However, the supplication mentioned in the hadith has a supporting narration from Abū Hurayra, reported by al-Tirmidhī and others. I discussed its chain of transmission in al-Rawd al-Nadīr (1156). Thus, with this support, it is fair. Allah knows best.

113 — (The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said): “Allah Most High is pure and loves purity, clean and loves cleanliness, generous and loves generosity, and munificent and loves munificence. So clean your courtyards and do not imitate the Jews.” Al-Tirmidhī (p. 94).

Weak in this full wording. Al-Tirmidhī (2/131) narrated it and declared it weak, saying: “This is a singular hadith, and Khālid ibn Ilyās is considered weak.”

I say: However, the words, “So clean your courtyards…” have another route from Saʿd whose chain is fair, as I explained in Hijāb al-Marʾa al-Muslima (p. 101). The same applies to the words, “munificent and loves munificence”; see al-Ahādīth al-Sahīha (1627).

114 — (The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said): “No one who has an atom’s weight of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise.” A man asked, “A man likes his garment and sandals to look fine?” He, peace and blessings be upon him, replied: “Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.” Muslim (p. 95).

Authentic. Muslim (1/65) narrated it from ʿAlqama, from Abdullah ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and related the hadith. He added at its end: “Arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down on people.” Ahmad also narrated it (1/385, 427) through Humayd ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān, who said that Ibn Masʿūd said: “…So I went to him, peace and blessings be upon him, while Mālik ibn Murāra al-Rahāwī was with him. I heard the end of what he was saying: ‘Messenger of Allah, I have been allotted the beauty that you see, and I would not like anyone to surpass me, even by a pair of sandal straps or anything beyond that. Is that not the very