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(1). 3309. ‘Abdullāh bin Salām said: “A group of us Companions of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ sat talking, and we said: ‘If we knew which deed was most beloved to Allāh then we would do it.’ So Allāh, Most High, revealed: Whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth glorifies Allāh. And He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. O you who believe! Why do you say that which you do not do?”[1] ‘Abdullāh bin Salām said: “So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ recited it to us.” Abū Salamah (one of the narrators) said: “So Ibn Salām recited it to us.” Yahyā (one of the narrators) said: “So Abū Salamah narrated it to us.” Ibn Kathīr said: “So Al-Awzā’ī recited it to us.” ‘Abdullāh said: “So Ibn Kathīr recited it to us.” (Ṣaḥīh)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] Muḥammad bin Kathīr has been contradicted in his narration of this Hadīth from Al-Awzā’ī. Ibn Al-Mubārak reported it from Al-Awzā’ī, from Yahyā bin Abī Kathīr, from Hilāl bin Abī Maimūnah, from ‘Aṭā’ bin Yaṣar from ‘Abdullāh bin Salām - or; from Abū Salamah, from ‘Abdullāh bin Salām. And Al-Walīd bin
Muslim reported this Hadīth from Al-Awzā'ī similar to the narration of Muḥammad bin Kathīr.
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[1] As-Šaff 61:1,2.
Commentary
The people who do not accept the call of the Prophet ﷺ deserve Allāh's wrath; those who accept everything but practise nothing or practise only what is according to their lusts and desires, they deserve even severer wrath of Allāh than the rejecters. Value and respect of a person's confession and words is with his loyalty and truthfulness. Therefore what a person says or promises he should fulfill it.
