The Meaning of the Hadith: A Hidden Store of Good Deeds
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The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you and bless you.
The questioner:
We begin with a message received from a listener of the program. He says: Honorable Shaykh, in his first question, a hadith was reported stating that a person should keep a hidden store of good deeds in this world. What is the meaning of this? And is the hadith authentic?
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. I do not know of the authenticity of this hadith or its transmission, but its meaning is correct: that a Muslim should make for himself righteous deeds that he will find with Allah the Exalted, stored as a secret reserve, meaning a store with Allah the Exalted of righteous deeds. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Muzzammil 73:20] and it is not lost with Allah the Exalted [Al-Baqarah 2:143]. A Muslim makes for himself a store with Allah the Exalted. If you do not depart with a provision of taqwa (mindfulness of Allah) and you encounter the Day of Presentation, you will regret that you were not like them and that you did not prepare as they had prepared. Yes.
May Allah greet you and bless you.
The questioner:
We begin with a message received from a listener of the program. He says: Honorable Shaykh, in his first question, a hadith was reported stating that a person should keep a hidden store of good deeds in this world. What is the meaning of this? And is the hadith authentic?
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. I do not know of the authenticity of this hadith or its transmission, but its meaning is correct: that a Muslim should make for himself righteous deeds that he will find with Allah the Exalted, stored as a secret reserve, meaning a store with Allah the Exalted of righteous deeds. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
you will find it with Allah. It is better and greater in reward
مِّنْ خَيْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ عِندَ اللَّهِ هُوَ خَيْرًا وَأَعْظَمَ أَجْرًاAnd never would Allah have caused you to lose your faith. Indeed Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful.
وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِيمَانَكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِالنَّاسِ لَرَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/078 — archive.org (0:52)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.