Hadith 229

(The book) ‘Al A’alam Al Wara’ of Al Daylami – There are forty Ahadeeth reported by Ibn Wa’dan with deleted chain: –
The first is from Anas (a well-known fabricator) who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww addressed us while being upon a she-camel (called) Al-Azba’a. He-saww said: ‘O you people! It is as if the dead in it (world) has been written upon other than us, and it is as if the truth is obligated upon other than us, and it is as if what we do not hear the deceased (as if) they have travelled and will be returning to us very shortly. Their abodes are their graves, and we are eating their legacies (inheritances) as if we are to life eternally after them. We have forgotten every preaching, and are feeling safe from every affliction. Beatitude is for one who spends what he earns from other than disobedience, and sits with the people of understanding and wisdom, and he mingles with the people of humbleness and the poverty. Beatitude is for one who humbles himself, and his manners are excellent, and his secrets are righteous, and he turns his evil away from the people. Beatitude is for one who spends surplus of his wealth, and withholds surplus of his words, and his striving is the Sunnah, and he does not publicise the innovation’’. [316]