Hadith 86

(The book) ‘Bashaarat Al-Mustafa-saww’ – By the chain to Abu Ali Al-Hassan Bin Muhammad Al Tusi, from Muhammad Bin Al-Husayn, well known as Ibn Al Saqqal, from Muhammad Bin Ma’qil Al Ijaly, from Muhammad Bin Abu Al Suhban, from Ibn Fazzal, from Hamza Bin Humran, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws, from Jabir Bin Abdullah Al-Ansari who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww prayed Salat Al-Asr with us. When he-saww finished, he-saww sat in his-saww Qiblah and the people were around him-saww. While they were like that when an old man from the Emigrants of the Arabs came over. Upon him were worn out clothes which were hanging and ripped, and he was almost unstable out of weakness and old age. Rasool-Allah-saww faced him and inquired the news. The Sheykh said, ‘O Prophet-saww of Allah-azwj. I am hungry of liver so feed me, and am bare of the body so clothe me, and am poor so sprinkle me (with wealth)’. He-saww said: ‘I-saww cannot find anything for you, but the pointer towards the good is like its doer. Go to the house of the one who loves Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww love him. He prefers Allah-azwj over himself. Go to the chamber of (Syeda) Fatima-asws! ’
And it was so that her-asws house was adjacent to the house of Rasool-Allah-saww which he-saww had individualised is by himself-saww from his-saww wives. (He-saww said): ‘Arise, O Bilal, and pause with him at the house of (Syeda) Fatima-asws! ’
The Bedouin went with Bilal. When he paused at the door of (Syeda) Fatima-asws, he called out at the top of his voice, ‘The greetings be upon you, O People-asws of the Household of the Prophet-hood, and the interchange of the Angels, and the descent of Jibraeel-as the Trustworthy Spirit with the Revelation from the Presence of the Lord-azwj of the worlds! ’. (Syeda) Fatima-asws said: ‘Who are you, O you? ’ He said, ‘A Sheykh from the Arabs. I had gone to your-asws father-saww, the chief of the mortals, emigrating from a distance, and I, O daughter-asws of Muhammad-saww, am bare of the body, hungry of the liver. Therefore, sympathise with me, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on you-asws’. And it was so that for (Syeda) Fatima-asws and Ali-asws in that situation, and Rasool-Allah-saww (as well) for three (days), they had not eaten a meal during it, and Rasool-Allah-saww had known that of their-asws state. (Syeda) Fatima-asws deliberated to a sheep skin which had been tanned with the Al-Karz (some material). It was so that Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws used to sleep upon it. She-asws said: ‘Take this, O you O visitor! Perhaps Allah-azwj would Cause you to relax with what is better than it’. The Bedouin said, ‘O daughter-asws of Muhammad-saww! I complained to you-asws of the hunger, and you-asws are giving me a sheep skin? What am I to do with it, with what I am feeling of the hunger? ’
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