وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ
Wallazeena hum bishahaadaatihim qaaa'imoon
And those who are in their testimonies upright
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70:33Ayah 144
11 ayahs in Al-Ma'aarij are strongly about the qualities of the believers. This is one of them.
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and who are forthwith with their testimony bi-shahādatihim a variant reading has the plural bi-shahādātihim ‘their testimonies’ those who offer them and do not withhold them
Related Hadiths
"The best of witnesses is the one who gives his testimony before being asked for it."
'I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'Stand firm, O (mountain of) Hira', for there is no one upon you but a Prophet, a Siddiq or a martyr.' " Then he listed them as follows: "The Messenger of Allah, Abu Bakr, 'Umar, 'Uthman, 'Ali, Talhah, Zubair, Sa'd, Ibn 'Awf and Sa'eed bin Zaid."
“The best of witnesses is the one who gives his testimony before he is asked for it.”
The best among people are of my generation, then those next to them. (The narrator said): I do not know whether (he said) it three times or four times. Then there would fellow after them such persons whose evidence would precede the oath, and in case of some others, the oath (would precede) the evidence.
Bear testimony to this.
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