Gardens of the Righteous — Page 104
104. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS or of theft? He said: Even if he was guilty of adultery, or of theft (Bokhari and. Muslim). 469. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: If I had gold the equal of Uhud, it would please me that I should have nothing left of it with me after the passage of three nights except something that I might retain for the repayment of a debt (Bokhari and Muslim). 470. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Look at one who is below you and do not look at one who is above you. This would enable you to appreciate better the bounties that Allah has bestowed upon you (Bokhari and Muslim). The version of Muslim is: When any of you looks at one who is richer and handsomer than him, he should also look at one who is lower than him. 471. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Ruined are those devoted to dinars and dirhems and black cloaks and striped cloaks. If they are given they are pleased and if they are not given they are displeased (Bokhari). 472. Abu Hurairah relates: I have known seventy of the Company of the. Lounge not one of whom possessed a cloak, only a loin cloth or a blanket which they suspended from their necks and which reached down half way to their shanks or to their ankles. They managed to keep it in place with their hands lest their private parts might be exposed (Bokhari). 473. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: The world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the disbeliever (Muslim). 474. Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet took hold of his shoulders and said: Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveller. Ibn Umar used to say: When you arrive at the evening do not look forward to the morning and when you arrive at the morning do not look forward to the evening. During health prepare for illness and while you are alive prepare for death (Bokhari). 475. Abu Abbas Sahl ibn Sa'ad Sa'idi relates that a man came to the. Holy Prophet and said to him: Messenger of Allah, instruct me in something by acting on which I should win the love of Allah and the love of people. He told him: Do not desire the world, and Allah will love you; and do not desire that which people have and they will love you (Ibn-i-Majah). 476. Nu'man ibn Bashir relates that Umar ibn Khattab expatiated upon the worldly prosperity that people had achieved and said: I have known the Holy Prophet pass his day in hunger depending upon a few cheap dates to assuage it (Muslim). 477. Ayesha relates: When the Holy Prophet died there was nothing eatable in my house except a small quantity of barley in a bin upon which I subsisted for a long time. Then I measured what was left of it and it was soon finished (Bokhari and Muslim). 478. Amr ibn Harith relates that on his death the Holy Prophet left no dinar or dirhem or slave or bondwoman, or anything except his white riding mule, his arms and his land which he had given in charity for travellers (Bokhari).