عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ رضي الله عنهما، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: «مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي تَوَادِّهِمْ، وَتَرَاحُمِهِمْ، وَتَعَاطُفِهِمْ، مَثَلُ الْجَسَدِ، إِذَا اشْتَكَى مِنْهُ عُضْوٌ، تَدَاعَى لَهُ سَائِرُ الْجَسَدِ بِالسَّهَرِ وَالْحُمَّى»
Al-Nu‘mān ibn Bashīr narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
In their mutual love, compassion and sympathy, believers are like a single body: when any of its organs suffers a complaint, the rest of the body will share its sleeplessness and fever.
Related by al-Bukhari, 6011; Muslim, 2586.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) compares the mutual feelings of love, compassion and care among believers to a single body. When any part of the body complains of pain, the pain will be felt by the rest of the body and the person will suffer from fever and sleeplessness.
