Hadith 174

sws said: ‘Your name was Abdul Saleeb’. He said, ‘So what would you-asws name me as? ’ He-asws said: ‘Your name is Abdullah’. He said, ‘I hereby believe in Allah-azwj the Magnificent, and I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj, Alone, there being no associates for Him-azwj, Individual, Self’Sufficient. He-azwj isn’t as the Christians describe Him-azwj, and He-azwj isn’t as the Jews describe Him-azwj, nor is He-azwj a species from the species of the ‘Al-Shirk’. And I testify that Muhammad-saww is His-azwj servant and His-azwj Rasool-saww. He-azwj Sent him-azwj with the Truth. He-saww explained it to its rightful ones and blinded the falsifies, and he-saww was Rasool-saww of Allah-azwj to the people, all of them – to the red and the black. All were common with regards to it. So he noticed, the one who noticed, and he was guided, the one who was guided, and the falsifiers were blinded, and it would be lost from them, whatever they had been worshipping beforehand, [41: 48]. And I testify that his-saww successor-asws spoke with his-saww wisdom, and that the one who was before him-saww from the Prophets-saww spoke with the eloquent wisdom, and they backed each other upon the obedience to Allah-azwj and they-as separated the falsehood and its people, and the uncleanness and its people, and they fled from the way of the straying, and Allah-azwj Helped them-as with the obedience to Him-azwj and Rescued them-as from the disobedience. Thus, they-as were the Guardians-asws of Allah-azwj and the helpers of the Religion, urging upon the goodness and enjoining with it. I believe in the young of them-as and the old, and the ones who were Mentioned from them-as and the ones who were not Mentioned. And I believe in Allah-saww Blessed and High, Lord-azwj of the world’. Then he cut off his strap and his crucifix of gold, which was in his neck, then said, ‘Order me until I place my charities wherever you-asws instruct me to’. He-asws said: ‘Over there is a brother of yours upon the like of your Religion, and he is a man from your people from Qays Bin Sa’alba, and he is in a Bounty like your Bounty. Therefore console each other and co-operate with each other, and I-asws will not let you leave your rights which are upon you in ’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! May Allah-azwj Keep you-asws well! I am rich, and I have left three hundred horses, male and female, and left a thousand camels, therefore your-asws right are more than my rights’. He-asws said to him: ‘You are a slave of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and you are in a limit of your ancestry, upon your state’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And excellent was his Islam, and he married a woman from the Clan of Fihr, and Abu Ibrahim-asws paid her dowry of Fifty Dinars from the charity of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and gave him a servant and accommodated him, and looked after him until Abu Ibrahim-asws was brought out (to go to prison). So he died after his-asws exit by twenty-eight nights’’. [197]