Anas ibn Malik (رضى الله عنه) said that when he was sitting with the
Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم), he said: “Coming upon you now
is a man from the people of Paradise.” So a man came from the Ansar
whose beard looked disarrayed by the water from Wudu (ablution), and he
was carrying both of his shoes with his left hand.
The next day the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) repeated the same words, and the Ansar came in the same condition.
The third day the Prophet repeated the same again, and the Ansar man showed up in the same condition.
When the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) stood up to leave,
Abdullah ibn Umar ibn Al-’As followed the man and asked him, “I have
quarreled with my father and I have sworn not to enter my home for three
days. May I stay with you?” He said: “Yes.”
Abdullah ibn Umar
ibn Al-‘As stayed three nights with him but never saw him praying at
night, and whenever he went to bed, he would remember Allah and rest
until he woke up for Fajr prayer.
Abdullah said that he never
heard anything but good from his mouth. When three nights had passed and
he did not see anything special about his actions, Abdullah asked him,
“O servant of Allah! I have not quarreled with my father nor have I cut
relations with him. I heard the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم)
say three times that a man from the people of Paradise was coming to us,
and then you came. So I thought I should stay with you and see what you
are doing that I should follow, but I did not see you do anything
special. What is the reason that the Messenger of Allah spoke highly of
you?”
The man said: “It is as you have seen.” When Abdullah was
about to leave, the man said, “It is as you have seen, except that I do
not find fraud in my soul towards the Muslims, and I do not envy anyone
because of the good that Allah has given them.”
[Musnad Imam Ahmad, Narrations of Anas ibn Malik, Number 12286]
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