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did not return my greeting. I said to him, „Abu Katadah, I ask you in
the Name of Allah, do you not know I love Allah and His Messenger,
praise and peace be upon him?‟ But he remained silent. I repeated
my earnest question, but he still did not reply. I asked a third time
and he replied, „Allah and His Messenger, praise and peace be
upon him, know best.‟ When I heard this, I could not restrain my
tears and returned home.
One day I was loitering in the market-place of Medina when I heard
a peasant from Syria, who had brought grain to sell, ask, „Would
someone direct me to Ka'ab, the son of Malik?‟ The people pointed
in my direction so he came to me and handed me a letter from the
King of Ghassan. Being literate I read it. It read, „We have heard
your master has treated you unjustly. Allah has not made you to be
either humiliated or maltreated. Come to us and we shall receive
you graciously.‟ Having read it, I said to myself, „This is another trial,‟
and threw it into the oven.
After forty days of the fifty had elapsed without any indication in the
the Name of Allah, do you not know I love Allah and His Messenger,
praise and peace be upon him?‟ But he remained silent. I repeated
my earnest question, but he still did not reply. I asked a third time
and he replied, „Allah and His Messenger, praise and peace be
upon him, know best.‟ When I heard this, I could not restrain my
tears and returned home.
One day I was loitering in the market-place of Medina when I heard
a peasant from Syria, who had brought grain to sell, ask, „Would
someone direct me to Ka'ab, the son of Malik?‟ The people pointed
in my direction so he came to me and handed me a letter from the
King of Ghassan. Being literate I read it. It read, „We have heard
your master has treated you unjustly. Allah has not made you to be
either humiliated or maltreated. Come to us and we shall receive
you graciously.‟ Having read it, I said to myself, „This is another trial,‟
and threw it into the oven.
After forty days of the fifty had elapsed without any indication in the