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I was happy to pray the noon prayer early, and I did not love the emirate as much as I loved it that day, hoping that I would be the owner of this epithet. When the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, led the noon prayer with us, he began to look to his right and to his left, so I started to move forward for him so that he could see me, and he kept turning his gaze at us until he saw Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah, so he called him and said, “Go out with them and judge between them with justice regarding what they disagreed about,” so I said, “Abu Ubaidah will go with it.”

Abu Ubaidah was one of the most caring people

Strengthen your hand or pledge allegiance to you, for I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying that every nation has a trustee, and you are the trustee of this nation.

I would not go before a man who was commanded by the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to lead us in prayer, but he did so until he died.

It seems to me that you are indispensable to me. If my letter comes to you at night, I resolve that you will not arrive in the morning until you ride to me, and if it comes to you during the day, then I resolve that you will not arrive in the morning until you ride to me.

O Commander of the Faithful, I have recognized your need for me, and I am with a Muslim army, and I do not feel in myself any desire for what will happen to them, and I do not want to separate from them until God decides on me and their affairs. So if this letter of mine comes to you, release me from your resolve and humiliate me by staying.

Abu Ubaidah died, O Commander of the Faithful. He said, “No, but death is close to him.”

I am giving you a commandment that, if you accept it, you will still be fine. Perform prayers, fast the month of Ramadan, give alms, perform the Hajj, perform Umrah, befriend each other, be sincere to your rulers, do not deceive them, and do not be distracted by the world, for if a man lives a thousand years, he is bound to lead to my death. This is what you see. May peace and God’s mercy be upon you.

O Muadh, pray for the people

O people, you have been saddened by a man. By God, I do not know that I have ever seen a man who was more steadfast in his chest, nor more deceitful, nor more in love with the outcome, nor more sincere to the common people than him. So have mercy on him, may God have mercy on you.

Don't you fear God and take away from me the sustenance that God has given me?

Oh my wonder, a wolf speaks to me like a human

Shall I not tell you something more astonishing than that? Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, in Yathrib informs people of news of what has happened previously

By the One in whose hand is my soul, he has spoken the truth

By God, there is no better life after them

You are right, I swear

O Umair, put all your debt on me, and I will pay it off on your behalf, no matter how much it amounts. As for your children, I will add them to my family as long as I and them live for as long as I and them live, and I have enough wealth to support all of them and ensure a comfortable living for them.

So keep this conversation of ours secret and do not show it to anyone

This dog is the enemy of Umayr bin Wahb. By God, he only came for evil. He oppressed the polytheists against us in Mecca, and he was an eye for them against us before Badr.

O Messenger of God, this enemy of God, Umair bin Wahb, has come, unsheathing his sword, and I do not think he wants anything but evil

Enter it on me

Release him, Omar

He was late

So, Omair

A man will do the work of the people of Paradise until there is only an arm’s length between him and it, then what is written overtakes him, and he does the work of the people of Hell and enters it.

But he is one of the people of Hell

Which of us is among the people of Paradise if this one is among the people of Hell?

I am his owner, I will see what he does

I bear witness that you are the Messenger of God

A man may do the deeds of the people of Paradise as it appears to the people, while he is one of the people of Hell, but deeds are determined by the end

I served the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, for ten years, and he never said to me, “Fifth,” and he never said, “For something I did, for what I did, or for something I left behind, for what I left.”

Every son of Adam makes mistakes, and the best sinners are those who repent

If what he saw as forbidden yesterday, he sees as lawful today, then he has been tempted

What is permissible is clear and what is forbidden is clear

Go and do not change your appearance at all, because we are a people whom God has honored with Islam, and no matter how much we seek glory in anything else, God will humiliate us.

Bring it on me

I did not come to you as a guest to sit, but I came to you as a newcomer

What is the matter with you, O Arabs? We have not taught people who are more humiliated than you or less in status than you. You are the people of Jalan, chasing camels in the desert. So what brought you here?

Yes, O King, we were, as you said, and more. We were people of ignorance, worshiping idols. A relative kills his relative for the sake of his will, but God sent us to bring the servants from the worship of His servants to the worship of the Lord of His servants, and from the narrowness of this world to the spaciousness of the Hereafter.

Whoever has a daughter or two daughters, whom he raises well and marries them well, will enter Paradise with them.

Let your reform be for yourself first, for the eyes of the students are fixed on you. What is good to them is what you have done and what is ugly to them is what you have left out. Teach them the Book of God and increase their hadith with the noblest and the poetry with the most impure. Do not move them from one knowledge to another until they have judged, for crowding of words in the heart is a distraction to understanding.

Who is the one who disciplined you with all this politeness? He said, “Myself.” He was asked, “Can a person discipline himself without being polite?” He said, “Yes.” If I saw something good in someone else, I would follow it, and if I saw something ugly, I would reject it. This is how I disciplined myself.

Give him the palm tree and you will have a palm tree in Paradise with it

O Messenger of God, what do you think if I buy this man’s palm tree and then give it to the orphan, will I have a palm tree in Paradise?

O owner of the palm tree, do you know my gardener? He said: Yes, I know him. Does anyone know him? Your garden has good dates. He said: O so-and-so, take all of my garden and everything in it and give me this palm tree.

Do you bear witness to the sale? They said yes, and the man said yes, I took the orchard and gave you the palm tree

O so-and-so, the palm tree is from me to you. Take it

O Messenger of God, now I have a palm tree in Paradise

How many of Abu Al-Dahdah’s throats will be slaughtered in Paradise?

O Umm Al-Dahdah, I have sold the orchard

How did you sell the orchard?

I sold him to my Lord for a palm tree in Paradise

There is a servant among you who has been fighting me with sins for forty years. I will not give you water until he leaves your midst

How do I know him?

O Musa, call and we must deliver the message

There is a servant among us who has been disobeying God and fighting him with sins for forty years, and God will not give us water until this sinner is removed from among us.

O Lord, You have covered me for forty years, so do not disgrace me among your servants today. I seek Your forgiveness and repent to You

O Lord, none of us left, so how did you water us?

With it I prevented you from dripping and with it I gave you water

Lord, who is this servant because of whom you prevented us and caused us to drink?