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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Abu Hurayra Conclusion Let us conclude our book with two words the Prophet (S.) had said wisely as evidence to prove the aberration of those deviants in order to warn people from them. The first word concerned Abu Hurayra, ar-Rahhal bin Unfuwa and al-Furat bin Hayyan. Once when they went out from the Prophet (S.) meeting, he said referring to them: “The thirst of one of you in Hell is greater than the other’s.

He has a perfidious mind.”[^1] Abu Hurayra and al-Furat often said after that[^2] that they didn’t feel safe until ar-Rahhal renegaded and was killed with Musaylama the Liar. As if they (Abu Hurayra and al-Furat) tried to interpret the Prophet’s (S.) saying to refer to one of them only as ar-Rahhal renegaded and joined Musaylama after the death of the Prophet (S.). They confused the truth of the Prophet’s (S.) saying when he generalized.

It was like the sayings of Allah (S.w.T.): (Does one of you like that he should have a garden of palms and vines) Baqara 2:266, (one of them loves that he should be granted a life of a thousand years) Baqara 2:96, (And when one of them is given news of that of which he sets up as a likeness for the Beneficent God) Zukhruf 43:17, (And when a daughter is announced to one of them his face becomes black and he is full of wrath) Nahl 16:58 and many other examples in the Qur’an, the Sunna and the speech of the Arabs.

The Arabs said in their praise: (The hand of one of them rains with gold. The heart of one of them overflows with compassion) and they said in their dispraise: (The face of one of them is a symbol of impudence. The heart of one of them is harder than the rocks). So the Prophet’s (S.) saying didn’t concern a certain one of the two (Abu Hurayra and al Furat) but it concerned all three. This was the fact of the tradition.

If the Prophet (S.) wanted to refer to a certain one of those three, he would show that clearly by mentioning his name or a distinguishing aspect and wouldn’t say a confused tradition, which was not possible for the Prophet (S.), because the innocent ones would be wronged. So if it was known that one of them was perfidious and he would be in Hell without knowing exactly who he was, the three of them would participate in the verdict.

After that it was not to trust or depend upon their sayings or witnesses and not to entrust them with any of the Muslims’ affairs.