Table of Contents
فہرست
كتاب الاحسان — Kitāb al-Iḥsān: Contents
1. Bāb fī ʿIlm al-Bāṭin — On inward knowledge — 1
2. Bāb fī al-Bayʿa — On the pledge of allegiance (bayʿa) — 6
3. Bāb fī al-Tawba — On repentance — 13
4. Bāb fī al-Umūr al-Manhī ʿanhā wa-l-Kabāʾir — On forbidden matters and the major sins — 18
5. Bāb al-Khawf wa-l-Rajāʾ — On hope and fear — 25
6. Bāb fī al-Zuhd wa-Tark al-Daʿa — On renunciation (zuhd) and abandoning comfort — 31
7. Bāb fī al-Taqwā — On taqwā (God-consciousness) — 37
8. Bāb fī al-Ṣabr wa-l-Shukr — On patience and gratitude — 40
9. Bāb fī al-Ibtilāʾ — On trial — 48
10. Bāb fī al-Tawakkul — On trust in Allah — 50
11. Fī al-Ikhlāṣ wa-Tark al-Riyāʾ wa-l-Sumʿa — On sincerity and abandoning fame — 53
12. Bāb fī al-Riḍāʾ bi-l-Qaḍāʾ — On remaining content with the divine decree — 57
13. Bāb fī al-Faqr wa-Faḍl al-Fuqarāʾ — On need and the excellence of the needy — 59
14. Bāb fī al-Istiqāma — On steadfastness — 63
15. Bāb fī Maʿiyyat al-Ṣulaḥāʾ — On the company of the righteous — 64
16. Bāb fī al-Ḥubb fī Allāh wa-l-Bughḍ fī Allāh — On love and aversion for the sake of Allah — 67
17. Bāb fī Ḥubb Allāh Taʿālā ʿIbādahu wa-Ḥubbihim lillāh — Allah's love for His servants and the servants' love for Allah — 70
18. Bāb fī Dhikr Allāh — On the remembrance of Allah — 72
19. Bāb fī Ḥalqat al-Dhikr — On the circle of dhikr — 74
20. Bāb al-Dhikr bi-l-Jahr bi-ghayr an Yuʾdhī Aḥadan — Audible dhikr without causing others discomfort — 76
21. Bāb fī Kathrat al-Dhikr — On doing much dhikr — 77
22. Bāb fī Dawām al-Dhikr wa-l-Dhikr al-Khafī — On constant dhikr and silent dhikr — 78
23. Bāb fī al-ʿUzla wa-l-Takhallī — On solitude and seclusion — 80
24. Bāb fī al-Murāqaba wa-l-Ashghāl — On meditation (murāqaba) and spiritual exercises (ashghāl) — 81
25. Bāb fī Kayfiyyat al-Ilqāʾ — On ilqāʾ (spiritual transmission) and giving attention (tawajjuh) — 85
26. Bāb fī al-Istikhāra — On istikhāra (seeking Allah's guidance in a choice) — 86
27. Bāb fī al-Waswasa wa-Ḥadīth al-Nafs wa-Taqallub al-Qalb — On evil whisperings, inner talk and the changing of the heart — 88
28. Bāb al-Ghināʾ wa-mā Yalḥaquhu — On singing and what is connected with it — 94 [reading uncertain]
فہرست (۲) — Contents (2)
29. Bāb fī al-Bukāʾ wa-l-Wajd wa-l-Ḥuzn wa-l-Ṣaʿq — On weeping, ecstasy (wajd), grief and swooning — 103
30. Bāb fī al-Qabḍ wa-l-Basṭ — On contraction and expansion (of the heart) — 105
31. Bāb fī al-Ruʾyā al-Ṣāliḥa — On good dreams — 106 [reading uncertain]
32. Bāb fī Ruʾyat al-Anwār wa-Samāʿ al-Ṣawt — On seeing lights and hearing voices — 109
33. Bāb fī al-Mithāl wa-l-Arwāḥ — On the World of Images (ʿālam al-mithāl) and the World of Spirits (ʿālam al-arwāḥ) — 111
34. Bāb fī al-Qurb wa-l-Maʿiyya — On nearness and "withness" (maʿiyya) — 117
35. Bāb fī Qurb al-Farāʾiḍ wa-l-Nawāfil — On the nearness of the obligatory and the supererogatory acts — 119
36. Bāb fī al-Fanāʾ wa-l-Baqāʾ — On fanāʾ (passing away of the self) and baqāʾ (subsistence in Allah) — 121
37. Bāb fī al-Wilāya — On sainthood (wilāya) — 124
38. Bāb al-ʿUbūdiyya — On servanthood — 128
39. Bāb fī Firāsat al-Muʾmin — On the insight (firāsa) of the believer — 132
40. Bāb fī Khawāriq al-ʿĀda — On events that break the norm — 133
41. Bāb fī Faḍl man Yukhāliṭ al-Nās — On the excellence of keeping company with people — 137
42. Bāb al-Amr bi-l-Maʿrūf — On commanding good or what is recognised as right — 139
43. Bāb fī Qubūl al-Khalq — On acceptance among the creation — 142
44. Bāb fī Qubūl al-Hadāyā — On accepting gifts — 143
الرموز التي استعملت في كنز العمال والتيسير — The Abbreviations Used in Kanz al-ʿUmmāl and al-Taysīr
(The symbols used in Kanz al-ʿUmmāl and al-Taysīr)
Kh (خ) — al-Bukhārī
M (م) — Muslim
Q (ق) — both of them (al-Bukhārī and Muslim)
D (د) — Abū Dāwūd
T (ت) — al-Tirmidhī
N (ن) — al-Nasāʾī
H (ه) — Ibn Mājah
4 (٤) — Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Mājah
3 (٣) — Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī and al-Tirmidhī
Ḥm (حم) — Aḥmad in his Musnad
ʿM (عم) — his son ʿAbd Allāh in al-Zawāʾid [reading uncertain]
K (ك) — al-Ḥākim
Khd (خد) — al-Bukhārī in al-Adab (al-Mufrad)
Tkh (تخ) — al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh
Ḥb (حب) — Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ
Ṭb (طب) — al-Ṭabarānī in his al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr
Ṭs (طس) — al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ
Ṭṣ (طص) — al-Ṭabarānī in al-Ṣaghīr
Sh (ش) — Ibn Abī Shayba
ʿB (عب) — ʿAbd al-Razzāq in al-Jāmiʿ
ʿ (ع) — Abū Yaʿlā
Qṭ (قط) — al-Dāraquṭnī
Fr (فر) — al-Daylamī in Musnad al-Firdaws
Ḥl (حل) — Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilya
Hb (هب) — al-Bayhaqī in Shuʿab al-Īmān
Hq (هق) — al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan
ʿD (عد) — Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil
Khṭ (خط) — al-Khaṭīb (al-Baghdādī)
Ṭ (ط) — Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī
Ḍ (ض) — al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī
Kr (كر) — Ibn ʿAsākir
al-Sitta (the Six) — al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī and Mālik [reading uncertain]
al-Khamsa (the Five) — al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī and al-Nasāʾī
al-Arbaʿa (the Four) — Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī and Mālik [reading uncertain]
al-Thalātha (the Three) — al-Bukhārī, Muslim and Mālik
al-Shaykhān (the Two Shaykhs) — al-Bukhārī and Muslim
Muttafaq ʿalayh (agreed upon) — al-Bukhārī and Muslim