Is "Consult your heart, even if people give you a fatwa" a Prophetic hadith or a saying transmitted from the righteous predecessors?
The about which the question was posed is mentioned by Al-Nawawi in his "Forty Hadiths" on the authority of Wabisa ibn Ma'bad, who asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about righteousness (al-birr) and sin (al-ithm). The Prophet said to him: "Consult your heart. Righteousness is that about which the soul feels tranquil and the heart feels at ease. And sin is that which wavers in the soul and causes uneasiness in the chest, even if people give you a (religious verdict) and they pronounce it permissible for you." Al-Nawawi commented that it is a Hadith (good Hadith), and it was narrated by Ahmad and Al-Darimi with a Hasan chain of narration. Ibn Rajab and Al-Albani also deemed it Hasan.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full answer on Ftawyhttps://ftawy.com/en/questions/57874
Where this answer came from
- Source platform
- Ftawy
- Original fatwa ID
- 57874
- Added here
- . This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
- Text
- Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
- Read the full ruling
- Read the full answer on Ftawy