Kissing-Elders
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
KISSING OF HANDS AND FEET IN ISLAM 1
A man came to Prophet (saws) and told him that he had taken a vow that should Allah (swt) grant Rasoolullah (saws) victory over Makka, he would go to Kaaba and kiss its threshold. The Prophet (saws) instructed him: GO AND KISS THE FEET OF YOUR MOTHER. Your vow will be complete.’ (Allama Aynee – Umdat al Qari, sharah al-Bukhari).
When Imam Bukhari came to Nishapur, the city of Imam Muslim’s residence, he (Imam Muslim) came out to see him. It is reported in almost in every book of the biography of Imams that Imam Muslim kissed the forehead of Imam Bukhari and then requested his permission to kiss his feet in these words- O Teacher of teachers, Master of Hadith scholars and Doctor of Ahadith Authenticity, ALLOW ME TO KISS YOUR FEET.”( ad-Dhahabi in Siyar Alam an-Nubala (vol. 12, p. 432, 436); Nawawi in ‘Tahdhib al-Asma wal-Lughat’ (vol. 1, p. 88); and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Muqaddima Fath al-Bari (p. 488).
Imam Muqri quoted Burayda (ra) as reported in his Book ‘Taqbil al-Yad’ (p. 64 # 5) that once a Bedouin came to Prophet (saws). He said: I have embraced Islam but I want more so that my faith should be strengthened. Then the Prophet(saws) allowed him and a tree came to the Bedouin on his call and the tree said: O’ Prophet of Allah(saws). (There is a long tradition that follows it).The Bedouin saw all of these signs and said O’ Prophet of Allah (saws)! Allow me to kiss your blessed forehead and blessed feat). The Prophet (saws) gave permission to the Bedouin. Then he requested for falling in prostration. The Prophet (saws) did not allow him. (Qadi Iyad inash-Shifaa’, 1:299) Ibn Hajar Asqalani in Fath al-Bari (vol. 11, p. 57).
It is narrated that in the battle of Hunain, Abu Sufyaan (ra) was with Prophet Mohammad (saws). Hadhrat Abbas (ra) submitted, “O’Prophet of Allah (saws), this is your cousin, Abu Sufyaan (ra), please be happy with him.” Prophet (saws) accepted the intercession of Abbas (ra) and said, “I am pleased with him. May Allah (swt) forgive all the enmity he showed against us.” Thereafter, Prophet (saws) turned to Abbas (ra) and said, “Verily he is our brother.” Abbas (ra) said “I kissed his (Prophet’s – saws) blessed FOOT while he was seated on his camel.” (Hakim reported this Hadith in his Mustadrak, under chapter ‘Virtues of Abu Sufayaan (ra)’.
“Touching them both (the Black Stone and al-Rukn al-Yamani) is an expiation for sins.” (al-Haakim (1/664))
Suhayb (ra) was the freed slave of Abbas (ra) He states: I saw Ali (ra) kissing the HANDS and FEET of Abbas (ra) and he would keep saying this: O my Uncle! be pleased with me. Imam Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (p. 339 # 976).
“The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. (Bukhari – Book #1, Hadith #1).
Ibn Umar (ra) considered the Khawarij and the heretics as the worst beings in creation (meaning worst than Satan and his subordinate Shayateen), and he said : ‘They went to verses which were revealed about the disbelievers (the pagans of Makka) and applied them to the Believers (Bukhari – Chapter Khawarijeen).
When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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