Foreword

Save yourselves from envy. For envy eats up virtue as fire eats up wood. HADITH OF ABU DAWUD ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH. 106 It is not proper for a man to keep away from his brother for more than three days, and then when they meet to turn their faces away from each other. The better of the two is the one who greets the other first. HADITH OF AL-BUKHARL AND MUSLIM ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU AYYUB AL-ANSARI.