Sa'id ibn Aamir al-Jumahi was one of thousands whoever retired for the region of Tan'im on the outskirts of Makkah at the invitation of the Quraysh presidents to witness the murder of Khubayb ibn Adiy, one of the companions of Muhammad whom they had captured treacherously.
With his exuberant youthfulness and strength, Sa'id jostled through the crowd until he grabbed upward with the Quraysh presidents, men like Sufyan ibn Harb, and Safwan ibn Umayyah, whoever were spearheading the procession.
Now he could perceive the prisoner of the Quraysh shackled in his chains, the women and kids pressing him to the position set for his death. Khubayb's mortality was to be in revenge for Quraysh losses in the combat of Badr.
When the bunched throng arrived with its prisoner at the appointed position, Sa'id ibn Aamir took upward his location at a point immediately overlooking Khubayb as he approached the wooden cross. From there he listened Khubayb's strict but silence voice amid the screaming of women and children.
"If you would, retire me to pray pair rakaats ago my mortality ."
This the Quraysh allowed.
Sa'id gazed at Khubayb as he faced the Ka'bah and prayed. How lovely and how wrote those pair rakaats seemed!
Then he saw Khubayb facing the Quraysh leaders.
"By God, whether you thought that I appealed to pray out of dread of mortality, I would think the prayer not value the trouble," he said.
Sa'id thereafter saw his citizens approach dismembering Khubayb's body whereas he was yet alive and taunting him in the process.
"Would you like Muhammad to be in your position whereas you go free?"
With his blood flowing, he replied, "By God, I would not want to be safe and lock among my family whereas even a thorn hurts Muhammad."
People shook their fists in the atmosphere and the screaming increased.
"Kill him. Kill him!"
Sa'id watched Khubayb raising his eyes to the heavens above the wooden cross. "Count them all, O Lord," he said. "Destroy them and let not a single one escape."
Thereafter Sa'id could not depend the figure of swords and spears which cut through Khubayb's body. The Quraysh returned to Makkah and in the eventful days that chased forgot Khubayb and his death. But Khubayb was never absent from the thoughts of Sa'id, now coming manhood. Sa'id would perceive him in his dreams whereas asleep and he would image Khubayb in front of him praying his pair rakaats, peace and happier, ago the wooden cross. And he would listen the reverberation of Khubayb's voice as he prayed for the penalty of the Quraysh. He would become afraid that a thunderbolt from the sky or several calamity would attack him.
Khubayb, via his mortality, had trained Sa'id what he did not realize beforeÑthat real life was faith and belief and struggle in the route of faith, even until death. He trained him also that faith which is profoundly ingrained in a person works marvels and performs miracles. He trained him something otherwise tooÑthat the man whoever is loved via his companions with such a love as Khubayb's could merely be a prophet with Divine support.
Thus was Sa'id's heart unlatched to Islam. He stood upward in the audience of the Quraysh and broadcast that he was adrift from their sins and burdens. He renounced their idols and their superstitions and heralded his entrance into the religion of God.
Sa'id ibn Aamir migrated to Madinah and connected himself to the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him. He took fraction with the Prophet in the combat of Khaybar and other engagements thereafter. After the Prophet exceeded away to the defence of his Lord, Sa'id lasted active service beneath his pair successors, Abu Bakr and Umar. He existed the unique and exemplary life of the believer whoever has purchased the Hereafter with this world. He searched the enjoyment and blessings of God above self-centered needs and physically pleasures.
Both Abu Bakr and Umar knew Sa'id well for his honesty and piety. They would listen to whatever he had to say and chase his advice. Sa'id once attended Umar at the conception of his caliphate and said, "I adjure you to dread God in trading with citizens and do not dread citizens in your relationship with God. Let not your acts deviate from your words for the best of speech is that which is confirmed via action. Consider those whoever have been appointed across the matters of Muslims, far and near. Like for them what you like for yourself and your family and dislike for them what you would dislike for yourself and your family. Surmount any barriers to attain the reality and do not dread the criticisms of those whoever criticize in issues formal via God.
"Who can gauge upward to this, Sa'id?" appealed Umar.
"A man like yourself from among those whom God has appointed across the matters of the Ummah of Muhammad and whoever touches responsible to God alone," replied Sa'id.
"Sa'id," he said, "I appoint you to be governor of Homs (in Syria)."
"Umar," begged Sa'id, "I entreat you via God, do not activate me to go astray via earning me worried with worldly affairs."
Umar became furious and said, "You have placed the accountability of the caliphate on me and now you forsake me."
"By God, I shall not forsake you," Sa'id rapidly responded.
Umar appointed him as governor of Homs and presented him a gratuity.
"What shall I do with it, O Amir al-Mu'mineen?" appealed Sa'id. "The stipend from the bayt al-mal shall be more than enough for my needs." With this, he continued to Homs.
Not lengthy afterwards, a delegation from Homs prepared upward of citizens in whom Umar had confidence attended visit him in Madinah. He commissioned them to write the titles of the hard upward among them so he could rid their needs. They laid a menu for him in which the dub Saiid ibn Aamir appeared.
"Who is this Sa'id ibn Aamir?" appealed Umar.
"Our amir," they replied.
"Your amir is poor?" said Umar, puzzled.
"Yes," they affirmed, "By God, a figure of days go via without a shoot being lit in his house."
Umar was greatly shifted and wept. He obtained a thousand dinars, placed it in a purse and said, "Convey my greetings to him and tell him that the Amir al-Mu'mineen has sent this cash to aid him appearance afterwards his needs."
The delegation attended Sa'id with the purse. When he found that it contained cash, he originated to thrust it away from him, phrase, "From God we are and to Him we shall constantly return."
He said it in such a way as whether several accident had descended on him. His shocked wife rushed to him and appealed, "What's the substance, Saiid? Has the Khalifah died?"
"Something greater than that."
"Have the Muslims been defeated in a battle?"
"Something greater than that. The world has come upon me to corrupt my hereafter and compose chaos in my house."
"Then dump it," said she, not knowledgeable whatever approximate the dinars.
"Will you aid me in this?" he asked.
She agreed. He took the dinars, placed them in suitcases and circulated them to the Muslim poor.
Not lengthy afterwards, Umar ibn al-Khattab went to Syria to inspect conditions there. When he arrived at Homs which was paged small Kufah because, like Kufah, its occupants complained a lot approximate their presidents, he appealed what they thought of their flair. They complained approximate him referring four of his acts each one more grave than the other.
"I shall bring you and him together," Umar promised. "And I pray to God that my opinion approximate him would not be damaged. I accustomed to have great confidence in him."
When the session was convened, Umar appealed what ailments they had against him.
"He merely comes out to ourselves as shortly as the sun is already high," they said.
"What do you have to say to that, Sa'id?" appealed Umar.
Sa'id was silent for a moment, thereafter said, "By God, I actually didn't want to say this but there appears to be no way out. My family does not have a home aid so I obtain upward every morning and prepare dough for bread. I wait a small until it increases and thereafter roast for them. I thereafter produce wads and ebb to the people." "What's your other complaint?" appealed Umar.
"He does not react anyone at night," they said.
To this Sa'id unwillingly said, "By God, I actually wouldn't have wanted to reveal this also, but I have retired the day for them and the evening for God, Great and Sublime is He."
"And what's your other ailment approximate him?" appealed Umar.
"He does not come out to ourselves for one day in every month," they said.
To this Sa'id replied, "I do not have a home aid, O Amir al-Mu'mineen and I do not have any clothes unless what's on me. This I shower once a month and I wait for it to dry. Then I ebb in the subsequent fraction of the day."
"Any other ailment approximate him?" appealed Umar.
"From time to time, he blacks out in meetings," they said.
To this Sa'id replied, "I witnessed the murder of Khubayb ibn Adiy as shortly as I was a mushrik. I saw the Quraysh sawing him and phrase, "Would you like Muhammad to be in your place?" to which Khubayb replied, "I would not hope to be safe and lock among my family whereas a thorn hurts Muhammad." By God, whenever I remember that day and how I malfunctioned to reach his assist, I merely think that God would not forgive me and I black out."
Thereupon Umar said, "Praise be to God. My impression of him has not been tainted." He subsequent sent a thousand dinars to Sa'id to aid him out. When his wife saw the quantity she said. "Praise be to God Who has enriched ourselves out of your service. Buy several provisions for ourselves and obtain ourselves a home help."
"Is there any way of consuming it better?" appealed Sa'id. "Let ourselves consume it on whoever reaches ourselves and we would obtain something superior for it via therefore devoting it to God."
"That shall be better," she agreed.
He placed the dinars into small suitcases and said to a member of his family, "Take this to the widow of so and so, and the orphans of that person, to the needy in that family and to the indigent of the family of that person."
Sa'id ibn Aamir al-Jumahi was indeed one of those whoever refuse themselves even as shortly as they are afflicted with severe poverty.
Scanned from: Companions of The Prophet Vol.1, By Abdul Wahid Hamid |
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