Volume 2, Book 23, Number 334:
Narrated Kharija bin Zaid bin Thabit:
Um Al-‘Ala’, an Ansari woman who gave the pledge of allegiance to the Prophet said to me, “The
emigrants were distributed amongst us by drawing lots and we got in our share ‘Uthman bin
Maz’un. We made him stay with us in our house. Then he suffered from a disease which proved fatal
when he died and was given a bath and was shrouded in his clothes, Allah’s Apostle came I said,
‘May Allah be merciful to you, O Abu As-Sa’ib! I testify that Allah has honored you’. The Prophet said,
‘How do you know that Allah has honored him?’ I replied, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Let my father be sacri –
ficed for you! On whom else shall Allah bestow His honor?’ The Prophet said, ‘No doubt, death came
to him. By Allah, I too wish him good, but by Allah, I do not know what Allah will do with me though
I am Allah’s Apostle. ‘ By Allah, I never attested the piety of anyone after that.”
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 335:
Narrated Al-Laith as above.
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 336:
Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah:
When my father was martyred, I lifted the sheet from his face and wept and the people forbade
me to do so but the Prophet did not forbid me. Then my aunt Fatima began weeping and the Prophet
said, “It is all the same whether you weep or not. The angels were shading him continuously with
their wings till you shifted him (from the field).”
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