Gardens of the Righteous — Page 30
30. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS day he said to to me: Would you like to ask me for something? I said: I ask for your companionship in Paradise. He inquired: Is there anything else? I said:. That is all. He said: Then help me with respect to yourself by multiplying your prostrations (Muslim). 107. Thauban relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: Multiply your prostrations. Every prostration before Allah will raise your status one degree and will remove one of your sins (Muslim). 108. Abdullah ibn Busril Aslami relates that the Holy Prophet said: The best person is he who has a long life and is of good conduct (Tirmidhi). 109. Anas relates: My uncle Anas ibn Nadhr was not present in the battle of Badr. He said to the Holy Prophet: Messenger of Allah, I was absent from your first battle with the pagans. If Allah will bring me to face the pagans in another battle Allah will demonstrate my performance. On the day of the battle of Uhud the Muslims were exposed. He said: Allah, I plead with Thee concerning that which the Muslims have done, and dissociate myself from that which the pagans have perpetrated. Then he went forward and encountered. Sa'ad ibn Mu'az and said to him: Paradise! By the Lord of the Ka'aba, I perceive the fragrance of Paradise from beyond Uhud. Sa'ad said later:. Messenger of Allah, I have not the power to describe what he did. Anas (the nephew) relates: We found on his body more than eighty injuries inflicted by swords, spears and arrows. Thus was he killed and the pagans had cut off his nose and ears. No one could identify him except his sister who recognised the tips of his fingers. We imagined that the following verse had reference to him and those like him: Among the believers are men who have been true to the covenant they made with Allah. Some have fulfilled their vow and laid down their lives in battle, and there are others who wait. They have not weakened in their resolve in the least (8. 24) (Bokhari and Muslim). 110. Abu Mas'ud Uqbah ibn Amr Ansari relates that when the verse enjoining charity was revealed we would carry loads on our backs to earn something that we could give away in charity. One person presented a substantial amount for charity and the hypocrites said he had done it to show off. Another gave away a few pounds of dates and they said: Allah is not in need of his dates. Thereupon was revealed: It is these hypocrites who find fault with such of the believers as give alms freely and decide those who have nothing to give save that which they earn through their toil. Allah shall requite them for their derision and for them there is a painful chastisement (9. 79). 111. Abu Dharr relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah admonishes you: O My servants, I have charged Myself to wrong no one and have forbidden it between you, so wrong not anyone; O My servants, all of you are astray save those whom I should guide; O My servants, all of you are hungry save those whom I should feed, then supplicate Me for food, I shall feed you; O My servants, all of you are naked save those whom I should clothe, then supplicate. Me for clothes, I shall clothe you; O My servants, you misbehave night and day and I forgive all sins, then supplicate Me for forgiveness, I shall forgive you; O