Remembrance 1 from Chapter 154

WE RELATE FROM the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim from Anas who narrated that the Messenger of Allah came to visit Umm Ḥarām and fell asleep. He woke up and smiled. She said: “What is making you smile, Messenger of Allah?” He said: “Some of the people of my Ummah were shown to me. They were on an expedition in the Way of Allah, riding the back of the sea like kings on thrones (or, like kings).” She said: “Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah to make me one of them.” The Messenger of Allah made du‘ā’ for her. ^[1].I say that thabaj al-baḥr, with fatḥah on the thā’ and the bā’ followed by jīm, means ‘[the sea’s] back’: and Umm Ḥarām is written with rā’.

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