abdullah ibn abbas
he
tells this story it's an authentic
narration of tabarani
of the prophet saws i'm going to visit
one of the people of the ansar
and similar to
the last narration this is a man that's
relatively unknown in fact we don't even
have his name in the narration he's just
a man from amongst the unsung
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so the prophet saws went to visit him
because he heard he was sick
he says
when the prophet saw islam came close to
his home
he heard him speaking to someone inside
the home so the prophet saws is drawing
near to the house and it seems like he's
speaking to someone on the inside
however the prophet salallahu he knocks
on the door and he asks permission to
enter and when the prophet saws comes in
he sees that there is no one with the
ansari so he says to him
to kill him
he said i heard you speaking to someone
else so the ansari man responds and he
says to him that ya rasulullah i had
gone out
and i came back home
and
nas
because i was grieved by what people
were saying about my illness so that
could mean that either there was some
sort of appearance
that came as a result of the illness he
looked sick or
people treated him in a certain way
because he was contagious so even though
the narration says which is a fever it
can mean any type of illness that made
him repulsive to the people
so he continues with the prophet saws he
says
so someone came with me to my house
someone entered into the house after me
and listen to how he describes and he
says
he said that i swear by allah i have
never seen a man after you ya rasulullah
who is more noble of a companion nor
more beautiful in their words so he's
saying to the prophet saws this
mysterious person entered behind me and
he sat with me and he kept me company
and i've never seen anyone more
beautiful than him except for
allah rasool allah says do you know who
that was he says no he says
and he says
there are people amongst you
that if they were to take oaths upon
allah subhanahu ta'ala allah would honor
those oaths now before i continue with
the connection of this narration to
other narrations i want to stop for a
moment and
connect this to what we learned about a
person who was sick in the first place
right
when you read the hadith about a person
who is sick that person that believer
who is sick is surrounded by angels all
the time
there are the angels that come to visit
there are the angels that receive the
visitors you are surrounded by the
malaika at all times because you're in a
state of constant expiation of sins
right while the sickness is with you in
whatever capacity even if it's a minor
illness right the prophet saws said even
if it's something as simple as a fever
the angels remain in your company the
entire time and 70 000 angels go with
the one who goes to visit the sikh
person of course the prophet saws
mentioned to us that on the day of
judgment as allah subhanahu ta'ala is
speaking to the person who neglected the
opportunities of the opportunities of
says good
was sick and you did not visit me and
the person would say how could i visit
you o allah and you are the lord of the
worlds and allah subhanahu ta'ala would
respond
don't you know that so and so was sick
and had you visited that person you
would have found me with them and so
here you have this random man from the
ansar
who not just any angel follows into his
home but jibreel
takes the form of a human being and
visits this man and that's why the
prophet saws then even says out of ajib
out of amazement that there are people
amongst you what does he mean by that
there are people amongst you that are
relatively unknown
but at the same time they have such a
position with allah subhanahu ta'ala and
that's where you find some of the other
narrations the prophet saw says
that it might be that there's a person
that's covered in dirt turned away from
the homes of the people
and if that person were to take an oath
upon allah subhanahu wa to allah allah
would certainly honor that oath in
another narration the prophet saw islam
said
in jannah should i tell you who the
people of jannah are so they said
yes o messenger of allah so the prophet
saws
it means weak technically but here it's
a person that sees humility a person
that is downtrodden and with
is that that person is made to be in
such a situation and it's because of
their praiseworthy characteristics
either that they are inflicted with
poverty and put into hardship or it's
because of the hardship that they're in
that praiseworthy characteristics come
out of them right so they bear the fruit
of humility in the process of being
people that don't hold any weight in
society but they are so great in the
side of allah subhana wa ta'ala if they
were to take an oath upon allah
subhanahu ta'ala allah would honor their
oath and that's greater than even the
answered supplications right so the
prophet saws teaching us
that there are people amongst us that
are worthy of being visited by jibri
salaam but you would not let them into
your home and that's why you never turn
away from anyone so it's instructive to
you when you're sick and when you don't
have much prominence in society and it's
also instructive to a person that you
don't look away from someone else just
because they don't have prominence in
society