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Chapter 45. Breaking Promises or Pledges
Allah, Most High, says,
And fulfill (every) engagement, for (every) engagement will be enquired into on the day of reckoning. (Al-Isra: 34)
O ye who believe! Fulfill (all) obligations! (Al-Ma'idah: 1)
Az-Zajjaj said engagements include all what Allah commands or forbids. Al-Wahidi also said obligations include what Allah made lawful or unlawful in the Quran. Muqatil Ibn Hayyan added, it is also included the covenants held among Muslims or between Muslim and non- Muslims.
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"There are four (habits) which, if found in a person, he is a perfect hypocrite. If one of these is found in a person, then he has one sign of hypocrisy, until he leaves it. These four characteristics of a hypocrite are: when he is entrusted (with something) he embezzles, when he talks he lies, when he promises he breaks it, and when he argues he starts abusing people."
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"For everyone who breaks his promise, there will be a flag (to mark him out) on the Day of Judgment, and it will be announced that this flag is the symbol of promise by so and so." [Bukhari and Muslim]
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"There will be three people against whom I shall fight on the Day of judgment: one, the person who makes a promise with an oath in my name and then breaks it, two, the person who sells a free man as a slave and appropriates his sale proceed and three, the person who employs, a workman and having taken full work from him fails to pay him his dues." [Bukhari, Ibn Majah and Ahmad]
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"Whoever withdraws himself from an engagement of loyalty will meet Allah with no excuse on the Day of Judgment. The death of someone who dies without the leader of a group over him is as if he had died in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance." [Muslim, Ibn Hibban and Ahmad]
Chapters
Chapter 1
Ascribing Associates To Allah, the Most High (Shirk)
Chapter 2
Killing A Human Being
Chapter 3
Sorcery
Chapter 4
Not Performing The Prayer
Chapter 5
Not Paying Zakat
Chapter 6
Breaking One's Fast During Ramadan Without An Excuse
Chapter 7
Not Performing the Hajj when Able to
Chapter 8
Showing Disrespect to One's Parents
Chapter 9
Severing the Ties of One's Relatives
Chapter 10
Adultery
Chapter 11
Sodomy
Chapter 12
Accepting Usurious Gain
Chapter 13
Wrong Consuming An Orphan's Property
Chapter 14
Lying About The Prophet
Chapter 15
Fleeing From The Battlefield
Chapter 16
The Leader Who Misleads His Followers, The Tyrant And The Oppressor
Chapter 17
Arrogance, Pride, Conceit, Vanity And Haughtiness
Chapter 18
Bearing False Witness
Chapter 19
Drinking Alcohol
Chapter 20
Gambling (qimar)
Chapter 21
Accusing A Woman Of Adultery
Chapter 22
Misappropriating Spoils Of War, Muslim Funds Or Zakat
Chapter 23
Theft
Chapter 24
Highwaymen Who Menace The Road
Chapter 25
The Engulfing Oath
Chapter 26
Taking People's Property Through Falsehood
Chapter 27
Collecting Taxes
Chapter 28
The Consumption of Haram
Chapter 29
Suicide
Chapter 30
Telling Lies
Chapter 31
The Dishonest Judge
Chapter 32
Bribery
Chapter 33
Women Imitating Men And Vice Versa
Chapter 34
The Pimp and the one Who Permits His Wife to Fornicate
Chapter 35
Marrying Solely To Return To The Previous Husband
Chapter 36
Not Freeing Oneself Of All Traces Of Urine
Chapter 37
Showing Off In Good Work
Chapter 38
Learning Sacred Knowledge For The Sake Of This World, Or Concealing It
Chapter 39
Breach of Trust
Chapter 40
Reminding Recipients of Ones Charity To Them
Chapter 41
Disbelieving In Destiny (qadar)
Chapter 42
Listening To People's Private Conversations
Chapter 43
The Talebearer Who Stirs Up Enmity Between People
Chapter 44
Cursing Others
Chapter 45
Breaking Promises or Pledges
Chapter 46
Believing Fortune Tellers And Astrologers
Chapter 47
Wife Rebelling Against Her Husband
Chapter 48
Picture Making