Hadith #363

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English Translation

Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, he said: ʿĀṣim narrated to us, he heard Zirr ibn Ḥubaysh who said: I came to Ṣafwān ibn ʿAssāl al-Murādī. He said: 'What brings you?' I said: 'Seeking knowledge.' He said: 'The angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, being pleased with what he seeks.' I said: 'Something has been bothering me' — and Sufyān once said: 'in my chest — about wiping over the leather socks after using the toilet and urinating, and you were a man from the Companions of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, so I came to ask you: did you hear anything from him about that?' He said: 'Yes. He used to command us when we were traveling not to remove our leather socks for three days and their nights except for major ritual impurity, but [we could keep them on] for using the toilet, urinating, and sleep.' I said to him: 'Did you hear him mention love?' He said: 'Yes. While we were with him on a journey, a Bedouin called to him with a loud voice: "O Muḥammad!" We said: "Woe to you! Lower your voice, for you have been forbidden from that." He said: "By Allāh, I will not lower my voice!" The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Here I am," and answered him in a manner befitting his question' — and Sufyān once said: 'and answered him similarly to what he spoke of.' He said: 'What do you think of a man who loves a people but has not reached their level?' He said: 'He is with those whom he loves.' Then he continued narrating to us until he said: 'Indeed from the direction of the west there is a door whose width is a journey of seventy — or forty — years, which Allāh عز وجل opened for repentance on the day He created the heavens and the earth. He will not close it until the sun rises from it.'