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Hadith 4637

Chapter on Guarding the Tongue

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Chapter on Guarding the Tongue

Zujajat al-Masabih 4637Volume 4

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Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “A servant may speak a word, intending only to make the gathering laugh, and he falls because of it farther than the distance between the heavens and the earth. Indeed, a man slips with his tongue more severely than he slips with his feet.”

[Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in Shu’ab Al-Iman]