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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 27. Those who were told: People have mustered against you, so fear them; but this only added to their faith and they affirmed: Sufficient for us is Allah and an excellent Guardian is He. So they returned with a mighty favour from Allah and a great bounty, having suffered no harm; they followed the pleasure of Allah, and Allah is the Lord of great bounty (3. 174-175). 28. Put thy trust in the One Who is Ever Living and is the. Source of Life, Who dies not (25. 59). 29. In Allah alone should the believers put their trust (14. 12). 30. Then when thou has made up thy mind concerning a matter, put thy trust in Allah (3. 160). 31. Allah is sufficient for him who puts his trust in him (65. 4). 32. Believers are only those whose hearts are smitten with awe when Allah's name is mentioned and whose faith is strengthened when His Signs are recited to them, and who put their trust in their Lord (8. 3-5). 23 74. Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet said: I was shown many peoples. I saw a Prophet who had only a small party with him, some Prophets had only one or two persons with them and some did not have even one. Then suddenly. I sighted a huge assemblage and I imagined that they were my people, but I was told: This is Moses and his people, but lift your eyes to the horizon. I looked and beheld a great multitude. Then I was told: Now look to the other horizon; and there was a great multitude. I was told: These are your people and of them there are seventy thousand who shall enter Paradise without any accounting or suffering. Then the Holy Prophet stood up and went into his chamber and the company began to speculate about those who would enter Paradise without any accounting or suffering. Some said: It may be they are the ones who kept company with the Holy Prophet; others said: It may be they are the ones who have been born Muslims and have never associated anyone with Allah; and so forth. Then the Holy Prophet came out and asked: What are you discussing? So they told him. . He said: They are those who do not make charms or amulets nor seek them, nor seek omens but trust in their Lord. On this Ukasha ibn Muhsin stood up and begged: Supplicate Allah that He makes me one of them. The Holy Prophet said: You are one of them. Then another stood up and begged the same. The. Holy Prophet answered: Ukasha has forestalled you (Bukhari and Muslim). 75. Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet used to supplicate: Allah, to Thee I have submitted, in Thee do I believe and in Thee I put my trust, to. Thee do I turn and from Thee do I seek judgment. Allah, I seek refuge with Thee through Thy honour, there being no one worthy of worship save Thee alone, that