Explanation of the Book of the Hearts-02a

The reciter: And Abu al-Walid said to us: Hammad ibn Salama narrated to us from Thabit from Anas from Abu [Hurayrah], saying: We used to think this was from the Qur'an until .

The Shaykh : The meaning of all these hadiths is one: that a person’s greed for wealth never ends. If he had two valleys of gold, he would seek a third; if he had three, he would seek a fourth, and so on. And nothing fills his stomach except the earth, meaning, except that he dies and is buried in the earth. It does not mean that he fills his stomach with earth by eating it until he is full. No, the meaning is that nothing fills his stomach except that he dies and is buried in the earth. And he said: This is a refinement of what came before, meaning that even if a person has greed and covetousness, if he errs in that and repents, Allah will accept his repentance. As for his saying: “We used to think this was from the Qur'an until Al-Haqqah was revealed”, this was a supposition of the Companions who heard this statement, thinking it was from the Qur'an, but it is not from the Qur'an, because if it had been from the Qur'an, it would have remained, as Allah the Exalted said: .