Hadith 27

(The book) ‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – ‘It is reported from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww was in one of his-saww journeys and he-saww said to his-saww companion: ‘A person will be emerging to you all from this mountain pass, there isn’t for him any pact with Iblees-la since three days’. It was not long before a Bedouin came, his skin had dried up on his body, and his eyes had retreated into his head, and his lips had turned green from having eating the plants. He asked about the Prophet-saww among the first friends until he met him-saww. He said to him-saww, ‘Present Islam to me’. He-saww said: ‘Say, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj and that I-saww Muhammad-saww am Rasool-saww of Allah-azwj’. He said, ‘I accept’. He-saww said: ‘You will pray the five (daily) Salats and you will Fast the month of Ramazan’. He said, ‘I accept’. He-saww said: ‘You will perform Hajj of the Sacred House (Kabah) and pay the Zakaat and wash from the sexual impurities’. He said, ‘I accept’. Then the camel of the Bedouin stayed behind and the Prophet-saww paused. He-saww asked about him, and the people returned in seeking him, and they found him among the last of the soldiers, a shoe of his camel having had fallen into a pit of rats, and he had fallen and the neck of the Bedouin and the camel was broken and they were both dead. The Prophet-saww ordered and a tent was struck. He-saww was washed in it, then the Prophet-saww entered and enshrouded him. Then they heard movement for the Prophet-saww, and he-saww came out and his-saww forehead was sweating profusely, and he-saww said: ‘This Bedouin has died and he was hungry, and he was from the ones who had believed and his Eman had not been clothed with injustice, so the Maiden Hourie had rushed towards him with the fruits of the Paradise stuffing his cheeks with these and she was saying, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Make me to be among his wives’’. [28]