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مِنْ حُسْنِ إِسْلَامِ الْمَرْءِ تَرْكُهُ مَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ (Tirmidhi, Ahmad, and others)
Translation: Part of the excellence of a person's Islam is to leave what does not concern him.

حُسْنِ — excellence or goodness; الْمَرْءِ — a person; تَرْكُهُ — his leaving; مَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ — what does not concern him.

Brief grammar: In تَرْكُهُ, تَرْك is a verbal noun, and هُ means “his.” مَا means “that which/what,” and لَا يَعْنِيهِ describes it.

The advice concerns needless intrusion, idle curiosity, and pointless speech. Helping someone when responsibility or compassion calls for it is not excluded by this teaching.

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59 — Leaving what does not concern one

Self-Reform, Purposeful Action, and Good Company (Hadith 57-62)

مِنْ حُسْنِ إِسْلَامِ الْمَرْءِ تَرْكُهُ مَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ (Tirmidhi, Ahmad, and others)
Translation: Part of the excellence of a person's Islam is to leave what does not concern him.

حُسْنِ — excellence or goodness; الْمَرْءِ — a person; تَرْكُهُ — his leaving; مَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ — what does not concern him.

Brief grammar: In تَرْكُهُ, تَرْك is a verbal noun, and هُ means “his.” مَا means “that which/what,” and لَا يَعْنِيهِ describes it.

The advice concerns needless intrusion, idle curiosity, and pointless speech. Helping someone when responsibility or compassion calls for it is not excluded by this teaching.