Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

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Rasulullaah Teaches Hadhrat Abu Dardaa
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Hadhrat Abu Dardaa !iW@.% narrates that when Rasulullaah tt%& saw him
moving his lips one day, Rasulullaah asked, "0 Abu Dardaa! What are you
reciting?" "I am engaged in the Dhikr of Allaah," he replied. Rasulullaah @$%
said, "Should I not inform you of a Dhikr that is better than your making Dhikr
from night to day and from day to night?" When Hadhrat Abu Dardaa 3Gw
asked to be informed, Rasulullaah @%% told him to recite:
"I express the purity of Allaah as much as He has created. I express the
purity of Allaah as much as everything on earth. 1 express the purity of
Allaah as mu~h as everything there is. I express the purity of Allaah as
much as everything that His Book counts. I praise Allaah as much as He ..
has created. I praise Allaah as much as it takes to fill everything He has
created. I praise Allaah as much as it takes to fill everything that His
~ook counts." (I)
Rasulullaah Praises the Words that a Sahabi
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Hadhrat Anas 3i.Wh% reports that he was sitting with Rasulullaah @%$ in a
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gathering when a Sahabi 4W!3&G5 arrived and greeted Rasool @$% saying, ~x-ll)
('As Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh').
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Rasulullaah @@ replied to his greeting by saying, (6G; $I k;; :dl 3; )"
('Was Alaykumus Salaam wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh'). When the Sahabi
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"1 praise Allaah tremendously with praises that are pure and blessed as
our Rabb would like to be praised and as He deserves to be praised."
'What did you say?" Rasulullaah @%% asked. When the Sahabah i@Gw repeated
his words, Rasulullaah @% remarked, "I swear by the Being Who controls my
life that ten angels raced, each one of the angels eager to record what you said.
However, none of them knew how to record it, so when they took it up to the
One to Whom all honour belongs, He said, 'Record it exactly as my servant said
it."'(2)
Another narration(" records the words of the Dhikr as:
(1) Tabraani and Bazzaar. Haythami (Vol.10 Pg.94) has commented on the chain of narrators.
(2) Ahmad, reporting from reliable sources as confirmed in Targheeb war Tarheeb (Vol.3 Pg. 103).
(3) Nasa'ee and Ibn Hibbaan.
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