Hadith 255

-azwj! Bless for us in meeting You-azwj’, frequented from the words: ‘There is neither might nor strength except Allah-azwj the Exalted, the Magnificent’. Then he-asws prayed Salat until part of the night had gone. Then he-asws sat down for the follow-up (acts of worship). Then his-asws eyes slept while he-asws was standing. Then he-asws woke up from his-asws sleep awed. Umm Kulsoom-asws said, ‘It is as if I-asws am with him-asws and he-asws has gathered his-asws children and his-asws family members and said to them: ‘You-asws will be losing me-asws in this month. I-asws have seen a dream in this night which has terrified me-asws, and I-asws want to narrate it to you all’. They said, ‘What is it? ’
He-asws said: ‘I-asws saw Rasool-Allah-saww in my-asws dream just now, and he-saww was saying to me-asws: ‘O Abu Al-Hassan-asws! You-asws will be arriving to us-asws very soon. Their most wretched one will be coming to you-asws and dye your-asws beard from the blood of your-asws head, and by Allah-azwj, I-saww am desirous to see you-asws, and you-asws will be with us-asws during the last ten (days) from the month of Ramazan. So, come to us-asws, for whatever is with us-asws is better for you-asws and more lasting! ’
He (She-asws) said, ‘When they heard his-asws speech, the clamoured with the crying and wailing, and began mourning. He-asws vowed upon them with the silence. Then he-asws went on to bequeath to them and instructing them with the good and forbidding them from the evil’. Umm Kulsoom-asws said, ‘And he-asws did not cease to be standing that night, and sitting, and performing ruk’u and Sajdah. Then he-asws would go out after a while, glancing towards the sky and looking into the stars, and he-asws was saying ‘By Allah-azwj! Neither am I-asws lying nor have I-asws been lied to, and it is the night which I-asws have been promised with! ’
Then he-asws returned to his-asws prayer mat and said: ‘O Allah-azwj! Bless for me-asws in the death’. And he-asws frequented from His-azwj Words: ‘We are for Allah and we are returning to Him [2: 156]’, and: ‘There is neither any might nor strength except with Allah-azwj the Exalted, the Magnificent’, and sending Salawaat upon the Prophet-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws, and seeking Forgiveness of Allah-azwj, a Lot’. Umm Kulsoom-asws said, ‘When I-asws saw him-asws in that night anxiously fidgeting, frequenting the Zikr and seeking the Forgiveness, I-asws was (also) sleepless with him-asws in my-asws night, and I-asws said, ‘O father-asws! What is the matter I-asws see you-asws in this night, you-asws are not tasting the food of sleep? ’
He-asws said: ‘O daughter-asws! Your-asws father-asws killed the heroes and waded into horrors, and no fear entered inside him-asws, and no awe entered into my-asws heart, any more than has entered during this night’. Then he-asws said: ‘We are for Allah and we are returning to Him [2: 156]’. I-asws said, ‘O father-asws! What is the matter you-asws having been giving news of your-asws own death since tonight? ’ He-asws said: ‘O daughter-asws! The death has drawn near, and the hopes are cut off’. Umm Kulsoom-asws said, ‘I-asws cried. He-asws said to me-asws: ‘O daughter-asws! Do not cry, for I-asws am not saying to you-asws except what the Prophet-saww had covenanted to me-asws’. Then he-asws fell asleep and folded for a while. Then he-asws woke up from his-asws sleep and said: ‘O daughter-asws! When the time of Azaan draws near, then let me-asws know’. Then he-asws returned to what he-asws had been upon in the beginning of the night, from the Salat and the supplicating, and the beseeching to Allah-azwj, the Glorious and Exalted. Umm Kulsoom-asws said, ‘I-asws went on to watch out for the time of Azaan. When the time came, I-asws went to him-asws, and there wa