The Shaykh's explanation of the hadith that Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) mentioned to Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) when he came to visit him

The Shaykh : The following hadith is hasan (good), and it is the statement: "It was narrated from Abu Sufyan from his elders that he said: Sa'd came to visit Salman. So he wept. Sa'd said: 'What makes you weep, O Abu 'Abdullah? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has passed away, and he was pleased with you, and you will drink from his pool, and you will meet your companions.' He said: 'I am not weeping out of fear of death or greed for this world, but the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) made a covenant with us. He said—'The covenant is explained by his statement: 'He said—' and around me—this is the report of the Messenger, narrated by Salman to Sa'd— The hadith ends. Salman said: 'And around me were these black pots.' He said: 'And what was around him were only small jars, a large bowl, and a box.' So Sa'd said: 'Make a covenant with us.' He said: 'O Sa'd, remember Allah when you are about to do something, when you are about to divide, and when you are about to judge' Al-Hakim narrated it and said: 'The chain is authentic.' He said so. We will speak from the hadith perspective later, after we explain something of this hadith. When Sa'd entered, and he was a noble Companion, indeed he was one of the ten promised Paradise, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him), when he entered upon Salman al-Farisi to visit him, and it seemed he was in the illness of his death (may Allah be pleased with them both), Salman al-Farisi wept. So Sa'd said to him: 'What makes you weep, O Abu 'Abdullah?' Abu 'Abdullah is the kunya (nickname) of Salman al-Farisi. He was consoling him and saying to him: 'The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) has passed away, and he was pleased with you. Why the sadness and why the weeping? And you will drink from his pool, because you are among the companions of the Messenger (may the prayers and peace of Allah be upon him), and among those whom the Messenger (may the prayers and peace of Allah be upon him) left while he was pleased with them. Therefore, he said: 'The Messenger of Allah passed away and he was pleased with you, and you will drink from his pool, and you will meet your companions. So why the sadness and why the weeping?' He said: 'I am not weeping out of fear of death or greed for this world, but Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) made a covenant with us, and I fear that I have not fulfilled this covenant. What did the Messenger say to him and his companions? What was a traveler's provision at that time? Whatever the traveler loaded on his mount as provision, it was a little dates and a little water, such that he could not live on this provision and that water except for a few days. Meaning, what he possesses and gathers to sustain himself and live on, like a traveler's provision, meaning a small amount, as will come in some of the following hadiths, if Allah wills... Let what one of you gathers from this world be just enough, a just enough sustenance, a just enough food to sustain himself and live, and let his aim not be to provision himself with more than what he needs. When I say this, I imagine that many of the attendees and others will wonder in their hearts: does this mean that it is not permissible for us to be expansive in food and drink, especially in this age where people, all of them, Muslims and disbelievers, have become skilled in being expansive in restaurants, food, and drink? Does this mean that this hadith and similar hadiths that follow are a directive that it is not permissible in Islam to be expansive in everything we hinted at earlier? The answer is no. The issue now is not an issue of haram (forbidden) and halal (lawful), but the issue now is training the soul on contentment and on not caring about the debris of this world and provisioning oneself from it beyond what is necessary. As for whoever wants to be expansive, this expansiveness has its limits and its conditions, and I am not in this position, especially since I remember that I expanded on this aspect when we first touched on this topic, which is encouraging asceticism in this world. Therefore, you must link your minds to the fact that the purpose of the research here is not to prohibit the abundance of gathering lawful wealth. No. So I remind you, for example, in a phrase of what I had mentioned previously.