joy to your Muslim brother brings goodness and reward; every deed that angers a disbeliever likewise brings goodness and reward. Allah the Exalted says: “They do not set foot in any place that enrages the disbelievers, nor do they inflict any harm upon an enemy, without a righteous deed being recorded for them because of it” (al-Tawbah 9:120).

125 – The ninth report, narrated from him, that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Faith is composed of more than seventy—or more than sixty—branches. The highest of them is the statement ‘There is no god but Allah,’ the lowest of them is removing something harmful from the road, and modesty is a branch of faith.” Agreed upon.

al-biḍʿ means any number between three and nine; the bāʾ is normally pronounced with kasrah, though fatḥah is permissible. A shuʿbah is a portion or component.

[Explanation]
In this ḥadith the Messenger ﷺ makes clear that faith is not a single trait or one branch only; rather, it has many branches—over seventy, meaning between seventy-three and seventy-nine, or over sixty, meaning between sixty-three and sixty-nine. Yet the most excellent of them all is a single phrase: “There is no god but Allah.” Were this phrase weighed against the heavens and the earth, it would outweigh them, for it is the word of sincerity, the word of monotheism—the very word with which we ask Allah to seal our lives. Whoever’s last words in this world are “There is no god but Allah” will enter