Wednesday, May 2, 2012

‘O Allah, O Allah. They have surely called You but You did not respond:

'Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak: 'Iwas in Makkah when the people were
afflicted with a drought. So they all cameout to Masjid al-Haram for
Istisqaa' (prayer for rain) but they were not granted rain, and to my
side was a black slave. He said, 'O Allah, O Allah. They have surely
called You but You did not respond. I swear to You and take an oath by
You that You will indeed provide water for us.'
Ibn al-Mubarak said, 'By Allah, it was only a short moment before we
were granted rain.'
He continued saying, 'The black slave departed and I followed him
until he entered a house in Hanatin.I put a mark on it and in the
morning, I took some money and went to the house. A man came to the
door and I said to him, 'I want to see the owner of this house.' He
said, 'It's me.' I said, 'There is a slave of yours whom I wish to
purchase.' He said, 'I have fourteen servants, I'll bring them out to
you.' Ibn al-Mubarak said, 'but he was not amongst them.' SoI said to
him (the man), 'Anyone left?' He said, 'A sick boy.' He brought him
out and it was him. I said, 'Sell him to me.' He said, 'He is yours, O
Abu Abdur-Rahman.' So I gave him fourteen dinars and I took the
servant. When we had gone along the way, he said 'O master, what could
you want with me when I am ill?' I said to him, 'It's because of what
I saw yesterday evening (during the istisqaa').' The boy leaned
against the wall and said, 'O Allah! Do not cause me to become famous
but take me back to You!'
Ibn al-Mubarak: 'He fell down dead and the people of Makkah began to
surround him…'
[Sifat al-Safwah by Ibn al-Jawzi]

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