Gardens of the Righteous — Page 310
310. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Prophet in seven expeditions and we ate locusts. One version is: We ate locusts with him (Bokhari and Muslim). 1840. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: A believer is not stung twice from the same hole (Bokhari and Muslim). 1841. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah will not talk to those on the Day of Judgment, nor look at them, nor purify them, and for them will be a painful chastisement: One, a man, who has with him spare water in the desert which he holds back from a traveller; two, a man who sells something to another after the afternoon Prayer swearing by Allah that he had paid so much for it and the other believes in him and pays him accordingly though in reality it was not true; and three, a man, who makes the covenant of obedience with an Imam to gain some wordly purpose and then if he achieves the purpose through him he fulfils the covenant and if he does not achieve the purpose he does not fulfil the covenant (Bokhari and Muslim). 1842. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Between the blowing of two trumpets there are forty. Someone asked Abu Hurairah: Forty days? He said: I am not sure. He was asked: Forty months? He said: I am not sure. The Holy Prophet added: Everything of the human body disappears except the little bone at the end of the spine from which its second creation is compounded. Then Allah will send down rain from heaven and people will be grown like vegetables (Bokhari and Muslim). 1843. Abu Hurairah relates: While the Holy Prophet was sitting talking to people a rustic came and asked: When will the Judgment be? The Holy. Prophet continued his talk. Some of those present thought that the Holy. Prophet had heard him but did not like the interruption and the others said he did not hear him. When the Holy Prophet finished what he was saying, he asked: Where is the one who inquired about the Judgment. The man said:. Here am I, Messenger of Allah. The Holy Prophet said: When the trust is betrayed expect the Judgment. The man inquired: What is the betrayal? The. Holy Prophet answered: When authority is committed to those not fit to administer it, then expect the Judgment (Bokhari). 1844. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Your leaders will lead you in Prayer, then if they go right this will be meritorious for you and for them. But if they go wrong, you will have the merit but they will bear the responsibility for the wrong (Bokhari). 1845. Abu Hurairah relates with reference to the verse: You are the best of people for you have been raised for the benefit of mankind (3. 111); that the. Holy Prophet said: The best people for mankind are those who pull people with chains round their necks till they enter Islam (Bokhari). 1846. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah is much pleased with people who enter Paradise in chains (Bokhari). 1847. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said that the dearest parts of the cities to Allah are its mosques and the most offensive parts are its markets (Muslim).