3 - Chapter: Avoiding the People of Desires and Hating Them

4599 - Musaddad narrated to us, Khalid ibn Abdullah narrated to us, Yazid ibn Abi Ziyad narrated to us, from Mujahid, from a man, from Abu Dharr who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The most virtuous of deeds are: loving for the sake of Allah and hating for the sake of Allah."

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It is found in "Musnad Ahmad" (24210) and "Sahih Ibn Hibban" (73) and (76).

The muhkam (clear) in the Qur'an is that whose meaning is evident, and the mutashabih (ambiguous) is its opposite. It is called muhkam because of the clarity of its wording and the precision of its arrangement, unlike the mutashabih.

And it was said: The muhkam is that whose intended meaning is known, either by its apparent sense or by interpretation, and the mutashabih is that whose knowledge Allah has kept exclusively to Himself, such as the coming of the Hour, the emergence of the Dajjal, and the disconnected letters at the beginnings of the surahs.

Al-Khattabi said: The mutashabih is of two types: one is that which, when referred back to the muhkam and measured against it, its meaning becomes known; the other is that whose true reality cannot be attained, and it is this that the people of deviation follow, seeking its interpretation, but they do not reach its essence, so they fall into doubt and are thus led into temptation. "Fath al-Bari" 8/211-212.

(1) Hasan due to corroborating evidence, but this chain is weak due to the weakness of Yazid ibn Abi Ziyad - who is the Hashimi, their freed slave - and due to the anonymity of the narrator from Abu Dharr. Mujahid: he is Ibn Jabr al-Makki, and Khalid ibn Abdullah: he is al-Wasiti al-Tahhan.

It was also narrated by Ahmad (21303) via the path of Yazid ibn Ata al-Yashkuri, from Yazid ibn Abi Ziyad, with this chain.

It was also narrated by Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Marwazi in "Ta'dhim Qadr al-Salah" (394) via the path of Jarir ibn Abd al-Hamid, and by al-Khatib in "Tarikh Baghdad" 6/391, and from his path by Ibn al-Jawzi in "al-Ilal al-Mutanahiyah" (1223) via the path of Abu Awanah, both from Yazid ibn Abi Ziyad, from Mujahid, from Abu Dharr. Thus they dropped the intermediary between Mujahid and Abu Dharr!

It was also narrated by Muhammad ibn Nasr in "Ta'dhim Qadr al-Salah" (399) via the path of Zubayd al-Yami, from Mujahid who said: Indeed, the firmest handhold of faith is loving for the sake of Allah and hating for the sake of Allah. Thus he made it his own statement. And its chain is authentic. =