Hadith 254

The twenty-sixth is from Abu Ayoub Al Ansari who said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘Sweeten the obedience for yourselves and wear the covering of opposition. Make your Hereafter for yourselves and your striving for your settlement, and know that after a little while you will be departing and will be going to Allah‑azwj. And nothing will avail you over there except the righteous deeds, therefore send these ahead, and goodly Rewards so achieve these. But rather, you are going ahead upon what you have sent ahead and will be Rewarded upon what you had sent before. The lowly decorations of the world should not deceive you from lofty ranks of the Gardens. It is as if the covering has been removed and the suspicions have been raised, and every person has met his settlement and recognised his abode and his transfer’’. [341]
Twenty-seventh is from Abu Hureyra (a well-known fabricator) who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said in his-saww sermon: ‘Do not be from the ones whom the current (life) has deceived, and the security has deluded him so the deception fascinated him. He inclined to the evil house of quick decline and imminent transition. There does not remain from this world of yours in a side of what has passed except like the stay (pausing) of a rider or milking of an udder. So, what are you ascending to and what is that you are waiting for? By Allah-azwj! It is as if you and whoever accompanies you in it from the world, did not even exist, and what you are going to of the Hereafter did not cease to be. Therefore take the preparation. There is no decline for its transfer, and prepare the provision for a near departure, and know that every person is upon what he had sent ahead, and will regret upon what he had left behind’’. [342]