Hadith 174

Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askariasws) – ‘Sowban, a slave of Rasool-Allahsaww stood up, and he said, ‘May my father and my mother (be sacrificed) for yousaww, O Rasool-Allahsaww! When would the Hour be established? ’ So Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘What is that which you have prepared for it, when you are asking about it? ’ Sowban said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! I have not prepared a lot of deeds for it, except that I love Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘And to what is that (point) to which your love for Rasool-Allahsaww reaches? ’ He said, ‘By the Oneazwj Who Sent yousaww with the Truth as a Prophetsaww! In my heart, from yoursaww love is what, if I was to be cut with the swords, and sawed by the saws, and minced with the scissors, and burned by the fires, and grinded by the grinding rocks – it would be more beloved to me and easier upon me – than if I were to find for yousaww in my heart either deceit, or suspicion, or hatred – off for anyone from the Peopleasws of yoursaww Household and yoursaww companions. And the most beloved of the people to me after yousaww is the one most loving to yousaww, and the most hateful of them to me is the one who does not love yousaww, and hates yousaww and hates anyone from the ones who love yousaww. O Rasool-Allahsaww! This is what is with me from yoursaww love and love for the one who loves yousaww, and hatred for the one who hates yousaww, or hates anyone from the ones who love yousaww. If this is Accepted from me, so I am fortunate, and it any deed other than it is wanted from me, then I don’t know of any deed for me I can rely on and count with apart from this. And I love you all together, yousaww and yoursaww companions, and even if I cannot (be compared with) them in their deeds’. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Receive glad tidings, for the person would be gathered on the Day of Judgment along with the one he loves. O Sowban! If there are upon you, from the sins, what could fill up what is between the soil up to the Throne, they would abate and decline from you due to this Wilayah – quicker than the receding of the shadow from the smooth flat rock – when the sun emerges upon it, and from the receding of the sun when the sun sets from it’’. [177]