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1647. 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Deeds are but with intentions, and for the man is only what he intended. So one whose emigration was to Allāh and His Messenger, then his emigration was to Allāh and His Messenger. And one whose emigration was to the world, to attain some of it, or a woman, to marry her, then his emigration was to what he emigrated." (Ṣaḥīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ. Mālik bin Anas, Sufyān Ath-Thawrī and more than one of the A'immah narrated this Hadīth from Yahya bin Sa'eed. And we do not know of it except as a narration of Yahya bin Sa'eed [Al-Anṣārī. 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Mahdī said: "It is necessary that we put this Hadīth in every chapter." ]
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Commentary
The Hadīth is explicit on the point that, in order to decide the right of an action from wrong or evaluate its acceptability, the motive or incentive that prompted the man to do it, is considered.
