قال الله تعالى: {وَأَوْفُوا بِالْعَهْدِ ۖ إِنَّ الْعَهْدَ كَانَ مَسْئُولًا} (الإسراء: ٣٤)

Allah, Most High, says, {And fulfill (every) engagement, for (every) engagement will be enquired into on the day of reckoning} (AI-Isra: 34)

{يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَوْفُوا بِالْعُقُودِ} (المائدة: 1)

{O ye who believe! Fulfill (all) obligations?} (AI-Ma'idah: 1)

قال الزجاج: العقود تشمل كل ما أمر الله به وما نهى عنه. وقال الواحدي أيضاً: تشمل العهود ما أحلّه الله وما حرّمه في القرآن. وأضاف مقاتل بن حيان: ويدخل فيها أيضاً العهود المعقودة بين المسلمين، أو بين المسلم وغير المسلم.

Az-Zajjaj said engagements include all what Allah commands or forbids. AI-Wahidi also said obligations include what Allah made lawful or unlawful in the Qur'an. Muqatil Ibn Hayyan added, it is also included the convenants held among Muslims or between Muslim and non- Muslims.

قال النبي ﷺ: «أَرْبَعٌ مَنْ كُنَّ فِيهِ كَانَ مُنَافِقًا خَالِصًا، وَمَنْ كَانَتْ فِيهِ خَصْلَةٌ مِنْهُنَّ كَانَتْ فِيهِ خَصْلَةٌ مِنَ النِّفَاقِ حَتَّى يَدَعَهَا» ﷺ. وَهُنَّ: Hmm, I should translate the whole text as given. Corrected version: قال النبي ﷺ: «أَرْبَعٌ مَنْ كُنَّ فِيهِ كَانَ مُنَافِقًا خَالِصًا، وَمَنْ كَانَتْ فِيهِ خَصْلَةٌ مِنْهُنَّ كَانَتْ فِيهِ خَصْلَةٌ مِنَ النِّفَاقِ حَتَّى يَدَعَهَا، وَهِيَ: ...»

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "There are four (habits) which, if found in a person, he is a perfect hypocrite. If one of these is found in a person, then he has one sign of hypocrisy, until he leaves it. These four characteristics of a hypocrite are:

وإذا اؤتُمِنَ خان، وإذا حدَّث كذب، وإذا وعد أخلف، وإذا خاصم فجر. 1

when he is entrusted (with something) he embezzles, when he talks he lies, when he promises he breaks it, and when he argues he starts abusing people.” 1

قال النبي ﷺ: «لِكُلِّ غادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، يُقَالُ: هَذِهِ غَدْرَةُ فُلَانٍ».2

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "For everyone who breaks his promise, there will be a flag (to mark him out) on the Day of Judgment, and it will be announced that this flag is the symbol of promise by so and so.”2

قال النبيّ ﷺ: «ثلاثةٌ أنا خصمهم يوم القيامة: رجلٌ أعطى بي ثم غدر، ورجلٌ باع حرًّا فأكل ثمنه، ورجلٌ استأجر أجيرًا فاستوفى منه العمل ولم يعطه أجره». [البخاري]

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "There will be three people against whom I shall fight on the Day of htdgment: one, the person who makes a promise with an oath in my name and then breaks it, two, the person who sells a free man as a slave and appropriates his sale proceed and three, the person who employs, a workman and having taken full work from him fails to pay him his dues.” 3

قال النبي ﷺ: «مَنْ خَلَعَ يدًا مِنْ طاعةٍ لَقِيَ اللهَ يومَ القيامةِ لا حُجةَ لهُ، ومَنْ ماتَ وليسَ في عنقِهِ بيعةٌ ماتَ ميتةً جاهليةً».ﷺ [4]

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "Whoever withdraws himself from an engagement of loyalty will meet Allah with no excuse on the Day of Judgment. The death of someone who dies without the leader of a group over him is as if he had died in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.” 4