Forbidding Showing-Off

But they were not enjoined anything other than that they should worship Allah, sincere in faith in Him and practicing the Religion purely for His sake, as people of pure faith; and establish the Prayer in accordance with its conditions; and pay the Prescribed Purifying Alms. And that is the upright, ever-true Religion. (al-Baiyyinah 98:5)

Those who spend their wealth in Allah’s cause and then do not follow up what they have spent with putting (the receiver) under obligation and taunting, their reward is with their Lord. (al-Baqarah 2:264)

The hypocrites rise to do the Prayer, they rise lazily, and to be seen by people (to show them that they are Muslims); and they do not remember Allah (within or outside the Prayer), save a little. (an-Nisa 4:142)

776. Abu Hurayra, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say, ‘Allah the Almighty says, ‘Of all those to whom association is attributed, I am the furthest removed from what is associated with Me. Anyone who does an action in which he associates other than Me with Me, I abandon him and what he associates.’’” (Sahih Muslim, Zuhd, 46).

778. Jundab ibn Abdullah ibn Sufyan, may Allah be pleased with him, said that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever wants his action to be known, Allah will make him known (on the Day of Rising), and whoever wants to be seen, Allah will make him seen (then).” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Ahkam, 9; Sahih Muslim, Zuhd, 47).

 

Nawawi, Imam. Riyad As-Salihin; The Gardens of the Righteous: A collection of authentic hadiths. Tughra Books Press, Inc. 2014