Tuesday, March 10, 2015

MY WIFE, MY SELF AND PEARL NECKLACE WITH A RED THREAD


My Wife, Myself And The Pearl Necklace With a Red Thread

Abu Muzhaffar, a grandson of Ibn Jauzi said : Ibn Aqil Rahimahullah told ( a short story) about himself, And said :
I once set out to perform Hajj. In the blessed lands, Suddenly I found a pearl necklace strung on a red thread. Close by, I heard an old blind Sheikh announcing that he was looking for that necklace, even he would give a reward of a hundred dinars (Arab’s currency) for the person who returned it to the poor Sheikh.I returned it to him.
He requested me, “Take this dinars (the reward)”, but I refused.
I then left for Syria and visited Baitul Maqdis. Enroute to Baghdad, I stopped at the Masjid in the city, Halab (Aleppo, Syiria), where I took refuge in a Masjid due to cold and hunger. The jamaah (the people who comes to pray congregation) of the Masjid (mosque) came up to me, so I lead their prayer. Then I had a meal from them.  

It was the first of Ramadan, and they said to me :
"Our Imam has passed away and we would like you to lead us in prayer for the remainder of the month." I agreed.
After a time, they mentioned to me that their previous Imam had a daughter of marriageable age. They suggested that I marry her and I agreed. After a year, she gave birth to our son, but fell critically ill immediately thereafter (after nifas/childbirth).

One day, I looked at the necklace she was wearing-it was the very same necklace strung with a red thread I had found many years ago.
I said to her, "This necklace has a story of its own," and I related the incident between me and the Sheikh to her.
Tears filled her eyes and she asked, "You… are truly the man who found it ? I swear to God . My father would cry and make du'a' : 'O Allah, grant my daughter a husband like the man who returned this necklace to me.' Trully, Allah has accepted his du'a'." Soon thereafter, she passed away.
This beautiful and bizarre story is included in Mirâtu az-Zaman page. 8 / 52-53. I quoted from Siyar A'lâmin Nubalâ ': 14 / 332-333 (published Dârulhadïts-Cairo, 1427-H), written by Adz-Dzahabi rahimahullah (Died: 748-H).
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Written at beloved Ma’had, after the Asr prayer, 07 Shawwal 1434/14082013
Jo Saputra Halim (Abu Ziyan)
Note: For some reason, suddenly I was touched to translate this real story after Akh al-Ustadz al_Fadhil then Murzan Abu Adzkia posted this original story text in WhatsApp group where the Ex-of Abu Huraihah Mataram Ma’had.

Then post the original text of this story disebuah WhatsApp group of alumni ngumpulnya place Ma'had Abu Hurairah Mataram. One thing is for sure, there is no other motivations to me to spread this story except for awesome feeling from the the spiritual message in it, following by  hope to get reward from Allah from them who can take the lesson from this story.
Here, is the original text of the posting results (May Allah rewar Al-Akh Abu Adzkia with abundant goodness, on this valuable story):

https://kristaliman.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/aku-istriku-dan-kalung-mutiara-berbenang-merah/                                      

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