15. Common spaces and the foundations of social order

Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Asking Permission; chapter 2, no. 6229. Narrator: Abu Said al-Khudri.

Published English excerpt: Lowering your gaze, refraining from harming others, returning greeting, and enjoining what is good, and forbidding what is evil.

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: The context is sitting beside roads and respecting passers-by. Public sociability is tied to restraint, safety and courtesy, not permission to harass others.

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Source / locator: Sahih Muslim, Book of Purification; chapter 20, no. 269. Narrator: Abu Hurayra.

Published English excerpt: Easing on the thoroughfares or under the shades (where they take shelter and rest).

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih Muslim. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Published Urdu translation not verified for this addition; no substitute translation supplied.

Relevance: The cited clause explains a warning against relieving oneself on people’s paths or in their shade. Its relevance is protection of common amenities from avoidable harm.

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Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Partnership; chapter 1, no. 2486. Narrator: Abu Musa al-Ashari.

Published English excerpt: and then distribute it among themselves equally by measuring it with a bowl.

Verification / translation sources: Sahih by inclusion in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and English: Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: HadeethEnc, Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths; a responsible source is identified, not an unverified individual translator.

Relevance: The Prophet commends the Ashari group’s pooling of food during scarcity in travel or at home. It is a concrete practice of solidarity, not a complete theory abolishing private ownership.

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Source / locator: Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi, Adab al-Dunya wa-l-Din, Chapter IV: Adab al-Dunya; paragraph beginning “واعلم أن صلاح الدنيا معتبر من وجهين”. Shamela digital page 117.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Al-Mawardi distinguishes the condition of society from that of its members, but holds that each depends on the other. Individual rectitude cannot by itself secure a satisfactory life amid a disordered community.

Verification / translation sources: The cited passage was inspected in the specified digital text. English and Urdu are the compiler’s labelled paraphrases, not published translations or exact quotations.

Relevance: A directly relevant classical formulation of the reciprocal formation of personality and community.

Context / qualification: Arabic is a checked original-language excerpt; the parallel paragraphs summarize the wider passage. Edition-specific print pagination is not asserted.

Best use: Critical analysis / conceptual framework

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Source / locator: Al-Mawardi, Adab al-Dunya wa-l-Din, Chapter IV; paragraph beginning “اعلم أن ما به تصلح الدنيا”. Shamela digital page 118.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Al-Mawardi lists adhered-to religion, coercively effective authority, comprehensive justice, public security, continuing abundance and ample hope as supports of worldly order. He then explains religion’s role in inward restraint.

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Relevance: Links material conditions, public institutions and moral motivation rather than reducing civilization to architecture alone.

Context / qualification: This is the author’s historical theory, not an independently prescribed constitutional list. “Sultan qahir” denotes forceful authority and is not silently recast as consensual government.

Best use: Critical analysis / conceptual framework

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