Hadith 202

(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah’ –
‘Beatitude is for one who is humble in his soul, and his earnings are good, and his heart is righteous, and his manners are excellent, and he spends from the surplus of his wealth, and withholds the surplus from his tongue, and isolates his evil away from the people, and his striving is the Sunnah, and he does not attribute to an innovation’. [42]
Note – The Seyyid Al Razy (compiler of Nahj Al-Balagah), may Allah be Pleased with him, said, ‘From the people there is one who attributes this speech to Rasool-Allah-saww’. (The book) ‘Uddatt Al Daie’ – It is reported by Shueyb Al Ansari and Haroun Bin Kharjah who both said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Musa-as, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-as, went to look into the deeds of the servants. He came to a man from the most worshipping of the people. When it was evening, the man shook a tree to his side, and behold, there were two pomegranates in it’. He-asws said: ‘He-as said; ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! Who are you? You are a righteous servant. I-as have been over here since for as long as Allah-azwj so Desired. I-as have not found in this tree except for one pomegranate, and had you not been a righteous servant, you would not have found two pomegranates’’. He-asws said: ‘I am a man settled in the land of Musa Bin Imran-as’’. He-asws said: ‘When it was morning, he-as said: ‘Do you know of anyone more worshipping than you are? ’
He said, ‘Yes, so and so person’. He-asws said: ‘He-as went to him, and there he was a lot more worshipping than him. When it was evening, he was brought two loaves and water. He-as said: ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! Who are you? You are a righteous servant. I-as have been over here since for as long as Allah-azwj so Desired and I-as have not been brought except one loaf, and had you not been a righteous servant, you would not have been brought two loaves! So who are you? ’
He said, ‘I am a man settled in the land of Musa Bin Imran-as’. Then Musa-as said: ‘Do you know anyone more worshipping than you are? ’
He said, ‘Yes, so and so the blacksmith in such and such city’. He-asws said: ‘He came to him. He-as looked at a man who wasn’t a person of worship, but rather he was mentioning Allah-azwj the Exalted, and when the timing of the Salat entered, he stood to pray Salat. W