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Don't be two-faced
- The practice
- Don't say one thing to one group and the opposite to another to win both.
- When
- Talking to people on opposite sides of an issue
- In daily life
- When two friends fall out or the office splits into sides, say the same thing to both. Don't tell each side what it wants to hear just to keep everyone on your side.
The source
قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " تَجِدُ مِنْ شَرِّ النَّاسِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ ذَا الْوَجْهَيْنِ، الَّذِي يَأْتِي هَؤُلاَءِ بِوَجْهٍ وَهَؤُلاَءِ بِوَجْهٍ ".
“The Prophet ﷺ said, "The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the double faced people who appear to some people with one face and to other people with another face”Narrated by Abu HurairaSahih al-Bukhari 6058
The full hadith, with its chain and grading →Arabic: ara-bukhari · Translation: Muhsin Khan (eng-bukhari), from the eng-bukhari edition of hadith-api (public domain), sunnah.com numbering.
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Get early accessSources: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and narrations of Jami at-Tirmidhi graded sahih or hasan sahih by al-Albani.