وَجَآءُوٓ أَبَاهُمْ عِشَآءًۭ يَبْكُونَ
Wa jaaa'ooo abaahum 'ishaaa 'any yabkoon
And they came to their father at night, weeping.
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Lessons from past peoples
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And they came to their father in the evening weeping.
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"My father, Talq bin 'Ali visited me one day in Ramadan and stayed with us until the evening. He led us in praying Qiyam that night and prayed witr with us. Then he went down to a masjid and led his companions in prayer until only witr was left. Then he told a man to go forward and said to him: 'Lead them in praying witr, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: There should not be two witrs in one night."
"My father was brought on the day of Uhud and he had been mutilated. He was placed in front of the Messenger of Allah covered with a cloth. I wanted to uncover him but my people forbade m3e to do so. The Prophet ordered that he was lifted up, he heard the voice of a woman weeping. He said: 'Who is this?' They said: 'This is the daughter of 'Amr, or the sister of 'Amr.' He said: 'Do not weep, or 'She should not weep, for the angels kept on shading him with their wings until he was lifted up,""
(My father) Al-`Abbas sent me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he was in the house of my mother's sister Maimuna and I spent that night along with him. He (the Holy Prophet) got up and prayed at night, and I stood up on his left side. He caught hold of me from behind his back and made me stand on his right side.
My father's mutilated body was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and was placed in front of him. I went to
uncover his face but my companions forbade me. Then mourning cries of a lady were heard, and it
was said that she was either the daughter or the sister of `Amr. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Why is she crying?"
Or said, "Do not cry, for the angels are still shading him with their wings." (Al-Bukhari asked Sadqa,
a sub-narrator, "Does the narration include the expression: 'Till he was lifted?' " The latter replied,
"Jabir may have said it.")
When my father was martyred, I lifted the sheet from his face and wept and the people forbade me to
do so but the Prophet (ﷺ) did not forbid me. Then my aunt Fatima began weeping and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "It
is all the same whether you weep or not. The angels were shading him continuously with their wings
till you shifted him (from the field). "
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