The Prophet (sallahAllaahu alayhi wasallam) said:
إِذَا أُصِيبَ أَحَدُكُمْ بِمُصِيبَةٍ، فَلْيَذْكُرْ مُصِيبَتَهُ بِي، فَإِنَّهَا أَعْظَمُ الْمَصَائِبِ عِنْدَهُ
“If any of you is struck with a calamity; then let him remember his calamity with me [i.e. my death], for indeed it is the greatest of all calamities.”
Authenitcated by Imaam Al-Albaanee in As-Saheeha: 1106
Surely, all other calamities –are sorrowful- but they can not be compared to the magnitude of that.
By Allaah, ask yourself: how many times have you remembered and contemplated that our beloved one (sallahAllaahu ‘alayhi wasallam) has passed on?
By Allaah, ask yourself: how many times have you cried when you remember this great calamity?
Don’t forget to supplicate for your suffering brethren.
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11/01/2009 at 10:40
Sajid
AhsanAllaahu ilaykum. Are you sure that when rasoolullah sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam said “remember his calamity with me” he meant “his death”. Or is it that we are to compare our calamities with the calamities that he suffered during his life? Can you please provide the proof for the part “[i.e. my death]”? Is this explanation also in As-Saheeha: 1106?
JazakAllaah khayr.
11/01/2009 at 19:10
aqwaalulhikmah
Assalaamu alaykum,
BaarakaAllaahu feeka for your query.
Below are statements of the scholars in explaining this hadeeth.
Al-Haafidh ibn Abdulbarr said:
قال الحافظ ابن عبد البر « وصدق صلى الله عليه وسلم لأن المصيبة به أعظم من كل مصيبة يصاب بها المسلم بعده إلى يوم القيامة انقطع الوحي وماتت النبوة»
(التمهيد19/322).
‘And surely he (sallahAllaahu alayhi wasallam) has said the truth, for indeed the calamity by him is greater than any other calamity which can befall a person –after him- upto the Day of Judgement, due to the revelation being cut-off, and the Prophethood dieing.”
At-Tamheed: 19/322.
Al-Allaamah al-Munnaawee in his book Faydhul Qadeer, explaining this hadeeth:
The text of the hadeeth is in brackets and its translation is bold, the explanation –with its arabic text- comes below every portion and it is not bold.
It says:
(إذا أصاب أحدكم مصيبة فليذكر)
“If any of you is struck with a calamity; then let him remember,
أي: يتذكر
Meaning: let him remember
(مصيبته بي)
his calamity by me
أي: بفقدي من بين أظهر هذه الأمة وانقطاع الوحي والإمداد السماوي
Meaning: By my disappearance from this Ummah, and the cut-off of the revelation and the heavenly re-inforcement.
(فإنها من أعظم)
for indeed it is from the greatest..
وفي رواية: من أشد
And in another narration: From the most severe…
(المصائب)
…of all calamities.”
بل هي أعظمها بدليل خبر ابن ماجه: إن أحدا من أمتي لن يصاب بمصيبة بعدي أشد عليه من مصيبتي
Rather surely it is the greatest of all of them, by the proof of the narration in Ibn Maajah:
‘There is no one from amongst my Ummah who would be stricken with a calamity –after me- which is more severe to him than my calamity.”
Faydhul Qadeer sharh Jaam’i as-Sagheer: 1/368. Daarul Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1994. Checking of Ahmad Abdussalaam.
As you see the scholars who explained this hadeeth have understood it to be the death, and in arabic this is apparent.
And it is true that we have to ponder over all the hardships he went through. But as you see the text of the hadeeth singles out and emphasizes, that this is the greatest of all calamities.
And for benefit, there is a book by shaykh Husayn al-‘Awaaisha solely on this topic. You can see it here: http://islamicbookstore.com/b9831.html
And Allaah knows best.
11/01/2009 at 20:08
Sajid
BaarakAllaahu feekum for the clarification.