Muslim 8 — The Jibril hadith: Islam, iman, ihsan

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«كان رسول الله يوما بارزا للناس فأتاه رجل فقال: يا رسول الله، ما الإيمان؟... ثم أدبر الرجل، فقال رسول الله: «ردوا علي الرجل»، فأخذوا ليردوه فلم يروا شيئا، فقال رسول الله: «هذا جبريل جاء ليعلم الناس دينهم»»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Mentions: Jibril (Gabriel)· Muhammad· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abu Hurayra· Islam (the religion and the term)· Iman (faith)· Ihsan (excellence in worship)
Basis for: Ihsan (excellence in worship)

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Arba'un 2 — the hadith of Jibril· Muslim 20 — I will fight whoever separates prayer from almsgiving· Muslim 35 — Faith has seventy-odd branches· Muslim 47 — Whoever believes in God and the Last Day, let him speak good or stay silent· Muslim 54 — You will not enter Paradise until you believe and love one another· Muslim 57 — The adulterer is not a believer while he commits the act· Muslim 83 — Best deed: faith, then jihad, then an accepted hajj· Muslim 102 — Whoever cheats us is not one of us

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Sahih Muslim

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Arba'un 2 — the hadith of Jibril

Umar ibn al-Khattab's famous hadith of Jibril, the second hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty and of Ibn Rajab's commentary: a man in strikingly white clothes asks the Prophet about islam and is answered with its five pillars, then about iman — assent to God, His angels, books, messengers, the Last Day and the decree, its good and its ill — then about ihsan — worshipping God as though you see Him, for He sees you — then about the Hour and its signs; Umar is told at the end that the questioner was Jibril come to teach them their religion. Transmitted by Muslim (8), who alone of the two Sahih collections includes it; also by Ahmad (1/27, 28, 51, 52), Abu Dawud (4695–4697), Ibn Majah (63), al-Tirmidhi (2610) and others; Ibn Rajab comments at length on the realities of islam, iman, ihsan and the Hour (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 70–120).