A man would ask the Prophet ﷺ for something of worldly goods, and he would embrace Islam in order to receive it. Yet by nightfall, Islam had become more beloved to him than the world and everything in it.
إن كان الرجل يسأل النبي ﷺ الشيء من الدنيا فيسلم له، ثم لا يمسي حتى يكون الإسلام أحب إليه من الدنيا وما فيها.
Abu Yaala narrated it (3880) from Zuhayr, who said, Abdullah bin Bakr told us, Humayd told us, from Anas, and he mentioned it. Its isnad is sahih. Humayd is Ibn Abu Humayd al-Tawil, who is trustworthy, though he was known to conceal breaks in his chains of transmission. It is said that he heard only four or five hadiths directly from Anas, as Shubah stated, while in another report from him it is said to be twenty-four hadiths, with the rest having been heard from Thabit.I say, if Humayd concealed a break in this chain, then between him and Anas would stand Thabit, and this appears evident from the narration of Ahmad (12790), from the hadith of Hammad, from Thabit, from Anas bin Malik, with something similar in wording. He said, and Thabit narrated it to us, saying, Anas said, "A man would come to the Prophet ﷺ wanting nothing but to gain something of this world," and he mentioned something similar.