On Rulers, Judges and Related Legal Matters

1. The one who will be dearest to Allah and nearest to Him in the station on the Day of Resurrection will be a just leader and the one who will be most hateful to Allah on the Day of Resurrection, and will receive the severest punishment will be a tyrannical leader.
(Tirmidhi).

2. A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the Creator.
(Sharra-as-Sunna).

3. Do not ask for any high office, for if you are given it after asking, you will be left to discharge it yourself; if you are given it without asking you will be helped to discharge it.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

4. He who has been ruler over ten people, will be brought in the Day of Resurrection, shackled till justice loosens his chains or tyranny brings him to destruction.
(Darimi).

5. The most excellent jihad is when one speaks a true word in the presence of a tyrannical ruler.
(Tirmidhi).

6. As you are so will you have rulers put over you.
(Baihaqi).

7. No judge must give a judgment between two people when he is angry.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

8. If anyone who seeks the office of Judge among Muslims until he gets it and his justice prevails over tyranny, he will go to paradise; but the man whose tyranny prevails over justice will go to hell.
(Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah).

9. Allah is with the Judge as long as he is not tyrannical, but when he is tyrannical, He departs from him and the devil attaches himself to him.
(Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah).

10. If anyone swears a firm oath, acting wickedly thereby, and appropriates by it property belonging to a Muslim, Allah will be very angry when he meets Him on the Day of Resurrection.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

11. The man who is most hateful to God is the one who quarrels and disputes most. (Bukhari, Muslim).

12. If anyone claims what is not his, he does not belong to us, and let him come to his seat in hell. 
(Muslim).

13. A believer will continue to find ample scope in his religion as long as he does not kill anyone unlawfully. 
(Bukhari).

14. Shedding of blood will be the first matter about which judgment will be given on the Day of Resurrection.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

15. If anyone kills a man who had made a covenant (anyone who belongs to a Non-Muslim community with whom a treaty of peace has been made, or a member of protected communities) will not experience the fragrance of paradise.
(Bukhari).

16. Allah may forgive every sin, except in the case of one who dies a polytheist, or one who purposely kills a believer.
(Abu Dawud, Nisai).

17. The passing away of the world would mean less to Allah than the murder of a Muslim.
(Tirmidhi, Nisai).

18. He who throws himself from a mountain and kills himself will be thrown down in the fire of hell and remain in it for ever and ever; he who sips poison and kills himself will have his poison in his hand and will sip it for ever and ever in the fire of hell.
(Bukhari, Muslim).

19. An unmarried man who commits fornication, should receive hundred lashes and be banished for a year.
(Bukhari).

20. If you find anyone doing as Lut's people did, kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.
(Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah).

21. Fornication will not appear among any people without their being punished by famine, and bribery will not appear among any people without their being punished by terror.
(Ahmad).