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for Allah
Khabaab (Radiallaho Anho) is one of those fortunate persons
who offered themselves for sacrifice and suffering for the
cause of Allah (Subhanahu wa Taala). He was the sixth or seventh
person to embrace Islam and therefore, he suffered long. He
was made to put on steel armor and lie in the sun to sweat.
Very often he was made to lie flat on burning sand, which
caused the flesh on his back to dissolve. He was the slave
of a woman. When she came to know that he was visiting Rasulullah
(Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam), she used to brand his head
with a hot iron rod. Umar (Radiallaho Anho) during his Caliph
once asked him about the details of his suffering after embracing
Islam.
He showed him his back, seeing which Umar (Radiallaho Anho)
said, "I have never seen such a back before."
He said, "My body was dragged over heaps of burning coal
and the blood and fat coming out of my back put out the fire."
When Islam spread and the Muslims conquered all the surrounding
territory, he used to weep and say, "Allah (Subhanahu wa Taala)
seems to be compensating us in this world for all our sufferings
and perhaps nothing would be left for us as reward in the
Akhirah".
Source: From the Book "Stories of the Sahabah" by Shaikh
Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi.
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