What is the reason for the existence of variations in the text of the hadith “Seven [types of people] Allah will shade in His Shade” narrated by Abu Hurayrah, and changes in the positions of phrases in different places and in the curriculum?
The aforementioned is authentic with different narrations, and it was reported by Al-Bukhari, Muslim, and others. Among its wordings in Al-Bukhari: "Seven types of people Allah will shade on the Day of Resurrection with His Shade, when there will be no shade except His Shade: a just ruler, a youth who grew up in the worship of Allah, a man whose heart is attached to the mosques, two men who love each other for Allah's sake, a man who remembers Allah in solitude and his eyes overflow with tears, a man who is invited by a woman of high status and beauty [for illicit intercourse] but he says: 'I fear Allah,' and a man who gives in charity and conceals it to such an extent that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given." This type of variation in a single Hadith is not harmful and is due to several reasons, including: that each narrator heard it from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with that specific wording in a gathering or occasion different from where others heard it with the wording they narrated, or that the narrator conveyed the Hadith in meaning.
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