You -asws are most righteous of the people and their most...

You -asws are most righteous of the people and their most connecting of the kinship, so how come you -asws are not eating with your -asws mother -as ?’ He -asws said: ‘I -asws dislike for my -asws hand to preceded to what her -as would have preceded to’. And a man had said to him -asws , ‘O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ! I love you -asws for the Sake of Allah -azwj with intense love!’ He -asws said: ‘O Allah -azwj !

I -asws seek Refuge with You -azwj from being loved for Your -azwj Sake while You -azwj are Hateful to me -asws !’ And he -asws had performed twenty Hajj upon a she-camel of his -asws , and he -asws had not tapped it with a whip. When it died, he -asws instructed with burying her lest the lions eat her’. And a slave girl of his -asws had been asked about him -asws . She said, ‘Shall I detail or be brief?’ It was said to her, ‘But, be brief’.

She said, ‘I have not gone to him -asws with food at daytime at all, and I have not prepared a bed for him -asws at night at all’. And one day he -asws had ended up to a group backbiting him -asws . He -asws stood at them and said to them: ‘If you were truthful, then may Allah -azwj Forgive me -asws , and if you were liars, then may Allah -azwj Forgive you all’.

And whenever a seeker of knowledge came to him -asws , he -asws would say: ‘Welcome to the bequest of Rasool-Allah -saww !’ Then he -asws said: ‘The seeker of knowledge, when he comes out from his house, his legs are not placed upon anything wet or dry from the ground, except it glorifies for him to the seven earths’.

And he -asws used to support one hundred households from the poor of Al-Medina, and it used to marvel him -asws if he -asws were to present his -asws food to the orphans, and the ones in a bad state, and the ones of prolonged illness, and the destitute(s), those having no means for them.

And he -asws used to give them by his -asws hand, and the ones from them who was ill, he -asws would carry from his -asws food to him, and he -asws would not eat food until he -asws had given in charity with the like of it. And seven calluses would fall from him -asws every year from the places of his -asws Sajdah due to the frequency of his -asws Salat, and he -asws would gather these. When he -asws died, these were buried with him -asws .