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2614. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Faith has seventy-some doors, the lowest of which is removing something harmful from the road, and its highest is the statement ‘Lā Ilāha Illallāh.’” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. Suhail bin Abī Ṣāliḥ narrated it this way, “from ‘Abdullāh bin Dīnār, from Abū Ṣāliḥ from Abū Hurairah.
‘Umārah bin Ghaziyah narrated this Ḥadīth from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurairah from the Prophet ﷺ, that he said: “Faith has sixty-four doors.”
This was narrated to us by Qutaibah (he said): “Bakr bin Muḍar narrated to us from
‘Umārah bin Ghaziyyah, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurairah from the Prophet ﷺ.
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Commentary
The narration agreed by Al-Bukhārī and Muslim has the word ‘branch’ instead of ‘door’; it tells that the likeness of Īmān is like a tree, it has a various big and small parts, it is the root and trunk on which it stands, in case of cutting the trunk the life of the tree will come to an end.
