- “I shall certainly learn of people from my community who will come on the Day of Resurrection with good deeds as great as the white mountains of Tihamah, yet Allah will render them scattered dust.” Thawban said: “O Messenger of Allah, describe them to us; make them known to us, lest we be among them without realizing it.” He said: “They are indeed your brothers and of your own people, and they take from the night as you do; but they are people who, when alone with what Allah has forbidden, violate it.”
Recorded by Ibn Majah (4245): ‘Isa ibn Yunus al-Ramli narrated to us; ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Alqamah ibn Khudayj al-Ma‘afiri narrated to us, from Artah ibn al-Mundhir, from Abu ‘Amir al-Alhani, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said it.
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy. Al-Mundhiri said (3/178): “It was recorded by Ibn Majah, and its narrators are trustworthy.”
Al-Busiri said in al-Zawa’id (fol. 262/1): “This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy. Abu ‘Amir al-Alhani’s name was ‘Abdullah ibn Ghabir.”
- “Do not laugh excessively, for excessive laughter deadens the heart.”
Recorded by Ibn Majah (4193) through ‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja‘far, from Ibrahim ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Hunayn, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it.
I say: This is a sound chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy except ‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja‘far. Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib: “Truthful, though he sometimes errs.”
Al-Busiri said in al-Zawa’id (fol. 258/1):