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2321. Al-Mustawrid bin Shaddād said: "I was with the caravan of those who stopped with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ at a dead lamb. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'Do you think that this was insignificant to its owners when they threw it away?' They said: 'Yes!) It is because of its insignificance that they threw it away O Messenger of Allāh!' He said: 'The world is more insignificant to Allāh than this to its owners.'" (Hasan)
There are narrations on this topic from Jābir and Ibn 'Umar.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The Hadīth of Al-Mustawrid is a Hasan Hadīth.
It means that whatever good things of the world Allāh has given to those who deny His own attribute of Oneness, as well as of the Prophethood of His beloved Messenger, He has given those things to them because the world, as a whole, is entirely insignificant and valueless before Allāh.
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When, during one of his journeys the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ came upon the carcass of a lamb then, instead of turning his face away from it, he ﷺ chose to give his Companions a very important and instructive lesson in relation to it, owners that as insignificant and worthless as this dead lamb is to its masters, much more insignificant and worthless than this to Allāh is the world, which makes its inhabitants oblivious of the Hereafter and forgetful of its Lord and Creator.
