al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2666

Translation

✧ “O Abu Dharr, how will you be when a death strikes the people until a house is worth a servant?” meaning a grave. I said, “What Allah and His Messenger choose for me.” Then he said, “How will you be when a famine strikes the people until you come to your mosque and cannot return to your bed, and cannot rise from your bed to your mosque?” I said, “What Allah and His Messenger choose for me.” He said, “Keep to chastity.” Then he said, “How will you be when a killing strikes the people until the stones of al-Zayt are drowned in blood?” I said, “What Allah and His Messenger choose for me, or Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said, “Stay in your house.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, should I not take my sword and strike with it those who do that?” He said, “Then you would have shared with the people.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, what if someone enters my house?” He said, “If you fear that the flash of the sword will overwhelm you, say like this, and throw the edge of your garment over your face, so he will bear his sin and your sin, and he will be among the people of the Fire.”

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