Salam,
I am looking for a hadith which states that it is permitted to lie if it is for the sake of reducing tension or fitna between two Muslims. Has anybody else heard of this hadith? If so…could you help me out and provide some references.
Thanks…I’ve looked for it for a week now…can’t find it…but I know I read it somewhere.
Achtung 
I just found it...thanks anyways guys...its in Sahih Muslim (if anyone cares)
Chapter 25 : FORBIDDANCE OF TELLING A LIE AND THE CASES IN WHICH TELLING OF LIE IS PERMISSIBLE
Book 32, Number 6303:
Humaid b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf reported that his mother Umm Kulthum daughter of 'Uqba b. Abu Mu'ait, and she was one amongst the first emigrants who pledged allegiance to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him), as saying that she heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: A liar is not one who tries to bring reconciliation amongst people and speaks good (in order to avert dispute), or he conveys good. Ibn Shihab said he did not hear that exemption was granted in anything what the people speak as lie but in three cases: in battle, for bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form in order to bring reconciliation between them).
Achtung ;)
dear Achtung
qoute:
“…The points are perhaps best explained by Imam Al Ghazali who says that words are only a means leading to certain objectives. When either telling the truth or telling a lie may result in the achievement of a particular good objective, then resorting to lies in order to achieve it is forbidden. If that good objective can only be attained by lying, then to tell a lie is not sinful provided the attainment of that particular objective is permissible If that objective is essential, then lying in order to achieve it is required, particularly when failing to secure it will cause certain harm. Take for example the case of a Muslim who goes in hiding in order to avoid the soldiers of a tyrant. If one knows his hiding place and happens to be asked about it, he must lie in order not to give that man away. Similarly, if he has been given something by a neighbor for safekeeping and someone who wrongfully wants to take it away asks him about it, he should tell a lie in order to prevent its confiscation. If he is asked to swear that he does not know where it is, he should do so. Again, if one tells a lie in order to prevent a quarrel or to achieve peace between two quarreling families or to persuade someone to forgo his right of retaliation, that sort of lie is not forbidden, especially when the purpose cannot be achieved otherwise. Another case in which lying is permissible is when a governor asks a person whether he may have committed a grave sin which is unknown except to himself and to Allah, and no one is harmed by it, then he should deny having committed it. The point here is that if it is left to Allah, he may forgive him. If the ruler knows of it, he must punish him for that. Islam does not like to exact punishment. It prefers that people repent of their sins and be forgiven by Allah. All these are good examples of situations in which telling a lie is acceptable, because it ensures that a worse situation is avoided. In other words, [it is acceptable in situations when] telling a lie is the lesser of two evils.”
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