عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إنَّ اللَّهَ قَالَ: : مَنْ عَادَى لِي وَلِيًّا فَقَدْ آذَنْتُهُ بِالحَرْبِ، وَمَا تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِي بِشَيْءٍ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا افْتَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ، وَمَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ: كُنْتُ سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ، وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا، وَرِجْلَهُ الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا، وَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ، وَلَئِنِ اسْتَعَاذَنِي لَأُعِيذَنَّهُ، وَمَا تَرَدَّدْتُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ أَنَا فَاعِلُهُ تَرَدُّدِي عَنْ نَفْسِ المُؤْمِن، يَكْرَهُ المَوْتَ وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ مَسَاءَتَهُ» 

Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said that God says:

1. Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, I shall be at war with him. 2. My servant does not draw closer to Me with anything I love more than the religious duties I have made obligatory for him. 3. My servant continues to draw closer to Me with voluntary worship until I love him. 4. When I love him, I shall be his hearing with which he hears, his sight with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his leg with which he walks. 5. Were he to ask something of Me, I would surely give it to him; and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant it to him. 6. I am never reluctant to do something I want to do as much as I am reluctant to gather a believer’s soul: he hates death and I hate to upset him.

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Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī

Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī embraced Islam in the year in which the Battle of Khaybar took place, i.e. Year 7 of the Hijri calendar. He was the Prophet’s companion who narrated the largest number of his hadiths, because he committed himself to remain close to the Prophet. He was keen to learn the Prophet’s hadiths and he remained for a long time in Madinah. He died in Year 58 AH, 678 CE.

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