QuizTime (40): Which Sahabhi didn't stopped Qur'an recitation even after He was shot by 2 arrows by enemies in a valley at night?

 

QuizTime (40): Which Sahabhi didn't stopped Qur'an recitation even after He was shot by 2 arrows by enemies in a valley at night?

 

Ans: Abbad Ibn Bishr (RA)

 

Abbad (RA) accompanied the Prophet {saws} in all his military expeditions, and in each one he performed in a way befitting the reciter of the Qur'an.

    
Meanwhile, the Muslims were busy making their camp and getting their camels to kneel so they could tie them up for the night. Then the Prophet, {saws}, asked: "Who is going to stand guard over us tonight?"

    
Abbad ibn Bishr and Ammar ibn Yasir got up together and volunteered. They had been made brothers by the Prophet {saws}, when the Mhuhajirun (emigrants) had first gone to Madina. When they went and took up their position at the entrance to the ravine, Abbad ibn Bishr said to his brother Ammar ibn Yasir: "which half of the night do you prefer to sleep in, the first or the last?" "I will sleep for the first half," said Ammar and he lied down to sleep a few paces away from Abbad.

 

    The night was clear, calm and peaceful. Every star, tree and rock seemed to give praise and glory to its Lord, and the heart of Abbad longed to share in the worship by reciting the Qur'an while he was offering Salah, (prayer) and thus he enjoyed the pleasure of reciting along with that of the ceremony of worship.

    
He faced the Qiblah (direction for prayer), started the prayer, and then began to recite from Qur'an Surah (chapter) of Kahf, in his sweet, emotional voice. Like one swimming in an ocean of divine light, he seemed to be overcome by the spirituality of his setting. Engrossed in worship, he did not notice a man who had appeared on the scene and was rapidly moving towards him. When the man saw Abbad in Bishr standing at the entrance to the ravine, he knew that the Prophet {saws}, and his Companions were camped inside and that this person was their watchman.

Drawing an arrow from his quiver, he set it in his bow, took aim, and shot it into Abbad ibn Bishr, who simply pulled it out of his body and continued his worship! The man shot him again and hit him, but Abbad only pulled this arrow out, as well; so the man shot him a third time. Abbad pulled the arrow out again, but this time crawled over to his friend and awakened him, saying: "Get up, for I have been seriously wounded."

 

    
When the man realized that there were two people keeping guard, he fled. Ammar took a good look at Abbad, and realized that he was bleeding heavily from three wounds, so he exclaimed: "Glory be to Allah, and why did you not awaken me as soon as you were hit the first time?" "I was in the middle of reciting a Surah from the Qur'an," answered Abbad, "and I did not wish to interrupt my reciting in the middle, before I finished. I swear by Allah, if I had not feared that I would leave the army unguarded after the Messenger of Allah {saws}, had commanded me to keep watch, I would have preferred death to being interrupted!

 

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t093O9FEobs

 

Allah knows the best .

 

By Mohammed Asif Ali. #MohammedAsifAli



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