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2347. Abū Umāmah narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Indeed the best of my friends to me is the one of meager conditions, whose share is in Salāt, worshipping his Lord well and obeying him (even) in private. He is obscure among the people such that the fingers are not pointed toward him. His provisions are only what is sufficient and he is patient with that." Then he tapped with his fingers and said: "His death comes quickly, his mourners are few, and his inheritance is little."
With this (the above), chain it is narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "My Lord presented to me, that He would make the valley of Makkah into gold for me, I said: 'No O Lord! But being filled for a day and hungry for a day'" – or he
said: "three days" or something like that – "So when I am hungry I would beseech You and remember You, and when I am full I would be grateful to You and praise You." (Da'f)
There is something on this topic from Faḍālah bin 'Ubaid [Al-Qāsim]. [He said:] This Hadīth is Hasan.
Al-Qāsim is Ibn 'Abdur-Raḥmān, his Kunyah is Abū 'Abdur-Raḥmān, and he is the freed slave of 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Khālid bin Yazīd bin Mu'āwiyah. He is from Ash-Shām and he is trustworthy. 'Ali bin Yazīd was graded weak in Hadīth and his Kunyah is Abū 'Abdul-Mālik.
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Commentary
The Prophet ﷺ means to say that although his followers, and others beloved to Allāh are of varied conditions, yet as far as he is concerned, he thinks that the most enviable of all people are those believers who and their family are meager in respect of their supplies, but their share in prayers and obedience to the commands of Allāh is abundant. Yet they are so inconspicuous in the society that, when they are seen moving about, nobody points at them to say: "Look, there is such and such a pious man out there."
