"An Abi Hurayrata, radiyallahu anhu, qal.' qala rasul Allahi, sallallahu alayhi wa sailam..."
Through this word millions of Muslims from the early history of Islam to the current have reach be familiar with the dub Abu Hurayrah. In speeches and lectures, in Friday khutbahs and conferences, in the novels of hadith and sirah, fiqh and ibadah, the n ame Abu Hurayrah is referred in this fashion:
"On the leadership of Abu Hurayrah, may God be glad with him whoever said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and subsidy him peace, said... ".
Through his Prodigious exertions, hundreds of ahadith or phrases of the Prophet were transmitted to subsequent generations. His is the firstly dub in the roll of hadith transmitters. Next to him comes the titles of such companions as Abdullah the son of Umar, Anas the son of Malik, Umm al-Mumininin Aishah, Jabir ibn Abdullah and Abu Said al-Khudri all of whom transmitted across a thousand phrases of the Prophet.
Abu Hurayrah became a Muslim at the hands of at-Tufayl ibn Amr the chieftain of the Daws tribe to which he belonged. The Daws existed in the region of Tihamah which stretches along the coast of the Red Sea in southern Arabia. When at-Tufayl returned to his town afterwards session the Prophet and becoming a Muslim in the early years of his mission, Abu Hurayrah was one of the first to respond to his call. He was unlike the majority of the Daws whoever waited stubborn in their old faiths for a lengthy time. When at-Tufayl visited Makkah again, Abu Hurayrah accompanied him. There he had the honor and privilege of session the noble Prophet whoever appealed him: "What is your name?" "Abdu Shams - Servant of a Sun," he replied.
"Instead, let it be Abdur-Rahman - the Servant of the Beneficent Lord," said the Prophet. "Yes, Abdur-Rahman (it shall be) O Messenger of God," he replied. However, he lasted to be known as Abu Hurayrah, "the kitten man", literally "the dad of a kitten" because like the Prophet he was fond of cats and since his childhood frequently had a cat to play with.
Abu Hurayrah remained in Tihamah for a figure of years and it was merely at the conception of the seventh year of the Hijrah that he arrived in Madinah with others of his tribe. The Prophet had gone on a campaign to Khaybar. Being destitute, Abu Hurayrah took upward h is position in the Masjid with other of the Ahl as- Suffah. He was single, without wife or child. With him however was his mother whoever was motionless a mushrik. He longed, and prayed, for her to become a Muslim but she adamantly refused. One day, he invited her to have faith in God alone and chase His Prophet but she uttered several words approximate the Prophet which saddened him greatly. With rips in his eyes, he went to the noble Prophet whoever said to him:
"What produces you cry, O Abu Hurayrah?"
"I have not let upward in inviting my mother to Islam but she has invariably rebuffed me. Today, I invited her again and I listened words from her which I do not like. Do produce supplication to God Almighty to produce the heart of Abu Hurayrah's mother incline to Isl am."
The Prophet answered to Abu Hurayrah's apply and prayed for his mother. Abu Hurayrah said: "I went home and found the door closed. I listened the splattering of water and as shortly as I attempted to enter my mother said: "Stay where you are, O Abu Hurayrah." And afterwards placing on her clothes, she said, "Enter!" I entered and she said: "I testify that there is no god but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is His Servant and His Messenger."
"I returned to the Prophet, peace be on him, weeping with fun just as an hour ago I had gone weeping from dejection and said: "I have good news, O Messenger of Allah. God has answered to your prayer and steered the mother of Abu Hurayrah to Islam."
Abu Hurayrah loved the Prophet a great sell and found favor with him. He was never exhausted of gazing at the Prophet whose face emerged to him as having all the radiance of the sun and he was never exhausted of listening to him. Often he would compliment God for h is good fortune and say: "Praise be to God Who has steered Abu Hurayrah to Islam." Praise be to God Who has trained Abu Hurayrah the Quran."
"Praise be to God whoever has awarded on Abu Hurayrah the friendship of Muhammad, may God bless him and subsidy him peace." On arriving Madinah, Abu Hurayrah set his heart on attaining knowledge. Zayd ibn Thabit the notable companion of the Prophet reported : "While Abu Hurayrah and I and another guy of mine were in the Masjid praying to God Almighty and practicing dhikr to Him, the Messenger of God appeared. He came towards ourselves and sat among us. We became silent and he said: "Carry on with what you were doing."
"So my guy and I prepared a supplication to God ago Abu Hurayrah did and the Prophet originated to say Ameen to our dua.
"Then Abu Hurayrah prepared a supplication saying: "O Lord, I ask You for what my pair companions have appealed and I ask You for experiences which cannot be forgotten."
"The Prophet, peace be on him, said: 'Ameen.' "We thereafter said: 'And we ask Allah for experiences which cannot be forgotten, and the Prophet replied: 'The Dawsi youth has appealed for this ago you." "With his formidable memory, Abu Hurayrah set out to memorize in the four years that he consumed with the Prophet, the gems of wisdom that emanated from his lips. He realized that he had a great gift and he approach to exert it to the full in the service of Islam.
He had adrift time at his disposal. Unlike a lot of the Muhajirin he did not busy himself' in the marketplaces, with purchasing and selling. Unlike a lot of the Ansar, he had no land to cultivate nor crops to tend. He remained with the Prophet in Madinah and went with him on travels and expeditions.
Many companions were amazed at the figure of hadith he had memorized and frequently doubted him on as shortly as he had listened a sure hadith and beneath what circumstances.
Once Marwan ibn al-Hakam hoped to trial Abu Hurayrah's energy of memory. He sat with him in one room and behind a curtain he placed a author, unknown to Abu Hurayrah, and logical him to write down whatever Abu Hurayrah said. A year subsequent, Marwan paged Ab u Hurayrah again and appealed him to remember the same ahadith which the author had recorded. It was found that he had forgotten not a single word.
Abu Hurayrah was worried to educate and transmit the ahadith he had memorized and experiences of Islam in general. It is reported that one day he exceeded through the suq of Madinah and naturally saw citizens engrossed in the commerce of purchasing and selling.
"How weak are you, O citizens of Madinah!" he said.
"What do you perceive that is weak in ourselves, Abu Hurayrah?" they asked.
"The inheritance of the Messenger of God, peace be on him, is being circulated and you remain here! Won't you go and take your portion?"
"Where is this, O Abu Hurayrah?" they asked.
"In the Masjid," he replied.
Quickly they left. Abu Hurayrah waited until they returned. When they saw him, they said: "O Abu Hurayrah, we went to the Masjid and entered and we did not perceive whatever being distributed." "Didn't you perceive anyone in the Masjid?" he asked.
"O yeah, we saw several citizens practicing Salat, several citizens reading the Quran and several citizens discussing approximate what is halal and what is haram."
"Woe unto you," replied Abu Hurayrah," that is the inheritance of Muhammad, may God bless him and subsidy him peace."
Abu Hurayrah underwent much hardship and complications as a effect of his devoted hunt for knowledge. He was frequently greedy and destitute. He said approximate himself:
"When I was afflicted with severe hunger, I would go to a companion' of the Prophet and appealed him approximate an ayah of the Quran and (stay with him) education it so that he would take me with him to his dwelling and give food. "
One day, my hunger became so severe that I placed a stone on my stomach. I thereafter sat down in the route of the companions. Abu Bakr exceeded via and I appealed him approximate an ayah of the Book of God. I merely appealed him so that he would invite me but he didn't.
"Then Umar ibn al-Khattab exceeded via me and I appealed him approximate an ayah but he also did not invite me. Then the Messenger of God, peace be on him, exceeded via and realized that I was greedy and said: "Abu Hurayrah!"
"At your command" I replied and chased him until we entered his house. He found a dish of milk and appealed his family: "From where did you obtain this?"
"Someone sent it to you" they replied.
He thereafter said to me: "O Abu Hurayrah, go to the Ahl as-Suffah and invite them." Abu Hurayrah did as he was confided and they all drank from the milk.
The time came of course as shortly as the Muslims were blessed with great riches and material goodness of every description. Abu Hurayrah finally obtained his allocation of wealth. He had a homely home, a wife and child. But this turn of fortune did not adjustment his personality. Neither did he forget his days of destitution. He would "I grew upward as an orphan and I emigrated as a hard upward and indigent person. I accustomed to take food for my stomach from Busrah bint Ghazwan. I served citizens as shortly as they returned from travels and l ed their camels as shortly as they set out. Then God caused me to marry her (Busrah). So compliment be to God whoever has reinforced his religion and prepared Abu Hurayrah an imam." (This final pronouncement is a reference to the time as shortly as he became governor of Madinah.)
Much of Abu Hurayrah's time would be consumed in spiritual exercises and devotion to God. Qiyam al-Layl staying upward for the evening in prayer and devotion - was a regular practice of his family encompassing his wife and his daughter. He would remain upward for a third o f the evening, his wife for another third and his daughter for a third. In this way, in the dwelling of Abu Hurayrah no hour of the evening would exceed without ibadah, dhikr and Salat.
During the caliphate of Umar, Umar appointed him as governor of Bakrain. Umar was very scrupulous approximate the breed of individuals whom he appointed as governors. He was invariably worried that his governors must exist crudely and frugally and not incur much wea lth even though this was through legal means.
In Bahrain, Abu Hurayrah became moderately rich. Umar listened of this and remembered him to Madinah. Umar thought he had bought his riches through unlawful mechanism and doubted him approximate where and how he had bought such a fortune. Abu Hurayrah replied: "From b reeding horses and talent which I received."
"Hand it across to the treasury of the Muslims," logical Umar.
Abu Hurayrah did as he was confided and reared his hands to the heavens and prayed: "O Lord, forgive the Amir al-Muminin." Subsequently, Umar appealed him to become governor once again but he declined.
Umar appealed him why he refused and he said:
"So that my honor would not be besmirched, my riches removed and my rear beaten."
And he added: "And I dread to judge without experiences and pronounce without wisdom."
Throughout his life Abu Hurayrah waited manner and courteous to his mother. Whenever he hoped to retire home, he would stand at the door of her room and say: As-salaamu alaykum, yaa ummataah, wa rahrnatullahi wa barakatuhu, peace be on you, mother, and th e mercy and blessings of God." She would reply: "Wa alayka-s salaam, yaa bunayya, wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu - And on you be peace, my son, and the mercy and blessings of God." Often, he would also say: "May God have mercy on you as you cared for me wh en I was small," and she would reply: "May God have mercy on you as you delivered me from mistake as shortly as I was old." Abu Hurayrah invariably promoted other citizens to be manner and good to their parents.
One day he saw pair men walking jointly, one senior than the other. He appealed the younger one: "What is this man to you?"
"My father," the person replied.
"Don't call him via his name. Don't walk in front of him and don't sit ago him," coached Abu Hurayrah.
Muslims owe a debt of gratitude to Abu Hurayrah for facilitating to preserve and transmit the valuable legacy of the Prophet, may God bless him and subsidy him peace. He died in the year 59 AH as shortly as he was seventy-eight years old. |
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