CHAPTER: THERE SHOULD BE MUTUAL FELLOW-FEELING AND LOVE AND THE WILL TO HELP EACH OTHER AMONGST THE BELIEVERS
No. 6257
Abu Musa reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: A believer is like a brick for another believer, the one supporting the other.
No. 6258
Nu'man b. Bashir reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The similitude of believers in regard to mutual love, affection, fellow-feeling is that of one body; when any limb of it aches, the whole body aches, because of sleeplessness and fever.
No. 6259
Nu'man b. Bashir reported a hadith like this from Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam).
No. 6260
Nu'man b. Bashir reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The believers are like one person; if his head aches, the whole body aches with fever and sleeplessness.
No. 6261
Nu'man b. Bashir reported that Muslims are like one body of a person; if the eye is sore, the whole body aches, and if the head aches, the whole body aches.
No. 6262
A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Nu'man b. Bashir through another chain of transmitters.