The Zuhd of Abu Ubaydah and the Tears of Umar
You only want to cry your eyes out over me, he said to Umar.
You only want to cry your eyes out over me, he said to Umar.
It is reported that Abū ‘Ubaydah b. Al-Jarrāḥ – Allāh be pleased with him – said: O people! Yes, I am a man from Quraysh, but there is not a white man (literally: red), nor a black man amongst you who exceeds me in righteousness (taqwā) except that I wish I was in his skin. […]
Ibn ‘Abbās and Abū Hurayrah – Allāh be pleased with them – said, “There is no harm in making up [fasts of] Ramaḍān separately from one another.” ʿAbd Al-Razzāq, Al-Muṣannaf 4:243; Ibn Abī Shaybah, Al-Muṣannaf article 9114; Al-Dāraquṭnī, Al-Sunan 2:193. Abū ‘Ubaydah b. Al-Jarrāḥ – Allāh be pleased with him – said, when asked about […]