Sins of the Tongue

1.  If anyone guarantees me what is between his jaws and what is between his legs (i.e. he should not commit fornication), I shall guarantee him paradise.
(Bukhari).

2.  Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to Allah, and fighting with him is infidelity.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

3.  It is not fitting for an eminently truthful man to be a reviler.
(Muslim).

4.  A mischief maker will not enter paradise.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

5.  Adhere to truth, for truth leads to good deeds and good deeds leads him who does them to paradise. Falsehood is wickedness and wickedness leads to hell.
(Muslim).

6.  The great liar is not the one who puts things right between people, says what is good, and promotes what is good.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

7.  Woe to him who tells things, speaking falsely, to make people laugh thereby! Woe to him! Woe to him!
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Darimi).

8.  Do you know the thing which most commonly brings people into paradise? It is fear to Allah and good character. Do you know what most commonly brings people to hell? It is the hollow things; the mouth and the private parts.
(Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah).

9.  Sufyan bin Abdullah ath Thaqafi told when he asked God's messenger what he feared most for him, he took hold of his tongue and said, "This."
(Tirmidhi).

10.  None of my companions must tell me anything about anyone, for I like to come out to you with no ill-feelings.
(Abu-Dawud).

11.  Coarse talk does not come into anything without disgracing it, and modesty does not come into anything without adorning it.
(Tirmidhi).

12.  If you guarantee me six things on your part, I shall guarantee you paradise: speak the truth when you talk, keep a promise when you make it, when you are trusted with something fulfil your trust, avoid sexual immorality, lower your eyes and restrain your hand from injustice.
(Baihaqi).

13.  The one who is most honorable in God's estimation is the pious.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

14.  Do not eulogize me as the Christians eulogized the son of Maryam, I am just His servant, so say, "Allah's Servant and Messenger.'
(Bukhari, Muslim).

15.  Allah has revealed to me that you must be humble, so that no one boasts over another, or oppresses another.
(Muslim).

16.  Wathila b. al-Asqa told that he asked Allah's Messenger what partisanship was and he replied. "You help your people in wrongdoing.
(Abu Dawud).