Sayyidina Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud (RA) narrated: Allah’s Messenger (SAW) offered the isha salah. When it was over, he held me by the hand till he took me to Batha of Makkah and made me sit. He drew a line around me, saying, ‘Do not come out of this line. People will come to you but do not talk to them and they too will not talk to you.” Then he went away to where he had intented to go. I sat within the lines when some men came to me as though they were of a rough nature. Their hair and their bodies seemed to me neither naked nor covered. They set towards me but did not trespass the line and then went towards Allah’s Messenger. This till it was the concluding hour of the night. Allah’s Messenger (SAW) came to me and I was sitting. He said, “I could not sleep all night.” Then he came within the lines and took my thigh as a pillow and went to sleep. When he slept, he would snore. While I was sitting and he was resting on my thigh, some men dressed in white came. Only Allah knows how beautiful they were. They came up to me. A party of them sat down by the head of Allah’s Messenger (SAW) and a party of them by his feet. Then they spoke to each other, saying, “We have not seen a man given the like of what is given to this Prophet. His eyes sleep but his heart is awake. Coin for him a parable. Like a chief who built a castle and placed a dining table and invited the people to his meal and his drink. So, those who responded ate of his food and drank of his drinks. And, he who did not respond was punished.” Then they got up (and went away). Allah’s Messenger (SAW) woke up at that and asked, “Did you hear what they said? And do you know who they were”? I said that Allah and His Messenger (SAW) know best.” He said, “They were angels. Do you understand the example they presented”? I said, “Allah and His Messenger (SAW) know best.” He said, “The example that they coined was of Ar-Rahman (the Compassionate) Who built Paradise and invited His slaves to it. So those who responded, entered Paradise and those who did not respond, He punished them.”
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