Mishkat al-Masabih 4030

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave gifts to a group while I was sitting there. He left out one man, though he was the one I liked best among them. I stood and said, ‘Why have you left out so-and-so? By Allah, I consider him a believer.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, ‘Or a Muslim?’ Saʿd said this three times, and each time he received the same reply. Then he said, ‘I give a man a gift while another is dearer to me, for fear that he may be cast face-first into the Fire.’ Agreed upon. Their version also says that al-Zuhri said: ‘Do you therefore see Islam as the spoken word and faith as righteous action?’