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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is the phrase "from a mountain of gold" correct in the hadith: "Whoever is afraid of the night to endure it, or is stingy with wealth to spend it, or is cowardly before the enemy to fight it, let him increase in saying Subhan Allah wa bihamdihi, for it is more beloved to Allah than a mountain of gold spent in the cause of Allah, Mighty and Majestic"?

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The reader: From Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever is afraid of the night to endure it, or is stingy with wealth to spend it, or is cowardly before the enemy to fight it, let him increase in saying Subhan Allah wa bihamdihi, for it is more beloved to Allah than a mountain of gold spent in the cause of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. من هاله الليل أن يكابده وبخل بالمال أن ينفقه أو جبن عن العدو أن يقاتله فليكثر من سبحان الله وبحمده فإنها أحب إلى الله من جبل ذهب ينفقه في سبيل الله عز وجل
I think in the chapter of Encouragement and Warning, did you go back to Sahih number two thousand seven hundred and fourteen? I think it is the sixth one, this is where it falls. Now I don't remember the details, meaning it might be in the corroborating narrations, but perhaps we overlooked the corroborating narrations. I said we need to open the books.
The student : Why did you overlook it?

The Shaykh : All is well, all is well.
The student : If the hadith is authentic, it is in the chain.
Another student: Two thousand seven hundred and fourteen.
Another student: The hadith.

The Shaykh : Is it authentic or not authentic?
The student : It is authentic, yes.

The Shaykh : Is the question authentic or... why? What is the motivation for the question?
The student : The motivation for the question... is that it is authentic.

The Shaykh : Meaning you don't... it is authentic.
The student : No, it is not us, it is that for years...

The Shaykh : ...
The student : Our Shaykh, it is in Sahih al-Jami'.

The Shaykh : Yes, this situation has no end.
The student : Okay, Shaykh, we mean, what cannot be fully grasped should not be largely abandoned.

The Shaykh : No problem, but we need to know the motivations first. He...
The student : Oh our Shaykh, it is in... and it exists in Sahih al-Jami', "whoever is stingy with wealth to spend it" or in that sense, meaning upon him, and Subhan Allah wa bihamdihi, for it is... close... there is a wording "for it is more beloved to Allah than a mountain of gold," meaning... very much this.

The Shaykh : It is a marfu' hadith, and we have a mawquf hadith. A marfu' hadith from Abu Umamah, a mawquf hadith from Abu Mas'ud. The text of the marfu' hadith is:
Whoever is afraid of the night to endure it, or is stingy with wealth to spend it, or is cowardly before the enemy to fight it, let him increase in saying Subhan Allah wa bihamdihi, for it is more beloved to Allah than a mountain of gold spent in the cause of Allah. من هاله الليل أن يكابده أو بخل بالمال أن ينفقه أو جبن عن العدو أن يقاتله فليكثر من سبحان الله وبحمده فإنها أحب إلى الله من جبل ذهب ينفقه في سبيل الله

The student : This is marfu', my Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Yes, what is the question?
The student : Yes, yes, this is authentic, my Shaykh, isn't it?

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : Authentic

The Shaykh : Ah
The student : Yes, yes, it is in Sahih al-Jami'. You brought it back to Encouragement and Warning, Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Ah
The student : There is a hadith, meaning whoever thought that, the first one who thought.

The Shaykh : Yes, because in al-Jami' al-Saghir it is attributed to Abu Nu'aym in al-Ma'rifah from Abdullah ibn Khubayy. I attributed it to al-Targhib because what is in al-Targhib is more than what is in al-Jami' al-Saghir.
The student : Yes.

The Shaykh : Do you understand how?
The student : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, so what is the problem?
The student : How?

The Shaykh : What is the problem?
The student : There is no problem, our Shaykh, but what attracted us was the word "from a mountain of gold," and this is an addition to Sahih al-Jami', so here... we wanted to verify the word "mountain of gold" because it is in Sahih al-Jami'.

The Shaykh : This is present in the hadith of Abu Umamah.
The student : Yes.

The Shaykh : Yes, that is right.
The student : It is authentic with others, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Yes, I don't know, here they said in al-Majma' so-and-so is trustworthy with... then you traced it in al-Sahihah from here. You are taking under the hadith two thousand seven hundred and fourteen.
The student : Yes, my Shaykh, except in the wordings, but...

The Shaykh : This is the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud.
The student : This is Ibn Mas'ud.

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : There is nothing in it...

The Shaykh : Below, my brother, below, the tracing of this, this comes, this comes in the corroborating narrations.
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