مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad of Abū Ḥamzah Anas ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī, the Servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
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مُسْنَدُ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ خَادِمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 142
Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported:
“Men would come to the Prophet ﷺ and embrace Islam for the sake of some worldly benefit they were given. Yet before evening fell, Islam would have become more beloved and precious to them than the whole world and everything in it.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 142
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: «كَانَ الرَّجُلُ يَأْتِي النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَيُسْلِمُ لِشَيْءٍ يُعْطَاهُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَمَا يُمْسِي حَتَّى يَكُونَ الْإِسْلَامُ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ وَأَعَزَّ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا».
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according to the conditions of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
Chain: Aḥmad → Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy → Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl → Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy al-Sulamī al-Baṣrī: thiqa thabt, d. 194 AH. (2) Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl al-Baṣrī: thiqa, d. 142 AH. (3) Anas ibn Mālik: Companion, d. ca. 93 AH. Takhrīj: Muslim (1059); Aḥmad (12050). A parallel account appears in al-Bukhārī (3014). The report is customarily cited under the heading of taʾlīf al-qulūb, the reconciling of hearts through material gifts, which the Qurʾān names as one of the categories of zakāt recipients (Q. 9:60). Its point is that what began as worldly calculation was transformed by contact with the Prophet ﷺ into settled conviction, so that the means employed proved to be an instrument of guidance rather than a purchase of loyalty.
Chain: Aḥmad → Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy → Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl → Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdiyy al-Sulamī al-Baṣrī: thiqa thabt, d. 194 AH. (2) Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl al-Baṣrī: thiqa, d. 142 AH. (3) Anas ibn Mālik: Companion, d. ca. 93 AH. Takhrīj: Muslim (1059); Aḥmad (12050). A parallel account appears in al-Bukhārī (3014). The report is customarily cited under the heading of taʾlīf al-qulūb, the reconciling of hearts through material gifts, which the Qurʾān names as one of the categories of zakāt recipients (Q. 9:60). Its point is that what began as worldly calculation was transformed by contact with the Prophet ﷺ into settled conviction, so that the means employed proved to be an instrument of guidance rather than a purchase of loyalty.
| Reference | : Three-Narrator Ahadith 142 |
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