70 Major Sins in Islam

Some of the major sins or kaba’ir in Islam are as follows:

1. Associating anything with Allah
2. Murder
3. Practicing magic
4. Abandoning salah (ritual Prayer)
5. Not paying zakah
6. Not fasting during the month of Ramadan without excuse
7. Not performing Hajj, while being able to do so
8. Showing disrespect to parents
9. Severing relations with relatives
10. Committing adultery
11. Committing sodomy
12. Dealing in riba (interest)
13. Wrongfully consuming the property of an orphan
14. Lying about Allah or His Messenger
15. Running away from the battlefield
16. Deceiving the people that one rules and being unjust to them
17. Being proud and arrogant
18. Bearing false witness
19. Drinking alcohol
20. Gambling
21. Falsely accusing chaste women (i.e. of committing fornication or adultery)
22. Stealing from the spoils of war
23. Stealing
24. Committing highway robbery
25. Making false oath
26. Committing oppression
27. Earning ill-gotten gain.
28. Consuming what is unlawful.
29. Committing suicide
30. Lying frequently
31. Judging unjustly
32. Giving and accepting a bribe
33. Imitating the opposite sex (in dress, behavior, and the like)
34. Allowing one’s wife, daughters, etc. to display their beauty to men or conduct
illicit sexual relations
35. Marrying a divorced woman in order to make her lawful for her ex-husband to
remarry her after he irrevocably divorced her
36. Not protecting oneself or one's clothes from being contaminated with urine or
excrement.
37. Showing off
38. Learning knowledge of the religion for the sake of this world and withholding
that knowledge (i.e., not teaching people)
39. Betraying a trust
40. Recounting favors
41. Denying Allah's Decree
42. Listening to people's private conversations
43. Carrying gossip
44. Cursing others
45. Breaking contracts
46. Believing in fortune-tellers
47. Behaving badly towards one’s husband
48. Making statues
49. Lamenting, wailing, tearing the clothing, and doing other things of this sort when
an affliction falls
50. Treating others wrongfully
51. Treating one’s wife, servant, the weak, and animals badly
52. Offending one's neighbor
53. Offending and abusing Muslims
54. Offending people and having an arrogant attitude toward them
55. Trailing one's garment in pride
56. Wearing silk and gold (this is for men only)
57. Running away from one’s master (this is for slaves)
58. Slaughtering an animal that has been dedicated to anyone other than Allah
59. To knowingly ascribe one's paternity to a man other than one's biological father
60. Arguing and disputing violently
61. Withholding excess water
62. Giving short weight or measure
63. Feeling secure from Allah's Plan
64. Offending pious people
65. Not praying in congregation but praying alone without an excuse
66. Persistently missing Friday Prayer without any excuse
67. Usurping the rights of the heir through bequests (to others)
68. Deceiving and plotting evil
69. Spying for the enemy of the Muslims against Muslim's interest
70. Cursing or insulting any of the Companions of the Prophet

Source: Islamonline

70 MAJOR SINS in the order of gravity of the sin classified using

QURAN and authentic hadeeth by Imam Shams-ud-deen Dhahabi
(1274-1348)

1. Ascribing Associates To Allah, The Most High (Shirk)

2. Killing A Human Being
3. Sorcery
4. Not Performing the Prayer
5. Not Paying Zakat
6. Breaking One's Fast During Ramadan Without an Excuse
7. Not Performing the Hajj When Able to
8. Showing Disrespect to One's Parents
9. Severing the Ties of One's Relatives
10. Adultery
11. Sodomy
12. Accepting Usurious Gain
13. Wrong Consuming an Orphan's Property
14. Lying About the Prophet
15. Fleeing From the Battlefield
16. The Leader Who Misleads His Followers, the Tyrant and the
Oppressor
17. Arrogance, Pride, Conceit, Vanity and Haughtiness
18. Bearing False Witness
19. Drinking Alcohol
20. Gambling (Qimar)
21. Accusing a Woman of Adultery
22. Misappropriating Spoils of War, Muslim Funds or Zakat
23. Theft
24. Highwaymen Who Menace the Road
25. The Engulfing Oath
26. Taking People's Property Through Falsehood
27. Collecting Taxes
28. The Consumption of Haram
29. Suicide
30. Telling Lies
31. The Dishonest Judge
32. Bribery
33. Women Imitating Men and Vice Versa
34. The Pimp and the One Who Permits His Wife To Fornicate
35. Marrying Solely to Return to the Previous Husband
36. Not Freeing Oneself of All Traces of Urine
37. Showing off in Good Work
38. Learning Sacred Knowledge for the Sake of this World or
Concealing It
39. Breach of Faith
40. Reminding Recipients of One's Charity to Them
41. Disbelieving in Destiny
42. Listening to the People's Private Conversations
43. The Talebearer Who Stirs Up Enmity Between People
44. Cursing Others
45. Breaking One's Promise or Pledge
46. Believing Fortunetellers and Astrologers
47. A Wife's Rebellion Against Her Husband
48. Picture-making
49. Loudly Lamenting For the Dead or When Afflicted With an Adversity
50. Excess Against Others
51. Overburdening and Arrogance Against Others
52. Hurting One's Neighbor
53. Hurting or Reviling Muslims
54. Harming the Servants of Allah
55. Dragging the Hem of One's Garment Out of Conceit
56. Men Wearing Silk or Gold
57. Fleeing of the Slave
58. Slaughtering in Other Than Allah's Name
59. Falsely Claiming Someone is One's Father
60. Arguing, Picking Apart Another's Words, and Quarreling
61. Withholding Excess Water From Others
62. Stinting When Weighing or Measuring Out Goods and Similar
Merchandise
63. Feeling Secure From Allah's Devising
64. Despairing of the Mercy of Allah and Losing of Hope
65. Forgoing the Congregational Prayer to Pray Alone Without A Legal
Excuse
66. Constantly Missing the Friday and Congregational Prayer Without A
Valid Excuse
67. Bringing Loss to the Bequest
68. Deception and Evil Schemes
69. Spying on the Muslims and Revealing Their Weaknesses
70. Disparaging the Companions of the Prophet