Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 1 of 3

216 THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH -
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ask you some questions and I will be very blunt. So please do not take offence."
Rasulullaah m said, "I will not take offence. You may ask whatever you
please." Hadhrat Dimaam BSw said, "I ask you in the name of that Allaah Who
is your deity, the deity of those before you and the deity of those coming after
you. Has Allaah sent you to us?" ~ asulullaalt'~ replied, "Yes, by Allaah!"
Hadhrat Dimaam %l!i%%j asked further, "I ask you in the name of that Allaah Who
is your deity, the deity of those before you and the deity of those coming after
you. Has Allaah commanded you to instruct us that we should worship only He
Who is The One and that we should not ascribe anyone as partner to'~im?"
Hadhrat Dimaam !&U&% then enquired, "I ask you in the name of that Allaah
Who is your deity, the deity of those before you and the deity of those coming
after you. Has Allaah issued the command to you that we should perform these
five salaahs?" Rasulullaah @?!% again responded by saying, 'Yes, by Allaah!" In
this manner, Hadhrat Dimaam asked about each of the Faraa'idh of
Islaam, about zakaah, fasting, Hajj as well as the other injunctions of the
Shari'ah. Each time he asked about any Fardh injunction, he asked Rasulullaah
@@$ in the name of Allaah as he had done initially. When he had completed the
questioning, he said:
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"I testify that there is none worthy of worship but Allaah and that
Muhammad @%i%
is Allaah's Rasul."
He said further, "I shall fulfil all these Faraa'idh and abstain from everything you
have forbidden. Neither shall I add to this, nor reduce anything." He then went to
his camel to return home. Rasulullaah @%% commented, "If this man with two
locks of long hair is truthful, he shall definitely enter Jannah."
The Banu Sa'd Accept Islaam and the Statement of
Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Abbaas %W&j Concerning
Hadhrat Dimaam $&lBWj
Hadhrat Dimaam %l!3@& went to his camel, untied the rope and then rode away
until he reached his people. The first thing he said was, "Laat and Uzza are most
terrible!" The people said, "Do not say thit Dimaam! Beware of white liver!
Beware of leprosy! Beware of insanity!(The idols will inflict you with these
diseases for saying this)." Hadhrat Dimaam B,= said to them, "Shame on you!
By Allaah! These two idols can neither do harm nor give benefit. Allaah has sent a
Rasul and revealed a book to him to save you from what you are involved in. I
testify that there is none worthy of worship but Allaah and that Muhammad @@
is Allaah's servant and Rasul. I have just come from him with the details of things
he has commanded and those that he has forbidden."
The narrator of the reports states, "By Allaah! By the same evening every male
and female present with Hadhrat Dimaam WWi$ was a Muslim. Hadhrat
Abdullaah bin Abbaas %iW#M states, "we have never heard of any representative