Al-Targhīb wal-Tarhīb is a book of collected prophetic hadith by Imam al-Mundhirī.
The following are some select chapters with English translation and Arabic text.
Book of the Sunnah كتاب السنة
- Sincerity, truthfulness, and good intentions
- Following the Quran and Sunnah
- Heretical innovations, lowly desires
Book of Knowledge كتاب العلم
- Seeking knowledge, teaching, and learning
- Acting upon one’s knowledge
- Arguing, bickering, and quarreling
Book of Ritual Purification كتاب الطهارة
Book of Prayer كتاب الصلاة
Book of Charity كتاب الصدقات
Book of Fasting كتاب الصيام
Book of Hajj Pilgrimage كتاب الحج
Book of the Recitation of Quran كتاب قراءة القرآن
- Reciting the Quran
- Committing to the Quran, reciting pleasantly
- Virtues of Surat al-Fatihah
- Surat al-Baqarah and Ali ‘Imran
Book of Remembrance and Supplication كتاب الذكر والدعاء
Book of Judges كتاب القضاء
- Seeking positions of power
- Supplications when fearing an oppressor
- Evils of bribery in judgment
- Supporting the oppressed
- Warning against support for evil rulers
Book of Legal Punishments كتاب الحدود
Book of Righteousness and Good Relations كتاب البر والصلة
- Good relations with family
- Rights of neighbors
- Greed and miserliness
- Fulfilling needs, bringing happiness
- Visiting Muslims, honoring them
Book of Manners كتاب الأدب
- Modesty, obscenity, and shamelessness
- Good character, morals, and manners
- Kindness, gentleness, and forbearance
- Smiling, cheerfulness, and kind words
- Spreading peace, greeting with peace
- Shaking hands while greeting
- Withdrawing from trials
- Controlling anger, suppressing rage
- Mutual-hatred, grudges, and boycotts
- Accusing believers of unbelief (takfir)
- Cursing human beings and animals
- Gossip, rumors, and talebearing
- Backbiting, mockery, and slander
- Reconciliation between people
- Guarding the tongue from sins
- Purifying the heart from envy
- Humility, vanity, and arrogance
- Truthfulness and honesty
- Carrying two-faces and hypocrisy
- None favored but by righteousness
- Removing harmful things from road
- Love for the sake of Allah
- Good company, bad company
- Praying for someone behind their back
Book of Temperance and Repentance كتاب التوبة والزهد