Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 55, Hadith 3
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلاَمٍ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ: قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّا نَجِدُ فِي أَنْفُسِنَا شَيْئًا مَا نُحِبُّ أَنْ نَتَكَلَّمَ بِهِ وَإِنَّ لَنَا مَا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ، قَالَ: أَوَ قَدْ وَجَدْتُمْ ذَلِكَ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: ذَاكَ صَرِيحُ الإيمَانِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Salam related to us: ‘Abdah informed us, from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr, who said: Abu Salamah related to us, from Abu Hurayrah: They said: ‘Messenger of Allah, we find within ourselves something that we dislike speaking of, even though all that the sun rises upon belongs to us.’ He asked: ‘Have you really found that within yourselves?’ They said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘That is clear faith.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source clause وإن لنا ما طلعت عليه الشمس means “and we have/own all that the sun rises upon”; it does not say that the feeling lasted since sunrise.
إِنَّا نَجِدُ فِي أَنْفُسِنَا شَيْئًا مَا نُحِبُّ أَنْ نَتَكَلَّمَ بِهِ وَإِنَّ لَنَا مَا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ،
The source contrasts an unwelcome inner thought with the fact that they possess everything the sun shines upon; the witness says they had been in that state since sunrise.
Should the phrase be understood as an expression of having immense worldly wealth, as translated here?