What is the authenticity of the hadith (What are two hungry wolves...), and what is its meaning?
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The questioner : What is the authenticity of the hadith: Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2376Sahih (Al-Albani), Hasan (Darussalam) and what is its meaning?
The Shaykh : Its meaning is that a person does not corrupt it as wealth corrupts it, and he compared that to the attack of wolves on a sheep pen... I have done it, that is enough, meaning this is the best of speech: what is little and conveys the point. The intention is to compare the wolf's corruption of the sheep to the corruption of wealth for the owner of the wealth, as the wolf corrupts the sheep.
The questioner : A person's eagerness for wealth and...
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
Two wolves free among sheep
ما ذئبان جائعان أرسلا في غنم ...The Shaykh : Its meaning is that a person does not corrupt it as wealth corrupts it, and he compared that to the attack of wolves on a sheep pen... I have done it, that is enough, meaning this is the best of speech: what is little and conveys the point. The intention is to compare the wolf's corruption of the sheep to the corruption of wealth for the owner of the wealth, as the wolf corrupts the sheep.
The questioner : A person's eagerness for wealth and...
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
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