Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent a message to me and said: "Put on your clothes and your weapons, then come to me." He says: I came to him while he was performing ablution. He looked me over carefully and then lowered his head. Then he said: "I want to send you on an expedition; Allah Almighty will keep you safe and grant you spoils, and I wish for you a good share of wealth." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, I did not accept Islam for the sake of wealth; I accepted Islam out of desire for Islam and for the sake of being with the Messenger of Allah." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Amr, how excellent is good (i.e. lawful) wealth in the hands of a good man."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and he said: In the manuscript this word is thus, "na'imma", with a fathah on the nun and a kasrah on the ayn. Abu Ubaydah says: It is to be read with a kasrah on both the nun and the ayn.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, but he recorded these words in it: "I accepted Islam out of desire for Islam and out of desire to be with the Messenger of Allah. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Very well; how excellent is good (i.e. lawful) wealth in the hands of a good man.'"
Abu Ya'la recorded something similar; the narrators of Ahmad and Abu Ya'la are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب البيوع / 6242
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ صحیح
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