Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 141
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 141 Prophet and submitted, ‘Messenger of Allah, I have brought my son to serve you and request that you may kindly bless him and accept him as your servant. ’ He thanked her and blessed the boy, who continued to serve him till his death. As Ans had opportunitie s of observing the Holy Prophet at close quarters, a large number of ahadith are narrated on his authority. He survived the Holy Prophet for more than eighty years and died in Basra when he was well over a hundred years of age. He often said that through t he prayers of the Holy Prophet on his behalf he had been so much blessed in every respect as he could not have imagined. A short while after his arrival in Medina, the Holy Prophet sent Zaid bin Haritha to Mecca to bring the members of his family and they all arrived safe within a few days. Along with them, Abdullah bin Abu Bakr arrived with the members of Abu Bakr’s family. In Medina also the first concern of the Holy Prophet was the construction of the mosque. The spot where his camel had sat down belonged to two Muslim boys, Sahl and Suhail, who were under the guardianship of Asad bin Zararah. It was a vacant site on which there were a few date trees and at one place the ruins of an old building. The Holy Prophet purchased this plot for the mosque and his own quarters for ten dinars (approximately six pounds sterling). The site was cleared of the trees and the ruins and was levelled and prepared for the building of the mosque. The Holy Prophet laid the foundation stone with Prayers and, as in the case of the mosque at Qaba, his Companions worked as builders and labourers. The Holy Prophet himself also