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The Book Of The Sunnah 236 -ti '+C;S
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the house. He (Abu Hurairah) ' -. 2 O >Y- 6dP
tucked up his legs and said: "We gj $1 4 ~ & ; &; : jC ': Y 'kJ
entered upon the Messenger of
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when he saw us he tucked up his
legs then he said: 'After I am ~$1 L& $& k &k
gone, there will come to you
~eople seekina knowledge. - ,*,~',
welcome them, greet them and
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teach them."' (Maudu)
A narrator said: By AUSh! we g if $ '6s j,; 6s j,; 6
came across some people who did 4..-a !-,c 9'~ +x
not welcome us, greet us, nor
teach us until we used to go to
them, then they treated us rudely.
Comments:
Shaikh Aib2ni has described it as a fabricated 'Hadith". Obviously, Al-
Hasan Basri is a successor of the Companions. His only teachers were the
Companions and their venerable successors. It is, therefore, hard to believe
that they treated their disciples inappropriately.
249. It was narrated that Abu
H h Al-'Abdi said: "When we
came to Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri, he
would say: 'Welcome, in
accordance with the injunction of
the Messenger of All& s, for the
Messenger of All& @$ said to us:
"The people will follow you; they
will come to you from all park of
the earth seeking to understand
the religion. So when they come
to you, take care of them." (Da'ifi