Gardens of the Righteous — Page 49
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 49 have to trouble you. Now, if the occupants of the upper deck were to leave the others to carry out their design they would all perish together; but if they were to stop them from carrying it out they would all be saved (Bokhari). 190. Umm Salamah (wife of the Holy Prophet) relates that the Holy. Prophet said: There will be appointed in authority over you some in whose case you will recognise some of their actions as being in conformity with the law and others in conflict with it. Then he who refrains from following their example will be secure, and he who resents it will be guiltless; but he who is pleased and follows them will be accountable. He was asked: Messenger of Allah, shall we not fight them? He said: Not so long as they maintain the Prayer services among you (Muslim). 191. Zainab relates: The Holy Prophet came in one day in great perturbation saying: There is no one worthy of worship save Allah. Woe unto the Arabs from the evil that is approaching. A breach has been made in the wall holding back Gog and Magog of this size; and he made a circle of his thumb and forefinger. I said to him: Messenger of Allah, shall we be destroyed while there are a number of the righteous among us? He said: Yes; when evil becomes widespread (Bokhari and Muslim). 192. Abu Sa'id Khudri relates that the Holy Prophet directed: Refrain from sitting in the streets. It was said to him: Messenger of Allah, we cannot help sitting in the streets. There is no other place where we can sit and discuss matters. He said: In that case fulful the obligations due to the street. He was asked: What is due to the street? He said: Restraining of looks, removal of obstructions, reciprocation of greetings, enjoining good and forbidding evil (Bokhari and Muslim). 193. Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet noticed a gold ring on the finger of a man, took it off it and threw it away saying: One of you inclines towards a brand of fire and places it on his hand. After the Holy Prophet left, someone said to the man: Pick up the ring and make use of it in some other way. . He said: The Holy Prophet has thrown it away, I shall never pick it up (Muslim). 194. Abu Sa'id Hasan Basri relates that A'aih ibn Amr visited. Ubaidullah ibn Ziad and said to him: Son, I heard the Prophet say: The worst functionary is one who deals harshly with people. Beware, lest you should be one such. Ubaidullah said to him: Do sit down, you are but dry fodder from among the companions of the Holy Prophet. He retorted: And was there fodder among them? Surely, fodder came later among others (Muslim). 195. Huzaifah relates that the Holy Prophet said: By Him in Whose hands is my life, you will continue to enjoin good and forbid evil, or else Allah will certainly afflict you with torment from Him. Thereafter your supplications will not be heard (Tirmidhi). 196. Abu Sa'id Khudri relates that the Holy Prophet said: The highest striving is saying that which is just to a tyrant (Abu Daud and Tirmidhi). 197. Tariq ibn Shihab relates that a person asked the Holy Prophet