Riyad as-Salihin: Book 17, Hadith 279

Abu Bakrah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Mention of a man was made to the Prophet (ﷺ) and someone praised him whereupon he (ﷺ) said, “Woe be to you! You have broken the neck of your friend!” He repeated this several times and added, “If one of you has to praise his friend at all, he should say: ‘I reckon him to be such and such and Allah knows him well’, if you think him to be so-and-so, you will be accountable to Allah because no one can testify the purity of others against Allah.”.

وعن أبي بكر رضي الله عنه أن رجلا ذُكر عند النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، فأثنى عليه رجل خيرًا، فقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏:‏ ‏”‏ويحك‏!‏ قطعت عنق صاحبك‏”‏ يقوله مرارًا ‏”‏وإن كان أحدكم مادحًا لا محالة، فليقل‏:‏ أحسب كذا وكذا إن كان يرى أنه كذلك وحسيبه الله، ولا يزكي على الله أحدًا‏”‏ ‏(‏‏(‏متفق عليه‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏

The above hadith is from the Riyad as-Salihin collection of hadiths. The hadith collection known as Riyad as-Salihin was meticulously assembled over more than four decades by Imam al-Nawawi. This 12th-century work, whose title translates to The Gardens of the Righteous, categorizes its roughly 1,900 hadiths across 20 different thematic sections for the purpose of moral and spiritual guidance.

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