The book of Iman (Faith)

 12. abu Hurairah, narrated: We were siting around the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam: abu Bakr and ´Umar, were also there among the audience. Meanwhile the Messenger of Allah stood up and left us. He delayed in coming back to us, which caused anxiety that he might have been attacked by some enemy when we were not with him; so being alerted we rose. I was the first to be concerned. I therefore went out to search for the Messenger of allah salla alayhi wa sallam and came to a compound belonging to Banu An-Najjar - a section of the Ansar. I wnt round it lokkfor a gate but failed to find one. Seeing a Rabi´´ (i.e. streamlet) flowing into the compound from an external weel. I crouched, like a fox, and slunk into (the place) where Messenger of Allah was. Then the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam asked: ´´It is Abu Hurairah?´´ I replied: ´´Yes, O Messenger of Allah.´´ He said: ´´ What is the matter with you?´´ I replied: ´´You were amongst us but rose, went away and delayed for a time, so fearing that you might he attacked by some enemy when we were not with you, we became alarmed. I was the fir to be worried.  So when I came to this compound, I crouched as a fox does, and these people are following me.

Then he addressed me, ´´O Abu Hurairah, and gave me his sandals and said: ´´Take aeway these sanfsls of mine, and when you meet anyone outside this compound who testifies that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, being affirmed of it in his heart, gladden him with Jannah.´´ Now the first one I meet was ´Umar. He asked: ´´What are these sandals, O Abu Hurairah?´´ I replied: ´´These are the sandals of the Messenger of Allah with which he has sent me to gladden anyone I meet, whp testifies that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, being affirmed of it in his heart, he will go to Jannah.´´ The narrator said: Thereupon ´Umar struck me on the breast and I feel on my back. He then said: ´´Go back, O Abu Hurairah.´´ So I returned to the Messenger of Allah and I was about to burst into tears that ´Umar followed me closely and there he was behind me. The Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´What is the matter with you, O Abu Hurairah?´´ I said: ´´I happened to meet ´Umar and conveyed to him the message with which you sent me. He struck me on my breast which made me fall down upon my back and he ordered me to go back.´´ Upon this the Messenger of allah said: ´´O Umar! What promited you send Abu Hurairah with you sandals to gladden anuone he met who testified that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and being assured of it in his heart, that he would go to Jannah?´´ He said: ´´Yes.´´ Umar said: ´´please do not do it, for I am afraid that people will trust only in it, let them go on doing (good) deeds.´´ The Messenger ofAllah said: ´´Well, let them.´´

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