What did you hear from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?

The reader: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) transmitted in the context of the hadiths in the chapter on the miracles of the awliya (close friends of Allah) and their virtue: "From 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr

That Sa'id ibn Zayd ibn 'Amr ibn Nufayl (may Allah be pleased with him) was sued by Arwa bint Aws before Marwan ibn al-Hakam, and she claimed that he had taken something from her land. Sa'id said: "Would I take anything from her land after what I heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He said: "What did you hear from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Whoever takes a span of the land unjustly, it will be wrapped around him to the depth of seven earths.'" Marwan said to him: "I will not ask you for evidence after this." Sa'id said: "O Allah, if she is a liar, blind her sight and kill her in her land." It is said that she did not die until her sight was lost, and while she was walking in her land, she fell into a pit and died.

أن سعيد بن زيد بن عمرو بن نفيل رضي الله عنه خاصمته أروى بنت أوس إلى مروان بن الحكم وادعت أنه أخذ شيئًا من أرضها، فقال سعيد: أنا كنت آخذ من أرضها شيئًا بعد الذي سمعت من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، قال: ماذا سمعت من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم؟ قال سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: من أخذ شبرًا من الأرض ظلمًا طوقه إلى سبع أرضين، فقال له مروان لا أسألك بينة بعد هذا، فقال سعيد: اللهم إن كانت كاذبة فأعم بصرها واقتلها في أرضها، قال: فما ماتت حتى ذهب بصرها وبينما هي تمشي في أرضها إذ وقعت في حفرة فماتت

Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, and in a narration by Muslim: from Muhammad ibn Zayd ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar to the same effect

he had seen Arwa blind, feeling for on the walls with her hand and saying: "I am ruined by the curse of Sa'id." Later she fell in a well in the same disputed land and died.

وأنه رآها عمياء تلتمس الجدر تقول أصابتني دعوة سعيد وأنها مرت على بئر في الدار التي خاصمته فيها فوقعت فيها وكانت قبرها

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The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Among the miracles of the awliya (close friends of Allah) is that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) answers their supplications until they witness the result with their own eyes. So Sa'id ibn Zayd ibn 'Amr ibn Nufayl (may Allah be pleased with him) is one of the ten promised Paradise or meaning: How could I take from her after I heard this from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family)? Every believer who believes in Allah and His Messenger, when he hears such a report from the Truthful and the Verifier (peace and blessings be upon him), it is not possible for him to wrong anyone of their land, not even a span. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) informs you that if you took a span of the land, it would be wrapped around you; the mention of the span is for exaggeration, otherwise, if one took less than that, even one centimeter, it would be wrapped around him on the Day of Resurrection from seven earths. When the Day of Resurrection comes, this piece that he took will come wrapped around his neck from seven earths, because the earths are seven layers, as Allah the Exalted said: And when a person owns a piece of land, he owns its depths down to the lowest depths to the seventh earth, and if he owns it, he also owns its air up to the Pleiades. No one can build a bridge above it or dig a trench below it, because the land is his down to the lowest depths and up to the highest sky, all of it is his. When the Day of Resurrection comes, and this person has cut out a span of the land without right, he will come on the Day of Resuction wrapped around his neck with it; we ask Allah for safety. And with all the scholars, everything is gathered on the Day of Resurrection, even the wild beasts are gathered, even the camels, even the cows, even the sheep, all are gathered on the Day of Resurrection. And this person is seen carrying this land, and I seek refuge in Allah, from seven earths. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He changed its markers," meaning he changed its boundaries and inserted something that did not belong to him. And in this is evidence that expanding the land or taking something without right is among the major sins, because of this great threat of curse and that he will carry it on the Day of Resurrection. So what about people today who take miles, indeed miles of miles, and I seek refuge in Allah, without right? They take it, restricting the pastures of the Muslims and depriving the Muslims of their pastures, or of their roads, or of the waterways of their land, or the like of that. These people will be wrapped with what they took on the Day of Resuction, and I seek refuge in Allah, because they took it without right. The pastures for the Muslims in general, the lines and roads for the Muslims in general, the valleys and rain valleys for the Muslims in general. For this reason, the scholars said: "A person does not own by reviving what is near a settled area, and it is connected to the interest of this settled area" even if he revives it, plants it, and builds on it, his planting will be uprooted and his building demolished if this is connected to the interests of the town. And the town is not the property of so-and-so or so-and-so, but it is for the Muslims in general. Even if we assume that the one in authority grants this man a portion of the land that the people of the town need, he does not own it by that, because the one in authority only seeks the interests of the Muslims and does not give the interests of the Muslims to one person to the exclusion of another. And this issue is serious, extremely serious. For this reason, when the value of lands rose, people, and I seek refuge in Allah, encroach on one another. One claims that the land is his and it is not his; he is a neighbor to a person, then he inserts something of his land into the other's land, and this is a great danger. Even the scholars, I tell you something you will be surprised by, they said: "If a person builds a wall and then increases its thickness in its smoothness, if he increases in its smoothness, he enters the market by one centimeter of smoothness only, then he is a wrongdoer and will be punished by Allah on the Day of Resuction" to this extent, people now, and I seek refuge in Allah, swallow, swallow miles or meters, with this severe threat. Sa'id ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him), when he told Marwan this hadith, said: "Now I do not ask for evidence against you," because he knew that Sa'id would never, ever take from this woman's land without right. As for the woman, Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Allah, if she is a liar, blind her sight and destroy her in her land" So what happened? This woman was blinded by Allah the Exalted before she died. And while she was walking in her land one day, she fell into a well and died, so the well became her grave in the same land in which she was suing Sa'id ibn Zayd. And this is from the miracle of Allah the Exalted for Sa'id ibn Zayd, that Allah answered his supplication and he witnessed it while alive before he died. And it has preceded us that the supplication of the oppressed is answered, even if he is a disbeliever, if he is oppressed, because Allah the Exalted avenges the oppressed from the oppressor, because He, Mighty and Majestic, is a just Judge who does not wrong and does not allow anyone to wrong. And Allah the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an, the word of the Lord of the Worlds: So the wrongdoer will never succeed. And therefore, look at this story and the story of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas that passed yesterday, how Allah answered the supplication, indeed it passed before yesterday, how Allah answered the supplication of this one. And this is the custom of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) with His servants. We ask Allah to protect us and you from what angers Him.