Riyad as-Salihin, 376

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Seven are (the persons) whom Allah will give Shade of His Thrown on the Day when there would be no shade other than His Throne's Shade: A just ruler; a youth who grew up worshipping Allah; a man whose heart is attached to mosques; two persons who love and meet each other and depart from each other for the sake of Allah; a man whom an extremely beautiful woman seduces (for illicit relation), but he (rejects this offer by saying): 'I fear Allah'; a man who gives in charity and conceals it (to such an extent) that the left hand does not know what the right has given; and a person who remembers Allah in solitude and his eyes well up". [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

و عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال‏:‏ ‏

‏ سبعة يظلهم الله في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظله‏:‏ إما عادل، وشاب نشأ في عبادة الله عز وجل، ورجل قلبه معلق بالمساجد‏.‏ ورجلان تحابا في الله اجتمعا عليه ، وتفرقا عليه، ورجل دعته امرأة ذات حسن وجمال، فقال‏:‏ إني أخاف الله، ورجل تصدق بصدقة، فأخفاها حتى لا تعلم شماله ما تنفق يمينه، ورجل ذكر الله خاليًا ففاضت عيناه‏

‏ ‏(‏‏(‏متفق عليه‏)‏‏)‏ ‏.‏

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In-Book Reference: Introduction, Hadith 376

Sharh · explanationclick to expand

Guidance from the Hadith: 1) Nothing of this worldly affairs interrupts the love of those who love one another for the sake of Allah, and nothing separates them except death. 2) The true sense of loving someone for the sake of Allah is that such love should not be founded on a worldly interest, which once it ends or diminishes, love fades away. Words in the Hadith: The word seven here does not literally mean that they are seven persons only, but it refers to seven categories of people, each category includes many people whose number is known to Allah Almighty alone. They departed from each other for His sake: they were physically separated because of traveling or death.

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