Sunan at-Tirmidhī Ḥadīth [2376] – The comparison of two wolves among sheep…

Man’s love and infatuation for wealth and his quest for honor and position in life do great damage to his religion and severe his relationship with Allāh – the Almighty.

• Reference: [2376 (4/394), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Dārussalām (Eng)]

The lust for wealth and status makes a person greedy, such that he is willing to sacrifice his principles and religiosity for a small price. In a narration, he (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Verily, every ummah has a fitnah and the fitnah of my ummah is wealth.” [Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2336)]. So fortunate is the one who saves himself from these fitan and succeeds before Allāh. O Allāh, protect us from fitan.

• Reference: [2772 (2/471-472), Sunan ad-Dārimī, Ansarus Sunnah Publications (Ur)]

Translated by ‘Imrān (Germany)

The havoc played by wealth, rank and position, which have been mentioned in this ḥadīth, can be seen everywhere today. Even some ‘Ulamā and self-proclaimed pious men have a crave for these things and they have not been able to save themselves from the ruin caused by it. May Allāh save us from these evils. Greed for wealth and fame are doubtless detrimental to religion as preference of the life of the world over religion is explicit in such a trivial pursuit.

• Reference: [485 (1/437), Riyāḍuṣ Ṣāliḥīn, Dārussalām (Eng)]

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) explained that the damage that eagerness for wealth and prominence causes to one’s religious commitment is no less than the damage that two hungry wolves would cause in a sheep pen, and this is quite obvious. If there is sound religious commitment, there cannot be this eagerness, because once the heart tastes the sweetness of servitude to Allāh and love of Him, then there will be nothing dearer to the individual than that, and he will give it precedence over other things. In that way, Allāh diverts evil deeds and shameful acts from those who are sincere to Allāh alone.

• Reference: [Majmū’ al-Fatāwā – ibn Taymiyyah (10/215)] 

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• Musnad Aḥmad (15784 (25/61-62) & 15794 (25/85-86)) ^{[Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ]}
• Musnad Aḥmad (15724 (12/310) & 15734 (12/319))  ^{[Aḥmad Shākir]}
• Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb (1710 (2/314) & 3250 (3/267))
• Ṣaḥīḥ ibn Ḥibbān (3228 (8/24-25))
• Ṣaḥīḥ Mawārid aẓ-Ẓamān (2092 (2/468))
• Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (37099 (19/277))
• Nasā’ī’s Sunan al-Kubrā (11796 (10/386))
• Shu’ab al-Īmān (9783 (12/487))
• Al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr (189 (19/96))
• Sharḥ as-Sunnah (4054 (14/257-258))
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (7436 (3/460))
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (5181)
• Riyāḍuṣ Ṣāliḥīn (485)
• Al-Jāmi’ aṣ-Ṣaghīr [Suyūṭī] (7908 (1/483))
• Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmi’ (5620 (2/983))
• Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (15266 (00/00))
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Grade:

• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2376 (1/535)); Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb & Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmi’)
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar ad-Da’wah, New Delhi (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2376 (3/344)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh ‘Eṣām Mūsā Hādī (Jāmi’ al-Kabīr (2376 (1/721)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Sa’d bin Nāṣir ash-Shathrī (Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah)
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. Ḍiyā’-ur-Raḥmān al-‘Aẓamī (Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil)
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Imām as-Suyūṭī (Al-Jāmi’ aṣ-Ṣaghīr)
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh ‘Abdul-Mannān Rāsikh (2772 (2/471-472); Sunan ad-Dārimī, published by Ansarus Sunnah Publications, Lahore)
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Musnad Aḥmad & Riyāḍuṣ Ṣāliḥīn (485 (1/179)))
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. Ḥamzah Zayn (Musnad Aḥmad)
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Mukhtār Aḥmad an-Nadwī (Shu’ab al-Īmān)
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• Ḥasan by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī (2376 (1/713)) & Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (5181 (3/168-169)))
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• Ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ by Imām at-Tirmidhī