Musnad Ahmad 23810

Translation

✧ We sat with al-Miqdad b. al-Aswad one day, and a man passed by him and said, 'Blessed are these two eyes that saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. By Allah, we would love to have seen what you saw and witnessed what you witnessed.' He became angry, and I began to wonder, for he had said nothing but good. Then he turned to him and said, 'What makes a man wish for a scene from which Allah kept him away, when he does not know how he would have been had he witnessed it? By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was attended by people whom Allah cast on their nostrils into Hell, for they did not answer him or believe him. Do you not praise Allah that He brought you forth knowing none but your Lord, believing in what your Prophet brought? You have been spared the trial through others. By Allah, Allah sent the Prophet ﷺ in the hardest state in which any prophet was ever sent, in a period of interval and ignorance, when they did not think any religion was better than the worship of idols. He came with a criterion by which he distinguished between truth and falsehood, and separated a father from his child, so that a man would see his father or his child or his brother as a disbeliever, while Allah had opened the lock of his heart to faith, and he knew that if he perished he would enter the Fire, so his eye would not be cooled while he knew his beloved was in the Fire. And that is the very thing about which Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: "And those who say, 'Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes.'"

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