Explanation of the Book of the Hearts-02b

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The reciter: Ahmad ibn Shabib narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to us from Yunus. And al-Layth said: Yunus narrated to me from Ibn Shihab from 'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Utbah. Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

If I had gold equal to the mountain of Uhud, it would not please me that anything of it should remain with me after three nights (i.e., I would spend all of it in Allah's Cause) except what I would keep for repaying debts.

لو كان لي مثل أحد ذهباً ما يسرني أن لا تمر علي ثلاث ليال وعندي منه شيء إلا شيئاً أرصده لدين

Sahih al-Bukhari 6445

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The reciter: "It would please me" (l-sara-ni).

The Shaykh : "It would please me" (l-sara-ni), yes, what did he say?
The reciter: "It does not please me" (ma yusuruni).

The Shaykh :

If I had gold equal to the mountain of Uhud, it would not please me that

لو كان لي مثل أحد ذهبا لسَرني أن لا تمر

Sahih al-Bukhari 6445

The reciter: With the lam before the sin.

The Shaykh : Yes, it is so with us.
The reciter: "It does not please me" (ma yusuruni) with me.

The Shaykh : "It does not please me"? What comes after? "That it passes" or "that it does not pass"?
The reciter: "That it does not pass."

The Shaykh : No, that is not correct. If it were "that it passes," there would be no harm. So correct it, then

It would please me

لسرني

I say:

it would not please me that

حطوها لسرني أن لا تمر

Sahih al-Bukhari 6445

Because if it were "it does not please me," it would have to be "it does not please me that it passes."
Now, these two hadiths—the hadith of Abu Dharr and the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)—the author (may Allah have mercy on him) brought them to match the chapter heading, which is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):

I do not love to have gold equal to the mountain of Uhud

ما أحب أن لي مثل أحد ذهبا

Sahih al-Bukhari 1407, 1408

meaning that he does not like to have money in his possession that he does not spend in the path of Allah for three nights to pass over him. And the number three is always attached by the Lawgiver to rulings, like this hadith, and like His saying in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar:

What is the right of a Muslim man who has something in which he wishes to make a bequest, that he should spend two nights—these are two nights, not three—without his bequest being written down with him.

ما حق امرئ مسلم له شيء ، يريد أن يوصي فيه أن يبيت ليلتين _ هذه ليلتين ليست ثلاثة _ إلا وصيته مكتوبة عنده

So the number three has consideration in the Shari'ah in many places.

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