And from him (may Allah be pleased with him) that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say

The Shaykh : The hadith following it, which is also an authentic hadith, is narrated by the author (may Allah have mercy on him) from the same previously mentioned Companion, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri. He said: And from him that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say Narrated by Ibn Hibban in his Sahih.
In this hadith, there is a special virtue for the Muslim who combines these five characteristics in one day. Among them is visiting the sick. So whoever does that, as comes in the following hadith, Allah the Mighty and Majestic guarantees him Paradise. He (peace be upon him) said: Attending a funeral requires some clarification, unlike visiting the sick, for which what we have spoken of recently and previously is sufficient. As for attending a funeral, it has a general indication; it includes seeing it off, includes praying over it, and includes attending its burial. Undoubtedly, when a word is used in its general form in the Arabic language, this generality refers to the most comprehensive and broadest meaning. Therefore, his (peace be upon him) saying in this hadith does not mean merely that he prayed over it in the mosque or the prayer area, but rather it means all of the aforementioned: seeing off the funeral from the moment it leaves the house, then praying over it, either in the mosque or in the prayer area, and the latter is better, then continuing to see it off and attending its burial. In this sense, this day is general, but it must be restricted to a day on which the Wise Lawgiver has not prohibited fasting. It should be a day on which fasting is permissible, at the very least, if not one of the days on which fasting is preferred over other days, such as Monday and Thursday, and the like. However, the important thing is that this day which the one who deserves to enter Paradise fasts must be a permissible fast. So he should not fast, for example, on Friday alone, because the Messenger (peace be upon him), as we have mentioned repeatedly, prohibited singling out the night of Friday for standing in prayer and prohibited singling out its day for fasting.
So any day he fasts, and it is a permissible fast, is the one included in this hadith. Likewise, going to the Friday prayer has degrees. So do you see whether the intended meaning is the highest or the lowest? What comes to mind is what we said recently regarding attending a funeral, namely the broadest, most comprehensive, and best meaning. That is because the one who goes to the Friday prayer in the first hour is called one who went to the Friday prayer, and the one who goes in the last hour and barely catches the sermon and then the prayer is also one who went to the Friday prayer. But this last matter is the minimum required of a person. So is the intended meaning in such a hadith, which restricts this great virtue for its owner, merely that he goes to the Friday prayer? It appears that the intended meaning of the one who went to the Friday prayer, as in the hadith of al-Bukhari, is Undoubtedly, here it is not intended to be the one who has only an egg, let alone that it is intended to be the one who does not even have an egg when he goes to the mosque and the scrolls have been rolled up and the preacher has ascended the pulpit.
Thus, in this hadith, there is an exhortation to visit the sick, attend funerals from the beginning, fast a prescribed day, and go early to the Friday prayer. This is the fourth characteristic. As for the fifth characteristic, it is his saying: And unfortunately, this is something that is not possible today. The reason is clear: we live in an Islamic society in name only... and not in reality, unfortunately. And perhaps the Muslims will regain their honor and glory so that they can perform some of the virtues that have passed them by due to their turning away from acting upon what Allah the Mighty and Majestic has revealed, among which is freeing slaves.