Anas ibn Malik was told, "Your brothers have come to you from Basra
(and that day he was at the zawiyya) wanting for you to make supplication
to Allah for them." He said, "O Allah, forgive them and show mercy to them.
Give them good in this world and good in the Next World and protect them
from the punishment of the Fire." They asked him to say more and he said
repeated the same thing. He said, "If you are given this, you have been
given the good of this world and the Next."
'Amr ibn al-Harith said, "My mother took me to the Prophet, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, and stroked my head and prayed for
provision to be given to me."
Anas ibn Malik said, "The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, took a bough and shook it and not all the leaves fell off. Then
he shook it again and not all the leaves fell off. Then he shook it a third
time but not all the leaves fell off. He said, 'Saying, "Glory be to Allah
and praise be to Allah and there is no god but Allah" makes errors fall
away as the leaves of a tree fall away.'"
When Anas made supplication for his brother, he said, "May Allah
bless him with the blessing of those who are pious. They are neither unjust
nor corrupt. They stand at night in prayer and fast in the day."
