Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

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child and proceeded to repent sincerely to Allaah.
The Response of Rasulullaah m 's Poets when
Allaah Revealed the verse: "Only deviant people
follow the poets"
Hadhrat Abul Hasan the freed slave of Hadhrat Tameem Daari ?&GWj narrates
that when the verse:
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Only deviant people follow the poets. {Surah Shu'araa; verse 224)
was revealed, Hadhrat Hassaan bin Thaabit 4=, Hadhrat Abdullaah bin
Rawaaha !B13W6 and Hadhrat Ka'b bin Maalik %%%!& all came weeping to
Rasulullaah @@. They said, "Allaah knew well that we are all poets wh,en he
revealed this verse (the verse therefore refers to us)." Rasulullaah @% then
recited the verse:
Except those who have ma an, who do good acts.. .
"That is you," Rasulullaah @@ said.
. . .who remember Allaah abundantly.. .
'That is also you," Rasulullaah m said.
.,.and who avenge themselves after being oppressed (by counteracting
the satirical poetly that the Kuffaar direct at Islaam with poetly of their -
own). {Surah Shu'araa, verse 227)
"And that is also you," Rasulullaah m said (you men are therefore excluded
kbm the deviant poets). (2)
The Longing to Meet Allaah and Dislike
to Meet Him
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Hadhrat Ataa bin Saa'ib narrates that the first time he saw Hadhrat Abdur
Rahmaan bin Abu Layla was when he saw an old man with white hair and
a white beard following a funeral procession on his donkey. He was narrating
from someone else that Rasulullaah @@ said, "Whoever loves Allaah, Allaah
loves to meet him and'whoever dislikes meeting Allaah, Allaah dislikes
meeting him." When the people present there started to weep, he askeh, "What
makes you all weep?" They replied, "We dislike death." "That is not what is
meant," he explained, "what is meant is that when a person is about to die, he
will like To meet Allaah when (by the angels) he is given the good news of:
(1) Ibn ~arder, as quoted in the R,iseerof Ibn Katheer (Vol.3 Pg.328).
(2) Ibn Is'baaq Ibn Abi Haatim and Ibn Jareer, as quoted in the Tafseerof Ibn Katheer (Vo1.3 Pg.354).
Haakim (d.3 Pg.488) has reported a similar narration.