Hadith 230

The second is from Alqamah Bin Al Husain who said, ‘I heard Qays Bin Aasim Al Minqary saying, ‘I arrived to Rasool-Allah-azwj among a delegation from a group of the clan of Tameem. He-saww said to me: ‘Bathe with water and lotus’. I did so, then returned to him-asws and I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Advise us we can benefit with it’. He-saww said: ‘O Qays! Along with the honour there is humiliation, and with the life there is death, and with the world is the Hereafter, and for all things there is Reckoning, and upon all things there is a watcher, and for every good deed is a Reward, and for every evil deed there is Punishment, and for every term there is a written term. And surely, O Qays, there is no escape for you from having a pair who will be buried with you and he will be alive, and you will be buried with him and you will be dead. If he were to be honourable, he will honour you, and if he were to be mean, he will submit you. He will not be Resurrect except with you nor will you be Resurrect except with him, nor will you be questioned except about him, nor will you be Sent except with him. Do not make him except as righteous, for if he were to be righteous, you will not be comforted except with him, and if he were to be immoral, you will not lonely except from him, and it is your deeds’. Qays said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! If this could be systemised as a poem, I could pride with it upon the ones before us from the Arabs’. A man from his-saww companions called Sulsal presented something regarding him, said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Will you allow me with prosing it? ’
He-saww said: ‘Yes’. He prosed saying, ‘Choose a pair from your deeds. But rather a pair of the you’re in the grave is what he used to do. There is no escape for the human being from preparing it for a Day the person will be called in it, so he will accept. If you were to be busy with something, do not let it be other than which Allah-azwj is Pleased with as a pre-occupation. Nothing will accompany the human being from after his death and from before it except which he used to do. Indeed! But rather the human is a guest of his family members. He stays for a little while with them, then he departs’’. [317]