Abu Rifa'a al-'Adawi said, "I came to the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was speaking [i.e. on
Jumu'a]. I said, 'Messenger, a stranger man has come to ask about his deen.
He does not know what his deen is.' He turned to me and stopped speaking.
He was brought a chair which I think had iron legs. (Hamid [one of the
transmitters] said, 'I think that it was black wood like iron).'] He sat
down on it and began to teach me what Allah had taught him. Then he finished
his speech."
Sa'id al-Maqburi said, "I passed by Ibn 'Umar who had a man with
him with whom he was conversing. I went to them, and he struck me on the
chest and said, 'When you find two men conversing, do not go up to them
nor sit with them until they give you permission.' I said. 'May Allah make
you prosper, Abu 'Abdu'r-Rahman. I hoped that I would hear something good
from you.'"
Anas ibn Malik said, "I came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, while he was on a seat with a bad woven on it. He
had a pillow under his head made of skin stuffed with fibre. There was
a cloth between his skin and the seat. 'Umar visited him and wept. The
Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'What made you
weep, 'Umar?' He said, 'By Allah, Messenger of Allah, I am only weeping
since I know that you are more noble with Allah than Chosroes and Caesar.
They both live in what they live of this world while you, Messenger of
Allah, are in the place I see.' The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, said, 'Are you not content, 'Umar, that they have this world
while we have the Next?' I replied, 'Yes, Messenger of Allah.' He said,
'That is the way of it.'"
