ABU BAKR’S TENDER HEART
On the authority of ‘Aa’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, who says: “1 had seen my parents practicing Islam since I attained the age of puberty. Not a day passed but the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, visited us, both in the morning and the evening. My father Abu Bakr thought of building a mosque in the courtyard of his house, and he did so. He used to pray and recite the Qur’an in it. The polytheist women and their children used to gather around him and look at him astonishingly. Abu Bakr was a softhearted man and could not help weeping while reciting the Qur’an. The chiefs of the Quraysh disbelievers became afraid of that (i.e. that their children and women might be affected by the recitation of Qur’an).” (Reported by Al-Bukhari.)
Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, reports that after the death of Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, Abu Bakr said to ‘ Umar, “Let us visit Umm Ayman as Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, used to visit her.” When they went to her, she wept. They (Abu Bakr and ‘Umar) said to her, “What makes you weep? What is in store (in the next world) for Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, is better than (this worldly life).” She said, “I weep not because I am ignorant of the fact that what is in store for Allah’s Messenger (in the next world) is better than (this worldly life), but I weep because the Divine Revelation has ceased to come from Heaven. This moved both of them to tears and they began to weep along with her.” (Reported by Moslem.)
(Source: Biographies of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.)
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