{"id":20895,"date":"2023-09-04T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20895"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:22:34","slug":"the-hayaa-of-hazrat-uthmaan-radhiyallahu-anhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20895","title":{"rendered":"The Hayaa of Hazrat \u2018Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20897\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/English_43_4.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat \u2018Aa\u2019ishah (radhiyallahu \u2018anha) reports the following:<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was lying down in my home and his kurta was slightly moved from the area of his blessed thighs or his blessed shin, though his blessed thighs and shins were covered by his lungi.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) requested permission to enter. Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) permitted him to enter, and spoke to him while lying down in the same condition.<\/p>\n<p>After some time, \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) requested permission to enter. Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) permitted him to enter and spoke to him while lying down in the same condition.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, \u2018Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) requested permission to enter. When \u2018Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) sought permission to enter, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) immediately sat up and straightened his clothing, placing his kurta over his lungi. Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) then permitted him to enter, after which they spoke for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat \u2018Aa\u2019ishah (radhiyallahu \u2018anha) then mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>When \u2018Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) left, I asked Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam), \u201cI noticed that when Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) entered, you remained lying down. Thereafter, when \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) entered, you also continued to lie down. However, when \u2018Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) entered, you sat up and straightened your clothing (i.e. why did you sit up and straighten your clothing for Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu).\u201d Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) replied, \u201cHow can I not display extra hayaa before a man who is such that even the angels display hayaa before him?\u201d <em>(Saheeh Muslim #2401)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In another similar narration, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) replied, \u201c \u2018Uthmaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) is a man who possesses an exceptionally high level of hayaa. I feared that if I had to permit him to enter while I was in that condition (lying down), then he would feel reserved in expressing his need to me (due to his exceptionally high level of hayaa).\u201d<em> (Saheeh Muslim #2402)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat \u2018Aa\u2019ishah (radhiyallahu \u2018anha) reports the following: On one occasion, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was lying down in my home and his kurta was slightly moved from the area of his blessed thighs or his blessed shin, though his blessed thighs and shins were covered by his lungi. During that time, Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,873,774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-hazrat-uthmaan-radhiyallahu-anhu","category-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}