The book of Iman (Faith)

 Should I be asked intercede, I would certainly intercede for you, and if I have the power, I would certainly benefit to you.´´ Then he said: ´´By Allah, never did I hear anything from the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam which could have been a source of benefit to you and I have not conveyed it to you except this single Hadith that I intened to narrate to you today, since I am going to breathe my last. I heard the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam saying: ´´He who testifies that none has the right to be worshipped but allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, Allah has prohibited the Hell-fire for him.

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Abu Hurayrah narrated: we were sitting around the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam: Abu Bakr and Umar, were also there among the audience, Meanwhile the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam stood up and left us. He delayed incoming 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 compoind belonging to Banu An-Najjar - a section of the Ansar. I went round it lookfor 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 salla alayhi wa sallam was. Then the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam asked: ´´Is it Abu Hurayrah?´´ I replied: ´´Yes, O Messenger of Allah.´´ I said: ´´What is the matter with you?´´ I replied: ´´You were amongst us but tose, went away and delayed for a time, som fearing that you might be attacked by some enemy when we were not with you, we became alarmed. I was the first 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:´´ amd gave me this sandals and said: ´´Take away these sandals 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 mett was ´Umar. He  asked: ´´What are these sandsls, O abu Hurairah?´´ I replied: ´´These are the sandals of the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam with which he has sent me to gladden anyone I meet, who 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 salla alayhi wa sallam and I was about to burst into tears that Úmar 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 struch me on the breast which made me fall down upon my back and he ordered me to go back.´´ Upon this the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´O ´Umar! What prompted you to do this?´He said: ´´O Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said: ´´O ´Umar! What prompted you to do this?´´ He said: ´´O Messenger of Allah, my mother and father be sacrificed for you, did you send Abu Hurairah with your sandals to gladden anyone 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 to it, for I am afriad that people will trust only in it, let them go on doing (Good) deeds.´´ The Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam: ´´Well, let them.´´