حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّاسٌ الدُّورِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ أَبِي مَرْحُومٍ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ مُعَاذِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: مَنْ أَعْطَى لِلَّهِ، وَمَنَعَ لِلَّهِ، وَأَحَبَّ لِلَّهِ، وَأَبْغَضَ لِلَّهِ، وَأَنْكَحَ لِلَّهِ؛ فَقَدِ اسْتَكْمَلَ إِيمَانَهُ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ مُنْكَرٌ

Book [37]: Chapters on the description of the Day of Judgement, ar-Riqāq, and al-Wara’
Chapter [60]: The ḥadīth: “Tie it and rely (upon Allāh)”

Ḥadīth [2521]: Sahl bin Mu’ādh [bin Anas] al-Juhnī narrated from his father that the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Whoever gives for the sake of Allāh, withholds for the sake of Allāh, loves for the sake of Allāh, hates for the sake of Allāh, and marries for the sake of Allāh, he has indeed perfected his faith.”

[Abū ‘Īsā said:] This ḥadīth is munkar.

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 Allah, 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))
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (31)
• Silsilah Aḥādīth aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah (1[2]/728-729))

Shāhid

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

Grade:

• Ṣaḥīḥ isnād by Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir (Musnad Aḥmad #15575)
• Ṣaḥīḥ li-Ghayri (but weak Isnād) by Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Musnad Aḥmad #15617)
• Ḥasan by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī & Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb)
• Ḥasan isnād by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ʿAlī Za’ī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī & Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ)
• Ḥasan isnād by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Musnad Aḥmad #15638)
• Ḥasan isnād by Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir (Musnad Aḥmad #15554)
• Munkar by Imām at-Tirmidhī