Abdur-Rahman Ibn Awf-Awl R.A Sahaba

He was one of the first eight people to accept Islam. He was one of the 10 people (al-asharatu-l mubashshirin) who were promised of moving into Paradise. He was one of the six people picked by Umar to configuration the local government of shura to decide the Khalifah after his death. His label in Jahiliyyah days was Abu Amr. But when he agreed to Islam the noble Prophet called him Abdur-Rahman - the worker of the Beneficent God. Abdur-Rahman became a Muslim before the Prophet moved into the home of al-Arqam. In item it is said that he agreed to Islam only two days after Abu Bakr as-Siddiq did so. Abdur-Rahman did not elude the chastisement which the early Muslims tolerated at the hands of the Quraysh. He dull this chastisement with steadfastness as they did. He waited firm as they did. And when they were compelled to move out Makkah for Abyssinia beca use of the ceaseless and agonizing persecution, Abdur-Rahman in addition went. He returned to Makkah when it was rumored that circumstances for the Muslims had enhanced but, when these rumors confirmed to be deceitful, he left over for Abyssinia on a second hijrah. Fro m Makkah one time over he made the hijrah to Madinah. Soon after coming in Madinah, the Prophet in his sole fashion commenced pairing off the Muhajirin and the Ansar. This established a firm bond of brotherhood and was denoted to fortify public cohesion and facilitate the destitution of the Muhajirin. Abdur-Rahman was bound by the Prophet with Sad ibn ar-Rabi'ah. Sad in the character of generosity and magnanimity with which the Ansar greeted the Muhajirin, said to Abdur-Rahman: "My brother! Among the population of Madinah I have the most wealth. I have two orchards and I have two wives. See which of the two orchards you like and I will vacate it for you and which of my two wives is gratifying to you and I will split up her for you." Abdur-Rahman ought have been humiliated and said in reply: "May God bless you in your family and your wealth. But just present me where the suq is.." Abdur-Rahman went to the market-place and commenced selling with no matter what little supplies he had. He paid for and marketed and his yield developed rapidly. Soon he was amply well off and was competent to get married. He went to the noble Prophet with the scent of perfume lingering over him. "Mahyarn, O Abdur-Rahman!" shouted the Prophet - "mahyam" being a remark of Yemeni lineage which suggests agreeable surprise. "I have got married," responded Abdur-Rahman. "And what did you give your wife as mahr?" "The burden of a nuwat in gold." "You ought have a walimah (wedding feast) even if it is with a solitary sheep. And may Allah bless you in your wealth," said the Prophet with apparent enjoyment and encouragement. Thereafter Abdur-Rahman developed so adapted to enterprise triumph that he said if he raised a boulder he looked frontwards to to find gold or bright under it! Abdur-Rahman demarcated himself in both the engagements of Badr and Uhud. At Uhud he waited firm right through and tolerated more than 20 injuries some of them deep and severe. Even so, his bodily jihad was equated by his jihad with his wealth. Once the Prophet, may God bless him and give him serenity, was organising to despatch an expeditionary force. He summoned his companions and said: "Contribute sadaqah for I like to despatch an expedition." Abdur-Rahman went to his home and promptly returned. "O Messenger of God," he said, "I have four 1000 (dinars). I give two 1000 as a qard to my Lord and two 1000 I move out for my family. " When the Prophet resolved to convey an expedition to distant Tabuk - this was the last ghazwah of his life that he got on - his want for money and material was not bigger than his want for men for the Byzantine forces were a several and well-equipped fo e. That year in Madinah was one of drought and hardship. The trip to Tabuk was long, more that a 1000 kilometers. Provisions were in short supply. Transport was at a premium so much in order that a gathering of Muslims came to the Prophet pleading to depart wit h him but he had to turn them away because he could find no transport for them. These men were gloomy and dejected and came to be famous as the Bakka'in or the Weepers and the military forces itself was called the Army of Hardship ('Usrah). Thereupon the Prophet called upon his companions to give lavishly for the combat effort in the way of God an d promised them they would be rewarded. The Muslims' reply to the Prophet's call was instantaneous and generous. In the fore front of those who replied was Abdur-Rahman ibn Awl. He bestowed two 100 awqiyyah of gold whereupon Umar ibn al-Khattab said to the Prophet: "I have (now) observed Abdur-Rahman committing a wrong. He has not left any kind for his family." "Have you left any kind for your family, Abdur-Rahman?" requested the Prophet. "Yes," responded Abdur-Rahman. "I have left for them more than what I give and better." "How much?" looked into the Prophet. "What God and His Messenger have agreed of sustenance, goodness and reward," responded Abdur- Rahman. The Muslim military forces ultimately left for Tabuk. There Abdur-Rahman was blessed with an award which was not discussed on every one till then. The time of Salat came and the Prophet, serenity be on him, was not there at the time. The Muslims chose Abdur-Rahman as the ir imam. The first rakat of the Salat was virtually concluded when the Prophet, may God bless him and give him serenity, united the worshippers and played the Salat behind Abdur-Rahman ibn Awl. Could there be a bigger award discussed on every one than to have been the imam of the most awarded of God's creation, the imam of the Prophets, the imam of Muhammad, the Messenger of God! When the Prophet, serenity be on him, passed away, Abdur-Rahman took on the liability of looking after the wants of his family, the Ummahaat al-Muminin. He would depart with them where they desired to and he even played Hajj with them to assure that a ll their wants were met. This is a indication of the hope and self-confidence which he savoured on the part of the Prophet's family. Abdur-Rahman's support for the Muslims and the Prophet's wives in actual was well-known. Once he marketed a portion of land for forty 1000 dinars and he disseminated the every part of allotment amid the Banu Zahrah (the family members of the Prophet's mother Aminah), the poor amid the Muslims and the Prophet's wives. When Aishah, may God be delighted with her, accepted some of this wealth she asked: "Who has conveyed this money?" and was advised it was Abdur-Rahman, whereupon she said: "The Messenger of God, may God bless him and give him serenity, said: No one will sense compassion to you after I decease except the sabirin (those who are enduring and resolute)." The appeal of the noble Prophet that Allah should bestow barakah on the affluence of Abdur-Rahman seemed to be with Abdur-Rahman right through his life. He became the most affluent man amid the companions of the Prophet. His enterprise transactions regularly joined with triumph and his affluence carried on to grow. His selling caravans to and from Madinah developed greater and greater carrying to the population of Madinah wheat, wheat flour, margarine, woven cloths, utensils, perfume and no matter what other was wanted and exporting no matter what excess pr oduce they had. One day, a high size rumbling sound was discovered drawing close from past the boundaries of Madinah usually a composed and serene city. The rumbling sound slowly advanced in volume. In augmentation, clouds of dirt particles and sand were blended up and blown in the wind. The peo ple of Madinah before long understood that a powerful caravan was moving into the city. They stood in amazement as seven 100 camels laden with wares transferred into the habitation and choked with population the streets. There was much screaming and fervour as population called to one another to draw close out and onlooker the spectacle and observe what wares and sustenance the camel caravan had brought. Aishah, may God be delighted with her, discovered the commotion and asked: "What is this that's event in Madinah?" and she was told: "It is the caravan of Abdur-Rahman ibn Awl which has draw close from Syria bearing his merchandise." "A caravan establishing all this commotion?" she requested in disbelief." "Yes, O Umm al-Muminin. There are seven 100 camels." Aishah trembled her head and stared in the way as if she was attempting to recall some outlook or utterance of the past and then she said: "I have discovered the Messenger of God, may God bless him and give him serenity, say: I have observed Abdur- Rahman ibn Awl moving into Paradise creeping." Why creeping? Why should he not move into Paradise leaping and at a speedy step with the early companions of the Prophet? Some acquaintances of his connected to Abdur-Rahman the hadith which Aishah had mentioned. He recollected that he had discovered the hadith more than one time from the Prophet and he dashed to the home of Aishah and said to her: "Yaa Ammah! Have you discovered that from the M essenger of God, may God bless him and give him peace?" "Yes," she replied. "You have recollected me of a hadith which I have not ever forgotten," he is in addition stated to have said. He was so over-joyed and added: "If I could I would surely like to move into Paradise standing. I vow to you, yaa Ammah, that this every part of caravan with all its merchandise, I will giver sabilillah." And so he did. In a many performances of care groundwork and righteousness, he disseminated all that the gigantic caravan had fetched to the population of Madinah and surrounding areas. This is just one episode which presented what sort of man Abdur-Rahman was. He rake in much affluence but he not ever waited bound to it for its own sake and he did not sanction it to corrupt him. Abdur-Rahman's generosity did not finish there. He carried on giving with both his hands, in secret and openly. Some of the diagrams referred are rightly astounding: forty 1000 dirhams of bright, forty 1000 dinars of gold, two 100 awqiyyah of gold, five 100 horses to mujahidin setting out in the way of God and one 1000 five 100 camels to another gathering of mujahidin, four 100 dinars of gold to the survivors of Badr and a large legacy to the Ummahaat al Muminin and the catalogue moves on. On account of this fabulous generosity, Aishah said: "May God give him to drink from the water of Salsabil (a leap in Paradise)." All this affluence did not corrupt Abdur-Rahman and did not change him. When he was amid his staff and accomplices, population could not demarcate him from them. One day sustenance was fetched to him with which to end a fast. He studied the sustenance and said: "Musab ibn Umayr has been killed. He was better than me. We did not find any kind of his to shroud him with except what included his head but left his legs uncovered. . Then God endowed us with the (bounties of) the world... I truly dread that our compensate h as been bestowed on us early (in this world)." He commenced to weep and sob and could not eat. May Abdur-Rahman ibn Awl be given felicity amid "those who spend their material in the source of God and chase up not their treats with reminders of their generosity or with injury. For them their compensate is with their Lord, on them will be no dread neither will they grieve". (The Quran, Surah al-Baqarah, 2: 262).