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

230 THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH '@%!&% (Vol-1)
The Sahabah '&Gw Give Da'wah in the
Battlefield During the Time of Rasulullaah @@$
The Da'wah that Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim
Tarneemi @&$@@j Gave
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Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim Tameemi BSw narrates that Rasulullaah once
sent them on a military expedition. When they reached the place they intended to
attack, he spurred his horse and soared ahead of the others. However, the people
of the town were weeping as they met them. Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim
said to them, "Say 'Laa Ilaaha Illallaah' and you will be saved." The people then
said what they were told. When the other Sahabah arrived there, they
rebuked Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim B,Wj and said, "You have deprived us of
the booty after it already become cold in our hands."
When they returned to ad in ah and mentioned the incident to Rasulullaah @%,
he called Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim and congratulated him for what he
had done. Rasulullaah rn also told him that Allaah had granted him
tremendous rewards for every one of the people of the town. One of the narrators
by the name of Abdur Rahmaan says that it was Re who forgot the specific
rewards that Rasulullaah @%! mentioned. Rasulullaah @%% then said to him, "I
shall write a bequest in your favour to all the Muslim leaders who come after
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me." R~sulullaah @%! did so, sealed the letter and handed it over to him.
Thereafter, Rasulullaah said to him, 'When you have performed your Fair
salaah, recite seven times:
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"0 Allaah! Savg! me from the Fire" ...... & 4 1
If you die during that day, Allaah shall record ;our safetyOfrom the Fire. Then
when you have performed your Maghrib salaah, again recite seven times:
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"0 Allaah! Save me from the Fire" ...... jWI ,.y ,&I 4 1
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If you die during that night, Allaah shall record your safety from the Fire."
Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim -2 says, "When Allaah took Rasulullaah @&
away, I went tb Hadhrat Abu Bakr B,- who opened the seal, read the letter
and gave me some wealth (as Rasulullaah &!@$ instructed). Thereafter, he sealed
the letter. Afterwards (after the death of Hadhrat !4W,@&)
Abu Bakr I went to
Hadhrat Umar ?B3Xi!&, who did the same. Thereafter, I went to Hadhrat Uthmaan
$kW&.i (when he was the Khalifah) and he did exactly the same."
Muslim bin Haarith says, "(My father) Hadhrat Haarith bin Muslim SW$!3j passed
away during the Khilaafah of Hadhrat Uthmaan ?BG$.&Z and the letter stayed with
us until Hadhrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz *WdlGjbecame the Khalifah. He wrote a
letter to the governor of the region where we stayed instructing him to send
Muslim the son of Haarith bin Muslim S&,GW&to him with the letter that
Rasulullaah rn had written for his father. When I was sent to him, he read the
letter, ordered that I be given
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some wealth and then sealed it." ('1
(1) Hasan bin Sufyaan and Abu Nu'aym as quoted in Kanzul Ummaal (Vo1.7 Pg.28) and Muntakhab
(Vo1.5 Pg.162).