Narrated Ibn `Abbas: `Umar bin Al-Khattab used to let Ibn `Abbas sit beside him, so `AbdurRahman bin `Auf said to `Umar, We have sons similar to him. `Umar replied, (I respect him) because of his status that you know. `Umar then asked Ibn `Abbas about the meaning of this Holy Verse:-- When comes the help of Allah and the conquest of Mecca . . . (110.1) Ibn `Abbas replied, That indicated the death of Allah's Apostle which Allah informed him of. `Umar said, I do not understand of it except what you understand.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: Thursday! And how great that Thursday was! The ailment of Allah's Apostle became worse (on Thursday) and he said, fetch me something so that I may write to you something after which you will never go astray. The people (present there) differed in this matter, and it was not right to differ before a prophet. Some said, What is wrong with him ? (Do you think ) he is delirious (seriously ill)? Ask him ( to understand his state ). So they went to the Prophet and asked him again. The Prophet said, Leave me, for my present state is better than what you call me for. Then he ordered them to do three things. He said, Turn the pagans out of the 'Arabian Peninsula; respect and give gifts to the foreign delegations as you have seen me dealing with them. (Sa`id bin Jubair, the sub-narrator said that Ibn `Abbas kept quiet as rewards the third order, or he said, I forgot it. ) (See Hadith No. 116 Vol. 1)
Read More..Narrated Ubaidullah bin `Abdullah: Ibn `Abbas said, When Allah's Apostle was on his deathbed and there were some men in the house, he said, 'Come near, I will write for you something after which you will not go astray.' Some of them ( i.e. his companions) said, 'Allah's Apostle is seriously ill and you have the (Holy) Qur'an. Allah's Book is sufficient for us.' So the people in the house differed and started disputing. Some of them said, 'Give him writing material so that he may write for you something after which you will not go astray.' while the others said the other way round. So when their talk and differences increased, Allah's Apostle said, Get up. Ibn `Abbas used to say, No doubt, it was very unfortunate (a great disaster) that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing for them that writing because of their differences and noise.
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: The Prophet called Fatima during his fatal illness and told her something secretly and she wept. Then he called her again and told her something secretly, and she started laughing. When we asked her about that, she said, The Prophet first told me secretly that he would expire in that disease in which he died, so I wept; then he told me secretly that I would be the first of his family to follow him, so I laughed ( at that time).
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: The Prophet called Fatima during his fatal illness and told her something secretly and she wept. Then he called her again and told her something secretly, and she started laughing. When we asked her about that, she said, The Prophet first told me secretly that he would expire in that disease in which he died, so I wept; then he told me secretly that I would be the first of his family to follow him, so I laughed ( at that time).
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: Used to hear (from the Prophet) that no Prophet dies till he is given the option to select either the worldly life or the life of the Hereafter. I heard the Prophet in his fatal disease, with his voice becoming hoarse, saying, In the company of those on whom is the grace of Allah ..( to the end of the Verse ). (4.69) Thereupon I thought that the Prophet had been given the option.
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