(It is) narrated to us by Mohammed bin Hassan bin Ahmed bin...

(It is) narrated to us by Mohammed bin Hassan bin Ahmed bin Walid may Allah be pleased with him Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Saffar said that Al-Hasan ibn Musa Al-Khashab Yazid ibn Ishaq, narrated from Abbas ibn Yazid, who said: I heard it from Abi Abdullah -asws : I said that they claim, from the general (Muslims) that shirk concealed (within one like) the swarming ants in the dark night on the black rock, Imam -asws said, a man does not become polytheist (mushrik) unless one in Salat mentions ‘لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ’ other than Allah -azwj or slaughters (a halal animal) mentioning ‘لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ’, or calls to ‘لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ’ (for help) .

From him, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Ashary, from ibn Al Qadah, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Ali -asws said: ‘Fear Allah -azwj with a fear which is not with treachery, and work for the Sake of Allah -azwj neither to show-off nor for reputation, for the one who works for other than Allah -azwj , Allah -azwj would Assign him (the one he worked for) to his deeds on the Day of Judgement’.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Haroun Bin Muslim, from Mas’ada Bin Sadaqa, (It has been narrated) from Ja’far -asws , from his -asws father -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘There is nothing which obliterates (destroys) Al-Islam (more) than its destruction by the greedy one’. Then he -saww said: ‘For this greed is a crawl like the crawling of an ant, and a branch like the branch of Polytheism’. And in another copy, ‘Thorn’.

[20] Here above Ahadith refer to working for (i.e., showing off) or seeking assistance from that who is not a ‘ wali ’ (Divine Guardian) of Allah -azwj .