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My Faith 3 - Free Islamic Studies Textbooks

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time that my face and body would<br />

get covered with dust, but I kept<br />

sitting till they awoke. Some of<br />

the Companions [r] would say to<br />

me, “But ‘Abdullah, you are the<br />

beloved cousin of the Prophet [s]!<br />

You could have sent for us! Why<br />

did you take the trouble of travelling<br />

for so many days.”<br />

I said to them, “I must come to<br />

you, for I am a student and you<br />

are my teachers.”<br />

Then some of them would ask<br />

me how long I had been waiting<br />

at their doorstep and I would<br />

reply that I had been sitting there<br />

for a very long time.<br />

They would say, “What a pity!<br />

You could have awakened us<br />

from our sleep,” but I would reply<br />

again, saying, “I do not like to disturb<br />

you for my own sake. A stu-<br />

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