81. To make the Heart Tender (Ar-Riqaq)

٨١۔ كتاب الرقاق

81.20 Refraining from doing things Allah has made illegal

٨١۔٢٠ باب الصَّبْرِ عَنْ مَحَارِمِ اللَّهِ

[Machine] "Indeed, the patient ones will be given their reward without account." And Umar said, "We have found the best way of life in patience."

{إِنَّمَا يُوَفَّى الصَّابِرُونَ أَجْرَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ}. وَقَالَ عُمَرُ وَجَدْنَا خَيْرَ عَيْشِنَا بِالصَّبْرِ.

bukhari:6470Abū al-Yamān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd > Abū Saʿīd

Some people from the Ansar asked Messenger of Allah ﷺ (to give them something) and he gave to everyone of them, who asked him, until all that he had was finished. When everything was finished and he had spent all that was in his hand, he said to them, '"(Know) that if I have any wealth, I will not withhold it from you (to keep for somebody else); And (know) that he who refrains from begging others (or doing prohibited deeds), Allah will make him contented and not in need of others; and he who remains patient, Allah will bestow patience upon him, and he who is satisfied with what he has, Allah will make him self-sufficient. And there is no gift better and vast (you may be given) than patience."  

البخاري:٦٤٧٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ أَنَّ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ

أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ أُنَاسًا مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ سَأَلُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَلَمْ يَسْأَلْهُ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ إِلاَّ أَعْطَاهُ حَتَّى نَفِدَ مَا عِنْدَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ حِينَ نَفِدَ كُلُّ شَىْءٍ أَنْفَقَ بِيَدَيْهِ مَا يَكُنْ عِنْدِي مِنْ خَيْرٍ لاَ أَدَّخِرْهُ عَنْكُمْ وَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يَسْتَعِفَّ يُعِفُّهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ يَتَصَبَّرْ يُصَبِّرْهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْنِ يُغْنِهِ اللَّهُ وَلَنْ تُعْطَوْا عَطَاءً خَيْرًا وَأَوْسَعَ مِنَ الصَّبْرِ  

bukhari:6471Khalāad b. Yaḥyá > Misʿar > Ziyād b. ʿIlāqah > al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah

The Prophet ﷺ used to pray so much that his feet used to become edematous or swollen, and when he was asked as to why he prays so much, he would say, "Shall I not be a thankful slave (to Allah)?"  

البخاري:٦٤٧١حَدَّثَنَا خَلاَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ عِلاَقَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ يَقُولُ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُصَلِّي حَتَّى تَرِمَ أَوْ تَنْتَفِخَ قَدَمَاهُ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ فَيَقُولُ أَفَلاَ أَكُونُ عَبْدًا شَكُورًا