Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (the Prophet) related from Allah, Who said: O My servants! I have made oppression unlawful for Myself and have made it unlawful for you as well, so do not oppress one another. O My servants! All of you are astray except for those whom I guide, so seek guidance from Me and I shall guide you. O My servants! All of you are hungry except for those whom I feed, so ask Me for food and I shall feed you. O My servants! All of you are naked except for those whom I clothe, so ask Me for clothing and I shall clothe you. O My servants! You cannot harm Me nor can you benefit Me. If the first and the last of you, and all humans and jinn among you, were as pious as the most pious heart among you, that would not increase My kingdom in the least. And if the first and the last of you, and all humans and jinn among you, were as wicked as the most wicked heart among you, that would not decrease My kingdom in the least. O My servants! If the first and the last of you, and all humans and jinn among you, were to stand together in one place and ask of Me, and I were to give each one what he asked for, that would not diminish what I have any more than a needle diminishes the sea when it is dipped into it (for no matter how vast the sea is, it is still limited, but My treasure is infinite; this is only an example). O My servants! These are your deeds which I keep count of for you, then I will recompense you fully for them. So whoever finds good, let him praise Allah (for his earning was not wasted), and whoever finds other than that, let him blame no one but himself (for he received as he did). Sa‘id said that whenever Abu Idris Khawlani narrated this hadith, he would fall upon his knees.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Beware of oppression, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection (due to oppression, there will be darkness and no way will be found on the Day of Resurrection), and beware of miserliness, for miserliness destroyed those before you. Because of miserliness (greed for wealth), they shed blood and made the unlawful lawful.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim; so he should neither oppress him nor abandon him to destruction. Whoever is engaged in fulfilling the need of his brother, Allah will be engaged in fulfilling his need; and whoever removes a calamity from a Muslim, Allah will remove from him one of the calamities of the Day of Resurrection; and whoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Verily, Allah the Exalted grants respite to the oppressor (He loosens his reins so that he may commit much mischief and thus become deserving of punishment), but when He seizes him, He does not let him go. After that, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse:“Such is the seizure of your Lord when He seizes the towns while they are doing wrong. Verily, His seizure is painful and severe.”(Hud: 102)

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that two boys fought with each other. One of them was from the Muhajirun and the other from the Ansar. The Muhajir called his fellow Muhajirun and the Ansari called the Ansar, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and said, "This is a call of ignorance (that each one seeks help from his own people and fights against the other group; in Islam, all Muslims are one)." The people said, "O Messenger of Allah! (It is not a big matter) two boys fought and one struck the other on the buttocks." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "There is nothing to fear (I thought it was a major disturbance). A person should help his brother whether he is an oppressor or oppressed. If he is an oppressor, then help him by stopping him from oppression, and if he is oppressed, then help him (and rescue him from the clutches of the oppressor)."

Sayyiduna Urwah bin Zubair narrates from Sayyiduna Hisham bin Hakeem bin Hizam (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: (Hisham) passed by some people in Syria who were made to stand in the sun and oil was poured over their heads. He asked, "What is this?" The people said, "They are being punished for not paying the government tax." He said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Allah will punish those who punish people in the world (i.e., unjustly. So this does not include the punishment which is given as a legal limit or disciplinary action).'"

Ibn Shihab narrates: And he was mentioning the dwellings of the people of Thamud, which is called Hijr, and said that Salim bin Abdullah said that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: We passed by Hijr with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: Do not enter the dwellings of those who wronged themselves except while weeping, and beware lest there befall you what befell them. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) urged his mount forward and hastened until Hijr was left behind.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when people stopped with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) at Hijr (that is, the land of Thamud), they took water from its wells to drink and kneaded dough with that water. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered them to throw away that water and to feed the dough to the camels, and said that drinking water should be taken from the well upon which the she-camel of Salih (peace be upon him) used to come.

Narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Do you know who is the bankrupt? The people said: Among us, the bankrupt is the one who has neither money nor goods. He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: The bankrupt of my Ummah will be the one who will come on the Day of Resurrection with prayer, fasting, and zakat, but he will have abused one person, accused another of adultery, consumed the wealth of a third, shed the blood of a fourth, and beaten a fifth. Then (those whom he wronged in the world) will be given from his good deeds, and if his good deeds run out before his sins are paid off, their sins will be cast upon him, and in the end, he will be thrown into Hell.

Narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: On the Day of Resurrection, you will certainly pay the rights to those entitled to them, to the extent that retaliation will be taken for the hornless goat from the horned goat (even though animals are not subject to reward or punishment, but retribution will definitely occur).