حياة السلف بين القول والعمل

Sincerity and condemnation of hypocrisy and showing off: On the authority of Abu Al-Aliyah, may God have mercy on him, he said: The companions of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, said to me: Do not work for other than God, for God - the Almighty and Majestic - will entrust you to the one for whom you worked. [Sifat Al-Safwah 3/148].

Sincerity and condemnation of hypocrisy and pretense: On the authority of Abu al-Jawza’, may God have mercy on him, he said: Carrying stones is easier for the hypocrite than reciting the Qur’an. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 1/459].

Sincerity and condemnation of hypocrisy and showing off: On the authority of Ibrahim Al-Nakha’i, may God have mercy on him, he said: Whoever seeks some knowledge seeking thereby the pleasure of God, the Almighty and Majestic, God will give him from it what suffices him. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 2/93].

Sincerity and condemnation of hypocrisy and showing off: On the authority of Abda bin Abi Lubaba, may God have mercy on him, he said: The people closest to showing off are those who feel safest from it. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 2/278].

Sincerity and condemnation of hypocrisy and showing off: Mutarrif bin Abdullah, may God have mercy on him, said: The ugliest thing by which one seeks worldly gain is the work of the Hereafter. [Sifat al-Safwa 3/159].