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(2). 3233. Abū Qilābah narrated from Ibn 'Abbās that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "During the night, my Lord, Blessed is He, and Most High, [1] Ṣād 38:1-7. came to me in the best of appearances” He (one of the narrators) said – I think he said it was during a dream – “So he said: ‘O Muhammad! Do you know in what the most exalted group busy themselves with?’” He said: “I said: ‘No.’” He said: “So He placed His Hand between my shoulders, until I sensed its coolness between my breast” – or he said: “on my throat, so I knew what was in the heavens, and what was in the earth. He said: ‘O Muhammad! Do you know in what the most exalted group busy themselves with?’ I said: ‘Yes, in the acts that atone: and the acts that atone are; lingering in the Masjid after the Salāt, walking on the feet to the congregation, Isbāgh Al-Wudū’ in difficulty, and whoever does that, he lives in goodness and dies upon goodness, and his wrongs shall be like that of the day his mother bore him.’ He said: ‘O Muhammad! When you have performed Salāt, then say: ‘O Allāh! Indeed I ask of You, the doing of good deeds, avoiding the evil deeds, and loving the poor. And when you have willed Fitnah for your slave, then take me to You, without making me suffer from Fitnah.’” He (the Prophet ﷺ) said: “And the acts that raise ranks are spreading the Salām, feeding others, and Salāt during the night, while the people are sleeping.” (Hasan) [Abū ‘Eisā said:] They have mentioned a man between Abū Qilābah and Ibn ‘Abbās in this Ḥadīth. Qatādah reported it from Abū Qilābah from Khālid bin Al-Lajlāj from In 'Abbās.