Saturday, February 3, 2024

Importance Of Repaying Debts (A Compilation Of 20 Narrations)

 بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد

Summary: 

1.     Books of Hadeeth like Sunan Abu Dawood, Sunan al-Nasaa’ee, Sunan Ibn Maajah, and Sunan al-Daarimee dedicated a special chapter heading: “Stern Warning Concerning Debt”

2.
     Anyone who died while he had a debt to repay, will be detained from entering Paradise.

3.
     The Prophet refused to offer funeral prayer for the one who died without repaying debt or not leaving behind anything with which to repay the debt. The only other time the Prophet and his Ummah have been prohibited to pray is for the Kuffaar. This is another clear indication of the importance of Huqooq al-`Ibaad (rights of the creation), and the severity of not repaying debts.

4.
     On the Day of Judgment, there will be no Deenar or Dirham to repay debt with. The matter will be decided through the exchanging of good deeds and bad deeds.

5.
     The Person, who is in debt, should pay off his debts before he can give money in charity.

6.
     The inheritance is not to be distributed to the heirs till the debt is paid off first. Just in two Ayaat, Allaah تعالى reminded four times about this in His Book.