Concerning Respect and Love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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Concerning Respect and Love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

 

The Community [of Muslim Scholars] is unanimous concerning the obligation to magnify and exalt the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his Family, and his Companions. It was the practice of the Pious Predecessors and the Imams of the past that whenever the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was mentioned in their presence they were seized by reverence, humbleness, stillness, and dignity.

 

Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn 'Ali ibn Abi Talib Radi Allah Anhu (this is Ja'far al-Sadiq) would turn pale whenever he heard the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned. Imam Malik Radi Allah Anhu would not mention a hadith except in a state of ritual purity. 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Radi Allah Anhu would turn red and stammer whenever he heard the Prophet mentioned Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

 

As for 'Amir ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-'Awamm al-Asadi Radi Allah Anhu, he would weep until his eyes had no tears left in them. When a Hadith was mentioned in their presence they would lower their voices. Malik Radi Allah Anhu said:

 

His sacredness (hurmat) in death is as his inviolability in life.[1]

 

Even Love of the Companions Is a Sign of Belief

 

Another Hadith which shows that even love of the companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, such as Abu Huraira Radi Allah Anhu is a sign of belief, according to the exact wording of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that Allah Azzowajal make Abu Huraira Radi Allah Anhu beloved to the believers.

 

Abu Huraira Radi Allah Anhu gave the following account of his mother's conversion,

 

I came to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam weeping one day and said,

 

O Messenger of Allah, I have been inviting my mother to Islam and she has been refusing. Today I asked her again, and she said something about you which I hated to hear. Ask Allah to guide Abu Huraira's mother!

 

Whereupon the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said:

 

O Allah! Guide Abu Huraira's mother.

 

Then I returned home cheered up by the Prophet's Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam supplication. When I arrived at the door of the house I found it closed. Hearing my footsteps, my mother said,

 

Abu Huraira, do not come in yet.

 

I could hear the sound of water. She washed herself and wore her robe (dir') and head cover (khimr) then she opened the door and said,

 

Abu Huraira! I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's servant and messenger!"

 

I returned at once to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, weeping for joy, and said to him:

 

O Messenger of Allah, good news! Allah has answered your request and guided my mother!

 

He glorified and praised Allah, thanking Him and saying good things. I said:

 

O Messenger of Allah! Ask Allah that He makes me and my mother beloved to his believing servants and that He makes them beloved to us.

 

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,

 

O Allah! Make Your little servant here (Abu Huraira Radi Allah Anhu) and his mother beloved to Your believing servants, and make the believers beloved to the two of them.

 

Not one believer is brought into existence who hears about me without seeing me except he loves me.[2]

 

This Hadith is similar to another sound Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam addressing the Commander of the Believers 'Ali ibn Abi Talib Radi Allah Anhu:

 

None loves you except a believer, and none hates you except a hypocrite.[3]

 

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[1] Abu Al Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Khatib's, Wasilat Al-Islam Bi Al-Nabi Alaihi Salat Wa Al-Salam (The Means to Islam Through the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), Pg 145-146, Beirut, Dar Al Gharb Al-Islami, 1404/1984

 

[2] Narrated by Imam Muslim & Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal. Imam Ibn Hajar's, Al-Isaba, Vol 7, Pg 435, Vol 7, Pg 512.

 

[3] Imam Nisai's, Sunan Nisai. Narrated by Imam Muslim and Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal