Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2860 — The virtue of the words: There is none

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) delivered a sermon to us; then the narrator mentioned the full hadith, in which there were also these words: "O people, indeed whoever meets Allah Almighty in the state that he bears witness with sincerity that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah will enter Paradise." At this Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up and said: "O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! How does sincerity come about in this testimony? Does it mean that nothing else is mixed with it? Explain it to us so that we may recognise it." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(Sincerity is) that there be no greed for the world, that it not be amassed through unlawful means, that one not become content and absorbed in it, and that one not become like those people who speak like scholars and pious elders but whose deeds are those of the wicked. So whoever meets Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, in the state that there is no trace of any of these (evil) traits in him, and he says 'La ilaha illallah' (there is no god worthy of worship except Allah), will enter Paradise."
Al-Harith narrated it in his Musnad. This report is mawdu', that is, fabricated, because its narrators Maysarah bin Abd Rabbih and Dawud bin al-Muhabbar are liars and fabricators of hadith.