The Shaykh began by explaining the twenty-seventh hadith from the book *Al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib*, which is: "Blessed is the one who was guided to Islam and whose livelihood was moderate and contented."

The Shaykh : Our previous lesson in the book *Al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib* reached the twenty-seventh hadith in my copy, which is his statement (may Allah have mercy on him): "And from Fudalah ibn 'Ubayd, that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Blessed is he, or he has a tree in Paradise; this is glad tidings for him that he is among the people of Paradise. Who is he? It is the one who was guided to Islam and whose livelihood was moderate, neither stingy with his provision nor excessive, and this was not against his will but rather by contentment from within himself, as he said: meaning he was pleased with what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) apportioned for him, as came in the authentic hadith: And similar to this hadith is the hadith that follows it, but...