Is hypocrisy limited to the characteristics mentioned in the hadith: “Four who possess them…”?

Question:
I ask Allah to do you good. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: Is hypocrisy limited to the five characteristics mentioned in the hadith, in front of people, and if he is alone with himself, he is in another state, does he become a hypocrite?

Answer:
No, the number does not indicate restriction. This is a rule among the jurists that a number does not indicate restriction. These four do not restrict hypocrisy to them; rather, the characteristics of hypocrisy are many. Among them is lagging behind the congregational prayer. Lagging behind the congregational prayer is hypocrisy, as ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “And I have seen us, and none lagged behind it except a known hypocrite.” And this is in the hadith: “The heaviest prayers for the hypocrites are the ‘Isha’ prayer and the Fajr prayer.” The intended meaning is minor hypocrisy . So the characteristics of hypocrisy are many. Ibn al-Qayyim explained many of them in *Madarij al-Salikin*, and I summarized them in a treatise that was printed, titled “The Characteristics of the Hypocrites.” Yes, a small treatise taken from Ibn al-Qayyim’s *Madarij al-Salikin*. The characteristics of the hypocrites are many.