Usama b. Zaid reported: While we were with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), one of his daughters sent to him (the Messenger) to call him and inform him that her child or her son was dying. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) told the messenger to go back and tell her that what Allah had taken belonged to Him, and to him belonged what He granted; and He has an appointed time for everything. So you (the messenger) order her to show endurance and seek reward from Allah. The messenger came back and said: She adjures him to come to her. He got up to go accompanied by Sa'd b. 'Ubada, Mu'adh b. Jabal, and I also went along with them. The child was lifted to him and his soul was feeling as restless as if it was in an old (waterskin). His (Prophet's) eyes welled up with tears. Sa'd said: What is this, Messenger of Allah? He replied: This is compassion which Allah has placed in the hearts of His servants, and God shows compassion only to those of His servants who are compassionate.
Read More..This hadith has been narrated by another chain of transmitters on the authority of 'Asim al-Ahwal.
Read More..Abdullah b. 'Umar said that Sa'd b. Ubada complained of illness. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to visit him accompanied by 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf, Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas and 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud. As he entered (his room) he found him in a swoon. Upon this he said: Has he died? They said: Messenger of Allah, it is not so. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) wept. When the people saw Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) weeping, they also began to weep. He said. Listen, Allah does not punish for the tears that the eye sheds or the grief the heart feels, but He punishes for this (pointing to his tongue), or He may show mercy.
Read More..Abdullah b. 'Umar reported: While we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), a person, one of the Ansar, came to him and greeted him. The Ansari then turned back. Upon this the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: o brother of Ansar, how is my brother Sa'd be 'Ubada? He said: He is better. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Who amongst you would visit him? He (the Holy Prophet) stood up and we also got up along with him, and we were more than ten persons. We had neither shoes with us, nor socks, nor caps, nor shirts. We walked on the barren land till we came to him. The people around him kept away till the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and his Companions with him came near him (Sa'd b. 'Ubada).
Read More..Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Endurance is to be shown at the first blow.
Read More..Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to a woman who had been weeping for her (dead) child, and said to her: Fear Allah and show endurance. She (not recognising him) said: You have not been afflicted as I have been. When he (the Holy Prophet) had departed, it was said to her that he was the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), she was mortally shocked. She came to his door and she did not find doorkeepers at his door. She said: Messenger of Allah. I did not recognise you. He said: Endurance is to be shown at first blow, or at the first blow.
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