he detests for himself of evil. Although this clause is not stated explicitly in the wording of the hadith, it is part of its intended meaning, for loving a thing necessarily entails detesting its opposite. Hence the Prophet ﷺ left it unmentioned, trusting that it was already understood, as al-Kirmānī observed and as Ibn Ḥajar transmitted and approved in Fath al-Bārī (1/54).

74 – “Whenever people sit in a gathering without mentioning Allah or sending blessings upon their Prophet, that gathering becomes a liability (tirah) against them; if He wills He will punish them, and if He wills He will pardon them.”

It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (2/242); al-Ḥākim (1/496); Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī in Fadl al-Ṣalāh ʿalā al-Nabī (no. 54, Islamic Office ed.); Ibn al-Sunnī in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa’l-Laylah (no. 443); Aḥmad (2/446, 453, 481, 484, 495); and Abū Nuʿaym in Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ (8/130), through Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Ṣāliḥ, the freedman of al-Tuʿāmah, from Abū Hurayrah—traced back to the Prophet.

Al-Tirmidhī said, “A good, sound hadith, and it has also been transmitted through other routes from Abū Hurayrah with a prophetic chain.”