Sunday 15 July 2012

Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari R.A Sahaba


In the Waddan valley which connects Makkah with the exterior world, inhabited the tribe of Ghifar. The Ghifar survived on the meagre offerings of the trade caravans of the Quraysh which plied between Syria and Makkah. It is in all likelihood that they in addition inhabited by raiding these caravans when they were not bestowed adequate to gratify their needs.
Jundub ibn Junadah, nicknamed Abu Dharr, was a component of this tribe.
He was famous for his valour, his calmness and his far sightedness and in addition for the repugnance he sensed in resistance to the idols which his population worshipped. He refused the ridiculous spiritual principles and the spiritual corruption in which the Arabs were engaged.
While he was in the Waddan desolate, journal arrived at Abu Dharr that a new Prophet had seemed in Makkah. He truly trusted that his facade would aid to change the hearts and minds of population and lead them away from the darkness of superstition. Without squandering much time, he called his male kin, Anis, and said to him:
"Go to Makkah and get no matter what journal you can of this man who allegations that he is a Prophet and that revelation draws close to him from the heavens. Listen to some of his sayings and draw close back and recite them to me."
Anis went to Makkah and joined the Prophet, serenity and blessings of God be on him. He perceived to what he had to declare and returned to the Waddan desert. Abu Dharr joined him and nervously requested for journal of the Prophet.
"I have observed a man," stated Anis, "who calls population to noble attributes and there is no simple rhymes in what he says."
"What perform population declare about him?" requested Abu Dharr.
"They declare he is a magician, a soothsayer and a poet."
"My inquisitiveness is not satisfied. I am not closed with this matter. Will you view after my family while I depart out and appraise this prophet's task myself?"
"Yes. But beware of the Makkans."
On his attainment at Makkah, Abu Dharr straight away sensed very apprehensive and he resolved to physical exercise many caution. The Quraysh were noticeably incensed over the denunciation of their gods. Abu Dharr discovered of the appalling hostility they were meting out to the followers of the Prophet but this was what he expected. He consequently refrained from requesting every one about Muhammad not recognising if that someone might be a follower or an enemy.
At nightfall, he lay down in the Sacred Mosque. Ali ibn abi Talib passed by him and, understanding that he was a unfamiliar person, requested him to draw close to his house. Abu Dharr paid out the after dark with him and in the early took his water pouch and his bag comprising provisions and returned to the Mosque. He had requested no queries and no queries were requested of him.
Abu Dharr paid out the subsequent day without getting to recognise the Prophet. At night time he went to the Mosque to snooze and Ali over passed by him and said:
"Isn't it time that a man recognises his house?"
Abu Dharr supplemented him and dwelled at his home a second night. Again no one requested the other about anything.
On the third after dark, even so, Ali requested him, "Aren't you going to advise me why you came to Makkah?" "Only if you will give me an undertaking that you will lead me to what I seek."
Ali accepted and Abu Dharr said:
"I came to Makkah from a distant position looking for a assembly with the new Prophet and to perceive to some of what he has to say."
Ali's face lit up with cheerfulness as he said, "By God, he is truly the Messenger of God," and he went on telling Abu Dharr more about the Prophet and his teaching. Finally, he said:
"When we get up in the early, chase me where I go. If I observe any kind which I am petrified of for your sake, I would finish as if to go beyond water. If I carry on, chase me until you move into where I enter." Abu Dharr did not snooze a wink remnant of that after dark because of his forceful wanting to observe the Prophet and perceive to the remarks of revelation. In the early, he chased intimately in Ali's footsteps until they were in the existence of the Prophet.
"As-salaamu alayka yaa Rasulullah, (Peace be on you, O Messenger of God)," greeted Abu Dharr. " Wa alayka salaamullahi wa rahmatuhu wa barakaatuhu (And on you be the serenity of God, His forgiveness and His blessings)," responded the Prophet.
Abu Dharr was hence the f1rst someone to meet the Prophet with the salutation of Islam. After that, the salutation distribute and came into general use.
The Prophet, serenity be on him, greeted Abu Dharr and requested him to Islam. He recited some of the Qur'an for him. Before long, Abu Dharr articulated the Shahadah, hence moving into the new faith (without even moving out his place). He was amid the first people to accept Islam.
Let us move out Abu Dharr to carry on his own narrative . . .

After that I dwelled with the Prophet in Makkah and he lectured me Islam and lectured me to read the Qur'an. Then he said to me, "Don't advise every one in Makkah about your acceptance of Islam. I dread that they will put to death you."
"By Him in whose hands is my soul, I will not move out Makkah until I depart to the Sacred Mosque and announce the call of Truth in the midst of the Quraysh," undertook Abu Dharr.
The Prophet waited silent. I went to the Mosque. The Quraysh were squatted and talking. I went in their midst and called out at the apex of my voice, "O population of Quraysh, I testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
My remarks had an instantaneous issue on them. They climbed up and said, "Get this one who has left his religion." They pounced on me and commenced to vanquish me mercilessly. They very distinctly denoted to put to death me. But Abbas ibn Abdulmuttalib, the uncle of the Prophet, acknowledged me. He crooked over and looked after me from them. He advised them:
"Woe to you! Would you put to death a man from the Ghifar tribe and your caravans ought go beyond through their territory?"
They then liberated me. I went back to the Prophet, upon who be serenity, and when he observed my relative standing, he said, "Didn't I advise you not to advertise your acceptance of Islam?"
"O Messenger of God," I said, "It was a want I sensed in my soul and I fulfilled it."
"Go to your people," he compelled, "and advise them what you have observed and heard. Invite them to God. Maybe God will carry them good through you and compensate you through them. And when you learn that I have draw close out in the open, then draw close to me."
I left and went back to my people. My male kin came up to me and requested, "What have you done?" I advised him that I had become a Muslim and that I trusted in the certainty of Muhammad's teachings. "I am not averse to your religion. In item, I am in addition now a Muslim and a believer," he said. We both went to our mother then and requested her to Islam.
"I perform not have any disfavour for your religion. I accept Islam also," she said.
From that day this family of believers went out tirelessly requesting the Ghifar to God and did not flinch from their purpose. Eventually a large number became Muslims and the congregational Prayer was instituted amid them.
Abu Dharr waited in his desolate abode until after the Prophet had gone to Madinah and the engagements of Badr, Uhud and Khandaq had been fought. At Madinah at last, he requested the Prophet to be in his private service. The Prophet accepted and was delighted with his companionship and service. He at times presented favourite to Abu Dharr atop other people and every time he joined him he would pat him and beam and present his happiness.
After the death of the Prophet, Abu Dharr could not withstand to stay in Madinah because of anguish and the learning that there was to be nothing less of his showing company. So he left for the Syrian desolate and dwelled there as long as the caliphate of Abu Bakr and Umar.
During the caliphate of Uthman, he dwelled in Damascus and observed the Muslims' worry for the world and their using wish for for luxury. He was troubled and repelled by this. So Uthman requested him to draw close to Madinah. At Madinah he was in addition critical of the people's pursuit of sophisticated wares and enjoyments and they were critical in turn of his reviling them. Uthman consequently ranked that he should depart to Rubdhah, a tiny settlement close to Madinah. There he dwelled far away from population, renouncing their preoccupation with sophisticated wares and keeping on to the legacy of the Prophet and his companions in looking for the everlasting abode of the Hereafter in favourite to this transitory world.
Once a man stayed at him and commenced looking at the contents of his home but encountered it somewhat bare. He requested Abu Dharr:
"Where are your possessions?"
"We have a home yonder (meaning the Hereafter)," said Abu Dharr, "to which we convey the best of our possessions."
The man comprehended what he denoted and said:
"But you ought have some possessions so long as you are in this abode."
"The holder of this abode will not move out us in it," responded Abu Dharr.
Abu Dharr continued in his not hard and frugal life to the end. Once the amir of Syria conveyed three 100 dinars to Abu Dharr to get concurrently his needs. He returned the wealth saying, "Does not the amir of Syria find a worker more is authorised to of it than I?"
In the year 32 AH, the self-denying Abu Dharr passed away. The Prophet, serenity be upon him, had said of him:
"The world does not bear neither the heavens cover a man more accurate and very consistent than Abu Dharr."
Scanned from: "Companions of The Prophet", Vol. 1, By: Abdul Wahid Hamid.

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