Reports on showing off

Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Give this Ummah the glad tidings of radiance, elevation, religion, help and authority in the land (the narrator is in doubt about the third thing). Among them, whoever does a deed pertaining to the Hereafter for the sake of this world will have no share in the Hereafter."
Ahmad and his son recorded it through various routes, and Ahmad's narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna al-Jarud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever seeks this world through a deed pertaining to the Hereafter, his face will be extinguished, his mention will be erased, and his name will be recorded in Hell."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) states: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever adorns himself with a deed pertaining to the Hereafter while he does not intend the Hereafter, or does not seek it, is cursed in the heavens and the earths."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains a narrator, Isma'il bin Yahya al-Taymi, and he is a kadhdhab (liar).

Sayyiduna Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection some people will be ordered to go towards Paradise, until, when they come near it, smell its fragrance, see its palaces and see the things in it that Allah Almighty has prepared for the people of Paradise, it will be called out to them: 'Turn back from it (the place near Paradise)! These people have no share in this Paradise.' They will then return with such regret that those before them will not have returned with the like of it. They will say: 'O our Lord! Had You admitted us into Hell before showing us the reward of Yours that You have shown us, and what You have prepared in it for Your friends, it would have been easier for us.' The Lord will say: 'This is exactly what I intended for you. When you were in private, you used to challenge Me with grave things, and when you met people, you displayed humility. You showed people something contrary to what you gave Me from your hearts. You feared people and did not fear Me; you honoured people and did not honour Me; you abandoned things for the sake of people and did not abandon them for My sake. Today I will make you taste a painful punishment, along with having deprived you of the reward.'"
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains a narrator, Abu Junadah, and he is da'if (weak).

Amir bin Abdullah bin al-Zubayr states: I came to my father, and he asked me: Where were you? I replied: I found some people; I have not seen better people than them. They remember Allah Almighty until one of them trembles so much that it seems he will faint from the fear of Allah. I sat with them. My father said: Do not sit with them after this. Then he looked at me and felt that perhaps I had not paid attention to his words, so he said: "I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions reciting the Qur'an, yet this condition did not come over them. Do you then think that these people fear Allah Almighty more than Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both)?" The narrator states: When I considered it, it was indeed so, so I left them.
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Abdullah bin Mus'ab bin Thabit, and he is da'if (weak).

Ibn Ghanm states: When Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) and I entered the mosque of al-Jabiyah, we found Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him). He took my right hand with his left hand and the left hand of Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) with his right hand, and then he went out walking between the two of us. We were conversing privately, and Allah knows best what we were conversing about. Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If the life of one of you, or of both of you, is prolonged, you will soon see a man from the middle rank of the Muslims (thabaj, that is, the middle) who has recited the Qur'an according to the tongue of Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), repeated it over and over, held its lawful to be lawful, held its unlawful to be unlawful and stopped at its stations; or who has recited it from the tongue of his brother as a recitation according to the tongue of Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), then repeated it over and over, held its lawful to be lawful, held its unlawful to be unlawful and stopped at its stations, yet his worth among you will be no more than the worth of the head of a dead donkey. The narrator states: While we were in this state, Sayyiduna Shaddad bin Aws (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) came to us and both sat down with him. Sayyiduna Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O people! What I fear most for you is what I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Hidden desire and shirk." Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Allah, forgive! Did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) not tell us: "that Satan has despaired of being worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula"? As for hidden desire, we already know it: it is the desires of this world, that is, its women and its desires. So, O Shaddad, what is this shirk with which you are frightening us? Sayyiduna Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: What do you think, if you were to see a man praying for the sake of another man, or fasting for the sake of another man, or giving charity for his sake, would you consider that he has committed shirk? They replied: Yes, by Allah! Whoever prays for the sake of a man, or fasts for his sake, or gives charity for his sake, has committed shirk. Sayyiduna Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever prays to show off has committed shirk, whoever fasts to show off has committed shirk, and whoever gives charity to show off has committed shirk." At this, Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Will Allah Almighty not turn to that part of the whole deed by which His pleasure was sought, accept what was purely for Him, and leave what had shirk in it? At this, Sayyiduna Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Allah Almighty said: I am the best of sharers for whoever associates partners with Me. Whoever associates anything with Me as a partner, his entire deed, whether little or much, will be for the partner whom he associated, and I am free of need of it." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Ibn Majah recorded a portion of it.
Ahmad recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Shahr bin Hawshab, whom Ahmad and others declared da'if (weak), and more than one declared him da'if; the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna al-Dahhak bin Qays (may Allah be pleased with him) states: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed Allah Almighty says: I am the best of partners; whoever associates anyone with Me as a partner, that deed will be for My partner. (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) O people! Make your deeds sincerely for Allah Almighty, for Allah Almighty accepts only those deeds which are sincerely for Him. And do not say: This is for Allah Almighty and for the bond of kinship, for it will be counted for the bond of kinship and nothing of it will be for Allah Almighty. And do not say: This is for Allah Almighty and for you people, for it will be counted for you people and there will be nothing in it for Allah Almighty."
Al-Bazzar recorded it from his teacher Ibrahim bin Mujashshir, whom Ibn Hibban and others declared thiqah (trustworthy), and there is weakness in him; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs the prayer well when people are watching him, and performs it badly when he is alone, that is an act of contempt by which he shows contempt for his Lord."
Abu Ya'la recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Ibrahim bin Muslim al-Hajari, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection the son of Adam will be brought as though he were a 'badhaj' (sometimes the narrator reports the word:) as though he were a 'hamal' (both words mean a young lamb). The Lord will say: O son of Adam! I am the best of sharers. Look at the deed that you did for Me; I will reward you for it. And look at the deed that you did for other than Me; he will reward you for the deed you did for him."
Abu Ya'la recorded it, and its chain contains mudallis narrators.

Sayyiduna Shaddad bin Aws (may Allah be pleased with him) states: In the blessed time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), we used to count showing off as the major shirk. Allamah al-Haythami says: I say: There is a hadith from this Companion about showing off which Ibn Majah recorded, and it is other than this narration.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and al-Bazzar, except that he reported the words: "the minor shirk." The narrators of both are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Ya'la bin Shaddad, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the end of time comes, my Ummah will be divided into three groups: one group will worship Allah Almighty sincerely, one group will worship Allah Almighty for show, and one group will worship Allah Almighty so that through it they may consume (the wealth of) people." Allamah al-Haythami says: I say: He then mentioned the full hadith, which appears in the Book of the Resurrection, in the chapter on the Reckoning.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains a narrator, Ubayd bin Ishaq al-Attar, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "What I fear most for you is the minor shirk. The people asked: O Messenger of Allah! What is meant by the minor shirk? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Showing off. When people come with their deeds, it will be said to the one who did this: Go to those for whom you used to show off, and seek its reward from them!"
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Abdullah bin Shabib bin Khalid, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "In Hell there is a valley from which even Hell seeks refuge four hundred times every day. That valley has been prepared for the people who show off from the Ummah of Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): those who acquire knowledge of the Book of Allah for other than Allah, (or, for other than Allah Almighty,) give charity, perform Hajj of the House of Allah, and (for other than Him) go out in the path of Allah."
Al-Tabarani recorded it from his teacher Yahya bin Abdullah bin Abdawayh, from his father, and I do not know either of them; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The world is cursed and everything in it is cursed, except that by which the pleasure of Allah Almighty is sought."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Khidash bin al-Muhajir, whom I do not know, and the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Amr bin Murrah states: An elder whose kunyah was Abu Yazid narrated this hadith to me. He states: Once I was sitting with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), when Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Satan runs through the son of Adam in the channels of the blood and where the soul is (that is, through his whole being). At this, Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) wept and said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever seeks fame before people through his deed, Allah Almighty will expose his desire for fame before the hearers of His creation, and will make him small and despised." Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and the wording is his; he recorded something similar in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, in which the words are: "On the Day of Resurrection Allah Almighty will expose his desire for fame before His creation."
Ahmad recorded it with the statement of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) abridged, and in it he said: Tears flowed from the eyes of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Al-Tabarani named that elder: his name is Khaythamah bin Abd al-Rahman. On this basis, the narrators of Ahmad and of one of the chains of al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever seeks fame, Allah Almighty will expose his desire for fame; and whoever shows off, Allah Almighty will expose his desire to show off."
Ahmad, al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it, and their chains are hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik al-Ashja'i (may Allah be pleased with him) states: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever stands in a position of showing off, Allah Almighty will expose his showing off; and whoever stands in a position of seeking fame, Allah Almighty will expose his desire for fame."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Any servant who stands in this world in a position of fame and showing off, on the Day of Resurrection Allah Almighty will expose this thing of his before the whole of creation."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Qays al-Khuza'i (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever stands in a position of showing off and fame will remain under the displeasure of Allah Almighty until he sits down."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Yazid bin Iyad, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "Whoever seeks fame, Allah Almighty will (on the Day of Resurrection) expose his desire for fame; whoever shows off, Allah Almighty will expose his showing off on the Day of Resurrection; and whoever adopts humility before Allah Almighty out of modesty, Allah Almighty will grant him elevation on the Day of Resurrection."
Al-Tabarani recorded it as a mawquf narration (halted at the Companion), which Abu Razin narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and I do not know him (that is, Abu Razin); the rest of its narrators have been declared trustworthy.

Sayyiduna Abu Hind al-Dari (may Allah be pleased with him) states that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever stands in a position of showing off and fame, on the Day of Resurrection Allah Almighty will expose his showing off and his desire for fame." Ahmad and al-Bazzar recorded it, except that he reported the words: "Whoever makes his brother stand in a place of showing off and fame, on the Day of Resurrection Allah Almighty will make him stand and will expose his desire for fame."
Al-Tabarani recorded something similar; the narrators of Ahmad and al-Bazzar, and of one of the various chains of al-Tabarani, are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Hind al-Dari (may Allah be pleased with him) states: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever shows off (a deed) pertaining to Allah Almighty for other than Allah will become disassociated from Allah Almighty."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains a group of narrators whom I do not know.