Gardens of the Righteous — Page 109
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 109. Messenger. So I went to them and called them; they came and sought permission, which was granted and took their seats. The Holy Prophet called me and I responded: At your service, Messenger of Allah. He said: Take the milk and give it to them. I took the cup and would give it to one man who would drink his fill and return it to me, and I would give it to the next one who would do the same. I went on doing this till the cup reached the Holy Prophet. By that time all had drunk their fill. He took the cup and put it on his hand, looked at me, smiled and said: Aba Hirr? I said: At your service, Messenger of Allah. He said:. Now you and I are left. I said: That is true, Messenger of Allah. He said: Then sit down and drink. I drank, but he went on saying: Drink; till I said: By Him. Who has sent you with the truth, I can find no more room for it. He said: Then give it to me. So I gave him the cup. He praised Allah, pronounced the name of. Allah and drank what was left of the milk (Bokhari). 506. Muhammad ibn Sirin relates of Abu Hurairah who said: I recall when I used to fall unconscious in the space between the pulpit of the Holy. Prophet and the chamber of Ayesha, and every passer by would put his foot on my neck imagining that I was mad. Indeed, I was not mad; I was hungry (Bokhari). 507. Ayesha relates that when the Holy Prophet died his armour was pledged with a Jew for thirty measures of barley (Bokhari and Muslim). 508. Anas relates: The Holy Prophet had pledged his armour for a quantity of barley, and I went to him with some barley bread and smelly fat. . The family of the Holy Prophet never possessed a measure of wheat between them at morning or evening, and they were nine houses (Bokhari). 509. This hadith is the same as No. 472. 510. Ayesha relates: The mattress of the Holy Prophet was of leather stuffed with the husk of the date-palm tree (Bokhari). 511. Ibn Umar relates: We were sitting with the Holy Prophet when a man of the Ansar came and greeted him and turned back. The Holy Prophet said to him: Brother from the Ansar, how is my brother Sa'ad ibn Ubadah?. He answered: Well. The Holy Prophet asked: Which of you will come along to visit him? He stood up and we stood up with him. We were more than ten persons, and we had not a shoe, or leather sock, or cap or shirt. We walked through the barren plain till we came to Sa'ad's place. His people stood back from him and the Holy Prophet and his companions who were with him went up to him (Muslim). 512. Imran ibn Husain relates that the Holy Prophet said: The best of you are those who are my contemporaries, then those who come immediately after them, then those who come immediately after them (he said this twice or three times) then they will be followed by those who will testify but who will not be asked to testify, they will embezzle and will not keep trust, will make vows and will not fulfil them, and corpulence will prevail among them (Bokhari and Muslim).