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Riyad as-Salihin 1450 (Book 15, Hadith 43) #37939
The Importance of Remembering Allah

SUMMARY: This hadith is about the importance of remembering Allah and praising Him for guiding us to Islam and bestowing favours on us.

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Mu'awiyah (May Allah be pleased with him) came to an assembly in the mosque and asked them: "What has made you sit together?" They replied, "We are sitting here to remember Allah". He said, "I adjure you by Allah to tell me whether nothing else has made you to sit together". They replied: "By Allah! We are sitting only to remember Allah". Then he said, "I did not adjure you because I suspected you. No one of my rank in the eyes of the Messenger of Allah is the narrator of so few traditions as I am. The fact is that the Messenger of Allah went out to a circle of his Companions and said, 'What has made you sit there?' When they replied that they are sitting together to remember Allah and to praise Him for guiding them to Islam and bestowing favours on them, he said, 'I adjure you by Allah to tell me that nothing else has made you sit together'. On their reply that there was certainly no other purpose, he said, 'I did not adjure you because I suspected you, but Jibril (Gabriel) came to me and told me that Allah was talking proudly of you to the angels"'. Muslim.
وعن أبي سعيد الخدري رضي الله عنه قال‏:‏ خرج معاوية رضي الله عنه على حلقة في المسجد، فقال‏:‏ ما أجلسكم‏؟‏ قالوا‏:‏ جلسنا نذكر الله‏.‏ قال‏:‏ آلله ما أجلسكم إلا ذاك‏؟‏ قالوا‏:‏ ما أجلسنا إلا ذاك، قال‏:‏ أما إني لم أستحلفكم تهمة لكم، وما كان أحد بمنزلتي من رسول الله أقل حديثًا مني‏:‏ إن رسول الله خرج على حلقة من أصحابه فقال‏:‏ ‏"‏ما أجلسكم‏؟‏‏"‏ قالوا‏:‏ جلسنا نذكر الله، ونحمده على ما هدانا للإسلام، ومنَّ به علينا‏.‏ قال‏:‏ ‏"‏آلله ما أجلسكم إلا ذاك‏؟‏‏"‏ قالوا‏:‏ والله ما أجلسنا إلا ذلك‏"‏‏.‏ قال‏:‏ ‏"‏أما إني لم أستحلفكم تهمة لكم، ولكنه أتاني جبريل فأخبرني أن الله يباهي بكم الملائكة‏"‏ ‏(‏‏(‏رواه مسلم‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏

TOPICS
remembrance  *  praise  *  guidance  *  favours

QUICK LESSONS:
Remembering God through prayer or other forms of remembrance such as reciting Quran or dhikr

EXPLANATIONS:
This hadith highlights the importance of remembering Allah and praising Him for His guidance to Islam and His blessings. It was narrated by Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri that Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan asked a group of people why they were sitting together in an assembly in the mosque. They replied that they were there to remember Allah. He then asked them if nothing else made them sit together, which they confirmed. Mu'awiyah then said that he did not suspect them but rather Jibril came to him with a message from Allah saying that He was talking proudly about them to the angels. This hadith teaches us how important it is for Muslims to remember Allah through prayer or other forms of remembrance such as reciting Quran or dhikr as it pleases Him greatly when we do so. It also shows us how much value we have in His eyes when He talks proudly about us even though we may not be aware of it ourselves at times.

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