Righteousness In Temperance, Destruction In Worldly Hope
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Abdullah ibn Amr reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The rightness in the beginning of this nation was by renouncing the world and attaining conviction. The destruction in the end of it is by miserliness and vain hopes.”
Source: al-Zuhd li-Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 52
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Suyuti