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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the hadith of 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): (The poor of my Ummah will enter Paradise before the rich by forty autumns. It was said: Describe them to us?)

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The Shaykh : The hadith that follows it is also authentic, and it is the twelfth hadith. He said:
And from 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) say:
The poor of my Ummah will enter Paradise before the rich by forty autumns. It was said: Describe them to us? He said: Their clothes are tattered, their heads are unkempt, those who are not permitted to sit on the cushions, nor to marry the noble women. The east and west of the earth are entrusted to them. يدخل فقراء أمتي الجنة قبل أغنيائهم بأربعين خريفًا، فقيل: صفهم لنا ؟ قال: الدَّمثة ثيابُهم، الشعثة رؤوسهم، الذين لا يؤذن لهم على السُّدّات، ولا ينكحون المنعمات، توكل بهم مَشَارِق الأَرْض وَمَغَارِبهَا
Meaning: entrusted with them. This is the same meaning as what came before in his saying in the hadith:
They block the frontiers with them. تسد بهم الثغور
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The east and west of the earth are entrusted to them. They give what is their due, but they are not given what is theirs. توكل بهم مَشَارِق الأَرْض وَمَغَارِبهَا، يُعْطون كل الَّذِي عَلَيْهِم وَلَا يُعْطَون كل الَّذِي لَهُم
: This phrase was not explained in the previous hadith, and it is perhaps clear: meaning that these people, due to the purity of their hearts, if they have a right, they give it to its owner, and not the other way around. If they have a right with others, they are not given it. That is because their rights are suppressed due to their poverty and destitution, and because they have no power, no state, and no status. People usually covet such individuals, so they suppress them and consume their rights. So among the characteristics of these poor people is that they give what is their due, but they are not given their rights by people.
Source alathar.net

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