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The Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the great sins He said, "They are:--
(1 ) To join others in worship with Allah,
(2) To be undutiful to one's parents.
(3) To kill a person (which Allah has forbidden to kill) (i.e. to commit the crime of murdering).
(4) And to give a false witness."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 52, Hadith 17
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The people of my generation are the best, then those who follow them, and then
whose who follow the latter. After that there will come some people whose witness will go ahead of
their oaths, and their oaths will go ahead of their witness." Ibrahim (a sub-narrator) said, "We used to
be beaten for taking oaths by saying, 'I bear witness by the Name of Allah or by the Covenant of
Allah."
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said thrice, "Should I inform you out the greatest of the great sins?" They said, "Yes, O
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" He said, "To join others in worship with Allah and to be undutiful to one's parents."
The Prophet (ﷺ) then sat up after he had been reclining (on a pillow) and said, "And I warn you against
giving a false witness, and he kept on saying that warning till we thought he would not stop. (See
Hadith No. 7, Vol. 8)