Sayyidina Abu Sa’eed Khudri (RA) reported that when Mu’awiyah (RA) came to the mosque, he asked people why they were sitting. They said, “We sit remembering Allah.” He asked, “Do you sit with no other purpose but this?” They asserted, “By Allah, we do not sit but only for that.” He said, “I did not seek your assurance on Doath because I thought you might be lying. You know well that I narrate very few ahadith from Allah’s Messenger Once he came to a circle of the Sahabah ... and asked them why they were assembled. They said that they sat and remembered Allah and praised Him that. He guided them to Islam and favoured them with it. He asked them, “By Allah, is that the only thing you are sitting for?” They confirmed that they sat for nothing else. He told them that he had not made them swear lest they might be lying but that Jibril had come to him and informed him that Allah took pride in them in the company of angels.”
[Muslim 2701, Nisai 5441]
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