- As for the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, Hisham ibn Hassan narrates it from Muhammad, from Abu Hurayrah: A handsome man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I am a man who has been made to love beauty, and I have been granted of it what you see, to the point that I would not like anyone to surpass me—even in the strap of my sandal,” or, he said, “the thong of my sandal.” “Is that arrogance?” He replied: “No. Rather, arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down upon people.”
It was recorded by Abu Dawud (4092) and al-Hakim (4/181–182), who declared it authentic; al-Dhahabi agreed with him, and it is as they said. (The jallaz of my whip): a jallaz is anything that is wound around something else; its singular is jallazah. (The ‘alaqah of my whip): an ‘alaqah is that by which a sword and the like is suspended.
- “Allah loves lofty and noble matters, and dislikes their trivialities.”
It was narrated by al-Tabarani, no. 2894; Ibn ‘Adi (114/1); and al-Quda‘i (89/2), through Khalid ibn Ilyas, from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthman, from Fatimah bint al-Husayn, from al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi also narrated it through this route in A Synopsis of Orthographic Homonyms (8/1).
I say: Khalid ibn Ilyas is weak. However, it has a supporting report. Al-Malini said in The Forty Sufi Hadiths (10/1): Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Salih informed us; Muhammad ibn Zuhayr informed us; Muhammad ibn al-Khattab informed us; Ahmad ibn Yunus informed us; al-Fudayl ibn ‘Iyad informed us, from Muhammad ibn Thawr, from Ma‘mar, from Abu Hazim, from Sahl ibn Sa‘d, attributing it to the Prophet with this wording.
I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from these men named Muhammad, who occur in succession. I could find no biographical notice for them except Muhammad ibn al-Khattab. Al-Khatib mentioned him in The History (5/252) and narrated from Ibn Qani‘