Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 84
C ONDITIONS OF B AI ‘ AT AND R ESPONSIBILITIES OF AN A H MAD I 84 taking these matters lightly and what changes they made in themselves after they had accepted Islam. Hadrat Ab u Dhar al-Ghaff ari ra used to provide drinking water from his tank. Some members of a family came by. One of them asked the others as to which of them would go to Ab u Dhar ra to hold him by his hair and ask him to render an account of himself. One of them said that he would do it. He went over to Ab u Dhar ra when he was standing near the tank. He started questioning him. Ab u Dhar ra , who was standing at this time, sat down and then he lay down. One of them asked him, ‘Ab u Dhar ra , why did you sit down and then why did you lie down?’ He replied that, ‘the Holy Prophet sa told us, “When anger overcomes one of you while he is standing he should sit down so that this anger would subside; failing that, he should lie down. ’” ( Musnadu Ahmadabni H a n bal , vol. 5, p. 152, printed in Beirut) In another h ad i th the narrator states that: We were sitting in the company of ‘Urwah Bin Muhammad when a man came by. He started talking in a manner that angered ‘Urwah Bin Mu h ammad. The narrator states that when his anger boiled he got up. After performing ablution, he came back to them. He told us that he had heard of a narration passed down by his father through his grandfather, ‘Atiyyah, who was a Companion of the Holy Prophet sa , that the Holy Prophet sa had said: Anger comes from Satan. Satan was made from the fire, and fire is put out by water; so when one of you gets angry, he should perform the ablution. ( Musnadu Ahmadabni H a n bal , vol. 4, p. 226, printed in Beirut)