Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 303
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 303 respectfully say to him on my behalf, ‘May God give you the best reward of all the rewards given to the previous Prophets by their followers’. Convey my sal a m to my people as well, and give them my message that they should always remember the covenant they made with the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa in the valley of ‘Uqbah. ‘We have fulfilled this covenant till our last breath and now it is up to you to discharge the obligations of this trust. As long as there exists among you even one blinking eye and the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa suffers a loss, none of your excuses would be accepted by God’. "Muhammad bin Maslamah ra returned and narrated the whole incident to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa 's heart must have been comforted by this narration. 26 Another true devotee was Zaid bin Dathinah ra , who was imprisoned during an Islamic expedition. An idol worshiping chief Safw a n bin Umayyah bought him to avenge the death of his friends by killing him. When Safw a n accompanied by his slave brought Zaid bin Dathinah ra outside the H aram to kill him, he said, "O Zaid, I ask you in the name of God, would you wish that Muhammad was here in this place instead of you and you would be sitting at home comfortably"? Zaid replied, "I declare in the name of All a h that I cannot even bear that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa should