Topical index of hadiths from Riyad as-Salihin, in book order.

Hadith Topic Index

Topical index of hadiths from Riyad as-Salihin, in book order.

Sincerity and Intention

Repentance

Patience

True Veracity

Allah's Control Over All Things

Piety

Unwavering Faith And Complete Trust In God

Truthfulness

Hastening To Virtuous Deeds

Striving

Encouragement to Increase Goodness at Life’s End

The Countlessness Of Paths

Measuring Compliance With Allah's Commands

Continuously Performing Acts Of Worship And Virtuous Deeds

Protecting the Practice

Submitting to Allah's Decree

Avoiding Innovations

Those Who Initiate Good Or Bad Paths

The Precedence of Wonder

Assisting Each Other In Goodness And Piety

Counsel

Enjoining Good And Forbidding Evil

The Bitter End of One Whose Words Contradict Their Actions While Enjoining Good

Fulfilling The Trust

Oppression

The Inviolable Rights Of Muslims

To Cover The Faults

Meeting The Needs Of Muslims

Intercession

Finding Harmony Among People

The Value Of Helpless Muslims, The Poor, And Those Without Name Or Reputation

Protecting Orphans and the Helpless

Treating Women Well

The Rights Of A Woman Over Her Husband

Family Sustenance

Spending Precious Possessions

Family Religious Education

The Right Of Neighbors And Related Advice

Benefiting Kin and Visiting Relatives

The Prohibition Of Disobeying One’s Father And Severing Ties With Relatives

Gifts To Spiritual Friends

Respect For The People Of The House

Respect For Scholars

Visiting People Of Virtue

Loving For God

Not To Be Angry For The Sake Of Religion

The Compassionate Should Be Merciful To Those They Govern

Just Ruler

Obedience To Authority

Not Seeking Governance

The Selection of Good Assistants

Not Assigning Tasks To Those Who Desire Management

Adab Chapter

The States Of Existence

Keeping One's Word And Fulfilling Promises

Continuing The Good Being Done

Speaking Kindly and Smiling at Everyone You Meet

Speaking Understandably

A Scholar Silencing Those Who Listen To Him

Giving Advice With Moderation

Calling To Prayer, Scholarly Gatherings, And Similar Devotions With Dignity And

Entertaining Guests

Announcing and Congratulating on Auspicious Undertakings

Conversation

Deliberation and Consultation

Approaching And Departing Through Various Ways Of Performing Devotions

Beginning From The Right With Certain Matters

Etiquette of Eating

Not Seeking Fault in Sustenance and Declaring It Pleasant

What The Fasting Person Should Say If They Do Not Eat At A Meal Table

What To Say If Someone Joins One Going Forth For The Call

Eating Before One's Own Food, Teaching Etiquette To Those Who Do Not Know It

Like Pomegranate, Eating Fruits One by One and Not Taking Two at a Time Without

He Who Is Never Satisfied

Eat From The Edges Of The Plate

The Prohibition Of Eating While Leaning

Eating With Three Fingers

Eating Together

Etiquette Regarding Beverages

Not Drinking Water From The Mouth Of A Well

Not To Blow Upon Things That Are Drunk

Water May Be Drunk, But Sitting While Drinking Is More Suitable

The Drink of He Who Distributes Divine Grace

Drinking From Pure Springs

Dress and Adornment

Putting On A Shirt

The Length And Shortness Of Garments

Avoiding Luxurious Attire Due To Humility

Putting On Intermediate Garments

Wearing Silk Is Prohibited For Men

The One Afflicted With The Disease Of Stinginess Cannot Wear Silken Garments

The Covering of the Veil

How To Make Supplication When Wearing New Clothes, Footwear, And The Like

The Etiquette Of Sleep

Etiquette of Entering and Sitting

Assembly Manners

Dreams and Principles Regarding Dreams

The Chapter of Greetings

The Form Of Greetings

Etiquette Of Greetings

Repeating Greetings

The Greeting Of One Who Enters Your Home

Greeting The Children

The Man’s Greeting to the Woman

Greeting and Peace with Those Who Disbelieve

Saying Farewell With Peace

The Necessity Of Seeking Permission When Entering A Home And The Etiquette To Be

Requesting Permission While Mentioning His Name

The Essence Of May God Have Mercy On You

To Shake Hands

The Chapter Of Visiting The Grave

Making Supplication in Seclusion

Asking About The State Of The Sufi From Their Signs

The Prayer Of One Who Recognizes Their Death

Caring For The Sick And Those Sentenced To Death

Describing The Condition Of The Hermit

Recitation Of The Kalima To One On The Verge Of Death

Words To Be Said After Closing The Eyes Of Death

Words To Be Said At The Head Of The Dying

Weeping Over The Dead Without Crying Out Or Calling

Concealing The Condition Of The Deceased

Performing The Funeral Prayer

Rows In The Funeral Prayer

Prayers Recited At The Funeral Prayer

Hastening The Removal Of The Corpse

Repay Your Debt Immediately

Preaching and Counseling at Graveside

Prayer At The Grave

Giving Charity On Behalf Of The Deceased And Praying For Them

Remembering The Departed With Goodness

The Rewards For Mothers Whose Children Have Died

Graves Of The Oppressors

Adab of the Journey

Not Traveling Alone

Traveling By Walking, Making a Stopover

Helping Your Friend

Prayer Upon Setting Out

Journey of Exaltation and Remembrance

Praying In The Journey

What To Do In Times Of Fear

A Prayer For Abode

Swift Turning

Turning Daily At Dawn

The Traveler’s Words Upon Returning

The Woman’s Journey

The Excellence Of Reading The Noble Quran

Avoiding Repetition and Neglect in Reciting The Quran

Adorning the Soul With The Quran

Encouragement to Recite Certain Chapters and Verses

Assembling to Recite the Quran

The Excellence Of Ablution

The Excellence Of The Call To Prayer

The Excellence Of Prayers

The Excellence Of Morning And Afternoon Prayers

The Excellence Of Visiting Mosques

The Excellence Of Waiting For Prayer

The Excellence of Praying in Congregation

Encouragement To Attend Congregational Prayers Of Dawn And Evening

The Importance Of Continuing Obligatory Prayers

The Reward Of Praying In The First Row

The Virtues Of Sunnah Prayers

The Importance of the Sunnah Prayers of Dawn

How to Perform The Sunnah Prayers Of Dawn

A Brief Stretching After The Sunnah Prayers Of Dawn

The Sunnah of Dhuhr Prayer

The Sunnah of Afternoon Prayer

The Sunna of Evening Prayer

The Sunnah of the Prayer

Voluntary Prayers At Home

Night Prayer

The Excellence Of Dawn Prayer

The Greeting of the Mosque Prayer

The Excellence Of Friday

Gratitude Prostration

The Excellence Of Night Prayer

Praying Taraweeh During Ramadan Nights

Reviving The Night of Power

Using The Miswak

The Excellence Of Zakat

Ramadan Fasting

Generosity In Ramadan

The Fast of Sha’ban

The Prayer To Be Recited When The Crescent Is Seen

The Virtue of Suhoor

Hasten Not To Break Your Fast

Protecting The Fasting Person’s Tongue

Some Matters Concerning Fasting

The Virtues of the Month of Muharram Fast

Fasting of Dhul-Hijjah

The Fast of Arafah Day

Shawwal Fasting

Monday to Thursday Fast

Fasting Three Days Every Month

Breaking The Fast For Another

The Section On Retreat

The Chapter Of Guidance

The Jihad Chapter

The Rewards Of Martyrs In The Hereafter

The Excellence Of Manumitting Slaves

Treating Slaves With Kindness

The Excellence Of The Slave Who Fulfills The Rights Of Allah And His Messenger

The Excellence Of Worship In Times Of Crows And Discord

Virtuous Conduct Regarding Transactions

The Chapter Of Knowledge

Praise and Gratitude to God

The Chapter of Prayers and Peace

Remembrances Section

Finding God In Every State

Prayers To Recite Upon Lying Down And Awakening

The Excellence Of Dhikr Assemblies

Remembering God In The Morning And Evening

Prayer To Be Recited When Lying Down

The Chapter Of Supplications

The Excellence Of Praying For One Who Is Not With You

Some Topics Regarding Supplication

The Miracles And Virtues Of Saints

The Chapter of Prohibitions

The Prohibition Of Listening To Gossip

Permissible Backbiting

Prohibition Of Desire

Prohibition Of Conveying Words To Authorities

The Condemnation Of Hypocrisy

The Prohibition of Falsehood

Places Where Deception Is Permissible

Encouragement To Strengthen Promises

The Severe Prohibition of False Witnessing

Prohibition Of Cursing A Person Or Animal

Do Not Curse The Sinners

Prohibition Of Abusing Muslims

The Prohibition Of Cursing The Dead

Not Offending Muslims

Prohibition Of Translation

Envy Prohibition

Prohibition of Innovation

Prohibition Of Unnecessarily Suspecting Muslims

Do Not Devalue Or Belittle A Muslim

The Prohibition of a Muslim Rejoicing in Calamity

Prohibition Of Extending The Tongue

Prohibition Of Deception And Trickery

Breaking Promises, Violating Oaths

The Prohibition Of Arrogance And Transgression

Prohibition Of Relations For More Than Three Days

Prohibition Of Association

Prohibition Of Unnecessary And Excessive Punishment

The Prohibition Of Burning The Living

Delaying The Rich Man’s Debt

The Abhorrence of Returning from Generosity

The Sin of Consuming Orphaned Property

The Strict Prohibition of Interest

The Prohibition Of Showing Off

Situations That Seem Like Showing Off, Yet Are Not

The Prohibition Of Gazing With Desire

The Prohibition of Solitude

Prohibition Of Male-Female Resemblance

The Prohibition Of Resembling Devils And Unbelievers

The Prohibition of Adornment

The Prohibition Of A Half Shaving

The Prohibition of Hair Replacement and Button Sewing

The Prohibition Of Traveling The Path Of White Lions

The Abhorrence of Ablution With The Right Hand

The Prohibition of Walking With One Shoe

The Prohibition Of Leaving The Fire Burning

Prohibition Of Unnecessary Burden And Toil

The Prohibition Of Lamenting The Deceased

Prohibition Of Believing In Diviners And Soothsayers

The Prohibition Of Believing In Bad Omens

The Prohibition Of Creating And Possessing Living Images

Prohibition Of Acquiring Dogs

The Dislike of Placing Bells On Animals

The Prohibition Of Riding The Camel That Eats Filth

Prohibition Of Spitting In The Mosque

The Dislike of Making Noise in the Mosque

The Prohibition Of Entering The Mosque With Foul Odors

The Dislike of Sitting with Bent Knees While Listening to a Sermon

The Prohibition of Taking Anything From Hair or Nails Until Sacrifice Is Perform

Those Upon Whom Oaths Are Forbidden

The Great Sin of Falsely Swearing Intentionally

Breaking An Oath And Paying Expiation

Words Of Affirmation Spoken Between Words Do Not Constitute Oaths And Require No

An Oath In Trade Is Disapproved Even If True

Seeking For Allah’s Pleasure

The Prohibition Of Calling Anyone Sultan Or Emperor

The Prohibition Of Addressing The Errant, Innovators, And Those Like Them With T

The Detestability of Cursing Those Afflicted with Feverish Illnesses

The Prohibition of Cursing the Wind and What to Say When the Wind Blows

The Deplorability of Abusing Animals

It Is Forbidden To Say "We Were Saved From The Rain Thanks To This Star

Declaring a Muslim an Unbeliever is Forbidden

The Prohibition Of Bad Speech And Evil Talk

Characteristics To Observe In Speech

The Deplorability of Declaring One’s Self Impure

The Reprehensibility of Saying “May Allah Forgive You”

The Prohibition Of A Woman’s Beauty Being Described To A Man

The Permissibility Of Saying, "O Allah, If You Will, Forgive Me," When Making Su

The DeMerit of Saying "If Allah and So-and-So Desire

Speaking After Silence

A Woman’s Obligation To Obey Her Husband

A Woman Should Not Perform Voluntary Fasts Without Her Husband’s Permission When

The Illegality Of One Who Raises Their Head Before The Imam From Rukūʿ And Prost

The Reprehensibility Of Placing The Hand On The Stomach During Prayer

Circumstances Where Performing Prayer Is Undesirable

The Reprehensibility Of Turning One’s Head Right And Left In Prayer Without An E

Praying Towards Graves Is Prohibited

The Prohibition Of Passing In Front Of Someone Praying

The Prohibition Of Performing Nafl Prayers When The Mu'azzin Begins The Call To

The DeMerit of Fasting Only on Fridays and Dedicating Friday Nights to Prayer

The Prohibition of Joining Fasting Periods Without Breaking One’s Fast

The Prohibition Of Sitting Upon Tombs

The Prohibition Of Whitewashing A Grave And Building Upon It

The Severity Of Disobeying One’s Spiritual Guide

The Prohibition of Acting as an Intermediary to Prevent the Implementation of Is

The Prohibition Of Ablution Being Broken On The Path That People Will Pass, In S

The Prohibition Of Contaminating Still Waters With Urine And Similar Impurities

The Incorrectness Of A Father Making Distinctions Among His Children When Donati

The Prohibition Of Yearning

Speculation and Sales: The Prohibition of Sales Upon Sales

The Prohibition Of Losing Wealth Outside Areas Permitted By Sharia

The Prohibition Of Hastening

The Disallowability of Leaving the Mosque After Fajr

The DeMerit Of Rejecting A Pleasant Scent Without Excuse

Praising Someone To Their Face

The Permissibility Of Escaping From A Place With Contagious Disease And Avoiding

Magic And Sorcery Are Absolutely Haram

The Prohibition Of Travel To The Land Of Unbelievers

The Prohibition Of Using Gold And Silver Vessels

The Prohibition Of Men Wearing Yellow-Dyed Clothing

The Prohibition Of Spending A Day In Silence Until Evening

The Illegality Of Declaring Someone As Your Father When He Is Not, And Accepting

Avoiding That Which Allah And His Messenger Have Forbidden

What One Says Who Transgresses A Divine Prohibition