Prohibition on spying

132. And by this chain, he said: I heard Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام saying to his عليه الصلاة والسلام companions one day: ‘Do not find faults with the one who comes to you with his cordiality, and do not let him remain upon the sins which he is indulging in, for it is not from the morals of the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, nor is it from the morals of his عليه الصلاة والسلام friends. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘The best inheritance which the fathers can leave for their children is the etiquettes (discipline) and not the wealth, for the wealth goes away whilst the discipline remains’. Mas’adat (the narrator) said, ‘What is meant by the discipline is the knowledge’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘If there are two days left from your life, so make one of them for your manners to seek help for the day of your death’. So it was said to him عليه الصلاة والسلام, ‘And what is that which is the help?’ He عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘Good management of what you leave behind and what you order for’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام wrote to a man: ‘In the Name of Allah عز وجل the Beneficent, the Merciful. Having said that, so the hypocrite does not like that which makes the Believers to be happy, and the happy one is he who heeds the advice of the piety, even if the advice is meant for the others’.