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The Temporary Abode
Allah ﷻ says in the Qur’an:
يَٰقَوۡمِ إِنَّمَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنۡيَا مَتَٰعٞ وَإِنَّ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةَ هِيَ دَارُ ٱلۡقَرَارِ
O my people, this worldly life is only [temporary] enjoyment, and indeed, the Hereafter – that is the home of [permanent] settlement.
-Surah Ghafir, Ayah 39
_ Abdullah رضي الله عنه narrated: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sleeping upon a mat, then he stood, and the mat had left marks on his side. We said: “O Messenger of Allah! We could get a bed for you.” He (ﷺ) said: “What do I have to do with the world! I am not in the world but as a rider seeking shade under a tree, then he catches his breath and leaves it.”
[Abu ‘Ēsa (At-Tirmidhi) said, ‘this hadeeth is Hasan Saheeh in Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2377]
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A similar narration:
Narrated by Abdullah رضي الله عنه:
The Prophet (ﷺ) lay down on a reed mat, and it left marks on his skin. I said: “May my father and mother be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah! If you had told us we would have provided you with something that would save you this trouble.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “What is there between myself and the world? This world and I are just like a rider who stops to rest beneath the shade of a tree then goes and leaves it.”
[Graded Hasan in Sunan Ibn Majah 4109]
_ Mujahid narrated that Ibn ‘Umar رضي الله عنه said: “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) grabbed me on part of my body and said: ‘Be in the world like a stranger or a passerby, and count yourself among the inhabitants of the grave.’”_
Ibn ‘Umar said to me: “When you wake up in the morning, then do not concern yourself with the evening. And when you reach the evening, then do not concern yourself with the morning. Take from your health before your illness, and from your life before your death, for indeed O slave of Allah! You do not know what your description shall be tomorrow.”
[Graded Sahih in Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2333]
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