1) Prohibition of Harming Neighbour:
The
Prophet, (Peace and blessings be upon him) said: “By Allah, he is
not a believer! By Allah, he is not a believer! By Allah, he is not a
believer.”
It was asked, “Who is that, O Messenger of
Allah?”
He said, “One
whose neighbour does not feel safe from his evil”
(Sahih
Bukhari).
2) Recommendation to treat neighbour well
The Messenger of Allah, (Peace and blessings be upon him), said: “Jibril kept recommending me to treat my neighbour well until I thought that he would tell me to make him one of my heirs” (Bukhari:6014)
3)
Caring for your neighbours
Abu
Dharr, May Allah be pleased with him, reported: The Messenger of
Allah, (Peace and blessings be upon him), commanded me thus, “O
Abu Dharr! Whenever you prepare a broth, put plenty of water in it,
and give some of it to your neighbours”.(
Sahih Muslim)
4)
Co-operation with your neighbors
Abu
Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the messenger
of Allah, (Peace and blessings be upon him), said: “No-one
should prevent his neighbour from fixing a wooden peg in his wall.”
Abu
Huraira said (to his companions), “Why do I find you averse to it?
By Allah, I certainly will narrate it to you.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
5)
Do not eat your full while your neighbor is hungry
The
Messenger of Allah say:”
He is not a believer who eats his fill whilst his neighbor beside him
goes hungry” (Bukhari)
6)
Never scorn your neighbor’s gift
Sahih
Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet, (Peace and blessings be upon
him), used to say: “O
Muslim women! No one should scorn the gift of a neighbor, even if it
is (only) a sheep’s foot”
(Bukhari:
6017)
7)
Harming a neighbor may lead to hell-fire
Abu
Hurayra, may Allah be pleased with him reported: A man asked, “O
Messenger of Allah! There is a woman who prays, gives charity and
fasts a great deal, but she harms her neighbors with her speech (by
insulting them)”
He
said: “She
will go to hell”
The
man said: “O
messenger of Allah! There is (another) woman who is well-known for
how little she fasts and prays, but she gives charity from the dried
yoghurt she makes and she does not harm her neighbors”
He
said: “She
will go to paradise”
(Ahmad,
vol. 4, p. 166, Ibn Hibban, hadith no. 2054)
8)
Tolerance when treating neighbors
Mutarrif
said: “I heard that you (he means Abu Dharr, may Allah be pleased
with him) have said that the Prophet, (Peace and blessings be upon
him), said: “Allah loves three and hates three.'”
Abu Dharr
said, “I do not think that I would tell lies about the Messenger of
Allah.”
Mutarrif said, “Then
who are the three whom Allah loves?”
Abu
Dharr (quoting the Prophet, (Peace and blessings be upon him)) said:
“A man who fights for the sake of Allah, with perseverance and
hoping for reward from Him, and fights until he is killed, and you
find this in the Book of Allah.’ Then he recited: “Truly Allah
loves those who fight in His cause in battle array, as if they were a
solid cemented structure.” [al-Saff 61:4] Mutarrif asked, “Then
who?”
He said, “A
man who has a bad neighbor who annoys and disturbs him, but he bears
it with patience and forbearance until Allah ends the matter either
during his lifetime or upon the death of either of them.”
(
Reported with a sahih isnad by Ahmad and al-Tabarani. See Majma’
al-Zawa’id, 8/171.)