How to reconcile the hadith "Whoever does you a favor, reward him" with the hadith "Whoever intercedes for his brother and is given a gift in return has entered a great gate of
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The Shaykh : He says: How do you reconcile the hadith: Sunan Abi Dawud 1672Sahih (Al-Albani) and the hadith of Abu Umamah: Bulugh al-Maram 7:77 and the athar (report) narrated from 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him): "Beware of the gift in the context of intercession, for that is from the illicit earnings"?
The reconciliation between them is that the intercessor intends only the Face of Allah the Exalted and Majestic. If he accepts a gift or a reward, then something of the desire for worldly life enters his intention. As for the one who does you a favor, reward him, that is in a matter other than this.
if anyone does you a kindness, recompense him
من صنع إليكم معروفًا فكافئوهWhoever intercedes for his brother and that one gives him a gift for that (intercession) which he accepts, he has engaged in one of the most terrible types of Riba (undeserving increase in something).
من شفع لأخيه شفاعة فأهدى له هدية فقد أتى بابًا عظيمًا من أبواب الرباThe reconciliation between them is that the intercessor intends only the Face of Allah the Exalted and Majestic. If he accepts a gift or a reward, then something of the desire for worldly life enters his intention. As for the one who does you a favor, reward him, that is in a matter other than this.