoever intends an evil deed but does not do it, Allah writes it as a full good deed for him; if he does it, Allah writes it as one evil deed.

— Ibn ‘Abbās (RA) (Bukhari & Muslim)

الشرح

Allah's accounting is overwhelmingly merciful. Even an unfulfilled good intention earns reward — and an unfulfilled evil intention is itself a good deed.

شرح موسّع

Allah’s ledger is overwhelmingly merciful. An intended-but-unperformed good = one full good deed. A performed good = ten to seven hundred and beyond. An intended-but-resisted evil = one full good deed (the resistance itself). A performed evil = exactly one evil deed.

Ibn Rajab calls this the most encouraging hadith in the book: even before you act, your intention to do good is rewarded. And even your moments of struggling against temptation — when you almost sinned but pulled back for Allah’s sake — are written as good deeds.

من كلام أهل العلم

"If a man intended an evil but left it for Allah’s sake, Allah writes it as a complete good deed. The intention to leave a sin for Allah is itself a great act of worship."

Ibn Rajab · Jāmi‘ al-‘Ulūm wa al-Ḥikam

"‘Seven hundred and beyond’ — the multiplication depends on the sincerity of the heart, the difficulty of the act, the time and place, and the benefit to others."

Ibn ‘Uthaymīn

الفقه والأحكام

  • Intention to perform a good — without ability or opportunity — is rewarded as one good deed.
  • Performing the good — minimum tenfold reward; up to 700+ depending on sincerity, time, place, beneficiaries.
  • Intention to do evil, then leaving it for Allah’s sake — written as a good deed.
  • Intention to do evil, then leaving it for inability or fear of consequences — neither rewarded nor punished.
  • Performing the evil — recorded as exactly one evil deed (no multiplication).

الصلة بآيات القرآن

6:160‘Whoever brings a good deed — for him is ten times its like; whoever brings an evil — he is recompensed only with its like.’
2:261‘The example of those who spend in the way of Allah is like a grain producing seven ears, in each ear a hundred grains…’

مفردات عربية مفتاحية

هَمَّhamma

intended / resolved

حَسَنَةً كَامِلَةًḥasanah kāmilah

a complete good deed

أَضْعَافٍ كَثِيرَةٍaḍ‘āf kathīrah

many multiples

تأمل اليوم

Sit with the asymmetry. Allah is more eager to reward than to punish.

أبرز الفوائد

  • 1Hope is built into the very accounting system.
  • 2Intentions matter even when not realised.

أخطاء شائعة وتنبيهات

  • ‘Intended evil and left it’ is rewarded ONLY when the leaving is for Allah’s sake — not for fear of getting caught.
  • Do not exploit the mercy by intending evil and abandoning it for ulterior reasons — Allah knows the reason for leaving.

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