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2448. Asmā' bint 'Umais Al-Khath'amiyyah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "What an evil servant is the one who fancies himself and becomes vain, forgetting the Most Great, the Most High. What an evil servant is the one who forces and behaves hostility, forgetting the Compeller, the Most High. What an evil servant is the one who is heedless and diverted, forgetting about the graves and the trials. What an evil servant is the one who is violent and tyrannical, forgetting his beginnings or his end. What an evil servant is the one who seeks the world through the religion. What an evil servant is the one who seeks the religion through his desires. What an evil servant is the one who puts all hope in his own zeal. What an evil servant is the worshipper who is mislead by his desire. What an evil servant is the one whose aspirations humiliate him." (Da'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] We do not know of this Hadīth except through this route, and its chain is not strong.
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The Hadīth is doubtless 'weak' as to its chain of transmitters. However, it constitutes a comparison between the right and the wrong, and pinpoints the things that man indulges in because of his love of the world and forgetfulness of the Hereafter, thereby inviting his own ruin and destruction.
