{"id":13658,"date":"2019-04-15T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13658"},"modified":"2020-01-20T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:48:59","slug":"loving-the-sahaabah-the-means-of-gaining-the-love-of-rasulullah-sallallahu-alaihi-wasallam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13658","title":{"rendered":"Loving the Sahaabah – The Means of Gaining the Love of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ja\u2019far As-Saa-igh (rahimahullah) narrates the following:<\/p>\n

Among the neighbours of Imaam Ahmad bin Hambal (rahimahullah) was a man who was involved in many sins, evils and shameless deeds. One day, this man came to the gathering of Imaam Ahmad bin Hambal (rahimahullah) and greeted him with salaam. Although Imaam Ahmad (rahimahullah) replied to his salaam, he did not show him attention and receive him with warmth. Rather, he seemed uncomfortable in the presence of this man (as this man was well known to have evil ways and sinful habits).<\/p>\n

The man immediately perceived the discomfort of Imaam Ahmad (rahimahullah) and thus said, \u201cO Abu \u2018Abdillah (rahimahullah)! Why are you uncomfortable in my presence? On account of a dream that I saw, I have completely changed and I am no longer the person that you knew me to be.\u201d Imaam Ahmad (rahimahullah) asked, \u201cWhat dream did you see?\u201d<\/p>\n

The man replied, \u201cI saw Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) in my dream. It seemed as though he was on an elevated area while many people were seated below him. One by one, the people stood and asked Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) to make du\u2018aa for them. As they stood and made their request, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) made du\u2018aa for them, until only I remained. I also wanted to stand and ask Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) to make du\u2018aa for me, but I felt embarrassed and ashamed to do so on account of my evil actions and ways. Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) then addressed me and asked, \u201cO so-and-so! Why do you not stand and ask me to make du\u2018aa for you?\u201d I replied, \u201cO Rasul of Allah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)! It is my shame and embarrassment of my evil deeds that prevents me from doing so.\u201d Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) responded, \u201cIf it is shame and embarrassment that prevents you, then stand and ask me for du\u2018aa. I will still make du\u2018aa for you, as you love my Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) and do not speak ill of them.\u201d I thus stood and Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) made du\u2018aa for me. When I thereafter awoke, I found that Allah Ta\u2018ala had instilled within me complete hatred and disgust for all the sins that I was involved in.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Imaam Ahmad (rahimahullah) heard this incident, he addressed us saying, \u201cO Ja\u2019far! O so-and-so! Tell people of this incident and do not forget it, as it is beneficial and inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Kitaabut Tawwaabeen – Ibnu Qudaamah pg. 186-187)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ja\u2019far As-Saa-igh (rahimahullah) narrates the following: Among the neighbours of Imaam Ahmad bin Hambal (rahimahullah) was a man who was involved in many sins, evils and shameless deeds. One day, this man came to the gathering of Imaam Ahmad bin Hambal (rahimahullah) and greeted him with salaam. Although Imaam Ahmad (rahimahullah) replied to his salaam, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-shiism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13660,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions\/13660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}