88 - Mutual sympathy between Muslims

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.


Related Quranic Verses

Believers, if you renounce your faith, God will bring forth [in your stead] people whom He loves and who love Him, humble towards the believers, proud towards the unbelievers.  

(5: 54)

The believers, men and women, are friends to one another.

(9: 71)

 Muhammad is God’s Messenger; and those who are with him are firm and unyielding towards the unbelievers, full of mercy towards one another.

(48: 29)

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