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(37). 2989. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "O you people! Indeed Allāh is Tayyib (good) and he does not accept but what is good. And indeed Allāh ordered the believers with what He ordered the Messengers. He ﷺ said: 'O you Messengers! Eat of the good things and do righteous deeds. Verily I am well acquainted with what you do.'[2] And He said: 'O you who believe! Eat from the good things We have provided for you.'[3]'" He said: "And he mentioned a man: 'Who is undertaking a long journey, whose hair is dishevelled and he is covered with dust. He raises his hands to the heavens and says: "O Lord! O Lord!" Yet his
food is from the unlawful, his drink is from the unlawful, his clothing is from the unlawful, and he was nourished by the unlawful. So how can that be accepted?" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Gharīb. We only know of it as a narration of Fuḍail bin Marzūq, and Abū Ḥāzim is Al-Ashja'ī – his name is Salmān, the freed slave of 'Azzah Al-'Ashja'iyyah.
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Footnotes
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[1] Al-Baqarah 2:268.
2
[2] Al-Mu'minūn 23:51.
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[3] Al-Baqarah 2:172.
Commentary
When the lawful earning is not in consumption at all, and a person is nourished with unlawful earnings, his eating, drinking and dressing all are of unlawful wealth, in this case the person's humbleness, dishevelled hair, body covered with dust, and even being in the state of a journey, cannot be a means of the acceptance of the supplication. Because the condition for the definite acceptance is, 'let them obey Me'; when they do not accept and obey His Command, how will He then respond to their requests and invocations.
