A hundred tasbihs: a thousand good deeds

مائة تسبيحة: ألف حسنة

The Prophet asked those sitting with him whether any of them was unable to earn a thousand good deeds every day, then explained that whoever says a hundred tasbihs has a thousand good deeds written for him or a thousand sins shed, in Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas's narration in Muslim Sahih Muslim 6852 — a stated number of good deeds; the writing of good deeds; al-Tirmidhi's wording joins the two with "and" Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3463 — a stated number of good deeds; the writing of good deeds. The arithmetic is plain: each tasbih is a good deed, a good deed counts ten, and a hundred makes a thousand. The calculator puts the thousand in the good-deeds column and names the shedding in the result line, because the two wordings differ.

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The reckoning of good and bad deeds

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The good deeds (al-hasanat)· The balance (al-mizan)· Sayyi'at (evil deeds and sins)· The reckoning of good and bad deeds· Expiation (kaffara)· The Reckoning· Calling to guidance or to error: the like of the rewards and sins of those who follow· Hajj without lewdness or wrongdoing, and umra to umra

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  • Sahih Muslim
  • hadith-api (fawazahmed0): open hadith editions
  • Jami' al-Tirmidhi
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The good deeds (al-hasanat)