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English translation
2491. 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "A man among those before you went out arrogantly in a Hullah of his. So Allāh ordered the earth to take him. He remains sinking [into it]" - or he said - "He will remain sinking into it until the Day of Judgement." (Sahīh)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadīth is Ṣaḥīḥ.
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Pride and greatness are the exclusive attributes of Allāh. Anyone parading himself as great or behaving with pride, in fact tries to pounce on the exclusive domain and preserve of Allāh, and makes himself deserving of humiliation and disrepute. One form of it would be to be sunk deep into the earth.