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al-Amr bi-l-Maʿrūf (Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong)

The communal moral duty to enjoin good and forbid evil, treated here as an ethical obligation distinct from the legal ḥisba office.

The communal moral duty to enjoin good and forbid evil, treated here as an ethical obligation distinct from the legal ḥisba office.

Key passages(13)

Amr Bi Macruf · Ibn Taymiyya

Very high
Hisba 526explains

Hisba · Ibn Taymiyya

Very high

Istiqama · Ibn Taymiyya

High

Mukhtasar Sunan Abi Dawud · al-Mundhiri

High

Adhkar · al-Nawawi

High

Sunan Abi Dawud · Abu Dawud al-Sijistani

High

Makarim Akhlaq · al-Tabarsi

High

Nafais Usul · al-Qarafi

Moderate

Fatawa Kubra · Ibn Taymiyya

Moderate

Bahr Culum · Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi

Moderate
Moderate

Mucjam Awsat · Sulayman al-Tabarani

Moderate

Ricaya · al-Harith al-Muhasibi

Moderate