#25 Conceal

Book of Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

(10) Chapter: A believer should conceal what sins he may commit

Hadith 6069

Narrated Abu Huraira:

I heard Allah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) saying. “All the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those of the Mujahirin (those who commit a sin openly or disclose their sins to the people). An example of such disclosure is that a person commits a sin at night and though Allah screens it from the public, then he comes in the morning, and says, ‘O so-and-so, I did such-and-such (evil) deed yesterday,’ though he spent his night screened by his Lord (none knowing about his sin) and in the morning he removes Allah’s screen from himself.”