46 – Chapter: The virtue of loving for the sake of Allah, the exhortation to it, informing a person that you love him, and what to say when you tell him.

Allah, Exalted is He, says: “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are stern against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves …” (al-Fath 48:29) to the end of the surah. He also says: “And those who settled in the homeland—and in faith—before them love those who emigrated to them …” (al-Hashr 59:9).

1/375 – Anas reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Three qualities, whoever possesses them will taste the sweetness of faith: that Allah and His Messenger are dearer to him than anything else; that he loves a person only for Allah’s sake; and that he hates to return to unbelief after Allah has saved him from it just as he would hate to be cast into the Fire.” Agreed upon.

2/376 – Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Seven will be shaded by Allah in His shade on the Day when there is no shade but His: a just ruler; a young man who grew up worshipping Allah; a man whose heart is attached to the mosques; two men who love one another for Allah’s sake—meeting upon that and parting upon that; a man whom a woman of position and beauty invites, yet he says, ‘I fear Allah’; a man who gives charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand spends; and a man who remembers Allah in solitude and his eyes overflow with tears.” Agreed upon.