Hadith #1802Ungraded
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا ، عَنْ الشَّعْبِيِّ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ النُّعْمَانَ بْنَ بَشِيرٍ ، يَقُولُ : سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، يَقُولُ :" الْحَلَالُ بَيِّنٌ وَالْحَرَامُ بَيِّنٌ، وَبَيْنَهُمَا مُتَشَابِهَاتٌ، لَا يَعْلَمُهَا كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ فَمَنْ اتَّقَى الشُّبُهَاتِ، اسْتَبْرَأَ لِعِرْضِهِ وَدِينِهِ، وَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي الشُّبُهَاتِ، وَقَعَ فِي الْحَرَامِ، كَالرَّاعِي يَرْعَى حَوْلَ الْحِمَى فَيُوشِكُ أَنْ يُوَاقِعَهُ، وَإِنَّ لِكُلِّ مَلِكٍ حِمًى، أَلَا وَإِنَّ حِمَى اللَّهِ مَحَارِمُهُ، أَلَا وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَةً، إِذَا صَلَحَتْ ، صَلَحَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، وَإِذَا فَسَدَتْ، فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، أَلَا وَهِيَ الْقَلْبُ "
It was narrated from al-Nu'man ibn Bashir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'The lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear, and between them are ambiguous matters that many people do not know. Whoever avoids the ambiguous things safeguards his honor and religion; whoever falls into ambiguous things falls into the forbidden, like a shepherd grazing near a protected pasture, likely to graze in it. Every king has a protected area, and Allah's protected area is His prohibitions. Indeed there is in the body a piece of flesh: if it is sound, all the body is sound, and if it is corrupt, all the body is corrupt. Indeed it is the heart.'