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'Auf died, some of the Prophet's Companions said they were afraid about 'Abd al-Rahman on account of the estate which he had left.
Al-Harith proceeds: So this 'Abd al-Rahman notwith• standing his eminence is to be detained· in the Resurrection• court because of the wealth which he acquired honourably and in order to live temperately and do good works; he is to be prevented from running into Paradise with the poor Refugees, · and instead 'will have to creep after them.
Perhaps too· thou amassest the wealth for the comforts, vanities, and pleasures of this world, whereas we have been told that the Prophet said: Whoso laments over worldly fortune which he has missed comes a whole year's journey nearer Hell.
prophets and saints and their sayings will not doubt that the absence of wealth is better than its presence, even if it be employed on good objects; the least of its evils is that its possessors are diverted by care of it from the thought of God. The neophyte should give up his wealth, only reserving what is absolutely necessary.
10* section Disapproval of a poor man leaving anything in which he cites a Tradition that one of the People of the Bench when he died left two dinars, and the Prophet said " Two burnings !
It is ascertained that the Prophet said: No wealth has helped me like Abu Bakr's.