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

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m~ Ll VES OF THE SAHABAH m,w (Vol-1) 93
further asked him, "Which god do you call for when you are in difficulty?"
replied, "I have seven gods on earth and one in the sky." Rasulullaah rn
~adhrat Husayn replied, "I then call the one in the sky." Rasulullaah @%
said, 'Who do you call when your wealth gets destroyed?" He replied, "The one in
the sky." Rasulullaah k%?& said, "It is strange that only this one God comes to
your assistance yet you associate the others as partners to him! Do you have
permission from the gods in the sky to associate.the others as His partners? Or
are you afraid of these other gods thinking that they will harm you if you do not
associate them as partners?" Hadhrat Husayn ?&Xi&% replied, "Neither of these
two statements is correct." Hadhrat Husayn %JW&i says, "It then occurred to me
that I had never spoken to such a great personality before this." Rasulullaah @@
said further, "0 Husayn! Become a Muslim and you will live in peace." Hadhrat
Husayn &GW5 responded by saying, "What about my people and my family?
(What would they say if I accept Islaam?) What am I to do now?"
~asulullaah &%$ advised him to recite the following du'aa:
"0 Allaah! I seek your guidance towards that which is more correct and increase
me in knowledge that will benefit me."
Hadhrat Husayn recited this du'aa and was a Muslim before he stood up from the
gathering. At that instant, his son Hadhrat Imraan !i3!S&G immediately stood
up and began kissing the head, hands and feet of his father. Rasulullaah @?@
began weeping when he saw this and said, "I am weeping because I was touched
by what Imraan has done. He did not stand for his father nor pay any attention to
him when he entered as a Kaafir. However, he fulfilled the right of his father once
his father entered the fold of Islaam."
When Hadhrat Husayn ?ii%%l%
stood up to leave, Rasulullaah @?% said to the
others, "Stand up and take himhome."Assoon as Hadhrat Husayn SlGW emerged
from the doorway, the people of the Quraysh (who had been waiting there for
him) saw him and said, "He has forsaken his religion." They then left him and
dispersed.
~asulullaah.
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&$% Invites an Unnamed
man to Islaam
Hadhrat Abu Tameema Hujaymi iZdl3W narrates from a man of his tribe that he
once came to meet Rasulullaah @%%. It could have been such that Hadhrqt Abu
Tameema 43%@!.% was present there when the man came to Rasulullaah W.
The man said, "Are you the Nabi of Allaah?" 'Yes," replied Rasulullaah @%.
"Whom do you pray to?" he asked. "I pray to the One Allaah Who is Most
Honoured and Most High. He is the One Who removes your difficulty when you
call to Him. It is He Who causes your crops to grow when you call to Him to
remove your drought. It is He Who responds to your prayer when you call Him at
the time when you are lost in a rocky land without transport." The man accepted
Islaam immediately and then asked for advice. Rasulullaah @?% said, "Do not
(1) Ibn Khuzayma as quoted in Isaabah (Vol. 1 Pg. 337).