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How sound is the sacred Hadith (Hadith Qudsi): "No servant grows a gray hair in Islam except that I would be ashamed to punish him with it in the Fire"?

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The aforementioned hadith is very weak. It was narrated by Abu Ya'la from Anas with the wording: "Allah says: 'Indeed, I am ashamed of My male and female servants who grow old in Islam, so the beard of My male servant turns gray and the head of My female servant turns gray in Islam, that I would then punish them in the Fire.'" Al-Haythami declared it weak due to the presence of weak narrators in its chain, such as Nuh ibn Dhakwan. Ibn al-Jawzi even went further and counted it among the fabricated hadiths, mentioning that Abu Hatim said about it: "This is a false hadith with no basis."

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