and the oppressed. For this reason it is the leading notables who deny the messengers. Allah, Exalted is He, says: “The arrogant leaders among his people said to those who had been oppressed—those who had believed—‘Do you really know that Ṣāliḥ has been sent by his Lord?’” (al-Aʿrāf 7:75). We therefore ask Allah to make us and you among the people of truth, its callers, and its supporters; indeed, He is Most Generous, Most Kind.

1/252 — Ḥāritha ibn Wahb (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “Shall I not tell you about the people of Paradise? Every weak, downtrodden person who, were he to swear by Allah, Allah would certainly fulfill it. Shall I not tell you about the people of Hell? Every harsh, greedy, arrogant bully.” Agreed upon.

(al-ʿutul): the coarse, hard-hearted brute. (al-jawwāẓ), with a fatḥa on the jīm, a doubled wāw, and a dotted ẓāʾ: the rapacious hoarder; some said: the large-bodied man who swaggers in his walk; others said: the short, pot-bellied fellow.

[Commentary]
The author—may Allah have mercy on him—cites, in the chapter “The Weak and Downtrodden among the Muslims,” the narration transmitted from Ḥāritha ibn Wahb in which the Prophet ﷺ said, “Shall I not tell you about the people of Paradise? Every weak, downtrodden person who, were he to swear by Allah, He would fulfill it.” In other words, one of the hallmarks of the people of Paradise is that a person is weak and deemed insignificant, caring nothing for rank or prestige, nor striving for lofty worldly positions; rather, he is weak in