{"id":8869,"date":"2016-10-08T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:25:11","slug":"hazrat-abu-zar-radhiyallahu-anhu-part-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=8869","title":{"rendered":"Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &#8216;anhu) &#8211; Part Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=8495\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" alt=\"Abu Zar\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8495\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Abu-Zar.jpg\" style=\"width: 175px; height: 175px; margin: 5px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Abu-Zar.jpg 176w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Abu-Zar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><strong>Honoring the Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Isa bin &lsquo;Umailah Al-Fazaari (rahimahullah) mentions that a certain person told him the following:<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that when Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu) would milk his goats, he would give his neighbors and guests to drink before he drank himself. One night, I saw him milk his goats to the point where absolutely nothing remained in their udders. After presenting the milk to his guests, he placed a small amount of dates before them. He thereafter apologized to them saying, &ldquo;If we had anything better than this, we would have definitely brought it before you.&rdquo; I thereafter observed that Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu) himself did not eat a single morsel that night as he had presented all that he had to his guests.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Ibn Sa&rsquo;d 4\/178)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carrying the Flag at Hunayn:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The renowned historian, Imaam Waaqidi (rahimahullah), has mentioned that Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu) carried the flag of his tribe, the Ghifaar, during the Battle of Hunayn.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Siyar A&rsquo;laam min Nubalaa 3\/384)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Migration to Shaam:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the demise of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu), Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu) migrated from Madinah Munawwarah to the land of Shaam.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Usdul Ghaabah 1\/344)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu) was present in Shaam, he witnessed the conquest of Baytul Maqdis with Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu).<\/p>\n<p><em>(Siyar A&rsquo;laam min Nubalaa 3\/379)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/whatisislam.co.za\/index.php\/history\/sahaabah\/hazrat-abu-zar-ghifaari-radhiyallahu-anhu\/item\/106-hazrat-abu-zar-radhiyallahu-anhu-part-eight\">Whatisislam.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring the Guests: &lsquo;Isa bin &lsquo;Umailah Al-Fazaari (rahimahullah) mentions that a certain person told him the following: I noticed that when Hazrat Abu Zar (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhu) would milk his goats, he would give his neighbors and guests to drink before he drank himself. One night, I saw him milk his goats to the point where &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,133],"tags":[496,153],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hadhrat-abu-zar-ghifaari-radhiallahu-anhu","category-lives-of-the-sahaaba","tag-hadhrat-abu-zar","tag-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}