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4303. It was narrated that Abu Sallām Al-Habashi said: "Umar bin 'Abdul-'Aziz sent for me and I came to him upon the riding animal prepared for swift mail delivery. When I came to him, he said: 'We have caused you some trouble O Abu Sallām.' He said: 'Yes, by Allāh, O Commander of the Believers!' He said: 'By Allāh, we did not want to cause you any hardship, but there is a Hadith which I have heard that you
narrate from Thawbân, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ, concerning the Cistern, and I wanted to hear it directly from you.' He said: "I said: 'Thawbân, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ, told me that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: "My Cistern is (wider than) the distance between Ailah and 'Aden. It is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey, and its cups are as many as the stars in the sky. Whoever drinks from it will never feel thirst again. The first ones who come to drink from it will be the poor Muhâjirin, with dirty clothes and disheveled hair, who do not marry refined women and for whom no doors are opened." 'Umar wept until his beard became wet, then he said: 'But I have married refined women and doors have been opened for me. Certainly I will not wash the clothes that are on my body until they become dirty, and I will not comb my hair until it becomes disheveled.'" (Hasan)
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Having unclean clothes and disheveled hair does not mean neglecting the matter of neatness or cleanness. But it means not giving much attention to beautification or adornment.
'Umar bin 'Abdul-'Aziz, despite being a ruler of Muslims, was very keen to gain the knowledge of Hadith. If he came to know that a scholar knew a Hadith, he never felt shame to learn from him. Muslim rulers should take him as their ideal.
'Umar bin 'Abdul-'Aziz did not ask him to report to him as soon as
possible, but Abu Sallâm ﷺ, endured the hardship in the obedience of the ruler to report to him as soon as possible.
