Hazrat Samurah bin Sahm says: Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) went to his maternal uncle's house. After that, the narrator mentioned the previous incident and said that Sufyan Thawri (may Allah have mercy on him) also narrated this statement of Hazrat Muawiyah's (may Allah be pleased with him) maternal uncle in this narration: "If only there was complete and perpetual poverty all around us."

37030 - (He said) (1): Sufyan al-Thawri added in his isnad: If only it had been (dung) (2) around us (3).

Hazrat Abu Sufyan, narrating from his elders, says: Hazrat Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) went to visit Hazrat Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) when he was ill, and he began to weep. The narrator says: So Hazrat Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him: What has made you weep? Whereas the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) passed away in such a state that he was pleased with you, you will have the honor of meeting him (on the Day of Judgment), and you will also go to him at the Pond of Kawthar. Hazrat Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: I am not weeping out of fear of death or attachment to the world, but (what grieves me is that) the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) advised us: Your sustenance should be limited to the amount that a rider (traveler) carries as provisions. Whereas around me are these cushions (which are more than a traveler’s provisions). The narrator says: In fact, he only had one cushion, a large bowl, and a water jug with him. Then Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Abu Abdullah! Please give us some advice that we may hold on to after you. So he said: O Sa’d! (Remember) Allah especially at three times: (first) when you are afflicted with any sorrow, (second) when you are about to make a decision, and (third) when you are about to make a distribution (among partners in which equality is required by Shariah).

Hazrat Aswad says: Abdullah said: If the people of knowledge safeguard their knowledge, and spread it only among those who are worthy of it, then because of this they would rule over the people of their time. But they squandered that knowledge among the people of the world so that through it they might obtain their worldly wealth and benefits from them. So they became disgraced among the people of the world. I heard your Prophet e say: Whoever chooses one concern (the concern for religion) out of all his concerns, Allah Almighty will suffice him in the matter of his Hereafter. And the person whom (worldly) worries and the conditions of the world entangle and scatter into various desires and aspirations, Allah Almighty will not care in the least into which valley (of calamity and misguidance) he falls.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Ja'far that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: When faith enters the heart, the heart opens up and there is expansion in it. Then he recited this verse { فَمَنْ یُرِدِ اللَّہُ أَنْ یَہْدِیَہُ یَشْرَحْ صَدْرَہُ لِلإِسْلاَمِ }. People asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Is there any sign by which it can be recognized?" He said, "Its sign is turning towards the Hereafter, detachment from the house of deception, and preparing for death before death comes."

Hazrat Abdullah bin Masoor narrates that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم recited this blessed verse { فمَنْ یُرِدِ اللَّہُ أَنْ یَہْدِیَہُ یَشْرَحْ صَدْرَہُ لِلإِسْلاَمِ }. The people asked, "O Messenger of Allah! What is its explanation?" He replied, "It is a light; when it enters the heart, the heart opens up." He was asked, "Is there any sign by which it can be recognized?" He replied, "Its sign is attention towards the Hereafter, aversion to the house of deception, and preparation for death before death."

Hazrat Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) once said to me, "Look, who appears to you as the most distinguished person in the mosque?" I looked carefully and saw that there was a man in the mosque who was wearing fine clothes. I said, "It is he." Then he asked, "Who appears to you as the most inferior person in the mosque?" I looked and saw that there was a man whose body was covered with worn-out clothes. I said, "It is he." The Prophet said, "If the likes of the first one were to fill the whole earth, this second one is still better than all of them."

It is narrated in the same way from another narrator.

It is narrated from Hazrat Dhahhak bin Muzahim that he says: A person came to the service of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He said, "O Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him! Who is the greatest ascetic among the people in matters of the world?" The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The one who does not forget graves and decay, who leaves the best of the adornments of the world, who prefers the everlasting over the perishable, who does not count tomorrow as part of his days (of life), and who considers himself among the dead."

It is narrated from Hazrat Amr bin Maymoon that the Noble Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said to a man: "Consider five things as a blessing before five things: your life before your death, your free time before your preoccupation, your wealth before your poverty, your youth before your old age, and your health before your illness. (Consider them a blessing)"