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Ibn Abu Mulaika reported: I heard Ibn 'Abbas as saying: Wlien 'Umar b. Khatab was placed in the coffin the people gathered around him. They praised him and supplicated for him before the bier was lifted up, and I was one amongst them. Nothing attracted my attention but a person who gripped my shoulder from behind. I saw towards him and found that he was 'All. He invoked Allaah's mercy upon 'Umar and said: You have left none behind you (whose) deeds (are so enviable) that I love to meet Allaah with them. By Allaah, I hoped that Allaah would keep you and your two associates together. I had often heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: I came and there came too Abu Bakr and 'Umar; I entered and there entered too Abu Bakr and 'Umar; I went out and there went out too Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and I hope and think that Allaah will keep you along with them. |
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