
مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب المناقب
The Book of Merits
(خِدْمَاتُ حَضْرَةِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ لِلإِسْلَامِ)
(The services of Hazrat Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, for Islam)
Hadith Number: 6040
وعن ابي هريرة قال: سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: «بينا انا نائم رايتني على قليب عليها دلو؟ فنزعت منها ما شاء الله ثم اخذها ابن ابي قحافة فنزع منها ذنوبا او ذنوبين وفي نزعه ضعف والله يغفر له ضعفه ثم استحالت غربا فاخذها ابن الخطاب فلم ار عبقريا من الناس ينزع نزع عمر حتى ضرب الناس بعطن»
Abu Huraira told that he heard God's messenger say, "While I was asleep I saw myself above a well on which there was a bucket. I drew from it what God wished, then the son of Abu Quhafa [1] drew from it one bucketful or two, but in his drawing there was some weakness for which may God forgive him. It then changed into a large bucket which the son of al-Khattab took hold of, and I have never seen a strong man drawing as `Umar did, till the camels had enough and lay down [2] ." [1] i.e., Abu Bakr [2] Or, "the people satisfied their thirst and stayed by the water."
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