Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

322 THE LIVES OF THE SAHAL3AH @g&3 (Vol-3)
reply. Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Umar Ww then started weeping so much that his
beard was drenched in his tears. Thereafter, he said, "These are two phrases that
are very dear to me and which I recite very often."
Hadhrat Jareeri reports, 'When Hadhrat Anas ~ , G W entered into the state of
Ihraam from Dhaatul Irq, we heard him say nothing other than the Dhikr of
Allaah until he came out of Ihraam. Thereafter, he said to me, 'Dear son of my
brother! That is what Ihraam is like."'(2)
Gatherings of Dhikr
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The Virtue on the Day of Qiyaamah of those
Participating in the Gatherings of Dhikr
Hadhrat Abu Sa'eed Khudri narrates from Rasulullaah @% that on the
Day of Qiyaamah, Allaah will say, "The people of this assembly will soon learn
who the people of honour are." "0 Rasulullaah m!" someone asked, "Who are
the people of honour?" Rasulullaah @% replied, "Those who participate in the
gatherings of Dhikr." (3)
The Incident of an Expedition that Rasulullaah
@%@ dispatched and how he rated People Engaged
in Dhikr above them
Hadhrat Umar %Gm narrates that Rasulullaah once dispatched an
expedition to Najd that won a large booty and returned very quickly. Someone
who was not part of the expedition remarked, "I have never before seen any
expedition return so quickly and win so much booty as this expedition did!" To
this, Rasulullaah said, "Should I not inform you of people who return even
quicker with and even greater booty? They are people who attend the Fajr salaah
and then remain seated in their places, engaging themselves in Dhikr until
sunrise. Thereafter, they perform two Rakaahs salaah before returning home.
Such people have a quicker return and a greater booty than those of the
expedition." (4)
Rasulullaah Sits with People Engaged in Dhikr
after the Revelafion of a verse of the Qur'aan
Hadhrat Abdur Rahmaan bin Sahl bin Hunayf W5w narrates that Rasulullaah
@& was in one of his rooms when Allaah revealed the verse:
(1) Tabraani. Mundhiri (Vo1.3 Pg.94) and Haythami (Vol.10 Pg.82) have commented on the chain of
narrators
(2) Ibn Sa'd (Vo1.7 Pg.22).
(3) Ahmad, Abu Ya'la, Ibn Hibbaan, Bayhaqi and others, as quoted in Targheeb wat Tarheeb (Vo1.3
Pg.63). H~ythami (Vol.10 Pg.72) has commented on the chain of narrators.
(4) Ibn Zanjway and Tirmidhi, as quoted in Kanzul Ummaal (Vol.1 Pg.298). Bazzaar has reported a
similar narration from Hadhrat Abu Hurayrah !&lWj with slight additions. Haythami (Vol.10
Pg.107) has however commented on the chain of narrators.