Sahl ibn Sa'd al-Sa'idi
سهل بن سعد الساعدي
A Sa'idi Companion who transmits 'renounce the world and God will love you; renounce what is in people's hands and people will love you', the thirty-first hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty, transmitted by Ibn Majah (4102) through Abu Hazim from him; his other reports include 'were the world worth a mosquito's wing to God He would not give an unbeliever a drink of it' in al-Tirmidhi (2320).
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
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Overview
A Companion of the Banu Sa'ida 1.
His hadith
A hadith is narrated from him: "Renounce the world and God will love you; renounce what is in people's hands and people will love you." It is the thirty-first hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths. Ibn Majah narrates it (4102) through Abu Hazim from him 1.
Another hadith from him, in al-Tirmidhi (2320), concerns the worth of this world in the sight of God 1.
Notes for researchers
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Connections
People and things also explored
Muhammad· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Abu Hazim al-A'raj· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Muwatta, Book of Fasting· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Fasting in Ramadan· Renunciation (zuhd)
Sources
- Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
- Sahih Muslim
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