Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa

by Dr. Karimullah Zirvi

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Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 401

The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa sa sa sa га sa. Hadrat Ummi Habibah" had such a high degree of honor for the. Holy Prophet that she would not mind sacrificing her love for her father for the sake of the Holy Prophet". Once, Abu Sufyan came to Medina to see the Holy Prophet" to get the time period of the Hudaibiyyah Pact extended. At first, he went to the house of his daughter, Ḥaḍrat Ummi. Habibah". There, when he was about to sit at the bed of the Holy Prophet", Ḥaḍrat Ummi Ḥabībah" immediately folded the bed. Abu Sufyān realized that something is wrong. So he asked Ḥadrat Ummi Habībah", "Does the bed not deserve me or do I not deserve the bed?" Hadrat Ummi Habibah told him that the bed belongs to the Holy Prophet" and he being a disbeliever and impure person does not deserve to sit on this bed. sa sa ra. Hadrat Zainab bint Abi Salmah™ relates: "I visited Ḥaḍrat Ummi. Habibah, wife of the Holy Prophet" when her father Abu Sufyān had died. She sent for a yellow perfume and rubbed it on one of her maids and then rubbed it on both her own cheeks and said: "I had no desire for perfume except that I heard the Holy Prophet" say from the pulpit: 'It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allãäh and the Last Day that she should mourn a dead person for more than three days except in the case of her husband when the period of mourning is four months and ten days. '. Zainab then continued, 'I then visited Zainab bint Jahsh when her brother died and she sent for perfume and rubbed some of it on herself and said, 'I have no need for perfume except that I heard the Holy Prophet" say from the pulpit: 'It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the. Last Day that she should mourn a dead person for more than three days except in the case of her husband when the period is four months and ten days. ' (Sahih Bukhari, Kitabul Janā'iz, Bab ahadadal mirāta ‘ala ghairi zaujihā) ra га. Hadrat A'ishah relates that when Hadrat Ummi Habibah" was close to her last days, she called me and said, "During our lives once in a while it happened that I did or said things which were unpleasant to you, I 401