Abdullah Ibn Mubarak has narrated: Sufyan mentioned a woman of Kufa who was called Umm Hasaan, a woman of great ijtihaad and worship. So (we went to visit her) and entered her home, and we saw that there was nothing in it except a small worn-out mat. Ath-Thawri said to her: “If you write a note to some of your relatives, they could help change your poor condition.” She said, “Sufyan, in my eyes you were better (than this) and in my heart you were greater before this moment. I do not ask for things of this world from the One who controls it, owns it and rules over it, so how is it that I would ask those that have no control over it nor rule in it? Sufyan, I swear by Allah, I dislike that a time comes upon me in which I am too busy for Allah, by being occupied with other than Him.” Sufyan At-Thawri wept at these words. Source: Sifat As-Safwa, 3/188
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:49:07 +0000
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