Sunan at-Tirmidhī Ḥadīth [2521] – Love for the sake of Allāh and hate for His sake…

Whatever a person does – be it his dealings with others, giving a thing to others or withholding it from them, nurturing friendship or harboring hatred towards others, or even tying the knot of his wedlock – if all this is not motivated by a selfish end or personal likes and dislikes, but done purely for the sake of Allāh, then it is a firm proof of the perfection of his faith.

• Reference: [2521 (4/512), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Dārussalām (Eng)]

• Musnad Aḥmad (15617 (24/383)) ^{[Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ]}
• Musnad Aḥmad (15638 (24/399)) ^{[Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ]}
• Musnad Aḥmad (15554 (12/250)) ^{[Aḥmad Shākir]}
• Musnad Aḥmad (15575 (12/255)) ^{[Aḥmad Shākir]}
• Musnad Abī Ya’lā (1485 (1/480))
• Musnad Abī Ya’lā (1500 (1/484))
• Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb (3028 (3/165))
• Shu’ab al-Īmān (15 (1/105-106))
• Al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr (412 (20/188))
• Al-Mustadrak ‘alā aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥayn (2731 (3/437))
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (90 (1/40))
• Al-Musnad al-Jāmi’ (11458 (15/183))
• Tuḥfatul Ashrāf (11301 (8/79))
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (31)
• Silsilah Aḥādīth aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah (1/728-729))
• Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (34 (1/41))
• Talkhīṣ al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (34 (1/76))
• Al-Ibānatul Kubrā (847 (1/299))

Shāhid

• Sunan Abī Dāwūd (4681) – on the authority of Abī Umāmah (may Allāh be pleased with him) without the wording “and marries for the sake of Allāh”

Grade:

• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. Ḥamzah Zayn (Musnad Aḥmad (15575 (12/255)))
• Ḥasan by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2521 (1/568)) & Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb (3028 (3/165)))
• Ḥasan by Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar ad-Da’wah, New Delhi (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2521 (3/440)))
• Ḥasan by Shaykh Dr. Ḍiyā’-ur-Raḥmān al-‘Aẓamī (Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil)
• Ḥasan by Shaykh ‘Eṣām Mūsā Hādī (Jāmi’ al-Kabīr (2521 (1/760)))
• Isnād ḥasan by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī (2521 (1/753)) & Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (31 (1/42)))
• Isnād ḥasan by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Musnad Aḥmad (15638 (24/399)))
• Isnād ḥasan by Shaykh Dr. Ḥamzah Zayn (Musnad Aḥmad (15554 (12/250)))
• Isnād ḥasan by Mukhtār Aḥmad an-Nadwī (Shu’ab al-Īmān)
• Isnād ḥasan by Sayyid ‘Imrān (Al-Ibānatul Kubrā, published by Dārul Ḥadīth)
• The sanad is ḥasan due to shawāhid … by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Jāmi’ al-Kabīr (2692 (4/492-493)))
• Ḥadīth ṣaḥīḥ li-ghayri (and this sanad is ḍa’īf) … by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Musnad Aḥmad (15617 (24/383)))
• Munkar * by Imām at-Tirmidhī

(*): Ḥadīth ḥasan, as reported in some manuscripts, instead of munkar.