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the minbar, picked them up, and placed them before him. Then he said: “Allah has spoken the truth: ‘Your wealth and your children are but a trial.’ I looked at these two little boys as they walked and stumbled, and I could not restrain myself until I interrupted my sermon and picked them up.” (1)

“So fear Allah as much as you are able; listen, obey, and spend—it is better for yourselves. Whoever is protected from the avarice of his own soul—it is they who will prosper. (16) If you lend Allah a goodly loan, He will multiply it for you and forgive you. And Allah is Most Appreciative, Most Forbearing, (17) Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (18)”

“So fear Allah as much as you are able”—that is, as much as you can bear. This verse abrogates His saying, Exalted is He: “Fear Allah as He should be feared” [Al Imran 3:102]. “Listen and obey”: Allah and His Messenger. “And spend—it is better for yourselves”: spend from your wealth for your own good. “Whoever is protected from the avarice of his own soul”: such that he gives from his wealth what is due to Allah. “It is they who will prosper.”

(1) Recorded by Abu Dawud, al-Salah (Prayer), chapter: “The imam interrupts the sermon for an intervening matter,” 2:20; al-Tirmidhi, al-Manaqib (Virtues), 10:278-279, who said: “This is a sound, solitary hadith; we know it only through the hadith of al-Husayn ibn Waqid”; al-Nasa'i, al-Jumu'ah (Friday Prayer), chapter: “The imam descending from the minbar before completing his sermon, interrupting his speech, and returning to it on Friday,” 3:108; Ibn Majah, al-Libas (Dress), chapter: “Men wearing red,” no. 2600, 2:1190; Ibn Hibban, no. 2230, p. 552; al-Hakim, 1:287; and Imam Ahmad, 5:354. Al-Albani graded it authentic in Sahih al-Jami', no. 3757.

صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَ الْمِنْبَرِ، فَحَمَلَهُمَا فَوَضْعَهُمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: "صَدَقَ اللَّهُ: إِنَّمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَأَوْلَادُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ، نَظَرْتُ إِلَى هَذَيْنَ الصَّبِيَّيْنِ يَمْشِيَانِ وَيَعْثُرَانِ، فَلَمْ أَصْبِرْ حَتَّى قَطَعْتُ حَدِيثِي وَرَفَعْتُهُمَا" (١) ﴿فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ وَاسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَأَنْفِقُوا خَيْرًا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَمَنْ يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ (١٦) إِنْ تُقْرِضُوا اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا يُضَاعِفْهُ لَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ شَكُورٌ حَلِيمٌ (١٧) عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ (١٨) ﴾ ﴿فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ﴾ أَطَقْتُمْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ نَاسِخَةٌ لِقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: "اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ" (آلِ عِمْرَانَ-١٠٢) ﴿وَاسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا﴾ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ ﴿وَأَنْفِقُوا خَيْرًا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ﴾ أَنْفَقُوا مِنْ أَمْوَالِكُمْ خَيْرًا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ. ﴿وَمَنْ يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِ﴾ حَتَّى يُعْطِيَ حَقَّ اللَّهِ مِنْ مَالِهِ ﴿فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ﴾ .

(١) أخرجه أبو داود في الصلاة، باب الإمام يقطع الخطبة للأمر يحدث: ٢ / ٢٠، والترمذي في المناقب ١٠ / ٢٧٨-٢٧٩، وقال: "هذا حديث حسن غريب إنما نعرفه من حديث الحسين بن واقد"، والنسائي في الجمعة، باب نزول الإمام عن المنبر قبل فراغه من الخطبة وقطعه كلامه ورجوعه إليه يوم الجمعة: ٣ / ١٠٨، وابن ماجه في اللباس، باب لبس الأحمر للرجال برقم: (٢٦٠٠) : ٢ / ١١٩٠، وابن حبان برقم: (٢٢٣٠) صفحة: (٥٥٢) ، والحاكم: ١ / ٢٨٧، والإمام أحمد: ٥ / ٣٥٤، وصححه الألباني في صحيح الجامع برقم: (٣٧٥٧) .